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
Emma Velez is are 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.
Her research interests include Latina and Latinx decolonial feminisms, critical theory, feminist theory, and critical philosophy of race.
Education
Courses Taught
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
Gallegos, L., & Velez, E. (2024). SELF-CREATION IN CHICANA FEMINISM. In The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Existentialism (pp. 129-142). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003247791-14
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