Luis Ramos-Garcia

Spanish & Portuguese Studies

211 Folwell Hall

9 Pleasant St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Collegiate Affiliation

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

Ph.D.: Spanish and Portuguese: Literature and Theater, University of Texas, 1984

Human Rights and Politics: Latin America and Spain
Human Rights Across the Disciplines: Theater, Art, Political Science, Literature.
Contemporary Latin American and Peninsular Theaters
United States Latino Theater and Cultures
Latin American Shantytown cultural manifestations: music, literature and popular discourse
Cultural Studies: Spain and Latin America
Contemporary Latin American and Peninsular literature: novel, poetry, cultural discourses
Andean Studies and Indigenous literature: Concentration in Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, and Bolivia
Caribbean Spanish Studies: Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic
Gender studies
Latin American popular music
Women's studies

Publications

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Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Spanish Poetry: Circa 1970-1990. The Edwin Mellen Press, Ramos-Garcia, Luis, 1997.
A South American Trilogy: Osman Lins, Felisberto Hernandez and Luis Fernando Vidal. Studia Hispanica Editors, Ramos-Garcia, Luis, 1982.
Washing the Cow's Skull: Contemporary Texas Poetry in Translation. Prickly Pear Press, Ramos-Garcia, Luis, 1981.
The Newest Peruvian Poetry in Translation. Studia Hispanica Editors, Ramos-Garcia, Luis, 1979.
Problemas del SIDA en el teatro latino de los EEUU. Textos Teatrales, Ramos-Garcia, Luis, 1997.
Voces Del Interior; Nueva Dramaturgia Peruana: Instituto Nacional de Cultura; Teatro Nacional del Peru, Ramos-Garcia, Luis.
The State of Latino Theater in the United States: Hibridity, Transculturation, and Identity. Routledge, Ramos-Garcia, Luis, 2002.
Obra teatrales de Maria Teresa Zúñiga. Instituto Nacional de Cultura: Teatro Nacional del Peru, Ramos-Garcia, Luis, 2004.
Notas Sobre Teatro. Miguel Rubio, Yuyachkani Theatrical group, Ramos-Garcia, Luis, 2002.
La Nave de la memoria: Cuatrotablas, 30 años de teatro peruano. Mario Delgado, Asociacion Cuatro Tablas, Ramos-Garcia, Luis, 2003.
Panorama de las artes escenicas ibérico y latinoamericanas: Homenaje al Festival Iberoamericano de Cadiz. Beatriz Rizk, FIT de Cadiz and The State of Iberoamerican Studies Series, University of Minnesota, Ramos-Garcia, Luis, 2007.

Activities

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Director of THE STATE OF IBEROAMERICAN STUDIES SERIES: this is an on-going symposium (eleven versions since 1995) which features top scholars from outstanding universities and international theater practicioners. 1995 - 2006
Editorial Board Member of Hispanic Issues: Consultant. May 2005 - May 2006
Co-Director of Ideologies and Literature: Promotes the publication of scholarly studies in the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian literatures and theater. May 2004 - May 2010
Chair: Search Committee, Spanish and Portuguese Department Studies: Searching for tenure-track/tenured professor. September 2005 - April 2006

Working with MOTIN-PERU: an international exchange program with an organization that represents 300 theatrical groups in Peru. 1995 - 2010
Service Learning: working with the Teatro del Pueblo, a US Latino theater organization in Minneapolis-St. Paul. 2001 - 2006
Organizer of the V Latino / Latin American Political Theater: Festival and Symposium around Latino / Latin American Women in Theater. February 2006 - March 2006

Theater Producer: Since 1995 I have produced a number of U.S. Latino and Latin American plays within the umbrella of THE STATE OF IBEROAMERICAN STUDIES SERIES. January 1995 - January 2006
Ideologies and Literature: Scanning process of all Ideologies & Literature publications (an international journal in Spanish, Portuguese, English) in order to create a website. January 2002 - January 2008
Human Rights and Theater: Organize symposia / theater festivals around Latino / Latin American issues. January 2002 - January 2010
Ideologies and Literature Publications (Era III): To promote scholarly studies in the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian literatures linking aesthetics theories, genre studies, and textual analysis with socio-economics and political issues. May 2004 - January 2010
Editor, Publisher: Design book covers for, edit, and publish Latin American theater books. none - none

Digitalization of The Hugo Salazar del Alcazar Video Theater Collection, which gathers more than 350 performances by several theatrical groups in Peru none - none
Jewish playwrights in Peru and the Jewish question: collecting, cataloging, and analyzing plays written by the relatively small Peruvian Jewish community writers. June 2004 - December 2005
Political Prison Theater in Peru: rescuing, cataloging, and analyzing plays and political discourse written by Shining Path authors. December 2003 - December 2005
U.S Latino Theater Political writing and producing: I will continue with this project which requires a search for U.S. Latino theatrical pieces and its influence in an emergent U.S. Hispanic population. none - none

Awards

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President's Multicultural Research Award, University of Minnesota, none - none
Peruvian National Poetry Award for Young Writers, 1968 - none
City of Austin Distinguished Citizen Award for establishing cultural links between Hispanic and anglo populations, 1978 - none
President's Faculty Multicultural Research Award, Office of Multicultural and Student Affairs, University of Minnesota, 2008-2009 - June 2009

Courses

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