Rolando Vázquez Melken

Rolando Vázquez is a Professor of Post/Decolonial Theories and Literatures, with a focus on the ‘Global South’ at the department of Literary and Cultural Analysis & the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA). He is regularly invited to deliver keynotes on decoloniality at academic and cultural institutions. Since 2010, he co-directs with Walter Mignolo the annual Maria Lugones Decolonial Summer School, now hosted by the Van Abbemuseum. In 2016, under the direction of Gloria Wekker, he co-authored the report Let’s do Diversity of the University of Amsterdam Diversity Commission.