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Dr. Miguel Gualdron Ramirez

Assistant Professor

University of North Texas

Department of Philosophy and Religion

Email: Miguel.Gualdronramirez@unt.edu

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. University of North Texas. (2021 - Present).
  • Visiting Professor in Philosophy, Oxford College of Emory Universit. Oxford College of Emory Universit. (2018 - 2020).
  • Graduate Instructor, DePaul University. DePaul University. (2014 - 2018).

    • Professional

  • Member of Committee on Hispanics/Latinxs, American Philosophical Association. American Philosophical Association. (2022 - 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).
  • Doctoral Comprehensive Exam Member or Grader, Philosophy and Religion. (January 25, 2022).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Philosophy and Religion. (September 24, 2020).
  • Doctoral Comprehensive Exam Member or Grader, Philosophy and Religion. (August 11, 2021 - January 19, 2022).
  • Doctoral Comprehensive Exam Member or Grader, Philosophy and Religion. (August 18, 2021 - January 13, 2022).

Awards and Honors

  • Best Submission by a Junior Scholar, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP). (October 14, 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. (2021 - 2021).

    • 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. (2021 - 2022).

    • 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. (2023 - 2023).

    • 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. (2022 - 2022).
  • 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. (2021 - 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 - 2021).

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, 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. (2022 - 2022).
  • Gualdron Ramirez, M., "Scholarly and Creativity Award (SCA)," sponsored by UNT CLASS, University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. (2022 - 2022).
  • Gualdron Ramirez, M., "Oxford Research Scholar, Oxford College of Emory University," sponsored by Oxford College of Emory University, Private, $1000 Funded. (2020 - 2020).
  • Gualdron Ramirez, M., "Oxford Research Scholar," sponsored by Oxford College of Emory University, Private, $1000 Funded. (2019 - 2020).
  • Gualdron Ramirez, M., "Graduate Research Funding," sponsored by DePaul University, Private, $1000 Funded. (2018 - 2020).
  • Gualdron Ramirez, M., "Oxford Research Scholar," sponsored by Oxford College of Emory University, Private, $1000 Funded. (2018 - 2020).

    • 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. (2022 - 2023).

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 2021 - July 2022).
  • Committee Member, Search Committee for Assistant Professor in Literary Nonfiction (English). (October 1, 2021 - May 1, 2022).
  • Committee Member, Scholarship and Fellowships Committee. (January 2021 - May 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).