Contact Information
Urbana, IL 61801
Research Interests
Performance Studies, Puerto Rican Studies, Latinx Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Gender, Sexuality & Queer Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Continental Philosophy, Contemporary American Literature, Theatre Studies, Minoritarian Aesthetics
Education
Performance Studies, Ph.D., New York University
Performance Studies, MA, New York University
English Language & Literature, BA, The University of Chicago
Awards and Honors
Conrad Humanities Scholar, Department of English, 2021-2026
HRI Fellow, 2021-2022
Helen Corley Petit Scholar, 2020-2021
The Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory Jr. Fellow, 2016-2018
IPRH Fellow, 2014-2015
UIUC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Associate, 2012-2013
The Michael Kirby Memorial Prize for Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation, New York University, 2011
Courses Taught
Graduate Seminar: Issues in Performance Studies
Graduate Seminar: Minoritarian Aesthetics
Grad/Undergrad: Brown and Black Existentialisms
Grad/Undergrad: Latinx Performance & Performance Studies
Grad/Undergrad: Latinx Dramatists from the 1960s to the Future
Undergraduate: Theories and Methods in Latina/o Studies
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Asian American Studies
Professor, Gender and Women's Studies
Professor, Program in Comparative and World Literature
Professor, English
External Links
Highlighted Publications
Ruiz, S. (2024). Left Turns in Brown Study. Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1353/book.125384
Ruiz, S., & Vourloumis, H. (2021). Formless Formation: Vignettes for the End of this World. Minor Compositions/Autonomedia.
Ruiz, S. (2019). Ricanness: Enduring Time In Anticolonial Performance. New York University Press. https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479888740.001.0001
Ruiz, S. (2022). A Light for a Light Minoritarian Aesthetics and the Politics of Grief-Work. Meridians, 21(2), 455-479. https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-9882141
Recent Publications
Ruiz, S. (2025). Tears for Tears: Aesthetics in Grief Minor. (Minoritarian Aesthetics ). NYU Press.
Ruiz, S. (2024). Left Turns in Brown Study. Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1353/book.125384
Ruiz, S. (2023). The Alleys: Just Dropped In To See What Condition My Condition Was In.
Ruiz, S. (2022). A Light for a Light Minoritarian Aesthetics and the Politics of Grief-Work. Meridians, 21(2), 455-479. https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-9882141
Ruiz, S., & Vourloumis, H. (2021). Formless Formation: Vignettes for the End of this World. Minor Compositions/Autonomedia.