Walter D. Mignolo is William H. Wannamaker Professor of Romance Studies in Trinity College of
Arts and Sciences and Professor of Literature at Duke University and is the author and editor
of several books including The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures Decolonial
Options also published by Duke University Press.¿ Catherine E. Walsh is Senior Professor in
the Area of Humanities and Cultural Studies at the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar in Ecuador
and the author and editor of numerous books most recently Pedagogías decoloniales: Prácticas
insurgentes de resistir (re)existir y (re)vivir Tomo II.