Ana María Miranda Mora is a Fulbright postdoctoral fellow at the Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies (CLAIS) at Yale University and an Assistant Professor at the Chair of Political Theory and History of Ideas at Technical University Dresden in Germany. She received her Ph.D. in philosophy from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) (2021). In 2022, Ana was a DAAD postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies at the University of Innsbruck in Austria. Her research and teaching focus on political and social philosophy, gender and feminist theory, and German philosophy (esp. Hegel, Marx, Engels, and Benjamin).
What was your pathway to coming to Yale?
As a Research Associate (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at the Chair of Political Theory and History of Ideas at Technical University Dresden in Germany, associate tutor of the Postgraduate Program in Gender Studies at UNAM in Mexico, and member of the Latin American Interdisciplinary Gender Network (LAIGN) (Yale-UNAM), I got a Fulbright Fellowship to do postdoctoral research stay at the Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies at Yale University.
What will you be working on when you are at Yale?
I am currently working on two projects. The first is a book project exploring the role of rage in feminist movements in the Americas (black, indigenous, and mestizx feminists). My work formulates an affective feminist theory of rage understood as a political emotion. The aim is to explore how rage and indignation are transformed into political action. The second one addresses the contribution of feminist theory and intersectional analysis to democratic theory in the context of anti-gender and anti-feminist movements in Europe and develops the conceptual framework on gender justice for a new age of democracy without reinforcing orientalist and discriminatory practices in the global North, as a member of the Horizon Europe EU-funded research project Push*Back*Lash (Anti-gender Backlash and Democratic Pushback).
How will you be working with Yale students?
Unfortunately, I will not have that many opportunities to engage with Yale students. However, I will be a guest lecturer at Prof. Ligia Fabris’s seminar on “Classical Feminist Debates and its Latin-American Contributions: Critical Readings and Dissent.”
How will you be working with Yale researchers?
I am associated with CLAIS and the MacMillan Center. My host is Prof. Dr. Moira Fradinger. I am also in contact with the Department of Philosophy and Political Theory, which has been enriching and inspiring.
What are you most looking forward to doing or visiting when at Yale?
I look forward to doing research at the libraries, writing my book, and collaborating with students and researchers at Yale and the East Coast. As well as discovering and enjoying the city of New Haven and New York.