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Dr. David Ramirez

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David Ramirez

Department, Office, or School: Department of Modern Languages; Council of Rhode Island College

Associate Professor

dramirez@ric.edu
401-456-8029
Gaige Hall, 226

Dr. Ramirez is the Director of Spanish and Latin American Studies in the Department of Modern Languages.

Education

Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures
University of California, Los Angeles, 2017

MA in Comparative Literature
National Autonomous University of Mexico, 2009

BA in Literature
Los Andes University (Bogotá, Colombia), 2004

Selected Publications

“El príncipe entre los leones: el acontecimiento Darío en la poesía colombiana.” Decimonónica. Journal of Nineteenth Century Hispanic Cultural Production. (Forthcoming).

“Sacrificio y pensamiento mágico en Octavio Paz. Una lectura de El arco y la lira”. Zona Paz. (2021)

“El testimonio al revés: las narrativas del secuestro en Colombia o la parodia del género testimonial (1998-2013).” Chasqui. Revista de literatura latinoamericana 47.2 (2019): 256-268.

“Los libros del aficionado pobre: José Lezama Lima y la (de)formación por la lectura.” Mutatis Mutandis. Revista latinoamericana de Traducción. 10.1 (2017): 70-85.