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Javier Padilla Rios
Assistant Professor of English
Department/Office Information
English and Creative Writing- T 1:30pm - 3:30pm (404 Lathrop Hall)
- R 2:30pm - 3:30pm (404 Lathrop Hall)
Javier Padilla is Assistant Professor of English at Colgate University. His current research project, Decolonial Poetry and the Time of Liberation, analyzes both the aesthetic, cultural, and sociopolitical role of poetry in times of decolonization, liberation, and exclusion. It takes the idea of a "dialectical instant" from Gaston Bachelard and Walter Benjamin and it de-centers it by viewing it through the lens of the philosophy of liberation in the thought of thinkers like Enrique Dussel, Aníbal Quijano, and Franz Fanon.
His articles and translations have appeared in The Capilano Review, Literary Imagination, Revista Iberoamericana, The Journal of Modern Literature, and Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos.
His teaching specialties include global modernism(s), Irish and Latin American Studies, Translation Studies, and 20th-century poetry. Padilla’s research interests include postcolonialism, modernity/coloniality, Media Studies, and Literary Theory.
His first Spanish-language poetry collection — Dodecadencias — was published by Valparaíso in 2023.