Luis Morató Peña
Senior Lecturer of Quechua & Spanish Language (retired)

Luis Morató Peña was Senior Lecturer in the Department of Romance Studies and Faculty Fellow of the Spanish Language House until his retirement in 2009. He is a native speaker of Spanish and Quechua. He has published several Peruvian and Bolivian trilingual textbooks for classroom instruction, a grammar, and a dictionary. His recent book, Mama Florencia, is about life in the Andean village of Pocona before, during, and after the Agrarian Reform of 1953. The historic and literary content of Mama Florencia, in Quechua, Spanish and English, opens a way toward the cultural liberation of millions of Andean peasants.