- Shakespeare, As You Like It

Elizabeth Lagresa received her BA in Comparative Literature and Economics International Area Studies (Concentration: Europe) from the University of California, Los Angeles.  She is currently a first-year MA student in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara.  Elizabeth's research interests include Spanish, English and Italian early modern literature, with a particular focus on Spanish Baroque and colonial Latin American literature.  Some of the topics she is interested in researching are how societies/nations affirm and reshape their identity and values through literature; how gender roles developed from antiquity through the Renaissance, as exemplified through literature and the visual arts; translation studies focusing on the domain of cross-cultural communication, and how connotations (semantic, cultural, historical, etc.) and interactions of words shape the textual context of the work.