Elisabeth (Liz) Russell

Professora ad honorem 

Education:

BA in German, University of Barcelona (1979)

PhD in English Literature, University of Barcelona (1985)

Research:

Women's Studies and Feminist Theories. Utopian Studies. Studies on Women and Cities. Indian Women Writers

Personal website:

http://webgrec.urv.es/webpages/tmp/ang/liz.russell.urv.cat.html

Publications:

Somnis d'Utopies (Institut Català de la Dona, Barcelona 2007); Caught Between Cultures: Women, Writing & Subjectivities (Rodopi: 2002)

Loving Against the Odds. Women's Writing in English in a European Context (Peter Lang: 2006)

Trans/Forming Utopia, Volume I: Looking Forward to the End (Peter Lang: 2009)

Trans/Forming Utopia, Volume II: The Small Thin Story (Peter Lang: 2009)

"From Embodied Spaces to Disembodied Places: Manjula Padmanabhan's Harvest and Escape". In Isabel Carrera Suárez (ed.) Reading Transcultural Cities (English Studies Series / Col·lecció Estudis Anglesos, Universidad de las Islas Baleares: 2012) pp.149-171.

"Utopian Studies in Spain" in: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/utopianstudies.27.3.0480

"Escape / Landscape / Genderscape: No Futures for Women". In Monica Germana and Aris Mousoutzanis (eds.) Apocalyptic Discourse in Contemporary Culture. Post-Millenium Perspectives on the End of the World (London: Routledge)

"Wayward Girls and Wonder Women: Utopian Dreams and Dystopian Nightmares". In Barton C. Hacker, Joanne Paisana, et al (eds.) Connecting Women. National and International Networks during the Long Nineteenth Century (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Scholarly Press: 2021) pp.123-146

"War Zones and Dystopian Imaginaries". In Utopian Imaginaries, Echinox Journal, Volume 46 (Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2024) pp.196-206.

"Scottish Ballads or Muckle Sangs". In Magi Sunyer (ed.) La Balada. Dels trobadors al romanticisme, del folklore a la postmodernitat (Estudis Catalans, 13: Edition Reichenberger, Kassel: 2024) pp.47-66.