Rolena adorno biography of albert
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Rolena Adorno, the Reuben Post Halleck Professor of Spanish and chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University, has won the Modern Language Association of America’s Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, awarded annually for an outstanding book published in English in the field of Latin American and Spanish literatures and cultures.
The prize committee said Adorno’s book, “The Polemics of Possession in Spanish American Narrative,” was “a signal achievement for the colonial field and indeed for all periods of Latin American literary studies. Rolena Adorno’s topic is the establishment of possession and authority as the bases of Spanish American society and literary traditions. Through chapters on major chroniclers of the colonial world …, Adorno argues for the primacy of narrative as a source of cultural authority and a principle of continuity. The book witnesses a masterly career built not only on formidable learning but also on an inspiring humility toward prima
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Rolena Adorno, Sterling Professor and Chair, Spanish & Portuguese
Contact Information: rolena.adorno@yale.edu, 432-1154
Office Location: 82-90 Wall, 229
Jafari S. Allen, Associate Professor, Anthropology & African Studies; Assistant Professor, American Studies
Contact Information: jafari.allen@yale.edu, 432-4847
Office Location: 10 Sachem
Robert Bailis, Associate Professor, Forestry & Environmental Studies
Contact Information: robert.bailis@yale.edu, 432-5412
Office Location: 301 Prospect – Rm 209
Ryan Bennett, Assistant Professor, Linguistics
Contact Information: ryan.bennett@yale.edu, 432-7656
Office Location: 370 Temple
Ned Blackhawk, Professor of History and American Studies
Contact Information: ned.blackhawk@yale.edu, 432-0580
Office Location: 320 York
Richard Burger, Charles J MacCurdy Professor, Anthropology; Chair & DGS Archeological Studies
Contact Information: richard.burger@yale.edu, 432-6517
Office Location: 51 Hillhouse, 5