Graduate Students

2008
JAIMEE CHRISTINAT
MA, Univ of Connecticut
20th Century Latin American Literature, Women's Studies, Latin American Theater
ERICKA HERBIAS
MA, Villanova University
I have combined my main academic interests to include Andean Studies and Twentieth Century Latin American Poetry. My work is focused on the legacy of that tradition as a significant component through colonial literature, popular culture and art in Latin America. I am also interested in Performance Studies and the issue of the body in fiction.
HÉCTOR VELARDE
MA, University of Connecticut
Culturas Fronterizas, Novela y Poesía Contemporánea Latinoamericana, Literatura Colonial
ANNA SHILOVA
MA, Iowa State University
Hispanic Cinema, 20th Century Latin American Literature

 

2007
ZAIDA CORNIEL
BA, Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo
Narrativa cotemporánea caribeña, Dramaturgia
GABRIELA ÁLVAREZ
MA, Georgia State Univ
Journalism, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Contemporary Latin American Narrative
SHARONAH FREDRICK
MA, Univ of Tel Aviv
Anthropology, pre-Colombian civilizations, Muslim and Judeo-Spanish literature, medieval Spanish, English and Irish poetry, Mayan & Incan archaeology, theatre and the plastic arts.
ANA MIRÓN
BA, New York University
Literatura, venguardia en América Latina, teoría crítica, filosofía, estética.
Memorias, murmullos y selvas.
YIOTA NICOLAOU
BA, Stony Brook University
Contemporary Latin American Literature
SALMA RALPH
BA/Architecture, Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara, México
Women's Literary Space, Contemporary Latin American and Spanish Narrative, Cinema
ERITKA VALDIVIA FLORES
MA, CUNY Graduate Center
Contemporary Latin American Literature

 

2006
DEAN ALLBRITTON
MA, Syracuse University
Masculinity Studies, Film Studies, Contemporary Spanish Film & Literature
I am also in the Certificate Program in Women's Studies.
ANA FERNÁNDEZ
Universidad de Valladolid
VICENTE RUBIO PUEYO
Lic, Universidad de Zaragoza
Mi proyecto de investigación intenta abarcar diferentes problemas relacionados con la propia configuración de los estudios literarios hispánicos como disciplina: la composición de los académicos e intelectuales como clase, grupo o casta social, y las determinaciones ideológicas que de ella se derivan; los diversos debates que la disciplina ha conocido a lo largo de su historia; la valoración crítica de las aportaciones de los estudios culturales y otros paradigmas críticos. Otros intereses: Bajtin, marxismo, estética.
ARANCHA SANZ ÁLVAREZ
MA TESOL/Spanish, West Virginia University
MA Literatura, University of Connecticut

Literatura de mujeres viajeras. Viajes transatlánticos, ficción/literatura y realidad en los libros de viajes, búsqueda de exotismo, problemas de género a los que se enfrentan este tipo de textos. Mapas y geografías.

 

2005
MARK DOWELL
MA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Areas of specialization: 20th-century and contemporary Latin-American literature, applied linguistics,literary critical theory (emphasis upon Structuralism and Post-structuralism), intertextuality of Latin-American literature and Buddhist philosophy, Rock of the 1970's. Favorite Quote: "It's 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses. Hit it."
JULIA MARTÍNEZ GONZÁLEZ
MA, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ALEX SALINAS
Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar de Quito
N. MICHELLE SHEPHERD
MA, New York University
Questions of gender, race and national identity in relation to immigration in Spain; Film Studies
I am also in the Certificate Program in Women's Studies.

 

2004
CARLOS AGUASACO
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
MARINA SONIA CARRASCO PEREZAGUA
Universidad de Sevilla
MELISSA CULVER
Universidad de Murcia
ÁLVARO FERNÁNDEZ
Lic, Universidad de Buenos Aires
I'm delving into the dark waters of Memory, especially dealing with different constructions of the past that imply institutional forgetting. My main field of study is literature around the Spanish Transition from Francoist dictatorship to an amnesic European democratic monarchy. Other fields of interest: Contemporary Latin American Literature, Film Studies, Trauma Studies.
VICTOR PUEYO-ZOCO
Universidad de Zaragoza
Mi área de investigación es el Siglo de Oro español y, en particular, la literatura de la risa y sus géneros (sátira, parodia, menipea, comedias burlescas, picaresca...). Me inquieta la remodelación de la historia literaria que conlleva la inclusión de esta literatura y que comparece ya, de manera embrionaria, en la obra de M.M. Bajtín. Intereses generales: teoría de los géneros, folklorismo, teoría de la historia y estética.