Lisa Surwillo
Contact:
Pigott Hall 222
650 723 2175
surwillo@stanford.edu
Office Hours:
Tuesdays 10:30am - 12:30pm and by appointmentOVERVIEW:
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
Courses
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ILAC272B/372BAut2011-12
Analyzes the construction and deconstruction of communities and their internal and external frontiers in Iberia and Ibero-America from the early modern period to the early twentieth century by observing both historical and cultural artifacts (historical documents, novels, bibliography, etc.). Topics: the coming of nations, the making of state (or national) territory, the role assigned or taken on by immigrants, minorities and, in the American case, natives, and the persistence of areas now called borderlands or of groups now assigned to such (indeterminate) locations.
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ILAC120Win2011-12
Strategies and tactics for research and writing in the humanities; focus is on the Spanish-speaking world. How to write a research proposal; how to conduct research online and in the library; annotated bibliographies; bibliographical essays; rhetorical strategies; and common logical fallacies.
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ILAC319Win2011-12
Students in this course will read theater works from the Spanish repertoire across several centuries with critical attention to the architectural and theoretical spaces in which they were and are performed.
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ILAC130Spr2011-12
The historical dynamics, linguistic plurality, and social complexity of the Iberian world. Topics include: empire, independence Civil war; republicanism; the crisis at the end of the century: the year 98; the civil war; dictatorships, Franco, and Salazar. Major figures include Larra, Esproceda, Béquer, Rosalía de Castro, Verdaguer, Galdós, Maragall, Unamuno, Valle-Inclán, Machado, and Lorca.
