Cielo Uscanga

Education and Degree(s)

B.A. in History, National School of History and Anthropology, Mexico (2024)
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)

Honors and Awards

Provost Fellowship College & Graduate School of Arts and Sciences University of Virginia (2024-2025)

Courses

SPAN 4800 Language House Casa Bolivar, University of Virginia (2024-2025)
History and melancholy. A philosophy of becoming from loss and its specters, National School of Anthropology and History, Mexico (2024)
Fictions of time: stories, metaphors, and images as representation of historicity, National School of Anthropology and History, Mexico (2024)

Research Interests & Expertise

Latin-American studies: literature and poetry; Migration; Necropolitics; Poetry; Digital media; Cultural Studies; Continental philosophy.

Publications

“El concepto de poesía y lo que llamamos poesía”, Poéticas No. 18. (2024) http://www.poeticas.org/index.php/poeticas/article/view/286
“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.” National Institute of History and Anthropology, Mexico (2024) https://mediateca.inah.gob.mx/repositorio/islandora/object/tesis%3A5509
“Tempestad”, Valparaíso Ediciones, España. (Commited to publish 2025)
Compendium of poems, Mesa Derramada Online Magazine. https://mesaderramada.com/2024/08/13/cinco-poemas-de-cielo-uscanga/ (2024)

Position Title M.A. Student in Spanish