Dissertations

These are the titles of some of the dissertations that have been presented in our Department.
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2023

  • Soifer, Alejandro. “A Mexican Gothic: Mexican Narco Narratives, Necromarkets and Vampires with Machine Guns”
  • Swanson, Ross. “Shaman as Saviour? The Trope of the Amazonian Shaman in Recent Latin American Literature and Film”
  • Velázquez, Oliver. “Literatura Nacional y Procesos Editoriales en Mexico (1915-1966)”
     

2022

  • Brejkaln, Veronika. “Parsing Through Paradox: Transdisciplinary Constructions of Mexicanidad in the Works of Martín Luis Guzmán”       
  • Hanashiro, Nae. “Actos I/Legibles. Performances y Feminismos en Democracias Neoliberales en América Latina”
  • Klassen, Gabrielle. “L2 Processing of the Spanish Article System”
  • Patience, Matthew. “Articulatory Difficulty in L2 Spanish”
  • Pettibone, Erin. “Where Do All the Adjectives Go and What Do They Mean? Adjective Distribution and Interpretation in L1 Spanish”
  • Villalobos, Eduardo. “Del Texto al Contexto: Un Estudio de la Censura y la Recepción de La Celestina del Cine del Segundo Franquismo al Cine de la Democracia”
     

2021

  • Dzhyoyeva, Mariya. “En el Lugar del Otro: Género, Poder, Violencia y Exilio en
    las Novelas de Tomás Eloy Martínez”
  • Hamlyn, Erin. “Magic Mirrors: Body Politics and Representations of Femininity in Contemporary Hispanic and French Caribbean Women’s Writing”
  • Martínez, Ruth. “The Bidirectional Acquisition of Oral and Nasal Gestural Timing in L2 Brazilian Portuguese and Rioplatense Spanish Nasal Structures”
     

2020

  • Cruz, Ailén. "From the Griffin to the Axolotl: The Resurgence and Reimagining of the Medieval Bestiary in Contemporary Hispanic Literature”
  • Marasco, Olivia. “Are You Asking Me or Telling Me? Perception and Production of Y/N Questions and Statements in L2 Spanish”
  • Zabalza, María Soledad. "La construcción política del indígena en la narrativa de la Conquista del Desierto”

2019

  • Radu, Malina. "The L2 Production of Spanish Taps and Trills by L1 Romanian and L1 French Speakers”

2018

  • Álvarez López, Yadira. “Straight to the Subject: A Unified Analysis of Preverbal and Postverbal Subjects in Broad Focus Constructions in Spanish”.
  • Babych, Oleksiy. “Picking up the Pieces: The Economic Crisis and the Transformation of the Contemporary Peninsular Novel”.
  • Bijos, Agnieszka. “La distancia y el silencio: El trauma en la literatura testimonial en torno a las dictaduras militares de Chile, Uruguay y Argentina”.
  • Nedvyga, Olga. “Drugs, Pharmacy, Healing Rites, and Ethnobotany: Therapeutic Writing in the Foundational Narratives of Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic”.
  • Tararova, Olga. “Yo no hablo italiano (no). Negative Doubling in Chipilo, Mexico”.

2017

  • Battersby, Tanya. “The Speaker-Oriented Use of Estar: Semantic Variation in the [Copula + Adjective] Context in Buenos Aires Spanish”.

2016

  • Downs, Tara. “The Fear Factor: Terrorism and the Search for Subjectivity in Contemporary Peninsular Drama”.
  • Markle LaMontagne, Joanne. "Perfect Timing: Child Heritage Language Acquisition of the Present Perfect in a Francophone Context".

2015

  • Castellanos, Raquel. “Melancolía: Conflicto de identidad femenina en la literatura mexicana contemporánea”.

2014

  • Berecochea, Ximena. "Texto e imagen en la narrativa contemporánea mexicana: El efecto de lo interdisciplinario en seis novelas".
  • González, Nelson. “De mentes, entes y dementes: Un repaso histórico-crítico de la ciencia ficción hispanoamericana”.
  • Limanni, Anna. “Diphthong and Related Processes in Spanish Dialects”.
  • Pitas, Jeannine (Comparative Literature). “The Production of Poetic Space in the Work of Delmira Agustini, Alejandra Pizarnik and Marosa di Giorgio”.

2013

  • Armas Austria, Ramiro. "Escritura en movimiento, movimientos de escritura: Narrativas de la vanguardia histórica latinoamericana y el auge del cine mudo internacional".
  • Casas Aguilar, Anna. "Fathers to a Fatherless Nation: From Abjection to Legacy in Spanish and Catalan Autobiographies after Franco".
  • Janzen, Rebecca Claire Suzanne. "Collective Bodies and Collective Change: Blindness, Pilgrimage, Motherhood and Miracles in Twentieth Century Mexican Literature".
  • Palomares, Claudio. “Espacios de la vanguardia hispánica: Ultraísmo y estridentismo en perspectiva”.

2012

  • Beltrán, Gina Jimena. "Violence and Performance on the Latin American Stage".
  • Marinescu, Irina. “Dialectal Effects in the Acquisition of the English Low and Mid-low Vowels”.

2011

  • Bátiz Zuk, Martha Beatriz. "Sonido y sentido en escena: El papel de la música en la comedia española del Siglo de Oro y el teatro político latinoamericano de la segunda mitad del siglo XX".
  • Cascante, Isabel Helena. "On Globalization and Civil Society: Mediating Spatial Practice in 21st. Century Latin America".
  • Cousté, Natalia María. "Cartografías: La urbe barroca española y la ciudad contemporánea latinoamericana".
  • Lorenzo Feliciano, Violeta. "El bildungsroman en el Caribe hispano".
  • Mazzaro, Natalia. "Experimental Approaches to Sound Variation: A Sociophonetic Study of Labial and Velar Fricatives and Approximants in Argentine Spanish".
  • Rodríguez, Clelia Olimpia. "Aproximaciones literarias a la memoria, historia e identidad en la literatura contemporánea de Guinea Ecuatorial".
  • Rodríguez Quevedo, Diana Constanza. "Desplazados: Narrativas de identidad y espacio de la Colombia contemporánea".

2010

  • Victoriano-Martinez, Ramón Antonio. "Rayano: Una nueva metáfora para explicar la Dominicanidad".

 

Biswas Sen, Lipi. "Limits of Comparativism? Writings from Peru and India Through a Postcolonial Lens."

Palacios, Rita M. "Indigenousness and the Reconstruction of the Other in Guatemalan Indigenous Literature."

Sánchez-Naranjo, Jeanette. "Learners' Difficulties in the Interpretation of the Spanish Subjunctive: Influence and Misanalysis of the Input."

Villagómez, Berenice. "De la utopía de la solidaridad al dolor del cambio: Discursos alrededor de un terremoto."

Couillard, Caroline. "Marginalized Spaces in End-of-Century Latin American Literature and Film."

Cuza-Blanco, Alejandro. "The L2 Acquisition and L1 Attrition of the Interpretation and Use of Aspectual Properties in Spanish among English-Speaking L2 Learners and Long-term Spanish Immigrants."

Lino , Shanna Catarina F. "The Problem of Immigration and Contemporary Spanish Detective Fiction."

Dodman, Maria João. "Beauty and Ugliness in Early Modern Iberian Literature."

Barnett Idahosa, Pamela Rubina E. "The Politics of Letters: José Martí's Revolutionary Discourse."

Guerrero, Jorge Carlos. "Cartografias regionales en América Latina."

Kowal, Jerzy. "Spanish Consecutio Temporum: Myths and Reality."

Ramírez Salazar, Manuel A. "La historia como elemento discursivo en la narrativa de Manlio Argueta."

Ruan, Felipe. "Pícaros and Cortesanos: Identity, Capital and Social Relations in Early Modern Spain"

Zafra, Enriqueta. "El papel de la prostitución en la picaresca femenina."

Lam, Yvonne Yee-Wun. "Challenging Prepositions: The Effectiveness of Interrelating Rules for Teaching por and para in Spanish as a Second Language."

Martel, Myriam. "Ideologia y utopismo en la novelística de Isabel Allende (1982-1987)."

Tchir, Connie. "Limited Engagement: Three Peninsular Dramaturgas of the 1980s."

 

Santos, Cristina. "The Quest for an Authetic Feminine Identity: Innovations in the Narrative by Clarice Lispector and Carmen Boullosa."

Tabatabai Yazdi, Marjan. "La adolescencia como índice de identidad en la novela española: Entre visillos de Carmen Martín Gaite y Mujeres de negro de Josefina Aldecoa."