
Biography:
Principal Investigator of CONICET at Instituto de Filosofia da Universidad Nacional de San Juan and full professor of Epistemology of History and Methodology of Philosophical Research at the same institution. Taught courses in History of Historiography and History of Asia and Africa, with emphasis on theoretical and political processes of postcoloniality, at Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia S. J. B., Argentina, and directed the Master’s program in Letters at that same university. Earned his doctorate from Centro de Estudios de Asia y África of El Colegio de México, was Research Fellow at Brown University and participated in the African Series Seminar of University of Cape Town as a speaker, among other activities. Is a member of various academic associations and has published numerous articles and book chapters on postcolonial criticism, travel literature, and critical theory from a Fanonian perspective, with emphasis on processes of subjectivation and analytical issues of coloniality and temporality. He is the author of several books. The most notable one is Frantz Fanon. Política y poética del sujeto poscolonial (México) (traduzido para o inglês por Rowman & Littlefield em 2002), which received the “Frantz Fanon Prize for Outstanding Book in Caribbean Thought” award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association in 2005.
Institution:
Universidad Nacional de San Juan
