天美传媒

UMass Boston

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Andres Henao Castro

Department:
Political Science
Title:
Associate Professor

Area of Expertise

Ancient and contemporary political theory, decolonial theory, critical theory, feminist theory, psychoanalysis, critical philosophy of race, poststructuralism, settler colonial critique

Degrees

PhD, University of Massachusetts Amherst

MA, Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Professional Publications & Contributions

Books

2022. The Militant Intellect: Critical Theory’s Conceptual Personae. New York: Rowman & Littlefield.

2021. New York: SUNY Press.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

2022 Critical Philosophy of Race 10 (1): 90-105.

2021 differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 32 (3): 85-113.

2020 Settler Colonial Studies 10 (1): 94-109.

2019 Theoria 66 (1): 51-75.

2018  Theory & Event 21 (2): 358-381.

2017  La Deleuziana. Special Issue: Milieux of Desire 6 (1): 145-157.

2017  Representation 53 (1): 55-65.

2017  Theatre Survey 58 (1): 86-107.

2016  Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, Special Issue on Resistance and Stillness 12 (3): 1-17.

2015  Contemporary Political Theory 14 (4): 315-334.

2013  Hypatia: Special Issue ‘Crossing Borders.’ 28 (2): 307-322.

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

2020 In Cull, Laura and Lagaay, Alice (eds.). The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy. New York: Routledge, 53-60.

2019 Co-Authored with Ashley Bohrer. In Koram, Kojo (ed.). The War on Drugs and the Global Colour Line. London: Pluto Press, 141-155.

2019 In Chowdhury, Elora and Srikanth, Rajini (eds.). Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Rights: History, Politics, Practice. New York: Routledge, 50-64.

2019 Co-Authored with Henrik Ernstson. In Ernstson, Henrik and Swyngedouw, Erik (eds.). Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-Obscene: Interruptions and Possibilities. Oxford: Routledge, 69-87

2017  In Brigham, John and Marusek, Sarah (eds.). Street Level Sovereignty. Lanham: Lexington Books, 107-124.

2015  In Wilmer, Stephen and 沤ukauskait臈, Audron臈 (eds.). Resisting Biopolitics: Philosophical, Political and Performative Strategies, New York: Routledge, 237-253.

Reviews

2019

2017  Cull, Laura and Alice Lagaay (eds.). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. And Chow, Broderick and Alex Mangold (eds). 沤i啪ek and Performance. Series: Performance Philosophy. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

2014  In The Classical Review 64 (2): 606-608.

2014  In The Classical Review 64 (2): 608-610.

Articles for Palabras al Margen (Words at the Margins) Selected Sample.

2018  March

2017  September

2017  March

Additional Information

Fall 2022: NO Office Hours:

 is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the 天美传媒. Recently, he was the Post-Doctoral Fellow of the Academy of Global Humanities and Critical Theory at the University of Bologna/Duke University (2018-2020), and the Karl Lowenstein Fellow at Amherst College (2014). His research seeks to rethink the relationship between politics and aesthetics in relation to gender-differentiated colonial logics of capitalist accumulation. While focused on that question, he has reimagined the relationship between ancient and contemporary political theory, via the prisms of decolonial theory, critical theory, psychoanalysis, settler colonial critique, and poststructuralism. His book manuscript, Antigone in the Americas: Democracy, Sexuality and Death in the Settler Colonial Present (SUNY Press 2021), criticizes the theoretical reception of Sophocles’ tragedy, Antigone, in democratic theory, queer and feminist theory, the theory of biopolitics, and the theory of deconstruction, by foregrounding the settler colonial logics of capitalist accumulation by which subject-positions are aesthetically distributed in the play and its theoretical reception. Currently, he is working on two additional research projects: White Masochism (in progress) and The Militant Intellect: Critical Theory’s Conceptual Personae (under contract with Rowman & Littlefield). His research has also been published in Settler Colonial Studies, Theoria, Theory & Event, Representation, Theatre Survey, Contemporary Political Theory, and Hypatia, among others.