Alejandra I. Ramírez is an assistant professor in the Department of Literature and Cultural Studies. She holds a PhD in rhetoric and a minor in Mexican American Studies. Ramírez’s research examines how ancient, traditional knowledge, shapes our lived realities––both how mythos, icons, and arts are used to constrain institutional access and social imaginations, and how those structurally marginalized reappropriate mythos, icons, and arts to critique and renarrativize their conditions of their lives. Ramírez’s project, Mundos, Murallas, Murales: Muralism and the Global Border Industrial Complex is a phenomenological critique of how border wall murals reveal the interconnected histories and affects of borders across time and place. Informed by Chicana, Mexicana-Indigena mythology, theory, and arts, Ramírez's critical and intuitive scholarship has been published in the journals: Understanding and Dismantling Privilege; Present Tense; and Constellations journals; as well as in the books: Decolonial Conversations in Posthuman and New Material Rhetorics; Nuestra America: Latinx Perspectives on Writing, Rhetorics, and Literacies; and Amplified Voices Intersecting Identities: First-Generation PhDs Navigating Institutional Power. Her edited book, Transnational Feminist Art Pedagogies for Decolonization is under contract with Routledge.
Assistant Professor: Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy Studies
Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy Studies
Email:
alejandra.ramirez@utrgv.edu BSABH 2.412