Recent Selected Alumni Professional Activities

In Progress 2006:

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

Anjela Cannarelli-Peck, "Caving Subjects, Wonderful Monsters: Convivencia After 1492"

Ketevan Kupatadze, "Encompassing the World: Neo-Cosmopolitan Vision in Contemporary Latin American Literature"

Eduardo Ortiz, "Cut, Copy and Paste: el rebelde cadáver exquisito de la heroicidad surrealista"

Defended 2006:

Sylvia Figueroa, "Espacio y velocidad: tecnologías para una nueva mirada en la poesía virtual latinoamericana"

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

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

Rocío Rodríguez-del Río, "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, "Occasional Nun: The Politics and Poetics of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz"

Tanya Weimer, "La diáspora cubana en México: terceros espacios y miradas excéntricas"

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

Defended 2005:

Julia Carroll, "The Exchange of Memory: Reconfigurations of Difference in Postdictatorial Southern Cone Cultural Production, 1991-2001"

Ana Isabel Montero, "Deflowering Textual Boundaries: Illustration and Transgression in Medieval Iberian Literature"

David Slade,"Enlightened Archi-Textures: Founding Colonial Archives in the Hispanic Eighteenth Century"

Defended 2004:

Jeremy Paden, "Reading Religiously. Baroque Hermeneutics in Lope de Vega and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz"

Amy Austin, "Translating Llull: Images, Words, and Spaces of Convivencia in Medieval Iberia"

Eugenia Romero,“Memoria, Identidad y Migración. El imaginario gallego en la literatura española del XIX y el XX”

Defended 2003:

Ryan Prendergast,"Spectres of Control: Inquisition, Hermeneutics and Early Modern Spain"

Defended 2002:

Néstor Rodríguez, "Las ciudades imaginadas: configuraciones y desfiguraciones de lo nacional en la literatura dominicana contemporánea

Justin Crumbaugh, "Last Resorts: Tourist Economies in Contemporary Spain's Cinema, Narrative, and Culture"

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

Josefina Isava, "La degeneración: un discurso generador en la novela latinoamericana de finales de siglo XIX"

Defended 2001:

José Antonio Rico-Ferrer,"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, "La construcción del imaginario literario andaluz: entre la imaginación folklórica y las marginaciones del sur"

Patrick Garlinger, "Dead Letters: Epistolarity and Homoeroticism in Contemporary Spanish Literature"

Dara Goldman, "Lost and Found: Insularity and the Construction of Subjectivity in Hispanic Caribbean Literature"

Michael Jordan, "Displacement and Deferral as Generative Mechanisms of Textual Production in the Works of César Vallejo"

Edna Rodríguez Mangual, "Identidad, nacionalismo y exilio: imaginando la nación cubana en los escritos de Lidia Cabrera"

Defended 1997-99:

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

Valerie Benoist, "La historiografía nahua en transición: el Códice Aubin y la Historia tolteca chichimeca"

Leticia Seymour, "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, "Refiguring the Nineteenth-Century Historical Novel in Latin America"

Jean Dangler, "Mediating Fictions: Women Healers and the Go-Between in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia"