People
Catherine Larson | Faculty
Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Office: Ballantine Hall 852
TEL: 855-5447
Email: larson
Education
B.A./ B.S. in Educ., 1972, University of Missouri
M.A., 1979, University of Missouri
Ph.D., 1982, University of Kansas
Specializations
- Golden Age literature (especially Comedia)
- Spanish American theater
- Gender Studies
Selected Publications
- Games and Play in the Theater of Spanish American Women. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 2004.
- Language and the Comedia: Theory and Practice. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 1991.
- Brave New Words: Studies in Spanish Golden Age Literature. Ed. Edward H. Friedman and Catherine Larson. New Orleans: UP of the South, 1996.
- Latin American Women Dramatists: Theater, Texts, and Theories. Ed. Catherine Larson and Margarita Vargas. Bloomington, IN: Indiana UP, 1999.
- La traición en la amistad / Friendship Betrayed, by María de Zayas. Ed. Valerie Hegstrom, trans. Catherine Larson. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 1999.
- "Metatheater and the Comedia: Past, Present, and Future." The Golden Age Comedia: Text, Theory, and Performance. Ed. Howard Mancing and Charles Ganelin. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue UP, 1994. 204-21.
- "Influence, Intertextuality, and Their Impact on Latin American Drama." Estreno 18.1 (1992): 28-31, 42.
Honors and Awards
- 2002 Frederic Bachman Lieber Memorial Award of Excellence in Teaching
- 2001 President's Arts and Humanities Initiative Grant, IU
- 2000 TERA (Teaching Excellence Recognition Award)
- 1998 Indiana Distance Learning Project of the Year award (for Semana Cervantina)
- 1991 FACET (Faculty Colloquium for Excellence in Teaching)
- 1984 NEH Summer Seminar, Stony Brook, NY, "Hispanic Drama: Social Contracts and Speech Acts"
