Rolena Adorno 
Ph.D., Reuben Post Halleck Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Literature
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Curriculum vitae

(Photo by Michael Marsland)

Rolena Adorno, Ph. D., Cornell University, is Reuben Post Halleck Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Literature in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. She is the author of Guaman Poma: Writing and Resistance in Colonial Peru (1986, 2000); Cronista y príncipe: La obra de don Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (1989); editor of From Oral to Written Expression: Native Andean Chronicles of the Early Colonial Period (1982); coeditor of Transatlantic Encounters: Europeans and Andeans in the Sixteenth Century (1991); and coauthor of the award-winning Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: His Account, His Life, and the Expedition of Pánfilo de Narváez (3 vols., 1999). With John V. Murra and Jorge L. Urioste, she edited Felipe Guaman Poma’s Nueva corónica y buen gobierno (1980, 1987) on the basis of her transcription of the work and related investigations carried out at the Royal Library in Copenhagen in 1977. She has been a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and she is an Honorary Associate of the Hispanic Society of America.

[This book is published on the occasion of the opening of a website at The Royal Library, with a digital edition of Guaman Poma's Nueva corónica: www.kb.dk/elib/mss/poma/. Rolena Adorno has acted as scholarly consultant to the project and contributed with an Essay, a new Table of Contents, and a Descriptive List of Guaman Poma's 398 drawings.]

Other Publications:

• Adorno, Rolena. 2001. Guaman Poma and His Illustrated Chronicle from Colonial Peru: From a Century of Scholarship to a New Era of Reading / Guaman Poma y su crónica ilustrada del Perú colonial: un siglo de investigaciones hacia una nueva era de lectura. Copenhagen: The Royal Library and Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen.
• Adorno, Rolena. 2000. Guaman Poma: Writing and Resistance in Colonial Peru. 1986. Second edition with a New Introduction. Austin: University of Texas Press.
• Adorno, Rolena. 1995. “La génesis de la Nueva corónica y buen gobierno de Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala.” Taller de letras (Santiago de Chile), no. 23:9-45.
• Adorno, Rolena. 1974. “The Nueva Corónica y Buen Gobierno of Don Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala: A Lost Chapter in the History of Latin American Letters.” Ph.D. diss., Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
• Adorno, Rolena. 1993. “The Genesis of Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala’s Nueva corónica y buen gobierno.” Colonial Latin American Review 2, nos. 1-2:53-92.
• Adorno, Rolena, Mercedes López-Baralt, Tom Cummins, John V. Murra, Teresa Gisbert, and Maarten van der Guchte. 1992. Guaman Poma de Ayala: The Colonial Art of an Andean Author, New York: Americas Society.
• Adorno, Rolena. 1992. “Colonial Reform or Utopia? Guaman Poma’s Empire of the Four Parts of the World.” In Amerindian Images and the Legacy of Columbus, Hispanic Issues 9, edited by René Jara and Nicholas Spadaccini, pp. 346-74. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
• Adorno, Rolena. 1991. “Images of Indios Ladinos in Early Colonial Peru.” In Andrien and Adorno, eds. 1991:232-270.
• Adorno, Rolena. 1989. Cronista y príncipe: La obra de Don Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala. Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
• Adorno, Rolena. 1980. “La redacción y enmendación del autógrafo de la Nueva corónica y buen gobierno.” In Guaman Poma [1615] 1980:1:xxxii-xlvi.
• Guaman Poma de Ayala. [1615] 1980. El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno [1615], edited by John V. Murra and Rolena Adorno, Quechua translations by Jorge L. Urioste. 3 vols. Mexico City: Siglo Veintiuno.
• Adorno, Rolena. 1979-80. “The Nueva Corónica y Buen Gobierno: A New Look at the Royal Library’s Peruvian Treasure.” Fund og Forskning 24:7-28.