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Rosa Helena Chinchilla

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, women's studies

Contact Information

Office/Hours: Arjona 236 Hours TBA
Phone: 860-486-3314
E-mail: rosa.chinchilla@uconn.edu
Website

Bio:

Renaissance; 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 (Forthcoming in 2006). Her publications also include a number of articles in 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.