Rolando Carrasco M. es Magster en Literatura General por la Universidad de Chile y Dr. phil. por la Universidad Friedrich Schiller en Jena. Ha sido acadmico del Departamento de Literatura de la Universidad de Chile, Visiting Assistant Professor en la Universidad de Virginia, e impartido cursos de su especialidad en el Instituto de Estudios Latinoamericanos (Universidad Libre de Berln) y la Universidad de Constanza. Sus principales campos de investigacin se han concentrado en los estudios literarios y culturales sobre el periodo colonial en Hispanoamrica, con nfasis en Humanismo y retrica en la temprana modernidad, crnicas eclesisticas y el utopismo cristiano-social en Amrica, Ilustracin y enciclopedismo en el rea andina (s. XVIII). Actualmente, se desempea como colaborador acadmico y cientfico en el Instituto de Romanstica-Latinstica de la Universidad de Osnabrck (Alemania). ~ Rolando Carrasco M. has a Master's in General Literature from the University of Chile and a Ph.D. from the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. He has been an academic in the Department of Literature at the University of Chile, Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia, and has taught courses in his specialty at the Institute of Latin American Studies (Free University of Berlin) and the University of Constanza. His main fields of research have focused on literary and cultural studies on the colonial period in Latin America, with an emphasis on humanism and rhetoric in early modernity, ecclesiastical chronicles and christian-social utopianism in America, enlightenment and encyclopedism in the Andes (18th century). Currently, he works as an academic and scientific collaborator at the Institute for Romance-Latin Studies at the University of Osnabrck (Germany).