Elisabeth L. Austin

• 19th-Century Spanish America
• Cultures of Reading and Writing
• Subjectivity
• Gender
• Scientific Discourse

• PhD, University of Pennsylvania
• BA, College of William and Mary

• Grant-Writing Incentive Grant, Virginia Tech, 2013
  
• Humanities Summer Stipend, Virginia Tech, 2012
• CTE (Certificate of Teaching Excellence) 2012

Books

Exemplary Ambivalence in Late Nineteenth-Century Spanish America: Narrating Creole Subjectivity (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2012)

Journal Articles

• “Natural Science and Empire in Carlos Octavio Bunge’s  `La sirena’ (1908).” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 49.2 (2015): 315-37.
• “Reading Transgression in Ricardo Palma’s Tradiciones en salsa verde.” Revista Hispánica Moderna 67.2 (2014): 127-42.
• “Darwin’s Monsters and the Politics of Race in Eugenio Cambaceres’s En la sangre.” Symposium 67.4 (2013): 175-88.
• “Insufficient Motherhood and Ideological Psychosis in Matto de Turner’s Aves sin nido.” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 34.3 (2010): 517-36.