Recent Ph.D. Alumni (1999-2008)
Name and Email |
Dissertation Title / Director |
Placement |
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1999 |
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Doyle, Kathleen Anne |
"Women Reading, Writing, and Remembering: The Construction of Carmen Martín Gaite's Protagonists" (Mario Santana) |
Rhodes College |
Gollard, Gareth Evan |
“Eyewitnessing and the Illustrative Aesthetic: Visualizing History in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century France”(Francoise Meltzer) |
Chicago-Kent College of Law |
Hoult-Saros, Stacy |
“Inside looking Out: Spying and Subjectivity in Norah Lange” (René de Costa) |
Valparaiso University
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Montilla, Patricia Marie |
“Desecrating Poetry: Parody and the Avant-garde in the Early Works of Oliverio Girondo” (René de Costa) |
Western Michigan University |
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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 |
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2000 |
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“Renewal Through Tradition: Collective memory in the Peninsular Contemporary Narrative (1973-1994)” (Mario Santana) |
Northwestern University |
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Magnanini, Suzanne Marie |
“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 |
“New Tales of the Tribe: Spanish Women Poets of the Twentieth Century and the Long Poem” (Susana Cavallo) |
Indiana University Northwest |
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2001 |
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Hester, Nathalie |
“Traveling for Writing's Sake: Seventeenth-Century Italian Tourists and their Narratives” (Elissa Weaver) |
University of Oregon |
“A Gloria Del Sesso Feminile: Epistolary Constructions of Gender In Early Modern Italian Letter Collections” (Elissa Weaver) |
University of Delaware |
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“Musique et Poésie à l'Âge due Symbolisme Les poètes français et Richard Wagner” (James Lawler) |
St. John's University |
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Vilella-Janeiro, Olga |
“The Nation on Display: Literature and Cultural Practices of Latin American Modernismo” (Patrick O'Connor) |
St. Xavier University |
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2002 |
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Breckenridge, Janis |
“The Representation of Violence and the Violence of Representation: Argentine Women Writing Against the State” (Patrick O'Connor) |
Hiram College |
Kern, Margaret E. |
“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 |
“The Spanish Parnassus: Canon Patronage and Propaganda In the Golden Age” (Frederick de Armas) |
Universidad Complutense |
Ramsey-Portolano, Catherine |
“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 |
“Pavese and His Critics (1941-2000)” (Paolo Cherchi) |
Wheaton College |
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2003 |
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“Montaigne and the Academy: 1800-1812” (Philippe Desan) |
Whitman College |
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Westwater, Lynn |
“The Disquieting Voice: Women's Writing and Antifeminism In Seventeenth-Century Venice” |
George Washington University |
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2004 |
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Edelman , Olivia Maciel |
“Manantial de Transparencias. Surrealismo en la poesía de Xavier Villaurrutia, Octavio Paz y Luis Cernuda” (Patrick O'Connor) |
University of Illinois at Chicago |
“Propagande, Pratiques D'Histoire Et Proto-Journalisme: L'Historiographie Engagée De Simon Goulart (1543-1628)" (Philippe Desan) |
State University of New York at Buffalo |
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Hill, Sarah (Sally) Patricia |
“Photographic Fictions: Photography In Italian Literature 1945-2000” (Rebecca West) |
Victoria University of Wellington |
“Nation, Homeland, and Family in Literature and Opera In the Decennio di Preparazione (1850-1860)” (Rebecca West) |
Modena, Italy |
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Skolnik Rosenberg, Deborah |
“Family Ties: The Converso in the Spanish Picaresque Novel” (Frederick de Armas) |
Northwestern University |
“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 |
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“Tan Fáciles Son Mis Lazos De romper? Circe, The Seventeenth Century Theatrical Enchantress” (Frederick de Armas) |
Wichita State University |
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“Apariencias, Humor y Pasión: Técnicas Deliberación En Las Obras De Ángeles Mastretta” (Patrick O'Connor) |
College of Lake County |
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2006 |
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Coulombel, Arnaud |
“Histoire, Erudition et sentiment National au Temps des querres de Religion: Claude Fauchet et la Recherche des Antiquités Français” (Philippe Desan) |
University of Chicago |
Ferrari, Fabio Lorenzo |
“Italian Myths and Counter-Myths of America: Allegorical Representations of America in 20th Century Italian Literature and Film” (Rebecca West) |
Franklin College |
García Chávez, Héctor |
“Carpentier: Sincretismo, Revolución y crisis de historicidad en su visión Barroca de América Latina” (Patrick O'Connor) |
Loyola University |
“Petrarch and the Tradition of the Divine and the Earthly Maternal” (Rebecca West) |
St. Joseph University |
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“Art as Social Currency in A la recherché du Temps Perdu” (Thomas Pavel) |
Northwestern University |
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2007 |
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“La femme supérieure. L'individu, le roman et la république libre de Germaine de Staël" (Françoise Meltzer) |
University of Rhode Island |
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Delicado Puerto, Gemma |
“Love for Sale: María Magdalena en la Literatura Del Siglo Oro” (Frederick de Armas) |
Universidad de Extremadura |
Fabbian, Chiara Maria |
“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 |
“St Catherine of Siena: Dominican Tertinary and Doctrinal Paradigm: II Dialogo dello Divina Provvidenza as Macrotext” (Armando Maggi) |
Wheaton College |
Gil-Oslé, Juan Pablo |
“Las Amistades Imperfectas La Celestina Y Maria de Zayas” (Frederick de Armas) |
Arkansas State University |
“Montaigne et La Philosophie du Plaisir. Pour Une Lecture Epicurienne des Essais” |
Rockford College |
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“Tending to Empire: The Spanish Pastoral Novel and Its Reflection Upon Imperial Spain” (Frederick de Armas) |
University of South Carolina |
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“Tragic Reflections On and Off the European Stage: Ugo Foscalo as Author and Critic of Tragedy” (Elissa Weaver) |
The University of Denver |
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2008 |
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Quaintance, Courtney Keala |
“Gentleman's Club: Collective Identity in a Sixteenth-Century Venetian Salon” (Elissa Weaver) |
Dartmouth College |