Andrea Pitts

PhD

Andrea Pitts.

Andrea Pitts

PhD

Andrea Pitts

PhD

Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies

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 Florida (2006)

About:

Andrea Pitts (they/them/elle en español) is an interdisciplinary researcher and educator whose publications and pedagogy focus on carceral medicine and radical health activism, Latin American and U.S. Latina/x feminisms, prison and police abolition, queer migration studies, critical transgender politics, and disability justice. They are 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 examines the philosophical contributions made by U.S Latina/x activists and scholars critiquing state violence, prisons, and policing from the 1960s to the early 2000s.

Research Areas:

Latin American and U.S. Latinx feminisms, critical prison studies, radical health activism, queer of color critique, transgender studies, and disability justice

Office Hours

By Appointment

Books

Theories of the Flesh Cover.
Beyond Bergson cover.
Trans philosophy.
Nos/Otras.