Carlos Flores Quispe

Carlos Flores Quispe is a second year Ph.D. student in Hispanic Linguistics at UMass Amherst. He is a native speaker of Quechua from Bolivia. He comes from an expert weaving family in the village of Candelaria, Chuquisaca, Bolivia. He has a bachelor’s degree in languages, focusing on Quechua, Spanish and English from the San Francisco Xavier University of Chuquisaca, with an undergraduate study in Sociology from the University of Hradec Králové in the Czech Republic, where he also taught Quechua. He is interested in contributing to the revitalization of the Quechua language through social media @carloskires, weavings, pedagogical teaching materials and designing experiential learning for children and adults. One of his publications is Bolivian Quechua Verbal Art collection is archived in The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA) and The Importance of Weaving From Generation to Generation in the ReVista Harvard Review of Latin America.