University of New Orleans
Brooks, Elaine

Brooks, Elaine

Department Chair, English & Foreign LanguagesProfessor

Biography

Areas of Expertise

  • Medieval Spanish Literature
  • Theories on Literary Aesthetics
  • 15th-Century Cancionero Poetry

Education

  • Ph.D. Spanish, University of California, Davis, September 1990
  • Dissertation: The Word Is the Sword : A Study of Language, Themes, and Rhyme in Fifteenth-century Spanish "Cancionero" Debate Poetry, director: Samuel G. Armistead.
  • M.A. Spanish, University of California, Davis, 1982.
  • B.A. with Honors in Spanish, Minor-Economics, California State University at Sacramento, December 1980