About
Eli Portella Perreras is a Cuban American, social and political philosopher and critical theorist. They are Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Florida Gulf Coast University. In 2021, they completed their PhD and dissertation—titled Universal History as Global Critique: From German Critical Theory to the Anti-Colonial Tradition— at the University of Oregon, where they also earned her Master of Arts in Philosophy in 2018. They have served as Editorial Assistant, Managing Editorial Assistant, and Social Media Editor at Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (2018-2020). They currently serve as the faculty advisor to the FGCU undergraduate Philosophy Club and advisor to the Applying to Graduate School Workshop Series at FGCU.
Their research areas include: social and political philosophy (esp. Marxist theory in the 20th century and Frankfurt School critical theory), anticolonial thought (esp. African, Caribbean, and Latin American decolonization), and feminist political theory. Their work appears in Emancipations, Radical Philosophy Review, Philosophy Today, the Journal of the Philosophy of History, Chiasma, Dissonância, and Rethinking Marxism. They are currently working on a book-length project at the intersection of theories of imperialism and critical ecology, examining the co-extensive need for both decolonization and decarbonization. The project is tentatively titled Imperialism at the Brink: Decolonization, Decarbonization, and the Critique of Capitalism.