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Jose Ramon Ruisanchez Serra, PhD.

José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra, PhD.
jrruisanchez@uh.edu

Education

  • BA Letras Hispánicas, UNAM, México
  • MA Comparative Literature. University of Maryland, College Park
  • PhD Spanish. University of Maryland, College Park

Research Interests

  • Nineteenth century Mexican narrative
  • Twentieth, twenty-first century Latin American poetry
  • Critical theory

Courses Taught

  • Intro to Spanish American Literature, undergraduate.
  • Twentieth Century Mexican Literature, undergraduate
  • Nineteenth Century Latin American Narrative, graduate
  • Current Latin American Poetry, graduate
  •  Literary Theory, graduate
  • The Visual Turn, graduate

Publications

  • with Ignacio Sánchez Prado and Anna Nogar (eds.). A History of Mexican Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2016
  • Pozos. México: ERA, 2015.
  • Editor of the Mexican poetry section. The Handbook of Latin American Studies.
  • The Caudillo in Chapultepec: Towards a Museology of Carlos Fuentes”. PMLA 128.3 (2013). pp. 719-722.
  • *“Grietas en la razón melodramática de Manuel Payno”. Romance Notes 53.3 (2013). Peer Reviewed. pp. 365-372.
  • Historias que regresan: topología y renarración en la segunda mitad del siglo XX mexicano. México: FCE-UIA, 2012
  •  Ruisánchez, José Ramón, Oswaldo Zavala (eds.) Juan Villoro ante la crítica. Barcelona: Candaya, 2011
  •  “Reading ´68: The Tlatelolco Memorial and gentrification in Mexico City” en Bilbija, Ksenija y Leigh Payne (eds.) Accounting for Violence. Durham: Duke UP, 2011 

Curriculum Vitae