A premier scholar of colonial Spanish American literary and cultural history, a field that she helped bring out of the shadows starting forty years ago.!
Rolena Adorno
American historian
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Rolena Adorno (born 5 November 1942)[1][2] is an American humanities scholar, the Spanish Sterling Professor at Yale University and bestselling author.[3]
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
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][