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Maya Aguiluz Ibargüen
Maya Aguiluz Ibargüen is a Researcher in the field of Latin
American Cultural Studies and Body Studies at the Centro de
Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias en Ciencias y Humanidades
(CEIICH), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. She is also
Professor of Latin American Studies in the Postgraduate
Program in Latin American Studies, at the same University. Her
lines of investigation come from her expertise in social theory
and contemporary sociology, with emphasis on topics related
to social memory and modern subjectivity, cultural history and
sociology of the body and emotions. In 2009 she co-coordinated
the first collection of critical essays on Gamaliel Churata,
Encrucijadas estético-políticas en el espacio andino.
José Luis Ayala
Born in the Puno region of Peru, José Luis Ayala is an Aymara
writer and Yatiri. He studied literature at the Universidad
Mayor de San Marcos and at the École des Hautes Études of
Paris. He has published extensively in poetry, fiction, essay,
and creative nonfiction. In 1990, Ayala won the Primer Premio
de Poesía e Identidad Nacional César Vallejo, granted by the
Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología CONCYTEC, Lima. He
is also editor of the Peruvian critical edition of El pez de Oro
(2011) and author of several articles and collected volumes on
Churata’s work.
Riccardo Badini
Professor of Latin American Indigenous Literatures at the
Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Riccardo Badini is the wellknown editor of Churata’s unpublished work. His current
research interests include the interactions between
indigenous cultures of the Americas and Spanish language and
culture, especially in the Peruvian Andean and Amazonian
areas, the relationship between avant-garde and indigeneity,
and the study of indigenous cultural productions through
anthropological and linguistic theoretical frameworks.
Currently, he is working on the edition of Churata’s
unpublished poetry and theater.
Marco Thomas Bosshard
Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literatures and
Cultures at the Europa-Universität Flensburg, Marco Thomas
Bosshard is an expert in the field of Churata studies. His pioneer
study Ästhetik der andinen Avantgarde: Gamaliel Churata
zwischen Indigenismus und Surrealismus, recently translated
into Spanish as Churata y la vanguardia andina (2014), opened
the way for many scholars to engage in discussions on Churata’s
literary, political, and philosophical thought. Prof. Bosshard’s
most recent research explores issues of Latin American
literature and culture in the European context, book fairs in the
Hispanic world, Trans-Andean studies, Latin American avantgarde, and indigenous literatures.
Jorge Coronado
Professor Coronado is Chair of the Department of Spanish and
Portuguese at Northwestern University and Co-Director of the
Andean Cultures and Histories working group, Buffett Institute
for Global Studies. He specializes in modern Latin American
and Andean literatures and cultures. His book, entitled The
Andes Imagined: Indigenismo, Society, and Modernity,
appeared in the Illuminations Series at the University of
Pittsburgh Press in 2009. He has written articles on
indigenismo, photography, and the avant-garde. He has
recently completed The Andes Pictured: Photographic
Portraiture, Consumption, Agency, 1900-1950 (forthcoming,
University of Pittsburgh Press), a study of photographic
portraits and culture in the southern Andes. Currently, he is
working on a book manuscript (tentatively entitled Lo andino:
región, cultura, concepto) that explores how the Andes has
cohered in the cultural imagination since the early 19th
century.
Meritxell Hernando Marsal
Meritxell Hernando Marsal is Associate Professor of Latin
American Literatures at the Universidade Federal de Santa
Catarina. She specializes in Latin American literature with
emphasis in topics such as Latin American narratives of the 20 th
and 21st centuries, Latin American critical discourse, and Andean
literature and colonization. As an Andean scholar, she has
produced pivotal work on Churata by creating a dialogue
between the Puno avant-garde and his Brazilian counterpart, the
Oswald de Andrade's anthropophagy.
Helena Usandizaga
Professor of Latin American literatures at the Universitat
Autònoma de Barcelona, Helena Usandizaga specializes in
contemporary Peruvian poetry and Andean studies in its
relation to cultural history, nationalism, territoriality,
indigeneity, and political identity. On the one hand she
addresses the poetry of writers as Vallejo, Moro, Westphalen
and Blanca Varela, on the other, the writings of José María
Arguedas and Gamaliel Churata. Among her most recent
publications are a critical edition of El pez de Oro (Cátedra,
2012) and numerous articles and book chapters relating to the
study of Churata’s work, particularly about the complex
functionality of myths surrounding his writing.
José Luis Velásquez Garambel
José Luis Velásquez Garambel is Researcher Professor in the
Maestría en Lingüística Andina y Educación at the Universidad
Nacional del Altiplano, Puno. He is also Editor and Coordinator
of the Biblioteca Puneña, and has published extensively on
Andean literatures and cultural politics. His research and
cultural activism have significantly contributed to the diffusion
of knowledge about Andean traditional cultures and languages.
Among his most important publications are Las luchas por la
escuela in-imaginada del indio. Escuela, movimientos sociales e
indigenismo en el altiplano (2010) and Beso de lluvia. Estudio de
literatura regional puneña (2008).
Ulises Juan Zevallos-Aguilar
Ulises Juan Zevallos-Aguilar is Associate Professor of Literatures
and Cultures of Latin America in the Department of Spanish and
Portuguese at the Ohio State University. His areas of expertise
include Andean, Amazonian and Transnational Studies,
ethnicity, gender and race in the Americas, and non-visual
cultures and intermedialites. He is the author of Las provincias
contraatacan: Regionalismo y anticentralismo en la literatura
peruana del siglo XX (2009) and Indigenismo y nación. Desafíos
a la representación de la subalternidad quechua y aymara en el
Boletín Titikaka (1926-30), published in 2002. His recent
research projects explore modern alternatives in the Central
Andes and Andean Transnationalism.
Amaratt Peralta
Amaratt Peralta is Gamaliel Churata's son and custodian of his
unpublished manuscripts. Next to him his sister Estrella
Peralta†
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