Iván A. Ramos is Assistant Professor in the Department of Theater Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University. He received his PhD in Performance Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality from UC Berkeley. His writing has appeared in several journals, including Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, and ASAP/Journal. He was a contributor to the award winning catalog for the exhibition Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. sponsored by the Getty Foundation, and he also has articles forthcoming in Turning Archival (Duke University Press).
"""Sound is the ground for Iván Ramos’s brilliant writing on visual art, performance, and subcultures that radiate out from Mexico, Los Angeles, and through the rest of Latina/o America. Ramos’s sonic grounding, actual and conceptual, is far from stable. Records melt, checkpoints are refused, the inauthentic is genuine, geopolitical narratives shake, punk is a Latina/o given rather than a something taken. The castaways of neoliberalism are key protagonists. The illegible artists and audiences and the bootleg tapes that live and play in this indispensable book push Ramos towards transformative theories about performance and aesthetics. Readers will no doubt become forever altered having come to know them intimately through Ramos’s beautiful treatise on unbelonging."" -- Alexandra Vazquez, New York University ""A lucid and theoretically informed account of how listening practices between Mexico and the United States can work in opposition to the national popular and its regimes of affect. Unbelonging sets the record straight on whitewashed accounts of rock and punk that ignore how Latinx subjects took up subcultural spaces and stances. Taking time to ‘feel brown’ beyond the boundaries of race and nation, Iván Ramos delivers up a new and vibrant account of aesthetic dissensus that will forward queer-of-color critique."" -- Tavia Amolo Ochieng' Nyong'o, Yale University"