William Hane Wannamaker Distinguished Professor of Romance Studies and Professor of Literature, Duke University, Walter Mignolo is Director of the Centre for Global Studies and the Humanities at Duke University. He has been an associate researcher at Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar, Quito (2002–2018) and an honorary research associate for CISA (Center for Indian Studies in South Africa), Wits University, Johannesburg (2015–2019). From 2016 to 2020, he was Senior Advisor of DOC (Dialogue of Civilizations) Research Institute, based in Berlin.
Mignolo received a Doctor Honoris Causa Degree from the University National of Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2016, and an Honorary Degree from Goldsmith, University of London in 2018.
He has published extensively on semiotics and literary theory and has worked in recent years on different aspects of the modern/colonial world, exploring concepts such as global coloniality, the geopolitics of knowledge, transmodernity, border thinking, and pluriversality. His publications on these topics include: The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, Colonization (1995, recipient of the Katherine Singer Kovacs prize from the Modern Languages Association) and The Idea of Latin America, (2005, Frantz Fanon Prize by the Caribbean); Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges and Border Thinking (2000). Co-author with Catherine Walsh of On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis (2018), and The Politics of Decolonial Investigations (2021). He is editor and co-editor of Capitalismo y geopolítica del conocimiento : El eurocentrismo y la filosofía de la liberación en el debate intelectual contemporanáneo (2000) and The Americas: Loci of Enunciations and Imaginary Constructions (1994-95). His works have been translated into Mandarin, Korean, Russian, Estonian, Polish, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Swedish, Rumanian, Italian and Turkish.
Should a writer just sit in a room churning out novels to be sold in the United States, or become a wandering minstrel? None of these cities are sacred to us, they cannot be—New York, Paris, London, L…
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