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Sandra Ruiz

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Contact Information

1207 W. Oregon Street, MC 136
Urbana, IL 61801

Associate Professor, Latina/Latino Studies & English

Research Interests

Performance Studies, Puerto Rican Studies, Latinx Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Gender, Sexuality & Queer Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Continental Philosophy, Contemporary American Literature, Theatre Studies, Minoritarian Aesthetics

Education

Performance Studies, Ph.D., New York University
Performance Studies, MA, New York University
English Language & Literature, BA, The University of Chicago

Awards and Honors

HRI Fellow, 2021-2022

Helen Corley Petit Scholar, 2020-2021

The Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory Jr. Fellow, 2016-2018
IPRH Fellow, 2014-2015
UIUC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Associate, 2012-2013
The Michael Kirby Memorial Prize for Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation, New York University, 2011

Courses Taught

Graduate Seminar: Issues in Performance Studies
Graduate Seminar: Minoritarian Aesthetics
Grad/Undergrad: Brown and Black Existentialisms
Grad/Undergrad: Latinx Performance & Performance Studies
Grad/Undergrad: Latinx Dramatists from the 1960s to the Future
Undergraduate: Theories and Methods in Latina/o Studies

Additional Campus Affiliations

Associate Professor, English
Associate Professor, Gender and Women's Studies
Associate Professor, Asian American Studies
Associate Professor, Program in Comparative and World Literature

Honors & Awards

HRI Fellow, 2021-2022

Helen Corley Petit Scholar, 2020-2021

The Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory Jr. Fellow, 2016-2018
IPRH Fellow, 2014-2015
UIUC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Associate, 2012-2013
The Michael Kirby Memorial Prize for Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation, New York University, 2011

Highlighted Publications

Ruiz, S., & Vourloumis, H. (2021). Formless Formation: Vignettes for the End of this World. Minor Compositions/Autonomedia.

Ruiz, S. (2019). Ricanness: Enduring Time In Anticolonial Performance. New York University Press. https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479888740.001.0001

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Recent Publications

Ruiz, S. (2022). A Light for a Light Minoritarian Aesthetics and the Politics of Grief-Work. Meridians, 21(2), 455-479. https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-9882141

Ruiz, S., & Vourloumis, H. (2021). Formless Formation: Vignettes for the End of this World. Minor Compositions/Autonomedia.

Ruiz, S. (2020). Performance. In K. P. Murphy, J. Ruiz, & D. Serlin (Eds.), The Routledge History of American Sexuality (pp. 243-250). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315637259-23

Ruiz, S. (2019). Crossing the Line: The Here and Now of Race and Gender, and the Entanglements of Love in Performance Art and Pedagogy. In Autumn Knight: In Rehearsal Krannert Art Museum.

Ruiz, S. (2019). Ricanness: Enduring Time In Anticolonial Performance. New York University Press. https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479888740.001.0001

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