Peter J. Ramos
Peter J. Ramos
Associate Professor
(716) 878-5407
Campus Address: Ketchum Hall 310
ramospj@buffalostate.edu
Peter Ramos offers courses in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literatures within a cross-cultural context. His research covers early to modern American writing and confronts questions in contemporary criticism, fiction, and poetry. He holds a Ph.D. in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo, as well as an M.F.A. in creative writing from George Mason University. Ramos has criticism and other scholarly publications featured in College Literature, The Faulkner Journal, The CEA Critic, Mandorla, Pleiades, Latino Poetry Review, and The Other Latin@: Writing Against a Singular Identity (Eds. Blas Falconer and Lorraine M. López, University of Arizona Press, 2011). His poems have appeared in Puerto Del Sol, Painted Bride Quarterly, Indiana Review, Verse, Mississippi Review (online) and other journals. He is the author of one book of poetry, Please Do Not Feed the Ghost (BlazeVox Books, 2008), as well as two shorter collections, Watching Late-Night Hitchcock (Handwritten Press, 2004) and Short Waves (White Eagle Coffee Store Press, 2003).
Courses taught at Buffalo State College:
Graduate Courses:
ENG 638: Major Works of William Faulkner
ENG 621: Definitions of American Literature
ENG 590: Literature of the Americas
Undergraduate Courses:
ENG 403: Independent Study/ Advanced Creative Writing, Poetry
ENG 490 W: Senior Seminar: Modern American Novel
ENG 443: American Poetry after 1900
ENG 441: Romantic Movement in American Literature
ENG 445: American Realism
ENG 442: American Novel to 1900
ENG 306 W: Creative Writing, Poetry
ENG 220: American Literature I
ENG 221: American Literature II
ENG 190 W: Introduction to Literary Analysis
ENG 151: Introduction to Poetry