Dixa Ramírez is Associate Professor in the English department. She has published two books of scholarship: Colonial Phantoms (NYU Press, 2018), which received several awards, and This Will Not Be Generative (Cambridge UP, 2023).
Her debut novel Mist will be released early 2026. She is writing two other novels and a book of essays about spiritual metamorphosis and the nature of reality.
Her favorite classes to teach are "Bad, Mad, Sad: Literatures of Misbehaving Femmes" and "More Reality: Mysticism and Consciousness in Literature and Film."
| "Insolence, Indolence, and the Ayitian Free Black." Interventions, 2022. |
| "The Mulatta in the Attic." Public Books, 2022. |
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"Broken Automatons and Barbed Ecologies in Ligia Lewis’s Choreographic Imaginary." Social Text, vol. 39, no. 2, 2021.
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Catherine Damman, Tina Post, Dixa Ramírez D'Oleo.
"Roundtable on Ligia Lewis." ASAP/J, 2021.
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| "Colin Dayan: A Conversation." Los Angeles Review of Books, 2020. |
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"Mushrooms and Mischief: On Questions of Blackness." Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Cultural Criticism, 2019.
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| "Navigating the Portals Between Works by Ligia Lewis and Firelei Baez." Hyperallergic, 2019. |
| Colonial Phantoms: Belonging and Refusal in the Dominican Americas, from the Nineteenth Century to the Present. New York Univeristy Press, 2018. |
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"Against Type: Reading Desire in the Visual Archives of Dominican Subjects.”." Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Cultural Criticism, 2018.
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| "Colonial Phantoms: Interview with Dixa Ramírez.”." Esendom, 2018. |
| "Violence, Literature, and Seduction.”." Avidly: A Channel of the Los Angeles Review of Books, 2018. |
| "Expanding the Dialogues: Afro-Latinx Feminisms." Latinx Talk, 2017. |
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"The Most Confederate Name in the Caribbean.”." Avidly: A Channel of the Los Angeles Review of Books, 2017.
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"Dominican Race and Gender before Trujillo and beyond Caribbean Studies." Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Cultural Criticism, 2016.
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| "Forced Intimacies and Murky Genealogies in Hispaniola: Émile Ollivier’s Mère solitude (1987) and Marisela Rizik’s En el tiempo del olvido (1996)." Comparative Literature, vol. 67, no. 2, 2015. |
| "Salomé Ureña’s Blurred Edges: Race, Gender, and Commemoration in the Dominican Republic." The Black Scholar, vol. 45, no. 2, 2015. |
| "Great Men’s Magic: Charting Hyper-Masculinity and Supernatural Discourses of Power in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao." Atlantic Studies Journal, vol. 10, no. 3, 2013. |
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"Por un patriotismo que no se base en el odio ni en la exclusión.”." Acento.com.do, 2013.
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| Year | Degree | Institution |
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| 2012 | PhD | University of California, San Diego |
| 2008 | MPhil | University of California, San Diego |
| 2004 | AB | Brown University |
2019 Barbara Christian Literary Award (Caribbean Studies Association)
2019 Isis Duarte Book Prize (Haiti/Dominican Republic Section of the Latin American Studies Association)
2012 - 2013 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for African American Studies, Princeton University
2013 - 2018 Assistant Professor, American Studies and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration, Yale University
| AMST 1902U - Zombies Pirates Ghosts Witches |
| AMST 2010 - Introduction to Interdisciplinary Methods |
| AMST 2220Q - The Homo Sapiens at the End of the World; or, Readings in Race Theory |
| ENGL 0800S - Blackness in Critical Thought |
| ENGL 1711N - Monsters in our Midst: The Plantation and the Woods in Trans-American Literature |
| ENGL 1761B - Narratives of Blackness in Latinx and Latin America |
| ENGL 1761J - Bad, Mad, and Sad: Literatures of Misbehaving Femmes |
| ENGL 1762M - Caribbean Literature |
| ENGL 2761T - Race and the Gothic |
| ENGL 2950 - Seminar in Pedagogy and Composition Theory |
| HMAN 2401D - The Fugitivity of Slowness, Stillness, and Stasis |
