Elisabeth L. Austin
Elisabeth L. Austin, Associate Professor of Spanish

Department of Modern and Classical Langauage and Literatures
307 Major Williams Hall
220 Stanger Street
Blacksburg, VA 24061
540-231-6739 | elaustin@vt.edu
Elisabeth L. Austin is an associate professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures.
- 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.
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