Elizabeth Scarlett
Associate Professor
Office: 929 Clemens Hall
Phone: (716) 645-2191 x 1197
Email: scarlett@buffalo.edu
Website: Personal site
Degrees
- A.B. from Washington University in St. Louis
- A.M. from Harvard University
- Ph.D. from Harvard University
Areas of Specialization
- Late 19th-century through 20th- and 21st-century Spanish narrative, poetry and drama, Women authors, Film Studies, Contemporary Spanish culture studies
Selected publications
- "Not Your Father's Rock and Roll: Listening to Writers of the Transition/Eighties and Generation X." Generation X Rocks: Contemporary Peninsular Fiction, Film, and Rock Culture. Ed. Christine Henseler and Randolph Pope. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2007. Pages 97-111.
- "Rosa Chacel." Dictionary of Literary Biography. Volume 322: Twentieth-Century Spanish Fiction Writers. Ed. Marta Altisent and Cristina Martínez Carazo. Detroit: Bruccoli Layman Clark and Thomson Gale, 2006. Pages 80-86, and online under UB library databases.
- "The Arab/Islamic Other in the Fiction of Cristina Fernández Cubas." Mapping the Fiction of Cristina Fernández Cubas. Edited by Kathleen M. Glenn and Janet Pérez. Newark, Delaware: University of Delaware Press. 2005. Pages 82-98.
- "Victors, Villains, and Ghosts: Filmic Intertextuality in Marías's Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí." Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 28.2 (Winter 2004): 391-410.
- "Manuel Vásquez Montalbán's Galíndez: The Maze of History and the Prism of Theory." In Convergencias Hispánicas: Selected Proceedings and Other Essays on Spanish and Latin American Literature, Film, and Linguistics. Ed. Elizabeth Scarlett and Howard B. Wescott. Newark, Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs, 2001. pp 27-35.
- "La crítica feminista en el hispanismo, la recepción feminista de Rosalía de Castro, y la melancolía femenina en las orillas del Sar." El hispanismo en los Estados Unidos: Discursos críticos/prácticas textuales. Ed. José M. del Pino and Franscisco la Rubia-Prado. Madrid: Visor, 1999. pp 91-109.
- "Mapping the Cartas marruecas: Geographical, Cultural, and Gender Coordinates." Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 33.1 (January 1999): 65-83.
- "Antonio Machado's Fountains: Archeology of an Image." MLN 113.2 (Spring 1998): 305-323.
- Under construction: The Body in Spanish Novels. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1994.
Frequently Taught Courses:
- SPA 302: Introduction to Spanish Literature Part 2
- SPA 408: History of Spanish Cinema
- SPA 624: Twentieth-Century Spanish Novel
- SPA 210: How to Read a Spanish Text
- SPA 532: Literary Analysis and Bibliography