User:Maria Cuervo

About me

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I am a graduate student and instructor of Continental French Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy of Villanova University in Pennsylvania, United States. My philosophical interests include Latin American Philosophy and Literature, Ancient Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Classical Literature, World Literature, Ancient to Modern Lyric Poetry, Aesthetics, Art History, Technology, and Eastern Religions. I was born in Havana, Cuba and raised in the United States. I am currently working on two papers intended for publication, one on Plato’s view of the Beautiful in his dialogue, the Phaedrus, and another paper on Hegel’s treatment of Sophocles’ Antigone in his Phenomenology of Spirit.

I am studio-trained in painting. My undergraduate thesis as an English major was in Creative Writing. I continue to pursue creative interests. I am a published poet and continue write poetry when I can as well as help and workshop with other poets. I also show my work in local art exhibitions.

Academic credentials

• 2011 MA Philosophy, Villanova University
• 2007, MA Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 2000, BA English, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 2000, BFA Fine Art, University of Wisconsin Madison

Teaching

Instructor. Fall 2011. Department of Philosophy. Villanova University. Introduction to Philosophy

Teaching Assistant. Fall 2010. Department of Philosophy. Villanova University. For Professor John Immerwahr. Introduction to Philosophy

Teaching Assistant. Spring 2010. Department of Philosophy. Villanova University. For Professor Thomas Busch. French Existentialism and Phenomenology

Teaching Assistant. Fall 2007. Department of Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison. For Instructor Kerstin Schaars.

Teaching Assistant. Spring 2007. Department of Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison. For Professor Livanos. Introduction to Cross-Cultural Literature: Monsters in Literature

Teaching Assistant. Fall 2006. Department of Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison. For Instructor Amy Johnson. Comparative Literature Topics: Introduction to Cross-Cultural Literature: Art and Literature

Teaching Assistant. Spring 2006. Department of Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison. For Professor Saiz. Introduction to Modern and Contemporary Literature

Teaching Assistant. Fall 2005. Department of Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison. For Professor Nozomi Irei. Introduction to Cross-Cultural Literature: Literature and Film

Awards

• 2009-2010 Presidential Scholarship, Villanova University
• 2008-2009 Presidential Scholarship, Villanova University
• 1999 Cy Howard Memorial Scholarship, Creative Writing manuscript “Like Parapraxis,” University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 1999 University Bookstore Prize, Creative Writing manuscript “Like Parapraxis,” University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 1996-99 George B. Hill Award (multiple years for poetry), University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 1998 Brabyn Wackman Scholarship in English, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 1998 Creative Writing Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Works in progress / Future publication

"Phaedrus: The Art of the Outward Looking to the Beautiful"
"The Otherness of the gods: Greek Sittlichkeit in the Phenomenology of Spirit"

Conference Papers

"Art and the Human in the Winter’s Tale." 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University. 2007.

Other

Poems, Volume 15, 2002. Montreal Serai magazine

Poems, Spring 2002. Absinthe Literary Review

Languages

Spanish, English, reading French