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J. Jesse RamírezAmerican Studies University of St. GallenUnterer Graben 21/ 9000 St. Gallen Switzerland jesse.ramirez@unisg.chEDUCATION 2013Ph.D., American Studies, Yale University2011M.A. and M.Phil., American Studies, Yale University 2006B.A., English, Santa Clara University (summa cum laude) PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS 2016-University of St. Gallen, Assistant Professor (Assistenzprofessor) of American Studies, School of Humanities and Social Sciences 2013-2015 Frankfurt University, Institute for English and American Studies, Teaching Lecturer (Wiss. Mitarbeiter)2013Munich University, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Postdoc 2012Silliman College, Yale University, Part-Time Instructor2010-2012 Yale College, Teaching AssistantPUBLICATIONS Monographs2022Un-American Dreams: Apocalyptic Science Fiction, Disimagined Community, and Bad Hope in the American Century. Under contract with Liverpool University Press, Science Fiction Texts and Studies series, forthcoming 2021Rules of the Father: Playing with Patriarchal Masculinity in The Last of Us. Under contract with Palgrave, (Re)Presenting Gender series, forthcoming 2020Against Automation Mythologies: Business Science Fiction and the Ruse of the Robots. New York and London: RoutledgeEdited Volumes and Journals n.d.(with Anna Marta Marin) Latinx Representation in Popular Culture and New Media. In preparation for Brill, European Perspectives in American Studies series2022(with Johannes Fehrle and Marlon Lieber) Deautomating the Future: Marxist Perspectives on Technology, under contract with Brill, Historical Materialism series, forthcoming 2021(with Sixta Quassdorf) Work: The Labors of Language, Literature, and Culture in North America, SPELL: Swiss Papers in Language and Literature. Under contract with Narr Francke Attempto, forthcoming Winter 20212020(with Bryan Banker) “Racecraft and Speculative Culture,” special issue, Humanities 9, no. 4 Journal Articles and Review Essays 2021“Weapons of Criticism, Criticism by Weapons: On Punching Nazis,” SOAR: Society of Americanists Review 2 2021“Children of Men, or Europe: The Finite Task,” Coils of the Serpent: Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power 8 2021“Keeping it Unreal: Rap, Racecraft, and MF Doom,” Humanities 10, no. 12020“Race and Robots,” American Quarterly 72, no. 1 2017 “Marx vs. the Robots,” Amerikastudien/ American Studies?62, no. 4 2016 Review of Repeating ?i?ek, edited by Agon Hamza, ID: International Dialogue 6 2015“From Anti-Abundance to Anti-Anti-Abundance: Scarcity, Abundance, and Utopia in Two Science Fiction Writers,” RCC [Rachel Carson Center] Perspectives no. 2 2013“The Ghosts of Radicalisms Past: Allen Ginsberg’s Old Left Nightmares,” Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory 69, no.1 2012“Marcuse Among the Technocrats: America, Automation, and Postcapitalist Utopias, 1900-1941,” Amerikastudien/American Studies 57, no.1 (Article of the Year, GAAS)2010“?i?ek’s Apocalypse: The End of the World or the End of Capitalism?” Theory and Event 13, no. 4 2008“Rage Against the Dying of the Light: Herbert Marcuse and the Politics of Death.” Cultural Logic 11 Book Chapters n.d. “Chess-Playing Automata and Racialized Fauxtomation.” In Living Automata: Mechanism and Automatism in Victorian Culture. Eds. Suzy Anger and Thomas Vranken. Under contract with Cambridge University Press 2022“Make the Dialectic Great Again: On Postcritique in Rita Felski’s The Limits of Critique.” In Culture Squared: Key Works for the 21st Century. Eds. Frank Kelleter and Alexander Starre. Bielefeld: Transcript, forthcoming2021“Sleep Dealer, or, Tijuana, Ciudad del Futuro.” In?Fantastic Cities: American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction & Fantasy. Eds. Stefan L. Brandt, Michael Fuchs, and Stefan Rabitsch. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, forthcoming Summer 20212019“Are Orcs Racist? Genre, Racecraft, and Bright.” In The Genres of Genre: Form, Formats, and Cultural Formations. Eds. Cécile Heim, Boris Vejdovsky, and Benjamin Pickford. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto2017“Liken/Kritik.” In Nach der Revolution:?Ein Brevier digitaler Kulturen (“Liking/Critique.” In After the Revolution: A Guide to Digital Cultures). Eds. Timon Beyes, Claus Pias, and J?rg Metelmann. Hamburg: Edition Speersort2016“Green Futures; or, How to Enjoy Eco-Apocalypse.” In America After Nature. Eds. Catrin Gersdorf and Juliana Braun. Heidelberg: Winter University Press2015“Contemporary Cultures of Privacy; or, Rethinking ‘Privacy Panic’: Shopping, Sexting, Surveillance, Copyright.” In Cultures of Privacy. Eds. Karsten Fitz and B?rbel Harju. Heidelberg: Winter University Press Press & Public Writing2020“Fighting Racism,” Gender Monitoring 2020, University of St. Gallen2020“Where are the Pandemic Robots?”, America Unfiltered, Clinton Institute for American Studies, University College Dublin; “Where Are the Robots?” Swissinfo.ch, Opinion; “Wo Sind die Roboter?”, University of St. Gallen homepage2019“Venezuela in American Media,” Latin American Dialogues, St. Gallen Institute of Management in Latin America2019“Endstation Stanley, oder was es heisst, ein Mann zu sein” (A Streetcar Named Stanley, or, What it Means to Be a Man), trans. Sixta Quassdorf, playbill for Theater St. Gallen’s Endstation Sehnsucht (A Streetcar Named Desire)2019“Das Zeitalter des Binge-Watchings ist vorbei” (The Age of Binge Watching is Over), Die Welt2018“The Cynicism of Liking,”?Medium2018“After #OscarsSoWhite,”?Medium2018“Trump and Social Media. An interview with Jesse Ramirez,” University of St. Gallen, YouTube 2016“Donald Trump and Anti-Mexican Ideology,” HSG Focus2011“Pay 2 Play: The Virtual Classroom,” Yale Daily NewsAwards, Grants & Fellowships2020Research Panel Fund, Research Commission, University of St. Gallen2019Conference funding, Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences 2018Aspiring Leader, Organizing Committee of the 48th St. Gallen Symposium2018Academic GIFts, Vice President’s Board of Research and Faculty, University of St. Gallen2014Finalist (2nd place), International Junior Research Group Grant, Elite Network of Bavaria2013Travel Grant, Austrian Association for American Studies2012Article of the Year, German Association for American Studies2012University Dissertation Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Yale University2012Travel Grant, Modern Language Association of America2012Fellow, Yale College Seminar Program, Silliman College, Yale University2007-2011 Doctoral Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Yale University2010International Language Fellowship, Summer Language Institute, Yale University2008Honorable Mention, Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowship2007Chancellor’s Fellowship, UC Berkeley (declined)INVITED TALKS (selected) 2020“Waiting for the Martians,” American Studies department, Klagenfurt University, Austria 2020“Representing the Inter-Racial,” Narrative Encounters with Ethnic American Literature, Klagenfurt University 2018“The Tweeting President,” American Studies department, Gie?en University, Germany2017“Playing with the End of the World: The Last of Us and Post-Apocalyptic Gaming,” American Studies department, University of Vienna, Austria 2017“Post-Postcritique,” JFK Institute for North American Studies, Free University of Berlin, Germany2015“Lowriders and Chicano/a Culture,” Institute of American Studies, Leipzig University, Germany CONFERENCE ACTIVITYConferences Organized 2021“Work: A Conference on the Labors of Language, Culture, and History,” Swiss Association for North American Studies Biennial Conference, St. GallenPanels Organized2018“Genres of ‘Race’: Science Fiction and Racecraft,” Swiss Association for North American Studies, Lausanne University 2018“Representing Social Struggles: Riots and Racialized Violence in Visual Media,” British Association for American Studies, King’s College, London2017“Did Someone Say Dialectic?”, Contradiction Studies: Mapping the Field, Bremen University, Germany2016“New Italians or Criminal Aliens? The Contradictions of Latinos/as, Rights, and Race in the United States,” German Association for American Studies, Osnabrück University 2012“Translation and Adaptation,” Worlds Out-Of-Joint: Re-Imagining Philip K. Dick, TU Dortmund, Germany Papers Presented (selected)2018“Vatos in Space,” 76th World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), San Jose, California2018“The Criticism of Arms: On Punching Nazis,”?British Association for American Studies, King’s College2017“Negating Latour,” Contradiction Studies: Mapping the Field, Bremen, Germany2016“#NotYourMule: The 2016 Oscars in Black, White, and Brown,” Swiss Association for North American Studies, Bern University, Switzerland 2016“Theorizing the Police After Ferguson,” Black America and the Police, Bamberg University, Germany 2016“From Woking to New York; or, American Wars: A Very Brief Cultural History of War of the Worlds in North American Translation,” HG Wells Society, Woking, England 2016“An-Other Europe, the Other of Europe: Children of Men and the ‘Infinite Task’ of Hospitality,” MLA International Symposium, Düsseldorf University2016“Do Black and Brown Lives Matter? Thinking Contemporary Chicano/a-Black Relations in California with Stuart Hall,” Wrestling with the Angels: Exploring Stuart Hall’s Theoretical Legacy, Dortmund University CAMPUS TALKS 2020“Theses on Work and Solidarity After Covid-19,” Keynote, Fall Kickoff Days2018“Three Futures of Work,” Keynote, Spring Kickoff Days2017“Labor, Jobs, Work,” 48th St. Gallen Symposium Organizing Committee2017“There is no such thing as the ‘rise of the robots’: Automation and the Future of Work,” Keynote, Fall Kickoff Days2017“Futures of Work,” IGNITE Student Conference2016“Robots, Knowledge, Class Power,” School of Humanities and Social SciencesCOURSES TAUGHT University of St. Gallen A Nation of Immigrants? Immigration, Nativism, and Racism Ruse of the Robots: Work, Technology, and Automation The Cold War in Global PerspectiveFutures of Science and Technology in American Science FictionDistraction: Attention, Intelligence, and Digital Media Society of Surveillance Social Media and US Society William Gibson’s Pattern RecognitionThe Bomb: Nuclear Weapons and the American Imagination Technologies: Integrative Portfolio Marx and Marxism: A Brief Intellectual History Playing with the End of the World: The?Last?of?Us?and Apocalyptic CultureFrankfurt University Introduction to Literary Studies Religion in Modern America Atomic America Apocalyptic Narratives The Beat Generation The Frankfurt School in America Green Futures: Imagining Climate Change Fredric Jameson and Postmodernism The Shakespeare of Science Fiction: Reading Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Utopia/Dystopia A Cultural History of Zombies Yale University Technocultures (instructor)Work and Daily Life in Global Capitalism (assistant to Michael Denning)Hemingway, Faulkner, Fitzgerald (assistant to Wai Chi Dimock)The American Novel Since 1945 (assistant to Amy Hungerford)Religion in Modern America (assistant to Kathryn Lofton)SERVICE TO PROFESSION Editorial Board, Swiss Papers in Language and Literature, 2020-2023Associate Editor, PopMeC Research Blog: The US in Popular Media and CultureManuscript referee: Palgrave Macmillan,?European Journal of American Studies, History of the Human Sciences, Humanities, Religions, International DialogueUNIVERSITY SERVICEConsultant on Racism for Office of Diversity & Inclusion, 2019- North American Advisory Board, 2019-Moderator (with Paula Bialski), Fall 2020 Kickoff Days Academic Program, “The Day After Lockdown: Communities Facing Crisis,” 2020 Co-coordinator (with Tanja Schneider), “Technology” Concentration, 2017-2020Integrative Portfolio Pilot Program, Contextual Studies Reform, Fall 2019 Faculty Search Committee for Four Professorships in Computer Science, 2018 Faculty Working Group for Professor of Media and Digitization, 2016SUPERVISED PROJECTS Sarah Stulz, “Gender, Sex, and Feminist AI: 13 Theses on Her,” BA thesis, St. Gallen, 2020Rebecca Balimann, “Sex Robots: The Modern Patriarchy,” BA thesis, St. Gallen, 2020Patrick Phung, “Metagaming: Speedrunning, the Art of Destructive Creation,” BA thesis, St. Gallen, 2020Mélusine Perrier, “At the Intersection of Corporate Social Responsibility and Politics: The Case of the United States,” MA thesis, St. Gallen, 2019Tamara Blank Casta?eda, “The Right to Bear Arms: An Analysis of the NRA’s Lobbying Impact,” BA thesis, St. Gallen, 2019 Daniel Schmid Perez, “Freedom Through a Universal Basic Income: A Review of the Pilot Projects in India and Canada,” BA thesis, St. Gallen, 2019Bryan Banker, “The Black Hegelians: Dialectical Philosophy in W.E.B. Du Bois, C.L.R. James, Paul Robeson, and Langston Hughes,” Doctoral Thesis, Munich University, 2018? (second reader)Guillaume Gauthier, “Basic Income in Switzerland: A Policy Proposal,” BA thesis, St. Gallen, 2017–2018Anastasiya Fischer, “The Impact of the Video Interview on Today’s Recruitment Process: Interpreting Different Perspectives,” BA thesis, St. Gallen, 2018Joanna Tan, “Corporate Political Activism: Towards a New Concept,” BA thesis, St. Gallen, 2018Peter G?tz, “Proposal for a Universal Basic Income to Mitigate Rising Income Inequality,” BA thesis, St. Gallen, 2018Lara Reisinger, “Management, Rising Tuition, and the American University,” BA Thesis, Frankfurt University, 2016Teresa G?rtz, “Struggles for Existence in El Modena: Kim Stanley Robinson’s Pacific Edge,” BA Thesis, Frankfurt University, 2016Professional AffiliationsSwiss Association for North American StudiesSwiss Association of University Teachers of EnglishGerman Association for American StudiesModern Language Association of America ................
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