Rolena Adorno (born 5 November 1942)[1][2] is an American humanities scholar, the Spanish Sterling Professor at Yale University and bestselling author.[3]
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Writing in 2001, and in the context of a favorable review of a "magnificent study" that she coauthored, James Axtell called her "perhaps the preeminent student of colonial Latin American literature".[4]
Honours edit
She was awarded the Katherine Singer Kovács Prize of the Modern Language Association of America for her book, The Polemics of Possession in Spanish American Narrative.[5]
On 6 November 2009, she was appointed to the National Council on the Humanities, the advisory board for the National Endowment for the Humanities, by President Barack Obama.[6]
She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and sits on the Board of Governors of the John Carter Brown Library.[7][8]
Lawsuit edit
In 2017, a former Spanish professor at Yale filed a lawsuit claiming that the Yale's Spanish and Portuguese department perpetuated a culture of harassment and discrimination.[9] According to the lawsuit, Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria, department chair Rolena Adorno and department professor Noel Valis made “unsupportive and negative” statements in retaliation for plaintiff’s speaking out against discrimination and sexual harassment, which had an impact in the plaintiff’s tenure denial in 2015. The university newspaper Yale Daily News points out that despite a request for the administration to recuse Echevarria, Adorno and Valis from the vote, they were allowed to participate and each voted against granting tenure to the plaintiff.[10]
Bibliography edit
Some of her most notable works are:[7]
- Guaman Poma and His Illustrated Chronicles
- The Polemics of Possession in Spanish American Narrative
- Colonial Latin American Literature: A Very Short Introduction
- With Patrick Pautz, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: His Account, His Life and the Expedition of Pánfilo de Narváez. 3 vols. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999.
References edit
- ^ Profile of Rolena Adorno
- ^ https://www.ancestry.com.au/search/?name=Rolena_Adorno&birth=1942
- ^ "Rolena Adorno | Faculty of Arts and Sciences". fas.yale.edu. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
- ^ James Axtell, untitled review of Rolena Adorno and Patrick Pautz, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: His Account, His Life and the Expedition of Pánfilo de Narváez, The William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 58 (2001), pp. 475–479.
- ^ "Rolena Adorno to Speak at the Library of Congress Oct. 12 | Library of Congress". Loc.gov. 2012-09-26. Archived from the original on 2016-11-09. Retrieved 2017-02-27.
- ^ "Rolena Adorno | National Endowment for the Humanities". Neh.gov. Archived from the original on 2017-01-26. Retrieved 2017-02-27.
- ^ a b "Rolena Adorno". Pbk.org. Archived from the original on 2017-05-05. Retrieved 2017-02-27.
- ^ "Governance | The John Carter Brown Library". www.brown.edu. Archived from the original on 2019-01-24. Retrieved 2018-10-07.
- ^ "Case 3:17-cv-01104-VLB | US District Court" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2019-04-24. Retrieved 2020-05-07.
- ^ "Former Spanish prof alleges sexual harassment, retaliatory firing in lawsuit". 7 July 2017. Archived from the original on 2020-09-19. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
External links edit
- "Rolena Adorno | Department of Spanish and Portuguese". Span-port.yale.edu. Retrieved 2017-02-27.