Vanessa Nelsen 

• Dissertation: Specters of the Neobaroque: Exile and Image in Lezama, Arenas, and Sarduy

Janike Ruginis 

• Dissertation: The Politics of The Photographic Aesthetic in Latin America: Photography in Literature and Film in 20^th-and 21^st-Century Argentina and Brazil
• Position: Lecturer of Spanish; Spelman College

Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón 

• Dissertation: Vagrancies: The Suspension of Work in Mexican Cultural Production, 1861-1982
• Position: Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies; Oberlin College

Michelle Hulme-Lippert 

• Dissertation: Reworking the Kirchnerist Narrative: Human Rights, Politics, and Cultural Production in Contemporary Argentina
• Position: Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern Languages; Randolph-Macon College

Angel Díaz 

• Dissertation: Muerte y resurrección de la poesía en Estrella distante, Los detectives salvajes y Amuleto de Roberto Bolaño
• Position: Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature; Hollins University

Fernando Esquivel-Suarez

• Dissertation: "Españoles trasplantados”: raza hispana y migración en las misiones culturales españolas enviadas al centenario de la independencia argentina (1898-1910)
• Position: Senior Lecturer of Spanish; Spelman College

Stephanie Pridgeon 

• Dissertation: Subverting Subversion: Reexamining 1970s Militant Ideology through Recent Argentine Literature and Film (1996-2009)
• Position: Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish; Bates College

Nanci Buiza 

• Dissertation: Phantoms of the Past: Trauma and Affect in Postwar Central American Fiction
• Position: Assistant Professor of Spanish; Swarthmore College

José Arnaldo Larrauri 

• Dissertation: Ruptura, diversidad y exceso: el discurso queer en la literatura puertorriqueña
• Position: Assistant Professor of Spanish; Morehouse College

Anne Garland Mahler 

• Dissertation: Beyond the Color Curtain: Race and Empire in Tricontinentalist Cultural Production
• Position: Assistant Professor of Spanish; University of Virginia

Sandra Navarro 

• Dissertation: Captive Subjects: The Figure of the Child in Argentine Cinema
• Position: Assistant Professor of Spanish; Western New England University

Margarita Pintado Burgos 

• Dissertation: Derroteros y derrotas: Lorenzo García Vega y la literatura menor
• Position: Assistant Professor of Spanish; Ouachita Baptist University

Anastasia Valecce 

• Dissertation: El neorrealismo italiano en la Revolución cubana (1959-1969)
• Position: Assistant Professor of Spanish; Spelman College

Estrella Cedeño 

• Dissertation: Intersubjectivity in XIXth-Century Literary Criticism
• Position: Adjunct Instructor of Spanish; Palm Beach State College

Gabriel Eljaiek 

• Dissertation: Selva de fantasmas: Tropicalización de lo gótico en el cine y la literatura latinoamericana

Omar Granados 

• Dissertation: Espejos de impaciencia: Re-escritura y revolución en Cuba
• Position: Associate Professor of Global Cultures & Languages; University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

Orosman López Bao 

• Dissertation: Fraying at the Edges: Male Homosexuals, Female Prostitutes, and Suicides in Cuba’s Post-Soviet Detective Fiction
• Position: Assistant Professor of Spanish; Mercer University

Brittany Anderson 

• Dissertation: Material Women and Imperial Fashions: the Circulation of Ideologies and Commerce in the Hispanic Enlightenment
• Position: Lecturer of Spanish; California Polytechnic State University

Ana María Díaz Burgos 

• Dissertation: Entre el archivo inquisitorial, el devenir picaresco: Redes, voces y hechicería en Cartagena de Indias. El Caso de Doña Lorenzana de Acereto 1610-1614
• Position: Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies; Oberlin College

Gloria Hernández 

• Dissertation: Descubre tu presencia. Ausencia, memoria y deseo en el Cántico espiritual y Rasa lila
• Position: Associate Professor of Languages; West Chester University

Defended 2010

Margaret Boyle 

• Dissertation: Bad Girls on Stage: Spectacles of Deviance and Rehabilitation in Early Modern Spain
• Position: Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures; Bowdoin College

Aisha Cort 

• Dissertation: Negrometraje, Literature and Race in Revolutionary Cuba

Cristina Delano 

• Dissertation: Irrational Maps: The Gothic misterios of Madrid and Barcelona

Defended 2009

Ryan Davis 

• Dissertation: Epidemic Expressions: Reading the Cultural Narrative of 'Spanish' Flu Discourse in Spain, 1918-1919
• Position: Associate Professor of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures; Illinois State University

Matthew Edwards 

• Dissertation: Historical Constructions, Sexual Memories
• Position: Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures; University of Missouri-Kansas City

María Del Mar Rosa Rodríguez 

• Dissertation: Religiosidades en tránsito: el simulacro aljamiado en el siglo XVI español
• Position: Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies; Carnegie Mellon University

Defended 2008

Jess Boersma 

• Dissertation: Combatting the Modern State: War and Literature as Weak Dialectic in Galdós, Sender, Semprún and Goytisolo
• Position: Associate Dean for Student Success, Policy and Undergraduate Scholarship; University of North Carolina-Wilmington

Defended 2007

Anjela Cannarelli-Peck 

• Dissertation: Caving Subjects, Wonderful Monsters: Convivencia After 1492

Ketevan Kupatadze 

• Dissertation: Encompassing the World: Neo-Cosmopolitan Vision in Contemporary Latin American Literature
• Position: Senior Lecturer in Spanish in the Department of World Languages and Cultures; Elon University

Eduardo Ortiz Maldonado

• Dissertation: Cut, Copy and Paste: el rebelde cadáver exquisito de la heroicidad surrealista
• Position: Catedrático Asociado de Español; Universidad de Puerto Rico en Arecibo

Defended 2006

Sylvia Figueroa 

• Dissertation: Espacio y velocidad: tecnologías para una nueva mirada en la poesía virtual latinoamericana

Katherine Ford 

• Dissertation: Transforming Spectacles: Violence in Cuban and Argentine Theater (1968-1974)
• Position: Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies; East Carolina University

Kerry Hegarty 

• Dissertation: The New Urban Heroes: Representations of Cultural Modernity in 1960s and 1970s Mexican Literature and Film
• Position: Associate Professor of Film Studies; Miami University

Rocío Rodríguez-del Río 

• Dissertation: Mujeres de armas y letras: la reescritura del género sexual a través del género literario en Ana Caro, Lope de Vega y María de Zayas

George Thomas 

• Dissertation: Occasional Nun: The Politics and Poetics of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
• Position: Professor of Hispanic Studies; University of Northern Colorado

Tanya Weimer 

• Dissertation: La diáspora cubana en México: terceros espacios y miradas excéntricas

Scott Weintraub 

• Dissertation: Reading the Crisis, the Crisis of Reading: Politics, Ethics and Poetics in Néstor Perlongher, Osvaldo Lamborghini and Raúl Zurita
• Position: Associate Professor of Spanish; University of New Hampshire

Defended 2005 

Julia Carroll Venegas

• Dissertation: The Exchange of Memory: Reconfigurations of Difference in Postdictatorial Southern Cone Cultural Production, 1991-2001
• Position: Lecturer in Spanish; Bowdoin College

Ana Isabel Montero 

• Dissertation: Deflowering Textual Boundaries: Illustration and Transgression in the 1499 (?) Edition of Celestina
• Position: Professor of Spanish; Willamette University

David Slade 

• Dissertation: Enlightened Archi-Textures: Founding Colonial Archives in the Hispanic Eighteenth Century
• Position: Associate Professor of Spanish; Berry College

Defended 2004

Jeremy Paden 

• Dissertation: Reading Religiously. Baroque Hermeneutics in Lope de Vega and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
• Position: Professor of Spanish; Transylvania University

Amy Austin 

• Dissertation: Translating Llull: Images, Words, and Spaces of Convivencia in Medieval Iberia
• Position: Assistant Professor of Modern Languages; University of Texas-Arlington

Eugenia Romero 

• Dissertation: Memoria, identidad y migración. El imaginario gallego en la literatura española del XIX y el XX
• Position: Associate Professor Iberian Studies; The Ohio State University

Defended 2003

Ryan Prendergast 

• Dissertation: Spectres of Control: Inquisition, Hermeneutics and Early Modern Spain
• Position: Associate Professor of Spanish; University of Rochester

Defended 2002

Néstor Rodríguez 

• Dissertation: Las ciudades imaginadas: configuraciones y desfiguraciones de lo nacional en la literatura dominicana contemporánea
• Position: Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese; University of Toronto

Justin Crumbaugh 

• Dissertation: Last Resorts: Tourist Economies in Contemporary Spain's Cinema, Narrative, and Culture
• Position: Associate Professor of Spanish, Latina/o and Latin American Studies; Mount Holyoke College

Denise Galarza-Sepúlveda 

• Dissertation: City, Myth, and Morality in Bartolomé Arzan's Historia de la villa imperial de Potosi: A Criollo Project
• Position: Director of Office of Community-Engaged Academic Learning; University of Michigan

Josefina Isava 

• Dissertation: La degeneración: un discurso generador en la novela latinoamericana de finales del siglo XIX

Defended 2001

José Antonio Rico-Ferrer 

• Dissertation: Relecturas de la figura del cortesano: disciplina de la masculinidad en la España de los siglos XVI y XVII
• Position: Associate Professor of Spanish; Wayne State University

Defended 2000

Alberto Egea Fernández-Montesinos 

• Dissertation: La construcción del imaginario literario andaluz: entre la imaginación folklórica y las marginaciones del sur
• Position: Professor de Filología y Traducción; Universidad Pablo de Olavide

Patrick Garlinger 

• Dissertation: Dead Letters: Epistolarity and Homoeroticism in Contemporary Spanish Literature
• Position: Associate; Lankler Siffert & Wohl LLP

Dara Goldman 

• Dissertation: Lost and Found: Insularity and the Construction of Subjectivity in Hispanic Caribbean Literature
• Position: Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese; University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign

Michael Jordan 

• Dissertation: Displacement and Deferral as Generative Mechanisms of Textual Production in the Works of César Vallejo
• Position: Director of the Center for Global and Intercultural Study; University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Edna Rodríguez-Plate

• Dissertation: Identidad, nacionalismo y exilio: imaginando la nación cubana en los escritos de Lidia Cabrera
• Position: Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies; Hamilton College