Recent Alumni
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Current Position |
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Ebenezer Concepción |
"Inverting (Trans)Modern Subjects: Toward A (Re)Vision of Sex, Gender, and Race in Two Novels by Alfonso Hernández-Catá (1885-1940)"
Mario Santana |
Presidential Post-Doc in Hispanic Studies, Carnegie Mellon University |
José Estrada |
"“El monstro con su figura”: Ruiz de Alarcón’s Transatlantic Self-Fashioning"
Frederick de Armas |
Assistant Teaching Professor of Hispanic Studies, Carnegie Mellon University |
Ji Gao |
"Guillaume Roville et Benoît Rigaud (1545-1597). Politiques éditoriales, contraintes économiques et ambitions culturelles en France dans la seconde moitié du seizième siècle"
Philippe Desan |
Assistant Professor, Institute of Comparative Literature, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Peking University |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Current Position |
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Juan Camilo Acevedo |
"Cortar, Copiar y Pegar: autoría y publicación en el Siglo de Oro español"
Miguel Martínez |
Owner, GarageLab Training |
Joshua Baker |
"The Consumption of Objects of Memory in Contemporary Peninsular Literature"
Mario Santana |
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Rebecca Crisafulli |
"Sincerity and Social Transformation in the Work of Louise d'Épinay"
Robert Morrissey |
Assistant Professor of French, Saint Anselm College |
María de los Ángeles Gutiérrez Bascón |
"La Habana imaginada: Nostalgia, ruinas y utopía después de 1990"
Agnes Lugo-Ortiz |
Postdoctoral Researcher, John Morton Center for North American Studies, University of Turku (Finland) |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Current Position |
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Karolina Bandurski |
"Representations of Monstrosity, Metamorphoses and Physical Deformity in Italian Renaissance Literature"
Armando Maggi |
Instructor of Italian, Villanova University |
Elizabeth Fiedler |
"An Investigation Into the Detective: The Protagonist's Power to Challenge, Shape and Mend Through Social Critique"
Rebecca West |
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Thelma Jiménez-Anglada |
"Territorios, Ley y Violencia: La Novela del Narcotráfico en México"
Agnes Lugo-Ortiz |
Assistant Professor of Spanish, Lawrence University |
Susana Pérez Alonso |
"El teatro de Rafael Álvarez El Brujo: Una visión del Siglo de Oro entre la creación personal y las tendencias escénicas de la palabra"
Mario Santana |
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Katrina Powers |
"What Was She Wearing?: Looking at Susanna in Golden Age Spain"
Frederick de Armas |
Spanish Teacher, La Lumiere School |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Current Position |
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Diana Aramburu |
"Femicrime: Resisting the Legibility of the Female Body in Spanish Crime Fiction"
Mario Santana |
Assistant Professor of Spanish, University of California, Davis |
Anita Damjanovic |
"The Metamorphoses of Clarín"
Frederick de Armas |
Spanish Immersion Teacher, Bellevue School District |
Isabelle Faton |
"Justiciers et fugitifs: la justice dans le roman post-révolutionnaire"
Françoise Meltzer |
Lecturer in French, University of Chicago |
Lourdes Fernández |
"Los mundos aurales de la cultura juvenil en la literatura hispanoamericana"
Agnes Lugo-Ortiz |
Instructor in Spanish, Suffolk University, Madrid Campus |
Elana Kranz |
"The Art of Indeterminacy in the Prose Works of Goliarda Sapienza"
Rebecca West |
Associate Director of Study Abroad, The College, University of Chicago |
James Nemiroff |
"Comedias judaizantes: Performing Judaism in Lope de Vega’s Toledan Plays (1590-1615)"
Frederick de Armas |
Lecturer of Spanish, Department of World Languages and Cultures, Iowa State University |
Linsey Sainte-Claire |
"Quelques figures de la folie dans la littérature Caraïbo-Guyanaise"
Daniel Desormeaux |
Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Middlebury College |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Current Position |
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Clovis Gladstone |
"Rousseau et la matérialité de l'existence"
Robert Morrissey |
Project Director and Technical Director, Textual Optics Lab, University of Chicago |
Cynthia Hillman |
"The Part and the Whole: a Study of Brevity and the Form of the Diary in Ennio Flaiano's Early Works"
Rebecca West |
Assistant Director, Joint PhD Program in Financial Economics, University of Chicago |
Chiara Montanari |
"The Witness on Stage: The Theater of Ascanio Celestini"
Armando Maggi |
Associate Director of External Relations, Career Advancement, University of Chicago |
Elizabeth Porretto |
"Other Mothers: Representations of Non-biological Motherhood in the Works of Elsa Morante and Dacia Maraini"
Rebecca West |
Full-time Lecturer in Italian, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago |
Neringa Pukelis |
"Magical Techniques and Structuralism in Gonzalo Torrente Ballester's La saga/fuga de J.B."
Mario Santana |
Part-time Instructor, Loyola University Chicago |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Current Position |
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Miriam Aloisio |
"Dalla comicità all’apocalisse: Una lettura ecocritica dell’opera di Luigi Malerba"
Rebecca West |
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Kevin Anzzolin |
"Guardians of Discourse: Journalism and Literature in Porfirian Mexico (1887-1912)"
Agnes Lugo-Ortiz |
Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Stout |
Corinne Bayerl |
"Moral Philosophy and Pedagogy in the Work of Pierre Nicole"
Thomas Pavel |
Senior Instructor of Comparative Literature, Clark Honors College, University of Oregon |
Sarah Christopher Faggioli |
"A Sixteenth-Century Reader and Critic of Vittoria Colonna: Rinaldo Corso's Commentary on Her Spiritual Rime"
Elissa Weaver |
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Jeffrey Coleman |
"Bracing for Impact: Portrayals of Immigration in Contemporary Spanish Theatre"
Mario Santana |
Assistant Professor of Spanish, Marquette University |
Jenna Leving Jacobson |
"Confessing Exile: Revolution and Redemption in the Narratives of the Cuban (Re)encuentro"
Agnes Lugo-Ortiz |
Adjunct Instructor, Modern Foreign Languages, Dominican University |
Felipe Rojas |
"Hemos visto un mal tan fiero’: The Figure of Ganymede in the Theatre of the Spanish Golden Age"
Frederick de Armas |
Assistant Professor of Spanish, West Liberty University |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Current Position |
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Mary Angelo |
"Force of Habit: How the Convent Shapes the Family in the Fiction of Adélaïde de Souza"
Robert Morrissey |
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Julia Chamard-Bergeron |
"Le moyen d'être soi. Psychologie morale du roman classique"
Thomas Pavel |
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Mary Druyvesteyn |
"Alphonse de Lamartine. Authoring the Nation’s Narrative: Poetry, Politics, and Providence"
Françoise Meltzer |
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Tànit Fernández de la Reguera |
"Cuba y Cataluña en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX: El teatro popular e identidades (proto)nacionales"
Agnes Lugo-Ortiz, Mario Santana |
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Maggie Fritz-Morkin |
"Excrement Imagery and Rhetoric in Medieval Italian Literature"
Justin Steinberg |
Assistant Professor of Italian, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Nancy Knezevic |
"This Woman I play: The pleasure (and talent) of Theatricality in Laclos, Diderot and Rousseau"
Françoise Meltzer |
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Roni Kubati |
"L' "uomo transitorio" nella cultura italiana contemporanea"
Rebecca West |
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Clelia Masciello |
"Donne in guerra: Agnese, agnello sacrificale della Resistenza o figura ancestrale dell'emancipazione femminile? Il contributo della Resistenza femminile all'emancipazione della donna"
Rebecca West |
Italian Lecturer, University of Chicago |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Current Position |
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Lisa Barca |
"Heavy Weather and a Slant of Light: Modernity, Mythos, and the Metaphysical Functions of Poetry from Emily Dickinson to Eugenio Montale"
Rebecca West |
Barrett Honors College Honors Faculty Fellow, Arizona State University |
Jesús Botello |
"Cervantes, Felipe II y la dialéctica del poder"
Frederick de Armas |
Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Delaware |
Emmanuelle Claydon (Bonnafoux) |
"L’animal miroir de l’homme dans la Fiction du lyon d’Eustache Deschamps"
Daisy Delogu |
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James Fortney |
"Homosexual Productions: Gay Italian Prose Fiction from the 1970s to the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century"
Armando Maggi |
Assistant Professor (Teaching) of Italian, University of Southern California |
Sylvie Goutas |
"Evolution and Revolutions of Charity in 19th-Century French Society and Novel: Personal and Collective Charity in Honoré de Balzac’s The Human Comedy"
Thomas Pavel |
Full-Time Lecturer in French, University of Chicago |
Kathryn Hundley |
"Restless Reinvention: Solitude Under Construction in El laberinto de la soledad by Octavio Paz"
René de Costa |
World Languages Teacher, University of Chicago Laboratory Schools |
Michael Subialka |
"The Aesthetics of Ambivalence: Pirandello, Schopenhauer, and the Transformation of the European Social Imaginary"
Thomas Pavel, Rebecca West |
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian, University of California, Davis |
Lin Yang |
"L’immaginario della Cina nei reportage di viaggio degli scrittori italiani (1955-1980)"
Rebecca West |
Associate Professor, Nankai University |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Current Position |
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Heather Allen |
"Literacy, Text, and Performance in Histories of the Conquest of Mexico"
Lisa Voigt |
Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Mississippi |
Elizabeth Anderson |
"To Love and Be Loved: Petrarchan Friendship in the Canzoniere and the Triumphs"
Justin Steinberg |
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Jacob Blakesley |
"A History and Analysis of Quaderni di traduzioni"
Rebecca West |
Associate Professor in Comparative Literature and Literary Translation; Co-Director, Leeds Centre for Dante Studies, University of Leeds |
Emanuela Zanotti Carney |
"Enselmino da Montebelluna's Plainte de La Vierge. The Literary Tradition of Italian Vernacular Laments of the Virgin from the Twelfth to the Fifteenth Century"
Elissa Weaver |
Senior Lecturer and Assistant Coordinator of the Italian Basic Language Program, University of Ilinois at Chicago |
Colleen Donagher |
"Meraugis de Portlesguez, by Raoul de Houdenc: An Edition Based on the Turin Manuscript"
Peter Dembowski |
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Rocco Lacorte |
"Alcune note sul rapporto tra critica letteraria e concetto di "traducibilità." La prospettiva di Antonio Gramsci tra Francesco de Sanctis e Pier Paolo Pasolini"
Armando Maggi |
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Julie Meyers |
"Emblematic Figures and Human Agency in Michelet"
Robert Morrissey |
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Novia Pagone |
"The Emergence of Women Intellectuals: Women, Journalism and Shaping Identity During the Spanish Transition"
Mario Santana |
Assistant Professor, Governors State University |
Mireille Palm (Dobrzynski) |
"L'Âge classique dans le cinéma d'Éric Rohmer"
Larry Norman |
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Raffaello Palumbo Mosca |
"Tra fatto e verità: narrazioni ibride e impegno"
Rebecca West |
Researcher, Università degli studi di Torino |
Anna Proffit |
"Representing the Child in Spanish Film from El pequeño ruiseñor to El laberinto del fauno"
Mario Santana |
Assistant Professor, Wilbur Wright College |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Current Position |
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Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo |
"Colonial Memories: Colonial and Postcolonial Discourses in Spanish Contemporary Cultural Production on Morocco (1980-2008)"
Mario Santana |
Associate Professor of Spanish, Oakland University |
Timothy Gaster |
"The Representations of Japan in Iberian and Iberian-American Societies (1870-1930): Revisiting, (Re)formulating, and Transgressing Discourses of Power (Orientalism)"
Mario Santana |
Associate Professor, Monmouth College |
Jennifer Haraguchi |
"Educating Rich and Poor Girls in Seventeenth-Century Florence: Eleonora Ramirez di Montalvo, Her Lay Conservatories and Writings"
Elissa Weaver |
Assistant Professor of Italian, Brigham Young University |
Glenn Roe |
"Challenging History: Charles Péguy and the Fight for Literature"
Thomas Pavel |
Professor of French Literature, Université Paris-Sorbonne |
Timothée Schellenberg |
"L'Informe et le retour. Le dehors de la littérature de Blanchot à Deleuze."
Françoise Meltzer |
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Véronique Sigu |
"Du manuscrit à la bibliothèque: La matière médiévale dans la Bibliothèque universelle des romans (1775-1789)"
Robert Morrissey |
Director of Education, Alliance Française de Princeton |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Current Position |
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Kimberly Borchard |
"The Science of History: Empiricism and Historiography in the First Century of Spanish Colonialism in the New World"
Lisa Voigt |
Associate Professor, Randolph-Macon College |
Rafaela Fiore Urízar |
"Secretos de familia: memoria y trauma en tiempos de libertad"
Mario Santana |
Associate Professor of Spanish, California Lutheran University |
Cristina Guijarro-Cazorla |
"Reflexiones acerca de la situación jurídica de la mujer en la novela y cine peninsular desde los años 50 hasta nuestros días"
Mario Santana |
Co-founder, Taplingua |
Daniel Lorca |
"Neo-stoicism and skepticism in Part I of Don Quijote"
Frederick de Armas |
Associate Professor, Oakland University |
Carmela Mattza |
"From Estrella to Isabel de Borbón: Reading Life is a Dream as 'speculum reginae'"
Frederick de Armas |
Associate Professor of Spanish, Louisiana State University |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Current Position |
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Courtney Quaintance |
"Gentleman's Club: Collective Identity in a Sixteenth-Century Venetian Salon"
Elissa Weaver |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Current Position |
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Karen De Bruin |
"‘La femme supérieure’: l'individu, le roman et la république libre de Germaine de Staël"
Françoise Meltzer |
Associate Professor of French, University of Rhode Island |
Gemma Delicado Puerto |
"Love for Sale: María Magdalena en la Literatura del Siglo de Oro"
Frederick de Armas |
Associate Professor, Universidad de Extremadura |
Chiara Maria Fabbian |
"Studi sul terma e la filosofia di un senso trascurato: l'odorato nella cultura e nella storia letteraria italiana"
Rebecca West |
Clinical Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago |
Kerra Gazerro Hanson |
"St Catherine of Siena: Dominican Tertiary, Spiritual Author and Doctrinal Model"
Armando Maggi |
Visiting Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies, Wheaton College, Massachusetts |
Juan Pablo Gil-Osle |
"Las Amistades Imperfectas: La Celestina y María de Zayas"
Frederick de Armas |
Associate Professor, Arizona State University |
Rafal Krazek |
"Montaigne et la philosophie du plaisir: pour une lecture épicurienne des Essais"
Philippe Desan |
Adjunct Professor of Spanish and French, North Central College |
Benjamin Nelson |
"Tending to Empire: The Spanish Pastoral Novel and Its Reflection Upon Imperial Spain"
Frederick de Armas |
Associate Professor, University of South Carolina, Beaufort |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Current Position |
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Arnaud Coulombel |
"Histoire, érudition et sentiment national au temps des guerres de religion: Claude Fauchet et la recherche des Antiquités françaises"
Philippe Desan |
Outreach Coordinator, Center in Paris, University of Chicago |
Fabio Ferrari |
"Italian Myths and Counter-Myths of America: Allegorical Representations of America in 20th-Century Italian Literature and Film"
Rebecca West |
Associate Professor, Franklin University Switzerland |
Héctor García Chávez |
"Alejo Carpentier: sincretismo, revolución y crisis de historicidad en su visión neobarroca de América Latina"
Patrick O'Connor |
Spanish Senior Lecturer, Loyola University Chicago |
Kristen Grimes |
"Petrarch and the Tradition of the Divine and the Earthly Maternal"
Rebecca West |
Associate Professor, Saint Joseph's University |
Fay Ellen Rosner |
"Art as Social Currency in A la recherche du Temps Perdu"
Thomas Pavel |
Assistant Professor of Instruction in French and Weinberg College Adviser, Northwestern University |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Current Position |
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Daniela Pastina |
"Nation, Homeland, and Family in Literature and Opera In the Decennio di Preparazione (1850-1860)"
Rebecca West |
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Olivia Edelman |
"Manatial de transparencia: Surrealismo en la poesia de Xavier Villarrutia, Octavio Paz, y Luis Cernuda"
Patrick O'Connor |
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Amy Graves Monroe |
"Propagande, pratiques d’histoire et proto-journalisme: l'historiographie engagée de Simon Goulart (1543-1628)"
Philippe Desan |
Associate Professor, State University of New York at Buffalo |
Sally Hill |
"Photographic Fictions: Photography In Italian Literature 1945-2000"
Rebecca West |
Head of School & Associate Professor of Italian School of Languages and Cultures, University of Wellington, New Zealand |
Deborah Rosenberg |
"The Converso in the Spanish Picaresque Novel"
Frederick de Armas |
Assistant Professor of Instruction, Northwestern University |
Florence Vatan |
"Les maîtres du sensible, l'esthétique de Baudelaire et de Flaubert à la lumière des conceptions médicales de leur époque"
Philippe Desan |
Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Kerry Wilks |
"Tan fáciles son mis lazos de romper? Circe, the Seventeenth Century Theatrical Enchantress"
Frederick de Armas |
Associate Dean of the Graduate School & Professor of Spanish, Wichita State University |
Olivia Yañez |
"Apariencias, humor y pasión: técnicas de liberación en las obras de Ángeles Mastretta"
Patrick O'Connor |
Instructor of Spanish, College of Lake County |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Current Position |
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Sarah Hurlburt |
"Montaigne and the Academy: 1800-1812"
Philippe Desan |
Associate Professor, Whitman College |
Lynn Westwater |
"The Disquieting Voice: Women's Writing and Antifeminism In Seventeenth-Century Venice"
Elissa Weaver |
Associate Professor of Italian, George Washington University |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Current Position |
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Janis Be |
"The Representation of Violence and the Violence of Representation: Argentine Women Writing Against the State"
Patrick O'Connor |
Professor of Hispanic Studies, Whitman College |
Peg Kern |
"The Public and Private Space of the Female Character: Spatially Orienting History and Conscience in the narrative of Ippolito Nievo"
Rebecca West |
Vice President and Owner, The International Kitchen |
Catherine Ramsey-Portolano |
"The Women Writers Experience In Late Nineteenth-Century Italy: From the Literary to the Epistolary Reality In the Work of Neera"
Rebecca West |
Associate Professor and Program Director of Italian Studies, American University of Rome |
José Julio Vélez Sainz |
"The Spanish Parnassus: Canon Patronage and Propaganda In the Golden Age"
Frederick de Armas |
Professor of Spanish Literature, Universidad Complutense Madrid |
Maria Walford-Dellú |
"Pavese e la critica (1941-2000)"
Paolo Cherchi |
Guest Lecturer (Italian for Singers), Wheaton College |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Current Position |
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Nathalie Hester |
"Traveling for Writing's Sake: Seventeenth-Century Italian Tourists and their Narratives"
Elissa Weaver |
Associate Professor of Italian and French, University of Oregon |
Meredith Ray |
"A gloria del sesso feminile: Epistolary Constructions of Gender In Early Modern Italian Letter Collections"
Elissa Weaver |
Professor of Italian, University of Delaware |
Eric Touya |
"La poièsis en question: Les poètes français et Richard Wagner"
James Lawler |
Professor of French Literature, Clemson University |
Olga Vilella |
"The Nation on Display: Literature and Cultural Practices of Latin American Modernismo"
Patrick O'Connor |
Professor, Saint Xavier University |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Current Position |
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Anna Diakow |
"El retorno renovador a la tradición: la memoria colectiva en la narrativa española (1973-1994)"
Mario Santana |
Assistant Professor of Instruction, Northwestern University |
Suzanne Magnanini |
"Between Fact and Fiction: The Representation of Monsters and Monstrous Births in the Fairy Tales of Gianfrancesco Straparola and Giambattista Basile"
Elissa Weaver |
Associate Professor, University of Colorado-Boulder |
Ana Osan |
"Nuevas historias de la Tribu: el poema largo y las poetas españolas del siglo XX"
Susana Cavallo |
Professor, Indiana University Northwest |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Current Position |
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Kathleen Doyle |
"Women Reading, Writing, and Remembering: The Construction of Carmen Martín Gaite's Protagonists"
Mario Santana |
Associate Professor of Spanish, Rhodes College |
Gareth Evan Gollard |
"Eyewitnessing and the Illustrative Aesthetic: Visualizing History in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century France"
Françoise Meltzer |
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Stacy Hoult-Saros |
"Inside Looking Out: Spying and Subjectivity in Norah Lange"
René de Costa |
Professor of World Languages and Cultures, Valparaiso University |
Patricia Montilla |
"Desecrating Poetry: Parody and the Avant-garde in the Early Works of Oliverio Girondo"
René de Costa |
Associate Professor of Spanish, Western Michigan University |
Kevin James O'Donnell |
"A Red's Harvest: Cultural Adaptation as Intervention in Manuel Vázquez Montalbán's Early Carvalho Novels"
Mario Santana |