Allillanchu. ¿Imaynalla kachkanki?. I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University. I am currently working on my book Race, Gender, Violence, and Memory in Peruvian Narratives of the Andes, developing and teaching courses, and mentoring students. I received my Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies and a graduate certificate in Women’s Studies at the University of Georgia in May 2020.  

My research creates a conversation between various fields of knowledge: Indigenous epistemologies and pedagogies, literature, cultural studies on (de)coloniality, and gender studies through the analysis of a specific identity experience: Andean women’s identity formation from colonial times to the present. More broadly, my research interests include Indigenous feminisms, memory studies, gender studies, film, and colonial, indigenista, and contemporary Peruvian literature.

At Rutgers, I have developed and taught two graduate seminars and one undergraduate course on indigeneity, Indigenous feminisms, and moves to the decolonial otherwise. In these courses, we explore how Indigenous peoples in the Américas resist colonial domination and work toward liberation, re-existence, and resurgence of knowledge from within. Particular areas of focus include coloniality/modernity, settler colonialism, Indigenous feminisms, blackness and indigeneity, transness and indigeneity, immigration, and ongoing resistances to colonial violence.