Andrea Pitts
دانشیار · Latin American and U.S. Latinx feminisms
State University of New York at Buffaloمعرفی
Andrea Pitts (they/them/elle) is an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at the Department of Comparative Literature, University at Buffalo, College of Arts and Sciences. Their research critically examines carceral medicine, radical health activism, Latin American and U.S. Latina/x feminisms, prison and police abolition, queer migration studies, critical transgender politics, and disability justice.
Education:
- PhD, Vanderbilt University (2015)
- Certificate in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of South Florida (2010)
- MA, University of South Florida (2009)
- BA, University of North Carolina (2006)
Research Focus: Andrea’s work bridges interdisciplinary frameworks to analyze state violence, gendered and racialized oppression, and coalitional resistance. They explore intersections of feminist theory, critical prison studies, and queer/disability justice movements.
Publications: Andrea is the author of Nos/Otras: Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Multiplicitous Agency, and Resistance (2021) and co-editor of Trans Philosophy (2024), Theories of the Flesh: Latinx and Latin American Feminisms, Transformation, and Resistance (2020), and Beyond Bergson: Examining Race and Colonialism through the Writings of Henri Bergson (2019). Their current book project, Latina/x Abolitionist Feminisms: Incarceration, Agency, and Coalitional Politics, investigates U.S. Latina/x critiques of state violence and policing from 1960–2000.
