Elizabeth Davis
Professor Emeritus | Department of Spanish and Portuguese | College of Arts and Sciences
Areas of Expertise
- Infrastructure and Culture of Early Modern Spanish Travel
- Poetry and Critical Theory
- Spanish Renaissance and Baroque
- Atlantic Studies
- Mediterranean Studies
- Poetics and Political Discourses
Education
- Ph.D., Yale University (1975)
- M.Phil., Yale University (1972)
- B.A., Spanish Language and Literature, The University of Arizona (1969)
Dr. Davis’s graduate courses focus on such topics as pseudo-autobiography and the picaresque novel; theatrical culture in the time of Lope de Vega and William Shakespeare; early modern Spanish cities, particularly Seville and Madrid; transatlantic shipwreck and captivity; and “road stories” of Spain’s 16th and 17th centuries. She regularly teaches undergraduate classes on the critical reading of Hispanic texts and on the literature and culture of Renaissance and Baroque Spain. She was also the creator of a popular General Education Course on Don Quijote in English Translation.