Dr Elizabeth Jacobs

Teaching Fellow
BA MA PhD Wales Photograph of Dr Elizabeth Jacobs.

Contact

Email: elj@aber.ac.uk
Office: A7
Phone: +44 (0)1970 628731

Teaching Areas

Elizabeth teaches courses in American and British Literature and literary theory at undergraduate level. She also teaches Ethnic Literature and Cultural Memory on the MA programme.



Research

Elizabeth’s main research concentrates on contemporary Ethnic American writing. She has published a monograph with Routledge on Mexican American women’s writing as well as articles in New Theatre Quarterly, The Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance, and Meridians among others. She has also reviewed for The Journal of American Studies, MELUS and Routledge ABES.  Elizabeth is currently working on a number of research-based projects including a new book that explores issues of indigeneity, gender, sexuality and environmentalism in Mexican American theatre.  Her other interests include film and visual culture.



Staff Publications

Books

Mexican American Literature: The Politics of Identity (Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature 2009) Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-36490-4 http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415544061/

Mexican American Literature: The Politics of Identity (Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature 2006) Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-54406-1

Articles

The Ecologies of Protest in the Theatre of Aztlán, The Journal of Comparative American Studies, Vol 10, No1, pp 95-107 (2012).

 Theatre on the Border in Cherrie Moraga’s The Hungry Woman A Mexican Medea (Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance 2009. Vol 1:3) 177-189. ISSN: 17536421

Cherríe Moraga and the Disruption of Psychoanalysis in Theatres of Thought: Theatre, Performance and Philosophy, Eds. Daniel Watt & Daniel Meyer-DinkGräfe, (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2008) 80-93. ISBN (10): 1-84718-424-3, ISBN (13): 9781847184245

Reasserting Ethnicity from a Feminist Perspective, The Theatrical Politics of Chicana and Chicano Identity: from Valdez to Moraga (Cambridge: New Theatre Quarterly Feb 2007) 25-35. ISSN: 0266-464X EISSN: 1474-0613

Revisiting the Second Wave: In Conversation with Mary King (Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism  Vol 7, no. 2. Spring 2007), 102-116. ISSN: 1536-6936

Mexican American Altares: Oxford Encyclopaedia of Latinos and Latinas in the US ed. Deena J. Gonzalez, (Oxford University Press July 2005) ISBN13: 9780195156003 ISBN10: 0195156005

New Mexican Narratives and the Politics of Home. (Cambridge: Journal of American Studies in Turkey  ed. Maria Herrera-Sobek, 12 Fall 2003), 39-49. ISSN 1300 - 6606

 U.S. Latino Literatures and Cultures: Transnational Perspectives, Francisco A. Lomelí and Karin Ikas (eds.) (C.Winter: Heidelberg) MELUS 27.4: 211-13. (Jan.2003) ISBN 3-8253-1065-5

 Immigration and Citizenship in the work of Helena María Viramontes and Gloria Anzaldúa. Over Here: The European Journal of American Culture, Vol.18 (3) Autumn 1999. 39-49. ISSN 0956-3105