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Assistant Professor
of Philosophy
Address:
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
Box 37
350 Spelman Lane
Atlanta, GA 30314
Phone: 404-270-5520
Fax: 404-270-5523
E-mail:
gallen@spelman.edu
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Courses:
PHI 131 Practical Reasoning
PHI 230 History of Philosophy: Ancient and Medieval
PHI 231 History of Philosophy: Modern
PHI 240 African American Philosophy
PHI 384 Metaphysics
PHI 392 On the Origins of Postmodernism
PHI 400 Latin American Philosophy
Degree:
2000 Philosophy Ph.D. | Binghamton
University
of the State University of New York
1992 Philosophy M.A. | Binghamton
University
of the State University of
New York
1989 Philosophy B.A . | Susquehanna University
Current Research:
Dr. Gonzalez de Allen specializes in Africana philosophy (especially Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Hispanic philosophy), post-continental philosophy, existential phenomenology, post-colonial studies, and Caribbean cultural and literary theory. She is currently working on her book titled Sediments and Interceptions : Reflections on Encounter and the Development of Transnational Identities in the U.S. Virgin Islands . It is a monograph that examines how colonization affects and is affected by modern subjectivities in the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI). It contends that there are discrete moments in colonization that make significant contributions to determining how people of the USVI view and define themselves. Sediments and Interceptions justifies its position by exploring the intersectional relationships between encounter, appropriation, knowledge production, power and the development of identities.
Recent Awards:
2005/2006
Ford Foundation Diversity Grant
Recent Publications:
Cultural Activisms: Poetic Voices, Political Voices. Ed. Gertrude M. James Gonzalez and Anne JM Mamary. New York: SUNY Press, 1999.
“Fading Prints of Childhood in St. Croix.” Cultural Activisms: Poetic Voices, Political Voices. Ed. Gertrude M. James Gonzalez and Anne JM Mamary. New York: SUNY Press, 1999.
“Of Property: On `Captive’ `Bodies,’ Hidden `Flesh’ and Colonization” Existence in Black: An Anthology of Black Existential Philosophy. Ed. Lewis R. Gordon. New York: Routledge, 1997.
“Enrique Dussell and Manuel Zapata Olivelli: An Exploration of De-Colonial, Diasporic, and Trans-modern Selves and the Politics of Recognition” in Worlds and Knowledges Otherwise, ed. Nelson Maldonado-Torres. www.jhfc.duke.edu/wko, Fall, 2006.
Book Review: “From Class to Race” Essays in White Marxism and Black Radicalism.” Philosophia Africana, Vol. 8, No. 2, August, 2005.
Book Review: “The Quest for Community and Identity: Critical Essays in Africana Philosophy.” APA Newsletters, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Spring 2004).
Forthcoming
“From the Caribbean to the U.S.: Afro-Latinity in Changing Contexts” in Mapping the Decolonial Turn: Post-Continental Philosophy and the Decolonial Turn, ed. Ramon Grosfoguel, Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Jose David Saldivar. Berkley (Forthcoming).
“Recipe of a Life: Sediments and the Formation of an Afro-Latin Identity.” International Studies in Philosophy (Forthcoming).
