Postdoctoral Fellow, State University of New York (SUNY), Old Westbury
Santiago Acosta is a Venezuelan scholar and poet working at the intersections of literature, visual culture, and political ecology. He holds a PhD in Latin American and Iberian cultures from Columbia University and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the State University of New York (SUNY) in Old Westbury. His academic research centers on modern and contemporary Latin American cultural production, which he analyzes through the lenses of critical theory, environmental history, and political economy.
Acosta’s latest poetry collection, El próximo desierto (The coming desert), won the 2018 José Emilio Pacheco Literature Prize “Ciudad y Naturaleza,” awarded by the Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL) and the Museum of Environmental Sciences of Guadalajara University. His poetry has also received the support of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program. In 2021 he was an invited poet at the United Nation’s Climate Change Conference COP26 in Glasgow. He lives in New York.