Professor James Ramey received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Film Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2007. His research focuses on modernism, postmodernism, and posthumanism in literature and film. He is a Professor in the Humanities Department at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Cuajimalpa Campus in Mexico City, where he founded the graduate program in Literature and Film, as well as the Center for Writing and Argumentation, the first writing center at a public university in Mexico. He has been a member of Mexico's National System of Researchers (SNI) since 2010. He is co-founder and chair of the Research Group "Expression and Representation", as well as of the international film studies network "Red de Cuerpos Académicos que investigan sobre Cine (Red CACINE)". Since early 2022, he has served as UAM Cuajimalpa Campus Chief Academic Affairs Officer.

Professor Ramey's most recent coedited volumes are "México imaginado: Nuevos enfoques sobre el cine (trans)nacional" (CONACULTA-UAM, 2011), "Mexican Transnational Cinema and Literature" (Peter Lang, 2017) and "Joyce without Borders: Circulations, Sciences, Media, and Mortal Flesh" (University Press of Florida, 2022). He has also published more than twenty refereed book chapters and articles in journals, including Textual Practice, Comparative Literature, James Joyce Quarterly, Comparative Literature Studies, The Latin Americanist, Nabokov Online Journal, College Literature, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinemas, Literatura: teoría, historia, crítica, and Nuevas Poligrafías. In 2016 he became coordinating editor of the Peter Lang book series, "Transamerican Film and Literature". He served as lead organizer of "Joyce Without Borders", the 2019 North American James Joyce Symposium, held in Mexico City with support from the International James Joyce Foundation; it was the first organized in the Global South.

Among other distinctions, Professor Ramey is a Fulbright Award recipient; he has given keynote addresses at academic conferences on James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov, Jorge Luis Borges, and Luis Buñuel and was awarded the A. Owen Aldridge Prize for an essay on Vladimir Nabokov's "Pale Fire" from the American Comparative Literature Association.

Professor Ramey also works in the film world. Since 2003 he has been a board member of the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) and has made documentary films in Mexico. He coordinates FICM Presenta Pátzcuaro, in which films are shown year-round in the Cine-Teatro Emperador Caltzontzin, a 1930's-era cinema palace in Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, that he restored with the support of various sponsors. He produced "Eco de la Montaña" (2014), a documentary directed by Nicolás Echevarría about the Huichol artist Santos de la Torre, which was shown in more than 30 festivals, including the Berlinale, and won 10 prizes, including top honors at Guadalajara, DocsDF, Lima, and Chicago. In 2019, Professor Ramey directed "El emperador de Michoacán", a feature documentary about the cultural revival of the Purépecha people of Michoacán.