AboutAdelaida E. Rama Luna is a graduate student and teaching assistant in the department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Her research focuses on exploring the Mexico-US border as a contested space of coloniality. Currently, she is conducting research on how the disappearance of migrants along the migrant trail leads their loved ones to dwell on a state of limbo or suspended grief. In this vein, artistic activism and community search and rescue become essential modes for coping and mourning. Such social activism, exercised by community members and families of the disappeared, extends across geopolitical barriers on both the northern side and southern side of the border. Prior to UCLA, Adelaida studied at Nevada State College (NSC) from 2015 to 2019, where she graduated with a B.A. in English Literature and departmental honors. Her honors thesis titled, “Narrative Crossings: Weaving Transnational Identity through Border Storytelling in Caramelo and Señales que precederan el fin del mundo," focused on taking a comparative approach that analyzed a border text produced in the US and another in Mexico. In doing so, her research discovered that while there is a popularized discourse surrounding border narratives produced in the US, the inclusion of border texts produced at the southern side of the Mexico-US border is absent. In addition to researching, Adelaida has experience working as a mentor and course assistant of undergraduate students. She is passionate about mentoring and supporting first-generation college students in the literature classroom by creating dynamic workshops, one-on-one meetings, and facilitating her students’ learning of the content and writing taught in class. |
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