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Graduate Research Assistant
English and Comparative Literature

X. Ramos-Lara (she/they) is a doctoral student in the Department of English and Comparative Literature. Her research is an altar for the living ghosts of the AIDS epidemic, examining the ways in which HIV+ Black and Latinx queer poets wrote about desire, queer embodiment, violence, and communal solidarity through death. In her spare time, X. enjoys writing poetry and reading critical theory.