Recent Ph.D. Alumni

 

2009 GRADUATES

             Edwin Murillo (Erskine College, South Carolina)

             Uncanny Periphery: Existential(ist) Latin American Narratives of the 1930s

2008 Graduates

Myriam Mompoint ( Long Island University, New York)

Symbolic Exchanges: Haiti, Brazil and the Ethnopoetics of Cultural Identity

 

2007 Graduates

María Isabel Alfonso (Saint Joseph’s College, Long Island Campus, NY)

Dinámicas culturales de los años sesenta en Cuba : Ediciones El Puente y otras zonas creativas de conflicto

 

Fanny Daubigny (California State University, Fullerton)

Displaced Gestures:  Anatomy of the Visual Detail through the Magnifying Glass in Proust's A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu

Adolfo Iván Figueroa (Notre Dame University, South Bend, Indiana)

Sociedad híbrida, líderes y consenso político en José María Arguedas

Manuel María Rilo (Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches Texas)

De brocas y tracas: nación, normalidad, homosexualidad y travestismo en la literatura y la cultura mediática popular peruana

Dora Marrón Romero (Broward Community College, Fort Lauderdale, Florida)

Sacred Powers: Women and African-Derived Religions in 20th Century Caribbean Narrative

 

2006 Graduates

Beatriz Calvo (University of Saint Louis, Madrid Campus)

Of “Dangerous Women” and Hybrid Nations: Women, Impurity, and the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Cuba

Carlos de Oro (Southwestern University)

Raza, género, espacio social y carnaval: el papel de la cultura en la presentación simbólica de la nación colombiana

Guillermo Rivera (Doral Academy Charter High School, Doral, Florida & University of Miami)
Colonialism, Imprisonment, and Contamination in French Guyana: Léon-Gontran Damas's Retour de Guyane and Patrick Chamoiseau’s Guyane: Traces-mémoires du bagne

José Zavala (Southwestern University)

Positions of Convenience: Cultural Identity and the Politics of Suppression, Conformity, and Ambiguity in Late Colonial Peru

 

2005 Graduates

Kevin Finn (University of Miami)
Locations of Identity: Space, Place, and Mobility in Contemporary Quebecois Immigrant Literature

 

Leonor Juárez (Independent Scholar in the United Kingdom)

Ghostly Traces: Gender and Genre in Gothic Popular Fiction of Late Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Spain

Lee Williams (Nova Southeastern University)

The Metafictive (and Modernist) Work of Quitoga, Arlt and Onetti: Debunking the Pre-Boom Lacuna

2004 Graduates

Corinne Lhermitte (Independent Scholar)
Toward An Aesthetics Of Adaptation: From Text To Film In Proust And Duras

 

2003 Graduates

Ligia Aldana (University of Pittsburgh)

Violence, Race, Myth and History in Colombian Caribbean Literature.

Omar García (Queen Mary, University of London)

Diálogos con la censura: El enantiomorfismo teatral durante el franquismo

Paulette Hacker (Independent Scholar)
Weaving in and out of Africa: Gide's Entanglements in L'immoraliste, Les faux-monnayeurs, Voyage au Congo and Thésée

 

Sandra Marchand-Horcel (University of Puerto Rico, Rio Pedras)

Tupi or not Tupi: L’image de l'homme sauvage dans trois récits de voyage français au Brésil (1600-1750)

Clinia Saffi (Presbyterian College)

Resistencia escrita, oral y actante de los indios guaranties en la época colonial

Rosa Tezanos-Pinto (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis)

Descodificación de los diálogos discursivos en la obra poética y narrativa de Ester de Izaguirre y Loreina Santos Silva

 

2002 Graduates

Yvette Fuentes (Grand Valley State U - Allendale, MI)

Beyond the Nation: Issues of Identity in the Contemporary Narrative of Cuban Women Writing (in) the Diaspora

Grisel Pujalá-Soto (Arizona State University)

Eduardo Subirats: La idea de América en el pensamiento español posmoderno

Juan Carlos Toledano (Lewis and Clark College)

Ciencia-ficción cubana: El proyecto nacional del hombre nuevo socialista

 

2000 Graduates

Roselyne Pirson (Center for the Literary Arts, Miami-Dade College)

Pour une esthétique du texte illustré,de 1866 à 1928

 

1999 Graduates

Eloy Merino ( Northern Illinois University)

Nuevas andanzas y desventuras de Lazarillo de Tormes: Politica y cultura en el palimpsesto de Camilo Jose Cela

 

1998 Graduates

Monica Ayala (Denison University)

El espacio hecho palabra: imágenes del sertao brasilero en Euclides da Cunha, Jõao Guimaraes Rosa y Mario Vargas Llosa