Spanish Department
Reed College
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.
Portland, OR 97202
About
Elizabeth Drumm is the John B. and Elizabeth M. Yeon Professor of Spanish and Humanities. Her area of specialization is 20th- and 211h-century Peninsular literature, from modernism in Spain through recent cultural exchange between Spain and North Africa. Her current research focuses on memory and representation in Spanish modernism and, in particular, Ramón del Valle-Inclán's "aesthetics of memory.” She recently published a partial translation of Valle-Inclán’s WWI chronicle, Midnight. Astral Vision of a Moment at War. She has published articles on Valle-Inclán, Antonio Buero Vallejo, Ignacio Amestoy and Fernando Arrabal and is the author of Painting on Stage: Visual Art in Twentieth-Century Spanish Theater, a book that explores the relationship between theatrical language and visual images.
Professor Drumm teaches Spanish language courses, literature courses on Peninsular Spanish literature including “Art after Franco,” “Spanish Migrations,” and a course on Don Quixote and narrative theory. She also teaches Reed’s interdisciplinary Introduction to the Humanities.
Education
Ph.D. Committee on Comparative Studies in Literature, University of Chicago, 1993. Dissertation: “The Comedias bárbaras of Valle-Inclán: Shifting Boundaries in Early Twentieth-Century Drama.”
Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1988.
M.A., Comparative Literature, University of Chicago, 1985.
B.A. with honors, Program of Liberal Studies, University of Notre Dame, 1983.