Elizabeth Wright is a head professor at the University of Georgia (United States) and holds a Doctorate in Spanish Literature from Johns Hopkins University (United States).

As a member of DICAT, directed by Teresa Ferrer, she participates in the project CATCOM. Las comedias y sus representantes. Base de datos de las comedias mencionadas en la documentación teatral (1540-1700) and in the project Patrimonio teatral clásico español: textos e instrumentos de investigación, coordinated by Joan Oleza within the 2010 Consolider-Ingenio programme, both funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation. She also directs the project Crosscurrents and Confluences: An Annotated Edition and Translation of Latin Poetry on the Battle of Lepanto (1571), funded by the US government's National Endowment for the Humanities (2010-2012).

Her research on theatre has given rise to numerous books and articles. She wrote the study Pilgrimage to Patronage: Lope de Vega and the Court of Philip III (2001) and she penned a critical edition of Los ramilletes de Madrid by Lope de Vega, which was published in Parte XI of the complete edition produced by the Prolope Group (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona). She has also studied the translations of Spanish theatre into Nahuatl in colonial Mexico, publishing several articles on the subject, and co-authored a trilingual publication, in collaboration with Louise M. Burkart and Barry D. Sell, entitled Spanish Golden Age Dramas in Mexican Translation (2008). She is currently working with classical specialists Sarah Spence and Andrew Lermons on an edition of Spanish and Italian poetry inspired by the Battle of Lepanto, which will be published by Harvard University Press in its I Tatti Renaissance Library. Wright is currently on the Editorial Board of the Bulletin of the Comediantes y de Calíope magazine.