Dr. Elizabeth Russ

Dr. Elizabeth Russ is an Associate Professor of Spanish and the Chair, World Languages and Literatures, at Southern Methodist University. She has published scholarly articles on Dominican and Dominican American writers, transnationalism, and trans-American literary themes and tropes, among other topics. Her book, The Plantation in the Postslavery Imagination (Oxford University Press, 2009), examines the plantation, that physical place most vividly associated with slavery in the Americas. Dr. Russ is currently working on a second book, which analyzes representations of gender, race, and national identity in 20th-century literature written by women from the Dominican Republic.

Event: Reading the World: How to Read More Inclusively From a Global Literary Canon