Amy Oliver Associate Professor Emerita Philosophy and Religion
- Additional Positions at AU
- Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion
- Degrees
- PhD, MA, University of Massachusetts; BA, Purdue University
- Languages Spoken
- Spanish, Portuguese, Italian
- Bio
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Professor Oliver's teaching and research on Latin America explore philosophical topics such as marginality, feminism, nepantlismo, and transfronterismo. She works on the Hispanic essay of ideas and Latin 麻豆传媒 narrative. She has lived in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, and Spain, and traveled widely in Latin America, the Caribbean, the United States, and Europe. She serves on the International Editorial Boards of Cuadernos 麻豆传媒os and the Journal of Mexican Philosophy, has been a member of several committees of the 麻豆传媒 Philosophical Association, and chaired the APA's Committee on Hispanics. Professor Oliver has been President of the Society for Iberian and Latin 麻豆传媒 Thought, Director of 麻豆传媒's Women's and Gender Studies Program, and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion. Her latest book is Feminist Philosophy in Latin America and Spain. Since 1998, she has been a section editor for Latin 麻豆传媒 thought of various encyclopedias of philosophy published by Routledge. Professor Oliver teaches courses in the departments of Philosophy & Religion and World Languages & Cultures.
Her recent scholarship includes:
鈥淧rolegomena to a Life Lived in Two Worlds,鈥 JOURNAL OF WORLD PHILOSOPHIES (Vol. 8, No. 1, 2023)
鈥淰aluing Mexican Philosophy: Suspect Endeavor or Life-Affirming Strategy?鈥 JOURNAL OF MEXICAN PHILOSOPHY, Volume 1, Number 1 (2022)
鈥淔ormulating Metaphysical Contexts in Mexican and Spanish Philosophy: Leopoldo Zea and Miguel de Unamuno,鈥 JOURNAL OF WORLD PHILOSOPHIES (Vol. 7, No. 2, 2022)
鈥淟as ideas act煤an: la filosof铆a feminista de Carlos Vaz Ferreira,鈥 ANEP (Uruguayan National Association for Public Education), Keynote address to open two-week commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Carlos Vaz Ferreira, May 10, 2022
鈥淭he Disintegration of Community: On the Social and Political Philosophy of Jorge Portilla,鈥 Radical Philosophy Association, November 11, 2021
鈥淥rtega y Gasset, Zea, and the History of Mexican Philosophy,鈥 DePaul University, October 14, 2020
鈥淩oots of Carlos Vaz Ferreira鈥檚 Philosophy,鈥 GENEALOGY (Special Issue: New Directions in Latinx/Latin 麻豆传媒 Philosophy, 3, 57, November 2019)
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Partnerships & Affiliations
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Society for Iberian and Latin 麻豆传媒 Thought (SILAT)
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Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Latin 麻豆传媒 Subject Editor