Biography:

Lewis R. Gordon PhD, FRSA, is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Global Affairs at the University of Connecticut, Distinguished Scholar at The Most Honourable PJ Patterson Centre for Africa-Caribbean Advocacy at The University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, and Honorary President of the Global Center for Advanced Studies. He is the author of many book, including, over the past decade, What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought (Fordham UP, Hurst, and Wits UP, 2015; with translations in Chinese and Swedish); Freedom, Justice, and Decolonization (Routledge, 2021); Fear of Black Consciousness (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux and Penguin Books, 2022; with translations in German and Portuguese); and Black Existentialism and Decolonizing Knowledge: Writings of Lewis R. Gordon (Bloomsbury, 2023). The thirtieth-anniversary edition of his first book, Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism, is published by Bloomsbury with a foreword by the South African existential Philosopher Mabogo P. More and afterwords by the Antiguan philosopher and sociologist Paget Henry and the Chicana communicologist, phenomenologist, and queer theorist Jacqueline M. Martinez. Gordon is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.