María Isabel Belausteguigoitia

She holds a PhD in Ethnic and Gender Studies from the University of California at Berkeley. She has taught at the undergraduate (1984) and graduate (2001) levels. Full-time tenured professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the UNAM (PRIDE D, SNI II). Currently Director of the Center for Research and Gender Studies and the Women in Spiral Project. Justice System, gender perspective and pedagogies in resistance at UNAM, a proposal in favor of women in prison. Her work analyzes the relationships between gender, race, sexuality and culture in Latin America. She identifies and analyzes processes of access to justice, in particular the role of legal, artistic and pedagogical practices in the construction of discourses of resistance and legal and cultural agency of women in confinement and of a public university linked to social urgencies. The most recent lines of work address the critical study of young feminist collectives and their irruption into institutional and university life in Mexico and Latin America. Member of several international committees of academic collaboration and also participates in collegiate bodies, such as the PRIDE Commission of the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, from 2019 to date, and in the Internal Commission for Gender Equality of the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UNAM, since 2016. She has been distinguished with the Omecíhuatl Medal by the Instituto de las Mujeres del Distrito Federal (2010); with the Margherita von Brentano collective award of the Freie Universität Berlin, granted to the European Community (Alfa III) MISEAL project (Measures for Social Inclusion and Equity in Higher Education Institutions in Latin America in 2013). Recognized with the Andrés Bello Professorship for the study of culture and civilizations in Latin America at New York University (January-June, 2019); with the Kreeger Wolf Visiting Professor in the Department of Latin American Literature in the Critical Theory Program at Northwestern University, Chicago, for spring or fall 2021 and as Eminent Scholar at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, in 2016. She has published 11 books (6 co-authored) and more than 100 national and international articles and given more than 300 lectures. The most recent books are: “Critical Terms in Caribbean and Latin-American Thought. Historical and Institutional Trajectories” co-authored with Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel and Ben Sifuentes Juáregui of Rutgers University (2016), translated into Spanish as “Términos Críticos en el Pensamiento Caribeño Caribeño y Latinoamericano”. “Trayectoria Histórica e Institucional”, edited by the Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinamericana (RCLL) in 2018 and ”Des/posesión: Género, Territorio y Luchas por la Autodeterminación”, co-edited with María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo (2015) researcher at New York University (NYU).