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Elizabeth Scarlett was born and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. She attended college at Washington University in St. Louis and received a doctorate from Harvard University. She has held faculty positions in the fields of literature, film, languages, and cultural studies at the University of Seville (Spain), University of Virginia, and University at Buffalo of the State University of New York, where she is Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures. Her book Under Construction: The Body in Spanish Novels was named an Outstanding Academic Book of 1995 by CHOICE, the Journal of the Association of College and Research Libraries of the American Library Association.
Prof. Scarlett's essays have appeared in journals including MLN, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, España Contemporánea, and Letras Peninsulares, as well as in edited collections including Generation X Rocks: Contemporary Peninsular Fiction, Film, and Rock Culture (Vanderbilt UP, 2007); Mapping the Fiction of Cristina Fernández Cubas (Univ. of Delaware Press, 2005); Convergencias Hispánicas: Selected Proceedings and Other Essays on Spanish and Latin American Literature, Film, and Linguistics (Juan de la Cuesta--Hispanic Monographs, 2001); and The Garden Across the Border: Mercè Rodoreda's Fiction (Susquehannah UP, 1994). She is a contributor to the Gale Research databases/volumes Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and Dictionary of Literary Biography.
