Specialization

Genders and Sexualities

Education

B.A., Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies with Latin American, Latinx and Caribbean Studies, Dartmouth College, 2023

B.A., Linguistics with Anthropology, Dartmouth College, 2023

Bio

Guadalupe Ortega is a feminist scholar and lesbian archivist pursuing a PhD in Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Their current work aims to understand how lesbian digital archives use negative affect like mourning, loss, and yearning, in archival practices and community formation. Broadly, they ask: how do emotions shape lesbian identity across generations? Guadalupe’s academic work also extends to the linguistic field.

They work with the Black Boston Speaks project where they analyze how second-generation Caribbean Americans negotiate their identity through Black and Boston dialect markers.

Guadalupe is also involved with two digital lesbian projects: Lesbians of San Diego digital community archive and Malflora Collective, a digital platform dedicated to preserving the lives and legacies of Latina/e lesbians.

Outside academia, Guadalupe enjoys jewelry making, learning new languages, astrology and personality tests, cooking, and scrapbooking.

Research

Queer kinship, community memory, lesbian aging, affect theory, lesbian feminism, San Diego/Southern California lesbian history, digital archives, queer death studies, raciolinguistics