Elizabeth Richmond-Garza, Ph.D.
Director of Comparative Literature and Regents’ and Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin
ELIZABETH RICHMOND-GARZA is UT Regents’ and Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. She is also the Director of the Program in Comparative Literature and served as chief administrative officer of the American Comparative Literature Association from 2002-2011. She holds degrees from U. C. Berkeley, Oxford University and Columbia University and has held both Mellon and Fulbright Fellowships. She writes on Oscar Wilde, European drama, the gothic, detective stories, and literary theory. She is currently finishing a study of Oscar Wilde. She teaches theatre, aesthetics and the fine arts and works actively in eight foreign languages. Richmond-Garza’s multimedia approach to teaching has been honored by a dozen teaching awards both at the University of Texas and across the state of Texas.