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Alison M. Krogel

Alison Krögel

Professor, Spanish, Andean & Quechua Literary and Cultural Studies; Affiliated Faculty, Latin America Center, JKSIS

alison.krogel@du.edu

303-871-6657 (Office)

https://musuqilla.info/en/about-us/

https://udenver.academia.edu/AlisonKrogel

Personal

Sturm Hall, 2000 East Asbury Avenue Denver, CO 80208

What I do

Alison Krögel is Professor of Spanish with a specialization in Andean & Quechua Literary and Cultural Studies.

Specialization(s)

Quechua Literary and Cultural Studies; Andean Studies; Food Studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies, digital humanities

Professional Biography

Professor Krögel teaches courses on contemporary and colonial Andean literature and culture at the University of Denver. Her research includes studies of Peruvian and Bolivian Quechua and Ecuadorian Kichwa language poetry and oral traditions, Andean Food Studies, and the oral testimonies and arborglyph aspen carvings of Peruvian sheepherders working in the Wyoming and Colorado mountains. In 2023, this body of work was recognized by the Republic of Perú with an "Order of Merit for Distinguished Services, in the Grade of Grand Officer." A recipient of a Fulbright Research Grant to Ecuador (2013-2014), she has published the books Musuq Illa: Poética del harawi en runasimi, 2000-2020 (2021) and Food, Power and Resistance in Quechua Verbal and Visual Narratives (2011). She is the editor of the digital collective of Quechua poetry Musuqilla.info , curator of The Aspen Archives and her research has appeared in numerous academic journals and edited volumes, including: The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Poetry, Cine Andino, and The Routledge History of Food.

Degree(s)

  • Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of Maryland, 2006
  • MA, Comparative Literature, University of Maryland, 2002
  • BA, Spanish & Portuguese Languages and Literatures, University of Washington, 2000

Licensure / Accreditations

  • Certificate of Proficiency in Advanced Quechua Language Study, Instituto Bartolomé de las Casas, Cusco Perú

Professional Affiliations

  • Latin American Studies Association
  • Society for Andean and Amazonian Studies
  • Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association

Research

Alison Krögel's areas of research include: interdisciplinary Andean literary and cultural studies; Quechua and Kichwa poetry (with an emphasis on contemporary, late 20th and 21st centuries); Andean food studies; community ethnography, Digital Humanities, and H-2A sheepherder migrant worker politics and policies in the U.S.

Áreas de especialización: estudios literarios y culturales andinos interdisciplinarios; Poesía quechua y kichwa (con énfasis en la contemporánea, finales del siglo XX y el s. XXI); Estudios de alimentos (contexto andino); Etnografía comunitaria; humanidades digitales y las políticas y desafíos enfrentados por ovejeros peruanos como “trabajadores migratorios del programa de visa H-2A” en los EE. UU.

Estados Unidos suyupin Denver Uniwirsidadpi Alison Krögel llank’an. Literatura y Cultura Quechua–Andina sutiyuq kursutan yachachin. Hinallataq Introducción a la lengua runasimitapas yachachillantaq. Kichwa runaq kasqamantapuni hamut’an.

Areas of Research

Quechua Literary and Cultural Studies; Andean Studies; Food Studies
Native American and Indigenous Studies; colonial Andes; Digital Humanities

Featured Publications

Krogel, Alison M. Food, Power and Resistance in the Andes: Exploring Quechua Verbal and Visual Narratives. Lanham, MD, USA: Lexington Books, 2012.
Krogel, Alison M. “Food Production, Consumption, and Identity Politics in Tahuantinsuyu and Colonial Perú. .” Routledge History Of Food. Ed. Helstosky, Carol. New York, USA: Routledge, 2014: 19-41.

Performances

Krogel, Alison M. “The Aspen Archives: Sheepherder Testimonies from the Colorado High Country (1925-present).” Tread of Pioneers Museum, 2022, Steamboat Springs, CO.
Krogel, Alison M. “Andean Art: Chronicle, Diplomacy, Sacrifice.” University of Denver, Museum of Anthropology, 2022, Denver, CO.

Presentations

Krogel, Alison M. “Poesía quechua escrita por mujeres en Abya Yala (Latinoamérica) del siglo XXI.” Cusco International Book Fair (Feria Internacional del Libro, Cusco), 2020, Cusco, Perú (Virtual).
Krogel, Alison M. “Quispi en movimiento: atravesando paisajes de la poesía contemporánea quechua y kichwa escrita por mujeres.” Seminario Nacional de Estudios Andinos y Amazónicos, 2021, Lima, Perú (virtual).
Krogel, Alison M. “Camina el autor: el arte verbal y visual de Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, Public Lecture, hosted by the Peruvian Consulate of Denver.” Museo de las Américas, Denver. Guaman Poma Exhibit, 2019, Museo de las Américas, Denver CO.
Krogel, Alison M. “"Kilkakuna warmikuna: Nuevas voces en la poesía kichwa ecuatoriana escrita por mujeres" .” XXI International Conference of Hispanic Literature, 2018, Granada, Spain.
Krogel, Alison M. “"Food, Power, and Resistance in the Andes: An Interdisciplinary Study of Quechua Food- landscapes." .” Invited Lecture from School of Arts & Sciences, University of Richmond, 2017, Richmond, VA.

Awards

  • Order of Merit for Distinguished Services, in the Grade of Grand Officer, Republic of Perú
  • Fulbright Research Grant to Ecuador, 2013-14, Fulbright Foundation
  • University of Denver PROF Research Grant, University of Denver
  • Faculty Research Fund. , University of Denver