Cielo Constanza Uscanga Martínez

PhD Student

No office hours Fall 24

PhD in Spanish, University of Virginia (in progress)

Certificate in Write Today: Latin American Literature, 17 Institute of Critical Studies, (2024)

Certificate in Critical Imagination (from impasse to passage), 17 Institute of Critical Studies, (2023)

B. A. in History, National School of History and Anthropology, Mexico (2023)

Formative Research Project: Philosophy and Theory of History.
The essay, and its contribution to the construction of knowledge.
E. M. Cioran, history and pessimism. From becoming to lucidity.
Fictions of time: stories, metaphors, and images as representation in/of historicity.
History and melancholy. A philosophy of becoming from loss and its specters.

“Salsa: a Latin identity phenomenon”, Invited talk. XLI National Historian Students Colloque, Autonomous University of Yucatan, Merida, Mexico. November 2019.
“Poetry as resistance: the language of the contracultural”, Invited talk. Society of Historical Studies, Guadalajara, Mexico. June 2020.
“From the poetics of thought to the poetics of history. The creative act as the meaning of the subject”, invited talk. National School of Anthropology and History, Mexico City. April 2023.

Academic articles

Books

“From creation to crisis. The Subject and the Transfiguration of Poetic Discourse in Latin American Poetry: The boom of consumer poetry in the course of the twentieth to the twenty-first century.”

Poetry Books

“A manera de respuesta a un hombre que es mar”, Valparaíso Ediciones, España, 2024.

Organizer, 3rd Congress of Theory and Philosophy of History "Construction of Realities", National School of Anthropology and History, Secretariat of Culture, Mexico City. October 2023.
Organizer, XLIII National Historian Students Colloque. National School of Anthropology and History, Mexico City. March 2020.

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