Sandra Ruiz is feminist scholar, curator, artist, director, and producer trained in queer-of-color critique, feminist studies, performance studies, and relational ethnic studies. She is an assistant professor of Latina/Latino Studies and English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and an affiliate faculty member of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; the Program in Comparative World Literature; the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory; the Department of Theatre; and the Department of GWS. Ruiz has been published in journals such as Women & Performance; Performance Matters; and Small Axe and is the author of Ricanness: Enduring Time in Anticolonial Performance (NYU Press, 2019). She is also a series editor along with Shane Vogel and Uri McMillan for the new series Minoritarian Aesthetics (NYU Press). Ruiz is the co-founder of the Brown Theatre Collective and the founder of La Estación Gallery. Currently, she is working on two book projects: Perilous Pedagogy: Psychoanalytic Affections Within the Live Aesthetic; and a book of poetry entitled The Edge of Depth.
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