Lisa K. Perdigao, Ph.D.
ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT, HONORS COLLEGE
PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH
FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
RESEARCH INTERESTS
20th- and 21st-Century American Literature
-death, loss and recovery, entombment and exhumation
Film and Television
-embodiment, grief and mourning, adaptations, seriality
Comics and Adaptations of Comics
-death, resurrection, and regeneration in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and DC Entertainment
Young Adult Fiction
-struggle for identity and power in YA literature, films, and television series, surviving adolescence
EDUCATION
1999-2004
Northeastern University
Ph.D., English
Dissertation: “Encrypting the Body: Entombment, Exhumation, and Figuration in
Twentieth-Century American Literature”
Dr. Perdigao's work focuses on narrative ends and beginnings, specifically the representation of death and resurrection in literature, film, and television. Her first book, From Modernist Entombment to Postmodernist Exhumation (Routledge, 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 resuscitation of comics on the big and small screen.
1997-1999
Boston College
M.A., English
1993-1997
Boston College
B.A., English and Philosophy
