Carolina Ramirez Moreno

Doctoral Candidate

Carolina Ramirez Moreno is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Literature and the Critical Gender Specialization at UC San Diego. As a first generation student, Carolina received a Bachelors of Arts in Spanish, Portuguese and Chicana/o Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Before migrating to Arvin, California, a farming community in the Central Valley, Carolina grew up in el Estado de Mexico, a suburb close to Mexico City. These experiences of movement have framed her interest in the complexities of borders, gender-based violence, disappearance, memory and the construction of archives through humanistic methods. 

Carolina holds an M.A. in Literature from UC San Diego focusing on contrafeminicide movements in Latin America, particularly engaging with literature and media as developing archives and forms of resistance. Considering her current proximity to the U.S. - Mexico border, Carolina plans to center her research on the representation of immigrants, especially women and youth.

Carolina is a 2025 CCIS fellow currently working on her dissertation titled “Reversed Memory: Haunting, Trauma, and the Construction of Archives by Transnational Disappearances, Migrations and Feminicides”.