Dissertations

In Progress 2009:

Estrella Cedeño, (advisor, Hernán Feldman) "Intersubjectivity in XIXth century literary criticism"

Matt Edwards, (advisor, José Quiroga) "Historical Constructions, Sexual Memories"

Orosman López, (advisor, José Quiroga) “Signposts of Cuban Nationalist Discourse: Male Homosexuals, Prostitutes, and Suicides in the Post-Soviet Cuban Police Novel"

Defended 2009:

Ryan Davis, (advisor, Hazel Gold) "Epidemic Expressions: Reading the Cultural Narrative of 'Spanish' Flu Discourse in Spain, 1918-1919"

María Del Mar Rosa Rodríguez, (advisor, María Mercedes Carrión) "Religiosidades en Transito: el simulacro aljamiado en el siglo XVI espanol"

Defended 2008:

Jess Boersma, (advisor, Hazel Gold) "Combatting the Modern State: War and Literature as Weak Dialectic in Galdós, Sender, Semprún and Goytisolo"

Defended 2007:

Anjela Cannarelli-Peck,(advisor, María Mercedes Carrión) "Caving Subjects, Wonderful Monsters: Convivencia After 1492"

Ketevan Kupatadze, (advisor, Ricardo Gutiérrez-Mouat) "Encompassing the World: Neo-Cosmopolitan Vision in Contemporary Latin American Literature"

Eduardo Ortiz, (advisor, José Quiroga) "Cut, Copy and Paste: el rebelde cadáver exquisito de la heroicidad surrealista"

Defended 2006:

Sylvia Figueroa, (advisor, José Quiroga) "Espacio y velocidad: tecnologías para una nueva mirada en la poesía virtual latinoamericana"

Katie Ford, (advisor, José Quiroga) "Transforming Spectacles: Violence in Cuban and Argentine Theater (1968-1974)"

Kerry Hegarty, (advisor, José Quiroga) "The New Urban Heroes: Representations of Cultural Modernity in 1960s and 1970s Mexican Literature and Film"

Rocío Rodríguez-del Río, (advisor, María Mercedes Carrión) "Mujeres de armas y letras: la reescritura del género sexual a través del género literario en Ana Caro, Lope de Vega y María de Zayas"

George Thomas, (advisor, Karen Stolley) "Occasional Nun: The Politics and Poetics of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz"

Tanya Weimer, (advisor, José Quiroga) "La diáspora cubana en México: terceros espacios y miradas excéntricas"

Scott Weintraub, (advisor, José Quiroga) "Reading the Crisis, the Crisis of Reading: Politics, Ethics and Poetics in Néstor Perlongher, Osvaldo Lamborghini and Raúl Zurita"

Defended 2005:

Julia Carroll, (advisor, Ricardo Gutiérrez-Mouat) "The Exchange of Memory: Reconfigurations of Difference in Postdictatorial Southern Cone Cultural Production, 1991-2001"

Ana Isabel Montero, (advisor, Hazel Gold) "Deflowering Textual Boundaries: Illustration and Transgression in Medieval Iberian Literature"

David Slade, (advisor, Karen Stolley) "Enlightened Archi-Textures: Founding Colonial Archives in the Hispanic Eighteenth Century"

Defended 2004:

Jeremy Paden, (advisor, Carl Good) "Reading Religiously. Baroque Hermeneutics in Lope de Vega and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz"

Amy Austin, (advisor, María Mercedes Carrión) "Translating Llull: Images, Words, and Spaces of Convivencia in Medieval Iberia"

Eugenia Romero, (advisor, Hazel Gold) "Memoria, Identidad y Migración. El imaginario gallego en la literatura española del XIX y el XX"

Defended 2003:

Ryan Prendergast, (advisor, María Mercedes Carrión) "Spectres of Control: Inquisition, Hermeneutics and Early Modern Spain"

Defended 2002:

Néstor Rodríguez, (advisor, Carlos J. Alonso) "Las ciudades imaginadas: configuraciones y desfiguraciones de lo nacional en la literatura dominicana contemporánea

Justin Crumbaugh, (advisor, Annabel Martín) "Last Resorts: Tourist Economies in Contemporary Spain's Cinema, Narrative, and Culture"

Denise Galarza-Sepúlveda, (advisor, Karen Stolley) "City, Myth, and Morality in Bartolomé Arzans Historia de la villa imperial de Potosi: A Criollo Project"

Josefina Isava, (advisor, Carlos J. Alonso) "La degeneración: un discurso generador en la novela latinoamericana de finales de siglo XIX"

Defended 2001:

José Antonio Rico-Ferrer, (advisor, María Mercedes Carrión) "Relecturas de la figura del cortesano: disciplina de la masculinidad en la España de los siglos XVI y XVII"

Defended 2000:

Alberto Egea Fernández-Montesinos, (advisor, Hazel Gold) "La construcción del imaginario literario andaluz: entre la imaginación folklórica y las marginaciones del sur"

Patrick Garlinger, (advisor, Hazel Gold) "Dead Letters: Epistolarity and Homoeroticism in Contemporary Spanish Literature"

Dara Goldman, (advisor, Carlos J. Alonso) "Lost and Found: Insularity and the Construction of Subjectivity in Hispanic Caribbean Literature"

Michael Jordan, (advisor, Carlos J. Alonso) "Displacement and Deferral as Generative Mechanisms of Textual Production in the Works of César Vallejo"

Edna Rodríguez Mangual, (advisor, Carlos J. Alonso) "Identidad, nacionalismo y exilio: imaginando la nación cubana en los escritos de Lidia Cabrera"

Defended 1997-99:

Tim Jacob, (advisor, Michael Solomon) "Siting the Virgen: The Poetics of Place and Identity in las Cantigas de Santa María"

Valerie Benoist, (advisor, Karen Stolley) "La historiografía nahua en transición: el Códice Aubin y la Historia tolteca chichimeca"

Leticia Seymour, (advisor, Karen Stolley) "El poder, el cuerpo y el deseo femeninos: El libro vacío de Josefina Vicens, Los recuerdos del porvenir de Elena Garro, y Arráncame la vida de Angeles Mastretta"

Lee Skinner, (advisor, Carlos J. Alonso) "Refiguring the Nineteenth-Century Historical Novel in Latin America"

Jean Dangler, (advisor, Michael Solomon) "Mediating Fictions: Women Healers and the Go-Between in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia"