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Lisa K. Perdigao

Emeritus Faculty | College of Psych. and Liberal Arts - School of Arts and Communication

Educational Background

B.A. Boston College 1997
M.A. Boston College 1999
Ph.D. Northeastern University 2004

Professional Experience

Dr. Perdigao teaches courses in American and British literature, children鈥檚 and adolescent literature, cultural studies, film, and television. She received the Andrew W. Revay Jr. Award for Excellence in Service in 2019, the Charles E. Helmstetter Award for Excellence in Research in 2014, the Kerry Bruce Clark Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2008, and the Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society Excellence in Teaching Award in 2005.

Selected Publications

Books

From Modernist Entombment to Postmodernist Exhumation: Dead Bodies in Twentieth-Century American Fiction. Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2010.

Death in American Texts and Performances: Corpses, Ghosts, and the Reanimated Dead. Ed. Lisa K. Perdigao and Mark Pizzato. Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2010.

Articles and Essays

鈥溾楴ot everyone's cut out for Hollywood鈥: 鈥楾he Iron Ceiling鈥 in Marvel鈥檚 Agent Carter.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Women in STEM on Television: Critical Essays, ed. Ashley Lynn Carlson. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2018. 102-119.

鈥#ITSALLCONNECTED: Assembling the Marvel Universe.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Assembling the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Essays on the Social, Cultural and Geopolitical Domains, ed. Julian C. Chambliss, William L. Svitavsky, and Daniel Fandino. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2018. 52-63.

鈥溾業 must become something else鈥: The Evolution of The CW鈥檚 Arrow.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Arrow and Superhero Television: Essays on Themes and Characters of the Series. Ed. James F. Iaccino, Cory Barker, and Myc Wiatrowski. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017. 11-26.

鈥淎 Home at the End of the World: The Future of Domesticity in the Whedonverse.鈥&苍产蝉辫;At Home in the Whedonverse: Essays on Domestic Place, Space and Life. Ed. Juliette Kitchens. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017. 182-197.

鈥淭he Lazarus Phenomenon: Resurrecting the Green Arrow.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Studies in Popular Culture 39.1 (2016): 81-99.

鈥淓lusive Particles.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Boston Review 25 May 2016.

鈥溾業n Extremis鈥: Unnatural Selection in Lifetime鈥檚 Speculative Fictions.鈥&苍产蝉辫;The Lifetime Network: Essays on "Television for Women" in the 21st Century. Ed. Emily Witsell and Emily L. Newman. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2016. 95-115.

鈥淏ecoming the Stories: Indefinite Play in Big Fish.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Tim Burton: Essays on the Films. Ed. Johnson Cheu. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2016. 86-101.

鈥溾楾he dream has become their reality鈥: Infinite Regression in Christopher Nolan鈥檚 Memento and Inception.鈥&苍产蝉辫;The Cinema of Christopher Nolan: Imagining the Impossible. Ed. Jacqueline Furby and Stuart Joy. NY: Columbia University Press, 2015. 120-131.

鈥淭he Intertextual Whedon.鈥 Review of Reading Joss WhedonStudies in Popular Culture 37.2 (2015): 162-165.

鈥淕ray Matter: The Malleability of Intelligence in Fringe.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Genius on Television: Essays on Small Screen Depictions of Big Minds. Ed. Ashley Lynn Carlson. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015. 59-79.

鈥淎t the 鈥榗orner of no and where鈥: River鈥檚 Unmappable Body in the Firefly/Serenityverse.鈥 Firefly Revisited: Essays on Joss Whedon鈥檚 Classic Series. Ed. Michael Goodrum and Philip Smith. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. 53-67.

鈥淕hosts in the Machine: Fringe Bodies.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Supernatural Studies 2.1 (2015): 62-74.

"'Swan Song': The Art of Letting Go in Glee." Glee and New Directions for Social Change. Ed. Brian C. Johnson and Daniel Faill. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2015. 195-206.

鈥淢icroreview: Martha Silano, Reckless Lovely.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Boston Review 27 Feb. 2015.

"Angela Hunt鈥檚 Uncanny Florida." Women of Florida Fiction: Essays on 12 Sunshine State Writers. Ed. Tammy Powley and April Van Camp. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015. 133-144.

"Advanced Introduction to Liminality: Community on the Fringe." A Sense of Community: Essays on the Television Series and Its Fandom. Ed. Ann-Gee Lee. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014. 167-179.

"'Transform, and twist, and change': Deconstrucing Coraline." The Gothic Fairy Tale in Young Adult Literature: Essays on Stories from Grimm to Gaiman. Ed. Tanya Pell and Joe Abbruscato. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014. 102-122.

"'coming undone': Entering Jorie Graham鈥檚 Poststructuralist Poetics." South Atlantic Review 77.1-2 (2012): 34-57.

"'It Aint Balanced Right鈥: Repositioning the Body in and of As I Lay Dying.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Approaches to Teaching Faulkner鈥檚 As I Lay Dying. Ed. Patrick O鈥橠onnell and Lynda Zwinger. NY: MLA, 2011. 123-135.

"'There鈥檚 really nothing left to explore': Imagineering, Innoventions, and Figments in Florida Studies." Simulation in Media and Culture: Believing the Hype. Ed. Robin DeRosa. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2011. 209-217.

"'I hear it鈥檚 best to play along': The Poststructuralist Turn in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 8.4 [32] (2011).

鈥溾楾his one鈥檚 broken鈥: Rebuilding Whedonbots and Reprogramming the Whedonverse.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies 8.2-3 [30 & 31] (2010).

"Re-membering Beloved." The Fiction and Prose of Toni Morrison: Teaching Race, Culture, and Identity. Ed. Jami Carlacio. Urbana: NCTE, 2007. 117-124.

"'the words I鈥檇 found': The Politics and Poetics of Recovery in Adrienne Rich鈥檚 Poetry." "Catch if you can your country's moment": Recovery and Regeneration in the Poetry of Adrienne Rich. Ed. William Waddell. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. 141-157.

"'I got over': Memory, Mourning, and Aesthetics in Erna Brodber鈥檚 Louisiana." Come Weep With Me: Loss and Mourning in the in the Writings of Caribbean Women Writers. Ed. Joyce C. Harte. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. 74-91.

"'Something He Could Keep': The Politics of Change in Postmodern Adolescent Literature." To See the Wizard: Politics and the Literature of Childhood. Ed. Laurie Ousley. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. 109-127.

Research

Death and resurrection in literature, film, television, and comics

Mourning and melancholia in literature, film, and television

Loss and recovery in contemporary poetry

The Marvel Cinematic Universe and the culture of convergence

Comic book adaptations in film and television

Identity politics in the Whedonverses

The struggle with language and identity in young adult (YA) literature

Florida culture in literature, film, and television

Dr. Perdigao鈥檚 research focuses on narrative ends and beginnings, specifically the representation of death and resurrection in literature, film, television, and comics. Her first book, From Modernist Entombment to Postmodernist Exhumation (Ashgate, 2010), examines the struggle with and for closure in twentieth-century American fiction. This work has expanded into other mediums as she explores resurrection and regeneration in film and television, including the reanimation of comics on the big and small screen.