Spanish Department

Elizabeth Drumm

John and Elizabeth Yeon Professor of Spanish and Humanities

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Peninsular literature, translation, and literary theory.

BA 1983 University of Notre Dame.
MA 1985, PhD 1993 University of Chicago.
Reed College 1995–.

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.