Nancy Tuana
Founding Director, Rock Ethics Institute
Nancy Tuana is DuPont/Class of 1949 Professor of Philosophy and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Penn State. She is co-teaching, with Emma Velez, a course on the work of María Lugones. They will also be co-editing a special issue of Critical Philosophy of Race on the topic of Decolonial Feminisms. Nancy has published a series of papers on the work of Gloria Anzaldúa and is at work on a book, coauthored with Charles Scott, tentatively entitled Beyond Philosophy, Beyond Norms: Nietzsche, Foucault, Anzaldúa.
Emma Velez
Graduate Student in Philosophy
Emma Velez is a Ph.D. Candidate in Philosophy & Women’s Studies at Penn State. She is co-teaching, along with Nancy Tuana, a course on the work of María Lugones. Her dissertation work is on the topic of decolonial feminisms, under the direction of Eduardo Mendieta and Nancy Tuana. She is especially interested in the contributions that decolonial feminism makes to re-thinking questions of the self, epistemology, and the ethicopolitical.
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