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 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 Spanish American narrative. She has published on Spanish American culture and literature in the Latin American Literary Review, the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, and the Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos. She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Exemplary Creole Subjects: Narrating Ambivalence in Nineteenth-Century Spanish America. She teaches Spanish language and Hispanic culture and literature, including seminars on themes such as monstrosity and gender in 19th- and 20th-century Spanish American literature.


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