Office Location:	125A Friedl Building
Office Phone:	919-668-1949
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://ca-www.aas.duke.edu/~wmignolo

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

By appointment

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   (More Publications)

1. W. Mignolo. The Idea of Latin America. London, Blackwell, 2005, October, 2005.
2. Walter D. Mignolo. Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges and Border Thinking. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. Translated into Portuguese in 2004
3. "The Geopolitics of Knowledge and the Colonial Difference." SAQ  vol. 101.1 ( 2003): 57-96.
4. "Globalization and the Borders of Latinity." The Latin American Perspectives on Globalization. Ethics, Politics and Alternative Visions. Edited by Mario Saenz.  (2002): 77-101.
5. "Globalization, Civilization Processes and the Relocation of Languages and Cultures." The Cultures of Globalization. Edited by F. Jameson and M. Miyoshi.  ( 1998).
6. Walter D. Mignolo. The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality and Colonization. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1995.

Walter D. Mignolo received his Doctorat de 3ème Cycle from the École des Hautes Études, Paris, in 1974. He has taught at the Université de Toulouse, Indiana University, and the University of Michigan. Among his books on textual and literary theories are Elementos para una teoría del texto literario (Barcelona, 1978) and Teoría del texto e interpretación de textos (Mexico, 1986). His current research focuses on global coloniality and the history of capitalism. His most recent book, Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges and Border Thinking (Princeton U.P., 2000). He edited with an introduction Capitalismo y Geopolitica del Conocimiento: la Filosofia de la Liberacion en el Debate Intelectual Contemporaneo (Buenos Aires, 2001). His previous book, The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality and Colonization (1995), was awarded the Katherine Singers Kovac Prize by the Modern Language Association. He co-edited with Elizabeth Hill Boone, Writing without Words: Alternative Literacies in Mesoamérica and the Andes (1994) with contributions from art historians, anthropologists, historians and cultural critics. He is founder and co-editor of Disposition (The University of Michigan) and co-founder and co-editor of Nepantla: Views from South, a journal published by Duke University Press. He has published in Comparative Studies in Society and History, L'Homme, Colonial Latin American Review, South Atlantic Quarterly, Renaissance Quarterly, Hispanic Issues, Poetics Today, Public Culture, Latin American Cultural Studies, etc.

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