Alison Krögel

Alison Krögel is an associate professor of Spanish at the University of Denver (USA) where she teaches courses focused on Quechua and Andean literatures and cultures, 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 Andean literatures and cultures, Quechua poetry and oral traditions, and the challenges faced by Peruvian sheepherders laboring in the U.S. as temporary H-2A workers. She has published the books Musuq Illa: Poética del harawi en runasimi (2000-2020) (2021) and Food, Power and Resistance in the Andes (2010). She is the editor of the digital collective of Quechua poetry "Musuq Illa" at https://musuqilla.info/