Full-Time Spanish Faculty

Austin, Elisabeth (2007)
Assistant Professor. B.A., College of William and Mary (1996); Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (2006)
E-mail address: elaustin@vt.edu
Office Address: 307 Major Williams Hall
Office Phone: (540) 231-8304

Elisabeth L. Austin is an Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Virginia Tech. Her research explores issues of subjectivity, exemplarity, authority, and gender in late 19th-century Latin American narrative. She has published on Cuban literature in the Latin American Literary Review, and is currently working on an article examining subjectivity in a 19th-century cookbook of multiple authorship, as well as a book manuscript provisionally entitled Ambivalent Examples: The Multiple Subjects of Nineteenth-Century Spanish American Narrative. She teaches Spanish language and Hispanic culture and literature, including seminars on themes such as monstrosity, corporality, and the femme fatale in 19th- and 20th-century Spanish American literature.


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