Bio and other interests
Dr. Alina Luna
Born and raised in New Jersey, Dr. Alina M. Luna is a first generation Filipino-American whose parents came to the United States in 1967. She graduated from Russell Sage (an all women's college) in Troy, New York, having majored in English and double minored in Communications and Political Science. Dr. Luna was admitted to Albany Law School and left after realizing she was on the wrong career path. She received her Ph.D. in English from the State University of New York at Albany in 2002, and her doctoral dissertation entitled "Visual Perversity: A Re-articulation of Maternal Instinct" was published by Lexington Books in 2004.
After eight years of teaching at the college level, Dr. Luna arrived at Western State College of Colorado in 2005 and is currently Chair of the Communication Arts, Languages and Literature Dept. and Associate Professor of English. Her interests are varied (see below) and, after writing this, her new hobby will likely be referring to herself in the third person.
And, yes, at times Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen can be heard coming from her office.
Primary Interests
- 18th and 19th Century British Literature
- Greek Myth and Drama
- Marquis de Sade
- Body Studies
- Theories of Vision
- Third Wave Feminism
Secondary Interests
- Lacan
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Angela Carter
- Gothic Literature
- Literary Perversions
- Cultural Studies: Sexuality
- Maternal Psychoses
- Global Literatures
Courses taught at Western:
- Eng 494 Senior Seminar: The Fragment
- Eng 492 Independent Study: Queer Theory
- Eng 397 Special Topics: “Writings on the Body”
- Eng 374 British Literature Victorians and 20th Century
- Eng 373 British Literature Milton through the Romantics
- Eng 372 British Literature Medieval and Renaissance Texts
- Eng 370 Myth & Culture: Women & Violence
- Eng 358 Global Literatures
- Eng 248 Film as Literature / Literature as Film
- Eng 255 Ancient World Literature
- Eng 237 Women and Literature
- Eng Honors 102 Academic Writing
- Eng 102 Academic Writing
Courses taught elsewhere:
- “Mommie Dearest: Maternal Images in Literature and Culture”
- Classics of Western Literature I: Ancient Epic to Modern Drama
- Classics of Western Literature II: Ancient Epic to Modern Novel
- Growing Up in America
- The Short Story
- Reading Literature
- Reading Poetry: The Romantics
- Reading Drama
- Reading Prose Fiction
- Forms of Argumentative and Persuasive Writing
- Expository Writing
