Amandine Catala is a full professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), where she holds the Canada Research Chair on Epistemic Injustice and Agency. She is also a Senior Research Associate at the African Center for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science (ACEPS) at the University of Johannesburg.

Her monograph, titled The Dynamics of Epistemic Injustice: Situating Epistemic Power and Agency, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.

Her current research is in feminist, social, and political philosophy as well as in philosophy of race, disability, and neurodiversity. Her work focuses on epistemic injustice and agency in relation to various themes such as:

• colonialism and decolonization
• indigenous questions
• racism
• migration
• linguistic justice
• cultural minorities
• disability
• neurodiversity
• academia
• the underrepresentation of certain groups in certain fields

She is actively involved in a number of EDI committees and initiatives at the departmental, faculty, institutional, inter-university, federal, and international levels. She has also taken part in numerous institutional, provincial, national, and international panels and events on EDI. She is the co-founder of the Collectif autiste de l’UQAM, an initiative that aims to bring together and support autistic people who study, work, or teach at UQAM.