Victor Quiroz

Assistant Professor

Victor Quiroz is Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures (UC Berkeley). His research explores decolonial interactions between Indigenous knowledge—particularly of Andean origin—and modern aesthetic, literary, and critical discourses from the Global North. His book, El tinkuy postcolonial (2011), examines the relationship between Quechuan cognitive categories (pachacuti, yanantin, tinkuy, among others) and the fictionalization of the Peruvian Internal Armed Conflict (1980-2000). His scholarship has been published in peer-reviewed journals and in collective volumes in Chile, England, Germany, Mexico, Peru, and the United States.

Prior to his appointment at Santa Clara University as Assistant Professor, he served as Visiting Assistant Professor at Kenyon College, Adjunct Lecturer at SCU, and Adjunct Professor in the Master’s Program in Gender Studies at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. His teaching emphasizes the value of Indigenous epistemologies in enriching global languages and cultures. In 2023, he founded the Indigenous Latin America Study Group at Santa Clara University. He is also actively engaged in community work through his volunteer service with the Chicana Latina Foundation.

Research Interests

Andean literatures and cultures
Indigeneity and decoloniality
New World Baroque and Global Baroque
Latin American poetry and Avant-Garde poetics
Contemporary Latin American literature, visual arts, and film
Memory and political violence in Peru

Courses

SPAN 21: Crossing Boundaries
SPAN 100: Introduction to Cultural Analysis in Spanish
SPAN 101: Introduction to Literature and Film Analysis in Spanish
SPAN 144: Contemporary Indigenous Cultures

Publications

“Panoramas y Cosmoramas en la obra de Simón Rodríguez." Modern Language Notes, vol. 138, n. 2, 2023, pp. 280-296.
“Crisis estructural y catástrofe social en la narrativa peruana (1980-2000).” Raquel Chang Rodríguez and Marcel Velázquez Castro, directors; Jorge Marcone and José Alberto Portugal, coordinators. Historia de las literaturas en el Perú. Vol. 5. PUCP, CASLIT, MINEDU, 2023, pp. 429-455.
“Viven hasta ahora, canancamapas causan: el Manuscrito de Huarochirí como puente al futuro.” Abiayalan Pluriverses. Bridging Indigenous Studies & Hispanic Studies. Eds. Gloria Elizabeth Chacón, Juan G. Sánchez Martínez, and Lauren Beck. Amherst College Press, 2023, pp. 135-151. Co-authored with Estelle Tarica and Ana Lucía Tello.
“Políticas andinas de la memoria. El conflicto colonial peruano en el retablo ayacuchano El Hombre (1987) de Edilberto Jiménez Quispe.” Hispanic Issues On Line, vol. 17, 2016, pp. 104-125.
“Transfiguraciones de los seres del imaginario mitológico andino en el marco del enfrentamiento armado peruano (1980-2000) en Rosa Cuchillo, de Óscar Colchado Lucio.” Eds. Helena Usandizaga and Beatriz Ferrús. Fragmentos de un nuevo pasado. Inventario de mitos prehispánicos en la literatura latinoamericana actual. Peter Lang, 2015, pp. 55-71.
“Cartografía de los senderos que se bifurcan. Breve estudio comparativo entre Adiós Ayacucho y Lituma en los Andes.” Ed. Lucero de Vivanco Roca Rey. Memorias en tinta. Ensayos sobre la representación de la violencia política en Argentina, Chile y Perú. Universidad Alberto Hurtado, 2013, pp. 400-418.