Walter D Mignolo, William H. Wannamaker Professor of Literature and Romance Studies; Professor of Spanish and Cultural Anthropology

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

Comparative Philosophy

Decolonial and Post-colonial Studies

Globalization, Postmodernity, Contemporaneity

Latin American Studies

Cultural Studies

Comparative Studies: Translation, Travel Narratives, Trans-Culturality

Critical Theory, Philosophy

Critical Theory

Early Modern

Modern and Contemporary

Latin-American Studies

Caribbean Studies

Research Interests:

Global Coloniality, Critical Cosmopolitanism, Modern/Colonial World System

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. Walter Mignolo (editor in collaboration with Arturo Escobar). Globalization and the De-Colonial Option. Cultural Studies  vol. 21 no. 1/2 ( March, 2007.). [title~content=g776420754~db=all]
2. W. Mignolo. The Idea of Latin America. London, Blackwell, 2005, October, 2005.
3. Walter D. Mignolo. Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges and Border Thinking. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. Translated into Portuguese in 2004
4. "The Geopolitics of Knowledge and the Colonial Difference." SAQ  vol. 101.1 ( 2003): 57-96.
5. "Globalization and the Borders of Latinity." The Latin American Perspectives on Globalization. Ethics, Politics and Alternative Visions. Edited by Mario Saenz.  (2002): 77-101.
6. "Globalization, Civilization Processes and the Relocation of Languages and Cultures." The Cultures of Globalization. Edited by F. Jameson and M. Miyoshi.  ( 1998).
7. 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.