Mónica A. Ramírez Bernal

Mónica Ramírez Bernal is a doctoral candidate and teaching fellow in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University (New York City), for which she was awarded a Fulbright-García Robles scholarship. She is the author of the book "The Ocean as Landscape. Pageant of the Pacific: the mural maps of Miguel Covarrubias" (UNAM, 2018). In collaboration with Adriana Melchor, she curated the exhibition “Dibújame un mapa de lo que nunca verás” (Casa del Lago-UNAM, 2024). Her work has been published in national and international academic journals such as Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas (UNAM), Investigaciones Geográficas (IGG, UNAM) and Latin American & Latinx Visual Culture. Her research has been supported by fellowships from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Newberry Library. She has also received two public humanities grants from the Latinx Project at New York University and the The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University to develop community-based projects focused on artistic mapping processes. Her research focuses on the history of transpacific imaginaries and the creative possibilities of artistic and scientific cartography.