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Elizabeth Osborne
Associate Professor, Director of Spanish Clinic and Placement
Elizabeth Osborne
508-929-8707 eosborne1@worcester.edu
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Areas of Expertise
Cultural StudiesGender StudiesLatin American CinemaLatin American LiteratureMemorySouthern Cone Studies

Bio

My primary research looks at memory in post-dictatorial Southern Cone film and literature, with an emphasis on Chile. Currently I am pursuing a second line of research on the representation of domestic labor in Latin American film from the 21st century.

Education
2015
Stony Brook University
Ph.D.
2015
Stony Brook University
MA
2010
Universidad de Chile
MA
2008
The George Washington University
BA

Achievements

Grant

Teaching and Learning Innovation Mini-Grant (Worcester State University)

2017 grant recipient
Grant

WSU Library Open Educational Resources Initiative Grant (Worcester State University)

Spring 2017 grant recipient
Grant

Worcester State Foundation – Office of University Advancement Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity by Faculty Grant

Spring 2019 grant recipient
Grant

Teaching and Learning Innovation Grant (Worcester State University)

2020 grant recipient

Publications

Osborne, Elizabeth. “Sounds of Absence: Aurality and Silence in Chile’s Mi vida con Carlos and <i>El eco de las canciones." Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinema, vol. 14, no. 1, March 2017, pp. 41-57.
Osborne, Elizabeth. “Resisting Reconciliation: Critical Melancholia and Collective Resentimiento in Pedro Lemebel’s De perlas y cicatrices.” Chasqui, vol. 46, no. 1, May 2017, pp. 215-227.
Osborne, Elizabeth. "Memoria en movimiento: Retorno a Villa Grimaldi en la Cueca sola y Calle Santa Fe." Hispanic Issues Online, No. 22, 2019, pp. 171-191.
Osborne, Elizabeth. “Reading and Writing Trash in Fuenzalida by Nona Fernández.” A Contracorriente (Forthcoming October 2019).
Osborne, Elizabeth. “Desiring Domestic Workers in The Maid and The Desert Bride.” Comparative Cinema. vol. 8,Fi no. 15, 2020, pp. 41-59.
Osborne, Elizabeth. “Hacia otra narrativa de memoria: Lo fantasmal y lo lúdico en La dimensión desconocida de Nona Fernández.” Partera de la historia: violencia en literatura, performance y medios audiovisuales en Latinoamérica, edited by Chrystian Zegarra and Osvaldo Sandoval-León. Editora Nómada and Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 2022, pp. 265-280.
Osborne, Elizabeth, and Sofía Ruiz-Alfaro, editors. Domestic Labor in Twenty-First Century Latin American Cinema. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020,