Walter Mignolo

Walter Mignolo
Walter Mignolo in 2007

Walter D. Mignolo is an Argentine semiotician (Ecoles des Hautes Etudes) and professor at Duke University, who has published extensively on semiotics and literary theory, made up over a dozen new words, and worked on different aspects of the modern and colonial world, exploring concepts such as global coloniality, the geopolitics of knowledge, transmodernity, border thinking, and pluriversality.[1]

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Mignolo received his Ph.D. from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Paris. He subsequently taught at the Universities of Toulouse, Indiana, and Michigan.

Since January 1993, Walter D. Mignolo has been the William H. Wannamaker Professor of Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University, USA, and has joint appointments in Cultural Anthropology and Romance Studies.

Mignolo co-edits the web dossier, Worlds and Knowledges Otherwise. He is the academic director of "Duke in the Andes", an interdisciplinary program in Latin American and Andean Studies in Quito, Ecuador, at the Universidad Politécnica Salesiana. Since 2000, he has directed the Center for Global Studies and the Humanities, a research unit within the John Hope Franklin Center for International and Interdisciplinary Studies. He has also been named Permanent Researcher at Large at the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar in Quito, Ecuador.

Publications

His publications include The Idea of Latin America (2005), which was awarded the Frantz Fanon Prize for Outstanding Book in Caribbean Thoughts by The Caribbean Philosophical Association in 2006; Writing Without Words: Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes, co-edited with Elizabeth H. Boone (1994); and The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, Colonization (1995) which won the Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize from the Modern Language Association. He is also author of Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges and Border Thinking (1999) and editor of Capitalismo y geopolítica del conocimiento: El eurocentrismo y la filosofía de la liberación en el debate intellectual contemporanáneo (2000) and The Americas: Loci of Enunciations and Imaginary Constructions (1994-95). His current interests include colonial expansion and nation building at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries.

In collaboration with Arturo Escobar, he edited a special issue of Cultural Studies[2] on "Globalization and the Decolonial Option."[3]

Recently, Mignolo has ventured into what he calls "decolonial aesthetics," writing on artists Pedro Lasch, Fred Wilson (artist), and Tanja Ostojić. He contributed to Black Mirror/Espejo Negro, a book on the works of Pedro Lasch, edited by Lasch, published by Duke University Press.

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