Graduate Dissertations
Summer 2024
Pilar Villanueva, Geographies of Sonic Intersections: Mapping Black and Indigenous Women's Rap Music and Activism in Cali (Colombia) and Oaxaca City (Mexico)
Víctor Garre-León, Developmental trajectories of interactional competence in L2 Spanish learners: A conversation-analytic and metadialogic approach to intersubjectivity-related episodes
Spring 2024
Wilfredo Burgos Matos, Amargue: The Communal Ecologies of a Dominican Feeling
Vítor Cerqueira Dassie, Subjetividades Transgressoras: Terra, Corpo, Paisagem e o Capitalismo Racial no Cinema Nordestino Contemporâneo
Kaitlin Passafiume, The Freaks of Colonial Imagination: Contemporary Cultural Interventions for Nineteenth Century Queer and Racialized Beings
Nicole Lorrando, Forjando el hogar y el barrio: arquitectura urbana y representaciones de ciudadanía en Villa Olímpica de Santiago de Chile
Lucia Aramayo Canedo, Desafiando espacios: representaciones literarias del transporte público y heterotopías en América Latina
Thomas Leslie, Medeyeísmo: The sociophonetics of palatal strengthening in the Spanish of Medellín, Colombia
Fall 2023
Ryan Morrison, The Afro-Pampas: Black Consciousness, Cultural Activism and Queer Subjectivity at Brazil's Southern Frontier
Summer 2023
Luis Avilés González, Pus 'ta cabrón: Variation of pues in the Spanish of Southern San Diego
Ashley Nelcy García, The Ghosts Lingering in the Río Bravo: Examining Erasures, Sequelae, and Trabajo de Duelo through Border Women’s Literature and Film
Jessica Sánchez Flores, More Than Survival: Literary Representations of Indigenous Women in 21st Century México
Spring 2023
Mariana Sabino, The Hypersexualized Diasporic Gypsy Archetype: Carmen and Severa Iterations in Mexican and Brazilian Cinema from 1940 to 1990
Mónica Ocasio Vega, Imagining Sabor: Race, Gender, and Senses-Making in Contemporary Caribbean Food Texts
Summer 2022
Laura M. Boria González, Embodied Capitalism: Sensemaking in 21st Century Dominican and Puerto Rican Cultural Production
Tania Lizeth García Piña, Writing the Altepetl: The Making of Huexotzingo, and Early Modern Indigenous City
Montserrat E. Maradriaga Caro, Micropolitics of Life: Williche Mapuche Poetics Against Terricide in the Era of Colonial Neoliberalism
Valerie Osorio Restrepo, Narrativas de la internet: Nuevas geografías de la intimidad en la cultura latinoamericana contemporánea
Camila Torres Castro, Audible Melodrama: The Affective Politics of Sound in Contemporary Mexican Cinema (2001-2020)
Spring 2022
Joshua G. Ortiz Baco, Abolitionism in Transit: Visualizing 19th Century Press Networks in Brazil, Cuba, and Puerto Rico
Summer 2021
Ana Almar Liante, Transfeminist Archive: Queer Appropriations and Transformations of Spanish Culture in the 21st Century
Min Suk Kim, Hallyu Fandom in Mexico City and Lima: Soft Power, Gender, and New Media Self-Fashion of Transcultural Youth
Patrick Lawrence, Shift in the Heart of Texas: A Quantitative and Qualitative Investigation of Intergenerational Language Shift from Spanish to English in Austin, Texas
Spring 2021
Aris Moreno Clemons, Spanish People Be Like: Domincan Ethno-Raciolinguistic Stancetaking and the Construction of Black Latinidad in the United States
María Dinorah Cossio Sánchez, What Have I Done to Deserve This?: "Abnormal" Motherhoods in 21st Century Spanish and Argentinian Cultural Products
Fall 2020
Ana Cecilia Calle Poveda, Al Ritmo de la cumbia: Prácticas sonoras, literarias y performáticas en Colombia y Argentina (1959-2003)
Summer 2020
Debbie Cifuentes Ramírez, Studying That Which Cannot Be Read, Heard, or Seen: Transgenerational Traumas of 1.5 and 2nd Generation Salvadorans and Guatemalans
Christian Elguera, Traducciones territoriales: La defensa de territorios indígenas en Perú y en Brazil (1960-2000)
Joshua Frank, An Experimental Approach to Recomplementation: Evidence from Monolingual and Bilingual Spanish
Spring 2020
Salvatore Callesano, Perceptual Dialectology, Mediatization, and Idioms: Exploring Communities in Miami
Lauren Peña, Spatial Politics in Contemporary Cuban Cinema (1987-2016); Clandestinidad, Ostracism, and Confinement
Gabriela Pérez, Queer Imagined Communities in Diasporic Caribbean Literature
Alida Louisa Perrine, Black Women’s Cultural Resistance in Brazil: Reading Racial Formation in the Twenty-First Century
Fall 2019
Vivian Flanzer, The Pragmatics of Greetings and Leave-Takings in Brazil and the United States a Cross-Cultural Study
Natalie Rangel, A Sociolinguistics Study of Social Satisfaction and Language Practices in the South Texas Border Town Laredo, Texas
Adrian Riccelli, The Subject Domain in Cabo-Verdean Creole: Combining Variationist Sociolinguistics and Formal Approaches
Ruth Rubio-Gilbertson, Blindness and Literary Representation in the Neoliberal Era: Chile and Mexico (1995-2015)
Spring 2019
José Ignacio Carvajal Regidor, RI UTZ’IB’AXIK RI OJER CH’AKATAJIK. The Writings(s) of Reduction: Maya Written Responses to Colonialism in the Guatemalan Highlands During the Early Colonial Period
Daniela Cristina Leal Miereles, Discursos pan-americanos e transbrasilidade nos seculos XX e XXI
Fall 2018
Sarah Elizabeth Nicholus, Queering Tradition: LGBT + Cultural Production in the Brazilian Northeast
Daniela MacGregor Sevilla, Teaching Mexico: The Pedagogy and Prose of el Maestro Rural (1932-1940)
Summer 2018
Steven Michael Alcorn, The Role of L2 Experience in L1 Phonotactic Restructuring in Sequential Bilinguals
Arno Argueta, Mapping the Wastelands: Spectacles of Wasting in Neoliberal Brazilian and Mexican Film
Célia Martins Cordeiro, Travessias Luso-Afro-Brasileiras: Mobilidades de mulheres portuguesas e a reinvecao de espacos culturais (1950-Present)
HyunJee Yoon, Corrective Feedback and Learner Uptake in Spanish Heritage Speaker-Learner and Learner-Learner Interaction
Fall 2017
Sandra Bernal Heredia, Sonidos e imágenes heterogéneas: Presentaciones de subjetividades indígenas y cholas de los Andes en Lima, Perú
Jessica Carey-Webb, Rubber Boom Narratives and the Development of the Amazon
Esther Díaz Martín, Radiophonic Feminisms: The Sounds and Voices of Contemporary Latina Radio Hosts in the U. S. Southwest 1990-2017
Samuel Ginsburg, The Cyborg Caribbean: Bodies, Technology, and The Struggle for (Post)Humanity in 21st-Century Cuban, Dominican and Puerto Rican Science Fiction
Catalina Iannone, Contemporary Iberian Migrations: Discourse, Race, and Urban Space in Lavapiés and Mouraria
Diana Norton, Writing Foreign Stardom under Autrachy: Affect, Nationalism and the Americas in Early Franquista Spanish
Valeria Rey de Castro, Desafiar la memoria, iluminar subjetividades en la literatura argentina contemporánea
Fall 2017
Jeffrey Michno, Nicaragua y ¿vos, tú, o usted? Pronoun use and identity construction in an Area of Recent Linguistic and Cultural Contact
Adriano Trovato, A Sociophonetic Analysis of Contact Spanish in the United States: Labiodentalization and Labial Consonant
Summer 2017
Brendan Regan, The Effect of Dialect Contact and Social Identity of Fricative Demerger
Jacqueline Serigos, Applying Corpus and Computational Methods to Loanword Research: New Approaches to Anglicism in Spanish
Spring 2017
Samuel Cannon, Drawing Crime and Justice in Latin American Crime Comics and Graphic Novels 1970-2015
Tyson Echelle, A Funny Place for Counter-Hegemonic Discourse: Sketch Comedy on Argentinian Television
Robyn Wright, The Madrileño EJKE: A study of the Perception and Production of Velarized /S/ in Madrid
Fall 2016
Brian Bobbitt, Refusing To Be Buried Alive: Burial and African Immigration in Afro-Spanish Literature
Spring 2016
Stephanie Malak, Transcending Immanence: Poetic Reason and Mysticality in Twentieth Century Christian and Jewish Latin American Poetics
Sandra Sotelo-Miller, Hazme un GUAGUIS: The Politics of Relajo, Humor, Gender and Sexuality in Teatro de Revista, Teatro de Carpa and Cabaret Politico in Mexico
James Staig Limidoro, Cuerpos resonantes: Sonidos y voces en la poesía del Caribe y el Cono Sur 1930-1980
Summer 2015
Adam Coon, Iajki Estados Onidos/She Went to the U. S.: Nahua Identities in Migration Within Contemporary Nahua Literature, 1985-2014
Ashwini Ganeshan, Case Marking in Spanish Reverse Psychological Verbs: A Lexical Semantic Perspective
Spring 2015
René Carrasco, Grámatica de la redención: Genealogía de las lógicas discursivas del indigenismo en México
Mary Margaret Dowdy, Enchufad@s: Representations of the Internet and New Technologies in Queer Latin American Literatures
Matthew Hill, Intercolonial Currents: Printing Press and Book circulation in the Spanish Philippines, 1571-1821
Dorian Lee Jackson, The Other Side: An Alternate Approach to the Narconarratives of Bolivia, Colombia, and Brazil
Sean Manning, Tectonics of the Poetic Self: The Formation of Juan Larrea and Lorenzo García Vega
Christina McCoy, The Self as Subject, and the Subjected Self: Networks of Being and Becoming in Miguel de Cervantes and Antonio de Sosa
Amy Olen, Discourse and Identity in Guatemala: Imaginaries of Indigeneity and Luis de Lión’s Decolonial Grito/Llanto
Adriana Pacheco, Retórica católica en el siglo XIX en México: De "ángel del hogar" a "ángel viril"
Francis Watlington, Re-humanizando al sujeto alineado: Extrañamientos de lo masculino en la narrativa existencial cubana
Giulianna Zambrano, Narrativas del confinamiento corporizantes: Justicia inminente en Francisco Matos Paoli, José Revuletas y Reinaldo Arenas
Fall 2014
Arthur Herman Wendorf, El mundo de comida: The Relative Effectiveness of Videogame Feedback and Classroom Feedback in Helping Students Learn Spanish Food Vocabulary on a Videogame
Spring 2014
Brandon Baird, An Acoustic Analysis of Spanish-K'ichee' (Mayan) Bilingual Intonation
Enrique González-Conty, Archiving the Revolution: Claiming History in Cuban Literature and Film
Eliseo Jacob, Literatura Periférica and Ghetto Fiction: Urban Space and Citizenry in São Paulo and New York
Jennifer Lang-Rigal, El cantito cordobés: A Perceptual and Experimental Phonetic Approach to Dialect Stereotypes
Paula Park, Transcolonial Sounds: Dissonances in Cuban and Filipino Literature
Nancy Tille-Victorica, The Corporeality of Trauma, Memory and Resistance: Writing the Female Body in Contemporary Fiction from Chile and Argentina
Cecilia Tocaimaza, Metatalk and its Effect on Processes of L2 Vocabulary Development
Fall 2013
Cuitláhuac Chávez, The Mythical Figure of Pancho Villa as an Icon of National Identity and Masculinity in Mexico and the U.S.-Mexico Border Region
Rodrigo Lopes de Barros, Cities Under the Sun: Urban Imagery in Cuban and Brazilian Avant-garde Art and Literature
Robert Sauveur, Emergence of Comprehension of Spanish Second Language Requests
Rachel Showstack, Ideology and Identity in Heritage Language Classroom Discursive Practices
Spring 2013
Qing Ai, Nostalgia imperial: Crónicas de viajeros españoles por China (1870-1910)
Mark Amengual, An Experimental Approach to Phonetic Transfer in the Production and Perception of Early Spanish-Catalan Bilinguals
Regan Boxwell, Re-centering Central America: Women Writers Undisplaced
Joseph Fees, New Directions in Kharja Studies: Gender, Sexuality and Religion
Karla González, Perspectivas de la revolución mexicana en el exilio: El desencanto de los intelectuales en la narrativa mexicoamericana (1926-1935)
Juan Carlos López, Feminine Subjectivity and Discourses of Modernity in the 19th and 20th Centuries in Puerto Rico and Brazil
Jocelly G. Meiners, Sympathy and Compassion in Spanish and English: Expressing Emotion in the L2
José Enrique Navarro, Global Publishing, Bibliodiversity and Transnational Writing: An Analysis of the Metafictions of Roberto Bolaño and Enrique Vila-Matas
Joseph Pierce, Writing and Kinship in the Argentine fin de siglo, 1890-1910: La familia Bunge
Verónica Ríos, La compleja tarea de representar héroes costarricenses: La narrativa y la revelación de las aporías del discurso nacional
Lorna Torrado, Urban Dialogues: Rethinking Gender and Race in Contemporary Caribbean Literature and Music
Fall 2012
Hye-Yoon Chung, Two Types of Focus in Castilian Spanish
Lydia Huerta, Affecting Violence: Narratives of Los Feminicidios and Their Ethical and Political Reception
Jung Soohyun, La nacionalidad en busca del paisaje: Descumbrimiento del paisaje castellano en la Generación del 98
Summer 2012
Ricardo Gualda, The Discource of Hugo Chávez In 'Alo Presidente': Establishing the Bolivarian Revolution Through Television Performance
Daniel Olson, Bilingual Language Contexts: Variable Language Switching Costs and Phonetic Production"
Spring 2012
Joao Valentino Alfredo, Imagining Modernity in Antontio de Alcántre Machado's Journalistic Chronicles
Belinda Mora García, The Aeneid of Brazil: Carmuru (1781)
Meredith Gardner Clark, Warping the World of Weaving the Visual: Textile Aesthetics in the Poetry and the Artwork of Jorge Eduardo Eilson and Cecilia Vicuna
Elizabeth García-Guajardo, "The Secularization of the Divine in Fin de Siglo México: Religion and Modernity in Prose Works by Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera, Federico Gamboa, and Amado Nervo
Cory Jackson Lyle,The Co-Emergence of Spanish as a Second Language and Individual Differences: A Dynamical Systems Theory Perspective
Robyn Ingrid, Rostros del reverse: José Lezama Lima en la encrucijada vanguardista
Scott Franklin Spinks, The Representation of God in Three Thirteenth-Century Spanish Narrative Poems
Rebecca Leigh Thompson, Cusco después de los Zorros: The Legacy of Arguedas in Contemporary Andean Narrative
Omar Vargas, Silogísticas del sobresalto: Resonancias científicas en la obra de José Lezama Lima
María Alejandra Zambrano, Sujetos étnicos e identidad nacional: Urdimbre y fracaso del proyecto liberal en Ecuador y Brazil (1865-1926)
Fall 2011
María Cavazos,Trastornos de género: Identidad y fronteras en la narrativa de Christina Rivera Garza
Rocío del Aguila, Mujer, nación e identidad en la narrativa de Juana Manuela Gorriti y Clorinda Matto de Turner
Alexandre Lima, A condição humana no discuro médico científico da segunda metade do século XIX nas obras de Alusio Azevedo, Eugenio Cambaceres e Enila Pardo Bazan
Karyn Hopper-Rayburn, Linguistic Humor Comphrehension In Spanish as a Second Language
Spring 2011
Lynn Meierhoffer, Hacia Cervantes: Confluence of the "Byzantine" and the Chivalric Literary Traditions in the Quijote
Sadie Nickelson, The Child's Perspective of War and its Aftermath in Works of Adult Prose and Film in Mexico and Spain
Fall 2010
Patxi Lascurain, Information Structure and Mood Distribution in Spanish Complement Clause
Garret Oleen, 19th Century Plantation Counter-discourses in Juan Francisco Manzano
Spring 2010
Michael J. Acuña, [Degree awarded posthumously]
Sandra Cidrão Alexandrino, The Role of L1 Influence in the Acquisition of Negative Concord in Adult Second Language Learning
Alanna Mary Breen, Resistance and Remembrance: 21st Century Spain Reengaging 20th Century Trauma
Lori Ann Czerwionka, Mitigation in Spanish Discourse: Social and Cognitive Motivations, Linguistic Analyses, and Effects on Interaction and Interlocutors
Jorge Federico García Núñez de Cáceres, La afectividad como contra-discurso de la poesía comprometida de Daisy Zamora, Otto René Castillo y Roque Dalto
Burke Oliver White, The Brothelization of Gender and Sexuality in Late Twentieth-Century Latin American Narrative and Film
Summer 2009
Stephanie Lain, Acoustic Correlates of Voice in Two Dialects of Venezuelan Spanish
Fall 2009
María Rebeca Castellanos, The Foundational Rape Tale in Medieval Iberia
Gregory Gierhart Helmick, Archival Dissonance in the Cuban Post-Exile Historical Novel
Nicolas Matthew Poppe, Assembling Place: Buenos Aires in Cultural Production (1920-1935)
Spring 2009
Emilia Arce, La institucionalización del rol materno durante gobiernos autoritarios: Respuestas de escritoras argentinas y brasileiras a la construcción patriarcal de género y nación
Mario Higa, No Meio do Caminho: Figurações da Pedra na Moderna Poesia Latino-Americana
Filadelfo Martínez-Osorio, The Poetics of Demonization: The Writings of Juan de Castellanos in the Light of Alonso de Ercilla’s La Araucana
Charles P. Patterson, A Fruitful Bough: The Old Testament Story of Joseph in Medieval and Golden Age Spanish Literature
Francisco Plata, La novella de artista: El Kunstlerroman en la literatura española finisecular
Ryan Thomas Schmitz, Deceit, Disguise, and Identity in Cervantes’s "Novelas ejemplares"
Médar de la Cruz Serrata, Epic and Dictatorship in the Dominican Republic: The Struggles of Trujillo’s Intellectuals
Fall 2008
Christine Guedri, A Sociolinguistic Study of Language Contact of Lebanese Arabic and Brazilian Portuguese in São Paulo
Janie Zackin, A Jew and His Milieu: Allegory, Polemic, and Jewish Thought in Sem Tob’s Proverbios morales and Ma’aseh ha Rav
Summer 2008
Melissa Murphy, The Role of Typological Drift in the Development of the Romance Subjunctive: A Study in Word Order Change, Grammaticalization and Synthesis
Anna María Nogar, La monja azul: The Political and Cultural Ramifications of a 17th-Century Mystical Transatlantic Journey
Spring 2008
Gloria del Carmen Díaz, José Lezama Lima’s Paradiso: Knowledge and the Labyrinth
María Ángeles Fernández, Tradición e innovación en las Novelas a Marcia Leonarda de Lope de Vega
Alfonso Abad Mancheno, A Study of the Effect of Study Abroad and the Homestay on the Development of Linguistic and Interactional Practices by Spanish L2 Learners
Danny Méndez, In Zones of Contact (Combat): Dominican Narratives of Migration and Displacements in the United States and Puerto Rico
Erin Hilda Redmond, Square Pegs: The Political Function of Ambiguous Gender and Sexuality in Three Novels from the Southern Cone
Miguel Ángel Santana, Homometrías: Representaciones de deseo homosexual en la literatura del siglo de oro español
Diego Trelles Paz, La novela policial alternativa en Hispanoamérica: Detectives perdidos, asesinos ausentes y enigmas sin respuesta
Fernanda V. Bueno, The Myth of Camila O’Gorman in the Works of Juana Manuela Gorriti, María Luisa Bemberg and Enrique Molina
Amy Denise Schreiber, The Structural and Thematic Integrity of Diego de San Pedro’s Cárcel de amor
Federico R. Schweizer, Cristobal Lozano’s Ideology in Soledades de la vida y desengaños del mundo
