Graduate Alumni
PhD Alumni in Linguistics Heading link
| Name | Dissertation Year/Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|
| Maryann Parada | 2016 / Lexical Availability in Diaspora Spanish: A Cross-generational Analysis of Chilean-Swedes | Assistant Professor; Head of Spanish for Heritage Speakers program California State University Bakersfield |
| Zoe McMannon | 2016 / Grammatical Gender in Child Bilinguals: Language Acquisition across Sociolinguistic & Pedagogical Spheres | Elementary Bilingual Education Teacher |
| Bernard Issa | 2015 / Morphosyntactic Development In A Second Language: An Eye-Tracking Study On The Role Of Attention | Assistant Professor University of Tennessee Knoxville |
| Jeanne Heil | 2015 / Infinitivals At The End State: Evidence For The L2 Acquisition Of English Non-Finite Complementation | Assistant Professor Eastern Mennonite University |
| Junice Acosta | 2014 / Phonological Variation In Cibaeno Spanish: Social Networks As Potential Predictors Of Semi-Vocalization | Assistant Professor Southern Utah University |
| Shane Ebert | 2014 / The Morphosyntax Of Wh-Questions: Evidence From Spanish-English Code-Switching | Visiting Lecturer University of Illinois at Chicago |
| Mandy Faretta-Stutenberg | 2014 / Pronoun Categorization: Evidence From Spanish/English Code-Switching | Assistant Professor University of Alabama |
| 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 | Assistant Professor DePaul University |
| Jill Jegerski | 2010 / Ultimate Attainment In Second Language Acquisition: Near-Native Sentence Processing In Spanish | Assistant 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 | Assistant Professor Loyola University |
| Gregory Keating | 2005 / Processing Gender Agreement Across Phrases In Spanish Eye Movements During Sentence Comprehension | Associate Professor San Diego State University |
| Claudia Fernández | 2005 / The Role Of Explicit Information In Instructed Sla: Evidence From A Pi Study | Associate Professor Knox College |
| Elisa Baena | 2004 / Estudio Pragmático De La Ironía Verbal En Español | Senior Lecturer 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; Coordinator of Spanish Program University of Connecticut |
PhD Alumni in Literature Heading link
| Name | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|
| Ruben Pérez | 2015 / Sexuality And Desire In Spanish, Mexican And Argentinean Working-Class Narratives | Assistant Professor Dominican University |
| A. Maximiliano Sánchez | 2015 / Dysfunctional Machines: The Presence Of The Avant-Garde In Flour Latin American Writers | Instructor; Coordinator of the Modern Languages Program University of Illinois at Springfield |
| Xabier Granja | 2015 / Fracasos Cortesanos: Exceso Masculino Y Rearticulacion De La Hegemonia Cultural En Maria De Zayas | Lecturer University of Alabama |
| Susana Domingo | 2015 / Realismos Postmodernos; Mirada Virtual, Consume Y Familia En Cine De España Y Chile | Assistant Professor University of Massachusetts Boston |
| Lillian Gorman | 2015 / Ethnolinguistic Contact Zones: Identity And Language Among Mexican-Nuevomexicano Families In New Mexico | Assistant Professor University of Arizona |
| Melissa Huerta | 2014 / We Need The Whole Latina Package: Teatro Luna And The Meaning Of Latina | Assistant 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 | General Service Administration; Escuela Argentina de Washington DC; Free-lance Translator |
| Luz Bibiana Fuentes | 2013 / Deviant Narratives: Anomalous Subjective Positions In Post-Boom Latin American Literature | Assistant 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 | Adjunct Assistant Professor North Central College |
| Inés Sahagún-Bahena | 2011 / Space And The City In Mexican Women's Novels; 1980-1990's | Business Services Specialist at Environmental Health and Safety Office University of Illinois at Chicago |
| Stephen Buttes | 2010 / Poverty And Nationalism In The Americas | Assistant Professor Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne |
| Eugenio DiStefano | 2010 / From Aesthetics to Politics: The Case Of The Southern Cone | Assistant Professor University of Nebraska at Omaha |
| Javier García | 2010 / Entre Humanismo Y Barbarie: P;Osibilidades 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 | Associate Professor Wheaton College Norton |
| Jennifer Rudolph | 2008 / Roncamos Porque Podemos: Racialization, Redemption, And Mascu-Latinidad | Assistant 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 | Instructor University Pompeu Fabra de Barcelona |
| Carlos Pueyo | 2006 / Lenguaje Insuficiente, Colores Suficientes: El Azul En Becquer Y Novalis | Associate 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 | Visiting Lecturer University of Illinois at Chicago |