Walter Mignolo

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Walter Mignolo at National University of San Marcos, Lima, 2007.

'Walter D. Mignolo (1947) is an Argentine semiotician (Ecoles des Hautes Etudes) and professor at Duke University, who has published extensively on semiotics and literary theory, and has 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 (http://waltermignolo.com/).

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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 Pontifícia Universidad Católica del Ecuador and 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.

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His recent publications include: The Idea of Latin America (2005), was awarded the Frantz Fanon Prize for Oustanding Book in Caribbean Thoughts, by The Caribbean Philosophical Association (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 intelectual 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 nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries.

In collaboration with Arturo Escobar, he edited an special issue of Cultural Studies (21/2-3, March 2007), on Globalization and the Decolonial Option (http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=g776420754~db=all)