Elena Gascon-Vera

Elena Gascón Vera, Professor of Spanish at Wellesley College, has a Licenciatura de Filosofía y Letras from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a M.Phil and a Ph. D. both from Yale University. Since 1973 she has been teaching at the Department of Spanish of Wellesley College where she was the Chair from 1977-84 and 1999-2003.

She is the author of Don Pedro, Condestable de Portugal (1979) and Un mito nuevo. La mujer como objeto/sujeto literario (1992). In addition, she is the co-author of Homenaje a Jorge Guillén ( I978); María Luisa Bombal. Apreciaciones críticas (1987); Nuevo cine español / New Spanish Cinema (1980); Homenaje a Justina Ruiz de Conde en su ochenta cumpleaños (1992); Signos y fábulas. Ensayos sobre Pedro Salinas (1993); Wellesley, "Unharmed Memory": Spain in Wellesley College (2002).

She has also written numerous articles on topics that range from Spanish Medieval Literature and Feminist Studies, to Spanish Postmodernism and Spanish and Mexican Cinema. She is currently working on several book-projects: "Inventio and Tragedy. 15th Century Spain and the Spirit of Empire; "Enclaves feministas; Rationality and Subjectivity;" "Women Philosophers of Spain in the 20th Century." She has been a fellow at the Minda de Gunsburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; she has been awarded research fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; the Insitituto de la Mujer de España the Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Culture and United States Universities; the Freeman Foundation of New York; and the Bernstein Fund for Global Education.