Dr. Elvira Casal
Professor
Associate Chair

Member, Graduate Faculty

B.A., 1976, Tulane University; M.A., 1977, University of Michigan; Ph.D., 1993, Vanderbilt University. (1996)

Office: PH 323; Phone/Voice Mail: 898-2576

Dr. Casal teaches courses in 18th and 19th century British literature, ESL, the short story, the novel, and Jane Austen.

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Conference Papers

• "Dancing at the Proper Number of Balls: Courtship-Time and Woman's Position in the Novel of Manners." November 2000. Conference of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies.
• "Laughing at Mr. Darcy." October, 2000. Jane Austen Society of North America Annual Conference.
• "Communities of Fans: Jane Austen Online." March 2000. South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference. "Ladylike Leisure and Feminine Usefulness." October, 1999. Conference of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies.
• "The Making of Rebecca: Mothers in Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm." March 1999. Conference on Modern Critical Approaches to Children's Literature.
• "Known and Imagined Mothers in Northanger Abbey" October 1998. Jane Austen Society of North America Annual Conference.