Andrea Pitts
Andrea Pitts
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy
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Office: Winningham 105C
Phone: (704) 687-5208
Email: apitts5@uncc.edu

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Research

Monograph

2021 Nos/Otras: Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Multiplicitous Agency, and Resistance. Albany: SUNY Press (in press, forthcoming August 2021).

Edited Books

2019 Theories of the Flesh: Latinx and Latin American Feminisms, Transformation, and Resistance, co-edited with Mariana Ortega and José Medina. New York: Oxford University Press.

2019 Beyond Bergson: Examining Race and Colonialism through the Writings of Henri Bergson, co-edited with Mark William Westmoreland. Albany: SUNY Press.

Edited Journal

2014 Coauthored introduction with A. Novoa. “Introduction to Moving Philosophies: Bridging Latin American and U.S. Latina/o Thought.” Inter-American Journal of Philosophy 5 (1): 1-22.

Articles/Chapters on Latin American Philosophy and Latinx Philosophy

2019 “Latinx Identity,” in An Introduction to Latin American and Latinx Philosophy, edited by Robert Eli Sanchez, Jr. New York: Routledge.

2019 “Bergsonism in Post-Revolutionary Mexico: Antonio Caso’s Theory of Aesthetic Intuition.” In Beyond Bergson: Examining Race and Colonialism through the Writings of Henri Bergson, edited by Andrea J. Pitts and Mark W. Westmoreland. Albany: SUNY Press.

2018 “Occidentalism and Orientalism in the Writings of Antonio Caso.” Comparative Studies in Asian and Latin American Philosophies: Cross-cultural Theories and Methodologies, edited by Stephanie Rivera Berruz and Leah Kalmanson. New York: Bloomsbury Press.

2017 “Decolonial Praxis and Epistemic Injustice.” Handbook on Epistemic Injustice, edited by Ian Kidd, Gaile Pohlhaus Jr., and José Medina, New York: Routledge.

2016 “Racial Interpellation, Civic Education and Anti-Latina/o Racism.” Decolonizing the Westernized University: Interventions in Philosophy of Education from Within and Without, edited by Ramón Grosfoguel, Roberto D. Hernández, and Ernesto Rosen Velasquez. Lanham: Lexington Books.

2014 “Toward an Aesthetics of Race: Bridging the Writings of Gloria Anzaldúa and José Vasconcelos.” Inter-American Journal of Philosophy 5 (1): 80-100.

Articles/Chapters on Feminist Philosophy

2021 “Latinx Philosophy.” In Oxford Handbook of Feminist Philosophy, edited by Ásta and Kim Q. Hall, 120-135. New York: Oxford University Press.

2020 “Latina Feminist Engagements with U.S. Pragmatism: Interrogating Identity, Realism, and Representation.” In Decolonizing American Philosophy, edited by Corey McCall and Phillip McReynolds, 131-153. Albany: SUNY Press.

2019 “World-Traveling,” In 50 Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology, edited by Gail Weiss, Ann V. Murphy, and Gayle Salamon. Chicago: Northwestern University Press.

2018 “Epistemic Injustice and Feminist Epistemology.” Handbook of Applied Epistemology, edited by David Coady and James Chase. New York: Routledge.

2016 “Gloria E. Anzaldúa’s Autohistoria-teoría as an Epistemology of Self- Knowledge/Ignorance.” Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 31 (2): 352-369.

2016 Co-authored with Natalie Cisneros, Cynthia M. Paccacerqua, Stephanie Rivera Berruz, and Elena Ruíz. “In the Flesh and Word: Latina Feminist Philosophers’ Collective Labor.” Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 31 (2): 437-446.

Articles/Chapters on Criminalization, Race, and Health

2021 “‘That Close and Contagious Death’: Symptomatology, Sociogeny, and Structural Oppression,” in “Resistant Affects” Symposium, Theory and Event 24 (1): 1-8 (in press).

2019 “‘The Atlas of Our Skin and Bone and Blood’: Disability, Ablenationalism, and the War on Drugs.” Genealogy 3, no. 4: 1-16.

2019 “Carceral Medicine and Prison Abolition: Trust and Truth-telling in Correctional Healthcare.” In Overcoming Epistemic Injustice: Social and Psychological Perspectives, edited by Benjamin R. Sherman and Stacey Goguen. London: Rowman and Littlefield International.

2018 “Examining Carceral Medicine through Critical Phenomenology.” IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 11 (2): 14-35.

2015 “White Supremacy, Mass Incarceration, and Clinical Medicine: A Critical Analysis of U.S. Correctional Healthcare.” Radical Philosophy Review 18 (2): 267-285.

Book Reviews

2020 “Review of Shelley L. Tremain, Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability.” Canadian Journal of Disability Studies 9, no. 3: 1-9.

2018 “Review of Juliet Hooker, Theorizing Race in the Americas: Douglass, Sarmiento, Du Bois, and Vasconcelos.” Critical Philosophy of Race 6 (1): 109-119.

2017 “Review of Mariana Ortega, In-Between: Latina Feminist Phenomenology, Multiplicity, and the Self.” philoSOPHIA: Journal of Feminist Continental Philosophy 7 (1): 261-268.

2016 “Review of Carlos Alberto Sánchez, Contingency and Commitment: Mexican Existentialism and the Place of Philosophy.” Human Studies: Journal for Philosophy and the Social Sciences 39 (4): 645-652.

2010 “Review of Fred Evans, The Multivoiced Body: Society and Communication in the Age of Diversity.” Human Studies: Journal for Philosophy and the Social Sciences 33 (4): 465-471.

Other Publications

2020 “Trans Philosophy: The Early Years, An Interview with Talia Mae Bettcher, Loren Cannon, Miqqi Alicia Gilbert, and C. Jacob Hale.” Co-authored introduction and co-edited interview with Perry Zurn. APA Newsletter on LGBTQ Issues in Philosophy 20 (1): 1-10.

2019 “Andrea Pitts on Feminist Indigenous Resistance to Neoliberalism,” Unmuted: Conversations on Prejudice, Oppression, and Social Justice, edited by Myisha Cherry. New York: Oxford UP.

2018 “Embodied Thresholds of Sanctuary: Abolitionism and Trans Worldmaking,” APA Newsletter on LGBT Issues in Philosophy, 18 (1): 3-10.

2018 “Humanist Battles and Embattled Humanists: Neo-Interventionism, Neo-Pragmatism, and the Coloniality of Truth,” The Southern Journal of Philosophy 56 (S1): 93-115.

2014 “Cruel and Unusual Care and Punishment: Epistemic Injustices in Correctional Health Care.” APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine 14 (1): 6-9.

2012 “Critical Genealogies of the History of Latin American Philosophy.” APA Newsletter on Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy 12 (1): 11-14.

2011 “Race and Rousseauian Themes in Latin American Philosophy: D.F. Sarmiento and Republican Motherhood.” APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy 10 (2): 8-12.

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