Graduate theses and dissertations

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Ph.D. theses and dissertations

  1. Theodoritsi, Maria. Fronteras permeables entre la novela y el teatro mediterráneos: Estudio comparativo de Cervantes y Pirandello, 2023. Supervised by Rosalía V. Cornejo-Parriego.  

  1. Brooksbank, Joselyn. Parental Attitudes and Practices in Heritage Language Socialisation: Maintaining Spanish and Portuguese in Canada, 2022. Supervised by Elena L. Valenzuela.  

  1. Fernández Rodríguez, Ana María. La (re)presentación del docente en los espacios marginalizados de Shunko (Argentina, 1960), La deuda interna (Argentina, 1988) y La patota (Argentina, 2015): Un estudio sociocrítico y freiriano-decolonial, 2022. Supervised by Gastón Lillo. 

  1. Lopez-Rodriguez, Irene. Taking the Bull by the Horns: Representing Gender through Animals in Franco's Spain, 2021. Supervised by Rosalía V. Cornejo-Parriego. 

  1. Garcia Alcaraz, Estela. The Cognitive and Linguistic Abilities of Bilinguals with Genetic Disorders: The Prader-Willi Syndrome Population, 2021. Supervised by Juana Muñoz-Liceras.  

  1. Llaca Buznego, Jorge. Ficción e Historia en Alejo Carpentier: Entre la Desfiguración Autobiográfica y las Derivas de la Crítica, 2020. Supervised by Jorge Carlos Guerrero.  

  1. Méndez-Rivera, Nelson José. Linguistic Outcomes of the Wayuunaiki-Spanish Language Contact Situation, 2020. Supervised by Juana Muñoz-Liceras and Stephen Levey. 

  1. Bernal Rodríguez, Alejandra. Allegory and the Transnational Affective Field in the Contemporary Mexican Novel (1993-2013), 2019. Supervised by Gastón Lillo. 

  1. Moreno, Leonardo. Subject Pronominal Expression in Uwa Spanish, 2019. Supervised by Juana Muñoz-Liceras. 

  1. Attig, Remy. Translation in the Borderlands of Spanish: Balancing Power in English Translations from Judeo-Spanish and Spanglish, 2018. Supervised by James W. Nelson Novoa and Clara Foz.  

  1. Garcia Leon, David Leonardo. La representación de la(s) masculinidad(es) en la industria cultural colombiana. Las políticas de género en SoHo y sus escritores, 2018. Supervised by Rosalía V. Cornejo-Parriego. 

  1. Garcia Leon, Javier Enrique. ¿Miedo a las trans? La representación de las personas transgénero en la industria cultural latinoamericana. El caso de Colombia y Venezuela, 2018. Supervised by Rosalía V. Cornejo-Parriego. 

  1. Camarena Castellanos, Ricardo. El epistolario de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz en el contexto literario-discursivo novohispano, 2017. Supervised by Gastón Lillo. 

  1. Llama, Raquel. Cross-linguistic Syntactic, Lexical and Phonetic Influence in the Acquisition of L3 Spanish, 2017. Supervised by Juana Muñoz-Liceras and Elena L. Valenzuela. 

  1. Bilodeau, Annik. The Politics of Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary Spanish American Literature: Elena Poniatowska, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Jorge Volpi Within a Disputed Tradition, 2016. Supervised by Jorge Carlos Guerrero.    

  1. Mathieu, Marie-Philip. The Acquisition of Anaphora Resolution by French-Spanish Bilinguals, 2016. Supervised by Elena L. Valenzuela. 

  1. Goundareva, Irina. Effects of Explicit and Implicit Focus on Form Instructional Methods on the Acquisition of Spanish L2 Future of Probability, 2016. Supervised by Elena L. Valenzuela. 

  1. Aizu, Yoriko. Acquisition and Processing of Japanese Passives by Heritage Speakers and JFL learners: Effects of Manner of Input and Early Age of Acquisition, 2016. Supervised by Juana Muñoz-Liceras.  

  1. Klassen, Rachel. Asymmetric Grammatical Gender Systems in the Bilingual Mental Lexicon, 2016. Supervised by Juana Muñoz-Liceras. 

  1. Morpaw, May. Antonio Skármeta's Narratives of Ethnicity: Rewriting Chile's Discourses of Identity, 2016. Supervised by Jorge Carlos Guerrero and Agatha Schwartz.  

  1. Ismail, Heba. Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel: Revisiones literarias en la era poscolonial y digital, 2015. Supervised by Rosalía V. Cornejo-Parriego. 

  1. Borland, Karen. The Use of Songs in the ESL / EFL Classroom as a Means of Teaching Pronunciation: A Case Study of Chilean University Students, 2015. Supervised by Rodney Williamson.  

  1. Cardona Núñez, Nohora Viviana. Realizaciones posmemorísticas desde la perspectiva de género y el transatlantismo en los umbrales del siglo XXI, 2014. Supervised by Fernando de Diego-Perez.  

  1. Peralta-Sánchez, Andrés-Felipe. La argumentación en los ensayos de William Ospina, 2014. Supervised by Walter Moser.  

  1. Langer Pardo, Karem. Poder y monstruosidad en "La fiesta del chivo" de Mario Vargas Llosa, 2013. Supervised by Fernando de Diego-Perez. 

  1. Paz-Mackay, María Soledad. Historia, memoria y novela en la Argentina de la posdictadura. La cuestión de la responsabilidad extendida, 2013. Supervised by Gastón Lillo. 

  1. Salinas Martínez, Pablo Manuel. La representación de la migración en cuatro películas peruanas de los ochenta, 2013. Supervised by Gastón Lillo. 

  1. Smith, Allison M. Virtually Arming Genre with Politics? An Analysis of Electronic Military Recruitment in Venezuela, Colombia, and the United States. A Multimodal Approach, 2013. Supervised by Rodney Williamson. 

  1. Ramirez Rojas, Marco. León de Greiff y la tradición literaria, 2013. Supervised by Fernando de Diego-Perez. 

  1. Rozotto, David F. Región y Nación en Guatemala: La Obra de Virgilio Rodríguez Macal, 2013. Supervised by Jorge Carlos Guerrero.    

  1. Medalla, Maria Enriqueta. Los avatares de la identidad de la mujer en tres obras chilenas de la postdictadura: 'Nosotras que nos queremos tanto', 'La muerte y la doncella' y 'La hija del General', 2012. Supervised by Gastón Lillo.  

  1. Alba de la Fuente, Anahi. Clitic Combinations in Spanish: Syntax, Processing and Acquisition, 2012. Supervised by Juana Muñoz-Liceras.  

  1. Pollarolo, Giovanna R. Los guiones del "ciclo hollywoodense" de Manuel Puig : copias, reescrituras y apropiaciones, 2012. Supervised by Gastón Lillo. 

  1. Bahia, Marcio. From Global Entertainment to Amazonian Tecnobrega: Mobility in Contemporary Entertainment Practices, 2011. Supervised by Walter Moser. 

  1. Cruess, Susan Leah. A Study of Elena Poniatowska's Amanecer en el Zócalo: The Contemporary Mexican Crónica in Translation, 2011. Supervised by Rodney Williamson. 

  1. Martinez-Sanz, Cristina. Null and Overt Subjects in a Variable System: The Case of Dominican Spanish, 2011. Supervised by Juana Muñoz-Liceras.  

  1. Arteaga-Uribe, Andrés. "¿Las fiebres?..ya las tengo!" Melancolía y fading del yo en tres textos de Álvaro Mutis, 2011. Supervised by Walter Moser. 

  1. Barajas-Garrido, Gerardo. De la maravilla-ficción de fantasía al surrealismo fantástico: una nueva genología – ilustrada en la narrativa mexicana, 1900-1999.,2011. Supervised by J. Guillermo Renart.  

  1. Molina Lora, Luis Eduardo. Narrativa de drogas: una investigación transatlántica en la producción cultural de España, México y Colombia, 2011. Supervised by Fernando de Diego-Perez. 

MA theses and dissertations

  1. Cybanski, Kara. Out of the Closet and onto the Bookshelf: Lesbian Liberation in Elena Fortún's Oculto Sendero, 2021. Supervised by Rosalía V. Cornejo-Parriego. 

  1. Hughes Waldick, Zoë. The Testimonio Effect in Slash and Burn: Representing the Voices of Women in War, 2021. Supervised by Jorge Carlos Guerrero. 

  1. Cybanski, Kara. Out of the Closet and onto the Bookshelf: Lesbian Liberation in Elena Fortún's Oculto Sendero, 2021. Supervised by Rosalía V. Cornejo-Parriego. 

  1. Charles, Miranda. Who’s in the Mood for Mood? - Multilingual study on the subjunctive in Spanish, 2020. Supervised by Elena L. Valenzuela.  

  1. Mucha, Matthew. Her (Sub)version of History: The Works of Carmen Guerrero Nakpil, 2018. Supervised by Jorge Carlos Guerrero.