Department ofEnglish

Eighteenth-Century British Literature

Critical Animals Studies

Gender

Genre and The History of the Novel

World Literature and Immigration

Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, 2010

M.A. in English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, 2004

B.A. in English Language and Literature, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), 2001

Diploma in Translation Studies, El Colegio de México, Mexico City, 1998-2000

Adela Ramos was born in Mexico City.  Her teaching emphases include the British eighteenth-century literature, which is her main area of expertise, critical animal studies, and the contemporary debate over immigration in world literature.  She also teaches Writing 101 for the First Year Experience Program. Her research traces how eighteenth-century writers engage the modern concept of species as a powerful means of re-ordering relations among humans and animals, women and men, and racial others.