I hold several degrees, including: a Master of Advanced Studies in secondary education from the HEP Vaud (Lausanne, Switzerland); a PhD in Arts from the University of Lausanne (Lausanne, Switzerland); a Master of Philosophy in General Linguistics and Comparative Philology from the University of Oxford (Oxford, UK); a Bachelor and a Master of Arts (major in English and minor in History and Science of Religions) from the University of Lausanne; a degree in Computer Systems Engineering from Universidad EAFIT (Medellín, Colombia).

More than ten years experience in higher-education teaching to students of diverse cultures, languages, and domains of knowledge.

I have been the recipient of several grants and scholarships (from the Swiss National Science Foundation, the University of Lausanne, the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, the Confédération Helvétique, and the Spanish Government) and of two awards for my academic work:

• 2016 Feminist Theory Essay Prize for the article “Coloniality at Work: Decolonial Critique and the Postfeminist Regime”.

“This outstanding essay deals with issues of representation in original 2018 ways and also addresses issues of central importance to feminism. Giraldo makes a telling contribution to the project of decentring ‘western’ theory, the most important task we face in taking feminist theory forward. She goes beyond many other contributions to this enterprise, not only bringing Latin American theory into dialogue with that produced in Europe or North America, but bringing it to bear on European and North American cultural phenomena, thereby reversing the usual direction in which theory travels. The central concept developed and applied to Femen and pop icons — the coloniality of gender — has huge potential for application elsewhere. Giraldo discusses ideas that could make a significant difference in setting new agendas for feminist theory.”

• Prix de Faculté 2017, Faculté de Lettres, Université de Lausanne for doctoral thesis.

“Pour la qualité de sa thèse et sa capacité à élaborer des questionnements théoriques à l’imbrication du féminisme dans la culture globalisée contemporaine afin de comprendre, à partir du cas de la Colombie, comment se constituent aujourd’hui les normes symboliques qui déterminent notre vision quotidienne du monde et la banalisation des inégalités de sexe et de race.”