Alumni
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Linguistics
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- Anrrich, Graciela (PhD - 2007):
Substitutions for English Consonants by Adult Speakers of Cuban Spanish
Mentor: Jorge M. Guitart
- Armstrong, Grant (PhD- 2011):
Two Classes of Transitive Verbs: Evidence from Spanish
Dissertation Advisors: Héctor Campos and Elena Herburger
- Arteagoitia, Igone (PhD - 1999):
A Crosslisting Study of Second Language Processing in Spanish and Basque
Mentor: Ronald P. Leow
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- Bistline-Bonilla, Chrissy (PhD - 2020):
Interaction in SCMS: The effects of interlocutor, task, and state anxiety
Mentors: Dr Ronald Leow
- Bowden, Harriet (PhD - 2007):
The Role of Experience in Second Language Neurocognition
Mentors: Cristina Sanz; Michael Ullman
- Bowles, Melissa A. (PhD - 2005):
Effect of Verbilization Condition and Type of Feedback on L2 Development in a CALL Task
Mentor: Ronald P. Leow
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- Camblor-Portilla, Maria Teresa (PhD - 2006):
Written Feedback, Awareness and L2 Development: A Computerized Study
Mentor: Ronald P. Leow
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Camus Oyarzun, Pablo (PhD - 2016)
Assistant Professor of Spanish Language and Culture"at Soka University.
The effects of pronunciation instruction on the production of second language Spanish: A classroom study
Mentor: Alfonso Morales-Front
- Camps, Joaquim (PhD - 1997):
Attention to Form and Meaning in Second Language Acquisition: Object Clitic Pronouns in Spanish
Mentor: Cristina Sanz
- Cerezo-Ceballo, Luis (PhD- 2010):
Talking to Avatars: The computer as a tutor and the incidence of learner's agency, feedback, and grammatical form in SLA
Dissertation Advisor: Ronald P. Leow and Christina Sanz
- Choi, Jinny Kyungjin (PhD - 1998):
Languages in Contact: A Morphosyntactic Analysis of Paraguayan Spanish from a Historical and Sociolinguistic Perspective
Mentor: Thomas Walsh
- Cox, Jessica (PhD - 2013):
Bilingualism, Aging, and Instructional Conditions in Non-Primary Language Development
Mentor: Cristina Sanz
- Cruz, Abel (PhD - 2021):
The Category of Gender in Spanish–English Bilingual Grammars: Corpus and Experimental Evidence of Switched DPs
Mentor: Lourdes Ortega and Ronald P. Leow
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- Driver, Meagan (PhD - 2020):
Emotion, motivation, and vocabulary learning: A study of heritage and foreign language learners of Spanish
Co-mentores: Lourdes Ortega y Ron Leow
- DeRobles, Gabriela (PhD - 2019):
The Effects of Type of Written Corrective Feedback and Level of Proficiency on Processing and Accuracy in Heritage Language Learners of Spanish
Mentor: Ronald Leow
- Donatelli, Lucia (PhD - 2019):
The Morphosemantics of Spanish Gender: Evidence from Small Nominals
Dissertation Advisors: Héctor Campos, Ph.D., Ruth Kramer, Ph.D.
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- Fuente, Maria Jose de la (PhD - 1998):
Negotiation and L2 Vocabulary: The Role of Input and Output in the Receptive and Productive Acquisition of Words
Mentor: Ronald P. Leow
- Falcon, Sandra M. (PhD - 2004):
Attitudes Toward Languages in Contact: Spanish, English, and Intellectuals in Puerto Rico
Mentor: Thomas Walsh
- Faulkner, Tris (PhD - 2021):
A Systematic Investigation of Spanish Subjunctive: Mood Variation in Subjunctive Clauses
Co-Mentors: Elena Herberger and Paul Porter
- Fernandez Rubiera, Francisco (In Progress)
On Clitic Placement in Asturian
Mentor:
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- Gordon, Leslie (PhD - 2008):
Factors Affecting L2 Perception of Spanish Vowels by English speakers
Mentor: Alfonso Morales-Front
- Greenslade-Felix, Terri A. (PhD - 2001)
The Effects of Word Order on the Intake, Text Comprehension, and Sentence Interpretation and Production of Adult Learners of Spanish as a Foreign Language
Mentor: Cristina Sanz
- Grey, Sarah (PhD - 2013)
A neurocognitive investigation of bilingual advantages at additional language learning
Mentor: Cristina Sanz
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- Hayer, Holly J. (PhD - 1997):
Input Enhancement for Explicit Knowledge in a Communicative Foreign Language Classroom: Effect on Semi-Spontaneous Oral Production and Explicit Knowledge
Mentor: Ronald P. Leow
- Hemmer, Robert A. (PhD - 1993):
Criteria for Syllabus Design: Interactive Complexity and the Sequencing of Scenarios
Mentor: John Staczek
- Holt, David E. (PhD - 1997):
Constraints and Constraint Ranking: Topics in the Development of Syllable Structure from Latin to Spanish and Portuguese
Mentor: Alfonso Morales-Front
- Hsieh, Hui-Chen (PhD - 2007):
Practice, Feedback, Awareness and L2 Development through a Computerized Task
Mentor: Ronald P. Leow
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- Johnson Serafini, Ellen (PhD - 2013):
Cognitive and psychosocial factors in the long-term development of implicit and explicit second language knowledge in adult learners of Spanish at increasing proficiency
Mentor: Cristina Sanz
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- Killingsworth, Cristi (PhD - 2020):
Flunecy, WOrking memory, and L2 Proficiency in Multicompetent Writers
Mentor: Cristina Sanz
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- Lado, Beatriz (PhD - 2008):
The Role of Level of Bilingualism, Cognitive Capacity and Type of Feedback on the Acquisition of Non-primary Languages
Mentor: Cristina Sanz
- Leeman, Jennifer (PhD - 2000):
Towards a New Classification of Input: An Empirical Study of the Effect of Recasts, Negative Evidence, and Enhanced Salience on L2 Development
Mentor: Alison Mackey
- Lopez-Cortina, Jorge (PhD - 2008):
The Left Periphery of Spanish Interrogative Structures
Mentor: Hector Campos
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- McCormick, Timothy (PhD - 2020) :
Early and emergent bilinguals: The role of cognitive control in the processing of linguistic conflict
Mentor: Cristina Sanz
- Méndez-Seijas, Jorge (PhD - 2020) :
Secong Language Spanish Intonation: Phoenetic and Phonological Dimensions of its Acquisitions Mentor: Alfonso Morales Front Ph.D. / Committee Members: Cristina Sanz, Ph.D. & Germán Zárate-Sández, Ph.D.
- Marijuan, Silvia (PhD - 2015) :
(El)la mapping: An integrated account of learning context, feedback and agreement morphology in the processing of OclVS sentences in advanced L2 Spanish
Mentor: Cristina Sanz
- Marrano, Ann M. (PhD - 1998):
The Syntax of Modality: A Comparative Study of Epistemistic and Root Modal Verbs in Spanish and English
Mentor: Raffaella Zanuttini
- Medina, Almitra (PhD - 2008):
Concurrent Verbalization, Task Complexity, and Working Memory: Effects on L2 Learning in a Computerized Task
Mentor: Ronald P. Leow
- Mayer, Kaylea (PhD - 2008):
Spanish Object-Verb Clitic Complexity and the Competition Model: The Facilitative Effects of the Acquisition of One Linguistic Structure on a Second
Mentor: Cristina Sanz
- Moreno, Nina (PhD - 2007):
The Effects of Type of Feedback and Type of Task on L2 Development in CALL
Mentor: Ronald P. Leow
- Morgan-Short, Kara (PhD - 2007):
A Neurolinguistic Investigation of SLA: Effects of Explicit and Implicit Conditions
Mentors: Cristina Sanz; Michael Ullman
- Morin, Regina C. (PhD - 1997):
The Nonproductivity of Softening Alternations in Spanish
Mentor: Alfonso Morales-Front
- Mun, Jeong C. (PhD - 2022):
Contributions Of Cross-Linguistic Influence And Language Aptitude To The Perception And Production Of L3 Spanish Labial Stops Among Korean-English Bilinguals Of Varying L3 Proficiency
Mentors: Cristina Sanz, Ph.D. & Alfonso Morales-Front, Ph.D.
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- Nagle, Charles (PhD - 2014):
A longitudinal study on the role of internal and external factors in the development of L2 Spanish phonology
Mentors: Cristina Sanz & Alfonso Morales Front
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- Pérez-Casas, Marisol (PhD - 2008):
Codeswitching and Identity among Island Puerto Rican Bilinguals
Mentor: Thomas J. Walsh
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- Romero, Reynaldo (PhD - 2008):
Structural Consequences of Language Shift: Judeo-Spanish in Istanbul
Mentor: Dr. Thomas Walsh
- Rosa, Elena M. (PhD - 1999):
A Cognitive Approach to Task-Based Research: Explicitness, Awareness, and L2 Development
Mentor: Ron Leow
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- Socarras, Gilda (PhD - 2003):
Topics on the Acquisition of Determiner Phrases: Spanish as a First Language
Mentor: Donna Lardiere
- Stafford, Catherine A. (PhD - 2005):
Bilingualism, Cognitive Capacity and Age: A Computer-based Study in L3 Processing
Mentor: Cristina Sanz
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- Torres, Julio (PhD - 2013) :
Heritage and Second Language Learners of Spanish: The Roles of Task Complexity and Inhibitory Control.
Mentor: Cristina Sanz
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- Vallejos, Cristi (PhD - 2020) :
Second Language Writing Fluency: The Effects of First Language Fluency, Working Memory, and L2 Proficiency on Pauses
Mentor: Cristina Sanz.
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Watson, Mark (PhD - 2006):
Post-Revolutionary Cuban Spanish: Changes in the Lexicon and Language Attitudes due to Socio-Poltical Reforms
Mentor: Thomas Walsh
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- Yanguas, Iñigo (PhD - 2007):
Hispanic Heritage Language Learners: A Longitudinal Investigation of Their Academic Motivation
Mentor: Cristina Sanz
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- Zampini, Mary L. (PhD - 1993):
Spanish and English Voiced Stop Phonemes and Spirantization: A Study in Second Languge Acquisition
Mentor: Ronald P. Leow
- Zárate-Sández, German (PhD - 2015)
Perception and Production of Intonation Among English-Spanish Bilingual Speakers at Different Proficiency Levels
Mentors: Cristina Sanz & Alfonso Morales Front
Literature and Cultural Studies
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- Amaya Ortega, Oscar (PhD – 2021):
(Re)Viewing Afrocubanism: Dialogue And Interdisciplinary In Lydia Cabrera And Wifredo Lam Dissertation Advisors: Joanne Rappaport and Gwen Kirkpatrick - Afinoguenova, Eugenia (PhD – 1999):
La “muerte del hombre” y el nacimiento del idiota: el sujeto problematico en la filosofia, la literatura y el arte espanoles de los años sesenta, setenta y ochenta
Dissertation Advisor: Alejandro Yarza - Albertengo, Clara (PhD – 2004) :
El humor en tiempos de crisis: estrategias de (de) construcción de la identidad en Argentina y Cuba
Dissertation Advisors: Veronica Salles-Reese; Gwen Kirkpatrick
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- Caballo-Márquez, Reyes (PhD- 2010):
Cuerpos en Tránsito: Efectos de la Globalización en el Cine Social Contemporáneo
Disertation Advisor: Vivaldo Santos - Cáceres García, Juli (PhD – 2008):
El destape del macho ibérico: masculinidades disidentes en la comedia sexy (celt)ibérica
Dissertation Advisor: Alejandro Yarza - Calvi, Rosana (PhD- 2011):
Heterogeneidad de los Discurso Sobre lo Indigena en las Revistas Indigenistas Perunas de Vanguardia
Dissertation Advisor: Gwen Kirkpatrick - Cardinale, Miguel (PhD – 2002):
Vicisitudes identitarias en la obra de Reinaldo Arenas
Dissertation Advisor: Horacio Legras - Castany Prado, Bernat (PhD – 2006):
Postnational Literature: Latin America, a Case Study
Dissertation Advisor: Veronica Salles-Reese - Chambers, Donna M. (PhD – 2007):
From within the Birdcage: Societal Revelations in the Works of Angela de Azevedo
Dissertation Advisor: Barbara Mujica - Collmann, Lilliam (PhD – 1997):
Jesus Diaz: El ejercito de los limites de la expresión revolucionaria en Cuba
Dissertation Advisor: Enrico Mario Santi - Copertari, Marta Gabriela (PhD – 2004):
Narrativas de desintegración y de justicia: el cine argentino en le cambio de siglo
Dissertation Advisor: Horacio Legras - Cortez, Enrique (PhD- 2011):
La Imaginación Biográfica: El Inca Garcilaso y la Formación del Campo Cultural Peruano (1847-1916):
Dissertation Advisor: Verónica Salles-Reese and Gwen Kirkpatrick
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- Diaz-Rivera, Adabel (PhD – 2001):
Del discurso colonial en la relación de Titu Cusi Yapanqui (1570): La ambivalencia del mimetismo cultural:
Dissertation Advisors: Veronica Salles-Reese; Mercedes Lopez-Baralt; E. Michael Gerli
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Esteban Toro Franco, Felipe (PhD- 2020):
Atlas: A Cartography of Sports in Latin American Literature
Dissertation Advisor: Gwen Kirkpatrick. Committee: Tania Gentic, Rodrigo Cánovas. - Estrada Portales, Isabel M. (PhD- 2010):
Las cuotas raciales en el discurso mediático y académico brasileño
Dissertation Advisor: Joanne Rappaport
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- Farrell, Michelle (PhD-2011):
A “Revolution of Conciousness”: Redefinining Venezuelan National Identities Through Cinema
Dissertation Advisor: Gwen Kirkpatrick - Feldman, Irina A. (PhD – 2007):
¿Por qué me has matado?: Sovereignty, Authority and Law in José María Arguedas’ Todas las sangres
Dissertation Advisor: Horacio Legras
- Fil, Alla (PhD – 2006)
El fenómeno turístico y el viaje urbano en la narrativa y cine españoles de los años sesenta y setenta
Dissertation Advisor: Alejandro Yarza - Fole Varela, Xabier (PhD – 2021):
Ausencias y presencias de la nación: Una reconstrucción cultural de las identidades ibéricasMentor: Alejandro Yarza
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- Garcia, Dulce M. (PhD – 1993):
El lenguaje como tema y acción en las novelas de Diego de San Pedro
Dissertation Advisor: E. Michael Gerli - Garcia-Torvisco, Luis (PhD – 2005):
Modos del exceso en la cultura de la transición democrática en España
Dissertation Advisor: Alejandro Yarza - Gonzalez, Luis M. (PhD – 2005):
De Isabel y Fernando el espiritu impera: Fascismo y cine espanol (1939-1951)
Dissertation Advisor: Alejandro Yarza
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- Hajjar, Diana (PhD – 2020)
On Heroes and Heroines: Cortés and Pizarro versus the Heroic Women of the Colonial Period and the Struggle for Independence.
Dissertation Advisor: Veronica Salles-Reese - Habershon, Alexandra M. (PhD – 2006)
Post-Partum Nation: The Amazon Myth and Ideologies of Reproduction in the Conquest of the New World
Dissertation Advisor: Veronica Salles-Reese - Heller, Sophie (PhD – 2021):
The Child’s Gaze and the Politics of Memory and Mourning: Spatiality, Spectrality and Sound in Contemporary Spanish and Latin American CinemaMentors: Alejandro Yarza and Tania Gentic
- Hynes, Laura A. (PhD – 1998):
Love, Fusion, and Death: Andogyny in the Authorship and Works of Gregorio and Maria Martinez Sierra
Dissertation Advisor: Francisco LaRubia-Prado
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- Izquierdo, Lucas J. (PhD – 2007):
Torn Speech: Emerging Subjectivities in Chile and Peru
Dissertation Advisor: Horacio Legras
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- Jouve-Martin, Jose R. (PhD – 2003):
Esclavos negros, escribas blancos: esclavitud, escritura y colonialismo en Lima
Dissertation Advisors: Veronica Salles-Reese; Joanne Rappaport
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- Karlan, Ross (PhD – 2020):
Falling Into Shame: The Cultural History of an Emotion in Premodern Iberia
Dissertation Advisors: Emily Francomano
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- Lachman, Jeffrey B. (PhD – 1999):
The Raquel Plays: Theatrical Representation of Political Intrigue and Antisemitism in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Spain
Dissertation Advisor: Barbara Mujica
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- Maldonado, Freddy Cesar (PhD – 2007):
Letrados de mínima cuantía. Rescatirismo cultural intelectualidad oral-letrada
Dissertation Advisor: - Maldonado-Pena, Luis (PhD – 2004):
La representacion del cuerpo como espacio de crisis politica en la literatura latinoamericana
Dissertation Advisor: Horacio Legras - Moran, Francisco (PhD – 2002):
Guardarropias del deseo: los escondites del modernismo
Dissertation Advisors: Veronica Salles-Reese; Horacio Legras - Moreno, Marisel C. (PhD – 2004):
Writing Puerto Rico: The Literature of Insular and U.S. Puerto Rican Women Authors
Dissertation Advisor: Veronica Salles-Reese
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- O’Brien, Valerie C. (PhD – 2002):
Murder on the Menu: Culture and Consumption in the Carvalho Series of Manuel Vazquez Montalban
Dissertation Advisor: Alejandro Yarza
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- Pardo Ballester, Trinidad (PhD – 2007):
Flamenco: Orientalismo, exotismo y la identidad nacional espanola
Dissertation Advisor: Alejandro Yarza - Pareja, Roberto (PhD – 2006):
Dilemas de la modernidad andina: moralidad social, economía de las pasiones y modernidad estética en Perú y Bolivia (1900-1950)
Dissertation Advisors: Horacio Legras; Joanne Rappaport; Gwen Kirkpatrick; Javier Sanjines - Perales, Jaime (PhD – 2007):
Octavio Paz y el circulo de la revista “Vuelta”
Dissertation Advisor: Gwen Kirkpatrick - Perez-Leal, Pedro J. (PhD – 2007)
Dissertation Advisor: Gwen Kirkpatrick
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- Riegger, Maria C. (PhD – 2003):
From Open Book to Open Curtain- Toward Understanding the Transformation of Textual Narrative to Dramatic Adaptation
Dissertation Advisor: Horacio Legras
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- Schoeffling, Matthew J. (PhD – 2002)
The Complexity of Warfare in Medievel Iberia: A Cross-Culture Approach
Dissertation Advisor: E. Michael Gerli - Shepherd, Gregory (PhD – 1996):
Jose de Acosta: Reading the American Past and Programming the Future toward the Christianization of Amerindians
Dissertation Advisor: Veronica Salles-Reese
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- Tapia, Carlos Fernando (PhD – 2007):
Ink and Celluloid: A Study of The Lazarillo de Tormes and its Filmic Adaptations
Dissertation Advisor: - Tsoukatos, Elaini (PhD- 2011):
Finding God in All Things: Teresa of Ávila’s Use of the Familiar
Dissertation advisor: Barbara Mujica
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- Urbanc, Katica (PhD – 1995):
Escritura femenina, critica feminista: cinco autoras españolas
Dissertation Advisor: Estelle Irizarry
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- Vich, Victor (PhD – 2000):
Las multiples voces, las muchas memorias: los comicos ambulantes y la cultura oral en el Peru
Dissertation Advisor: Joanne Rappaport