Associate Professor, received his Ph.D. at the University of
Cincinnati, specializing in Latin American Contemporary Narrative
and Critical Theory. His academic areas of specialization include
Latin American Literature and Culture, Film Studies, Urban Studies,
Comparative Literature and Critical Theory; particularly
Psychoanalytic theory.
Professor Lange Churión teaches Fourth Semester Spanish; Latin
American Literature I; Introduction to the Analysis of
Literarytexts; Latin American Literature II; SpanishConversation;
Senior Seminar: LatinAmerican Literature. In addition, he has
designed and taught courses on
La ciudad latinoamericana en su
cine (Senior Seminar)
Intro to Film Studies (Media
Studies),
Dante's Divine Comedy and
Borges the Readerly Writer (Saint Ignatius Institute),
Urban Spaces and Social Values in American Film and
Literature (Davis Seminar and Erasmus Project),
The Ethics
and Aesthetics of Evil (USF program in Budapest).
He has co-authored and co-edited a book,
Postmodernity in Latin
America: a Reader (Humanity Books, 2001). His article in this
volume has been singled out as an important contribution in
understanding the Neo-baroque aesthetic in Latin America and its
relation to the global discourse on Postmodernity. He has also
written a number of scholarly articles on film and Latin American
contemporary literature which he has delivered at various national
and international conferences and have subsequently been published
in diverse journals and cultural magazines, such as
INTI
(Brown University),
dissens (Tubingen),
Quimera
(Barcelona)
, El Viejo Topo (Barcelona),
Postscript, among others.
Current research includes a book manuscript: La ciudad
latinoamericana en su cine: la huella del deseo en la urbe
distópica. It explores the representation of Latin American
cities in films in terms of how these cities conflictive
relationship with modernity shapes the nature of desire in the
subjects that dwell in them.
Professor Lange has written and directed various films,
including Crocodile (USA, 2000), based on a short story by
Felisberto Hernández and achieving a Remmy Bronze award for best
dramatic adaptation at the Houston International Film Festival
(2001). He also directed Visitas (Colombia, 2005), a
full-feature narrative film that explores violence in Colombia
through three interconnected stories. This film has garnered
recognition as "Official Selection" in prestigious international
festivals: Montreal, Toronto, Austin, Chicago, Granada, Brussels,
Fribourg, Cartagena, and other capitals.
His full-feature script Cuya apariencia es la locura
was selected for the production forum in the Guadalajara
International Film Festival. He has also directed documentaries,
including Naturalezas Conflictivas (Honduras, 2004) which
aired on KRON TV in 2004. Most recently he directed Budapest:
Identity of Facades, a series of documentaries that explore
Budapest's cityscapes and architecture, informed by urban
space theory and Benjaminian cultural archeology. He also produced
experimental videos for The Urban Unseen, a multimedia
exhibit organized by the Architecture Program for the Thatcher
Gallery at USF.
