Dr. Miguel Gualdron Ramirez
University of North Texas
Philosophy and Religion
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Education

PhD, DePaul University, 2019.
Major: Philosophy
MA, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2009.
Major: Philosophy
BA, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2005.
Major: Philosophy

Professional Positions

Academic - Post-Secondary
Assistant Professor, University of North Texas. (January 14, 2021 – Present).
Visiting Professor in Philosophy, Oxford College of Emory Universit. (August 1, 2018December 15, 2020).
Graduate Instructor, DePaul University. (September 1, 2014July 1, 2018).
Professional
Member of Committee on Hispanics/Latinxs, American Philosophical Association. (July 1, 2022July 1, 2025).

Professional Memberships

Asociación de Colombianistas. (September 28, 2021 – Present).

American Philosophical Association. (August 1, 2021 – Present).

Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. (September 1, 2019 – Present).

Caribbean Philosophical Association. (August 1, 2016 – Present).

Latin American Studies Association. (April 1, 2014 – Present).

Teaching

Teaching Experience

University of North Texas
PHIL 3100, Aesthetics, 4 courses.
PHIL 3120, Social and Political Philosophy, 1 course.
PHIL 3130, Antiracist Thought, 1 course.
PHIL 3200, Philosophy in Literature, 1 course.
PHIL 4775, Latin American Philosophy, 1 course.
PHIL 4900, Special Problems, 1 course.
PHIL 5300, Social and Political Philosophy, 2 courses.
PHIL 5900, Special Problems, 2 courses.
PHIL 6250, Aesthetics, 1 course.
PHIL 6900, Special Problems, 4 courses.
PHIL 6910, Special Problems, 1 course.
PHIL 6960, Semester in Problems of Philosophy, 1 course.

Teaching at Other Institutions

Universidad de los Andes, Law School, Summer 2020.

Oxford College of Emory University, Fall 2018.

DePaul University, Fall 2014.

Universidad del Rosario, Fall 2011.

Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Fall 2010.

Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Fall 2009.

Directed Student Learning

Doctoral Comprehensive Exam Member or Grader, Philosophy and Religion. (February 2, 2022 – Present).

Doctoral Comprehensive Exam Member or Grader, Philosophy and Religion. (January 25, 2022 – Present).

Dissertation Committee Member, Philosophy and Religion. (September 24, 2020 – Present).

Doctoral Comprehensive Exam Member or Grader, Philosophy and Religion. (August 11, 2021January 19, 2022).

Doctoral Comprehensive Exam Member or Grader, Philosophy and Religion. (August 18, 2021January 13, 2022).

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

Blog Post
Gualdron Ramirez, M. (2021). Absolute Banana Republic Crap: Reflections on the “Assault” on the Capitol. Public Philosophy Blog of the American Philosophical Association. https://blog.apaonline.org/2021/01/11/absolute-banana-republic-crap-reflections-on-the-assault-on-the-capitol/
Book Chapter
Gualdron Ramirez, M. (2020). To ’stay where you are’ as a decolonial gesture: Glissant’s philosophy of Caribbean history in the context of Césaire and Fanon. Memory, Migration and (De)colonisation in the Caribbean and Beyond. Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvwh8cwp.14
Book Review
Gualdron Ramirez, M. (2022). Review of Colectivo Ayllu, Devuélvannos el Oro: Cosmovisiones perversas y acciones anticoloniales (Madrid: Matadero. Centro de Residencias Artísticas, 2018). Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. https://doi.org/10.1017/hyp.2022.38
Gualdron Ramirez, M. (2021). Review of Michael Monahan (ed.), Creolizing Hegel, (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017). Inter-American Journal of Philosophy. 12(1), 40-45. Texas A&M:. https://ijp.tamu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Creolizing_Hegel_Review_by_Miguel_Gualdro%CC%81n_Rami%CC%81rez.pdf
Gualdron Ramirez, M. (2021). Review of John Drabinski, Glissant and the Middle Passage (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019). Philosophy Today. 65(2), 425-431.
Gualdron Ramirez, M. (2020). Review of Andrea Shaw Nevins, Working Juju: Representations of the Caribbean Fantastic. Series XXIV, .
Journal Article
Gualdron Ramirez, M., Acosta, M. (2019). Introduction: Philosophy in and from Colombia. XI(3), . Philosophical Readings.
Gualdron Ramirez, M. (2019). Transversality as disruption and connection: On the possibilities and limits of using the framework of trauma in Glissant’s philosophy of Caribbean history. XI(3), . https://virgo.unive.it/ojs2/index.php/phr/article/view/72
Gualdron Ramirez, M. (2018). Resistance and expanse in Nuestra América: a contemporary analysis of José Martí in light of Édouard Glissant and Gloria Anzaldúa. 46(2), . Baltimore MD: diacritics / John Hopkins University Press. https://muse-jhu-edu.libproxy.library.unt.edu/article/723182
Gualdron Ramirez, M. (2016). Pensar con las manos. Otra mirada a las relaciones entre arte y memoria en la obra de Óscar Muñoz.
Gualdron Ramirez, M. (2012). Antígona: ¿lugar imposible de una comunidad?.
Gualdron Ramirez, M. (2010). El Mutuo Reconocimiento como concepto del Espíritu. Apuntes sobre el concepto de Anerkennung en la Fenomenología del Espíritu.
Gualdron Ramirez, M. (2007). ¿Juzgar o actuar?.
Special Journal Issue
Gualdron Ramirez, M., Acosta, M. (2019). Philosophy in Colombia. XI(3), . Italy: Philosophical Readings.
Translation or Transcription
Menke, C., Gualdron Ramirez, M. (2020). Por qué el derecho es violento (y debería reconocerlo) [Recht und Gewalt]. Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI Editores.
Reck, H. U., Gualdron Ramirez, M. (2018). En Medio: Ensayos sobre lo imaginarion de las artes y los medios [In-Zwischen]. Bogota: Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
Gualdron Ramirez, M., Harrasser, K. (2017). Cuerpo 2.0: Sobre la Expansibilidad Técnica del Ser Humano [Körper 2.0. Über die technische Erweiterbarkeit des Menschen].

Presentations Given

Invited Talk

Gualdron Ramirez, M. (Author & Presenter), Philosophy Student Association’s Mike Ryan Lecture Series, Aesthetics of deciphering: two Latin American cases, United States of America. (2019 – ).

Gualdron Ramirez, M. (Author & Presenter), Coloquio de Filosofía, Universidad de los Andes, Un comienzo abisal de las Antillas: Historia y poética en el pensamiento de Édouard Glissant, Colombia. (2017 – ).

Gualdron Ramirez, M. (Author & Presenter), Graduate Student Colloquium, DePaul University, A prophetic vision of the past: on history and spatiality in Èdouard Glissant, United States of America. (2015 – ).

Gualdron Ramirez, M. (Author & Presenter), Aesthetics as Critique: From the Critique of Aesthetics to a Decolonial Perspective, Protesting everything that beauty is not, University of Paris 8, France. (20212021).

Keynote/Plenary Address

Gualdron Ramirez, M. (Author & Presenter), University of Texas at Dallas' Third Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, Impure Imaginations: An Approach to the Aesthetic Thought of Gloria Anzaldúa and María Lugones, United States of America. (2022 – ).

Lecture

Gualdron Ramirez, M. (Author & Presenter), From the Zapatistas in Chiapas to the Water Protectors at Standing Rock: A Decolonial Perspective, OLLI UNT, United States of America. (20212022).

Oral Presentation

Gualdron Ramirez, M. (Author & Presenter), Édouard Glissant’s Ethics (Ethics & Caribbean Philosophy), Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto, Canada. (2021).

Panel Presentation

Gualdron Ramirez, M. (Author & Presenter), In-CLASS Distinguished Scholars Series, Critical Race Theory Matters Panel, United States of America. (2022 – ).

Sanders, S. J. (Panelist), Narahara, K. (Panelist), Ybarra, P. S. (Panelist), Mondragon, R. S. (Panelist), Geldon, W. L. (Panelist), Gualdron Ramirez, M. (Moderator), In-CLASS Distinguished Faculty Series Talk, In-CLASS Distinguished Faculty Series Talk: Embodied Heritage, University of North Texas, United States of America. (20232023).

Paper

Gualdron Ramirez, M. (Author & Presenter), APA Pacific Division Meeting, Unearthing an Underground Tongue: Creativity and Coalition as Decolonial Resistance, Canada. (2022 – ).

Gualdron Ramirez, M. (Author & Presenter), Caribbean Philosophical Association, Poetics and poetries of the Abyss: Édouard Glissant and Audre Lorde, United States of America. (2022 – ).

Gualdron Ramirez, M. (Author & Presenter), Latina/x Feminisms Roundtable, Un canto en su lengua”: shifts of the enslaved woman’s voice as a mechanism of rebellion in South America, United States of America. (2022 – ).

Gualdron Ramirez, M. (Author & Presenter), Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) Conference, Antiblackness in Latin American Thought: Two Versions of the Mestizo Model, United States of America. (2022 – ).

Gualdron Ramirez, M. (Author & Presenter), California Roundtable on Philosophy of Race, Fundamentals of Anti-Blackness in Latin American Thought, United States of America. (2021 – ).

Gualdron Ramirez, M. (Author & Presenter), Caribbean Philosophical Association, Lo Real Maravilloso and the Baroque. Approaches to the status of Latin American reality, United States of America. (2021 – ).

Gualdron Ramirez, M. (Author & Presenter), Second Philosophies of Liberation Encuentro, ¿Una alternativa a la estética decolonial? El cine de Lucrecia Martel como estética de desciframiento, United States of America. (2020 – ).

Gualdron Ramirez, M. (Author & Presenter), V Congreso de Estudios Poscoloniales y VII Jornadas de Feminismo Poscolonial, Sedimentaciones y transformaciones del silencio como resistencia: Édouard Glissant y Audre Lorde, Argentina. (2020 – ).

Gualdron Ramirez, M. (Author & Presenter), Congreso Internacional de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe, Édouard Glissant en conversación con el pensamiento decolonial latinoamericano: apuntes para un diálogo ausente y fundamental, Colombia. (2019 – ).

Gualdron Ramirez, M. (Author & Presenter), SPEP, L’antillanité as Poetics of Caribbean Spatiality, United States of America. (2019 – ).

Gualdron Ramirez, M. (Author & Presenter), Chicago Area Consortium in German Philosophy Workshop, Remarks to Mark Alznauer’s ‘Poetic Theodicy in Wordsworth and Hegel, United States of America. (2018 – ).

Gualdron Ramirez, M. (Author & Presenter), Colloque GLISSANT « L’éclat et l’obscur », Common Places: Archipelagic and Continental Thoughts on Interdisplinarity, France. (2018 – ).

Gualdron Ramirez, M. (Author & Presenter), Latin American Studies Association, Resistance and political action in Nuestra América: José Martí in view of the experience of Ayotzinapa, United States of America. (2016 – ).

Gualdron Ramirez, M. (Author & Presenter), Sylvia Wynter Aesthetics, Aesthetics of Deciphering: Sylvia Wynter and Lucrecia Martel and the possibilities of a decolonial aesthetics, Center for Feminist Research at the University of Southern California, United States of America. (20222022).

Gualdron Ramirez, M. (Author & Presenter), California Roundtable for Philosophy of Race, Fundamentals of Anti-Blackness in Latin American Thought, Emory University, United States of America. (2021).

Gualdron Ramirez, M. (Author & Presenter), XXII Congreso Asociación de Colombianistas, Un canto en su lengua”: shifts of the enslaved woman’s voice as a mechanism of rebellion in South America, Florida International University, United States of America. (20212021).

Gualdron Ramirez, M. (Author & Presenter), Caribbean Philosophical Association, Lo Real Maravilloso and the Baroque. Approaches to the status of Latin American reality, United States of America. (20212021).

Media Contributions

Internet
"A conversation with Miguel Gualdrón Ramírez," Pedagogies for Peace Podcast, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame. (2020).

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Grant - Research
Gualdron Ramirez, M., "Junior Faculty Summer Research Grant," Sponsored by Office of the Provost of Academic Affairs, UNT, University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. (20222022).
Gualdron Ramirez, M., "Scholarly and Creativity Award (SCA)," Sponsored by UNT CLASS, University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. (January 1, 2022July 31, 2022).
Gualdron Ramirez, M., "Oxford Research Scholar, Oxford College of Emory University," Sponsored by Oxford College of Emory University, Private, $1000 Funded. (20202020).
Gualdron Ramirez, M., "Oxford Research Scholar," Sponsored by Oxford College of Emory University, Private, $1000 Funded. (20192020).
Gualdron Ramirez, M., "Graduate Research Funding," Sponsored by DePaul University, Private, $1000 Funded. (20182020).
Gualdron Ramirez, M., "Oxford Research Scholar," Sponsored by Oxford College of Emory University, Private, $1000 Funded. (20182020).
Grant - Teaching
Narahara, K. (Principal), Carey, C. (Supporting), Gualdron Ramirez, M. (Supporting), Carrington, J. (Supporting), "Afro-Brazilian Religions, Black Anthropologies, and Academic Diversity," Sponsored by University of North Texas, University of North Texas, $2500 Funded. (November 4, 2022August 10, 2023).

Awards and Honors

Best Submission by a Junior Scholar, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP). (October 14, 2022 – Present).

Service

University Service

Committee Member, Search Committee for Assistant Professor in Literary Fiction (English). (October 1, 2021 – Present).

Committee Member, Graduate Affairs Committee. (September 2021 – Present).

Committee Member, Speakers Committee. (January 2021 – Present).

Committee Member, Search Committee for VAP in Literary Nonfiction. (March 2021July 2022).

Committee Member, Search Committee for Assistant Professor in Literary Nonfiction (English). (October 1, 2021May 1, 2022).

Committee Member, Scholarship and Fellowships Committee. (January 2021May 2021).

Professional Service

Reviewer, Journal Article, Latin American Research Review (Cambridge University Press). (October 2021 – Present).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Eidos. (January 2021 – Present).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (Cambridge University Press). (January 2021 – Present).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Revista Colombiana de Pensamiento Estético e Historia del Arte. (January 2021 – Present).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Universitas Philosophica. (January 2021 – Present).