James Ramey Email and Phone Number

JAMES RAMEY (PhD in Comparative Literature and Film Studies, UC Berkeley, 2007), is a tenured professor of the Humanities Department at UAM-Cuajimalpa in Mexico City. In 2016 he became coordinating editor of the Peter Lang book series, "Transamerican Film and Literature". He has published more than fifteen refereed book chapters and articles in journals including Comparative Literature, James Joyce Quarterly, Comparative Literature Studies, The Latin Americanist, Nabokov Online Journal, College Literature, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, and Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinemas. His most recent co-edited volumes are (CONACULTA-UAM, 2011) and (Peter Lang, 2017). He is also currently coordinating "Joyce Without Borders", the 2019 North American James Joyce Symposium, to be held in Mexico City, 12-16 June, 2019.James Ramey also works in the film world. Since 2003 he has been a board member of the Morelia International Film Festival, and has made documentary films in Mexico. He coordinates FICM Presenta Pátzcuaro, in which films are shown year-round in the Cine-Teatro Emperador Caltzontzin, a 1930's-era cinema palace in Pátzcuaro, Michoacán. He produced (2014), directed by Nicolás Echevarría, which was shown in more than 30 festivals including the Berlinale, and won 10 prizes including top honors at Guadalajara, DocsDF, Lima and Chicago. Most recently, he directed (2019), a feature documentary about the cultural revival of the Purépecha people of Michoacán.