Crossing geographies and cultures

During early modernity, geographically isolated cultures and spaces were connected by travels and early ventures. This initiates a process of mutual Discovery and reflection that can be inclusive as well as alienating.

Raquel Chang-Rodríguez (Ph.D., New York University) is Distinguished Professor of Hispanic literature and culture at the Graduate Center and The City College (CCNY) of the City University of New York (CUNY), where she served as Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures (1995-2000). She has held visiting posts at Colgate University as Colgate Professor of the Humanities and at Columbia University, and has taught in seminars in Spain at the Universidad de la Laguna (Santa Cruz de Tenerife), the Universidad Complutense, summer session at El Escorial, and the Universidad de Málaga, and in Germany at Philipps Universität Margburg.

Award ceremony for the Enrique Anderson Imbert Prize of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language.