Alison Krögel

Alison Krögel

Ñawinchay, mayqin simipi: Runasimi castellano

Alison Krögel is an associate professor of Andean Studies and Spanish Literary & Cultural Studies at the University of Denver, USA where she teaches courses focused on Quechua-Andean literature and culture, as well as Introductory Runasimi (Quechua) language classes. Her research includes literary and ethnographic studies of the roles played by food and cooks in colonial and contemporary Spanish-American literature and culture, artistic representations of resistance by the Quechua people in colonial and contemporary contexts, the hardships faced by Peruvian sheepherders laboring in the U.S. as temporary H-2A workers, and Quechua poetry and oral traditions. The recipient of a Fulbright Research Grant to Ecuador to study contemporary Kichwa poetry, she has published the book Food, Power and Resistance in Quechua Verbal and Visual Narratives Lexington Books, 2010) and Musuq Illa: Poética del harawi en runasimi (2000-2020) (Pakarina ediciones, 2021), as well as articles in numerous academic journals. She is the editor of the digital humanities collective and is currently working on a project involving the arborglyphs carved over the past several decades by Quechua sheepherders upon the aspens of the Colorado high country— visual and verbal chronicles of their work as herders in the mountains of the Western United States.

Author's books

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Musuq Illa: Poética del harawi en runasimi (2000-2020)

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Musuq Illa: Poética del harawi en runasimi (2000-2020) offers a detailed study of the panorama of contemporary poetry written in runasimi (Quechua) during the last two decades. The book explores various thematic, stylistic, and ideological currents of this poetry by drawing on the critical paths of Andean philosophical and aesthetic categories, as well as those of critical theories from other philosophical and literary traditions. Musuq Illa postulates that conversations between critical and aesthetic categories of multiple literary traditions can help us to decolonize knowledge and celebrate the importance of epistemologies and literary aesthetics of traditions historically muted by colonizing hegemonies. Thus, the book seeks to serve as a project of inter-knowledge inspired by Andean concepts such astinkuy and ch’iqchi — confluences that nurture one another, without ever completely mixing, so that the initial courses of their channels can still be discerned. The goal of Musuq Illa is to suggest some ñankuna paths to direct us towards dialogue, understanding, and knowledge of Quechua literature, in addition to continuing conversations with scholars, writers, and students of other literatures written in indigenous languages of Abya-Yala.