Dr. Elizabeth Lagresa-González is an Assistant Professor and Associate Head of Romance Studies at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. She holds a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University and was a fellow at the Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies (Villa I Tatti), Freie Universität Berlin (Global Humanities) and Penn State University (Depts. of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies).

Her research focuses on early modern Spanish literature and culture, which she addresses at the intersection of gender, visual, cross-cultural and material studies.

She has published articles in Cervantes Bulletin, Romance Notes, Comitatus and eHumanista, as well as a critical edition and English translation of Bernat Metge’s Lo Somni/The Dream. She has also co-edited a forthcoming special volume on “Economy and Literature in Spain and beyond: from the Middle Ages to the Present” for the Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos. Her monograph, tentatively titled, “The Business of Romance: Reappraising Cross-Cultural Transactions in Early Modern Spanish Novellas,” examines the transculturation of monetary objects and female subjects across national and disciplinary borders.

In 2022 she received a SSHRC Insight Development Grant for a project titled “Re-Imagining the Spanish Novella: Cross-Cultural Encounters in Early Modern Fiction by Women (1635-1700).” She was also awarded the Hampton New Faculty Research Grant and SSHRC Exchange Grant.

Interests

• Early Modern Literature and Culture
• Cross-Cultural Studies
• Gender and Sexuality Studies
• Theatre Studies
• Visual and Material Culture

Current research project

Re-Imagining the Spanish Novella: Cross-Cultural Encounters in Early Modern Fiction by Women (1635-1700). SSHRC Insight Development Grant, 2022-2025.

Edited Volume

“Economy and Literature in Spain and beyond: from the Middle Ages to the Present.” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos. Co-edited with Raúl Álvarez Moreno. 47.1 (Proposal accepted June 2021; Publication forthcoming 2024).

Critical Edition and Translation

Bernat Metge. Lo Somni / The Dream of Bernat Metge (trans. and ed. with Prof. Antonio Cortijo Ocaña). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2013.

Reviews: Crítica Hispánica 35.2 (2013): 164-69; Estudis Romànics 36 (2014): 430-31; Revista de Lengua y Literatura Catalana 19 (2014): 361-62; International Journal of the Classical Tradition 22.1 (2015): 140-43.

Peer-Reviewed Articles and Chapters

“Transgresión de lo familiar: La virgen-madre y la (a)sexualidad en La Tía Tula.” Romance Notes 63.1 (2023): 193-202.

“Cervantes’ Defense of ‘Cosas Humildes’: Rendering the Lowly through Pictorial and Literary Cross-Contamination in the Prologue to the Novelas Ejemplares.” Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America 42.2 (2022): 171-200.

“Representing Power: The Tragicomic Performance of Private and Public Selves in Lope de Vega’s El castigo sin venganza.” Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 48 (2017): 133-159.

“Monstruos de la naturaleza: violencia y feminidad en La varona castellana de Lope de Vega.” eHumanista: Journal of Iberian Studies 17 (2011): 99-133.

“A Packe/Of Spanish Lyes,/Sent Abroad In/The World, 1588.” Introduction and transcription, co-authored with Prof. Antonio Cortijo Ocaña. eHumanista: Journal of Iberian Studies. Spanish Black Legend (June 2010).

“Interdisciplinary Knowledge Work: Digital Textual Analysis Tools and Their Collaboration Affordances” (chapter co-authored with Jessica C. Murphy, Jeff Scheible, and Monica Bulger) in Collaborative Approaches to the Digital in English Studies. Ed.Laura McGrath. Computers and Composition Digital Press/Utah State University Press, 2011. http://ccdigitalpress.org/ebooks-and-projects/cad

Book Reviews

The Marvellous and the Miraculous in María de Zayas. Sander Berg. Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 44.2 (2020): 529-31. Published Nov. 26, 2021.

Cervantes’s Exemplary Novellas, ed. and trans. Michael Harney. The Sixteenth Century Journal 38.1 (2017): 230-1.

The Poetics of Piracy: Emulating Spain in English Literature, Barbara Fuchs. Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 45 (2014): 247-50.

Narcissism and Suicide: in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries, Eric Langley. Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 42 (2011): 259-61.

Women, Armies, and Warfare in Early Modern Europe, John A. Lynn II. eHumanista: Journal of Iberian Studies 14 (2010): 276-9.

The Drama of the Portrait: Theater and Visual Culture in Early Modern Spain, Laura R. Bass. eHumanista: Journal of Iberian Studies 15 (2010): 402-5.

Marriage and Violence: The Early Modern Legacy, Frances E. Dolan. Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 40 (2009): 279-81.

La Convivencia en las Ciudades Medievales, ed. Beatriz Bolumburu and Jesús Telechea. Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 40 (2009): 274-6.

Grants

• UBC PhD CoLab, UBC Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies Co-applicant (79k) 2024-2026
• UBC VP Research & Innovation Scholarly Publication Fund (1.5k) 2023
• SSHRC Insight Development Grant (50k) 2022-2026
• SSHRC Exchange Grant: Arts International Conference Travel Grant (2k) 2022
• Bridge Funding, UBC Office of the Vice-President of Research and Innovation (5k) 2021
• Hampton Fund Research Grant UBC (10k) 2020-2022

Fellowships

• Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, The Pennsylvania State University 2017-2019
• Postdoctoral Interdisciplinary Scholar of Global Humanities, Freie Universität 2017
• Villa I Tatti, Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies, Graduate Visiting Fellow 2014
• Harvard Merit Award Fellowship 2013
• Jacob K. Javits Fellowship 2009-2013
• Bill and Melinda Gates Millennium Scholar 1999-2002

Teaching

• Harvard Teaching Prize (2017) – Awarded for excellence in teaching Spanish by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard.
• Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching (2012, 2014, 2016) – Awarded by the Harvard Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning and the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Education at Harvard.

Other

• UBC Green College Leading Scholar 2019-2021
• Faculty Associate – Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice 2020-2023
• Affiliated Faculty – Centre for European Studies 2022-ongoing
• Faculty Associate – Global Premodern Research Cluster 2019-ongoing

Currently accepting graduate students for supervision.