| Graduate | Alumni Placement | Dissertation Title | Chair of Dissertation Committee | Year of Graduation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tracy Quan | University of Delaware (Newark, DE) Assistant Professor |
Becoming Fluent Abroad: Examining the Intersections of Oral Fluency, Formulaic Language, and Learner Investment in Study Abroad | Robert Blake | Sep. 2016 |
| Isabel Baboun Garib | tba | Subjetividades Afectivas en el Nuevo Teatro Chileno: Cristian Plana, Guillermo Calderon y Manuela Infante | Ana Peluffo | Jun. 2016 |
| Jonathan Alcantar | University of Northern Colorado (Greenly, CO) Assistant Professor |
Ramona: Study of the Cultural Conflicts and Reconfigurations of an Iconic Figure | Robert Irwin | Mar. 2016 |
| Annalisa Teixeira | UC Davis Student Academic Success Center (Davis, CA) Retention Counselor and Pre-Grad Advisor |
The Role of Keyboarding in the Development and Retention of L2 Spanish Vocabulary | Robert Blake | Dec. 2015 |
| David Beard | Miami University of Ohio (Oxford, OH) Asst. Professor |
Taking a Closer Look at English-Spanish Cognates in Word Recognition among Second Language Learners and Bilinguals: Cognate Categorization and Individual Differences in Recognition | Robert Blake | Jun. 2015 |
| Tania Lizarazo | University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Catonsville, MD), Asst. Professor |
What Does It Mean to Survive Violence in Colombia?: Local Agencies and Transnational Alliances | Michael Lazzara | Jun. 2015 |
| Gabriel Guillen | Monterey Institute of International Studies (Monterey, CA) Asst. Professor |
Expanding the language classroom: linguistic gains and learning opportunities through e-tandems and social networks | Robert Blake | Mar. 2015 |
| Raquel Garcia | Diablo Valley College (Pleasant Hill, CA) Professor |
Conscious Political Incorrectness: A Legitimate Discourse in Mexican Narrative, Theater, and Stand-Up Comedy | Linda Egan | Dec. 2014 |
| Manuel Gomez Navarro | Boise State University (Boise, ID) |
The Transatlantic Circulation of Disenchantment: Leftist Intellectual Criticism in the Spanish and Chilean Transitions to Democracy | Michael Lazzara and Cristina Martinez-Carazo | Dec. 2014 |
| Timothy Johnson | University of Nebraska, Kearney (Kearney, NE) Asst. Professor |
Writing the Art of War: Letters and Arms in the Early Modern Spanish Military Treatise | Leopoldo Bernucci | Sep. 2014 |
| Emily Kuffner | College of St Benedict and University of St John (St. Joseph & Collegeville, MN) Visiting Asst. Professor |
Roma puttana: The Erotics of Space in La Lozana andaluza | Adrienne Martin | Sep. 2014 |
| Carolina Viera Echevarria | Boise State University (Boise, ID) |
Academic Spanish in the United States: Discourse Analysis of Academic Conference Presentations | Cecilia Colombi | Sep. 2014 |
| Daniel Herrera Cepero | California State University, Long Beach (Long Beach, CA) Asst. Professor |
Lorca en Nueva York y Nueva York en Lorca: Diversificacion e Hibridez Expresiva | Marta Altisent & Cristina Martinez-Carazo | Jun. 2014 |
| Rebecca Estes | Solano Community College Adjunct Instructor, Bradshaw Christian High School Teacher |
Lexical Segmentation in L2 Spanish Listening | Robert Blake | Jun. 2014 |
| Iliana Portaro | Southern Utah University Asst. Professor |
Escritoras vanguardistas: la utilizacion de generos menores y la prensa escrita peruana a principios del siglo XX | Ana Peluffo | Dec. 2013 |
| J James Lee | Bikram Yoga (Davis, CA) Bikram Yoga Teacher and Independent Scholar |
The Wives and Sisters of Sahagún: Word Order of Latin and Romance Synonyms in Possessive Noun Phrases in the Formulae of Medieval Iberian Notarial Documents- Uxor vs. Mulier and Soror vs. Germana, a Preliminary Study | Robert Blake | Dec. 2013 |
| Art Vargas | Sonoma State University (Sonoma, CA) Adjunct Instructor |
Irregular Migration Narratives: Writing Body and Space in the Mexico-U.S. Borderlands | Robert Irwin | Dec. 2013 |
| Dalia Magaña | University of California, Merced Asst. Professor |
Language, Latinos, and Healthcare: Discourse Analysis of the Spanish Psychiatric Interview | Cecilia Colombi | Sep. 2013 |
| Emily Davidson | Pacific Lutheran University (Tacoma, WA) Asst. Professor |
Canal Memories: Race, Space, and the Construction of Modern Panama | Michael Lazzara | Sep. 2013 |
| Matthew Russell | Davis Waldorf School Teacher |
Postmemory, the Holocaust, and the Re-Moralization of the Spanish Civil War in Contemporary Spanish Cultural Production | Cristina Martinez-Carazo | Dec. 2013 |
| Katie Stafford | Lafayette College (Easton, PA) Asst. Professor |
Narrating War in Peace: The Spanish Civil War in the Transition and Today | Cristina Martinez-Carazo | Sep. 2013 |
| Karina Zelaya | Mississippi State University (Starkville, MS) Visiting Asst. Professor |
Cuzcatlan Reappropriated: Indigenous Myth in the Construction of Salvadoran National Identity during the 20th Century | Robert Irwin | Sep. 2013 |
| Valerie Hecht | College of Southern Nevada (Las Vegas, NV) Professor |
Sexualidades peligrosas: Representaciones de la mujer sexual y genericamente transgresora en la produccion cultural del porfiriato | Robert Irwin | Jun. 2013 |
| Emily Foss | University of California, Davis (Davis, CA) Lecturer |
Jewish Tradition and Kabbalah in Golden Age Spanish Literature | Adrienne Martin | Mar. 2013 |
| Juan Manuel Portillo | Colby College (Waterville, ME) Visiting Asst. Professor |
Negative Poetics in Contemporary Latin American Lyrics: Coral Bracho and Eduardo Milán | Emilio Bejel | Dec. 2012 |
| Monica Poza | University of Olso (Norway) | La bisagra discursiva de la memoria: Ortodoxias y heterodoxias de la imago en el teatro religioso del Siglo de Oro | Adrienne Martin | Dec. 2012 |
| Bobby Nixon |
Colombus State University (Colombus, GA) |
Seis familias de baladas novelescas de la tradición pan-europea como clave para conocer la formación y la transmisión del género | Adrienne Martin | Sep. 2012 |
| Mary Curtis | TBA | Legitimizing Discourses: A Vindication of Swordplay Through Letters in The Philosophy of Arms | Adrienne Martin | Sep. 2012 |
| Kelly Arispe | Boise State University (Boise, Idaho) Asst. Professor |
Why Vocabulary Still Matters: L2 Lexical Development and Learner Autonomy as Mediated Through an ICALL Tool, Langbot | Robert Blake | Jun. 2012 |
| Jonathan Dettman | University of Nebraska, Kearney Asst. Professor |
Writing After History: Essays on Post-Soviet Cuban Literature | Emilio Bejel & Neil Larsen | Jun. 2012 |
| Erik Larson | Brigham Young University (Provo, UT) Asst. Professor |
Latin American Noir and the Problems of Rationalism | Michael Lazzara & Robert Newcomb | Jun. 2012 |
| Milagros Gomez | University of Minnesota, Duluth (Duluth, MN) Asst. Professor |
La (re)inscripcion del cuerpo femenino: sexualidad, performancia, dolor y enfermedad en la narrativa de autoras mexicanas |
Linda Egan | Mar. 2012 |
| Sofía Paredes | Drake University (Des Moines, IA) Asst. Professor |
Rhetorical and Lexico-Grammatical Features of Argumentative Writing in Spanish as a Heritage Language and as a Second Language |
Cecilia Colombi | Dec. 2011 |
| Jason Smith | Southern Utah University (Cedar City, UT) Asst. Professor |
Subcategorization and Optimality Theory: The Case of Spanish Diminutives |
Travis Bradley | Dec. 2011 |
| Miriam Hernández-Rodríguez | University of California, Berkeley Director of Spanish Language Instruction, Lecturer |
Análisis sistémico funcional del lenguaje académico en la disciplina literaria: Rol de la causalidad en la reseña de cine y el ensayo | Cecilia Colombi | Sep. 2011 |
| Jesus Ernesto Ortíz-Díaz | Macalister College (St. Paul, MN) Asst. Professor |
De la idealización estética al paisaje crítico: La representación de la naturaleza en la literatura latinoamericana | Leopoldo Bernucci | Jun. 2011 |
| Brad Langer | Cuesta Community College (San Luis Obispo, CA) Instructor |
The Effects of Pragmatic Instruction in the Spanish Language Classroom | Robert Blake | Jun. 2011 |
| Álvaro Llosa | University of Olso (Norway) Assoc. Professor |
Más allá del papel: El hilo digital de la ficción impresa |
Adrienne Martín | Jun. 2011 |
|
Laura Mancheño Macía |
Community College of New Mexico at Albuquerque Full-time Instructor |
Evolución de la escritura materna en la narrativa española y géneros contiguos hasta la contemporaneidad |
Marta Altisent | Jun. 2011 |
| Omar Velázquez-Mendoza | University of Virginia Asst. Professor |
Los orígenes primitivos de la a personal y el contínuo sociolingüístico | Robert Blake | 2010 |
| Valentina Zvierkova | Grinnell College (Grinnell, IA) Visiting Asst. Prof. |
Foreign Women in Mexican Film, Literature and Art: Identity, Culture and Nationalism | Robert McKee Irwin | 2010 |
| Jorge Andrade | Universidad Regional Amazónica en La Universidad Ikiam, Ecuador Docente /Investigador |
Imaginando la nación y la ciudadanía en las primeras novelas liberales del Ecuador | Ana Peluffo | 2010 |
| Manuel José Villalba | University of Kentucky (Lexington, KY) | Dialéctica entre el homo ludens y el homo sacer. Análisis de la "fragmentariedad" en las novelas del Laberinto Mágico de Max Aub | Marta Altisent | 2010 |
| Moisés Park | Gordon College (Wenham, MA) Assoc. Professor |
Desire and generational conflicts in Chilean post-dictatorial literature and film (Figuraciones del deseo y coyunturas generacionales en la literatura y el cine postdictatorial chilenos) | Michael Lazzara | 2010 |
| Amy Henson Badovinac | Stay at home parent | The Untamed Other: Beastly, Mythical, and Corporeal Representations in Vaz Ferreira, Agustini, and Ibarbourou | Ana Peluffo | 2009 |
| Jeanette Pucheu | University of Wisconsin-Superior (Superior, WI) |
Therapeutic writing and epistolarity in Nubosidad variable, Casi perfecto, Cándida otra vez y Cuestión de amor propio | Cristina Martínez-Carazo | 2009 |
| Ann Delforge | unknown | Unstressed Vowel Devoicing in the Spanish of Cusco Peru: A Sociophonetic Study | Travis Bradley | 2009 |
| Tasha Lewis | Loyola University Maryland Asst. Professor |
The Role of Motion Event Gestures in L2 Development in a Study Abroad Context | Robert Blake | 2009 |
| Eduardo Olid Guerrero | Muhlenberg College (Allentown, PA) Asst. Professor |
El ritual del disfraz en las Novelas ejemplares de Cervantes | Adrienne Martín | 2009 |
| Claudia Darrigrandi | Unviersidad de Chile Profesor Asistente |
Cuerpos y trayectos urbanos: Santiago de Chile y Buenos Aires, 1881-1935 | Ana Peluffo | 2009 |
| Verónica Loureiro-Rodríguez | Texas A&M University (College Station, TX) | Language Attitudes and Values Among Galician Adolescents | Robert Blake | 2008 |
| Francisco Peña | University of British Columbia | Hermandad y Otredad. Representación de la figura de Caín en la Literatura Española Medieval y del Siglo de Oro | Cristina Martínez-Carazo | 2008 |
| Amy Pettigrew Alfieri | Spring Hill College (Mobile, Alabama) | Burlas and Burladores in Don Quixote | Adrienne Martín | 2007 |
| Laura Marqués | University of California, Santa Barbara | The Effects of Study Abroad on the Acquisition of Word Order with Intransitive Verbs in L2 Spanish | Robert Blake | 2007 |
| Denise Minor | California State University, Chico | En la escuela You Have to Speak Spanish. Language Choices and their Effect upon L2 Proficiency in a Spanish Immersion Classroom | Cecilia Colombi | 2007 |
| Cristina Pardo-Ballester | Iowa State University | The Development of a Web-Based Spanish Listening Placement Exam | Robert Blake | 2007 |
| Rajiv Rao | Northern Illinois University | Issues in the Phrasing of Barcelona Spanish | Travis Bradley | 2007 |
| Angelo Rodriguez | University of Charleston | The Role of Early Alignment in Broad/Narrow Focus Declaratives in Buenos Aires Spanish | Travis Bradley | 2007 |
| Dolores Miralles | Una aproximación hemisférica a la narrativa indígena comtemporánea: México y Estados Unidos | Neil Larsen | 2006 | |
| Corinne Pubill | Salisbury University | Poder y género en tres novelas políticas de Marta Lynch | Peluffo - Piglia | 2006 |
| Eleanor Marsh | San Jose State University | La pregonera divina: Tradición medieval y estrategia persuasiva en la Vida de la Venerable Madre Isabel de Jesús | Adrienne Martín | 2006 |
| Gabriela Muniz | Butler University | Restos inmortales. Literatura forense en el Cono Sur | Emilio Bejel | 2006 |
| Ben Schmeiser | Illinois State University | On the Durational Variability of Svarabhakti Vowels in Spanish Consonant Clusters | Travis Bradley | 2006 |
| J. David Jerez-Gomez | California State University, San Bernardino | Oralidad y oralización en el panorama literario y social del Siglo de Oro | Adrienne Martín | 2006 |
| Adrián Pérez-Boluda | California State University, Northridge | Rimas humanas y divinas del licenciado Tomé de Burguillos. Una lectura erótica | Adrienne Martín | 2006 |
| Esther Fernández | Sarah Lawrence College | Eros en escena: El erotismo de la Comedia del Siglo de Oro | Adrienne Martín | 2005 |
| Julia Medina | University of San Diego | Escritos e intervenciones del poeta, el periodista, y el político Rubén Darío, Enrique Guzmán y Augusto C. Sandino | Ana Peluffo & Ricardo Piglia | 2005 |
| Jennifer Valko | East Carolina University | Expressing Patagonia: sightseeing, journalism, and immigration in Argentina | Larsen-Piglia | 2005 |
| Rachel Aponte | The Key School (Annapolis, MD) | Hacia una identidad heterogénea: Venezuela y el problema de la representación en Mi pequeño mundo de Stefanía Mosca | Neil Larsen | 2004 |
| Oswaldo Estrada | University of North Carolina | Entre historia y novela: la crónica de Bernal Díaz del Castillo y su re-escritura en la novela contemporánea | Linda Egan | 2004 |
| Eve Zyzik | Michigan State University | Encoding Meaning with Polyfunctional Forms: The Acquisition of Clitics in L2 Spanish | Robert Blake | 2004 |
| Juvenal Acosta | California College of the Arts | Cuerpos violentos: sexo, amor y muerte en tres poetas mexicanos: Ramón López Velarde, Xavier Villaurrutia y Octavio Paz | Neil Larsen | 2003 |
| Teresa Oteiza Silva | Eastern Washington University |
Análisis ideológico del discurso pedagógico de la historia de Chile en los textos escolares de historia (1970-2001) |
Cecilia Colombi | 2003 |
| José Recinos | The Search of the Absence in the Mexican Novel of the 1960's | Linda Egan | 2003 | |
| Luz Triana | St. Cloud State University (St. Cloud, MN) | Clase social, raza y género en la Colombia de Fanny Buitrago | Stefano Varesse | 2003 |
| Mariana Achugar | Carnegie Mellon University | La construcción de la Memoria en el discurso militar uruguayo 1976 - 2001 | Cecilia Colombi | 2002 |
| Catalina Adams | Winthrop, South Carolina | Strong Assibilation and Prestige | M. Torreblanca | 2002 |
| Lori Ann Bernard | State University of New York | Cancionero toledano Manuscrito 17.689 de la Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid | Sam Armistead | 2002 |
| Juan Calvo | CCSF | La estética de la crueldad en la narrativa de Terenci Moix | Marta Altisent | 2002 |
| Gloria Díaz-Gastelum | Poridat de las poridates: una versión castellana inédita | Sam Armistead | 2002 | |
| Adam Karp | American River College | Modification of Glosses and Its Effect on Incidential L2 Vocabulary Learning in Spanish | Robert Blake | 2002 |
| Evelyn Nadeau | Southern Oregon University | Paradise Lost: civilization and barbarism in the Latin American neo-fantastic narrative | Linda Egan | 2002 |
| Derrin Pinto | St. Thomas University Minnesota | Perdóname, ¿llevas mucho esperando? Conventional Language in L1 and L2 Spanish | Robert Blake | 2002 |
| Scott Rex | Southern Oregon University | Unaccusativity in Spanish | Robert Blake | 2001 |
| Clorinda Dávila de Keller | Bennington College | Lo étnico y la cultura nacional en las obras de Mario Vargas Llosa | Zunilda Gertel | 2000 |
| Ruth Ward | Natomas High School | Women as the center of discourse in the narratives of Rosario Castellanos, Elena Garro, and Rigoberta Menchú | Zunilda Gertel | 2000 |
