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Juan G. Ramos is Professor of Spanish at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA, and Visiting Scholar (2024-2025) at the University of Pennsylvania. Born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, he holds a BA in English and Secondary Education from Rutgers-Newark, and an MA/PhD in Comparative Literature with a graduate certificate in Latin American Studies from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
His research explores decolonial aesthetics, Latin American arts, and intersections of literature with film and spectral theory. Current work focuses on Andean Modernismos: Affective Forms in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, examining poetry, fiction, and literary journalism through lenses of New Modernist studies, Andean studies, and Affect theory. His scholarship spans avant-garde literature, modernist fiction, and 21st-century narrative.
Publications emphasize Latin American literary traditions with recurring themes of decoloniality, Andean cultural production, and transnational modernisms. Recent works analyze Gothic fiction, race in Global South literatures, and ecocritical approaches to modernist texts.
Honors include:
- M.H. Abrams Fellowship, National Humanities Center (2021-2022)
- Faculty Fellowship, College of the Holy Cross (2021)
Professional service includes chairing LASA's Ecuadorian Studies Section (2018-2020), PMLA Advisory Committee membership (2018-2021), and current service on the PMLA Editorial Board (2023-2025).
