Dr. Elizabeth Drayson

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Dr Elizabeth Drayson

Lorna Close Fellow in Spanish, Murray Edwards College
College Lecturer in Spanish, Peterhouse
Affiliated Lecturer, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Director of Studies for Part IB MML
Undergraduate Tutor

Murray Edwards College
Cambridge
CB3 0DF

Telephone: 01223 762223
E-mail: eam33@cam.ac.uk
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Elizabeth Drayson was an undergraduate at Newnham College, Cambridge, and obtained her Ph.D. in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese in the field of medieval Spanish literature. She is an Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Senior College Lecturer in Spanish at Peterhouse and New Hall/Murray Edwards College.

Elizabeth specialises in medieval and Early Modern Spanish literature and cultural history. Her publications include the first translation and edition of Juan Ruiz's Libro de buen amor to appear in England (Everyman edition), as well as essays and articles on the Libro de buen amor, Berceo and the Poema de mio Çid. She is also the author of The King and the Whore: King Roderick and La Cava, (London and New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007) which charts the cultural reception of the legend of Roderick, last Visigothic king of Spain. Current projects are a book on depictions of medieval literature and history in film, and a monograph on late-sixteenth century Granada. She is organizing the Norman MacColl Symposium in April 2011 on the subject of ‘Sites of Power: Granada as cultural icon', to be held at Clare College. Elizabeth has also written a novel The Menorah, which is based on a fictional reworking of the Libro de buen amor.