Biography
Emma Velez is currently an Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and affiliate faculty in Latina/Latino Studies and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretative Theory at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Research Interests
Education
Philosophy and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Gender and Women's Studies
Assistant Professor, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
Assistant Professor, Latina/Latino Studies
Assistant Professor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Recent Publications
Tuana, N., & Velez, E. D. (Eds.) (2020). Toward Decolonial Feminisms. Critical Philosophy of Race, 8(8-1). https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/critphilrace.8.1-2.issue-1-2
Velez, E., & Tuana, N. (2020). Editors' introduction tango dancing with maría lugones: Toward decolonial feminisms. Critical Philosophy of Race, 8(1-2), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.5325/critphilrace.8.1–2.0001
Velez, E. D. (2020). Toward a “Care-ful Geopolitics” of La Frontera in the Era of Trump. Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 34(3), 339-352. https://doi.org/10.5325/jspecphil.34.3.0339
Velez, E. D., & Tuana, N. (2020). Toward Decolonial Feminisms: Tracing the Lineages of Decolonial Thinking through Latin American/Latinx Feminist Philosophy. Hypatia, 35(3), 366-372. https://doi.org/10.1017/hyp.2020.26
Velez, E. D. (2019). Decolonial feminism at the intersection: A critical reflection on the relationship between decolonial feminism and intersectionality. Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 33(3), 390-406. https://doi.org/10.5325/jspecphil.33.3.0390