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 moves around different threads of Latin American/Indegenous/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 my investigations are political and aesthetic theories and practices that critique colonial forms of self-understanding and expression and contribute to new epistemologies of resistance. My first monograph, Decolonial Aesthetics: Latin American and Caribbean Cartographies of Resistance will be published with Indiana University Press in June, 2027. In this work, I offer a taxonomy of Latin American and Caribbean theories and practices of aesthetic resistance, advocating for a materialist turn that both criticizes the coloniality of the aesthetic realm and also aims at a creative fostering and protection of the relationality of those who are already resisting, mobilizing, and creating sense.
I am currently working on my secoind book, Fundamentals of Anti-Blackness in Latin American Thought, which 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.
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