THE UNIVERSITY AND ITS PUBLICS: NORTH, SOUTH, AND IN BETWEEN
Critical Epistemology, Knowing
through
Gender
and the
Decolonial
Hacer Escuela/
Inventing School: Rethinking the Pedagogy of Critical Theory
Decolonizing Critical Theory
Technologies of Critique: New Sources for Critical Theory
After Foucault: Gender and Biopolitics in the Americas
Aesthetics and the Critique of Political Theology
Critical
theory
in the
Global
South
MELLON PREDOC AND POSTDOC FELLOWS
Vanessa Gubbins, a predoc Mellon fellow, took part in the Technologies of Critique: New Sources for Critical Theory. Gubbins completed her PhD at Yale’s Comparative Literature Department. In 2022, she was appointed as Assistant Professor in Romance Studies at Cornell University. She writes and teaches about Latin American literature of the Andean Region and the Southern Cone, poetics and poetologies, critical theory and critical theory in the Global South, Andean and European philosophies, Marxism, psychoanalysis, feminist theories, and Third Cinema.
Sheyla Liliana Huyhua Muñoz took part in the Circulating Anarchisms and Marxisms in the Andes project as a predoc Mellon fellow. She is working on her M.A. in Cultural Studies at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. She is interested in analyzing how Peruvian society constructs the sense of politics. Her research focuses on how modernity reduces complex categories such as memory, reconciliation, forgiveness, justice and democracy to a simple metaphysical exercise. She approaches Peruvian political conflicts not from the official discourse, but from what can not be verbalized or quantified by it.
Matías Sánchez took part in the Technologies of Critique: New Sources for Critical Theory project as a predoc Mellon fellow, . He is a graduate student in Philosophy at Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación (UMCE), visited Yale in Fall 2020. His graduate thesis was "Maquiavelo y la política (im)posible. El resto inadministrable" ("Machiavelli and (Im)Possible Politics: The Unmanageable Remainder"). He is the author of "Nietzsche. Nosotros, los nuevamente sin temor," which appears in the volume Perspectivas del pensar filosófico. Entre Santiago y Valparaíso, edited by José Jara, Lenin Pizarro, and Adolfo Vera.
Athi Mongezeleli Joja took part in the project Appropriation and Its Discontents. He has an MFA from Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa. As an art critic based in Johannesburg, he studied the writing of the late South African art critic Colin Richards. Joja has written for magazines and journals including Africanah, Artforum, Contemporary and (C&), The Mail, and Guardian. As a member of the arts collective Gugulective, Joja has also taken part in events such as the Creative Time Summit. As A Mellon predoctoral fellow at Northwestern University in 2018, he joined the PhD Program in Art History at the University of Pennsylvania in 2022.
Serah Namulisa Kasembeli took part in the project Indian Ocean Epistemologies.
She visited Northwestern with a Mellon fellowship (2017-2018) and completed her PhD in English (Stellenbosch University, South Africa). Her dissertation focused on concepts of the archive, memory, trauma, and hauntology in post-apartheid literature as an embodiment of slavery’s silenced history in the post-apartheid nation. She is author of a number of journal articles in these areas, a cultural studies scholar, and an independent research consultant.
Candice Jansen took part in the Trauma, Politics, and the Uses of Memory project. Her dissertation, COLOURED BLACK: The Life & Works of South African Photographers, Cedric Nunn and Ernest Cole (2019) was completed at Northwestern University during her Mellon fellowship. Jansen has curated, written and spoken on photography for the Museum of Modern Art, the World Press Photo Joop Swartz Masterclass, Magnum Photos, Toronto Photography Seminar, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Aperture, the Centres for Learning Photography in Africa, Tate Modern and The Centre for Documentary Studies at Duke University.
Andrés Mendieta took part in the Decolonizing Critical Theory project a predoc Mellon fellow. He holds a M.A in Gender Studies from the Nacional University of Tres de Febrero where he also teaches graduate seminars in queer and trans* studies. He participates as a research member of the international research project Trans.Arch: Archives in Transition, funded by the European Union. Mendieta joined Northwestern in the fall of 2022 as a PhD scholar in Spanish and Portuguese.
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Rodrigo Farías Rivas, a predoc Mellon fellow, took part in the project Aesthetics and the Critique of Political Theology. He studied Psychology and Philosophy at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He is a Clinical Psychologist and graduated from Philosophy with a thesis dealing with the possibility of a theoretical continuity between Wittgenstein and Lacan. In 2016, he began his doctoral studies in the joint PhD program in Philosophy offered by Diego Portales University in Chile and Leiden University in the Netherlands, with a research project dealing with Nietzsche and Lacan.
Cintia Martínez Velasco took part in the Critical Epistemology, Knowing through Gender and the Decolonial project as a postdoc Mellon fellow. received her PhD in Philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) where she introduced the course Debates on Feminist Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and Literature.
Martínez Velasco is now Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon, Eugene, and a board member of the International Association of Women Philosophers.
Jorge Sanchez Cruz was a postdoc Mellon fellow in Latin American Critical Theory and Latin American Gender and Sexuality Studies in the Program of Critical Theory, and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Northwestern University. His fellowship was followed by an ACLS postdoctoral research fellowship in the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania.
Sanchez Cruz is currently Visiting Assistant Professor in Spanish at Harvard University.
