2005 - Ph.D. in Hispanic Language and Literatures , The University of California

Dr. Ignacio Ruiz-Pérez (Licenciatura University of Veracruz, 1998; Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005) is a specialist in Mexican and Spanish American Literature, with a particular focus on twentieth-century poetry. He is the author of Lecturas y diversiones: la poesía crítica de Eduardo Lizalde, Gabriel Zaid, José Carlos Becerra y José Emilio Pacheco (University of Veracruz Press, 2008), and Nostalgia de la unidad natural. La poesía de José Carlos Becerra (Cultural Institute of the State of Mexico, 2009; 2nd edition, 2011). Dr. Ignacio Ruiz-Pérez has been awarded the following poetry prizes: the Alí Chumacero Poetry Prize (2000), the José Gorostiza Poetry Prize (2004), the Rodulfo Figueroa Regional Poetry Prize (2005), the Salvador Gallardo Dávalos National Prize for Young Poets (2006), the Luis Cardoza y Aragón Poetry Prize (2014), and the León Felipe International Poetry Prize (2015). Dr. Ignacio Ruiz-Pérez is co-editor of Independencias, Revoluciones y Revelaciones: doscientos años de literatura mexicana (University of Texas at Arlington/University of Veracruz Press, 2010), and the author of the critical edition of Héctor Eduardo Paniagua’s Fiesta de pájaros (University of Science and Arts of Chiapas, 2011). He is also the autor of the anthology Contemporáneos (University of Veracruz Press, 2012). Dr. Ruiz-Pérez has published schorlarly articles in journals such as Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Revista Hispánica Moderna, and Hispania. His current research book project deals with the role of anthologies (from El manantial latente to La edad de oro) in the ideological construction of a new aesthetic paradigm in contemporary Mexican poetry. The book project also focuses on the works by Julián Herbert, Luis Felipe Fabre, Hugo García Manríquez, Paula Abramo, among other authors.