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Rocío Quispe Agnoli in 2018

Rocío Quispe Agnoli is a Peruvian writer and scholar of Latin American Indigenous and Mestizo literary and cultural studies, colonial and decolonial studies, and Peruvian speculative fiction. Since 2022 she is William J. Beal Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University and Affiliated Scholar of The Quechua Initiative on Global Indigeneity at Harvard University. In 2022 she was Juror in the XXII Edition of Premio Copé de Cuento, sponsored by Petróleos del Perú. She is also a fiction writer under the pen name Rocío Qespi.

Academic career

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Known for her extensive scholarship on Native Peruvian Indian writer Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala, as well as Latin American women’s studies and gender studies,[1] [2] Quispe Agnoli was born in Lima, Peru in 1962. She received her B.A. in Linguistics and Literature and her Licenciature in Hispanic Linguistics from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú in 1985. In 1987, she obtained a D.E.A. (Dîplome d’Édudes Approfondies) in Linguistique/Sémiotique from the Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail where she worked under the direction of Joseph Courtés. [3] Later she received her M.A. (1993) and Ph.D. (2000) in Hispanic Studies from Brown University where she worked under the direction of Peruvian writer and intellectual Julio C. Ortega.[4]

Author of 3 scholarly books, (co)editor of 2 collections of essays and 4 special issues in peer-reviewed journals, and of more than 90 scholarly articles, Quispe Agnoli has been a Professor of Latin American literarures and cultures at Michigan State University since 2000. In November-December of 2023, she was Visiting Professor at the Institut Pluridisciplinaire pour l’Étude de l’Amérique Latine at the Université de Toulouse-Jean Jaurés in France.[5] She has been Editor-in-Chief of REGS/Journal of Gender and Sexuality Studies from January 2020-December 2024.

In addition to her native language, Spanish, Quispe Agnoli is fluent in English, French, and German, and has basic knowledge of Quechua.[6]

Works

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Awards and Recognitions

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Fiction writer

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Quispe Agnoli is also a fiction writer under the name Rocío Qespi. Her short fiction has received the 1999 “La Regenta” Literary Award (Spain) for “El cuarto mandamiento.” This story was included in Marjorie Agosín’s Writing Toward Hope (2006). Her short story “El Cementerio de Acarí” was first runner-up in the 1999 Ana María Matute Short Narrative Award and published in Ellas también cuentan (Torremozas 2000).[7] This work also received the 1999 Asociación Atenea Accésit Award of Salamanca, Spain, and it was published in English as “The Cemetery of Acarí” in Metamorphose. A Journal of Literary Translation[8] by Aleksandra Szewczyk. In 2008 she published her first collection of short fiction Durmiendo en el agua,[9] in Mundo Ajeno Editores, a publishing house then directed by Enrique Cortez and Carlos Yushimito.

After a long hiatus in her creative work, Qespi returned to fiction writing in 2019. In 2020, her story “El médico de las muñecas” won the Múltiples rostros de la muerte literary competition[10] sponsored by Aeternum. Revista de literatura oscura. Since then, she has published more than 20 short stories in collections of speculative fiction and literary magazines and is very active as a presenter (either as a creative writer or a commentator for others’ publications within the genres of speculative fiction) in book presentations, round tables and discussion panels at conferences, book fairs and other fora. In 2021, she joined the Qhipa Pacha Collective, alongside Peruvian authors of science fiction and Peruvian futurism.[11] Since 2024, she publishes “La ventana sur” (The South Window) in Amazing Stories,[12] a column on the concept of “the south” as a theme for speculative fiction in horror, terror, and science fiction literature. 

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References

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  1. ^ "Rocio Quispe-Agnoli". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2024-12-30.
  2. ^ "MSU Scholars". scholars.msu.edu. Retrieved 2024-12-30.
  3. ^ Joseph Courtés is known for his contributions to the semiotic analyses of folk literature. In 1979, he published, in collaboration with semiotician Algirdas Julien Greimas, Sémiotique Dictionnaire raisonné de la théorie du langage https://shs.cairn.info/semiotique--9782010206481?lang=fr
  4. ^ An accomplished scholar, poet, playwright, and novelist, Julio Ortega has been deemed “Peruvian leading intellectual” by the American Book Review https://www.google.com/books/edition/Poetics_of_Change/ADrKswEACAAJ?hl=en
  5. ^ Cruzol, Tara. "Professeure invitée : Rocío Quispe-Agnoli". Institut Pluridisciplinaire pour les Etudes sur les Amériques à Toulouse (in French). Retrieved 2024-12-30.
  6. ^ "Rocío Quispe-Agnoli | Michigan State University - Academia.edu". michiganstate.academia.edu. Retrieved 2024-12-30.
  7. ^ "Ediciones Torremozas". www.torremozas.com. Retrieved 2024-12-30.
  8. ^ "Spring 2008 – Metamorphoses". Retrieved 2024-12-30.
  9. ^ ""Durmiendo en el agua" de Rocío Qespi. Presentación de José Donayre". www.letras.mysite.com. Retrieved 2024-12-30.
  10. ^ "CONVOCATORIA: LOS MÚLTIPLES ROSTROS DE LA MUERTE". Retrieved 2024-12-30.
  11. ^ Agnoli, Rocio Quispe (2023-08-31). "Peruvian writers tell of a future rooted in the past and contemporary societal issues". The Conversation. Retrieved 2024-12-30.
  12. ^ "Home". Amazing Stories. 2024-12-30. Retrieved 2024-12-30.
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