Richmond - Garza, Elizabeth M.
Associate Professor

Education: Ph.D. Columbia 1992
Office Location: PAR 119
Office Hours: T 11:00-12:30, Th 3:30-5:00
Phone: (512) 232-5708
emrg@mail.utexas.edu

Research Interests: Dr. Richmond-Garza lists among her academic interests the following: Nineteenth and twentieth century European drama, Renaissance drama, Oscar Wilde, the Gothic and Orientalism, decadence, aesthetic and literary theory, literature and the fine arts.

Recent Publications: Forgotten Cites/Sights: Interpretation and the Power of Classical Citation in Renaissance English Tragedy (New York: Peter Lang, 1994).

This study argues for the importance of classical citations, ranging from direct quotations to invocations of theories of interpretation, for Renaissance English tragedy. After an account of tragic spectacle and the role of the imagination in the works of Aristotle and Seneca, the study presents close readings of the political, philosophical, and theatrical implications of the reappropriation of such material for several Renaissance English plays that are particularly concerned with visual epistemology, including the neo-Latin academic tragedy Perfidus Hetruscus, Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great, Parts I and II, and William Shakespeare's Coriolanus.


'Like a Woman Rising from a Tomb': Salome, Cleopatra and Victorian Egypt,'' The Globalization of Shakespeare in the Nineteenth Century Shakespeare. Ed. Krystyna Kujawinska and John Mercer. (Mellen, 2003). 217-34.

''Concentrating on and in Literature.'' PMLA 117(3) (May 2002). 506- 509.

''The Vampire's Gaze: Gothic Performance in Theory and Practice.'' The Comparatist. 22(1998). 91-109.

''The Canon of Theory: Report on an Institutional Case,'' with Katherine Arens Comparative Literature Studies 34 (4) (1997). 392-413.

'' 'She Never Recovered Her Senses': Roxana and Dramatic Representations of Women at Oxbridge in the Elizabethan Age.'' Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts: The Latin Tradition. Ed. Barbara K. Gold, Paul Allen Miller and Charles Platter. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997. 223- 46.

Awards and Honors: Richmond-Garza's multimedia approach to teaching recently was awarded the Chad Oliver Plan II Teaching Award and the 16th annual Friar Centennial Teaching Fellowship. She was elected to the Academy of Distinguished Teachers in the spring of 2004.