Dixa Ramírez-D’Oleo is Associate Professor in the English department. Her research and teaching focus on the literatures and histories of the extended Caribbean. She received her A.B. from Brown University in Comparative Literature and her PhD from the University of California, San Diego.
Her second book, This Will Not Be Generative (2023), was recently published by Cambridge University Press's Elements in Feminism and Contemporary Critical Theory series. Her first book, Colonial Phantoms: Belonging and Refusal in the Dominican Americas, from the Nineteenth Century to the Present (2018, NYU Press) received the 2019 Barbara Christian Literary Award from the Caribbean Studies Association and the 2019 Isis Duarte Book Prize, Haiti/Dominican Republic Section in the Latin American Studies Association.
Her writing has been published in ASAP/Journal, Atlantic Studies, Avidly, The Black Scholar, Comparative Literature, Hyperallergic, Interventions, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Small Axe, and Social Text. She also serves on the Editorial Committee of Small Axe.
