Rosa Helena Chinchilla
Head, Literatures, Cultures and Languages
Associate Professor of Spanish
Education
Ph.D. State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1989
Areas of Expertise
Golden Age Spanish poetry and prose, Spanish humanism, Early Women Patrons, Literary Patronage, 18th c. Jesuits in Guatemala, Amerindian Linguistics from the Kingdom of Guatemala
Contact Information
Office/Hours: Arjona 230A Hours TBA
Phone: 860-486-3314
E-mail:
rosa.chinchilla@uconn.edu
Website
Bio:
Renaissance Poetry; Golden Age; Early Modern Literature and Culture; Grammatical Theory in Colonial Latin America; and Cervantes. She is the editor of Fray Francisco Ximénez,
Arte de las tres lenguas cakchiquel, quiché y tzutuhil (1993), and
La obra del Padre Manuel Mariano de Iturriaga S. J. en la Nueva España y el Reino de Goathemala (2006). Her publications also include a number of articles in
Caliope,
Renaissance and Reformation,
Bulletin of Hispanic Studies,
Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Revista Iberoamericana and other journals. Article topics include Cervantes, Juan del Encina, Garcilaso de la Vega, Nebrija and Juana de Austria, as well as other topics related to literary history (Golden Age, Patronage in the Early Renaissance, Early Modern Spectacle; the Influence of Rome on Spanish Humanism). She has been the recipient of a Newberry Library Fellowship and an NEH Seminar Fellowship.
