Detroit´s Rivera: public art, film and labor

Introduction and Screening by Julio Ramos

Julio Ramos has written extensively about literary and visual culture in Latin America and the Caribbean. His books include Desencuentros de la modernidad en América Latina: literatura y política en el sigo XIX (1989; translated by John D. Blanco as Divergent Modernities in 2002), Paradojas de la letra (1996, 2007), and Sujeto al límite: ensayos de cultura literaria y visual (2012). In 1990 Ramos edited and introduced Amor y anarquía: los escritos de Luisa Capetillo. His audiovisual and documentary work includes La promesa (1995, co-directed with M. Panasitti, N. Schüll, C. Penna et al.), Detroit´s Rivera: The Labor of Public Art (2017), Mar Arriba: Los conjuros de Silvia Cusicanqui (2011), and Retornar a La Habana con Guillén Landrián (2014), co-directed with Raydel Araoz. Since retiring from UC Berkeley in 2010, Ramos has continued to work as an independent researcher and has taught as a visiting professor or adjunct at the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar (Quito), Universidad de Puerto Rico (Río Piedras), Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV (Cuba), Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Universidad de Buenos Aires, University of Pennsylvania, and Fordham University.