Catherine Wood Lange
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies

romance languages and literatures

Coordinator of Intermediate Spanish

Academic Degrees

Ph.D. State University of New York at Stony Brook; M.A., B.A., Boston College

honors and awards

Teaching and Mentoring Expense Grant, 2011, 2006.

books

Shaping the madre patria: Spanish and Argentinean Icons of the 1940s

Shaping the madre patria: Spanish and Argentinean Icons of the 1940s: Saarbrüchen, Germany: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2008.

recent articles

Wood Lange, Catherine. "Becoming Eva Perón: Eva Duarte's Performance in La cabalgata del circo (1945) and La Pródiga (1946). Cine-Lit VI. Essays on Hispanic Film and Fiction. Ed. Guy H. Wood. Corvallis: Cine-Lit Publications, 2008. 204-11.

Wood Lange, Catherine.  “Carmen Miranda’s Cultural Memory.” Cine-Lit 2000.  Essays on Hispanic Film and Fiction. Ed. Cabello-Castellet, George, Jaume Martí-Olivella and Guy H. Wood. Corvallis: Cooper Publishing, 2000. 32-47.

presentations

"Concha Piquer's Uniqueness in La Dolores (1940) and Filigrana (1949)." Presented at the Gynocine Conference at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, October 2011.

"A Different Model of Femininity: Concha Piquer en La Dolores (1940) and Filigrana (1949)." Memory in World Cinema Conference, San Antonio, Texas, September 2010.

"All In One: Uniting Functional Language with Culture," with Helena Alfonzo, Meghan Allen, and Tara Sujko. MAFLA Conference, Sturbridge, Massachusetts, October 2009.

"A Twofer: Culture (via Film, Text, Song) & Functional Language" with Helena Alfonzo, Meghan Allen, and Tara Sujko. The Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. New York City, April 16-18, 2009.

"Becoming Eva Perón: Eva Duarte's Performance in La cabalgata del circo (1946) and La pródiga (1946)" Cine-Lit VI Conference: An International Conference on Hispanic Film and Literature in Portland, Oregon, February 2007.

"An Icon is Born: Eva Perón in the Noticiarios Documentales Cindematográficos (NO-DO)" 3rd Romance Languages Film Symposium at Wake Forest University on October 13, 2006.

"A Tale of Two First Ladies: Eva Perón and Carmen Polo de Franco in the Noticiarios Documentales Cinematográficos (NO-DO)" Presented at the Cultural Studies Association at the University of Arizona, April 2005.

Boston College
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Lyons Hall 307A
140 Commonwealth Avenue
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

Phone: 617-552-6451
FAX: 617-552-2064
Email: catherine.wood@bc.edu

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