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Lisa Surwillo

Lisa Surwillo

Assistant Professor of Iberian and Latin American Cultures

Focal Groups:
    Performance

Contact:

Pigott Hall 222
650 723 2175
surwillo@stanford.edu

Office Hours:

M / F 8:45 - 9:45AM and by appointment

BIO:

Professor Surwillo teaches courses on Iberian literature, with an emphasis on nineteenth-century Spanish theater. Her research encompasses the questions of property, modernity and the individual as they are manifested by literary works, especially dramatic literature, dealing with colonial slavery, abolition and Spanish citizenship.

Surwillo is the author of The Stages of Property: Copyrighting Theatre in Spain (Toronto 2007), an analysis of the development of copyright and authorship in nineteenth-century Spain and the impact of intellectual property on theater. She is currently writing a book on depictions of slave traders in modern Spanish literature.

EDUCATION:

2002: Ph.D., UC Berkeley, Romance Languages and Literatures
1994: B.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison, Spanish and History

AFFINITY LINKS:

19th century
modern
modernity
Spanish theater
property
colonial slavery
abolition
Spanish citizenship

ILAC

Courses

  • ILAC
    225E
    Theater, Society, and Politics in 20th-Century Spain
    Spr
    2012-13

    Ramón del Valle-Inclán and Federico García Lorca. The avant garde nature of their major plays and their engagement with social and political issues of the times including feudalism, the emerging liberal state, women's protest, class struggle, and civil war. Symbolism, expressionism, and realism.

  • ILAC
    332
    Race and Slavery in Nineteenth Century Spain
    Aut
    2012-13

    An analysis of the literature written in Spain during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries dealing with the empire post 1808. Authors discussed include Blanco White, Baroja, Avellaneda, and Rusiñol, among others

  • ILAC
    218
    Anticlericalism in the Iberian Novel of the 19th Century
    Spr
    2012-13

    The rapid social and cultural changes in which 19th-century novelists wrote; the anti-clerical stance as marker of society's attempts to modernize. Why were monks and priests reviled by many Spanish novelists? How and why did they re-write Spanish history around these figures? What was the role of the church and religious men in modern society? Questions of individualism, property, and labor in novels by major Iberian prose realists. In Spanish.

  • ILAC
    120
    Advanced Critical Reading in Spanish
    Win
    2012-13

    Strategies and tactics for research and writing in the humanities; focus is on the Spanish-speaking world. Objectives: how to write a funding proposal; how to conduct research online and in the library; annotated bibliographies; literature reviews; a book review; primary research and archive skills. Students will learn how to conduct research in Iberian and Latin American Studies, improve their written skills and learn how to think in the discipline. The emphasis of the course is on skill-building while exploring topics of interest to each student. (Meets Writing-in-the-Major requirement)