Gustavo Hessmann Dalaqua

Gustavo Hessmann Dalaqua is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM), Brazil. He studied at Columbia University, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, and Universidade de São Paulo. Before joining UFAM, he was an assistant professor at the University of Pernambuco (UPE), a lecturer at the University of the State of Paraná (UNESPAR), a guest lecturer at the American University in Cairo (AUC), and a postdoctoral research fellow at the Brazilian Center of Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP). He is the author of O desenvolvimento do eu (UFPR, 2018) and co-editor of Boal e a filosofia (CRV, 2022). In addition to book chapters, he has published articles in British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory, Contention, Critical Review, Journal of Aesthetics and Culture, Kriterion, Novos Estudos CEBRAP, Theoria, and other journals.

Dalaqua was a recipient of the PET Fellowship (2009-2012), the CAPES Fellowship (2013-2015), the São Paulo Research Foundation Doctoral Fellowship (2016-2019), and the HUSS Lab Global South Co-Teaching Fund (2020). His research areas include global political thought, aesthetics, ethics, and political philosophy.