Carolina Ramirez Moreno

Summer Session 2 2025:
LTAM 110 - Latin American Literature in Translation

Carolina Ramirez Moreno is a first generation PhD student in Literature and the Critical Gender Specialization. Carolina grew up in el Estado de Mexico and during her teenage years moved to Arvin, California, a farming community in the Central Valley. She considers both places home.

Carolina focuses on Chicanx/Latinx border literature and media. Her interdisciplinary work examines feminist studies, performance, art, and Latin American popular culture from the nineteenth century to the present. Carolina enjoys writing poetry and watching films.

• “La Diva del Bronx: Scopophilia, Counter-Gazes, and Feminist Latinidades in the Artistic Career of Jennifer Lopez”. Richard Macksey Journal, Johns Hopkins. Vol. 2, Issue 1, 2021.  LINK 
• “Mujeres poderosas”. Sorodidad poética: Las Musas,Chihuahua, Mexico. (Presented at the Festival Internacional Nuestras Luchas in Lille, France from October 17-23, 2022).
• “Mi viejito” / My old man. UCSB Vagabond Literary Journal, pg. 33. 2021.
• “Aquí en la mitad” / Here in the Middle. UCSB Vagabond Literary Journal, pg.32. 2019.

• B.A. in Spanish, Portuguese, and Chicana and Chicano Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2021