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., LASA Film Festival Merit Award), Detroit´s Rivera: The Labor of Public Art (2017, Gran Premio, Festival Internacional de Documentales Santiago Alvarez, and Ibizacinefest, Mejor Corto Documental), 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.

He will be teaching the graduate seminar Regímenes de alteración sensorial. Droga y literatura and will be organizing a series of public lectures and an academic symposium.