Rocío Quispe Agnoli

Rocío Quispe Agnoli is a professor at Michigan State University. She is scholar of Latin American Indigenous and Mestizo literary and cultural studies, colonial and decolonial studies, and Peruvian speculative fiction. She also writes fiction under the pen name Rocío Qespi.

Education and career

Quispe Agnoli received her B.A. in Linguistics and Literature 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. Later she received her M.A. (1993) and Ph.D. (2000) in Hispanic Studies from Brown University.

Quispe Agnoli joined the faculty at Michigan State University in 2000 as an assistant professor, and was promoted to full professor in 2015. In 2022 she received the William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty Award.

As of 2025 she is the editor-in-chief of the journal ''Revista de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades'' ''/ Journal of Gender and Sexuality Studies.''

Work

Research

Quispe Agnoli is known for her work on native Peruvian Indian writer Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala, as well as Latin American women’s studies and gender studies,

Fiction writing

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.”

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). This work also received the 1999 Asociación Atenea Accésit Award, and it was published in English as “The Cemetery of Acarí” in ''Metamorphoses:'' ''A Journal of Literary Translation.''

In 2008 she published her first collection of short fiction ''Durmiendo en el agua.''

In 2020, her story “El médico de las muñecas” won the ''Múltiples rostros de la muerte'' literary competition. ''Revista de literatura oscura''. In 2021, she joined the Qhipa Pacha Collective, alongside Peruvian authors of science fiction and Peruvian futurism.

Honors and awards

* 2013 ''Successful Peruvian Woman in America''. Embassy of Peru in the United States.
* 2013 ''TUMI USA Award in Professional Ex''cellence, Peruvian Community in the United States.
* 2017 ''Flora Tristán Award'' for ''Nobles de papel''. Latin American Studies Association-Peru Section.

Selected publications

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* Reviews of ''Women's negotiations and textual agency in Latin America''
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* 2020:
Más allá de los 400 años: Guamán Poma de Ayala revisitado
'' Monographic Issue. ''Letras. Revista de Investigación de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos.'' Vol. 91, n. 133 (2020). Co-edited with Carlos García Bedoya.
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References

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Living people
Pontifical Catholic University of Peru alumni
University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès alumni
Brown University alumni
Michigan State University faculty
Latin Americanists
Fiction writers