Elena Villa, Ph.D.

Instructor

Education

Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of Oregon, Eugene, 2006.
Graduate Certificate, Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Oregon, Eugene, 2006.
M.A. Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1998.
B.A. French Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1990.

Field of Interest

Dance, feminist and performance theory, Francophone and Anglophone women writers, themes of self and other in 19th- and 20th-century narrative, travel writing, colonial and postcolonial literatures and theory, Orientalism, East-West relations, global cinema, cultural studies, minority cultural production, critical/theoretical intersections of race, gender, class, and the body.

Dissertation

Eloquent Flesh: Cross-Cultural Figurations of the Dancer in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature

Select Conferences

“Performance and Subjectivity: The Work of Performance Artist, Nikki S. Lee.” Objects of Comparison Symposium, Graduate Forum, University of Oregon, 2004. Presented with Shyla Osborn and Daxton Norton.

“Liminality, Conflict and Ambivalence: Productive Discomfort and the Subject Position(s) of the Comparatist.” Subjects of Comparison Roundtable,
2003-2004 Comparative Literature lecture series, Subjects and Objects, University of Oregon. Presented with Shyla Osborn