Alba Elliott

Alba Sofia Elliott is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, studying a joint track of French and Spanish, with a secondary field in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She works at the intersection of animal studies, environmental studies, and gender studies. Her dissertation, titled “Reading Toxic Kin: New Attentions to Animals, Environment and Gender” focuses on late 20th and 21st century Francophone, Hispanic and English-language texts of sickness, scarcity, environmental toxicity and pandemic: extreme environmental events that trigger encounters between humans and the more-than-human. She studies novels and poetry collections that represent non-human animals as complex and individual characters in their own rights rather than as symbols and in which the more-than-human world is engaged with in expansive, imaginative ways. 
Alba holds a BA from Durham University (UK) in French, German, and English Literatures and an MA in Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College in French, Spanish, and English Literatures, and an MA in Romance Languages and Literatures (French and Spanish) from Harvard University.