Walter Mignolo

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Walter Mignolo in 2007

Walter D. Mignolo (born May 1st, 1941) is an Argentine semiotician (École des Hautes

Études) and professor at Duke University, who has published extensively on semiotics and

literary theory, and 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.[1]

Contents

1 Work

2 Publications

3 References

4 External links

Work

Mignolo received his BA in Philosophy from the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba,

Argentina in 1969. In 1974 he obtained his Ph.D. from the École des Hautes Études, 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 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.

Recently, Mignolo has ventured into what he calls "decolonial aesthetics" writing on artists

Pedro Lasch, Fred Wilson, and Tanja Ostojić. He contributed to Black Mirror/Espejo

Negro, a book on the works of Pedro Lasch, edited by Lasch, published by Duke University

Press.