Raquel Chang-Rodríguez
Distinguished Professor of Spanish

Dr. Chang-Rodríguez is the first Latina in CUNY to be appointed Distinguished Professor, and one of only 106 Distinguished Professors in a university of full-time faculty of more than 5000.

An authority on the prose and poetry of Andean countries and Mexico during the colonial period, Professor Raquel Chang-Rodríguez has taught at City College since 1968.

Professor Chang-Rodríguez is the founder and general editor of Colonial Latin American Review, the prize-winning journal devoted to studying the colonial period from an interdisciplinary perspective. She has also served in the past as guest editor Review: Latin American Literature and Arts, dedicated to contemporary women writers from Latin America.

Among other books, Professor Chang-Rodríguez has written La apropiación del signo: Tres cronistas indígenas del Perú (1998) El discurso disidente: Ensayos de literature colonial peruana (1991), and Hidden Messages: Representation and Resistance in Andean Colonial Drama (1999). She has published numerous scholarly articles and book chapters in journals and collections in Europe and the Americas, including in Latin American Writers (1989), “History of Literature in the Caribbean” (1994), Diccionario Enciclopédico de las Letras de América Latina (1995) and the Encyclopedia of Latin American History (1996).

Professor Chang-Rodríguez’s research projects have been supported by the Mex-Am Cultural Foundation, the Ministry of Culture of the Government of Spain, the New York Council for the Humanities, the Organization of American States, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She is currently president of the Instituto Internacional del Literatura Iberoamericana, the premiere organization representing scholars who are professionally interested in the literature of Latin America. A frequent speaker at conferences and symposia, Dr. Chang-Rodríguez is the co-anchor of “Charlando con Cervantes,” a program of interviews with prominent personalities sponsored by CUNY-TV and the Instituto Cervantes, and an honorary fellow of Hispanic Society of America.

Born in Cárdenas, Cuba, she received her B.S. from Montana State University, her M.A. from Ohio University, and her Ph.D. cum laude in Hispanic Literature from New York University.