Name   Areas of Interest   Aaron Boalick   19th and 20th century French literary and cultural studies, gender and queer studies, masculinities, post-Franco Spain, contemporary discourses surrounding immigration, film    Maria Canal   Medieval French   Keith Christensen   Renaissance literature   Elena Dalla Torre   contemporary Italian literature and culture next to French   Matthieu Dupas   gender and queer studies, masculinites in 17th cenury France   Maxime Foerster   gender studies, philosophy, romanticism, decadent literature   Julie Human    Medieval French literature and women's studies   Iris Key   19th-century French literature, Romanticism, sociability, salons and societies   Tanya Camela Logan   20th- and 21st-century Francophone literature, portrayals of identity, evolution of customs and traditions, construction of memory through storytelling   Tapha Ly   African novel, focusing on Francophone and English   Thomas Maranda   Medieval French literature; Celtic influences on early romance, Crusade lyric poetry   Chad Simpson   Medieval French   Jennifer Solheim   Mediterranean culture in French, intersectionality, music and performance studies   Marie Stoll   18th to 20th French literature, cultural studies. The Marquis de Sade, Libertinism, religion, power and the construction of the sexual being in literature. Philosophies: Epicurianism, Hedonism, Materialism and Nihilism.   Wendy Wilcox-Garrity   16th-century French literature and cultural studies, the genre of memoires and histories   Rebecca Wines   sports in French culture since 1870, North and West African Francophone literature, gender studies, race and immigration in France, and film

	Name   Areas of Interest   Federica Colleoni   contemporary Italian and French literature and film   Pierluigi Erbaggio   contemporary Italian literature and film   Juliet Guzzetta   connections between contemporary Italian theater and film; feminism in Italy

	Name     Areas of Interest   Erika Almenara   history, memory, violence in Latin America   Annette Alonso   U.S. Latino/a cultural studies: collective memory and transnational community building and identity politics   Daniel Arroyo-Rodriguez   20th century peninsular literature, Andalussian literature and political thought, nationalism, memory   Elizabeth Barrios   Southern Cone literature   David Collinge   contemporary Spain   Mariam Colón   Caribbean literature, colonial and post-colonial theory, slave narratives   Diogenes Costa Curras   contemporary Spain: literature, film, trauma   Sarah Cyganiak   Maria Zambrano, translation, philosophy, 20th century Peninsular poetics and thought   Talia Dajes   women's studies, popular culture in contemporary Spain and Latin America, film and literature   Andrea Dewees   post-peace accords literature in Central America and refugee communities; international solidarity and neoliberal restructuring in Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua; indigenous literatures and representations after the quincentennial   Javier Entrambasaguas   Spanish cinema (documentary cinema) and contemporary peninsular Spanish literature   Sergio Escobar   Latin American literature of the 19th century, particularly how novels and essays helped in the building of the national states   Laura Herbert   the production of history, colonial Latin America and gender studies   Silvia Heredia   Latina/o and Latin American literatures and cultures, specifically the experiences and cultural and political expressions of working class women of color   Annie Hesp   Camino de Santiago, a medieval pilgrimage in Northern Spain: first-person narratives that pilgrims write as they walk the trail; studying the pilgrimage as a form of experiential education.   Gabriel Horowitz   20th-century Latin America, especially Borges   Christian Kroll   relationship between the urban and the cultural; interaction between urban planning, architecture, public art and literature, and nation building (particularly in Central America); ethnic identities, politics, urban violence and cultural production in Guatemala since transition to democracy in the 1980s   Andreea Marinescu   Post-dictatorship Chilean literature and film; exile, immigration, and globalization; contemporary Baroque aesthetics; literature and politics; film theory and Latin America   Eduardo Matos Martín    20th century Peninsular literature. Narratives of the exiles during Franco's dictatorship   Clare McAlister-Raeburn   queer studies and Cuban narrative   Anna Mester   Afro-Romance studies   Manuel Modesto   XIXth century Latin American literature, liberal thinking and its relation to nation formation, particularly in Chile   Mara Pastor   20th century Caribbean & Brazilian poetry and its relation w/ visual arts   Jessica Piney   cultural production (literature and music) under dictatorship examining issues of memory and diaspora as well as deconstruction and reconstruction of cultural history and national identity in Castro's Cuba and Franco's Spain   Paulo Polo   analysis of political discourse, particularly that of the current Peruvian government's   Federico Pous   political theory and social movements in the Southern Cone   Alejandro Quin   nature, law, the body politic, 19th and 20th-century Latin American narratives of nature   Monica Renta    early 20th-century Latin America   Maria Robles   contemporary Spanish literature & audiovisual culture   Roberto Robles   nation and national identities read through 20th century Spanish narratives. Nation and its narrative nature.    Ofelia Ros   20th-century Argentinian literature and psychoanalysis as a mean for the ideological fantasies that structure social reality   Angelica Serna   Italian poetic form in 20th-century Latin America   Rachel TenHaaf   Peninsular studies   Rodrigo Toromoreno   20th-century literature of Brazilian deserts and Ecuadorian Páramos   José Valencia   contemporary Mexican literature of the northern states; the US-Mexico border, its cultures and literatures; contemporary Chicano/a literature; US-based Latino literature   Martin Vega   Latin American literature and politics   Marcelino Viera   20th-century, Southern Cone literature and psychoanalysis and their relationship in subjectivities production   Sandra Watts   20th-century Peninsular literature, critical theory, and instructional technology   Robert Wells   literary avant-gardes in Spain and Argentina; transatlanticism; humanism; aesthetic philosophy   Brian Whitener   neoliberalism & Latin American studies; poetry & translation

French
Julie Robert
A Nation's Ills: Medico-National Allegory in Quebec
Dissertation Chair: Jarrod Hayes

Italian
Silvia Marchetti
Promoting the "Minor": A Figural Practice in Italian Literature and Film
Dissertation Chair: Vincenzo Binetti

Spanish
Manuel Chinchilla
In the Wake of '68:  Literature and the Cultural Politics of Democracy in Contemporary Mexico
Dissertation Chair: Gareth Williams
Placement: Assistant Professor, Sewanee:  The University of the South

Noelia Sol Cirnigliaro
Through the Cellar and From the Window: Urban Domesticity and Literary Creation in Early Modern Spain (1583-1663)
Dissertation Chair: Enrique García Santo-Tomás
Placement: Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College

Sebastián Díaz
Against Paraguay: Visual and Literary Culture in the War Against Paraguay (1864-1870)
Dissertation Chair: Gareth Williams
Placement: Lecturer, Dartmouth College

Cristina Miguez
Changing Aesthetics, Ethics, and Politics in Latin American Crime Cinema and Narrative
Dissertation Chair: Daniel Noemi Voionmaa

Pedro Porben
The Desired Revolution and the New Man: Assembling and Negotiating Cultural and Intellectual Practices in Revolutionary Cuba (1959-2007)
Dissertation Chair: Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola
Placement: Assistant Professor, Bowling Green State University

Radost Rangelova
House, Factory, Beauty Salon, Brothel: Space, Gender and Sexuality in Puerto Rican Literature and Film
Dissertation Chair: Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes
Placement: Assistant Professor, Gettysburg College

Alana Reid
The Pirated Body: Mapping Gender and Nationality in Contemporary Hispanic Fiction
Dissertation Chair: Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola
Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Central Arkansas

Raquel Vega Duran
The Migrant’s Journey: Border-Crossing, Otherness, and the Politics of Place in Spanish Culture
Dissertation Chair: Cristina Moreiras Menor
Placement: Assistant Professor, Claremont McKenna College

French
Michelle Miller
Material Friendship: Service and Amity in Early Modern French Literature
Dissertation Chair: George Hoffmann

Sharon Marquart
Witnessing Communities and an Ethics of Reading
Dissertation Co-chairs: David Caron & Juli Highfill
Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Houston

Spanish
Fernando Velásquez
The Political Constitution of the Literary: Impossible Nationhood and Alternative Commonality in Modern Peru
Dissertation Chair: Gareth Williams
Placement: Assistant Professor, St Joseph College

Ana Ros
Inheritance:  Living Memory, Leaving Countries.  Uruguayan and Argentinean Fiction at the Turn of the Millennium
Dissertation Chair: Daniel Noemi
Placement: Assistant Professor, SUNY Binghamton

Megan Saltzman
The Deteriorating Histories in the Public Everyday Space of Post-Francoist Barcelona
Dissertation Chair: Cristina Moreiras-Menor
Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Otago

Anne McGee
From Tomochic to Las Jornadas Villistas:  History, Memory, and Regional Identity in Chihuahua and Durango
Dissertation Chair: Gareth Williams
Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Indiana University

Leslie Marsh
Embodying Citizenship in Brazilian Women’s Film, Video and Literature, 1971 to 1988
Dissertation Co-chairs: Catherine Benamou and Larry LaFountain-Stokes
Placement: Assistant Professor, Georgia State University

Patricia Keller
Reading the Ghost:  Towards a Theory of Haunting in Contemporary Spanish Culture
Dissertation Chair:  Cristina Moreiras-Menor
Placement: Assistant Professor, Cornell University

Jonathan Snyder
Reading Culture at the Threshold:  Time and Transition in Modern Spain (1800 – 1990)
Dissertation Chair:  Cristina Moreiras-Menor
Placement: Research Associate, National Museum of Art Reina Sofia (Spain)

French
Dominica Chang
Textually Transmitted Revolutions: Revolutionary Mimicry and Print Culture in Nineteenth-Century France
Dissertation Chair: William Paulson
Placement: Assistant Professor, Lawrence University

Olivier Delers
The Other Rise of the Novel: Alternative Economies in Eighteenth-Century French Fiction
Dissertation Chair: William Paulson
Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Richmond

Spanish (joint program with Linguistics)
Wilfredo Valentin Marquez
Doing being boricua: Perceptions of national identity and the sociolinguistic distribution of
liquid variables in Puerto Rican Spanish
Dissertation Chair: Lesley Milroy and Teresa Satterfield

French

Honorine Abessolo
Postcolonial African Literature and Art: A Father's Death as Allegory of Dislocated Culture
Dissertation Chair: George Hoffmann

Benedicte Boisseron
Taking the Postcolonial Lead: Decentering the Metropole Through Martinican Literature
Dissertation Chair: Frieda Ekotto and Jarrod Hayes
Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Montana

Patrick Dodd
Le Mythe Negre: ideologie de la race, de la sexualite et de l'immobilite chez Dany Laferriere
Dissertation Chair: Frieda Ekotto

Joanna Gill
Between Rejection and Redemption: Representations of the Father in Sartre, Beauvoir, Genet and Camus, 1939-1949
Dissertation Chair: David Caron and Frieda Ekotto

Spanish

Silvia Ximena Soruco-Sologuren
The City of the Cholos. Bolivia in Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Dissertation Chair: Javier Sanjines

Constanza Svidler
Narratives of Failure and Impossibility: Dismantling Silenced Trauma in Postdictatorial Argentina
Dissertation Chair: Jossianna Arroyo and Santiago Colás

French

Megan Moore
Translating Byzantium: Cross-Cultural Marriage and Gender in Medieval French Romance
Dissertation Chair: Peggy McCracken
Placement: Assistant Director, Center for Renaissance Studies, The Newberry Library

Spanish

Orlando Bentancor
The Life of Metals in Potosi: Colonial Mining in the XVI, XVII, and XX Centuries
Dissertation Chair: Gustavo Verdesio
Placement: Assistant Professor, Barnard College

Susana Draper
Transmutants in the Poslettered City: Intellectuals, Culture, and Politics in Uruguay at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Century
Dissertation Chair: Santiago Colás and Gareth Williams
Placement: Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature, Princeton University

Emma Garcia
Reading Latinas: A Cultural Analysis of Beauty, Gender and Empowering Models For and By Latinas.
Dissertation Chair: Francis Aparicio and Jossianna Arroyo
Placement: Assistant Professor, Colby College

Luis Martin-Cabrera
El No-lugar: Novela Policial y Justicia en las Postdictaduras de España del Cono Sur
Dissertation Chair: Cristina Moreiras-Menor
Placement: Assistant Professor, University of California at San Diego

Monika Szumilak
Reconfiguring Spanish Subjects: Trans/Nationality and Technology in Spanish Narrative and Film after 1992
Dissertation Chair: Cristina Moreiras- Menor and William Paulson
Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Arizona

French

Magali Compan
Du Colonialisme a la Post-Nationalite: Resistance et Desordre dans la Litterature Francophone Malgache
Dissertation Chair: Frieda Ekotto & Jarrod Hayes
Placement: Assistant Professor, College of William and Mary

Lori McMann
The Figure of the Jew in French Texts of the Eighteenth Century
Dissertation Chair: William Paulson
Placement: Lecturer, University of Michigan

Spanish

Marivel Danielson
Our Art is Our Weapon: Identity and Representation in Queer U.S. Latina Creativity
Dissertation Chair: Jossianna Arroyo and Francis Aparicio
Placement: Assistant Professor, Arizona State University

Felipe Gomez
Misterio Regio: La Contracultura y el Cadáver de Caicedo
Dissertation Chair: Santiago Colás
Placement: Lecturer in Hispanic Studies, Carnegie Mellon University

Julie Hempel
Faces, Bodies, and Spaces: Differential Identity Construction in Mexicana and Chicana Narrative
Dissertation Chair: Jossianna Arroyo and Debra Castillo
Placement: Assistant Professor, Austin College

Monica Llado-Ortega
Islands in Transit: The Trans-Puerto Rican Community in the Narrative Work of Manuel Ramos Otero
Dissertation Chair: Jossianna Arroyo
Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Puerto Rico

Melody Nixon
Feminine Bodies that Tell Stories: Narratives by Central American Women Writers
Dissertation Chair: Lucia Suarez
Placement: Assistant Professor, Ursinus College

Samuel Sanchez y Sanchez
Staging Death: Silences and Ventriloquisms of the Dead Body in Medieval Spain
Dissertation Chair: Catherine Brown
Placement: Assistant Professor, Davidson College

French

Liz Fackelman
The Divided Heart: Heroism and Violence in the Old French Chanson de Geste
Dissertation Chair: Peggy McCracken
Placement: Instructor, Memphis State University

Amy Hubbell
(Re) Writing Home: Repetition and Return in Pied-Noir Literature
Dissertation Chair: Jarrod Hayes
Placement: Assistant Professor, Kansas State University

Steve Spalding
Toward an Anatomy of French Publishing: Les Editions de Minuit and Literary Value
Dissertation Chair: Ross Chambers
Placement: Assistant Professor, Christopher Newport University

Spanish

Maria Elena Cepeda
The Colombian Connection: Popular Music, Transnational Identity, and the Political Movement
Dissertation Chair: Frances Aparicio
Placement: Assistant Professor, Williams College, Williamstown, MA

Dosinda Garcia-Alvite
Literature and Music from Equatorial Guinea after the Independence:
Process of Negotiation of Identity in Exile in Spain
Dissertation Chair: Juli Highfill
Placement: Assistant Professor, Denison University

Zoya Khan
Cholos, Mestizos and the (Un)making of the Bolivian State: A Literary Journey: 1900-1952
Dissertation Chair: Javier Sanjines
Placement: Assistant Professor, University of South Alabama

John Thompson
Galizan Civil War Novels: Recuperating Historical Memory for (Re)Building Democracy in the Present and Forging a National Identity
Dissertation Chair: Juli Highfill and William Paulson
Placement: Assistant Professor, Montana State University

French

Elizabeth Hubble
The Borrowed Knight: Representing the Masculine Hero
in the Twelfth-Century French Verse Romance
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Catherine Brown and Peggy McCracken

Romance Linguistics

Maria Perez-Bazan
Predicting Early Bilingual Development: Towards a Probabilistic Model of Analysis
Dissertation Chair: Teresa Satterfield

Spanish

Daniel Chavez
Between Markets Development and Cultural Politics in Modern Latin America:
The Nicaraguan Paradigm 1934-2002
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Frances Aparicio and Santiago Colás
Placement: Assistant Professor, Washington University, St. Louis, MO

Mike Millar
Discursive Spaces & the Represntation of Experience:
The Struggle for Social Justice in Post-War Guatemala
Dissertation Chair: Santiago Colás
Placement: Assistant Professor, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI

Maria Angeles Rodriguez-Cadena
Histories of Mexico: Personification of the Past in Historical Novels and Historical Soap Operas
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Francis Aparicio and Santiago Colás
Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay

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