Alumni
Doctoral Students Awarded Degrees
Caryn Connelly, Hispanic Literature, is currently teaching as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish at Miami University in Oxford, OH. Her dissertation, Passionate Extremes: The Melodramas of Arturo Ripstein and Paz Alicia García Diego, was successfully defended on December 15, 2005.
Luis Guadaño, Hispanic Literature, is currently teaching at Saint Paul College in St. Paul, MN. His dissertation, Cine y Espectáculo: Estrategías de Representación en la España del Siglo XX was successfully defended on May 1, 2006.
Maria Isabel Kalbermatten, Hispanic Linguistics, is currently teaching Spanish at Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter, MN. Her dissertation, Verbal Irony as a Prototype Category in Spanish: A Discoursive Analysis was successfully defended on June 2, 2006.
Alrick Knight, Hispanic Literature, is currently teaching in a tenure-track position as an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Loyola University Chicago. His dissertation, Modernity Unbound: Aesthetics and the Limits of Knowledge in circa-1900 Spanish Literature, was successfully defended on February 20, 2006.
Elena (Zak) Kurinski, Hispanic Linguistics, is currently teaching as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN. Her dissertation, Gender Attribution by Adult Native English Speakers Learning Spanish was successfully defended on April 25, 2006.
Rebecca Ulland, Hispanic Literature, is currently teaching as an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, MI. Her dissertation, Post-Dictatorship Historical Fiction in Argentina: A Dialogue Between Past and Present was successfully defended on April 4, 2006.
Stephen Vilaseca, Hispanic Literature, is currently teaching in a tenure-track position as an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon. His dissertation, Traveling Across the Geographies of Resistance in Contemporary Spanish Literature was successfully defended on May 3, 2006.
Students Completing Doctoral Preliminary Exams for ABD Status
- Alexandra Bergmann (Hispanic Literature)
- Tania Gómez (Hispanic Linguistics)
- Alexis Howe (Hispanic Literature)
- Daniel Tight (Hispanic Linguistics)
- Ellen Wormwood (Hispanic Literature)
Master's Students Awarded Degrees
- Chris Baschnagel (Hispanic Literature)
- Kristin Beamish Brown (Hispanic Literature)
- Corinne Bruno (Hispanic Literature)
- Mandy Fleming (Hispanic Linguistics)
- Marisol Galicia (Hispanic Linguistics)
- Beth Kinderman (Hispanic Linguistics)
- Sandra Manzón-Omundson (Hispanic Linguistics)
- Kelly McDonough (Hispanic Literature)
- Katherine Ostrom (Luso-Brazilian Literature)
- Hector Reyes-Zaga (Hispanic Literature)
- Joseph Towle (Hispanic Literature)
- Naomi Wood (Hispanic Literature)