Elizabeth Scarlett
PhD
Scholarly Interests
Modern and Contemporary Spanish Peninsular Literature and Film; Romanticism; Realism; Avant garde movements; Feminism
Education
- PhD, Harvard University
- BA, Washington University in St. Louis
Selected Publications
- “Luis Buñuel.” Oxford Bibliographies Online: Cinema and Media Studies. Ed. Krin Gabbard. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
- “The Metaphysics of Espronceda’s Romanticism in El estudiante de Salamanca.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 93.1 (2016): 46-62.
- Religion and Spanish Film: Luis Buñuel, the Franco Era, and Contemporary Directors. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014.
- “Pedro Almodóvar and the Professions: The Case of La piel que habito.” MIFLC Review 16 (2012-2014): 81-92.
- Under Construction: The Body in Spanish Novels. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1994. Selected for "Outstanding Academic Books of 1995" by the American Library Association journal CHOICE.
Courses Taught
- SPA 628: The Trans-Atlantic Dynamic in Modern Hispanic Poetry
- SPA 623: Post-War and Contemporary Spanish Novel and Film
- SPA 524: 19th Century Spanish Literature
- SPA 324: Medical and Health-Related Spanish
- SPA 409: The Age of Lorca
- SPA 408: History of Spanish Cinema
Affiliations
- Beta Nu Chapter Adviser, National Collegiate Spanish Honor Society Sigma Delta Pi
- Advisory Board, MVM: Cuadernos de Estudios Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
- MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize Selection Committee: appointed term 2020–2023
- MLA Religion and Literature Trans-disciplinary Connections Forum Executive Committee: elected term 2019–2024