Virginia Ramos

Virginia Ramos is a Spanish and American poet, and scholar. She earned a PhD in Comparative Literature from Stanford University and is the former Managing Editor of Mantis, A Journal of Poetry, Criticism and Translation. Her essays, poems and reviews have appeared in several publications in the US and Europe. Earlier in her career she worked for the Global Fund for Women and continues to support and fight for human rights globally. Her overall research interest centers on multi-genre texts, lyrical novels, and poetry. She works in Spanish, English, French and German literature. She teaches at the University of San Francisco, and is an elected member of the Executive Council at the Modern Language Association.

• Modern and Contemporary Literature (Spanish, French, German, and English)
• Poetry and Lyrical narratives
• Interdisciplinary Studies 
• Transnational and Postcolonial Studies

• Lyricism
• Multi-genre texts
• Consciousness
• Globalization
• Applied humanities

• Elected Executive Council Member, Modern Language Association

• National representative and voting member on a great variety of issues pertaining Higher Education, 2023-2027

• Member (satellite), Pedagogy in the Time of AI, University of San Francisco, 2023-2024

• Committee Member, Strategic Plan working group on “Developing inclusive and participatory shared governance structures,” University of San Francisco, 2022-2023

• Facilitator, OneBook/OneCommunity (campus wide initiative) on “So you want to talk about race” by Ijeoma Oluo, 2021

• Stanford University, PhD in Comparative Literature, 2016
• San Francisco State University, MA in Humanities, 2008

• Post-doctoral Fellow, Computer Science Education & Interdisciplinary Development, Stanford University
• Instructor, DLCL and Language Center, Stanford University
• Managing Editor, Mantis Journal
• Research Fellow, Institute of World Literature

• MLA Professional Development Grant, 2023

• Mellon Teaching Research Award (USF), 2023

• Fellowship Computer Science Education Initiative, Stanford University, 2016-2017
• Collaborative Teaching Project ePortfolio Award, Stanford University, 2016
• Institute of World Literature Fellowship, Harvard University, 2013
• Visiting Fellow, Heinrich Heine Universität, Düsseldorf, 2010

Chapters

• “Post-National Genres: A “Story” of Lyricism from North America to the Iberian Peninsula; Heretofore: A Study of Anne Carson and Julio Llamazares” [IN] Americanized Spanish Culture: Stories and Storytellers of Dislocated Empires. Routledge (June 2022.)
• “Beyond the border: The transnational self writes multidialogic narrative forms in and out of global Europe.” [IN] Contemporary Developments in Emergent Literatures and the New Europe. University of Santiago de Compostela Press.

• "Life and Lyricism in Contemporary Narrative; Emotion, Mood, and Genre as Global Perspectives", Theory Now, Journal of Literature, Critique, and Thought. Vol. 6, pp. 154-170, Jan. 2023.

• "Post-National Genres: A "Story" of Lyricism from North America to the Iberian Peninsula; Heretofore: A Study of Anne Carson and Julio Llamazares" [IN] Americanized Spanish Culture: Stories and Storytellers of Dislocated Empires. Routledge, 2022. 

• “Beyond the border: The transnational self writes multidialogic narrative forms in and out of global Europe.” [IN] Contemporary Developments in Emergent Literatures and the New Europe. University of Santiago de Compostela Press, 2014.

• 80 MPH Bilingual Poetry Anthology (selections of poems) by Graydon Miller Books.
• “A Web of Translations: Performance in Yoko Tawada’s Poetry” Mantis Journal, Issue 11, 2013.
• “Ambiguity”. Entry written for The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Greene, Roland (ed.) Princeton, 2012