Victor Quiroz Ciriaco explores decolonial interactions between Andean Indigenous knowledge and Global North modern aesthetic, literary and critical discourses. His book, "El tinkuy postcolonial" (2011), examines the relationship between Quechuan cognitive categories and the fictionalization of the Peruvian Internal Armed Conflict (1980-2000). His work has been published in peer-reviewed journals and in collective volumes such as Abiayalan Pluriverses (2023) and Historia de las literaturas peruanas (2023).
Before joining Kenyon, he taught at Santa Clara University — where he founded the Indigenous Latin America Study Group — and in the master's program in gender studies at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
In his classes, he promotes respect for diversity by teaching how Indigenous knowledge enriches global languages and cultures. He also volunteers with the Chicana Latina Foundation.
Areas of Expertise
Andean cultures; Amerindian literatures; Latin American poetry; Baroque aesthetics
Education
2023 — Doctor of Philosophy from Univ. of California Berkeley