Elena Castro
استاد · Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Spanish Peninsular Literature
Louisiana State Universityمعرفی
Elena Castro is a Professor of Spanish at Louisiana State University (LSU), affiliated with the College of Humanities & Social Sciences. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin (2001). Her research focuses on 20th/21st-century Peninsular poetry, gender/sexuality studies, and transnational feminist approaches to Hispanic literatures. She has held prestigious fellowships including SEC Academic Leadership Development Program (2017-2018) and multiple LSU research grants. Dr. Castro has published widely in queer literary criticism, including books like Poesía lesbiana queer (2014) and Cos Textual-Sexual (2012).
Education: Ph.D. in Spanish, University of Texas at Austin, 2001.
Research highlights include analyzing queer poetics, LGBTQ+ representation in contemporary Spanish literature, and intersections of gender with national identity. Her work bridges literary analysis with activism, addressing historical memory (e.g., Francoism) and postcolonial perspectives. She has organized major lectures series like the Trans Lives Lectures (2017) and secured grants to bring prominent scholars like Jack Halberstam to LSU.
Awards include LSU’s Most Accommodating Faculty Award (2003) and Victoria Urbano Prize (1999). Her teaching spans advanced Spanish literature courses and queer studies seminars, including groundbreaking topics like ‘Global Trans: Conversations on Bodies and Borders’ and ‘Queering the Transnational.’
Keynote engagements include the 2019 Queeramics Symposium (LSU) and multiple invited lectures in Spain on queer literary history. She co-edits the Letras Femeninas journal’s special issues on gender and nationhood.
