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Juan Manuel (JuanMa) Ramirez Velazquez
Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
Department/Office Information
Romance Languages- MW 4:00pm - 5:00pm (212 Lawrence Hall)
- F 1:30pm - 3:30pm (212 Lawrence Hall)
Contact
jramirezvelazquez@colgate.eduJuan Manuel RamÃrez Velázquez is an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Colonial Latin American Literatures at ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø. He earned his Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies and a Graduate Certificate in Latin American Studies from Washington University in St. Louis. His current book project, under advance contract, explores affect, gender, and marriage in the Early Colonial Spanish World. His scholarship has appeared in Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Hispanic Review, Journal of Early Modern Studies, and various edited volumes. He is also involved in two co-editing projects: a special issue for Anuario de Estudios Americanos and an in-progress volume on pureza de sangre, calidad, and lineage in the Spanish Empire, culminating in an international conference in Spring 2026 and the publication of an edited collection. His research has been supported by the Mellon Foundation, the Folger Library, the Huntington Library, the ACMRS Center for Renaissance and Medieval Studies at Arizona State University, the Renaissance Society of America, the Washington University Center for the Humanities, and the ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Council. He currently serves on the Modern Language Association’s Executive Committee for 16th- and 17th-century Spanish and Iberian poetry and prose, as well as the Renaissance Society of America’s DEI board. Additionally, he is an Assistant Editor of the Journal of Gender and Sexuality Studies.