Juan Manuel (JuanMa) Ramirez Velazquez

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Juan Manuel (JuanMa) Ramirez Velazquez

Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures

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Romance Languages
212 Lawrence Hall
  • MW 12:30pm - 3:10pm (212 Lawrence Hall)

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Juan Manuel Ramírez Velázquez is an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Colonial Latin American Literatures. He completed his Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies and a Graduate Certificate in Latin American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. In his first book, he studies the intersections of gender, race, and mobility in early modern and colonial Latin American legal documents through literary performance and affect theory. His scholarly work has been published in the Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Hispanic Review, and Journal of Early Modern Studies. 

 

Juan Manuel has taught language, cultures, and literatures courses in US higher education institutions, both online and face-to-face, for more than ten years. His teaching aligns with his research, which explores silenced voices in published and unpublished literatures. Beyond academia, Juan Manuel has served as a Graduate Fellow for the Washington University College Prep Program (2017-2022) and a tutor for the Prison Education Project (2020). These experiences have expanded his understanding of social and educational justice, further fueling his dedication to working with minoritized and marginalized communities.

  • PhD, Hispanic Studies, Washington University in St. Louis (2023)
    • Graduate Certificate in Latin American Studies, Washington U. in St. Louis (2023)
    • Professional Development in Teaching Program, Washington U. in St. Louis (2022)
  • MA, Spanish, University of New Mexico (2017)
  • BBA, Marketing, Southwestern Oklahoma State University (2015)
  • BA, Spanish, Southwestern Oklahoma State University (2014)

Colonial Latin America and the early modern Atlantic world; migration and the border/land(s); women, gender, and sexuality; critical race and race before race theories; affect and performance; queer sexualities and spirituality; second language acquisition; inclusive pedagogies.

 

Peer-Reviewed Articles

  • "Sowing Wheat and Other Merits: The First Black Conquistador of the Mexican Field," Hispanic Review vol. 91, no. 2, Spring 2023, 197-219.
  • "Maternal Landscapes: An Answer to the Problem of Women's Education in Colonial Mexico," Bulletin of Spanish Studies vol. 100, no. 1, 101-126. Published online on 12/13/2022.
  • "Women Building the Colonial Archive: Legal Authority, Female Knowledge, and Affective Political Economies in the Sixteenth-Century Iberian Atlantic World," Journal of Early Modern Studies vol. 13, 2024, 281-300.

 

Public Scholarship

  • "Imaginería cuir desde los bordes del convento," Revista Tierra Adentro (Secretaría de Cultura, Gobierno de México), Dosier del Orgullo 2023.

 

Book Reviews

  • The Mexican Mission: Indigenous Reconstruction and Mendicant Enterprise in New Spain, 1521-1600 by Ryan Dominic Crewe. The Sixteenth Century Journal, vol. 52, no. 1, Spring 2021, 167-169.

 

Works-in-Progress

  • "Spanish Widows 'Living Off of Alms': Petitions, Economic Transactions, and Female Mobility in Early Colonial Mexico"
  • "'Puto, bordonea tu con tus braços que vengo harta de trabajar': Sodomía imperfecta y experiencia femenina en el siglo XVI"
  • "Fighting for her Freedom: Navigating Property Rights and Manumission Laws in 1585 Mexico City"

 

  • Spanish 354: Latin American Literature: Illusion, Fantasy, Romanticism
  • Spanish 468: Visions and Re-Visions of the Spanish Conquest: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
  • Spanish 459: 'Nuns Having Fun' in Colonial Latin America
  • FSEM Core Communities: U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
  • Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Equity Small Grant, Washington U. in St. Louis (2023).
  • Center for the Humanities Graduate Student Fellowship, Washington U. in St. Louis (2023).
  • Graduate Student Summer Residency on Teaching and Learning, National Humanities Center (2022).
  • Helen Fe Jones Outstanding Teaching Award, Washington U. in St. Louis (2021).
  • Mellon Summer Institute in Spanish Paleography, The Huntington Library (2019).