Name   Areas of Interest   Maria Canal   Medieval French   Abigail Celis   Khatibi, Goytisolo   Keith Christensen   Renaissance literature   Matthieu Dupas   gender and queer studies, masculinites in 17th century France   Maxime Foerster   gender studies, philosophy, romanticism, decadent literature   Jocelyn Frelier   women's studies, Belle Epoque France, early 21st century French literature, and Francophone North African literature   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   Helena Skorovsky   Renaissance France   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.

	Name   Areas of Interest   Mattia Beghelli   cinema and contemporary Italian literature   Pierluigi Erbaggio   contemporary Italian literature and film   Juliet Guzzetta   connections between contemporary Italian theater and film; feminism in Italy   Francesca Minonne   Mediterranean   Roberto Mosciatti   philosophy, political theory, and literature   Alessia Salamina   19th century poetry   Roberto Vezzani   films and literature

	Name     Areas of Interest   Susan Abraham   Medieval and early modern Ibero-Muslim and Judaic studies, the role of language in negotiating cultural and religious difference; Mediterranean studies   Pedro Aguilera-Mellado   Peninsular studies: Philosophy; Ideas in relation to Literature and Film   Erika Almenara   history, memory, violence in Latin America   Elizabeth Barrios   20th century and contemporary Venezuela and Argentina, political documentaries, the interplay between mass-culture and nationalism, cinema in rural areas, historical re-enactments   Juanita Bernal   20th century Latin American literature, Italian culture, and transatlantic flows between them   Matias Beverinotti   Argentinian humor and political resistance   Aaron Boalick    gender and queer studies, masculinities, post-Franco Spain, contemporary discourses surrounding immigration, film    David Collinge   contemporary Spain   Diogenes Costa Curras   contemporary Spain: literature, film, trauma   Talia Dajes   Latin American literature and performance   Shannon Dowd   contemporary Latin American literature, critical theory, translation   Catalina Esguerra   memory, trauma, space, tensions of memorialization and resistance in post-dictatorship Southern Cone   Karen Frazier   gender and race, Mexico, and Andes   Laura Herbert   US-Mexico border and representations of time, space and history   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   Anna Mester   Equatorial Guinean and Cape Verdean literatures   Manuel Modesto   XIXth century Latin American literature, liberal thinking and its relation to nation formation, particularly in Chile   Paige Rafoth   contemporary Mexican literature, cultural production of autonomous Mexican social movement, the state and neoliberalism   Lucía Naser Rocha   performing arts and politics of aesthetics, dance and writing and dance as writing, research methods, ways of thinking and knowledge construction within creative processes in dance   Mariano Olmedo   Early modern Spanish literature, 17th century narrative forms deriving from Cervantes, comparative culture studies   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   Federico Pous   political theory and social movements in the Southern Cone   Maria Robles   contemporary Spanish literature & audiovisual culture   Angelica Serna   colonial Latin America   Rachel TenHaaf   Peninsular studies   Rodrigo Toromoreno   wit and the construction of the colonial Amazon   Martin Vega   coloniality, mestizaje and gender in post-Conquest Mexico   Marcelino Viera   20th-century, Southern Cone literature and psychoanalysis and their relationship in subjectivities production   Giselle Vitaliti   Latin America allegories   Sandra Watts   20th-century Peninsular literature, critical theory, and instructional technology   Brian Whitener   neoliberalism & Latin American studies; poetry & translation   Silvina Yi   contemporary Peninsular and Latin American literature and film

French
Jennifer Solheim
Sounding the Text: Listening to Gender in Mediterranean Culture in French
Dissertation Chair: David Caron and Jarrod Hayes

Spanish
Alejandro Quin
Taming the Chaos:  Nature, Sovereignty, and the Politics of Writing in Modern Latin America
Dissertation Chair: Gareth Williams
Placement: Assistant Professor, Michigan Technological University

Mariam Colón Pizarro
Poetic Pragmatism: The Puerto Rican Division of Community Education (DIVEDCO) and the Politics of Cultural Production, 1949-1968
Dissertation Chair: Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes
Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez

Robert Wells
Humanism and Deshumanización:  Fiction and Philosophy of a Transatlantic Avant-Garde
Dissertation Chair: Juli Highfill and Gareth Williams
Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Sarah Cyganiak
The Method of Maria Zambrano: An Analysis and Translated Selection of Essays Centered on the Concepts of the Word, the Person, Compassion and Love
Dissertation Chair: Juli Highfill
Placement: Assistant Professor, Carthage College

Javier Entrambasaguas
The Social Movements in Contemporary Spanish Culture
Dissertation Chair: Cristina Moreiras-Menor
Placement: Postdoctoral lecturer, University of Michigan

French
Elena Dalla Torre
French and Italian Feminist Exchanges in the 1970s: Queer Embraces in Queer Time
Dissertation Chair: Jarrod Hayes and Peggy McCracken
Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian, Saint Louis Univerisity

Julie Human
Looking Back: Medieval French Romance and the Dynamics of Seeing
Dissertation Chair: Peggy McCracken
Placement: Lecturer, University of Kentucky

Rebecca Wines
Sporting Frenchness: Nationality, Race, and Gender at Play
Dissertation Chair: Jarrod Hayes
Placement: Assistant Professor, Cornell College

Italian
Federica Colleoni
Violenza politica e identita nazionale: Trauma, Spettralita e allegoria nella letteratura e nel cinema
Dissertation Chair: Vincenzo Binetti
Placement: Assistant Professor, James Madison University

Spanish
Daniel Arroyo-Rodríguez
Guerrilla Narratives in Spanish Contemporary Culture
Dissertation Chair: Cristina Moreiras-Menor
Placement: Assistant Professor at Colorado College

Andrea Dewees
The Trembling Foundations of the Guatemalan National Novel: The Case of Miguel Angel Asturias
Dissertation Chair: Gareth Williams
Placement: Assistant Professor, Lindenwood University

Annie Hesp
Writing the Camino: First-Person Narratives of the Camino de Santiago, 1985-2009
Dissertation Chair: Cristina Moreiras-Menor
Placement: Lecturer, Virginia Tech

Andreea Marinescu
Dialoguing Across Catastrophies: Chilean Post-Coup and Post-Dictatorship Cultural Production
Dissertation Chair: Gareth Williams
Placement: Assistant Professor, Colorado College

Roberto Robles-Valencia
Melancholic Nation:  The Affective Culture of Spanish Nationalism
Dissertation Chair: Cristina Moreiras-Menor
Placement: Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship, Kalamazoo College

Ofelia Ros
The Uncanny Laughs Once Again: Subjectivity and Structures of Ideological Domination in Late Twenty-Century Argentinean Cultural Production
Dissertation Chair: Gareth Williams
Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá

French
Julie Robert
A Nation's Ills: Medico-National Allegory in Quebec
Dissertation Chair: Jarrod Hayes
Placement: French Coordinator/Lecturer, University of Technology of Sydney (Australia)

Italian
Silvia Marchetti
Promoting the "Minor": A Figural Practice in Italian Literature and Film
Dissertation Chair: Vincenzo Binetti
Placement: Visiting professor, University of Bologna, Italy

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: Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College

Eduardo Matos Martín
Thinking Biopolitics: Reflections on Franco’s Dictatorship through Contemporary Fiction
Dissertation Chair: Cristina Moreiras-Menor
Placement: Lecturer, University of Arizona  

Cristina Miguez
Changing Aesthetics, Ethics, and Politics in Latin American Crime Cinema and Narrative
Dissertation Chair: Daniel Noemi Voionmaa
Placement: Assistant Professor, Metropolitan State College of Denver, Colorado

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

Sergio Escobar
Manuela, by Eugenio Diaz Castro, the Novel about the Colombian Foundational Impasse
Dissertation Chair: Javier Sanjines

French
Michelle Miller
Material Friendship: Service and Amity in Early Modern French Literature
Dissertation Chair: George Hoffmann
Placement: Lecturer, University of Michigan

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

Spanish
Andrea Fanta
Narratives of Abandonment: Colombia's Cultural Production from 1990 to 2007
Dissertation Chair: Daniel Noemi
Placement: Assistant Professor, Florida International University

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

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: Graduate Program Coordinator (M.A.), New York University

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
Placement: Assistant Professor, Millersville University

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

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 Professor, University of Missouri

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, 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: Independent Scholar

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
Placement: Lecturer, University of Montana

Romance Linguistics
Maria Perez-Bazan
Predicting Early Bilingual Development: Towards a Probabilistic Model of Analysis
Dissertation Chair: Teresa Satterfield
Placement: Lecturer-Professor of Spanish, Universität zu Köln, Germany

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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