Dona M. Kercher, Professor of Spanish
DONA M. KERCHER
Professor of Spanish (1992)
Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Cultures
Chairperson of the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Cultures
Phone: 508-767-7305
Email: dkercher@assumption.edu
B.A., University of Michigan; German/Spanish, 1972
M.A., The Johns Hopkins University; Spanish, 1975
Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University; Spanish, 1980
Ph.D. Thesis Title: “Strategies of Censorship: Critical Readings of Four of Quevedo’s “Sueños”
Sample of Courses Taught
Undergraduate: Cinematic Cities, Latin American Cinema, Twentieth-Century Spanish Fiction
Sample of Publications
Kercher, Dona M. “Children of the European Union, Crossing Gendered Channels: Javier Marias’s Novel, Todas las almas, and Gracia Querejeta’s Film, El último viaje de Robert Rylands.” Cine Lit III: Essays on Hispanic Film and Fiction. Portland, OR: Portland S.U., (1998): 100-112.
Kercher, Dona M. “Marketing Cervantine Magic for a New Global Image of Spain.” Refiguring Spain: Cinema/ Media/ Representation. Ed. Marsha Kinder, Chapel Hill, NC: Duke U.P., (1997): 98 132.
Kercher, Dona M. “The ‘Magical Episodes’ of the Quijote on Film: Gutiérrez Aragón’s Maravillas.” Cine-Lit II: Essays on Hispanic Film and Fiction. Portland, OR: Portland S.U., Oregon S.U. & Reed C., (1995): 86-95.
Faculty Development Grant Recipient, 2007
Latin Hitchcock
Sample of Presentations
“Dance Move-Ease: After-images of the New Global Body.” Media Industries and the Global Popular: Marketing the Transnational City, Society for Cinema Studies Conference , Florida Atlantic U., West Palm Beach , FL, April 1999.
“Massive Fear Between Horror and Humor: Tracing a Goyesque Tradition of Violence in Alex de la Iglesia’s Film, Día de la Bestia.” Fear: Discourses of the Unknown, First Annual Conference on Hispanic Literatures and the Visual Arts, University of Connecticut, March 1999.
“On the Ellipse of Satanic Comedy: Tracing a Goyesque Tradition of Violence in Alex de la Iglesia” Film Día de la Bestia (1995), Conference of La Sociedad Internacional de Estudios sobre el humor Luso-Hispano, sponsored by Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, October, 1998.
