Juan G. Ramos

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Spanish Department
Professor, Spanish
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Fields: 19th-21st Century Latin American and Spanish Poetry; 19th-21st Century Latin American Fiction; Aesthetics and Politics in Latin American Film and Music; Latin American Critical Thought

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Office Phone: 508-793-2607泭
Office: Stein 408
PO Box: 59A

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Juan G. Ramos was born and lived in Guayaquil, Ecuador before moving to New Jersey. At Rutgers-Newark, he completed a BA in English and secondary education and at the University of Massachusetts Amherst he completed a Master of Arts and PhD in Comparative Literature and a graduate certificate in Latin American Studies.泭

His book泭泭(University of Florida Press, 2018) explores the concept of decolonial aesthetics as related to the development of antipoery, the泭nueva canci籀n泭movement, and New Latin American Cinema during the 1960s and early 1970s. He is co-editor of the volume entitled泭泭(Palgrave, 2016), which brings together renowned Latin Americanists to engage with key concepts related to decolonial theories and thinking while stressing points of contact with literary and cultural texts ranging from the colonial period to the twentieth century, and bringing to the fore new ways in which such theoretical discussions can be fruitful to reanimate specific lines of inquiry in literary and cultural scholarship. He has also published on the connection between poetry and film, film and spectral theory, avant-garde literature in the Andes, as well as the historical泭cr籀nica泭during modernismo, early twentieth-century modernist fiction, and twenty-first-century Latin American fiction.

He is working on a book-length project tentatively entitled "Andean Modernismos: Affective Forms in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru," which泭studies poetry, fiction, literary criticism, translation, and literary journalism as literary forms that were at once innovative in transforming literary conventions, while producing emotional and affective responses among audiences in their national and international contexts. This book project泭engages with key scholarship in New Modernist studies, Andean studies, and Affect studies.泭To continue泭working on this project, he has been awarded the M.H. Abrams Fellowship at the 泭(2021-2022) and a Faculty Fellowship from the 17勛圖厙 (Fall 2021). To continue working on this book project, during the 2024-2025 academic year, he will be a Visiting Researcher in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Georgetown University and also a Visiting Scholar in the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

In 2019, the 17勛圖厙 awarded him the Mary Louise Marfuggi Faculty Award for Outstanding Scholarship. From 2019 until 2022, he received the Arthur J. OLeary Faculty Recognition Award, which is aimed at advancing faculty research and professional development. He is a past chair of the Ecuadorian Studies section of泭泭(2018-2020), a past member of the泭PMLA泭Advisory Committee (2018-2021), and currently serves on the泭Editorial Board (2023-2025).

Courses

  • Span 101 - Elementary Spanish I
  • Span 102 - Elementary Spanish II
  • Span 202 - Intermediate Spanish II
  • Span 302 - Composition for Bilingual Speakers
  • Span 304 - Aspects of Spanish-American Culture
  • Span 305 - Introduction to Literary Genres
  • Span 308 - Readings in Latin American Literature
  • Span 407 - Topics in Modern Spanish and Spanish-American Poetry
  • Span 450 - Latinidades in Literature and Pop Culture

Research

  • Modernismo and Avant-Garde in Latin American Literatures
  • World Literature and Latin American Literatures
  • Decolonial Thought and Latin American Cultural Production

News

  • 17勛圖厙 Magazine - Fall 2019 - Associate Professor of Spanish Juan G. Ramos is泭presented泭泭
  • 17勛圖厙 Newsroom- Fall 2021 - Associate Professor of Spanish Juan G. Ramos is awarded the M.H. Abrams Fellowship at 泭for the 2021-2022 academic year.

Recent Publications

Books

  • Ramos, Juan G.泭. University of Florida Press, 2018.
  • Ramos, Juan G. and Tara Daly, eds.泭. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Edited Journal Dossiers

  • MLN, Vol. 137, No.泭 2, co-edited with Leila G籀mez (U of Colorado-Boulder) and Cristi獺n Opazo (Pontificia Universidad Cat籀lica de Chile) [in press; forthcoming in March 2022]
  • Revista de Estudios Hisp獺nicos, Vol. 55. No. 3, 2021, co-edited with Jorge Coronado (Northwestern University)

Select Peer-Reviewed Articles

  • ". (Special issue of泭Revista Iberoamericana: Escritoras latinoamericanas del siglo XXI, edited by Luciano Mart穩nez, Vol. LXXXIX, Num. 282-283, (enero-junio 2023): 291-309.
  • Presentaci籀n: Sara Castro-Klar矇n y su legado cr穩tico.泭[Introduction to Special Dossier, co-written with Leila G籀mez and Cristi獺n Opazo. MLN, Vol. 137. No. 2, (March 2022): 279-289.

  • El boom y el oficio: ense簽ar en clave autobiogr獺fica.泭[journal article, co-authored with Cristi獺n Opazo. MLN, Vol. 137. No. 2 (March 2022): 353-368.
  • (Introduction to Special Dossier, co-authored with Jorge Coronado). Revista de Estudios Hisp獺nicos, Vol. 55. No. 3 (October 2021): 497-505
  • Revista de Estudios Hisp獺nicos, Vol. 55. No. 3 (October 2021): 607-632.
  • 泭A Contracorriente: una revista de estudios latinoamericanos. (Special Dossier: A Sustainable Future for Latin America?) Ed. Maria Alessandra Woolson. Vol. 17. No. 2 (2020): 114-127.
  • 泭Hispan籀fila: Ensayos de literatura泭178 (2016): 185-203.
  • Hispania泭99.1 (2016): 116-127.
  • 泭Romance Notes泭55.1 (2015): 61-75.
  • "泭Letras Hispanas: Revista de literatura y cultura泭10.1 (2014): 63-78.泭
  • 泭Textos H穩bridos: Revista de Estudios Sobre la Cr籀nica Latinoamericana泭3.1 (2013): 16-42.泭
  • . [Introduction to Special Dossier, co-written with Leila G籀mez and Cristi獺n Opazo.泭MLN, Vol. 137. No. 2, (March 2022): 279-289.
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    Opazo.泭MLN, Vol. 137. No. 2 (March 2022): 353-368.

Select Book Chapters

  • Resonances of Race in the Global South and the Decolonial Turn. The Routledge Companion to Literature and the Global South. Eds. Alfred J. L籀pez and Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo. Routledge, 2023. 76-86.

  • The Affective Aesthetics of Fictional Objects. Blackwell Companion to Latin American Literature, 2nd and revised edition. Ed. Sara Castro-Klar矇n. [in press; forthcoming in 2022]; 702-715.
  • The Ideological Pendulum: South American Literary Interventions in Cold War Politics.泭The Palgrave Handbook on Cold War Literature. Ed. Andrew Hammond. New York and London, Palgrave. 2020. 471-488.
  • Teaching Comparative Arts and (De)Coloniality: Antonio Preciado, Elcina Valencia, and Chocquibtown.泭Teaching Contemporary Latin American Poetry.泭(MLA Series Options for Teaching). Eds. Jill S. Kuhnheim and Melanie Nicholson. New York: Modern Language Association, 2019. 204-219.
  • Rupturas pict籀ricas decoloniales del paisaje andino: Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco, Eduardo Kingman, Oswaldo Guayasam穩n .泭Visiones de los Andes: Ensayos cr穩ticos sobre el concepto de paisaje y regi籀n.泭Eds. Ximena Brice簽o and Jorge Coronado. La Paz: Plural Editores/University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. 105-131.
  • Who Documents the Migrant? Decolonial Aesthetics, Museo de Am矇rica, and the Internet Documentary Film.泭Migrant Voices: Latin American Diaspora in Documentary Film. Eds. Esteban Loustaunau and Lauren Shaw. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2018. 217-238.
  • "Disruptive Capital in Andean/World Literature: A Decolonial Reading of Enrique Gil Gilbert's泭Nuestro Pan."泭Decolonial Approaches to Latin American Literatures and Cultures.泭Eds. Juan G. Ramos and Tara Daly. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 141-160.
  • Ramos Juan G. and Tara Daly. "Introduction: Strategies for Reading and Looking with and against the Grain."泭Decolonial Approaches to Latin American Literatures and Cultures.泭Eds. Juan G. Ramos and Tara Daly. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. xiii-xxxvi.
  • "The Written Verse in Cinematic Verse: Eliseo Subiela's泭El lado oscuro del coraz籀n泭as a Metapoetic Text."泭Verse, Voice and Vision: Poetry and the Cinema. Ed. Marlisa Santos. Lahman, MD: Scarecrow Press/ Rowman & Littlefield,泭2013. 179-189.

Book Reviews and Encyclopedia Entries

  • Medina Cordova, Luis A. Imagining Ecuador: Crisis, Transnationalism, and Contemporary Fiction. Tamesis Books, 2022, for Ciberletras (in press)泭

  • Kressner, Ilka, Ana Mar穩a Mutis, and Elizabeth M. Pettinaroli, eds. Ecofictions, Ecorealities, and Slow Violence in Latin Amerixan and the Latinx World. New York: Routledge, 2020, for Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures, Vol. 78.3 (2024): 234-236.

  • Gorica Majstorovic. Global South Modernities: Modernist Literature and the Avant-Garde in Latin America泭Lanham: Lexington Books, 2021, for Revista canadiense de Estudios Hisp獺nicos. Vol. 44.2.泭(Winter 2020): 544-546 (published in fall 2021).

  • Ramos, Juan G. Book Review of Cristina Burneo Salazars泭Acrobacia del cuerpo biling羹e. La poes穩a de Alfredo Gangotena. Leiden: Almenara Press, 2017, for泭Revista Iberoamericana泭Vol. LXXXV, Num 267 (Abril-Junio, 2019): 632-635.
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  • Ramos, Juan G. Book Review of Michael R. Candelarias泭The Latino Christ in Art, Literature, and Liberation Theology. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2018, for The Americas:泭A Quarterly Review of Latin American History泭76.3 (July 2019): 533-535.
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  • Ramos, Juan G. Book Review of Dierdra Rebers泭Coming to Our Senses: Affect and an Order of Things for Global Culture.泭New York: Columbia University Press, 2016, for泭Humanity and Society泭42.1 (February 2018): 132-134.
  • Ramos, Juan G. Book Review of Joanna Page's泭Creativity and Science in Contemporary Argentine Literature: Between Romanticism and Formalism. (Calgary: Calgary University Press, 2014.)泭MLN泭132.2 (March 2017): 536-538.
  • Ramos, Juan G. Enrique Dussel.泭Blackwell Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies. Vol. 1. Eds. Sangeeta Ray and Henry Schwarz. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2016. 480-482. [1000-word entry]
  • Ramos, Juan G. Latin American Culture.泭Encyclopedia of Diversity and Social Justice. Vol. 2. Ed. Sherwood Thompson. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. 468-472. [3000-word entry].