LQBTQ Studies — ��ϲ��

Ethan Madarieta

Sophie Gomprecht — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 18:29:17 +0000

Ethan Madarieta euskal-amerikarra da. He earned his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature with a graduate Minor in Latina/o Studies and a Certificate in Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2020. Professor Madarieta’s research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of Latin American, Latine/x, Black, and Indigenous studies with specializations in Latin American, Latine/x, and Pan-American Indigenous theory and literatures. His research and teaching engage memory studies, queer and trans* studies, Latine/x, Black, and Indigenous studies, and critical race and ethnicity studies. His current book project, tentatively titled The Body is (Not) the Land: Memory, Translation, and the Territorial Aporia, thinks through conceptions of sovereignty, Indigenous presence, and precedence in the literatures and political performances (such as the ongoing hunger strikes) of Mapuche Indigenous peoples of Wallmapu [Chile and Argentina]. Through these sites, the book considers how and when Indigenous bodies and land intersect, and in what ways state and Indigenous conceptions of the body and land are distinct and overlapping. The Body Is (Not) the Land attends to the ontoepistemological underpinnings of Indigenous territorial precedence as body-territorial relation and pursues the possibilities of restitution beyond juridical means.

William Robert

Sophie Gomprecht — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 19:58:55 +0000

Research and Teaching Interests:

William Robert teaches and writes about intersections and interactions of religion and performance. He is especially interested in limit-experiences and limit-crossings as performances of religion. He pays particular attention to mysticism, sexuality, and animality as sites where these experiences and crossings happen, focusing on case studies in ancient Greek and medieval Christian contexts. And he considers how such performances of religion can affect how we figure and refigure religion. To do so, he combines historical, textual, philosophical, and corporeal approaches to studying religion with queer theory and performance studies.

Education:

PhD Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005 MA Religion, University of Chicago Divinity School, 1999 MA Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, University of Chicago, 1997 BA Philosophy and Literature, Davidson College, 1996

Academic Positions:

Associate Professor, Department of Religion, ��ϲ��, 2016–present Affiliated Faculty, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies
Affiliated Faculty, Programs in LGBTQ Studies and in Medieval and Renaissance Studies Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, ��ϲ��, 2011–16 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, ��ϲ��, 2010–11 Humanities Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow, Department of Religion, ��ϲ��, 2006–10 Instructor, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Louisiana State University, 2005–06

PJ DiPietro

Lily Datz — Sun, 21 Feb 2021 21:12:03 +0000

Decolonial Feminism; Trans* Studies; Afro-Latinx/Latinx/Chicanx Feminist Theories; Feminist and Socio-Political Philosophy; Native and Indigenous Philosophy.

Dr. DiPietro works at the intersection of decolonial feminism, hemispheric Latinx studies, and trans* studies. With a transdisciplinary approach, they engage anthropology, human geography, and philosophy. They collaborate with various organizations and collectives committed to social justice, including the Democratizing Knowledge Collective at ��ϲ��, the Association for Jotería Arts, Activism, and Scholarship (), the decolonial philosophy collaborative , and the travesti collectives Damas de Hierro and . DiPietro has received a Tinker Foundation Scholarship and an Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities. They are one of the co-editors of Speaking Face to Face: The Visionary Philosophy of María Lugones (SUNY 2019), and Trans Philosophy (forthcoming Fall 2024, University of Minnesota Press). Their single-author book Sideways Selves, The Decolonizing Politics of Transing Matter Across the Américas is forthcoming in 2024 with the University of Texas Press.