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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贰尘补颈濒:听jramos@holycross.edu
Office Phone: 508-793-2607听
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.听

His book听听(University of Florida Press, 2018) explores the concept of decolonial aesthetics as related to the development of antipoery, the听nueva canci贸n听movement, and New Latin American Cinema during the 1960s and early 1970s. He is co-editor of the volume entitled听听(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听cr贸nica听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听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听engages with key scholarship in New Modernist studies, Andean studies, and Affect studies.听To continue听working on this project, he has been awarded the M.H. Abrams Fellowship at the 听(2021-2022) and a Faculty Fellowship from the 海角社区 (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 海角社区 awarded him the Mary Louise Marfuggi Faculty Award for Outstanding Scholarship. From 2019 until 2022, he received the Arthur J. O鈥橪eary Faculty Recognition Award, which is aimed at advancing faculty research and professional development. He is a past chair of the Ecuadorian Studies section of听听(2018-2020), a past member of the听PMLA听Advisory Committee (2018-2021), and currently serves on the听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

  • 海角社区 Magazine - Fall 2019 - Associate Professor of Spanish Juan G. Ramos is听presented听听
  • 海角社区 Newsroom- Fall 2021 - Associate Professor of Spanish Juan G. Ramos is awarded the M.H. Abrams Fellowship at 听for the 2021-2022 academic year.

Recent Publications

Books

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

Edited Journal Dossiers

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

Select Peer-Reviewed Articles

  • 鈥". (Special issue of听Revista Iberoamericana: 鈥淓scritoras latinoamericanas del siglo XXI,鈥 edited by Luciano Mart铆nez, Vol. LXXXIX, Num. 282-283, (enero-junio 2023): 291-309.
  • 鈥淧resentaci贸n: Sara Castro-Klar茅n y su legado cr铆tico.鈥澨[Introduction to Special Dossier, co-written with Leila G贸mez and Cristi谩n Opazo. MLN, Vol. 137. No. 2, (March 2022): 279-289.

  • 鈥淓l boom y el oficio: ense帽ar en clave autobiogr谩fica.鈥澨[journal article, co-authored with Cristi谩n Opazo. MLN, Vol. 137. No. 2 (March 2022): 353-368.
  • (Introduction to Special Dossier, co-authored with Jorge Coronado). Revista de Estudios Hisp谩nicos, Vol. 55. No. 3 (October 2021): 497-505
  • Revista de Estudios Hisp谩nicos, Vol. 55. No. 3 (October 2021): 607-632.
  • 听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.
  • 听Hispan贸fila: Ensayos de literatura听178 (2016): 185-203.
  • Hispania听99.1 (2016): 116-127.
  • 听Romance Notes听55.1 (2015): 61-75.
  • "鈥澨Letras Hispanas: Revista de literatura y cultura听10.1 (2014): 63-78.听
  • 听Textos H铆bridos: Revista de Estudios Sobre la Cr贸nica Latinoamericana听3.1 (2013): 16-42.听
  • 鈥.鈥 [Introduction to Special Dossier, co-written with Leila G贸mez and Cristi谩n Opazo.听MLN, Vol. 137. No. 2, (March 2022): 279-289.
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    Opazo.听MLN, Vol. 137. No. 2 (March 2022): 353-368.

Select Book Chapters

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

  • 鈥淭he Affective Aesthetics of Fictional Objects.鈥 Blackwell Companion to Latin American Literature, 2nd and revised edition. Ed. Sara Castro-Klar茅n. [in press; forthcoming in 2022]; 702-715.
  • 鈥淭he Ideological Pendulum: South American Literary Interventions in Cold War Politics.鈥澨The Palgrave Handbook on Cold War Literature. Ed. Andrew Hammond. New York and London, Palgrave. 2020. 471-488.
  • 鈥淭eaching Comparative Arts and (De)Coloniality: Antonio Preciado, Elcina Valencia, and Chocquibtown.鈥听Teaching Contemporary Latin American Poetry.听(MLA Series Options for Teaching). Eds. Jill S. Kuhnheim and Melanie Nicholson. New York: Modern Language Association, 2019. 204-219.
  • 鈥淩upturas pict贸ricas decoloniales del paisaje andino: Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco, Eduardo Kingman, Oswaldo Guayasam铆n 鈥.听Visiones de los Andes: Ensayos cr铆ticos sobre el concepto de paisaje y regi贸n.听Eds. Ximena Brice帽o and Jorge Coronado. La Paz: Plural Editores/University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. 105-131.
  • 鈥淲ho Documents the Migrant? Decolonial Aesthetics, Museo de Am茅rica, and the Internet Documentary Film.鈥澨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听Nuestro Pan."听Decolonial Approaches to Latin American Literatures and Cultures.听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."听Decolonial Approaches to Latin American Literatures and Cultures.听Eds. Juan G. Ramos and Tara Daly. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. xiii-xxxvi.
  • "The Written Verse in Cinematic Verse: Eliseo Subiela's听El lado oscuro del coraz贸n听as a Metapoetic Text."听Verse, Voice and Vision: Poetry and the Cinema. Ed. Marlisa Santos. Lahman, MD: Scarecrow Press/ Rowman & Littlefield,听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)听

  • Kressner, Ilka, Ana Mar铆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听Lanham: Lexington Books, 2021, for Revista canadiense de Estudios Hisp谩nicos. Vol. 44.2.听(Winter 2020): 544-546 (published in fall 2021).

  • Ramos, Juan G. Book Review of Cristina Burneo Salazar鈥檚听Acrobacia del cuerpo biling眉e. La poes铆a de Alfredo Gangotena. Leiden: Almenara Press, 2017, for听Revista Iberoamericana听Vol. LXXXV, Num 267 (Abril-Junio, 2019): 632-635.
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  • Ramos, Juan G. Book Review of Michael R. Candelaria鈥檚听The Latino Christ in Art, Literature, and Liberation Theology. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2018, for The Americas:听A Quarterly Review of Latin American History听76.3 (July 2019): 533-535.
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  • Ramos, Juan G. Book Review of Dierdra Rebers鈥櫶Coming to Our Senses: Affect and an Order of Things for Global Culture.听New York: Columbia University Press, 2016, for听Humanity and Society听42.1 (February 2018): 132-134.
  • Ramos, Juan G. Book Review of Joanna Page's听Creativity and Science in Contemporary Argentine Literature: Between Romanticism and Formalism. (Calgary: Calgary University Press, 2014.)听MLN听132.2 (March 2017): 536-538.
  • Ramos, Juan G. 鈥淓nrique Dussel.鈥澨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. 鈥淟atin American Culture.鈥澨Encyclopedia of Diversity and Social Justice. Vol. 2. Ed. Sherwood Thompson. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. 468-472. [3000-word entry].