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  • 2023-2024: 2 Graduates
    Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Supervisor(s) First Position Current Position
    Bailard, Andra Lee Journeying Beyond Binaries: Gender and Fluidity in Nineteenth-Century French Travel Writing Alex Wettlaufer;        Elizabeth Richmond-Garza UT Press Fellowship        Rights/Permissions and Acquisitions UT Press Fellowship        Rights/Permissions and Acquisitions
    Wilson, Emma Rose Queer Postcolonial Temporalities: Ghostly Desires in Literature by Women Writers of French Expression Jennifer Wilks    
  • 2022-2023: 5 Graduates
    Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Supervisor(s) First Position Current Position
    Akcamete, Aycan Reconceptualizing Theater Criticism: A Case Study on Arcola Theatre David Kornhaber                         Katie Arens   Asst. Prof. of Comparative Literature and Theater, U Oregon
    Lin, Boya ‘Double Consciousness’ and the Reimagination of Revolution in Black Leftist Fiction in the U.S. and Haiti, 1940-1959 Jennifer Wilks   Asst. Prof. of English, Fujian Normal University Fujian, China
    Rutledge, Thais Intersectional Modernisms: Race, Gender, and Class Mobility in British and Brazilian Narratives Katie Arens Asst. Prof. of Instruction, Rhetoric and  Writing, University of Texas at Austin Asst. Prof. of Instruction, Rhetoric and  Writing, University of Texas at Austin
    Wojtusik, Jennie Denise Legacies of Idealism: Dostoevsky’s Novel as Philosophical-Political Intervention Katie Arens.                              Keith Livers Asst. Prof. of Instruction, Rhetoric and  Writing, University of Texas at Austin Asst. Prof. of Instruction, Rhetoric and  Writing, University of Texas at Austin
    Iqbal, Hamza Muhammad Jaun Elia: A Portrait of a Poet-Intellectual Elizabeth Richmond-Garza Syed Akbar Hyder Asst. Teaching Prof. & Honors Faculty Fellow, Arizona State University Asst. Teaching Prof. & Honors Faculty Fellow, Arizona State University
  • 2021-2022: 6 Graduates
    Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Supervisor(s) First Position Current Position
    Mohseni Sisiruca, Monica The Straying Lamp:  Standard Oil, Culture, and the Making of Extractive Modernity in Latin America Jason Borge   Founder and CEO, Calliope Interactive
    Butler, Tia Katheryne Hollywood's Haiti: Popular Culture,Representation, and American Exceptionalism César Salgado   Jennifer Wilks Headwaters School, Austin, Texas Chief People and Diversity Officer, National Cmte. for Quality Assurance
    Cravens, Marlena Petra Among Aliens Abroad: UnrulyTranslation and the Making of a TransatlanticSpain, 1492-1650 César Salgado              Michael Harney Asst. Prof. of Instruction  Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, U Texas Asst. Prof. of Instruction  Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, U Texas
    Goodstein, Liza Morrow Entangled Languages: Intimacy,Desire, and Love in the Multilingual MahrebiNovel Karen Grumberg   Content Designer/Strategist    City of Austin
    Leite, Diana Silveira Black Romantic Innovations in Nineteenth Century Brazil Helena Woodard Writer, Museum Educator, Mentor;
    Museum Fresh, Brooklyn, NY
     
    Thomas, Alexander J. The Illiterate Pen: Reading theUnwritten on the Sixteenth-Century SpanishStage Michael Harney              Corey Reed Asst. Prof. of Instruction  Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, U Texas Asst. Prof. of Instruction  Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, U Texas
  • 2020-2021: 0 Graduates

    No students graduated this year.

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