杏吧性世界

Edwin Ramirez

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BIOGRAPHY

Edwin Ramirez is a graduate student in the Department of Communication at the University of South Florida. He earned his M.A. in Communication Studies from California State University, Northridge, where his thesis, Living Under the Surveilling Gaze: Public Queer Performance as Archiving Queer Resilience, examined the intersections of surveillance, queer public performance, and resilience through critical textual analysis and autoethnography. He also holds an A.A. in Communication Studies, an A.S. in Fashion Design and Technology, and a B.A. in Communication Studies.

Before beginning his doctoral studies, Edwin taught public speaking and argumentation courses and served as an instructional associate with the CSUN Performance Ensemble: Creatives for Social Change. He has extensive experience coaching competitive speech and theater at the high school and college levels, where his students have earned state and national recognition. His professional background also includes work in community engagement, customer service, and performance administration.

Edwin鈥檚 research interests include queer studies, surveillance studies, performance studies, and communication pedagogy. His current projects explore how queer public performances function as acts of resistance, memory, and community-building within surveilled and marginalized spaces.

RESEARCH AREAS

Performance Studies, Critical/Cultural Studies, Surveillance, Queer/LGBTQ+, Latino/a/e/x

ADVISOR

Keith Berry