Melba I. Amador Medina is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Spanish at Penn State New Kensington, where she teaches the beginning and intermediate courses of Spanish, along with the Ibero-American Civilization class. She studied at the University of New Mexico and her doctoral research examines gender, race, and identity in the work of three Caribbean women writers writing in English from the United States. With a working title of Violent Bodies: Memory and Identity in the Narrative of Three Latina Caribbean Writers, her work examines racialized bodies, in particular women’s bodies, the preconceived notions of race and ethnicity that surround us, and how memory fails at creating an accurate depiction of not just events, but also of home. Home is seen as the place these women came from, their home countries, but also their physical homes, and their bodies as a symbolic home. Her current interests include the interactions between Latinx and Chicanx writers and their counterparts in the fine arts, in particular contemporary printmakers and performance artists.