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Santiago Acosta is an Assistant Professor in Yale University’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese, specializing in modern and contemporary Latin American literature and visual arts through lenses of cultural studies, political economy, and environmental theory. He holds a Ph.D. in Latin American and Iberian Cultures from Columbia University (2020). His research examines cultural responses to extractivism, petroleum economies, and environmental crises, with a focus on Venezuela’s socio-ecological transformations. Key works include We Are Like Oil: An Ecology of the Venezuelan Culture Boom and co-edited volumes on ecopoetics and world-ecology.
Acosta is also an award-winning poet, with El próximo desierto earning the José Emilio Pacheco Literature Prize. His creative work explores climate justice and ecological themes, alongside academic roles like membership in Yale’s Environmental Humanities Steering Committee and Whitney Humanities Center Fellowship. He previously served as a PRODiG Fellow at SUNY Old Westbury (2021–2023), helping launch their Environmental Studies program.
Research interests span Energy Humanities, Ecocriticism, and the intersections of art/environmental policy. He frequently publishes in Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Mediations, and others, and co-edited the World-Ecology in Latin America special issue (2024). Teaching includes graduate seminars on Latin American Environmental Aesthetics and Energy Humanities, emphasizing colonialism, extractivism, and climate justice.
