Research Output per year
Personal profile
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
Professional Information
Ricanness: Enduring Time in Anticolonial Performance (NYU Press, June 2019) investigates the relationship between Puerto Rican subjectivity, gender, sexuality, and revolutionary performance under colonial time. Ruiz argues that Ricanness—a continual performance of bodily endurance against US colonialism through different measures of time—uncovers what’s at stake politically for the often unwanted, anticolonial, racialized and sexualized enduring body. Moving among theatre, experimental video, revolutionary protest, photography, poetry, and durational performance art, Ricanness stages scenes in which the philosophical, social, and psychic come together at the site of aesthetics, against the colonization of time. Analyzing the work of artists and revolutionaries like ADÁL, Lebrón, Papo Colo, Pedro Pietri, and Ryan Rivera, Ricanness imagines a Rican future through the time travel extended in their aesthetic interventions, illustrating how they have reformulated time itself through nonlinear aesthetic practices.
Honors & Awards
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
Teaching
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
Office Address
1207 W. Oregon Street, MC 136
Urbana, IL 61801
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Education/Academic qualification
Performance Studies, Ph.D., New York University
Performance Studies, MA, New York University
English Language & Literature, BA, University of Chicago
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Research Output
Autumn Knight: In Rehearsal: "Crossing the Line: The Here and Now of Race and Gender, and the Entanglements of Love in Performance Art and Pedagogy,”
Ruiz, S., Feb 19 2019, Autumn Knight: In Rehearsal : Crossing the Line: The Here and Now of Race and Gender, and the Entanglements of Love in Performance Art and Pedagogy,.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Ricanness: Enduring Time In Anticolonial Performance
Ruiz, S., Jul 2019, New York University Press. 256 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
Organismal Futurisms in Brown Sound and Queer Luminosity: Getting Into Gressman's Cyborgian Skin
Ruiz, S., 2017, In : Performance Matters . Vol. 3, No. 2, p. 72-91Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Review of In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam
Ruiz, S., 2016, In : American Literary History. 7Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
El Caribe on the Horizon: José Esteban Muñoz and the Commitment to Futurity
Ruiz, S., Jul 1 2015, In : Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism. 19, 2, p. 94-103 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Honors & Recognition
Michael Kirby Memorial Price for Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation
Sandra Ruiz (Recipient), 2011
Prize