Walter D Mignolo, Faculty

Office Location:	224 Franklin Center, Box 90402
Office Phone:	919-668-1949
Email Address:

Teaching (Fall 2009):

• LIT 162ZS.01, SP TOP LIT/NATL CULTURES

  Friedl Bdg 118, MW 01:15 PM-02:30 PM

• SPANISH 181S.03, U S LAT LIT/CUL ST (TOP) Synopsis

  Friedl Bdg 118, MW 01:15 PM-02:30 PM

• ROMST 200S.01, SEM ROMANCE STUDIES(TOP) Synopsis

  Friedl Bdg 126, M 04:25 PM-06:55 PM

• LIT 255S.05, SPECIAL TOPICS IN LITERATURE Synopsis

  Friedl Bdg 126, M 04:25 PM-06:55 PM

• ROMST 150S.03, TOPICS ROMANCE STUDIES Synopsis

  Perkins 2-079, MW 01:15 PM-02:30 PM

• WOMENST 150S.05, SELECTED TOPICS

  Perkins 2-079, MW 01:15 PM-02:30 PM

• LIT 162ZS.01, SP TOP LIT/NATL CULTURES Synopsis

  Friedl Bdg 118, MW 04:25 PM-05:40 PM

• LIT 162ZS.02, THE PHILOSOPHY OF HUMAN RIGHTS Synopsis

  Perkins 2-079, MW 01:15 PM-02:30 PM

• CULANTH 180S.01, Heritage, Tourism, Slavery, and the Atlantic World

  Perkins 2-079, MW 01:15 PM-02:30 PM

• SPANISH 181S.01, THE IDEA OF LATIN AMERICA Synopsis

  Friedl Bdg 118, MW 04:25 PM-05:40 PM

Education:

PhD, Semiotics and Literary Theory (Doctorat de Troisiéme Cycle)	École des Hautes Études (EPHE) as its VI Section: Sciences Économiques et Sociales, Paris, France	1974
Licenciatura in Philosophy and Literature--Filosofía y Letras.	Universidad de Córdoba	1968

Specialties:

Spanish
Cultural Studies
Critical Theory
Latin American Studies

Research Interests:

Global Coloniality, Critical Cosmopolitanism, Modern/Colonial World System

Representative Publications

1. Walter Mignolo (editor in collaboration with Arturo Escobar), Globalization and the De-Colonial Option, edited by Larry Grosbberg, Cultural Studies, vol. 21 no. 1/2 (March, 2007) [title~content=g776420754~db=all]
2. W. Mignolo, The Idea of Latin America (October, 2005), London, Blackwell, 2005
3. Walter D. Mignolo, Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges and Border Thinking (1999), Princeton: Princeton University Press
4. The Geopolitics of Knowledge and the Colonial Difference, SAQ, vol. 101.1 (2003), pp. 57-96
5. Globalization and the Borders of Latinity, in The Latin American Perspectives on Globalization. Ethics, Politics and Alternative Visions, edited by Mario Saenz (2002), pp. 77-101, New York: Bowman and Littlefield
6. Globalization, Civilization Processes and the Relocation of Languages and Cultures, in The Cultures of Globalization, edited by F. Jameson and M. Miyoshi (1998), Durham: Duke University Press
7. Walter D. Mignolo, The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality and Colonization (1995), Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press