Christián A. Roa-de-la-Carrera

Department of Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese (M/C 315)
1710 University Hall 601 South Morgan St.
University of Illinois Chicago, IL 60607
Phone: (312) 996-0125
E-mail: roa@uic.edu

In Brief

Associate Professor Spanish and  LALS.  Ph.D., Romance Languages, Princeton University . His current research focuses on colonial narratives and the rearrangement of social networks, kinship relations, gender interaction, and ethnic identities of both indigenous peoples and colonizers.  He is the author of Histories of Infamy: Francisco López de Gómara and the Ethics of Spanish Imperialism (2005).

Degrees

* Ph.D. in Romance Languages, Princeton University, 1998
* M.A. in Romance Languages, Princeton University, 1995
* Magister en Literatura, Universidad de Chile, 1993
* Licenciatura en Humanidades, Universidad de Chile, 1991

Publications 

Books
* Histories of Infamy: Francisco López de Gómara and the Ethics of Spanish Imperialism. Boulder: University Press of
Colorado, 2005.
* Chimalpahin and the Conquest of Mexico by Francisco López de Gómara, Anne J. Cruz, Cristián Roa-de-la-Carrera, Susan Schroeder, and David E. Tavarez, eds. and trans., Codex Chimalpahin, volume 5, Susan Schroeder, gen. ed. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, forthcoming. Articles and reviews * Verónica Cortínez, Memoria original de Bernal Díaz del Castillo. Huixquilucan, México: Oak Editorial, 2000. Luis Millones Figueroa, Pedro Cieza de León y su Crónica de Indias. La entrada de los incas en la historia universal. Lima, Perú: IFEA-Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2001. Colonial Latin American Review 11.2 (2002): 339-42.
* "El Nuevo Mundo como problema de conocimiento: Américo Vespucio y el discurso geográfico del siglo XVI," Hispanic Review 70.4 (Autumn 2002): 557-80.
* "La historia de Indias y los límites del consenso: Gómara en la cultura del imperio," Colonial Latin American Review 10.1
(2001): 69-86.
* Preface to El Caribe entre imperios. Coloquio de Princeton, in collaboration with Arcadio Díaz Quiñones, special issue of
Revista del Centro de Investigaciones Históricas de la Universidad de Puerto Rico 9 (1997): XI-XIV.
* "El discurso de la guerra en los textos chilenos del siglo XVI," Revista Chilena de Literatura 42 (1993): 217-221.
* "Negación e hibridación en Coplas D Navidad de Nicanor Parra," Revista Chilena de Literatura 39 (1992): 63-73.
* Jorge Lozano, El discurso histórico. Madrid: Alianza, 1987. Revista Chilena de Literatura [Santiago de Chile] 35 (abril
1990): 154-59.

Professional Employment 

2004-to date Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago
1998-2004 Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago
1997-1998 Assistant Professor, College of Saint Benedict/St. John's University
1993-1996 Assistant in Instruction, Princeton University
1991-1993 Profesor Ayudante Segundo, Departamento de Literatura, Facultad
de Filosofía, Universidad de Chile

Research Grants 

2005-2008 Consultant. NEH Collaborative Translation Award. Susan Schroeder, Project Director. Research funds in the amount of $80,000.
2003 Cornell University's School of Criticism and Theory. Received tuition and travel funds
2001-02 Faculty Fellow, Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois, Chicago
2001 Mendel Fellowship, Lilly Library, Indiana University
2001 OVCR-AHH Grant, University of Illinois, Chicago
1998 University of Illinois Minority Grant