PhD Alumni
PhD Alumni in Linguistics Heading link
| Name | Dissertation Year/Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|
| David Abugaber-Bowman | 2022 / Disentangling Neural Indices of Implicit vs. Explicit Morphosyntax Processing in an Artificial Language | Generative AI Developer Deloitte's Government & Public Services |
| Timothy Anderson | 2022 / The Relevance of Type in Semantic Analyses of Incremental Theme Predicates in English and Spanish | Associate Professor Kishwakee College |
| Angela Bentacourt-Ciprian | 2022 / Conceptualizing Chicago Cubanidad: Spanish Ideologies and Identity | Clinical Assistant Professor & Director of Spanish as a Heritage Language Program University of Illinois at Chicago |
| María Alejandra Prieto-Mendoza | 2022 / Evidentiality in the “Diálogos de Paz”: Quotations and Presuppositions in Colombia’s Peace Talks | Current position unknown |
| Irene Finestrat Martinez | 2021 / The Influence of L1 Grammatical Skills on Adult L2 Development in Two Learning Contexts | Assistant Professor of Instruction Northwestern University |
| Irati de Nicolás Saiz | 2020 / Adjective Placement In Code-Switched Determiner Phrases | Assistant Professor University of Deusto (Spain) |
| Rodrigo Delgado | 2020 / Gender and Phonetics in the Spanish/English Code-Switched Determiner Phrase | Assistant Professor University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| Jose Sequeros-Valle | 2020 / A Morphological Approach to Discourse in Spanish: A Theoretical and Experimental Review | Instructor University of Nebraska Omaha |
| Alicia Luque | 2019 / Inhibitory Control and First Language Flexibility in Second Language Learning: A Neurocognitive Study | Associate Professor Nebrija University |
| Sara Stefanich | 2019 / A Morphophonological Account of Spanish/English Word-Internal Codeswitching | Adjunct Lecturer Northwestern University |
| Ariane Sande-Piñeiro | 2018 / C Plus T As A Necessary Condition For Pro-Drop: Evidence from Code-Switching | Spanish Lecturer University of Munich (Germany) |
| Ana C. Baez | 2017 / Aesthetic Interruptions: Image and Form in Twenty-First Century Caribbean Literary and Visual Production | Assistant Professor Chicago State University |
| Daniel Vergara | 2017 / A Minimalist Analysis of Negative Concord in Northern Peninsular Spanish | Assistant Professor Auburn University |
| Maryann Parada | 2016 / Lexical Availability in Diaspora Spanish: A Cross-generational Analysis of Chilean-Swedes | Associate Professor & Spanish Graduate Coordinator California State University Bakersfield |
| Zoe McMannon | 2016 / Grammatical Gender in Child Bilinguals: Language Acquisition across Sociolinguistic & Pedagogical Spheres | Chicago Public Schools |
| Bernard Issa | 2015 / Morphosyntactic Development In A Second Language: An Eye-Tracking Study On The Role Of Attention | Associate Professor & Interim Chair University of Tennessee Knoxville |
| Jeanne Heil | 2015 / Infinitivals At The End State: Evidence For The L2 Acquisition Of English Non-Finite Complementation | Associate Professor & Department Chair University of Southern Maine |
| Junice Acosta | 2014 / Phonological Variation In Cibaeno Spanish: Social Networks As Potential Predictors Of Semi-Vocalization | Associate Professor & Department Chair Southern Utah University |
| Shane Ebert | 2014 / The Morphosyntax Of Wh-Questions: Evidence From Spanish-English Code-Switching | Lecturer University of Illinois at Chicago |
| Mandy Faretta-Stutenberg | 2014 / Pronoun Categorization: Evidence From Spanish/English Code-Switching | Assistant Professor & Director of Basic Language Program Northern Illinois University |
| Laura Bartlett-Hsu | 2013 / Adjectives That Aren't: An ERP-Theoretical Analysis Of Adjectives In Spanish | Current position unknown |
| Bradley Hoot | 2012 / Presentational Focus In Heritage And Monolingual Spanish | Associate Professor, Spanish Program Director, & Linguistics Program Director DePaul University |
| Jill Jegerski | 2010 / Ultimate Attainment In Second Language Acquisition: Near-Native Sentence Processing In Spanish | Associate Professor University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Julia Oliver Rajan | 2008 / Vowel Raising In Puertorican Spanish | Associate Professor of Instruction Northwestern University |
| Clara Burgo | 2008 / Tense And Aspect Grammaticalization In Bilbao Spanish | Associate Professor & Undergraduate Program Director Loyola University |
| Gregory Keating | 2005 / Processing Gender Agreement Across Phrases In Spanish Eye Movements During Sentence Comprehension | Professor & Department Chair San Diego State University |
| Claudia Fernández | 2005 / The Role Of Explicit Information In Instructed Sla: Evidence From A Pi Study | Clinical Associate Professor & Director of Spanish Basic Language Program University of Illinois at Chicago |
| Elisa Baena | 2004 / Estudio Pragmático De La Ironía Verbal En Español | Professor & Director of Spanish Language and Culture Study Abroad Program Northwestern University |
| Dinorah Scott | 2003 / Mood Variation In Spanish: A Neo-Gricean Pragmatic Explanation | Assistant Professor Whitworth University |
| Eduardo Urios | 2002 / Pragmatics Of Metaphor In Context | Associate Professor University of Connecticut |
PhD Alumni in Literature Heading link
| Name | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|
| Meloddye Carpio Rios | 2022 / Of Affects, Processes, and Excesses: Unruly Masculinites in Peruvian Comtemporary Visual Productions | Post Doctoral Fellow DePaul University |
| Oscar Daniel Campo Becerra | 2021 / Unfinished Writings / Interrupted Communities in Postdictatorship Latin America | Assistant Professor Universidad del Norte |
| José Ángel Navejas | 2020 / The Chicago Latin American Literary Movement: Toward a Spanish-Language Literature of the United States | Current position unkown |
| Mayte Harbison | 2020 / Obliterated Margins: Severo Sarduy's Writing and Painting | Associate Professor Richard Daley College |
| Andrés Aluma-Cazorla | 2019 / From the Neo-Picaresque to the Neo-Noir: Black Humor and Violence in the Contemporary Colombian Novel | Professor & Department Chair Norwalk Community College |
| Yanire Marquez Etxabe | 2019 / Shattering the Limits of Visual Cinema: Haptic and Sensorial Visuality in Spanish Women Filmmakers | Director of AP Spanish Language and Culture The College Board |
| Ruben Pérez | 2015 / Sexuality And Desire In Spanish, Mexican And Argentinean Working-Class Narratives | Lecturer at University of Sydney |
| A. Maximiliano Sánchez | 2015 / Dysfunctional Machines: The Presence Of The Avant-Garde In Flour Latin American Writers | Professor The American Business School of Paris |
| Xabier Granja | 2015 / Fracasos Cortesanos: Exceso Masculino Y Rearticulacion De La Hegemonia Cultural En Maria De Zayas | Associate Professor & Spanish Undergraduate Director University of Alabama |
| Susana Domingo | 2015 / Realismos Postmodernos; Mirada Virtual, Consume Y Familia En Cine De España Y Chile | Associate Professor University of Massachusetts Boston |
| Lillian Gorman | 2015 / Ethnolinguistic Contact Zones: Identity And Language Among Mexican-Nuevomexicano Families In New Mexico | Assistant Professor & Director of Spanish as a Heritage Language Program University of Arizona |
| Melissa Huerta | 2014 / We Need The Whole Latina Package: Teatro Luna And The Meaning Of Latina | Associate Professor Denison University |
| Martin Ponti | 2014 / Daytime Divas: Unmasking Queerness On Argentinean Television And Film | Assistant Professor Washington College |
| Diana González | 2014 / Mujeres Al Borde De Un Ataque De Nervios: La Histeria En La Literatura Caribeña Y Latino-Caribeña | Lecturer University of Illinois at Chicago |
| Andrea Castelluccio | 2014 / Cuerpos De Mujer, Sujetos Femeninos Y El Escenario Nacional En El Cine Argentino: 1930-1960 | Dean of Academics Connelly School of the Holy Child |
| Luz Bibiana Fuentes | 2013 / Deviant Narratives: Anomalous Subjective Positions In Post-Boom Latin American Literature | Associate Professor University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire |
| Jelena Sánchez | 2012 / La Tramoyera: A New Role For Women In The Golden Age Comedia De Capa Y Espada | Associate Professor North Central College |
| Inés Sahagún-Bahena | 2011 / Space And The City In Mexican Women's Novels; 1980-1990's | Director of Centro de Excelencia National Louis University |
| Stephen Buttes | 2010 / Poverty And Nationalism In The Americas | Associate Professor Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne |
| Eugenio DiStefano | 2010 / From Aesthetics to Politics: The Case Of The Southern Cone | Associate Professor University of Nebraska at Omaha |
| Javier García | 2010 / Entre Humanismo Y Barbarie: Posibilidades Criticas De La Narrativa Espanola Ante El Discurso Hereditario | Current position unknown |
| Clara Herrera | 2008 / Profession, Vocation Or Duty?: Economic Discourses Of Woman's Work In Golden Age Spanish Literature | Current position unknown |
| Jennifer Rudolph | 2008 / Roncamos Porque Podemos: Racialization, Redemption, And Mascu-Latinidad | Associate Professor Connecticut College |
| Juan Trouillhet | 2007 / Shakespeare Valle-Inclán Y La Renovacion Teatral Española | Instructor Centro Complutense para la enseñanza del español |
| Maria Trouillhet | 2006 / Tu Y Yo En Femenino: Amor Y Amistad Entre Mujeres En La Narrativa Contemporánea | Professor CEA Study Abroad |
| Carlos Pueyo | 2006 / Lenguaje Insuficiente, Colores Suficientes: El Azul En Becquer Y Novalis | Professor Valparaiso University |
| David Rodríguez | 2004 / Postmodernist C(Ha)Osmos: Reading Historiographic Metafiction In Juan Goytisolo And Abel Posse | Lecturer University of Illinois at Chicago |
| Juan Gamiño | 2004 / Hernán Cortés Y Tlatelolco, Auto-Construcción De Una Imagen Individual Y Reconstrucción De Una Imagen Colectiva | Current position unknown |
| David Gilliam | 2002 / Mapping Afro-Hispanic Discourse In Three Novelists: Colombia, Perú And Puerto Rico | Associate Professor DePaul University |
| Bernardo Navia | 2001 / Ni Paraiso Terrenal Ni Antipodas: La Visión Del Nuevo Mundo De Alvar Núñez, Cabeza De Vaca | Lecturer University of Illinois at Chicago |