Education
M.A in Philosophy with an emphasis on Latin American Thought, Universidad Católica Cecilio Acosta (2021)
Certificate in Pedagogical Strategies for Innovative Teaching, Universidad Central de Venezuela (2019).
B.A in Development Sociology, Universidad Nacional Experimental de los Llanos Occidentales Ezequiel Zamora (2018).
Research
Miguel Antonio Guevara is a Venezuelan thinker, writer, collagist, and musician. Is a PhD student in Spanish, and the author of both scholarly and literary works, among them the prizewinning book It’s a Selfie World: Notes on Transmedia Culture, the novels Los peces de pecera y su memoria corta, Los pájaros prisioneros solo comen alpiste, and others. His research investigates the social construction of subjectivity in 20th and 21st century cultural objects including concepts, books, music & noise, events, photographs, and digital objects. He’ll be conducting research around images that capture the search for technological progress, the collapse of this progress and the end of the world.
Selected Publications
Books
- Por la Palabra. Notes on Literary Expression. (Fundación Editorial El perro y la rana, 2012).
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
- “El soundtrack de Pedro Cadavid. Música y subjetividad en La escuela de música de Pablo Montoya”. Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana (RCLL). (Forthcoming).
Creative writing
Recent articles/podcast/performance in online publications
- Academia fuera de la academia: (podcast). Analysis of the ways knowledge is constructed and the methods of challenging institutionalized spaces of knowledge, presenting other epistemes such as teratology, primatology, AI, etc.
- Mafia: The Cultures of Narcotraffic: (podcast). Topic: analysis of the phenomenon of narco and narcoculture through the work of mexican artist Teresa Margolles and chilean writer Roberto Bolaño. Additionally, interviews with experts: Adriana Miramontes Olivas, Curator of Academic Programs and Latin American & Caribbean Art at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art; Yuri Herrera, writer, Associate Professor at Tulane University; Oswaldo Zavala, writer, Professor of Contemporary Latin American Literature and Culture at the College of Staten Island and at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY); Sayak Valencia, philosopher, writer, she leads the research professorship in the Department of Cultural Studies at the Colegio de la Frontera Norte; and Pedro García-Caro, Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Oregon, July 2024.
