Ramírez, Page 1 of 9 Susana N. Ramirez Curriculum Vitae Department of English, [email protected] 210-458-7882 One UTSA Circle San Antonio, Texas, 78249 Education PhD in English, The University of Texas at San Antonio, August 2016. Dissertation: "NepantlerX Cosmologies: Spiritual Activism and New Queer Feminist Paradigms." Advisors: Sonia Saldívar-Hull, Joycelyn Moody, Ben V. Olguín, T. Jackie Cuevas, and AnaLouise Keating. MA in Women’s Studies, Texas Woman’s University, GPA 4.0, May 2012. Master’s Thesis: "Moving Beyond Borderlands: Shifting towards New Theoretical Understandings of Spiritual Activism in Gloria E. Anzaldúa's Children's Literature." Thesis Advisor: AnaLouise Keating. BA in American Literature & Cultures, Education Minor, University of California, Los Angeles, March 2009. AA in English, West Los Angeles College, August 2006. Research and Teaching Interests Global and U.S. Women Writers of Colors; Multicultural Womanist and Feminist Theorizing; Chicana, Indigenous, and African-based Spirituality; Chicana/o Literature; African American Literature; Queer People of Color Theories; Critical Pedagogies; Speculative Fiction; Prison Studies; U.S. Ethnic Children’s Literature; Radical and Decolonial Love Theories; Anzaldúan Studies Employment History Instructor. The Women’s Studies Institute, The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). Fall 2015-Spring 2016. Instructor. The English Department, UTSA. Spring 2015. Instructor. The Writing Program, UTSA. Fall 2014. Program Coordinator. The Women’s Studies Institute, UTSA. Fall 2013- Spring 2014. Writing Center Tutor. Rose R. Thomas Writing Center, St. Philip’s College. 2013. Research Assistant to Ben V. Olguín (Organic Intellectuals Bibliography and Mexican American War Narratives Project). English Department, UTSA. Fall 2011- Spring 2012. Instructor. The Department of Women’s Studies, Texas Woman’s University (online). Fall 2010- Spring 2011. Graduate Teaching Assistant. The Department of Women’s Studies, Texas Woman’s University (online). Fall 2009- Spring 2010. English Tutor. Writing Lab, West Los Angeles College (face-to-face and online). 2007-2012. Teaching Experience WS 2013: “Introduction to Women’s Studies,” The Women’s Studies Institute, UTSA. Fall 2015-Spring 2016. ENG 2213: “Literary Criticism and Analysis,” The English Department, UTSA. Spring 2015. WRC 1013: “Freshman Composition I,” The Writing Program, UTSA. The Writing Program, University of Texas at San Antonio. Fall 2014. Ramírez, Page 2 of 9 WS 2013: “Gender and Social Change: An Introduction to Multicultural Women’s Studies (ONLINE).” The Women’s Studies Dep’t, TWU. Fall 2010- Spring 2011. WS 2013: “Gender and Social Change: An Introduction to Multicultural Women’s Studies (ONLINE),” Graduate Assistant to Carrie McMaster. The Women’s Studies Dep’t, TWU. Fall 2009- Spring 2010. ED 92F: “Academic Success in the Undergraduate Experience.” Discussion Leader to Bruce L. Barbee. Division of Undergraduate Education, UCLA. Spring 2007 and Fall 2007. ENG 28: “Intermediate Reading and Composition.” Teacher’s Assistant to Frances Leonard. English Department, West Los Angeles College. Fall 2007. Scholarly Publications “Recovering Gloria Anzaldúa’s Sci-Fi Roots: Nepantler@ Visions in the Unpublished and Published Speculative Precursors to Borderlands.” Aztlán Dossier on the Latin@ Speculative Literature, Film, and Popular Culture 40.2 (Fall 2015). Ed. Ben V. Olguín and Cathryn Merla-Watson. Print. Honors and Awards The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) English Dep’t Fellowship, 2015. UTSA Graduate Student Professional Development Award, 2014. University of New Mexico Scholarship to attend “Traditional Medicine without Borders: Curanderismo in the Southwest & Mexico,” Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2013. UTSA English Departmental Fellowship, 2013. UTSA English Departmental Fellowship, 2012. Golden Key International Honor Society, 2012. UCLA College Honors, 2009. West Los Angeles College, Dean’s List, 2006. Joan Van Stelle Teaching Scholarship, 2006. Invited Lectures & Presentations “Introduction to Queer Theory.” Invited Lecture, English 5013: Introduction to Graduate Studies, Kinitra Brooks, Assistant Professor, University of Texas at San Antonio. 2015. “Black and Brown Sounds in SA: Cultural Mestizaje.” Roundtable and Concert, Marco Cervantes, Assistant Professor, Mexican American Studies Program, University of Texas at San Antonio. 2014. “Queering Son Jarocho,” Invited Lecture and Music Presentation, BBL 2023: Latina/o Cultural Expressions, Lilliana Patricia Saldaña, Assistant Professor, Bicultural- Bilingual Studies, University of Texas at San Antonio. 2012. “Convergent Media Lecture Series Present: Susana and Berenice- Taking Gloria [Anzaldúa] Online,” Guest Lecture, Joseph López, Professor, Convergent Media, University of Incarnate Word. 2011. “Introduction to Multicultural Children’s Literature,” Nappy Hair: Policing Black Women’s Hair event, Texas Woman’s University. 2010. Conference Presentations “When Queerness IS a Choice: Discovering Sexual Identities through Decolonization,” Presented, El Mundo Zurdo 2015: Memoria y Conocimiento—Interdisciplinary Ramírez, Page 3 of 9 Anzaldúan Studies: Archive, Legacy, and Thought, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas. 2015. “Casa Coatlicue: Queer Spiritual Activism, Communal Living, and Anzaldúan Theory,” Presented, El Mundo Zurdo 2015: Memoria y Conocimiento—Interdisciplinary Anzaldúan Studies: Archive, Legacy, and Thought, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas. 2015. “The Specter of Capitalism in Chicana/o Studies: Re-materializing Chicanidad,” Presented, National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS), Salt Lake City, Utah. 2014. “Nepantler@ Cosmologies: Gloria Anzaldúa’s Science Fiction (Re)imagining Alternative Realities with Transspecies, Transspatial, and Transtemporal Subjectivities,” Presented, El Mundo Zurdo 2013: Activism, Philosophy and Pedagogy, An International Conference on the Work of Gloria E. Anzaldúa, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas. 2013. “Spiritual Mestizaje and Activism,” Moderated, El Mundo Zurdo 2013: Activism, Philosophy and Pedagogy, An International Conference on the Work of Gloria E. Anzaldúa, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas. 2013. “Nepantler@ Cosmologies: Gloria Anzaldúa’s Science Fiction (Re)imagining Alternative Realities with Transspecies, Transspatial, and Transtemporal Subjectivities,” Presented, Worldcon: World Science Fiction Convention, San Antonio, Texas. 2013. “Creating Bridges through Mentorship: A Holistic Workshop on Applying to Graduate School,” Presented, Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social Summer Institute (MALCS), Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. 2013. “Survival is Not Enough: Learning from the Past-- Guerrilleras de Amor Re-humanizng, Rem embering, and Healing the Self/Community through Decolonial Acts of Love,” Presented, National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS), San Antonio, Texas. 2013. “Queering Son Jarocho: Gender, Performance, and Power— Towards a Jaraner@ Nepantler@ Vision,” Presented, Association for Jotería Arts, Activism and Scholarship (AJAAS), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 2012. “Nepantleando Son Jarocho: Offering Alternative Visions for Son Jarocho Communities,” Presented, El Mundo Zurdo: An International Conference on the Life and Work of Gloria E. Anzaldúa, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas. 2012. “Queering Son Jarocho: Carving a Third-Space as a Jaranera-Nepantlera,” Presented, National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS), Chicago, Illinois. 2012. “(Re)defining Chican@ Identity through Critical Pedagogy: ‘Save Ethnic Studies’ Panel Discussion on the Future of Social Justice Education in Conservative Arizona and Tejas,” Moderated, National Conference for Chicana and Chicano Studies: Tejas Foco Regional Conference, Texas State University at San Marcos, San Marcos, Texas. 2012. “Creating Bridges through Mentorship: A Holistic Workshop on Applying to Graduate School,” Presented, Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social Summer Institute (MALCS), California State University, Los Angeles, California. 2011. “Gaps in Anzaldúan Studies: Bringing Gloria E. Anzaldúa’s Children’s Literature into Conversation with Post-Borderlands Theories,” Presented, Student Creative Arts & Research Symposium, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, Texas. 2011. “Moving Beyond Borderlands: Shifting towards New Theoretical Understandings of Gloria E. Anzaldúa’s Children’s Literature,” Presented, El Mundo Zurdo: An International Ramírez, Page 4 of 9 Conference on Anzaldúan Thought and Art and Performance, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas. 2010. “Transgressive Discourses in Gloria Anzaldúa’s Prietita y La Llorona: Making Home Out of the Cracks,” Presented, UTSA English Graduate Symposium: Wild Tongues: Concepts of the Untamed in Scholarship, Teaching, Writing, and Beyond, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas. 2010. “Gloria Anzaldúa’s Pedagogical (Re)Interpretation of La Llorona in Prietita y La Llorona,” Presented, El Mundo Zurdo: An International Conference on the Life and Work of Gloria Anzaldúa, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas. 2009. “Community Building and Female Characters in Anzaldúa’s Prietita y La Llorona and Butler’s Earthseed Series,” Presented, Mentoring Summer Research Internship Program (MSRIP), University of California, Riverside, California. 2008. Oral History and Archival Experience