Alumni Placement - Where are they now?
| Name | Title of Dissertation | Degree Conferred | Placement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Samari Batres | My humanities graduate degree allowed me to develop critical skills that I will take with me the rest of my life. | 2021 | Sage Hill School |
| Lucia Cash | M.A. Religious Studies with a graduate certificate in Social Transformation, Arizona State University, 2015 B.A. in Communication Studies, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, 2012 Research Interests: Southern Cone literature, Latin American colonial literature; Ecocriticism; World-ecology; Temporal politics; Embodiment; Critical Theory Email: lcashbea@uci.edu | Summer 2020 | |
| Martha Torres Mendez | Spring 2020 | Coe College | |
| Linda Gruen | M.A. Spanish, U.C. Irvine Area of research: Latin American travel writing Additional Education: Teaching credential Cal State U. East Bay Email: lgruen@uci.edu | Spring 2020 | |
| Araceli Calderon | Spring 2019 | Riverside City College | |
| William Carr | Areas of Research: Humor and irony in 20th-21st century Spain, especially in the novel post-Franco; Translation Studies, especially translator subjectivity, self-translation, and translator/interpreter ethics. Secondary areas include Golden Age (la comedia and el Quijote) and Colonial narrative. | Winter 2019 | Brigham Young University |
| Fernando Hernandez | Areas of Research: 20th Century US and Latin American Poetry and Poetics, Critical Theory, Translation Theory and Practice. | Summer 2018 | |
| Ann Rosen | Area of interest: Spanish literature and culture; film. | Spring 2018 | |
| Christina Garcia | Spring 2018 | College of Charleston, South Carolina | |
| Victoria Lau | Area of Research: 20th century Latin American Literature | Fall 2018 | |
| William Alexander Yankes | B.S. Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service M.A. Professional Writing Program, University of Southern California M.A. Latin American and Iberian Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara Areas of Research: Latin American dictatorships in literature and film. Planned doctoral dissertation on selections from the works by Fernando Alegría. The particular issue of individual sovereignty --as citizen or exile-- will be explored. | Fall 2018 | |
| Alberto Landaveri | Spring 2016 | ||
| Rose Phillips | Spring 2016 | ||
| Benjamin Cluff | Mexico in Ruins: Metaphors of Ruins and Ruination in Twentieth-Century Mexican Poetry | Fall 2016 | Brigham Young University |
| Martin Valle | Nación y trayectoria histórica del sujeto gay in la narrativa mexicana del siglo XIX y XX. | Fall 2016 | Chapman University |
| Itzel Reyes | Espacios que asustan: el horror en la narrativa española contemporánea (cuento y cine) | Spring 2015 | Biola University |
| Thania Muñoz | Ustedes que ya no son americanos: identidad, migración y memoria narrativa en Cristina Rivera Garza, Edmundo Paz Soldán y Alberto Fuguet | Spring 2015 | University of Maryland, Baltimore County |
| Jared White | "Broken Mirrors and a Decaying God: The Religious, Aesthetic, and Philosophical Underpinnings of Ramón del Valle-Inclán's esperpentos" | Spring 2015 | Buena Vista University |
| Raquel Roman-Morfin | Different Shades of Domesticity: Representations of Intersecting Power Relations In Latin American Literarcy and Visual Culture | Winter 2015 | Fullerton College |
| Bibiana Diaz | Nación y subjetivades genéricas en la narrativa y teatro colombianos (1950-2012). | Summer 2014 | California State University San Bernardino |
| Paul M. Johnson | Sentimental Geographies: Cervantes and the Cultural Politics of Affect in the Early Modern Mediterranean | Spring 2014 | DePauw University |
| Cristina Fuentes | Espacio y Marginalidad en la Narrativa Mexicana Del Siglo XX | Fall 2014 | Champman University |
| Samuel Jaffee | Negotiating Modernity and Subalternity in Peru | Fall 2013 | University of Washington |
| Emily Colbert Cairns | "The Other Sephardic Diaspora: Feminine Representations of Sephardic Identity in the Early Modern Atlantic World" | Spring 2012 | Salve Regina University |
| Ann Kalscheur | Saltando entre la página y la pantalla: La convergencia de la tecnolgía, los medios masivos y la literatura en la narrativa de América Latina en el Siglo XXI | Fall 2012 | Soka University |
| Cynthia Quintero | Chicana Lesbian Novels: The construction of Identity in the coming-out process | Spring 2011 | Long Beach City College |
| Veronica Quezada | Performance de genero en el escenario etnico: Representaciones literarias de la Chicana/Latina | Fall 2011 | Soka University |
| Fabio Chee | Fall 2011 | Cal State University, San Marcos | |
| Carmen Serrano | Monsters, Vampires and Doppelgängers: Innovation and Transformation of Gothic Forms in Latin American Narratives | Spring 2009 | Bates College |
| Andrea Colvin | "Voices of Dissidence and Hope in Post-Dictatorial Narrative and Film: The Child, the Prisoner and the Madman." | Spring 2009 | Ohio Wesleyan University |
| Ivette Gomez | "Escrituras (des)encantadas: la poética de las ruinas en la narrativa cubana contemporánea" | Spring 2009 | Pomona College |
| Judith Iliana Villanueva | "Poética de la errancia, política de la escritura: Juan Gelman, Eduardo Milán y Ana Cristina Cesar" | Spring 2009 | Wofford College |
| Michael Harrison | Spring 2009 | San Diego Mesa College | |
| Bridget Franco | Spring 2009 | College of the Holy Cross | |
| Angela Espinosa | El origen de los espacios: género, urbe e ideología en textos vanguardistas de Latinoamérica | Winter 2009 | University of Utah |
| Santana Analola | Summer 2008 | California State University, Fresno | |
| Cindy Schuster | Representaciones de ausencia: Intersecciones de memoria y política en la ficción latinoamericana (1965-2005) | Summer 2008 | Willamette University |
| Paul Cahill | De(con)structive Devices: Post-Structuralism and Post-Marxism in Spanish Poetry, 1968-1972 | Spring 2008 | Pomona College |
| Maria Fernandez-Martinez | El medio fotográfico en la narrativa de Antonio Muñoz Molina | Winter 2008 | University of Colorado, Denver |
| Cynthia Ovando-Knutson | In Search of a Narrative of History: Embodied Pain and Transformative Allegories in Four Latin American Novels of Dictatorship | Winter 2008 | Fresno Pacific University |
| Myron Avila | De aparente color rosa: Discurso y recurso sentimental en las novelas de Argentina Díaz Lozano | Fall 2008 | Georgia College & State University |
| Martha Guerrero-Phlaum | Benefits and Gifts: The Economy of Exchange in Spain's Golden Age | Fall 2008 | Rancho Santiago Community College |
| David Faught | Subversive verse: Zurita, Lihn, Berenguer and Post-coup Chilean Poetry | Summer 2007 | University of South Alabama |
| Oscar Gonzalez Barreto | Visualización de la marginalidad en el cine Iberoamericano de fin de siglo | Spring 2007 | Yale University |
| Karina Miller | "Impolitical Writings: anti-representations of the community in Osvaldo Lamborghini, Virgilio Piñera and Juan Rodolfo Wilcock" | Fall 2007 | California State University, San Marcos |
| Gary Atwood | Summer 2006 | University of Utah | |
| Guadalupe Perez-Anzaldo | "Dispora y memoria: Las excritoras Judio-Mexican" | Summer 2006 | University of Missouri-Columbia |
| Debra Faszer-McMahon | "Cultural Encounters in the Poetry of Clara Janes: The Aesthetics of otherness and cross-cultural explorations of the self" | Fall 2006 | Seton Hill University |
| Debbie Avila | "The Romance Novel of the 1930s and 40s in Spain and Portugal: The cases of Carmen de Icaza and Alice Ogando" | Summer 2005 | Californa State University, Fresno |
| Tomas Crowder | "Sarmiento viajero: la configuración de las formas en el discurso de la inmigración" | Winter 2005 | University of San Francisco |
| Maria Martinez | El cuerpo: Matriz de lo extrano en los discursos de la sexualidad y de la historia en la narrativa de escritoras latinoamericanas | Summer 2004 | Claremont College |
| Brian Cope | Skepticism in Unamuno: Fictional Variations on the Ancient and Modern Tropes | Spring 2004 | Wooster College, Ohio |
| Ernesto Silva | Cinematic Visions/Revisions in Pedro Almodovar's Talk to Her [Hable con ella, 2000] | Spring 2004 | Kennesaw State University, Georgia |
| Wha Sook Kim | La imagen de la familia como alegoria de la nacion en el teatro argentino de la segunda mitad del siglo XX | Spring 2003 | Clarmont College |
| Daniel Gilden | Diversas dimensiones de los medios de comunicación masiva y la narrativa de Manuel Puig | Spring 2003 | Kent Denver School |
| Mary Ana Carsillo | Missionary Positions: Unpinning Women from Under the Paradigms of Patriarchal Discourses of the Nation | Winter 2003 | Lincoln High School |
| Angelica Huizar | The performativity of Latin American poetry | Winter 2003 | Old Dominion University |
| Victoria Calmes | El yo y la figura de la madre en la narrativa espanola del siglo XX | Spring 2002 | University of Wisconsin, La Crosse |
| Pilar Valero-Costa | La mistica sufi en Maria Zambrano | Spring 2002 | California State University, Fullerton |
| Laura Vidler | Staging El caballero de Olmedo | Spring 2002 | United States Military Academy, West Point |
| Saul Jimenez-Sandoval | Cuerpo y experiencia en la construccion poetica de la comunidad: Luis Vaz de Camoes y Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz | Summer 2001 | California State University, Fresno |
| Demetrio Anzaldo-Gonzalez | Spring 2001 | University of Idaho | |
| Francisco Javier Iniguez | Discursos imaginarios, cultura popular y formacion del estado en Mexican Folkways | Winter 2001 | University of Dallas |
| Yvette Aparicio | Negotiating Aesthetics and politics: The Poetry of Claribel Alegria, Ernesto Cardenal and Roque Dalton | Summer 2000 | Grinnell College |
| Gregory Stallings | Daimonic Identity: Luis Cernuda and Twentieth Century Artistic Culture | Winter 1999 | Brigham Young University |
| Jose Vllalobos | La narrativa familiar en la literatura mexicana reciente: rescate escritural, genealogia inaginada | Summer 1998 | Texas A&M University |
| Barbara Alicia Leon | La construccion de la afrocubanidad a traves de las artes espectaculares cubanas despues de 1959 | Summer 1998 | Pomona College |
| Carl Good | Testimonies of Poetry in Hispanic Literature | Summer 1998 | University of Indiana |
| Rosilie Hernandez | Male Identity, a Woman's Place, and the Formation of a Symbolic Community in Spanish Renaissance Pastoralism | Winter 1998 | University of Illinois-Urbana |
| Alicia Carmen Del Campo | Teatralidad, Identidad Nacional y Menoria Historica: rituales y ceremonias de duelo, purificacion y expiacion en el Chile de la Post-dictadura | Winter 1998 | California State University, Long Beach |
| Cesar Vaverde | Masculinidad en la narrative hispanoamericana: Hegemonia, transgresion y descontruccion | Summer 1997 | University of Redlands |
| Mary Stuckert | Versions of Space in Two Mexican Writers: Esther Seligson and Coral Bracho | Spring 1997 | University of California, Davis |
| John Vincent Waldron | The Avant-Garde Vision in mexico: From Modernismo to the Contemporaneos | Winter 1997 | Bucknel University |
| Maria Isabel Ibanez | El Discurso Sutobiografico y La Escritura Testimonial en Los Escritos de Cristobal Colon y Amerigo Vespucci | Winter 1997 | Chapman University |
| Carlos Ricardo Von Son | Parodia en la novela mexicana contemporanea | Fall 1997 | California State University, San Marcos |
| Juliet Alison Falce | Underlying Gender Construction in the Latin Ameican Regionalist Novel | Fall 1997 | UC Los Angeles |
| Barbara Jean Ashbaugh | Modelizaciones de lo indigena en la narrativa de Ciro Alegria | Fall 1997 | Texas A&M University - Commerce |
| Mariana Solares | I have a tenured position at a state university teaching Spanish and literature. | 1997 | Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville |
| Eduardo Cesar Cabrera | La Puesta en Escena Enla Argentina de los Anos Noventa | Fall 1996 | Ohio State University |
| Elizabeth Baez | Poetas Mexicanas Contemporaneas: La Subjetividad en la Poesia de Coral Bracho, Myriam Moscana y Kyra Galvan | Fall 1996 | Santiago Canyon College |
| Maria Lola Proano-Gomez | La Identidad Nacional Comoconflictividad en el Imaginario Argentino: 1966-1973 | Fall 1996 | Pasadena City College |
| Polly Jane Hodge | Photography and Contemporary Spanish Theater: Kaleidoscopic Modes of Dramatic Representation | Fall 1995 | Chapman University |
| Alejandro Yarza | El Reciclaje de la Historia: Camp, Monstruous y Travestis en el Cine De Pedro Almodovar | Spring 1994 | Georgetown University |
| Karen Sue Christian | Winter 1994 | California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo | |
| Jose Mario Martin Flores | Mimesis y Eros en la Novela Porfiriana | Fall 1994 | San Diego State University |
| Carmen Ferradans | Contra la Modernidad: La Dialectica High/Low en La Poesta es Panola Contemporanea | Spring 1993 | Illinois Wesleyan University |
| William Martinez Jr. | Centro y Margen en la Poesia Contemporanea Venezolana: Codigos Esteticos e Identidad Nacional | Fall 1993 | California State University, San Luis Obispo |
| Darci Liane Strother | Marriage and Family Relations in the Context of Spanish Theatre of the Golden Age | Fall 1993 | California State University, San Marcos |
| Harold Abram Dabel | Egon Wolff's Theatre During the Chilean Authoritarian Regime | Winter 1992 | Lander College |
| Magdalena Maria Andrade | Winter 1991 | University of California, Riverside | |
| Marcela Del Rio | Ideologica y representacion de la revolucion mexicana en el discurso teatral | Winter 1991 | University of Central Florida |
| Maria Rosario Gonzalez | La prostituta en la novela mexicana: Siglo XX | Winter 1991 | California State University, Chico |
| Susan Isabel Stein | Reading Between the Lines: Self-fictionalization as narrative strategy in la voragine el tunel and los pasos perdidos | Winter 1991 | Texas Tech. University |
| Sachiko Fuji | La reapropiacion del indigenismo en la narrativa femenina contemporanea de Mexico | Fall 1991 | Rikkyo University, Toshima-Ku, Tokyo |
| Leopoldo Peña | Leopoldo Peña is a Mexican immigrant. Received a B.A. and M.A. in Spanish from Cal State University of Long Beach. Interest: Latin American photography, indigenismo, indigenous literature, immigrant narratives, popular culture. Email: leopolp@uci.edu | 0 | |
| Analaura Brophy | Area of Research: Golden Age | 0 |