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Ph.D. Degrees in Spanish & Portuguese: 2000-present
The following table lists chronologically Ph.D. Degrees in Spanish & Portuguese conferred from 2000 to date (** after title indicates that a copy is on file in the Departmental Library, 5125 Dwinelle).
| YEAR | NAME | DISSERTATION TITLE | DIRECTOR |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Álvarez, Pilar | La casa y la nación en la escritura de Donoso, Eltit, Skármeta y Allende | Masiello |
| 2000 | Filipczak de Grynberg, Marek | Valle-Inclán y la farsa. Estudio genérico de Tablado de marionetas y La Marquesa Rosalinda | Dougherty |
| 2000 | Loustau, Laura | Cuerpos y textos en tránsito: un acercamiento a la literatura latina y latinoamericana en Estados Unidos | Kirkpatrick |
| 2000 | Rivas, Victor Robert | El testimonio posmoderno de Ali Gómez García: Prototexto del contraimperio ** | Rabasa |
| 2000 | Santos, Vivaldo Andrade dos | A Figuração Intima da Modernidade: Uma Leitura da Poesia de Carlos Drummond de Andrade. | Slater / Kirkpatrick |
| 2000 | Sosa-Ramírez, Manuel | Spanish and Latin American "New Theater." A comparative study, 1960's-1970's. | Dougherty |
| 2000 | Waisman, Sergio Gabriel | Theorizing Translation: Borges, Displacement, and Irreverence | Masiello |
| 2001 | A'Ness, Francine Mary | The Production of a National Playwright: Sabina Berman, Her Audience, and the Changing Mexico City Stage | Masiello |
| 2001 | Barahona Morales, Byron Antonio | Surrealismo etnográfico, narrativa de la herogeneidad y ruptura del significado como dispositivos de la moral en la obra de Miguel Angel Asturias | Rabasa |
| 2001 | Callahan, Laura Michele | Spanish/English Codeswitching in Fiction: A Grammatical and Discourse Function | Azevedo |
| 2001 | Chisholm, Kimberly | Maternal Voice in the Fiction of Carmen Martín Gaite | Bergmann |
| 2001 | Falabella, María Soledad | ¿Qué será de Chile en el cielo? Poema de Chile de Gabriela Mistral | Ramos / Masiello |
| 2001 | Galleno, Lucia Angela | Los "Años de la Violencia" en el Perú: Cultura y Representación | Masiello / Dougherty |
| 2001 | Hamilton, Michelle | The go between in medieval Spanish, Hebrew and Arabic | Faulhaber / Monroe |
| 2001 | Marsh, Catherine | La negociación de la cultura en una nación sin estado: La producción cultural de la División de Educación de la Comunidad del Estado Libre Aosicado de Puerto Rico (1948-1968) | Masiello |
| 2001 | Nones, Alexandra Carolina | Mártires del hogar: El inicio de la novelística femenina decimonónica en Venezuela y Puerto Rico | Kirkpatrick |
| 2001 | Robles-Sáez, Adela | The Poetic Image: Iconic Relations between Form and Meaning in Spanish Poetry | Dougherty |
| 2001 | Ticas, Sonia | Historia, feminismo y literatura: Escritoras salvadoreñas, 1920-1960 | Pérez |
| 2002 | Borge, Jason | Representations of US Popular Culture in 20th-Century Latin American Narrative. | Ramos |
| 2002 | Ferreira, Rocío | Cocina eléctica: mujeres, cultura y nación en el Perú decimonónico ** | Kirkpatrick / Masiello |
| 2002 | Guardiola, Christina María | Power and Ideology in Fifteenth Century Castilian Narratives: the Chivalric Biography | Navarrete |
| 2002 | Romero, Oscar | Science Fiction and the Critique of Modernity - from the Periphery: A Study of Selected Works y Nineteenth-Century Latin American Writers ** | Kirkpatrick |
| 2002 | Surwillo, Lisa | Copyright and Context: The Intellectual Property of Nineteenth-Century Spanish Theater | Dougherty |
| 2003 | Lifshey, Adam Michael | Specters of America Hauntings of a Common Continental Literature ** | Rabasa / Kirkpatrick |
| 2003 | More, Anna Herron | Colonial Baroque: Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora and the Post-Colonization of New Spain | Rabasa / Cascardi |
| 2003 | Wacks, David Asa | Framing Iberia: The Medieval Iberian Frametale Tradition | Faulhaber |
| 2004 | Demeuse, Sarah | Aesthetic Theory in 20th-century Spain: "Style" in José Ortega y Gasset, María Zambrano and Eugenio d'Ors | Cascardi |
| 2004 | Munjic, Sanda | Patriarchal Love Discourse as a Model of Perversion: Violence and Psychoanalysis | Bergmann |
| 2004 | Banga, Fabian | Brujos, espiritistas y vanguardistas: la representación del esoterismo y el epiritualismo en las obras de Roberto Arlt, Vicente Huidobro y Ramó Valle Inclán | Masiello |
| 2004 | Caso, Nicole | Practicing Memory in Central American Literature: Reflections on History, Space and Language | Rabasa |
| 2004 | Del Valle, Ivonne | Escrituras globales y escrituras fronterizas: encuentros y desencuentros de proyectos indigenas y misioneros en las fronteras de la Nueva España. | Rabasa |
| 2004 | Portnoy, Sarah | The Incest Ballad of Delgadina: Oral Tradition from Medieval Spain to Latin America | Navarette |
| 2005 | Cortijo, Adelaida | Teoría política y poder en la literatura medieval castellana (siglos XIII-XV) | Faulhaber |
| 2005 | De Caterina, Linda | Antonio Tabucchi y la narrative latinoamericana | Tarica |
| 2005 | Jeftanovic, Andrea | La representation de la infancia en la literatura ibero-americana contemporanea | Masiello |
| 2005 | Monder, Samuel | Ficciones Filosoficas. Narrativa y discurso teorico en la obra de Jorge Luis Borges y Macedonio Fernandez | Masiello |
| 2005 | Pellegrini, Marcelo | La Contemplacion de la Muerte. Poeticas del Origen en la Obra de Gabriela Mistral, Jose Gorostiza, Emilio Adolfo Westphalen y Gonzalo Rojas. | Masiello |
| 2005 | Ramirez, Nelson | "Novela total" y "Novela joven" en el Peru: ciudad, ideologia e identidad | Tarica |
| 2005 | Reyna, Ivan | El encuentro de Cajamarca: historia de una historia | Rabasa |
| 2005 | Strolle, Martha | Murder in the Palace: A Brief History | Craddock/Rabasa |
| 2005 | Barry-Waag, Kathleen | The Early Novels of Montserrat Roig: Ramona adéu, El temps de les cireres and L'hora violeta: An Approach to Contemporary Catalonia and Catalan Women Writers | Dougherty |
| 2005 | Ishikawa, Ryusuke | Japanese and Chinese Immigrants as Subjects and Writers in the Latin American Literary Map | Rabasa |
| 2005 | Lledó-Guillem, Vicente | La adopción de las ideas humanistas sobre la lengua en el contexto lingüístico castellano y catalán | Faulhaber/Navarrete |
| 2005 | Quinn, Mary Becker | Nostalgic Identities: Song, Narrative, and the "Moor" in Early Modern Spanish Literature | Navarrete |
| 2006 | Baler, Pablo | Los sentidos de la distorsión: Fantasías epistemológicas del neobarroco | Cascardi |
| 2006 | Costa e Silva, Valeria | A Modernidade nos Tropicos: Gilberto Freyre e os Debates em Torno de Nacional | Passos |
| 2006 | Purkey, Lynn | Nuevo Romanticismo and the Reception of Russian Literature: Integrating Dehumanized and Social Art | Dougherty |
| 2006 | Farmer, Julia | The Macrotextual Poetics of Imperial Disillusionment in Early Modern Spain and Italy | Navarrete |
| 2007 | Altamirano, Nicole | Taking Back the Thread: Revisionist Mythmaking in the Poetry of Spanish Women Writers from the 1920s - 1940s | Bergmann |
| 2007 | Brenneis, Sara | Genre Fusion: The Convergence of Fiction and History in Post-Franco Literature from the Margins | Bergmann |
| 2007 | Ernst, Kirsten | "Rios, pontes e overdrives": Northeastern Regionalism in a Globalized Brazil | Slater |
| 2007 | Propson, Drew | Landscape in Modern Latin American Literature and Visual Arts | Rabasa |
| 2008 | Adão, Deolinda | As Herdeiras do Segredo: As Personagens Femininas nos Romances de Inês Pedrosa | Passos |
| 2008 | Arce, Bridget | The Female Body as Literary Trope in Mexico, the Caribbean and Argentina | Masiello/Rabasa |
| 2008 | Villamil-Acera, Rakhel | La construcción del diálogo teatral en el teatro cómico español (1898 - 1936): el discurso humorístico en el contexto social | Azevedo |
| 2008 | Melo, Alfredo Cesar | A (des)construção do povo: Romance experimental e representação do popular na literatura brasileira do suclo XX | Passos/Azevedo |
| 2008 | Montes, Sonia | Poesía indígena contemporánea de México y Chile | Azevedo/Masiello |
| 2008 | Schoellkopf, Sarah | Blurring the Binaries: Gender, Framing, Performance, and Memory in Argentina’s Post-dictatorship Culture | Rabasa/Brizuela |
| 2008 | Triplette, Stacey | Pagans, Monsters, and Women in the Amadis Cycle | Navarrete |
| 2009 | González, Mónica | Transepistemología subalterna en Rubén Darío y José Martí: Estéticas modernistas y modernidades imperialistas en Chile y Nueva York | Ramos/Saldivar |
| 2009 | Losada, Matthew | Avatars of a Binary: Civilization or Barbarism from Sarmiento to Contemporary Spain | Dougherty |
| 2009 | Moody, Sarah | Modern Form in the Periphery: Poetics, Urban Space, and Gender in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro, 1880-1915 | Masiello |
| 2009 | Sanz, Israel | The Diachrony of New Mexican Spanish, 1683-1926: Philology, Corpus Linguistics and Dialect Change | Craddock/Azevedo |