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
- “Pedro Almodóvar’s Dolor y gloria: An Auteurist Approach to Addiction and Recovery,” forthcoming in Hispania.
- "Gender and Adaptation in the Filmic Legacy of Emilia Pardo Bazán." Bulletin of Spanish Studies, vol. 101, no. 10, 2024, pp. 1421–44.
- "Ulysses and the Spanish Novel: Religious Connections in Cela’s San Camilo, 1936 and Goytisolo’s Don Julián." The Romanic Review, vol. 116, no. 1, 2025, pp. 173–92.
- “Martyrs and Saints of the Spanish Civil War Era: Enshrinement of the Right and Historical Memory.” Rite, Flesh, and Stone: The Matter of Death in Contemporary Spanish Culture, 1959-2020. Ed. Daniel García Donoso and Antonio Cordoba. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2021. Pages 97-118.
- “RECording the End Time in Twenty-First-Century Spanish Film.” Writing in the End Times: Apocalyptic Imagination in the Hispanic World. Ed. David R. Castillo and Bradley J. Nelson. Hispanic Issues On Line (HIOL) 23 (2019): 184-205.
- “Transatlantic Musical Crossover: Miguel Bosé in the U.S.A. and Bruce Springsteen in Spain.” Imperialism and the Wider Atlantic: Essays in the Literatures, Politics and Aesthetics of Transatlantic Cultures. Ed. Francisco LaRubia-Prado and Tania Gentic. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Pages 135-156.
- “The Metaphysics of Espronceda’s Romanticism in El estudiante de Salamanca.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 93.1 (2016): 29-44.
- Religion and Spanish Film: Luis Buñuel, the Franco Era, and Contemporary Directors. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014.
- Under Construction: The Body in Spanish Novels. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1994.
Courses Taught
- 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
- University at Buffalo Gender Institute Faculty Affiliate
- Beta Nu Chapter Adviser, National Collegiate Spanish Honor Society Sigma Delta Pi
- Advisory Board, MVM: Cuadernos de Estudios Manuel Vázquez Montalbán