Mariana Ortega

Professional Bio

Mariana Ortega’s main areas of research and interest are women of color feminisms, in particular Latina feminisms, twentieth continental philosophy, phenomenology (Heidegger), philosophy of race, and aesthetics. Her research focuses on questions of self, identity, and sociality, as well as visual representations of race, gender, and sexuality. She has published in various journals including The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, International Philosophical Quarterly, Critical Philosophy of Race, Hypatia, Radical Philosophy Review, and philoSOPHIA. She is co-editor with Linda Martín-Alcoff of the anthology Constructing the Nation: A Race and Nationalism Reader (SUNY 2009) and author of In-Between:  Latina Feminist Phenomenology, Multiplicity, and the Self  (SUNY 2016).  She is the founder and director of the Roundtable on Latina feminism, a forum dedicated to discussions of Latina and Latin American feminisms. Her current project examines questions at the intersection of aesthetics, practices of othering, memory,  the epistemology of ignorance, and Latinidad.