Elizabeth Richmond-Garza is UT Regents’ and Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor of English at UT Austin. She served as the Director of UT’s Program in Comparative Literature (2001-21) and as chief administrative officer of the American Comparative Literature Association (2002-2011). She is affiliated faculty in the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, the Center for European Studies, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and the Program in the Human Dimensions of Organizations. She holds degrees from UC Berkeley, Oxford University and Columbia University and has held both Mellon and Fulbright Fellowships. She writes on Oscar Wilde, theatre, the gothic, detective stories, and literary theory. She teaches diversity and inclusivity through literature and the fine arts and works actively in eight world languages. Richmond-Garza’s multimedia approach to teaching has been honored by a dozen teaching awards both at UT Austin and across the state of Texas.
Students have assisted with research projects in expressive human culture, particularly in the form of library research. Students have interned, including attending graduate seminars, joining a teaching assistant team (as a non-grading member), as they make their decision about whether to pursue graduate study in the humanities.
