Dr. Nelson Ramirez

PROFESSOR OF SPANISH

EDUCATION HISTORY

  • BA-University of California-Berkeley
  • MA-University of California-Berkeley
  • PHD-University of California-Berkeley

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITES

Dr. Ramirez’s scholarly interests are the novel, short story, and poetry genres in Latin America in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. Dr. Ramírez is interested in the relationship between history, ideology, identity, and aesthetics. His research focuses on how different literary traditions and mass media technologies have had an important role in shaping Latin American literary movements and ideological stands.

PUBLISHED WORK

Dr. Ramírez has published the poetry collections Azulejos de cerca (Icaro Comunicaciones, Lima, 1990), and El polen de los helicópteros (Arteidea editores, Lima, 1998). His work has been published in literary journals and anthologized in Antología de Poemas: Menciones honrosas y finalistas de la XVIII Bienal de Poesía “Premio Copé 2017” (Ediciones Copé, Petróleos del Perú, Lima, 2018). 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

•“Juan Mauricio Rugendas en dos novelas con Pampas y Aconcagua,” at the XXXI Congreso Internacional de Literatura y Estudios Hispánicos, October 21-22, 2022. Virtual.
 
•“La denuncia de lo inevitable en la cuentística de Quiroga, Borges y Cueto,” at the South Central Modern Language Association 78th Annual Conference (Hybrid Conference), Houston, TX, October 7-9, 2021.

 

• “¿Se puede hablar de heterogeneidad, totalidad contradictoria y/o latinoamericanismo en la obra de Daniel Alarcón?” at “Encuentros Iberoamericanos in Berkeley: Twenty Years,” University of California, Berkeley, September 20-21, 2018. 

• “Viajes y aventuras: de España a la Amazonía en busca de caucho y novela en El Príncipe de los Caimanes de Santiago Roncagliolo” at the South Central Modern Language Association 75th Annual Conference in San Antonio, Texas, October 11-13, 2018.

Recently Taught Courses

  • SPAN 1013 - BEGINNING SPANISH I
  • SPAN 1023 - BEGINNING SPANISH II
  • SPAN 3003 - CONVERSATION/COMP I
  • SPAN 3013 - CONVERSATION/COMP II
  • SPAN 3133 - SPAN-AMER CIV/CULTURE
  • SPAN 3143 - STUDY ABROAD
  • SPAN 4993 - SP: SPANISH AMERICAN LIT
  • SPAN 4993 - SP: HONORS