Walter Mignolo

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Walter Mignolo in 2007

Walter D. Mignolo (born May 1st, 1941) is an Argentine semiotician (cole des Hautes
tudes) 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 Crdoba,
Argentina in 1969. In 1974 he obtained his Ph.D. from the cole des Hautes tudes, 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 Politcnica 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 Simn Bolvar in Quito,
Ecuador.
Recently, Mignolo has ventured into what he calls "decolonial aesthetics" writing on artists
Pedro Lasch, Fred Wilson, and Tanja Ostoji. He contributed to Black Mirror/Espejo
Negro, a book on the works of Pedro Lasch, edited by Lasch, published by Duke University
Press.