Andrea Pitts
Andrea Pitts
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy
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Office: Winningham 105C
Phone: (704) 687-5208
Email: apitts5@uncc.edu

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Publications

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Monograph

2021 Nos/Otras: Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Multiplicitous Agency, and Resistance. Albany: SUNY Press.

Edited Books

2020 Theories of the Flesh: Latinx and Latin American Feminisms, Transformation, and Resistance, co-edited with Mariana Ortega and José Medina. New York: Oxford University Press.

2019 Beyond Bergson: Examining Race and Colonialism through the Writings of Henri Bergson, co-edited with Mark William Westmoreland. Albany: SUNY Press.

Edited Journal

2014 Coauthored introduction with A. Novoa. “Introduction to Moving Philosophies: Bridging Latin American and U.S. Latina/o Thought.” Inter-American Journal of Philosophy 5 (1): 1-22.

Articles/Chapters on Latin American Philosophy and Latinx Philosophy

2021 “Shifting the Geography of Revolution: Mestizo Nationalism, Pan-Arab Independence, and Feminist Philosophy through the Writings of Vera Yamuni Tabush,” APA Newsletter on Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy 20 (2): 9-14.

2019 “Latinx Identity,” in An Introduction to Latin American and Latinx Philosophy, edited by Robert Eli Sanchez, Jr. New York: Routledge.

2019 “Bergsonism in Post-Revolutionary Mexico: Antonio Caso’s Theory of Aesthetic Intuition.” In Beyond Bergson: Examining Race and Colonialism through the Writings of Henri Bergson, edited by Andrea J. Pitts and Mark W. Westmoreland. Albany: SUNY Press.

2018 “Occidentalism and Orientalism in the Writings of Antonio Caso.” Comparative Studies in Asian and Latin American Philosophies: Cross-cultural Theories and Methodologies, edited by Stephanie Rivera Berruz and Leah Kalmanson. New York: Bloomsbury Press.

2017 “Decolonial Praxis and Epistemic Injustice.” Handbook on Epistemic Injustice, edited by Ian Kidd, Gaile Pohlhaus Jr., and José Medina, New York: Routledge.

2016 “Racial Interpellation, Civic Education and Anti-Latina/o Racism.” Decolonizing the Westernized University: Interventions in Philosophy of Education from Within and Without, edited by Ramón Grosfoguel, Roberto D. Hernández, and Ernesto Rosen Velasquez. Lanham: Lexington Books.

2014 “Toward an Aesthetics of Race: Bridging the Writings of Gloria Anzaldúa and José Vasconcelos.” Inter-American Journal of Philosophy 5 (1): 80-100.

Articles/Chapters on Feminist Philosophy

2022 “Gloria E. Anzaldúa and Crip Futurity in the Americas,” Disability and American Philosophies, edited by Daniel Brunson and Nate Jackson, 138-158. New York: Routledge.

2022 “Philosophical Collaborations with Activists,” Blackwell Companion to Public Philosophy, edited by Lee McIntyre, Nancy McHugh, and Ian Olasov, 347-358. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell.

2021 “Latina/x Philosophy.” In Oxford Handbook of Feminist Philosophy, edited by Ásta and Kim Q. Hall, 120-135. New York: Oxford University Press.

2021 “Latina Feminist Engagements with U.S. Pragmatism: Interrogating Identity, Realism, and Representation.” In Decolonizing American Philosophy, edited by Corey McCall and Phillip McReynolds, 131-153. Albany: SUNY Press.

2019 “World-Traveling,” In 50 Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology, edited by Gail Weiss, Ann V. Murphy, and Gayle Salamon. Chicago: Northwestern University Press.

2018 “Epistemic Injustice and Feminist Epistemology.” Handbook of Applied Epistemology, edited by David Coady and James Chase. New York: Routledge.

2016 “Gloria E. Anzaldúa’s Autohistoria-teoría as an Epistemology of Self- Knowledge/Ignorance.” Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 31 (2): 352-369.

2016 Co-authored with Natalie Cisneros, Cynthia M. Paccacerqua, Stephanie Rivera Berruz, and Elena Ruíz. “In the Flesh and Word: Latina Feminist Philosophers’ Collective Labor.” Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 31 (2): 437-446.

Articles/Chapters on Carcerality, Race, and Disability

2022 “An ‘Extension of the Occupier’s Hold’: Frantz Fanon on Psychiatry, Carcerality, and Etiology,” Chiasmi International: 1-23 (in press). 

2022 “Reflections from Rhode Island’s Safe Consumption Sites Regulations Committee –A Lesson in Racial Equity,” coauthored with Rahul Vanjani, Jon Soske, and Dennis Bailer, Journal of Addiction Medicine (online first).

2022 “Dismantling Structural Racism in the Academic Residency Clinic,” coauthored with Rahul Vanjani and Pranav Aurora, New England Journal of Medicine 386 (21): 2054-2058.

2022 “Disability Bioethics and Race,” The Disability Bioethics Reader, edited by Joel Michael Reynolds and Christine Wieseler, 235-242. New York: Routledge.

2021 “A Nonideal Approach to Truthfulness in Carceral Medicine.” In Applying Nonideal Theory to Bioethics: Living and Dying in a Nonideal World, edited by Elizabeth K. Victor and Laura Guidry-Grimes, 309-322. New York: Springer.

2021 “The Polymorphism of Necro-Being: Examining Racism and Ableism through the Writings of Leonard Harris,” The Journal of Philosophy of Disability 1 (1): 1-27.

2021 “Challenging the Carceral Imaginary in a Digital Age: Epistemic Asymmetries and the Right to Be Forgotten,” Las Torres de Lucca: International Journal of Political Philosophy 10, no. 19: 3-14.

2021 “‘That Close and Contagious Death’: Symptomatology, Sociogeny, and Structural Oppression,” in “Resistant Affects” Symposium, Theory and Event 24 (2): 618-624.

2019 “‘The Atlas of Our Skin and Bone and Blood’: Disability, Ablenationalism, and the War on Drugs.” Genealogy 3, no. 4: 1-16.

2019 “Carceral Medicine and Prison Abolition: Trust and Truth-telling in Correctional Healthcare.” In Overcoming Epistemic Injustice: Social and Psychological Perspectives, edited by Benjamin R. Sherman and Stacey Goguen. London: Rowman and Littlefield International.

2018 “Examining Carceral Medicine through Critical Phenomenology.” IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 11 (2): 14-35.

2015 “White Supremacy, Mass Incarceration, and Clinical Medicine: A Critical Analysis of U.S. Correctional Healthcare.” Radical Philosophy Review 18 (2): 267-285.

Book Reviews

2022 “Exploring Racialized Gender Dynamics through Hil Malatino’s Trans Care.” Feminist Formations (in press).

2021 “Commentary on The Life and Death of Latisha King: A Critical Phenomenology of Transphobia by Gayle Salamon,” Philosophy Today 66 (1): 199-206.

2021 “Tracing Genealogical Ambiguities through Zurn’s Curiosity and Power,” APA Newsletter on LGBTQ Issues in Philosophy 21 (1): 5-8.

2020 “Review of Shelley L. Tremain, Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability.” Canadian Journal of Disability Studies 9, no. 3: 1-9.

2018 “Review of Juliet Hooker, Theorizing Race in the Americas: Douglass, Sarmiento, Du Bois, and Vasconcelos.” Critical Philosophy of Race 6 (1): 109-119.

2017 “Review of Mariana Ortega, In-Between: Latina Feminist Phenomenology, Multiplicity, and the Self.” philoSOPHIA: Journal of Feminist Continental Philosophy 7 (1): 261-268.

2016 “Review of Carlos Alberto Sánchez, Contingency and Commitment: Mexican Existentialism and the Place of Philosophy.” Human Studies: Journal for Philosophy and the Social Sciences 39 (4): 645-652.

2010 “Review of Fred Evans, The Multivoiced Body: Society and Communication in the Age of Diversity.” Human Studies: Journal for Philosophy and the Social Sciences 33 (4): 465-471.

Other Publications & Interviews

2022 “Shelley Tremain Interviews Andrea Pitts,” Dialogues on Disability, interview with Shelley Tremain, May 18, 2022. BiopoliticalPhilosophy.com.   

2022 “Andrea Pitts on Nos/Otras: Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Multiplicitous Agency, and Resistance,” Conversations in Atlantic Theory, podcast interview with John Drabinksi.

2021 “Andrea J. Pitts, Nos/Otras: Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Multiplicitous Agency, and Resistance,” New Books in Philosophy, podcast interview with Sarah Tyson.

2021 “Andrea Pitts Oral History Interview.” Historias de Vida: Life Stories of UNC Charlotte’s Latinx Community, interview with Paula De Maria Campos, J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections & University Archives, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, November 17, 2021.

2021 “Our People: Dr. Andrea J. Pitts,” QNotes, interview with L’Monique King. August 6, 2021.

2021 “Transcestry Group Chat initiated by Grayson Hunt & featuring Tamsin Kimoto, Amy Marvin, Perry Zurn, Andrea Pitts, and Megan Burke,” QT Voices, March 1, 2021.

2020 “Trans Philosophy: The Early Years, An Interview with Talia Mae Bettcher, Loren Cannon, Miqqi Alicia Gilbert, and C. Jacob Hale.” Co-authored introduction and co-edited interview with Perry Zurn. APA Newsletter on LGBTQ Issues in Philosophy 20 (1): 1-10.

2020 “Interview with David Peña,” Interviews with Foucauldians, YouTube, Sept. 28, 2020.

2019 “Andrea Pitts on Feminist Indigenous Resistance to Neoliberalism,” Unmuted: Conversations on Prejudice, Oppression, and Social Justice, edited by Myisha Cherry. New York: Oxford UP.

2018 “Embodied Thresholds of Sanctuary: Abolitionism and Trans Worldmaking,” APA Newsletter on LGBT Issues in Philosophy, 18 (1): 3-10.

2018 “Humanist Battles and Embattled Humanists: Neo-Interventionism, Neo-Pragmatism, and the Coloniality of Truth,” The Southern Journal of Philosophy 56 (S1): 93-115.

2014 “Cruel and Unusual Care and Punishment: Epistemic Injustices in Correctional Health Care.” APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine 14 (1): 6-9.

2012 “Critical Genealogies of the History of Latin American Philosophy.” APA Newsletter on Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy 12 (1): 11-14.

2011 “Race and Rousseauian Themes in Latin American Philosophy: D.F. Sarmiento and Republican Motherhood.” APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy 10 (2): 8-12.

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