Santa Clara University

Gloria Elsa Li, Ph.D.

Department: Modern Languages
Title: Senior Lecturer in Spanish

Office: Bannan 324
Phone: 408-554-4081



Email: gli@scu.edu

Gloria Elsa Li was born and raised in Perú, and graduated from the University of Trujillo with a B.A. in Philosophy and Social Sciences.  She obtained her M.A. from the University of Arizona with a major in Golden Age Spanish Literature and a minor in Portuguese Literature. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1995 with a major in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature, and minors in Golden Age Spanish Literature and Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature. 

She has been teaching at Santa Clara University since 1979, and has also taught at Stanford University, San José State University, and the University of Arizona.

• Elementary Spanish
• Intermediate Spanish
• Advanced Spanish
• Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature
• Contemporary Latin American Short Story

• Generation of 1898
• Vicente Blasco Ibáñez’s novels of social protest
• Jorge Luis Borges’s short stories
• Rubén Darío and Modernist poetry

Gloria Elsa Li, La expresión artística en las novelas de protesta social de Vicente Blasco Ibáñez.  Trujillo, Perú: Universidad Nacional de Trujillo Press, 1999.