{"id":5,"date":"2012-10-25T22:04:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T22:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/template-faculty01\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2022-03-04T13:54:31","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T18:54:31","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/andrea-pitts\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">Andrea Pitts (they\/them\/elle en espa\u00f1ol) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and they are affiliate faculty of the university\u2019s Department of Africana Studies, Center for Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Studies, Latin American Studies Program, School of Data Science, Social Aspects of Health Initiative, and Women\u2019s and Gender Studies Program. Their research interests include Latin American and U.S. Latinx philosophy, critical philosophy of race, feminist philosophy, disability studies, and critical prison studies, and they have taught graduate and undergraduate courses on topics such as carceral medicine, Latina\/x feminist philosophy, queer migration studies, prison abolitionism, critical transgender politics, and feminist epistemology. Andrea is author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunypress.edu\/p-7161-nosotras.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.sunypress.edu\/p-7161-nosotras.aspx&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1646506256672000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3EkX-A7FC3rk72WOjUymZe\"><em>Nos\/Otras: Gloria E. Anzald\u00faa, Multiplicitous Agency, and Resistance<\/em><\/a> (2021), and co-editor with Mark Westmoreland of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunypress.edu\/p-6713-beyond-bergson.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.sunypress.edu\/p-6713-beyond-bergson.aspx&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1646506256672000&amp;usg=AOvVaw34EytjYtDTVjYTaHBplV-c\"><i>Beyond Bergson: Examining Race and Colonialism through the Writings of Henri Bergson <\/i><\/a><i> <\/i>(2019) and <a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/theories-of-the-flesh-9780190062972?lang=en&amp;cc=us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/theories-of-the-flesh-9780190062972?lang%3Den%26cc%3Dus&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1646506256672000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2TJ4k_PbIrFegtOwjt8egf\"><i>Theories of the Flesh: Latinx and Latin American Feminisms, Transformation, and Resistance <\/i><\/a>with Mariana Ortega and Jos\u00e9 M. Medina (2020). Their other publications appear in <em>The Journal of Philosophy of Disability, Hypatia, IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics<\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small\"><em>, Radical Philosophy Review, Disability and American Philosophies, Decolonizing American Philosophy, Inter-American Journal of Philosophy\u00a0<\/em>and <em>Comparative Studies in Asian and Latin American Philosophies<\/em>. Lastly, Andrea co-organizes, along with Perry Zurn, the <a href=\"https:\/\/transphilproject.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/transphilproject.wordpress.com\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1646506256672000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0hglJ5Z2mFU2L2BtTf0PTv\">Trans Philosophy Project<\/a>, a professional and research initiative dedicated to supporting trans, nonbinary, and gender variant philosophers. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/andrea-pitts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/786\/2018\/04\/Pitts_Headshot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"253\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/andrea-pitts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/786\/2018\/04\/Pitts_Headshot-300x253.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/andrea-pitts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/786\/2018\/04\/Pitts_Headshot-300x253.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/andrea-pitts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/786\/2018\/04\/Pitts_Headshot-768x647.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/andrea-pitts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/786\/2018\/04\/Pitts_Headshot-1024x863.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrea Pitts (they\/them\/elle en espa\u00f1ol) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and they are affiliate faculty of the university\u2019s Department of Africana Studies, Center for Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Studies, Latin American Studies Program, School of Data Science, Social Aspects of Health Initiative, and Women\u2019s and Gender [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1150,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/andrea-pitts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/andrea-pitts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/andrea-pitts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/andrea-pitts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/andrea-pitts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/andrea-pitts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":451,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/andrea-pitts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/andrea-pitts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}