Dr. Elizabeth Richmond Garza

Associate Professor

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Biography

Elizabeth Richmond-Garza is an Associate Professor and the UT Regents’ Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. She holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University, obtained in 1992, and has also received degrees from UC Berkeley and Oxford University. Richmond-Garza served as the Director of UT’s Program in Comparative Literature from 2001 to 2022 and was the chief administrative officer of the American Comparative Literature Association from 2002 to 2011. Her research interests include European drama, Oscar Wilde, Gothic literature, detective fiction, and aesthetic literary theory. Richmond-Garza is an affiliated faculty member with the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies and the Program in Human Dimensions of Organizations. She has been awarded several teaching honors for her multimedia approach to teaching, emphasizing strategic thinking, team building, and belongingness in the literature and fine arts. Richmond-Garza actively works with eight world languages and has published extensively on Oscar Wilde and Gothic themes in literature.

Research Interests

Courses

World Literature Foundations of Literary Theory and Criticism Contemporary Gothic Vampires and Dandies Edges of Global Modernisms

Requirements for University of Texas at Austin

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3
GRE General
TOEFL
Total
Required:79
IELTS
Overall
Required:6.5
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited institution
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