Andrea Pitts

Andrea Pitts (they/them/elle en español) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and they are affiliate faculty of the university’s 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’s 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 Nos/Otras: Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Multiplicitous Agency, and Resistance (2021), and co-editor with Mark Westmoreland of Beyond Bergson: Examining Race and Colonialism through the Writings of Henri Bergson (2019) and Theories of the Flesh: Latinx and Latin American Feminisms, Transformation, and Resistance with Mariana Ortega and José M. Medina (2020). Their other publications appear in The Journal of Philosophy of Disability, Hypatia, IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, Radical Philosophy Review, Disability and American Philosophies, Decolonizing American Philosophy, Inter-American Journal of Philosophy and Comparative Studies in Asian and Latin American Philosophies. Lastly, Andrea co-organizes, along with Perry Zurn, the Trans Philosophy Project, a professional and research initiative dedicated to supporting trans, nonbinary, and gender variant philosophers.