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Recent Ph.D. Alumni (1999-2008)

Name and Email

Dissertation Title / Director

Placement

 

1999

 

Doyle, Kathleen Anne
Associate Professor

"Women Reading, Writing, and Remembering: The Construction of Carmen Martín Gaite's Protagonists" (Mario Santana)

Rhodes College
Memphis

Gollard, Gareth Evan
Received Juris Doctorate, May, 2009

“Eyewitnessing and the Illustrative Aesthetic: Visualizing History in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century France”(Francoise Meltzer)

Chicago-Kent College of Law

Hoult-Saros, Stacy
Associate Professor

“Inside looking Out: Spying and Subjectivity in Norah Lange” (René de Costa)

Valparaiso University

Montilla, Patricia Marie
Associate Professor

“Desecrating Poetry: Parody and the Avant-garde in the Early Works of Oliverio Girondo” (René de Costa)

Western Michigan University

O'Donnell, Kevin John

Deputy Director of Communications, Service Employees International Union

“A Red's Harvest: Cultural Adaptation as Intervention in Manuel Vázquez Montalbán's Early Carvalho Novels” (Mario Santana)

Service Employees International Union

 

2000

 

Diakow, Anna
Lecturer

“Renewal Through Tradition: Collective memory in the Peninsular Contemporary Narrative (1973-1994)” (Mario Santana)

Northwestern University

Magnanini, Suzanne Marie
Associate Chair, Associate Professor

“Between Fact and Fiction: The Representation of Monsters and Monstrous Births in the Fairy Tales of Gianfrancesco Straparola and Giambattista Baslin” (Elissa Weaver)

University of Colorado at Boulder

Osan, Ana Maria Valverde
Associate Professor

“New Tales of the Tribe: Spanish Women Poets of the Twentieth Century and the Long Poem” (Susana Cavallo)

Indiana University Northwest

 

2001

 

Hester, Nathalie
Associate Professor

“Traveling for Writing's Sake: Seventeenth-Century Italian Tourists and their Narratives” (Elissa Weaver)

University of Oregon

Ray, Meredith
Assistant Professor, Italian Faculty Chair

A Gloria Del Sesso Feminile: Epistolary Constructions of Gender In Early Modern Italian Letter Collections” (Elissa Weaver)

University of Delaware

Touya, Eric
Assistant Professor

“Musique et Poésie à l'Âge due Symbolisme Les poètes français et Richard Wagner” (James Lawler)

St. John's University

Vilella-Janeiro, Olga
Associate Professor

“The Nation on Display: Literature and Cultural Practices of Latin American Modernismo” (Patrick O'Connor)

St. Xavier University

 

2002

 

Breckenridge, Janis
Assistant Professor
janisbreck@gmail.com

“The Representation of Violence and the Violence of Representation: Argentine Women Writing Against the State” (Patrick O'Connor)

Hiram College

Kern, Margaret E.
Vice President
http://www.theinternationalkitchen.com

“The Public and Private Space of the Female Character: Spatially Orienting History and Conscience in Le Confessional d'unitaliono” (Rebecca West)

The International Kitchen, Chicago

Velez-Sainz, Julio
Assistant Professor

“The Spanish Parnassus: Canon Patronage and Propaganda In the Golden Age” (Frederick de Armas)

Universidad Complutense

Ramsey-Portolano, Catherine
Assistant Professor

“The Women Writers Experience In Late Nineteenth-Century Italy: From the Literary to the Epistolary Reality In the Work of Neera” (Rebecca West)

The American University of Rome

Walford-Dellú, Maria
Guest Instructor

“Pavese and His Critics (1941-2000)” (Paolo Cherchi)

Wheaton College

 

2003

 

Hurlburt, Sarah E.
Assistant Professor

“Montaigne and the Academy: 1800-1812” (Philippe Desan)

Whitman College

Westwater, Lynn
Assistant Professor
llww@gwu.edu

“The Disquieting Voice: Women's Writing and Antifeminism In Seventeenth-Century Venice”
(Elissa Weaver)

George Washington University

 

2004

 

Edelman , Olivia Maciel
Clinical Assistant Professor

“Manantial de Transparencias. Surrealismo en la poesía de Xavier Villaurrutia, Octavio Paz y Luis Cernuda” (Patrick O'Connor)

University of Illinois at Chicago

Graves, Amy
Assistant Professor

“Propagande, Pratiques D'Histoire Et Proto-Journalisme: L'Historiographie Engagée De Simon Goulart (1543-1628)"   (Philippe Desan)

State University of New York at Buffalo

Hill, Sarah (Sally) Patricia
Assistant Professor

“Photographic Fictions: Photography In Italian Literature 1945-2000” (Rebecca West)

Victoria University of Wellington

Pastina, Daniela

“Nation, Homeland, and Family in Literature and Opera In the Decennio di Preparazione (1850-1860)” (Rebecca West)

Modena, Italy

Skolnik Rosenberg, Deborah
Lecturer

“Family Ties: The Converso in the Spanish Picaresque Novel” (Frederick de Armas)

Northwestern University

Vatan, Florence
Associate Professor

“Les Maitres Du Sensible, L'Esthétique De Baudelaire Et De Flaubert Á La Lumière Des Conceptions Médicales De Leur Epoque" (Philippe Desan)

University of Wisconsin

Wilks, Kerry
Assistant Professor

“Tan Fáciles Son Mis Lazos De romper? Circe, The Seventeenth Century Theatrical Enchantress” (Frederick de Armas)

Wichita State University

Yañez, Olivia
Associate Professor, Chair

“Apariencias, Humor y Pasión: Técnicas Deliberación En Las Obras De Ángeles Mastretta” (Patrick O'Connor)

College of Lake County

 

2006

 

Coulombel, Arnaud
Lecturer

“Histoire, Erudition et sentiment National au Temps des querres de Religion: Claude Fauchet et la Recherche des Antiquités Français” (Philippe Desan)

University of Chicago
Paris Chicago Center
6, rue Thomas Mann
75013 Paris
France

Ferrari, Fabio Lorenzo
Assistant Professor

“Italian Myths and Counter-Myths of America: Allegorical Representations of America in 20th Century Italian Literature and Film” (Rebecca West)

Franklin College
Switzerland

García Chávez, Héctor
Instructor

“Carpentier: Sincretismo, Revolución y crisis de historicidad en su visión Barroca de América Latina” (Patrick O'Connor)

Loyola University

Grimes, Kristen
Assistant Professor

“Petrarch and the Tradition of the Divine and the Earthly Maternal” (Rebecca West)

St. Joseph University
Philadelphia

Rosner, Fay Ellen
Lecturer

“Art as Social Currency in A la recherché du Temps Perdu” (Thomas Pavel)

Northwestern University

 

2007

 

De Bruin, Karen
Assistant Professor

La femme supérieure. L'individu, le roman et la république libre de Germaine de Staël" (Françoise Meltzer)

University of Rhode Island

Delicado Puerto, Gemma
Associate Professor

“Love for Sale: María Magdalena en la Literatura Del Siglo Oro” (Frederick de Armas)

Universidad de Extremadura
Spain

Fabbian, Chiara Maria
Assistant Professor

“Studi sul terma e la filosofia di un senso trascurato: l'odorato nella cultura e nella storia letteraria italiana” [“Study of a forgotten Sense: The Sense of Smell in Italian Literature and Culture”] (Rebecca West)

University of Illinois at Chicago

Gazerro Hanson, Kerra
Assistant Professor

“St Catherine of Siena: Dominican Tertinary and Doctrinal Paradigm: II Dialogo dello Divina Provvidenza as Macrotext” (Armando Maggi)

Wheaton College

Gil-Oslé, Juan Pablo
Assistant Professor

“Las Amistades Imperfectas La Celestina Y Maria de Zayas” (Frederick de Armas)

Arkansas State University

Krazek , Rafal
Assistant Professor

“Montaigne et La Philosophie du Plaisir. Pour Une Lecture Epicurienne des Essais”
(Philippe Desan)

Rockford College

Nelson, Benjamin
Assistant Professor

“Tending to Empire: The Spanish Pastoral Novel and Its Reflection Upon Imperial Spain” (Frederick de Armas)

University of South Carolina

Walsh, Rachel
Assistant Professor

“Tragic Reflections On and Off the European Stage: Ugo Foscalo as Author and Critic of Tragedy” (Elissa Weaver)

The University of Denver

 

2008

 

Quaintance, Courtney Keala
Assistant Professor

“Gentleman's Club: Collective Identity in a Sixteenth-Century Venetian Salon” (Elissa Weaver)

Dartmouth College