Loretta Victoria Ramirez

DR. LORETTA VICTORIA RAMIREZ is Associate Professor of Latinx Rhetoric & Composition and Chair of the Chicano & Latino Studies Department at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB). Her research explores historical textual and visual rhetorics, emphasizing cultural rhetorics, trauma studies, decolonial theory, archival methodology, and writing pedagogy. Loretta applies these specialties in her monograph, The Wound and the Stitch: A Genealogy of the Female Body from Medieval Iberia to SoCal Chicanx Art (Penn State UP, 2024). Loretta has been published in Rhetoric Review, College Composition and Communication, Composition Studies, and the Journal of Lesbian Studies. The prestigious Cambridge History of Rhetoric will include her chapter on Cultural and Indigenous Rhetorics (Cambridge UP, 2025). She holds an English Ph.D. with a Graduate Visual Studies Emphasis from the University of California, Irvine (UCI). Loretta has earned three M.A. degrees (English with emphasis on rhetoric from UCI, Art History with emphasis on Iberian medieval art from CSULB, English with emphasis on writing and narrative theory from Loyola Marymount) and a B.A. in Anthropology from Stanford. She is preparing to publish her second book, Get Back to Where You Once Belonged: A Chicana-Apache Professor’s Autoethnography on Racial and Rhetorical Belongings.