Scholarship

Adela is co-editor of Precarious Rhetorics (OSUP, 2018), author of Zines In Third Space: Radical Cooperation and Borderlands Rhetoric (SUNY Press, 2012), and co-editor of Feminist Pedagogy: Looking Back to Move Forward (JHUP, 2009).

She has served as the co-director of the Crossroads Collaborative, a Ford Foundation-funded think-and-act research, writing, and teaching collective designed for action-oriented research on youth, sexuality, health, rights, and justice. Together with graduate students, she is co-founder of Feminist Action Research in Rhetoric, FARR, a group of progressive feminist scholars committed to public scholarship and community dialogue. She served as the 2015-16 Co-Chair of the National Women’s Studies Association, NWSA, Conference. She is Editor Emeritus of Feminist Formations, and she serves on the advisory/editorial boards for QED: A Journal of GLBTQ Worldmaking, Feminist Formations, the Primavera Foundation, and the Tucson Youth Poetry Slam, a project of Spoken Futures.

Adela’s photography has appeared in Versal Journal; Edible Baja Magazine; TRIVIA journal; Proximities; Terrain; Kairos; Community Literacy Journal; and the Rasp and the Wine. It has been exhibited across the U.S.

SELECT MULTIMODAL COLLABORATIONS

aguamiel: secrets of the agave ON WATER, multimedia presentation with Jamie A. Lee (2015). Transformative Digital Humanities Conference, University of Maryland.

Fields, A., Martin, L., Licona, A.C., & the Crossroads Collaborative. (2015). “Performing Urgency: Slamming & Spitting as Critical and Creative Response to State Crisis.” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy.

Licona, A.C., & Chávez, K. (2015). “A Swarm of Vitalities / A Swarm of Affinities (experimental video),” Peitho: The Journal of the Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition.

Licona, Adela C., and Hayward, Eva S., (2014). “Trans~Waters~ Coalitional Thinking on Art + Environment: A Photo Essay in Two Parts.” Proximities and Terrain.org

Burk, Wendy and Licona, Adela C. (2012) Homenaje: An Homage to Cecilia Vicuñua, an effort to recover our senses and express the wisdom of other ways. Ephemeral installation, University of Arizona Poetry Center website.

SELECT PUBLICATION COLLABORATIONS

Licona, Adela C., and Eithne Luibhéid (2018) “The Regime of Destruction: Separating Families and Caging Children”, Feminist Formations, Volume 30, 3, pp. 45-62.

May, Vivian M. and Adela C. Licona (2018) “Together, Working: Relational Matters”, Feminist Formations, Volume 30, 3, pp. 125-49.

Martin, Londie T. and Adela C. Licona (2018). “Feeling World-Making Productions: Performances for a Livable Now and for a World Not Yet Here” in Youth Sexualities: Public Feeling and Contemporary Cultural Politics, Volume II, Ed. Susan Talburt. Praeger.

Nana Osei-Kofi, Adela C. Licona & Karma R. Chávez (2018) “From Afro-Sweden with Defiance: The Clenched Fist as Coalitional Gesture?,” New Political Science, 40:1, 137-150

Ribero, Ana M. and Adela C. Licona (2018). “Digital Artivism: A Focus on Q/T/POC Digital Environments, Cultural Productions, and Coalitional Gestures” in The Routledge Companion to Digital Writing & Rhetoric, Eds. Jonathan Alexander and Jacqueline Rhodes. Routledge.

Martin, Londie T. and Adela C. Licona (2018) “Remixed Literacies and Radical Cooperation at Play in a Youth-Directed Media Project.” Writing for Engagement: Responsive Practice for Social Action. Eds. Mary P. Sheridan, Megan Bardolph, Megan Faver Hartline, and Drew Holladay. Lexington Press

Martin, Londie T. and Adela C. Licona. (2018). “Remix as Unruly Play andParticipatory Method for Im/Possible Queer World-Making.” Unruly Rhetorics. Eds. Jonathan Alexander, Susan C. Jarratt, and Nancy Welch. U of  Pittsburgh Press.

Brouwer, Daniel, and Adela C. Licona (2016). “Trans(affective)mediation: Feeling Our Way from Paper to Digitized Zines.” Spec. issue on Queer Technologies. Eds. Katherine Sender and Adrienne Shaw. Critical Studies in Media Communication.

Maldonado, Marta Maria, Adela C. Licona, and S. Hendricks (2015). “Latin@ Mobilities and Immobilities in the US Heartland: Localized Instantiations of Global Mobility and Deportability Regimes.” Spec. issue on the Geographies of Mobility. Eds. Mei-Po Kwan and Tim Schwanen. Annals of the Association of American Geographers.

Licona, A.C., & Chávez, K. (2015). “Relational Literacies and their Coalitional Possibilities,” Peitho: The Journal of the Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition.

Licona, Adela C., & Gonzales, J. Sarah. (2013). “Education/Connection/Action: Community Literacies and Shared Knowledges as Creative Productions for Social Justice” in “Transdisciplinary & Community Literacies: Shifting Discourses & Practices Through New Paradigms of Public Scholarship & Action-Oriented Research,” (Licona & Russell, eds) Community Literacy Journal, 8.1.

Licona, Adela C., & Russell, Stephen T. (2013). eds. “Transdisciplinary & Community Literacies: Shifting Discourses & Practices Through New Paradigms of Public Scholarship & Action-Oriented Research,” Special Issue, Community Literacy Journal, 8.1.