Profile

I studied philosophy as an undergraduate and MA student at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, and I hold a PhD in Philosophy from DePaul University, Chicago (2019). Before joining UO, I was Assistant Professor in the Philosophy and Religion Department at the University of North Texas (2021-2023), and Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Oxford College of Emory (2018-2020). My research and teaching approximate the intersection between Latin American/Africana decolonial philosophy that occurs in the Americas, and how this entanglement contributes to understanding gender-race constructions under coloniality as well as the relations between colonized communities across the continent. The main sources for these investigations are political and aesthetic theories and practices that critique colonial forms of self-understanding and expression and contribute to new epistemologies of resistance. I am currently working on two book projects, Decolonial Aesthetics: Theory and Praxis from the Americas, and Fundamentals of Anti-Blackness in Latin American Thought. The former makes the case for the urgency of reconfiguring varied traditions of decolonial and anticolonial thought and praxis from an aesthetic standpoint, while the latter analyzes crucial moments in the philosophical canon that construct a Latin American identity on top of a removal of Black identities, cultures, and bodies, with an emphasis on forms of resistance to these constructs.