Sandra Ruiz is a trained performance studies scholar working across area and ethnic studies, with keen attention given to minoritarian aesthetics, contemporary literature, critical theory, and philosophy. Additionally, Ruiz is a curator, producer, and poet. Currently, Ruiz is the Sue Divan Associate Professor of Performance Studies in the Department of Theatre and a Conrad Humanities Scholar in the Department of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ruiz is the author of Ricanness: Enduring Time in Anticolonial Performance (NYU Press, 2019), co-author with Hypatia Vourloumis of Formless Formation: Vignettes for the End of the World (Autonomedia Press, 2021), and a co-series book editor with Shane Vogel & Uri McMillan of Minoritarian Aesthetics (NYU Press). Ruiz is the creator of La Estación Gallery, and now the Mellon funded project the Minor Aesthetics Lab.
