Mr. Ricardo Ramos-Tremolada

Visiting Lecturer in Spanish
G-20 Puryear Hall
Office: (804) 287-6413
Fax: (804) 484-1544

Ricardo Ramos-Tremolada, from Perú, received his M.A. in Spanish American literature from State University of New York, Albany. While at Georgetown University, he was Mario Vargas Llosa's Research Assistant. Ricardo is currently a graduate student at the University of Kentucky and is working with Professor Enrico Mario Santí on "Elites, Exile, and Intellectuals in Modern Peru." He has taught at Northwestern University, Princeton University, The College of New Jersey and Universidad San Martín de Porres in Lima, Perú. A specialist in 20th-century Latin America literature, his M.A. thesis was El futurismo italiano en la poesía de Hidalgo; he has also worked on Garsilaso, Guamán Poma, Roland Barthes and Peruvian intellectuals. He is also a writer and a journalist. His first novel, En piedra viva, has been published in Italian (In Pietra Viva, Oedipus, Salerno, 2000), and in Spanish (San Marcos, Lima, 2002). As a journalist, currently he is a weekly Op-Ed columnist for Peru21, a Peruvian newspaper.