Education

PHD -Hispanic literature – University of Alabama (in progress)

MA – Spanish and Curriculum & Instruction – Mississippi State University (2018)

BA – Modern Languages (English & French) – Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida Venezuela (2015)

Presentations

Ruz, Gerardo (2019) La música popular y la otredad: herramientas del sujeto subalterno. Paper presented at The Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies Theory and Practice conference, Lubbock, TX.

Ruz, Gerardo (2019) Identidad y progreso en el Caribe: La ambigüedad identitaria de Venezuela y Puerto Rico. This paper will be presented at the 91th Annual Conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, GA.

Research Interests

Neo-identities, otherness and popular music as tools of the subaltern subjects in the fin-de-siècle literature. Caribbean expansion and/or Caribbean reinterpretation: Venezuela, Colombia and Panama within Caribbean literature. Popular culture and polyphony in the Caribbean.