Biography

Elizabeth Marchant is Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Comparative Literature. She also serves on the Faculty Advisory Committees of the interdisciplinary programs in Latin American Studies and University Studies. She earned her doctorate in Spanish and Portuguese from NYU, master’s degrees in Latin American Studies and Spanish & Portuguese from Stanford University, and her bachelor’s degree from Smith College. Professor Marchant is the author of Critical Acts: Latin American Women and Cultural Criticism (University Press of Florida, 1999). She co-edited Comparative Perspectives on the Black Atlantic, a special issue of Comparative Literature Studies (Vol. 49, No. 2). She has served at UCLA as Chair and Graduate Vice-Chair of the Gender Studies Department, Director of the Brazil Travel Study Program, and Chair of the Latin American Studies Program on Brazil. In 2005, she won UCLA’s Distinguished Teaching Award. She teaches courses on Interdisciplinary methods in Gender Studies, Gender, race, and sexuality in Latin American literature and film, Afro-Brazilian feminism, and Feminist approaches to Contemporary Latin American Cinema.

Publications

• “Alterity and Absence: Brazilian Representations of Difference in Guimarães Rosa, Callado, and Lispector” in A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture. Ed. Sara Castro-Klaren. 
• “Feminist Insurrections: From Queiroz and Castellanos to Morejón, Valenzuela, Poniantowska and Eltit” (co-author) in A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture. Ed. Sara Castro-Klaren. 
• “Darwinism and Identity: The Survival of the Fittest in Aluísio Azevedo’s O Mulato” in Latin American and Iberian Perspectives on Literature and Medicine. Ed. Patricia Novillo-Corvalán. 
• “National Space as Minor Space: Afro-Brazilian Culture and the Pelourinho” in Minor Transnationalism, eds. Françoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shi 
• “Rereading Helena Morely’s Diary” in Mester 

Projects

• Enslavement and Counter-Memory in Brazil
• Collected Works of Lélia González