Andrea Pitts (they/them) is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Global Gender & Sexuality Studies at UB. Before moving to Buffalo in 2023, they were Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. They received their PhD in philosophy from Vanderbilt University in 2015, and their professional training and research in the humanities has consisted primarily of work within Latin American and U.S. Latinx philosophy, literary criticism, and cultural studies. They are an interdisciplinary researcher and educator whose publications and pedagogy have addressed issues such as carceral medicine and radical health activism, Latin American and U.S. women of color feminisms, prison and police abolition, queer of color critique, critical transgender politics, and disability justice. They are the author and editor of several books, including Trans Philosophy (2024), Nos/Otras: Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Multiplicitous Agency, and Resistance (2021), Theories of the Flesh: Latinx and Latin American Feminisms, Transformation, and Resistance (2020), and Beyond Bergson: Examining Race and Colonialism through the Writings of Henri Bergson (2019). Their work can also be found in journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine,  IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, Theory & Event, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Feminist Formations, Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, Critical Philosophy of Race, as well as a number of edited volumes and critical readers. They have been the awardee of fellowships, grants, and endowed professorships from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Humphrey Professorship at the University Waterloo, the Trans Justice Funding Project, and the Brackenridge Distinguished Professorship at the University Texas, San Antonio. They are currently working on their second monograph, tentatively titled Desorden Abolition: Latina/x Feminisms Against the Carceral State, which is an examination of the philosophical contributions made by U.S Latina/x activists and scholars critiquing state violence, prisons, and policing from the 1960s to the early 2000s.