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Amy NighAmy Nigh

Education

MA (Philosophy) University of Oregon, 2018
BA (Spanish Languages and Literatures) Goucher College, 2009

Research Interests

AOS: Social Epistemology, Latin American philosophy, 20th Century Continental Philosophy (esp. Foucault)
AOC: Feminist Philosophy, Bioethics, History of Modern Philosophy
 
Dissertation Title: Epistemic Environments and the Spread of Disinformation

Select Presentations

"Criticalizing Decolonial Thought: What Eurocentrism and World History Have in Common" 50 Años Después de Adorno/50 Years After Adorno, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico, November 2019.

"How Method Travels: Genealogy in Foucault and Castro-Gómez" (co-author with Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson), Critical Genealogies Workshop, University of Oregon, May 2019.

"Doing Non-Histories with Non-Methods: On Decolonial Praxis and Non-Historical Histories" Resistant Imaginations Conference, University of Oregon, February 2019.

Publications

Nigh, Amy & Erlenbusch-Anderson, Verena (2024). How method travels: genealogy in Foucault and Castro-Gómez. Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 67 (7):2147-2174.

Erlenbusch-Anderson Verena & Nigh, Amy (2020). Genealogy. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature.

Contact

Email: anigh@memphis.edu
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