Lisa Surwillo , Assistant Professor

Building 260, Room 222
650 723 2175
surwillo@stanford.edu

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. She has just received a fellowship from the Gilder Lehrman Institute in support of her study of the role played by Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin in abolition movements throughout the Spanish-speaking world. Professor Surwillo has recently completed a book that examines the development of copyright and authorship in nineteenth-century Spain and analyzes the impact of intellectual property on theater.

Interests

Nineteenth and Twentieth-century Iberian literature; Spain and its nineteenth-century empire; Spanish abolition movements and discourses around Cuban slavery; property and individualism; Larra and Spanish theater; Galdós.

Education

Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley, Romance Languages and Literatures, 2002

B.A., University of Wisconsin , Spanish, History, 1995.

Current Courses

SpanLit 140. Introduction to Methods of Literary and Cultural Analysis.
SpanLit 136. Introduction to Modern Peninsular Spanish Literature.
SpanLit 218. Spanish Realism: Priests, Prose, and Anticlericalism.
SpanLit 320. Spanish Romantic Theater: Romanticisms in Canonical and Popular Plays from 1800-1850.

Selected Publications

The Stages of Property. Forthcoming from Toronto University Press
"Representing the Slave Trader: Haley and the Slave Ship; or, Spain 's Uncle Tom's Cabin." PMLA. May 2005.
"Mendizábal, García Gutiérrez, and the Property of Spanish Theater." Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies. (2002)

Current Projects

Professor Surwillo has recently completed a study of abolitionist poetry written by Carolina Coronado, a prominent Spanish poet, influential salon hostess and wife of the American chargé d'affaires in Spain during the U.S. Civil War. Future projects include a book-length study of abolitionist literature in mid-century Spain and a study of Mariano José de Larra's theater.