Loretta Ramirez is Assistant Professor of Latinx Rhetoric & Composition in the Chicano & Latino Studies Department at California State University, Long Beach. Her research includes historical rhetorics, cultural rhetorics, multimodal rhetoric, art history, literature, writing, decolonial theory, archival methodologies, & critical composition pedagogy.
Loretta's first book The Wound and the Stitch:
A Genealogy of the Female Body from Medieval Iberia to SoCal Chicanx Art
is now available through Penn State University Press, Spring 2024.
Loretta is currently developing her second book, Get Back to Where You Once Belonged: A Chicana-Apache Professor's Autoethnography on Racial and Rhetorical Belongings.
A Genealogy of the Female Body from Medieval Iberia to SoCal Chicanx Art
is now available through Penn State University Press, Spring 2024.
Loretta is currently developing her second book, Get Back to Where You Once Belonged: A Chicana-Apache Professor's Autoethnography on Racial and Rhetorical Belongings.
PUBLICATIONS
"Cultural/Indigenous Rhetorics." In The Cambridge History of Rhetoric. Gen eds. Rita Copeland and Peter Mack. Vol. 5: Modern Rhetoric after 1900. Eds. Daniel Gross, Steven Mailloux, and LuMing Mao. Cambridge UP, 2025. (under contract)
The Wound and the Stitch: A Genealogy of the Female Body from Medieval Iberia to SoCal Chicanx Art. Pennsylvania State UP, 2024. https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-09727-5.html
“Digging the Archives in Composition Stretch Programs: Reclamation of Historical Rhetorics to Support Chicanx Emotions of Belonging.” College Composition and Communication, vol. 75, no. 3, 2024, pp. 483-512. DOI: https://doi.org/10.58680/ccc2024753483.
“Archival Quest: Research Writing Pedagogies to Recover Historical Rhetorics that Centralize Latinx Voice & Inquiry.” Composition Studies, vol. 51, no. 1, Spring 2023, pp. 91-110.
“Self-Loving in the Epidemic Years: Carmen Machado’s Rhetoric of Woundedness.” Journal of Lesbian Studies, special issue of Chicana Lesbians: Re-Engaging the Iconic Text, "The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About," edited by Stacy Macias and Liliana González, vol. 26, 2023, pp. 1-15. DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2023.2178727
“Unmaking Colonial Fictions: Cherríe Moraga’s Rhetorics of Fragmentation and Semi-ness.” Rhetoric Review, vol. 41, no. 3, 2022, pp. 168-183, DOI:10.1080/07350198.2022.2077017
“Run! It’s Beckzilla! Fantastical Counterstories of Microaggressions in Surviving Becky(s),” Composition Studies, vol. 49, no. 2, 2011, Special Issue: “Diversity is not Equity: BIPOC Scholars Speak to Systemic Racism in the Academy and Field,” eds. Ersula Ore, Kimberly Weiser, Christina Cedillo, pp. 124-127.
Textual and Visual Rhetorics of the Generative Wound: A Historical Genealogy from Medieval Iberia to Chicanx Self-Representation Strategies & Pedagogies. Ph.D diss., University of California, Irvine. ProQuest. 2020.
“David Lamelas’s The Desert People: An Odyssey for Authentic Representation,” Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture vol. 5, no. 1, 2016, pp. 136-143.
“David Lamelas: Restaging Past Art to Foster Reinvention,” Dandelion vol. 7, no. 1, 2016.
“Peer Review: Building Confidence within a Culture of Evaluation,” Pedagogy and Practice Online, Pearson Education (2015).
“We Belong,” Border-Lines: Journal of the Latino Research Center, vol. 7, 2013, pp. 115-117.
“I Blame My Mother,” 36 Stories Up, The Young Women and Careers Conference, 2012.
PRESENTATIONS
“Situating the University Inside Students and their Hybrid Sites of Learning,” Computers and Writing Conference, University of California, Davis, 2023
“Decolonial Rhetoric: Rhetorical Sovereignty and Epistemological Freedom,” University of California, Irvine. Graduate Rhetoric Seminar Series, 2022.
“Medieval Rhetoric: Egeria, Ramon Llull, and Francesc Eiximenis,” University of California, Irvine. Graduate Rhetoric Seminar Series, 2021.
“Composition Meets Archival Studies: Student Self-Validation Strategies in the Reclamation of Latinx Rhetorics,” National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention, 2021.
“Critical Pedagogy and Chicanx Rhetorical Inheritances: Recovering Chicanx Historical Genealogies to Decolonize Composition Classrooms,” National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Web Seminar: Queerness, Cultural Rhetorics, and Decoloniality: Expanding the Conversation(s), 2020.
“Rhetorical Theory and Medical Humanities,” University of California, Irvine, 2020.
“Cultural Composition Meets the Historical Archives: Student Self-Validation of Cultural Voice and Rhetorical Inheritances,” Conference on College Composition and Communication Regional Conference, University of Southern California, Conference on Building Diverse Communities through Writing, 2020.
“Critical Pedagogy to Recover a Textual, Visual, and Corporal Historical Genealogy of Chicanx Rhetorics from Medieval to Contemporary,” Conference on College Composition & Communication. Granted Scholars for the Dream Award, 2020.
“The Rhetoric of Humility: Educating the Urban Populace of Late-Medieval Aragon in Francesc Eiximenis’s Lo Crestià and The Book of Women,” International Society for the History of Rhetoric, 2019.
“Teaching at the Intersections: Rhetoric and Composition Programs in Chican@ Studies,” National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Conference, 2017.
“The Madonna of Humility: Compassion Battles the Black Death,” Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies Conference, 2014.
“Pearl and the Gothic Cathedral: Medieval Poem Reflects Narrative Teaching Trends in Religious Architecture and Art,” Words & Music Festival, Faulkner Society, 2013.
PUBLICATIONS
"Cultural/Indigenous Rhetorics." In The Cambridge History of Rhetoric. Gen eds. Rita Copeland and Peter Mack. Vol. 5: Modern Rhetoric after 1900. Eds. Daniel Gross, Steven Mailloux, and LuMing Mao. Cambridge UP, 2025. (under contract)
The Wound and the Stitch: A Genealogy of the Female Body from Medieval Iberia to SoCal Chicanx Art. Pennsylvania State UP, 2024. https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-09727-5.html
“Digging the Archives in Composition Stretch Programs: Reclamation of Historical Rhetorics to Support Chicanx Emotions of Belonging.” College Composition and Communication, vol. 75, no. 3, 2024, pp. 483-512. DOI: https://doi.org/10.58680/ccc2024753483.
“Archival Quest: Research Writing Pedagogies to Recover Historical Rhetorics that Centralize Latinx Voice & Inquiry.” Composition Studies, vol. 51, no. 1, Spring 2023, pp. 91-110.
“Self-Loving in the Epidemic Years: Carmen Machado’s Rhetoric of Woundedness.” Journal of Lesbian Studies, special issue of Chicana Lesbians: Re-Engaging the Iconic Text, "The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About," edited by Stacy Macias and Liliana González, vol. 26, 2023, pp. 1-15. DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2023.2178727
“Unmaking Colonial Fictions: Cherríe Moraga’s Rhetorics of Fragmentation and Semi-ness.” Rhetoric Review, vol. 41, no. 3, 2022, pp. 168-183, DOI:10.1080/07350198.2022.2077017
“Run! It’s Beckzilla! Fantastical Counterstories of Microaggressions in Surviving Becky(s),” Composition Studies, vol. 49, no. 2, 2011, Special Issue: “Diversity is not Equity: BIPOC Scholars Speak to Systemic Racism in the Academy and Field,” eds. Ersula Ore, Kimberly Weiser, Christina Cedillo, pp. 124-127.
Textual and Visual Rhetorics of the Generative Wound: A Historical Genealogy from Medieval Iberia to Chicanx Self-Representation Strategies & Pedagogies. Ph.D diss., University of California, Irvine. ProQuest. 2020.
“David Lamelas’s The Desert People: An Odyssey for Authentic Representation,” Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture vol. 5, no. 1, 2016, pp. 136-143.
“David Lamelas: Restaging Past Art to Foster Reinvention,” Dandelion vol. 7, no. 1, 2016.
“Peer Review: Building Confidence within a Culture of Evaluation,” Pedagogy and Practice Online, Pearson Education (2015).
“We Belong,” Border-Lines: Journal of the Latino Research Center, vol. 7, 2013, pp. 115-117.
“I Blame My Mother,” 36 Stories Up, The Young Women and Careers Conference, 2012.
PRESENTATIONS
“Situating the University Inside Students and their Hybrid Sites of Learning,” Computers and Writing Conference, University of California, Davis, 2023
“Decolonial Rhetoric: Rhetorical Sovereignty and Epistemological Freedom,” University of California, Irvine. Graduate Rhetoric Seminar Series, 2022.
“Medieval Rhetoric: Egeria, Ramon Llull, and Francesc Eiximenis,” University of California, Irvine. Graduate Rhetoric Seminar Series, 2021.
“Composition Meets Archival Studies: Student Self-Validation Strategies in the Reclamation of Latinx Rhetorics,” National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention, 2021.
“Critical Pedagogy and Chicanx Rhetorical Inheritances: Recovering Chicanx Historical Genealogies to Decolonize Composition Classrooms,” National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Web Seminar: Queerness, Cultural Rhetorics, and Decoloniality: Expanding the Conversation(s), 2020.
“Rhetorical Theory and Medical Humanities,” University of California, Irvine, 2020.
“Cultural Composition Meets the Historical Archives: Student Self-Validation of Cultural Voice and Rhetorical Inheritances,” Conference on College Composition and Communication Regional Conference, University of Southern California, Conference on Building Diverse Communities through Writing, 2020.
“Critical Pedagogy to Recover a Textual, Visual, and Corporal Historical Genealogy of Chicanx Rhetorics from Medieval to Contemporary,” Conference on College Composition & Communication. Granted Scholars for the Dream Award, 2020.
“The Rhetoric of Humility: Educating the Urban Populace of Late-Medieval Aragon in Francesc Eiximenis’s Lo Crestià and The Book of Women,” International Society for the History of Rhetoric, 2019.
“Teaching at the Intersections: Rhetoric and Composition Programs in Chican@ Studies,” National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Conference, 2017.
“The Madonna of Humility: Compassion Battles the Black Death,” Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies Conference, 2014.
“Pearl and the Gothic Cathedral: Medieval Poem Reflects Narrative Teaching Trends in Religious Architecture and Art,” Words & Music Festival, Faulkner Society, 2013.