Join us on Thursday, April 12th at 4pm for the Literature and Design Lecture featuring Rolena Adorno.
Rolena Adorno is the Sterling Professor of Spanish at Yale University. She is the 2015 recipient of the Modern Language Association’s Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2019 she will be the Senior Chair in the Countries and Cultures of the South at the Kluge Center of the U.S. Library of Congress.
Her lecture “Baroque Triumph of Aztec Iconography and Creole Design in Colonial Mexico” explores how the ancient Roman triumphal arch was given new life in the New World. In Baroque Mexico, Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora (1645-1700) created an arch to honor a new Spanish viceroy but he designed it as an elegy to the long-gone Aztec rulers of Tenochtitlan. How did he manage to introduce Mexica princes where the dynastic kings of Spain were expected? What were the intricacies of his design, and how could this Baroque triumph be radical and traditional at the same time?
You don’t want to miss this!
October 10, 2019
Ann Snitow May 9, 1943-August 10, 2019 Ann Snitow, a founding faculty member of Lang College and the creator of the Gender Studies Program at the New School, passed away on August 10, 2019. She was a beloved member of the Literary Studies faculty. While indeed her books and essays are crucial texts in feminist studies and in the life of the mind, as Literary Studies colleagues our remembrances here are more personal, testaments not just to her work but to the power of her being.
October 4, 2021
Collision is currently open for submissions of undergraduate fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art! By submitting to the annual magazine, students will be considered for our writing and cover art contests. Submissions for the annual magazine close Friday, February 25, but are accepted on a rolling basis. […]
Join us on Thursday, April 12th at 4pm for the Literature and Design Lecture featuring Rolena Adorno.
Rolena Adorno is the Sterling Professor of Spanish at Yale University. She is the 2015 recipient of the Modern Language Association’s Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2019 she will be the Senior Chair in the Countries and Cultures of the South at the Kluge Center of the U.S. Library of Congress.
Her lecture “Baroque Triumph of Aztec Iconography and Creole Design in Colonial Mexico” explores how the ancient Roman triumphal arch was given new life in the New World. In Baroque Mexico, Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora (1645-1700) created an arch to honor a new Spanish viceroy but he designed it as an elegy to the long-gone Aztec rulers of Tenochtitlan. How did he manage to introduce Mexica princes where the dynastic kings of Spain were expected? What were the intricacies of his design, and how could this Baroque triumph be radical and traditional at the same time?
You don’t want to miss this!
