PhD Alumni

Alumni of our doctoral program have conducted research on exciting topics in literary, cultural, and linguistic studies from a variety of theoretical perspectives. Upon completion of their degree, these scholars have gone on to work in academic and non-academic positions in the United States and around the world.

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2020
Name	PhD Dissertation	Current Position
Christina Beaubien	Surrogate Histories: Demythifying the Franco-female in Transitionary Spain	Visiting Lecturer University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Claudia Páez Lotero	Ser (en) la naturaleza: Identidad ecológica y visiones de la naturaleza en Un viejo que leía novelas de amor de Luis Sepúlveda, y La loca de Gandoca de Anacristina Rossi.	Assistant Professor Saint Joseph's University

2019
Name	PhD Dissertation	Current Position
Pilar Osorio	Y así les nació la conciencia. Las emociones políticas en Balún Canán de Rosario Castellanos y Abeng de Michelle Cliff	Assistant Professor Universidad del Norte, Colombia
Jayne Reino	Scripting Sanctity in the Borderlands: Teresa Urrea, la Santa de Cabora	Visiting Assistant Professor Washington and Lee University
Covadonga Sánchez Alvarado	The production and perception of subject focus prosody in L2 Spanish	Visiting Assistant Professor Winona State University

2018
Name	PhD Dissertation	Current Position
Susana L. Antunes	Itinerância(s) poética(s): Jorge De Sena e Cecília Meireles	Assistant Professor of Portuguese University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Alba Arias Alvarez	Rhotic Variation in the Spanish Spoken by Puerto Ricans in Puerto Rico and Western Massachusetts	Assistant Professor Roanoke College
Sheryl L. Bernardo- Hinesley	Pronoun Variation in Cavite Chabacano: Creole/non-lexifier Contact Situation	Assistant Professor Western Washington University
Pau Cañigueral- Batllosera	La influencia de Boccaccio en la literatura catalana medieval (1390-1495): un estudio de la imitación literaria en Bernat Metge, Bernat Hug de Rocabertí y Joan Roís de Corella	Visiting Assistant Professor College of the Holy Cross
Ramiro García- Olano	Al gaucho que llevo en mí, sacramente, como la custodia lleva la hostia”: ideología política y literatura gauchesca en el contexto cinematográfico de la Revolución Argentina	Visiting Assistant Professor Denison University
Maribel Rams	Documental autoetnográfico de posmemoria: una aproximación al pasado franquista desde la perspectiva de género	Visiting Assistant Professor Western Washington University

2017
Name	PhD Dissertation	Current Position
Andrea Faber	Assigning grammatical gender to novel nouns in L1 and L2 Spanish	Assistant Professor Kansas State University
Borja Gama de Cossío	Comunidad y escritura en la temprana Edad Moderna española Teresa de Cartagena, María de Santo Domingo y Teresa de Ávila (1420-1582).	Visiting Assistant Professor Tulane University
Giseli C. Tordin	Para donde miran los ojos: confluencias entre locura, (des)identidad y violencia en la obra de Joao Guimaraes Rosa, Silvina Ocampo y Luis Martin-Santos.	Lecturer Yale University
Gladys E. Vásquez	Representation, Reflection, and Reconciliation: The Evolving Depiction of Violence in the Committed Literature of Manlio Argueta	Spanish Instructor Worcester Academy

2016
Name	PhD Dissertation	Current Position
Judy de Oliveira	El estudio contrastivo y comparativo de la perífrasis de gerundio en el español y en el portugués hablado en Massachusetts y Rhode Island	Portuguese Instructor University of Rhode Island
Dolores Juan Moreno	Mesa para dos: la gastronomía en la poesía y el cine españoles	Lecturer Clark University
Jon Nelson	First- and Second-Language Acquisition of Recursive Operations: Two Studies
Bridget C. Pinsonneault	The Effect of Enhancing Learner Input Via Computer Assisted Language Learning Tools: On the Acquisition of Clitics by Spanish Second Language Learners	Spanish Coordinator Sabis Educational Systems
Robert Silveri	Callar y revelar dos novelas extremas de la transición chilena: entre la censura y la reconquista de la palabra	Adjunct Professor Emmanuel College
María Turrero	How far can they go? Non-native Speakers of Spanish and wh- questions	Visiting Assistant Professor Drew University

2015
Name	PhD Dissertation	Current Position
Francisco Meizoso	Linguistic Cognition and Bimodalism: A Study of Motion and Location in the Confluence of Spanish and Spain's Sign Language	Lecturer Columbia University
Eva París-Huesca	Autoría femenina y tradición ginocriminal en el cine neo-noir español	Assistant Professor Ohio Wesleyan University

2014
Name	PhD Dissertation	Current Position
Carmen L. Cosme	En honor a Elegguá: máscaras y trampas trazando los caminos de Juan Francisco Manzano	Visiting Assistant Professor Xavier University
María Hogan	Novels of Decolonization in Modernity: Malambo, Um defeito de cor, and Fe en disfraz	Spanish Instructor Lichtfield Public High School
Ana Rona	Formación de intérpretes y políticas lingüísticas en la Provincia jesuítica del Paraguay (s. XVII - XVIII)	Adjunct Professor Universidad de la República - Uruguay

2013
Name	PhD Dissertation	Current Position
Elena García Frazer	Concept-Based Teaching and Spanish Modality in Heritage Language Learners: A Vygotskyan Approach	Spanish Instructor Mount Holyoke College
Robert Herr	Puppets and Proselytizing: Politics and Nation-Building in Post-Revolutionary Mexico's Didactic Theater	Lecturer Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2012
Name	PhD Dissertation	Current Position
Marta del Pozo	Towards a Posthumanist Reenchantment: Poetry, Science and New Technologies	Assistant Professor University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
Próspero N. García	Verbalizing in the Second Language Classroom: The Development of the Grammatical Concept of Aspect	Associate Professor Rutgers University
Antonio M.A. Igrejas	Os Grão-Capitães como sequência de contos: paratextualidade, imagética e os contornos de um género literário	Portuguese Lecturer Wellesley College
Beatriz Pariente- Beltrán	Evaluating Translation as an Explicit Instruction Tool to Improve L2 Written Skills: An Empirical Study	Senior Lecturer Carleton College
Marie Polizzi	The Development of Spanish Aspect in the Second Language Classroom: Concept-Based Pedagogy and Dynamic Assessment	Lecturer, College of Education University of Massachusetts, Amherst
María Twardy	Enrique Anderson Imbert, escritor de cuentos fantásticos	Lecturer Boston College
Cecilia Paiva Ximenes Rodrigues	No círculo do Uroboro: articulações identitárias na narrativa de Milton Hatoum	Assistant Professor University of Georgia

2011
Name	PhD Dissertation	Current Position
Brian Boisvert	The Role of Prompts as Focus on Form on Uptake	Associate Professor SUNY Fredonia
L. Luis Loya García	Mojarra Aesthetics in Piolin por la mañana: A Time and Space for the Dislocated
Glenda Nieto Cuebas	¿Cómo no sois vieja siendo bruja? Mujer, sociedad y espectáculo en el teatro del Siglo de Oro	Associate Professor Ohio Wesleyan University
Yamile Silva	Practicas escriturales femeninas: espacialidad e identidad en epístolas en la colonia (Río de la Plata, Siglos XVI-XVII)	Associate Professor University of Scranton