Raquel Chang-Rodriguez

Raquel Chang-Rodriguez is Professor of Spanish American literature and culture at the Graduate School and the City College of the City University of New York (CUNY) where she serves as chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. Among other books, she has written La apropiacion del signo: tres cronistas indigenas del Peru (Arizona State University), 1988), and El discurso disidente: ensayos de literatura colonial peruana (Catholic University of Peru, 1991). Her most recent publications are as contributor with "Colonial Voices of the Hispanic Caribbean," a chapter in a History of Literature in the Caribbean (John Benjamins, 1994), and also as contributor with a chapter on the Inca princess Beatriz Clara and the Peruvian playwright Francisco del Castillo to the book Mujer y cultura en la colonia hispanoamericana (Pittsburgh, 1996).

Professor Chang-Rodriguez is the founder and general editor of Colonial Latin American Review, a journal devoted to studying the Colonial period from an interdisciplinary perspective. She has recently been elected Vice-President of the Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberamericana. A frequent key-note speaker at conferences and symposia, Raquel Chang-Rodriguez is the co-anchor of Charlando con Cervantes, a program of interviews with prominent personalities of Hispanic Culture sponsored by CUNY-TV and the Instituto Cervantes.