Adela Ramos

Additional Titles/Roles

• Coordinator of the Digital Humanities Lab

Education

• Ph.D., English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, 2010
• M.A., English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, 2004
• B.A., English Language and Literature, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), 2001
• Diploma, Translation Studies, El Colegio de México, Mexico City, 1998-2000

Areas of Emphasis or Expertise

• Eighteenth-Century British Literature
• Critical Animal Studies
• Ecofeminism
• Women's and Gender Studies
• Critical Race Studies
• Genre and The History of the Novel
• Digital Humanities
• Border Literature

Books

• Reading Literary Animals: Medieval to Modern Chapters “The Hunting of the Hare: Female Virtue and Companionate Marriage in Henry Fielding’s Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones” (Routledge 2019) : View Book
• Jonathan Swift y el archipiélago de los espejos. Homenaje a 350 años de su nacimiento Chapters “La Hospitalidad del Caballo: El ser y el otro en Los viajes de Gulliver de Jonathan Swift,” (UNAM 2019) : View Book

Selected Presentations

• American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Cultivated Minds and Colonized Bodies, Denver, Colorado (March 2019)
• American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Crusoe's Cat's: The Trouble with Reproduction in Defoe's *Robinson Crusoe*, Orlando, FL (March 2018)
• Swift 250 Años, The Hospitality of Horses: Self-Stranger Relationships in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, Mexico City, MX (April 2017)
• American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, “This Admirable Machine: Mousers and Mousetraps in William Guthrie’s The Life and Adventures of a Cat”, Minneapolis, MN (March 2017)
• American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, “Like Rational Creatures': Animal Rights and Women’s Rights in Mary Wollstonecraft’s Original Stories and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman", Los Angeles, CA (March 2015)
• Reading Animals, University of Sheffield, “An Animal of a Different Species: Hares, Women, and Anthropomorphism in Henry Fielding’s Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones”, Sheffield, UK (July 2014)
• Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of Indiana, “His Dignity as an Ambassador’: Exotic Pets and Reciprocity in Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda”, Bloomington, IN (May 2014)
• Pride and Prejudices, “Species Thinking: Animals, Women, and Literary Form in Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, Chawton House, Alton, UK (July 2013)

Selected Articles

• "Species Thinking: Animals, Women, and Literary Tropes in Mary Wollstonecraft's *A Vindication of the Rights of Woman*." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature Vol. Vol. 37, 2018: 41-66.
• "The Goddess Coatlicue: Femicide and Environmental Renewal in Homero Aridjis' *La leyenda de los soles*." The Battersea Review Vol. Vol. 2, 2016:

Accolades

• Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education Faculty Research Grant, AY 2018-2019
• Faculty Excellence Award in Teaching, 2016-2017 Pacific Lutheran University
• Fellow, Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI), University of Victoria, June 2017
• Wiancko Foundation Fellowship Student-Faculty Summer Research, 2016 with Clay Snell
• Fellow, Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI), University of Victoria, June 2016
• Kelmer-Roe Student-Faculty Research Award Recipient, AY 2015-2016 with Clay Snell
• Fellow, Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria, June 2015
• Karen Hille Phillips Regency Advancement Award, 2013
• Whiting Foundation Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2009

Biography