Elizabeth Scarlett

[1][2] She was a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant in 1983–84 in Carcassonne, France, and was an exchange student in 1988–89 at the University of Seville, Spain.

[3] The Cervantes Institute lists her among the major figures in Hispanic studies in the United States.

[5] Her second sole-authored book is Religion and Spanish Film: Luis Buñuel, the Franco Era, and Contemporary Directors (University of Michigan Press, 2014).

She also co-edited (with Howard B. Wescott) the collection Convergencias Hispánicas: Selected Proceedings and Other Essays on Spanish and Latin American Literature, Film, and Linguistics (Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs, 2001).

[6] She has published numerous critical essays in refereed journals and peer-edited volumes in North America and in Europe.

[8] Her work on film "combines auteurist study with genre analysis" and accentuates the persistence of Catholic imagery and themes in Spanish cinema.

[9] • "Martyrs and Saints of the Spanish Civil War Era: Enshrinement of the Right and Historical Memory."

Religion and Spanish Film: Luis Buñuel, the Franco Era, and Contemporary Directors.