Cristina D. Ramirez

Xochitle Coronado-Vargas Photography

Cristina Devereaux Ramírez is a Professor of English and has served Head of the English Department for three years. She teaches and mentors graduate and undergraduate students of English in the RCTE graduate program. Dr. Ramírez conducts public writing workshops and author talks. She is the author of 3 books with the latest being A Story of Stories: The Texas Border Barrio Life and Writings of Doña Ramona González (Trinity UP, 2024). She has also published Occupying Our Space: The Mestiza Rhetorics of Mexican Women Journalists and Activists, 1887–1942 (University of Arizona P, 2015), which won the 2016 Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Prize. She has also published a bilingual anthology of Mexican women writers Mestiza Rhetorics: An Anthology of Mexicana Activism in the Spanish Language Press, 1875-1922 (Southern Illinois UP, 2019). Dr. Ramírez frequently travels to México to conduct research and support student academic initiatives at various institutions. She lives in Tucson.

Awards: Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award Winner

Communities: Arizona Author, Hispanic or Latinx

Workshop: Family Histories

All of us have special memories of our mothers, fathers, grandparents, siblings. We all have stories about them, too, and in this session author Cristina D. Ramirez will help us find ways to capture those memories by writing about them.

Integrated Learning Center Room 119 (Seats 60)  
Sat, Mar 15, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
History / Biography
Signing area: Sales & Signing Area - Integrated Learning Center (following presentation)  

Panelist: Cristina D. Ramirez

Border Near and Far

While all three authors have roots in El Paso, Texas, a town familiar to anyone interested in the Borderlands, each author writes from a unique perspective, giving new light to the familiar.

Nuestras Raíces Stage (Seats 150)  
Sat, Mar 15, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Nuestras Raices
Signing area: Pima County Public Library/Nuestras Raíces/Craft Tent & Signing Area (following presentation)  

Panelists: Tim Hernandez, Richard Parker, Cristina D. Ramirez
Moderator: Katherine Morrissey

Books:

A Story of Stories

The Texas Border Barrio Life and Writings of Dona Ramona Gonzalez
History / Biography
Trinity University Press
August 2024
ISBN 9781595349965
322 pages

Occupying Our Space

The Mestiza Rhetorics of Mexican Women Journalists and Activists, 1875–1942
History / Biography
University of Arizona Press
March 2023
ISBN 9780816550326
272 pages