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Miguel Gualdron Ramirez

Title: Assistant Professor

Department: Philosophy and Religion

College: College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

Curriculum Vitae

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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

Current Scheduled Teaching

No current or future courses scheduled.

Previous Scheduled Teaching

PHIL 3100.002AestheticsSpring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
PHIL 6250.001AestheticsSpring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
PHIL 5900.005Special ProblemsSpring 2023
PHIL 6900.004Special ProblemsSpring 2023
PHIL 6910.002Special ProblemsSpring 2023
PHIL 3130.001Antiracist ThoughtFall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
PHIL 6960.002Semester in Problems of PhilosophyFall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
PHIL 3100.001AestheticsSpring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
PHIL 3200.001Philosophy in LiteratureSpring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
PHIL 6900.004Special ProblemsSpring 2022 Syllabus
PHIL 3120.001Social and Political PhilosophyFall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
PHIL 5300.001Social and Political PhilosophyFall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
PHIL 5300.600Social and Political PhilosophyFall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
PHIL 6900.705Special ProblemsFall 2021 Syllabus
PHIL 3100.001AestheticsSummer 5W1 2021 Syllabus SPOT
PHIL 4900.705Special ProblemsSummer 5W1 2021
PHIL 3100.001AestheticsSpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
PHIL 4775.001Latin American PhilosophySpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
PHIL 5900.003Special ProblemsSpring 2021 Syllabus
PHIL 6900.006Special ProblemsSpring 2021 Syllabus

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

  • Gualdron Ramirez, M. Decolonial Aesthetics. Theory and practice from the Americas. Bloomington, Indiana, Indiana University Press.
  • Book Chapter

  • Gualdron Ramirez, M. The promise of Manumission. Appropriations and Responses to the Notion of Emancipation in the Caribbean and South America in the First Half of the 19th Century. Creolizing Critical Theory. Rowman & Littlefield.
  • 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

  • Hernandez Vidal, N., Gualdron Ramirez, M. The Dialectics of Critique and Hope. Reflections on Colombia’s New Government. Human Geography.
  • Gualdron Ramirez, M. ¿Por qué es tan bello el mundo? La estética decolonial como presentimiento e insuficiencia de la totalidad. 71 (9)
  • Gualdron Ramirez, M. Can’t you just wait a while and leave it alone? Fundamentals of Anti-Blackness in Latin American thought.
  • 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].

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. (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).
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