Denise Ferreira da Silva

Denise Ferreira da Silva
Born	Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Nationality	Brazilian
Occupation(s)	academic, activist, artist
Employer(s)	New York University; University of British Columbia
Known for	Critical legal theory, political philosophy, Black feminist thought

Denise Ferreira da Silva is a Brazilian philosopher with an anticolonial black feminist perspective that highlights the centrality of raciality in post-Enlightenment thought. She is an academic, a relational artist, and a visual and installation artist. She is a professor at the New York University. She has worked at a range of other academic institutions including University of British Columbia, where she also directed the Social Justice Institute-GRSJ, Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis, Monash University in Australia, Birkbeck, University of London, Queen Mary University of London, the University of Southern California, and the University of California, San Diego.^[1]