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  Walter D Mignolo, Affiliated Faculty
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  Walter D MignoloWilliam H. Wannamaker Professor of Literature and Romance Studies; Professor of Cultural Anthropology; Spanish and Chairman

Office Location:  125A Friedl Building
Office Phone:  919-668-1949
Email Address:  send me a message
Web Page:   http://www.duke.edu/womstud/~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
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
Cultural Studies
Critical Theory
Latin American 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 OptionCultural Studies 21:1/2 (March, March, 2007). [title~content=g776420754~db=all]
  2. W. Mignolo. The Idea of Latin America.  London, Blackwell, 2005, October, October, 2005.
  3. Walter D. Mignolo. Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges and Border Thinking.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999.
  4. "The Geopolitics of Knowledge and the Colonial Difference." SAQ 101.1 (2003): 57-96.
  5. "Globalization and the Borders of Latinity." The Latin American Perspectives on Globalization. Ethics, Politics and Alternative Visions  (2002): 77-101.
  6. "Globalization, Civilization Processes and the Relocation of Languages and Cultures." The Cultures of Globalization  (1998).
  7. Walter D. Mignolo. The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality and Colonization.  Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1995.