Overview
Elisabetta holds a BA in Foreign Languages and Literatures from the University of Parma (IT), during which she studied abroad at the University of Alcalá (SP) and at Boston College (USA). She earned an MA in Peninsular and Latin American Literature from the University of Colorado Boulder, where she also taught Spanish for two years. Her research focuses on animal labor in Latin American cultural production, examining how representations of working animals in literature and the arts reshape our understanding of human–animal relationality. By analyzing animals through the lens of labor, she highlights the unique ways working contexts reveal interspecies dependencies and challenge traditional divisions between humans and non-humans. Her broader interests include animal studies, ecocriticism, and posthumanism.
Classes Taught
- SPAN1210
- SPAN 2090
- SPAN 3020
- ITAL 1210
- ITAL 1220
Publications
Selected Publications
“Desde Hernández hasta Haraway: Gaucho y Caballo como Companion Species.” Vernacular, vol. 7, no. 1, 2022. Read here
“Comala, Capitaloceno, y Comunidad: Los Monstruos de Pedro Páramo.” In Casas Tomadas: Monsters and Metaphors on the Periphery of Latin American Literature and Media. Vernon Press, 2025. Read here