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Edwin Ramirez
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BIOGRAPHY
Edwin Ramirez is a second-year doctoral student and instructor in the Department of Communication at the ÐÜèAVÃâ·Ñ. His primary area of research is relational communication, with additional emphases in performance studies and autoethnography. Drawing upon intercultural and queer perspectives, Edwin studies how identities are formed, negotiated, and performed within close relationships. He is particularly interested in questions of desire, conflict, connection, care, aging, health, and the ways people draw upon personal, cultural, and familial experiences to understand themselves and their relationships with others. Ultimately, Edwin’s scholarship is grounded in his lived experiences as a queer Mexican American and his interest in the intimate, complicated, and sometimes contradictory dimensions of relational life.
Edwin earned his B.A. in Communication Studies from California State University, Long Beach, and his M.A. in Communication Studies from California State University, Northridge. Before beginning his doctoral studies, he taught public speaking and argumentation and served as an instructional associate with the CSUN Performance Ensemble: Creatives for Social Change. He also has extensive experience coaching competitive speech and performance at the middle school, high school, and collegiate levels, with students earning state and national recognition, including state and national championships. Edwin currently serves as vice president of USF’s Graduate Communication Association and previously volunteered with the Los Angeles chapter of Gays for Good. Across his research, teaching, service, and coaching, he remains committed to helping others value their experiences, develop confidence in their voices, and understand communication as a means of connection, critical reflection, and social change.
RESEARCH AREAS
Relational Communication, Performance Studies, Autoethnography, Intercultural Communication, Queer Studies, Aging and Health Communication
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Keith Berry