Studies

PhD in Philosophy and Letters from the University of Alicante (Alicante, Spain) with the thesis: "Metaphysical Time and Its Narrative Deconstruction from the Other as a Contemporary Problem of Ethics Regarding the Thought of Death in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time."

Doctoral Research Fellowship at the Sorbonne University of Paris, Center for the Study of French Language and Literature.

Master's Degree in Literature from the Pontifical Javeriana University of Colombia. Thesis: "Involuntary Memory and Nostalgia for the Present in Ernesto Sábato's Abaddon the Exterminator." June 2013. Faculty of Social Sciences.

Bachelor's Degree in Linguistics and Literature with an emphasis on Literature. District University of Colombia. October 2004.

Diploma in "Greek Tragedy." Javeriana University of Colombia. 2016. Faculty of Philosophy.

Attended the course "400 Years with Don Quixote. Cervantes: His Work and His Times." National University of Colombia. March 31, 2005.

Attended the lecture series on Marcel Proust. Compensar, Colombia. 2008.

Leveling courses for the Master's degree in Philosophy. Javeriana University of Colombia. 2010.

Achievements

Second place in the short story competition of the District University of Colombia. "Polifonía" magazine (2003). Short story: "Dying is Sleeping." May 6, 2002.

Honorable mention for academic achievement. Cum laude. Javeriana University of Colombia. June 2013.

Winner of the 2022 COLFUTURO scholarship from Colombia for doctoral studies in Spain with a stay in Paris.

Experience as a university professor of literature and philosophy, Spanish teacher in international schools, and Spanish teacher to foreigners.

Writings

Thesis: "Metaphysical Time and Its Narrative Deconstruction from the Other as a Contemporary Problem of Ethics Regarding the Thought of Death in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time"

Presentation: "What Is Ghostly in the Human Condition," based on the film A Ghost Story by director David Lowery. 2018.

Published an article in the journal "Humanizarte" of Manuela Beltrán University in Colombia entitled: The Meta-Empirical Mystery of Death: Jankélévitch, the Philosopher of the Unspeakable. (https://www.umb.edu.co/revista-humanizarte.html). 2019.

Speaker at the event "The Forgetfulness We Will Be and Its Metaliteratures" entitled: "The Phenomenology of Time in the Novel The Forgetfulness We Will Be by Colombian Writer Héctor Abad Faciolince." University of the Andean Area of Colombia, October 9, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=xoiP_ad1KwM&t=121s.

Publication of the article "The Silence of Death in the Third Person: Between the Metaphysics of Maurice Blanchot and the Poetic Device of Vladimir Jankélévitch." University of Murcia Journal. "Annals of French Philology." https://revistas.um.es/analesff/article/view/617091.

Collaborations

Speaker at the International Literature Conference, Universidad del Norte (Barranquilla, Colombia). Presentation title: Ernesto Sábato and the Vital Problems of the Human Condition. October 27-28, 2011.

International Baccalaureate MYP workshops (2014 and 2015) and International Baccalaureate Diploma course (2015).

IB External Qualifier (2014-present).

Invited as a speaker at a "film series" conference in the "Conversations on Cinema and Society" series, EDCUS research group at Manuela Beltrán University, Colombia. Presentation title: "The Ghostly Thing About the Human Condition," based on the film A Ghost Story by director David Lowery. 2018.

Invited as an academic peer to the Colombian Air Force University. Review of course plans. Bogotá. 2019.

Attended a lecture on Marcel Proust at the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis of the Freudian Field in Valencia, Spain. Title: "Marcel Proust and Psychoanalysis: What is the Quest About?" By Maxime Henri-Rosseau and Margarita Bolinches. May 24, 2024.