Recent Dissertations and PhD Degrees Conferred

Spring 2010

Michael J. Acuña
Degree awarded posthumously
Dr. Madeline Sutherland-Meier

Sandra Cidrão Alexandrino
The Role of L1 Influence in the Acquisition of Negative Concord in Adult Second Language Learning
Dr. Orlando Kelm

Alanna Mary Breen
Resistance and Remembrance: 21st Century Spain Reengaging 20th Century Trauma
Dr. Vance Holloway

Lori Ann Czerwionka
Mitigation in Spanish Discourse: Social and Cognitive Motivations, Linguistic Analyses, and Effects on Interaction and Interlocutors
Dr. Dale Koike

Jorge Federico García Núñez de Cáceres
La afectividad como contra-discurso de la poesía comprometida de Daisy Zamora, Otto René Castillo y Roque Dalto
Dr. Arturo Arias

Burke Oliver White
The Brothelization of Gender and Sexuality in Late Twentieth-Century Latin American Narrative and Film
Dr. Héctor Domínguez Ruvalcaba and Dr. César A. Salgado

Summer 2009

Stephanie Lain
Acoustic Correlates of Voice in Two Dialects of Venezuelan Spanish
Dr. Orlando Kelm

Fall 2009

María Rebeca Castellanos
The Foundational Rape Tale in Medieval Iberia
Dr. Michael Harney

Gregory Gierhart Helmick
Archival Dissonance in the Cuban Post-Exile Historical Novel
Dr. César A. Salgado

Nicolas Matthew Poppe
Assembling Place: Buenos Aires in Cultural Production (1920-1935)
Dr. Nicolas Shumway

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
Dr. Naomi Lindstrom

Mario Higa
No Meio do Caminho: Figurações da Pedra na Moderna Poesia Latino-Americana
Dr. Ivan Teixeira and Dr. Leo Bernucci

Filadelfo Martínez-Osorio
The Poetics of Demonization: The Writings of Juan de Castellanos in the Light of Alonso de Ercilla’s La Araucana
Dr. James Nicolopulos and Dr. Cory Reed

Charles P. Patterson
A Fruitful Bough: The Old Testament Story of Joseph in Medieval and Golden Age Spanish Literature
Dr. Cory Reed

Francisco Plata
La novella de artista: El Kunstlerroman en la literatura española finisecular
Dr. Lily Litvak and Dr. Enrique Fierro

Ryan Thomas Schmitz
Deceit, Disguise, and Identity in Cervantes’s Novelas ejemplares
Dr. Cory Reed

Médar de la Cruz Serrata
Epic and Dictatorship in the Dominican Republic: The Struggles of Trujillo’s Intellectuals
Dr. Jossianna Arroyo Martínez and Dr. César A. Salgado

Fall 2008

Christine Guedri
A Sociolinguistic Study of Language Contact of Lebanese Arabic and Brazilian Portuguese in São Paulo
Dr. Frederick Hensey

Janie Zackin
A Jew and His Milieu: Allegory, Polemic, and Jewish Thought in Sem Tob’s Proverbios morales and Ma’aseh ha Rav
Dr. Matthew Bailey

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
Dr. Frederick Hensey and Dr. Brigitte Bauer

Anna María Nogar
La monja azul: The Political and Cultural Ramifications of a 17th-Century Mystical Transatlantic Journey
Dr. César A. Salgado and Dr. José Limón

Spring 2008

Gloria del Carmen Díaz
José Lezama Lima’s Paradiso: Knowledge and the Labyrinth
Dr. César A. Salgado

María Ángeles Fernández
Tradición e innovación en las Novelas a Marcia Leonarda de Lope de Vega
Dr. Stanislav Zimic

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
Dr. Dale A. Koike

Danny Méndez
In Zones of Contact (Combat): Dominican Narratives of Migration and Displacements in the United States and Puerto Rico
Dr. Jossianna Arroyo Martínez

Erin Hilda Redmond
Square Pegs: The Political Function of Ambiguous Gender and Sexuality in Three Novels from the Southern Cone
Dr. Naomi Lindstrom

Miguel Ángel Santana
Homometrías: Representaciones de deseo homosexual en la literatura del siglo de oro español
Dr. Cory A. Reed

Diego Trelles Paz
La novela policial alternativa en Hispanoamérica: Detectives perdidos, asesinos ausentes y enigmas sin respuesta
Dr. Naomi Lindstrom

Fall 2007

Fernanda V. Bueno
The Myth of Camila O’Gorman in the Works of Juana Manuela Gorriti, María Luisa Bemberg and Enrique Molina
Dr. Enrique Fierro

Amy Denise Schreiber
The Structural and Thematic Integrity of Diego de San Pedro’s Cárcel de amor
Dr. Stanislav Zimic

Federico R. Schweizer
Cristobal Lozano’s Ideology in Soledades de la vida y desengaños del mundo
Dr. Stanislav Zimic