Graduate Alumni Outcomes
Learn more about department alumni through current career paths and dissertation information that highlight the range of their scholarship and professional accomplishments.
Alumni Information by Year
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2025-26
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Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Current Position |
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| Lizette Arellano | "Un retrato me has pedido’: Gender, Beauty, and the Female Gaze in the Spanish Golden Age" Frederick de Armas | Teaching Fellow, University of Chicago |
| Ysé Bourdon | ""Lenguas (latino)americanas. Entre literatura y diplomacia: vindicaciones por un universal plural. João Guimarães Rosa y Octavio Paz en la alargada Segunda Guerra Mundial (1936-1948)”" Dain Borges | |
| Ryan Brown | "Self-Writing as Self-Defense: The Literary Role of Judicial Proof in the French Enlightenment" Robert Morrissey | Assistant Professor of French, Department of Modern Language Studies, Texas Christian University |
| Loriane Lafont | "Dire et ne pas dire : la Conversion d’un chevalier et la Confession contournée de Montaigne — Deux études sur le non-dit" Willemien Otten and Christophe Grellard | |
| Meriam Pacheco Salazar | "Ghosts of the Island: Youth Culture and the Legacy of Dictatorship in Contemporary Dominican Literature" Agnes Lugo-Ortiz | Assistant Director of the Honors Program, Roosevelt University |
| Fara Taddei | "‘Le Muse son donne’: sessualità, comunità e lettura al tempo del Decameron" Justin Steinberg | Teaching Fellow, University of Chicago |
2024-25
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Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Current Position |
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| Thomaz Amâncio | "Field Work: Labor and Culture in Rural Brazil" Victoria Saramago | Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley |
| Beatrice Fazio | "Going the Distance: The Incoherence of Tradition from Petrarch to Leopardi" Rocco Rubini | Teaching Fellow, University of Chicago |
| Peadar Kavanagh | "The Discursive Function of Satire in the Early Reign of Louis XIV" Larry Norman | Teaching Fellow, University of Chicago |
| Darren Kusar | "Text, Voice, Image: Staging the Diabolical in Early Modern Italian Musical Theater" Martha Feldman and Armando Maggi | Teaching Fellow, University of Chicago |
| Paulina León | "Writing Contagion: Cultures of Plague in the Early Modern Spanish Empire" Miguel Martínez | Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UC Berkeley |
| Luis Madrigal | "El espacio de lo posible: la Ciudad de México en la imaginación cultural (1997-2018)" Mauricio Tenorio | Lecturer, Department of Film & Media, UC Berkeley |
| Matías Spector | "A la sombra de la inspección. Literatura y vigilancia urbana en la España barroca" Frederick de Armas | Teaching Fellow, University of Chicago |
2023-24
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Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Current Position |
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| Eufemia Baldassarre | "Landscapes of Exile: (Self)-Portrayals of Displacement in Italian Renaissance Literature" Rocco Rubini | Associate Director of Career Services, Master of Science in Computational Finance, Carnegie Mellon University |
| Laura Colaneri | ""The Sinister Southern Cone: Mood, Affect, and Horror in the Cultural Imaginary of Argentine and Brazilian State Terror"" Victoria Saramago | Assistant Professor of Spanish, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultural Studies, Wartburg College |
| Kirsten Lopez | "Words to Remember: Crafting Epitaphic Environments in Medieval and Contemporary Commemorative Art" Daisy Delogu | Curatorial Coordinator for Digital Interpretation, Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University |
| Pablo Ottonello | "Sinfonía de lo cotidiano: la pose de fracaso en los diarios de Levrero, Piglia y Pizarnik" Agnes Lugo-Ortiz | Lecturer, Torcuato Di Tella University, Author, Self |
2022-23
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Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Current Position |
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| Isabela Fraga | "Subjected to Feeling: Slavery and Personhood in Nineteenth-Century Brazil and Cuba" Agnes Lugo-Ortiz | Assistant Professor, Romance Studies, Tufts University |
| Daniela Gutiérrez Flores | "Kitchen Selves: Cooks and the Literary Culture of the Early Modern Spanish Atlantic" Miguel Martínez | Assistant Professor of Spanish, University of California, Davis |
| Eduardo Leão | "Alternativas al apocalipsis: ficción distópica en la América Latina del siglo XXI" Victoria Saramago | Assistant Instructional Professor in Spanish, University of Chicago |
| Enrique Macari | "Aesthetic Matters: Humanism, Literature and Education in 20th-century Mexico" Mauricio Tenorio | Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Chicago |
| Maximilien Novak | "Napoléon et l’Empire des Lettres : Historiens, Journalistes, informateurs, censeurs, savants. L’administration de l’opinion publique sous le Consulat et le Premier Empire (1799-1814)" Robert Morrissey and Antoine Lilti (EHESS) | Lecturer in French and History, Dartmouth College |
| Filippo Petricca | "Money and the Literary Imagination. Medieval Paris and Florence (1200-1321)" Justin Steinberg | Assistant Professor of French and Italian, Indiana University Bloomington |
| Benjamin Ransom | "Michel de Montaigne, Skeptical Empiricism, and Seventeenth-Century Anti-Cartesian Literature" Philippe Desan | Assistant Director, Programs and Marketing, Kilts Center for Marketing, University of Chicago Booth School of Business |
| Brenna Rice | "Marie NDiaye's Maladjusted World: Strangeness and the Limits of Empathy" Alison James | Assistant Director of Academic Operations and Graduate Programs, School of Literatures, Cultural Studies and Linguistics, University of Illinois Chicago |
2021-22
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Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Current Position |
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| Esther Van Dyke | "Sublime Racine: Theatrical Practices of the Ineffable" Larry Norman | French Language Instructor, Loyola University Maryland |
2020-21
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Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Current Position |
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| Cosette Bruhns Alonso | "Worth a Thousand Words: Turning to Visual Art in Medieval Italian Literature" Justin Steinberg | Assistant Editor, Brown University Digital Publications |
| Bastien Craipain | "Entre-deux-mondes: anthropologie et littérature franco-haïtiennes, 1859-1915" Alison James | Assistant Professor of French, Tufts University |
| Silvia Guslandi | "Belonging to the Threshold. Appartenenza and sradicamento in Early Twentieth-Century “Italian” Literature" Jennifer Scappettone | Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian, Kenyon College |
| Madison Hendren | "Playing an Epic Game: Games and Genre in Boccaccio's Teseida delle nozze d'Emilia" Justin Steinberg | Humanities Administrator, Division of Research Programs, National Endowment for the Humanities |
| Viviana Hong | "Child’s Play and Foul Play: Childhood Narratives from the HIJOS Generation in Post-Dictatorial Argentina" Agnes Lugo-Ortiz | Assistant Professor of Spanish, Pasadena City College |
| Michele Kenfack | "Apocalypses Francophones: Histoire et R(é)criture dans la Prose Antillano-Africaine (1968-1990)" Thomas Pavel, Daniel Desormeaux (Johns Hopkins University) | Racial Justice Fellow, Chicago Urban League |
| Hilda Larrazabal Cárdenas | "Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz o la construcción de un ícono nacional (circa 1870-1970)" Mauricio Tenorio | Professor of Humanistics Studies, Tecnológico de Monterrey |
| Juan Diego Mariátegui | "To Reach the Isle: Poetics of the Island in Puerto Rican Literature of the Twentieth Century" Agnes Lugo-Ortiz | Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish, Lehigh University |
| Manuel Olmedo Gobante | "La esgrima del Siglo de Oro y su literatura" Frederick de Armas | Assistant Professor in Early Modern Hispanic Studies, Cornell University |
| David Reher | "Constantinople in the Iberian Imagination: 1400-1650" Frederick de Armas | Visiting Assistant Professor, Denison University |
| Medardo Rosario | "Peregrinos, parias y proscritos, o de la secularización de itinerarios religiosos en la novela bizantina española" Frederick de Armas | Assistant Professor of Spanish, Florida International University |
| Elizabeth Tavella | "Seeking Interspecies Justice: Spaces of Animal Confinement in Italian Literature" Maria Anna Mariani | Adjunct Professor in English Writing, Literature, and Publishing, American University of Rome |
| Jacqueline Victor | "Female Fictions: Gender and Adventure in 12th and 13th Century Old French Romance" Daisy Delogu | Katia Mitova Distinguished Instructor, Graham School, University of Chicago |
2019-20
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Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Current Position |
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| Ebenezer Concepción | "Inverting (Trans)Modern Subjects: Toward A (Re)Vision of Sex, Gender, and Race in Two Novels by Alfonso Hernández-Catá (1885-1940)" Mario Santana | Senior Director, Education and Partnerships, YWCA Metropolitan Chicago |
| Veerle Dierickx | "Notes Taking Sides: Social and Aesthetic Meanings of Music in the Novel" Alison James | Italian Teacher, CVO Groeipunt (Belgium) |
| José Estrada | "“El monstro con su figura”: Ruiz de Alarcón’s Transatlantic Self-Fashioning" Frederick de Armas | Assistant Teaching Professor of Hispanic Studies, Carnegie Mellon University |
| Isaias Fanlo | "Staging A Queer Nation: Landscapes of Desire in Contemporary Catalan Drama" Mario Santana | University Lecturer in Modern Iberian Literary and Cultural Studies; Iberian Studies Fellow, University of Cambridge (Fitzwilliam College) |
| Jorge Lefevre Tavárez | "El indianismo en Cuba y Puerto Rico" Agnes Lugo-Ortiz | Vice President, Professors' union at the University of Puerto Rico |
| Fadil Moslemani | "Filosofia letteraria e romanzo storico. Un’analisi della rappresentazione della Storia attraverso il prisma foucaultiano del “carnevale del tempo”" Rebecca West | |
| Chiara Nifosi | "Expérience de l’espace et pensée de la métaphore chez Marcel Proust" Alison James | Assistant Professor of French Studies, University of Lisbon |
2018-19
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Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Current Position |
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| Ji Gao | "Guillaume Roville et Benoît Rigaud (1545-1597). Politiques éditoriales, contraintes économiques et ambitions culturelles en France dans la seconde moitié du seizième siècle" Philippe Desan | Associate Professor, Peking University |
2017-18
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Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Current Position |
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| Juan Camilo Acevedo | "Cortar, Copiar y Pegar: autoría y publicación en el Siglo de Oro español" Miguel Martínez | |
| Joshua Baker | "The Consumption of Objects of Memory in Contemporary Peninsular Literature" Mario Santana | |
| Rebecca Crisafulli | "Sincerity and Social Transformation in the Work of Louise d'Épinay" Robert Morrissey | Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Languages, Hampden-Sydney College |
| María de los Ángeles Gutiérrez Bascón | "La Habana imaginada: Nostalgia, ruinas y utopía después de 1990" Agnes Lugo-Ortiz | Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Cultures, University of Helsinki |
2016-17
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Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Current Position |
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| Karolina Bandurski | "Representations of Monstrosity, Metamorphoses and Physical Deformity in Italian Renaissance Literature" Armando Maggi | Adjunct Faculty, The College of New Jersey |
| Elizabeth Fiedler | "An Investigation Into the Detective: The Protagonist's Power to Challenge, Shape and Mend Through Social Critique" Rebecca West | Writing Specialist, University of Chicago Center for Writing |
| Thelma Jiménez-Anglada | "Territorios, Ley y Violencia: La Novela del Narcotráfico en México" Agnes Lugo-Ortiz | Associate Professor of Spanish, Lawrence University |
| Susana Inés Pérez (Alonso) | "El teatro de Rafael Álvarez El Brujo: Una visión del Siglo de Oro entre la creación personal y las tendencias escénicas de la palabra" Mario Santana | Professor, Universidad Camilo José Cela |
| Katrina Powers | "What Was She Wearing?: Looking at Susanna in Golden Age Spain" Frederick de Armas | Spanish Teacher, Crofton High School |
2015-16
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Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Current Position |
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| Diana Aramburu | "Femicrime: Resisting the Legibility of the Female Body in Spanish Crime Fiction" Mario Santana | Associate Professor of Spanish, University of California, Davis |
| Anita Damjanovic | "The Metamorphoses of Clarín" Frederick de Armas | Customer Education Specialist, IntraEdge at Meta |
| Isabelle Faton | "Justiciers et fugitifs: la justice dans le roman post-révolutionnaire" Françoise Meltzer | Assistant Instructional Professor in French, University of Chicago |
| Lourdes Fernández | "Los mundos aurales de la cultura juvenil en la literatura hispanoamericana" Agnes Lugo-Ortiz | Adjunct Professor, International University in Spain |
| Elana Kranz | "The Art of Indeterminacy in the Prose Works of Goliarda Sapienza" Rebecca West | Deputy Director of Study Abroad, The College, University of Chicago |
| James Nemiroff | "Comedias judaizantes: Performing Judaism in Lope de Vega’s Toledan Plays (1590-1615)" Frederick de Armas | Coordinator, Center for Global Languages and Cultures, John Carroll University |
| Linsey Sainte-Claire | "Quelques figures de la folie dans la littérature Caraïbo-Guyanaise" Daniel Desormeaux | Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Middlebury College |
2014-15
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Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Current Position |
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| Cynthia Hillman | "The Part and the Whole: a Study of Brevity and the Form of the Diary in Ennio Flaiano's Early Works" Rebecca West | Director, Stevens Doctoral Program, University of Chicago Booth School of Business |
| Chiara Montanari | "The Witness on Stage: The Theater of Ascanio Celestini" Armando Maggi | Senior Associate Director of International Careers, Career Advancement, University of Chicago |
| Elizabeth Porretto | "Other Mothers: Representations of Non-biological Motherhood in the Works of Elsa Morante and Dacia Maraini" Rebecca West | |
| Neringa Pukelis | "Magical Techniques and Structuralism in Gonzalo Torrente Ballester's La saga/fuga de J.B." Mario Santana | Part Time Instructor of Spanish, Loyola University, University of Chicago, Lecturer, Loyola University, University of Chicago |
2013-14
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Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Current Position |
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| Miriam Aloisio | "Dalla comicità all’apocalisse: Una lettura ecocritica dell’opera di Luigi Malerba" Rebecca West | Adjunct Professor of Spanish, Northeast Early College |
| Kevin Anzzolin | "Guardians of Discourse: Journalism and Literature in Porfirian Mexico (1887-1912)" Agnes Lugo-Ortiz | Lecturer of Spanish, Christopher Newport University |
| Corinne Bayerl | "Moral Philosophy and Pedagogy in the Work of Pierre Nicole" Thomas Pavel | Senior Instructor I, Clark Honors College, University of Oregon |
| Sarah Christopher Faggioli | "A Sixteenth-Century Reader and Critic of Vittoria Colonna: Rinaldo Corso's Commentary on Her Spiritual Rime" Elissa Weaver | Assistant Teaching Professor, Villanova University |
| Jeffrey Coleman | "Bracing for Impact: Portrayals of Immigration in Contemporary Spanish Theatre" Mario Santana | Associate Professor of Spanish, Northwestern University |
| Jenna Leving Jacobson | "Confessing Exile: Revolution and Redemption in the Narratives of the Cuban (Re)encuentro" Agnes Lugo-Ortiz | Adjunct Instructor, Spanish and Transcultural Studies, Dominican University |
| Felipe Rojas | "Hemos visto un mal tan fiero’: The Figure of Ganymede in the Theatre of the Spanish Golden Age" Frederick de Armas | Assistant Professor of Spanish, West Liberty University |
2012-13
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Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Current Position |
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| Mary Angelo | "Force of Habit: How the Convent Shapes the Family in the Fiction of Adélaïde de Souza" Robert Morrissey | Part-Time Instructor, Loyola University Chicago |
| Julia Chamard-Bergeron | "Le moyen d'être soi. Psychologie morale du roman classique" Thomas Pavel | Lecturer, Université Laval |
| Mary Druyvesteyn | "Alphonse de Lamartine. Authoring the Nation’s Narrative: Poetry, Politics, and Providence" Françoise Meltzer | Director of People and Culture, PALM Health |
| Tànit Fernández de la Reguera | "Cuba y Cataluña en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX: El teatro popular e identidades (proto)nacionales" Agnes Lugo-Ortiz, Mario Santana | |
| Maggie Fritz-Morkin | "Excrement Imagery and Rhetoric in Medieval Italian Literature" Justin Steinberg | Associate Professor of Italian, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Nancy Knezevic | "This Woman I play: The pleasure (and talent) of Theatricality in Laclos, Diderot and Rousseau" Françoise Meltzer | |
| Roni Kubati | "L' "uomo transitorio" nella cultura italiana contemporanea" Rebecca West | |
| Clelia Masciello | "Donne in guerra: Agnese, agnello sacrificale della Resistenza o figura ancestrale dell'emancipazione femminile? Il contributo della Resistenza femminile all'emancipazione della donna" Rebecca West | Visiting Lecturer of Italian, University of Illinois Chicago |
2011-12
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| Lisa Barca | "Heavy Weather and a Slant of Light: Modernity, Mythos, and the Metaphysical Functions of Poetry from Emily Dickinson to Eugenio Montale" Rebecca West | Associate Teaching Professor & Honors Faculty Fellow, Arizona State University |
| Jesús Botello | "Cervantes, Felipe II y la dialéctica del poder" Frederick de Armas | Professor of Spanish, University of Delaware |
| Emmanuelle Claydon (Bonnafoux) | "L’animal miroir de l’homme dans la Fiction du lyon d’Eustache Deschamps" Daisy Delogu | |
| James Fortney | "Homosexual Productions: Gay Italian Prose Fiction from the 1970s to the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century" Armando Maggi | Associate Professor (Teaching) of Italian, University of Southern California |
| Sylvie Goutas | "Evolution and Revolutions of Charity in 19th-Century French Society and Novel: Personal and Collective Charity in Honoré de Balzac’s The Human Comedy" Thomas Pavel | Associate Instructional Professor in French, University of Chicago |
| Kathryn Hundley | "Restless Reinvention: Solitude Under Construction in El laberinto de la soledad by Octavio Paz" René de Costa | World Languages Teacher, University of Chicago Laboratory Schools |
| Michael Subialka | "The Aesthetics of Ambivalence: Pirandello, Schopenhauer, and the Transformation of the European Social Imaginary" Thomas Pavel, Rebecca West | Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian, University of California, Davis |
| Lin Yang | "L’immaginario della Cina nei reportage di viaggio degli scrittori italiani (1955-1980)" Rebecca West | Professor, Nankai University |
2010-11
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| Heather Allen | "Literacy, Text, and Performance in Histories of the Conquest of Mexico" Lisa Voigt | Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Mississippi |
| Elizabeth Anderson | "To Love and Be Loved: Petrarchan Friendship in the Canzoniere and the Triumphs" Justin Steinberg | |
| Jacob Blakesley | "A History and Analysis of Quaderni di traduzioni" Rebecca West | Co-Director, Leeds Centre for Dante Studies, University of Leeds |
| Emanuela Zanotti Carney | "Enselmino da Montebelluna's Plainte de La Vierge. The Literary Tradition of Italian Vernacular Laments of the Virgin from the Twelfth to the Fifteenth Century" Elissa Weaver | Professor Emerita, University of Ilinois at Chicago |
| Colleen Donagher | "Meraugis de Portlesguez, by Raoul de Houdenc: An Edition Based on the Turin Manuscript" Peter Dembowski | |
| Rocco Lacorte | "Alcune note sul rapporto tra critica letteraria e concetto di "traducibilità." La prospettiva di Antonio Gramsci tra Francesco de Sanctis e Pier Paolo Pasolini" Armando Maggi | Associate Professor, Nankai University, China |
| Julie Meyers | "Emblematic Figures and Human Agency in Michelet" Robert Morrissey | |
| Novia Pagone | "The Emergence of Women Intellectuals: Women, Journalism and Shaping Identity During the Spanish Transition" Mario Santana | Associate Professor, Governors State University |
| Mireille Palm (Dobrzynski) | "L'Âge classique dans le cinéma d'Éric Rohmer" Larry Norman | Modern and Classical Languages Teacher, Lake Forest Academy |
| Raffaello Palumbo Mosca | "Tra fatto e verità: narrazioni ibride e impegno" Rebecca West | Associate Professor, University of Turin |
| Anna Proffit | "Representing the Child in Spanish Film from El pequeño ruiseñor to El laberinto del fauno" Mario Santana |