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Mariana Ortega is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Pennsylvania State University. Her work bridges continental philosophy with intersectional feminist frameworks, focusing on questions of identity, sociality, and embodied experience in marginalized communities. She is particularly known for her contributions to Latina feminist phenomenology and critical race theory.
Her research explores the intersection of aesthetics, memory, and racialized experiences, often engaging with thinkers like Heidegger while centering the lived realities of women of color. Ortega co-edited Constructing the Nation: A Race and Nationalism Reader and authored In-Between: Latina Feminist Phenomenology, Multiplicity, and the Self, which examines the multiplicitous selves of Latinas navigating borderland identities. She founded and directs the Roundtable on Latina Feminism, a key platform for discussions on Latin American and Latina feminisms.
Ortega’s current research investigates aesthetics, epistemologies of ignorance, and Latinidad through practices like photography and performance art. Her work critiques colonial and patriarchal frameworks while proposing transformative methodologies rooted in embodied knowledge and decolonial praxis.
