2023
Cole Callen
Position: Postodoctoral Fellow, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities
Dissertation: Acquisition and maintenance of morphosyntactic variation: Differential object marking in Spanish-speaking children and Spanish-English bilinguals
Dissertation Director: Karen Miller
Emily Sterk
Position: Consortium for Faculty Diversity Fellow and Visiting Professor of Spanish, Haverford College
Dissertation: Foundational Whores: Sex Tourism Encounters in the Contemporary American Tropics
Dissertation Director: Judith Sierra-Rivera
Ibis Sierra Audivert
Position: Consortium for Faculty Diversity Fellow and Visiting Professor of Hispanic Studies, Davidson College
Dissertation: Desplazamientos culturales: Genealogías intelectuales en el neobarroco cuir latinoamericano
Dissertation Director: Krista Brune & Judith Sierra-Rivera
Jacqueline García Suárez
Position: Assistant Professor of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, Columbia University
Dissertation: El cuerpo (des)enritmado: Rompiendo con la habituación a la violencia en Cuba y Puerto Rico
Dissertation Director: Marco Martínez & Judith Sierra-Rivera
Gustavo Herrera Díaz
Position: Assistant Professor of Romance Studies, Brandeis University
Dissertation: Cuando Eshú y Dionisio se encuentran. Mediaciones afrogriegas en Cuba y Brasil
Dissertation Director: Sarah J. Townsend
Juan Blázquez Cuena
Position: Teaching Postdoctoral Fellow of Spanish, Pennsylvania State University
Dissertation: La belleza del mal: actualizaciones modernistas (1890-1930) del mito de Don Juan en la literatura española
Dissertation Director: Matthew J. Marr
2022
Michelle McGowan
Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Albright College
Dissertation: Fictional Bodies: Complicit and Complacent Subjects in Contemporary Chilean and Spanish Texts
Dissertation Director: Nicolás Fernández-Medina
Ricardo Andrade
Position: Assistant Professor of Spanish, Dominican University
Dissertation: La ciudad sonora: Sonidos e itinerarios del espacio urbano colonial en la ficción histórica latinoamericana
Dissertation Director: John Ochoa
Ashley Pahis
Position: Assistant Teaching Professor of Spanish, Pennsylvania State University
Dissertation: Thinking ahead: Predictive processsing of gramamtical mood in mono- and multilinguals
Dissertation Director: Karen Miller & Matthew Carlson
Lindsey Chandler
Position: Instructional Technology Specialist, Office of Digital Pedagogies and Initiatives, College of Liberal Arts, Penn State
Dissertation: Processing Novel Inflectional Morphology in L1 and L2 Spanish Reading
Dissertation Director: Matthew Carlson
Estilita Cassiani Obeso
Position: Assistant Professor of Instruction, Northwestern University
Dissertation: Language variation and revitalization: plural marking in Palenquero creole
Dissertation Director: John Lipski
Sonya Trawick
Position: Data Analyst, Division of Food Defense Targeting, U.S. Food & Drug Administration
Dissertation: Revisiting the Concept of “Triggering of Code-Switching”
Dissertation Director: Rena Torres Cacoullos
Maria Puscama
Position: Assistant Professor, University of Indiana — Bloomington
Dissertation: Semantic Network Development in Second Language Spanish and its Impact on Processing Skills
Dissertation Director: Giuli Dussias & Matthew Carlson
Trevor Bero
Position: Project Manager, Office of Research and Development, Department of Veterans Affairs
Dissertation: Spanish rhotic variation in Corozal Town, Belize
Dissertation Director: Rena Torres Cacoullos
Carlos Echeverria Arriagada
Position: Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University
Dissertation: Recomplementation between discourse and grammar: a syntactic investigation combining experimental and corpus methods
Dissertation Director: Rena Cacoullos
2021
Deyanira Sindy Moya Chaves
Position: Assistant Professor, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia
Dissertation: Focus, contrast and conversation: A variationist study of “[Verb+ser+X]” constructions in Colombian Spanish
Dissertation Director: Rena Torres Cacoullos
Priscila Lopez-Beltran Forcada
Position: Research Project Manager in the Finance and Economics Programme at the Alan Turing Institute in London
Dissertation: Heritage speakers’ online processing of the Spanish subjunctive: A comprehensive usage-based study
Dissertation Director: Giuli Dussias
2020
Isabel Deibel
Position: Polyglot/Linguist/Curriculum Designer, Duolingo
Dissertation: Language representations in the presence of a lexical-functional split: an experimental approach targeting the Quichua-Media Lengua-Spanish interface
Dissertation Director: John Lipski
Michael Johns
Position: Research Associate, Professional Track Faculty, Applied Research Lab for Intelligence and Security (ARLIS), University of Maryland
Dissertation: Integration in Codeswitching: What is it, how does it surface, and why?
Dissertation Director: Giuli Dussias
Manuel Pulido-Azpíroz
Position: Assistant Professor of Spanish and Linguistics, Penn State
Dissertation: Desirable difficulties in learning multiword units in a second language: Exploring processing and retrieval through behavior and brain potentials
Dissertation Director: Giuli Dussias
Anna Torres Cacoullos
Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Dissertation: Writing with Cinema: Facing the Screen and Page in Modernist Spain (1920-1930)
Dissertation Director: Nicolás Fernández-Medina
2019
Anne Beatty-Martínez
Position: Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego
Dissertation: Revisiting masculine and feminine grammatical gender in Spanish: Evidence from event-related potentials and eye-movements
Dissertation Director: Giuli Dussias
Alex McAllister
Position: Assistant Teaching Professor, Penn State
Dissertation: Perceptual learning in bilingual Spanish-English populations: Does experience matter?
Dissertation Director: Matthew T. Carlson
Position: Assistant Director & Life Design Educator for Students with International Perspectives, Johns Hopkins University
Dissertation: Moving through Modern Spain (1888-1923): Revelatory Darkness as Critical Medium
Dissertation Director: Nicolás Fernandéz-Medina
2018
Grant Berry
Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish, Villanova University
Dissertation: Liminal voices, central constraints: Minority adoption of majority sound change
Dissertation Director: Rena Torres Cacoullos
Joshua Deckman
Position: Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latinx Studies, Stetson University
Dissertation: The poetics and politics of pain: Decolonial spirituality in the Afro-Caribbean and its diaspora
Dissertation Director: Judith Sierra-Rivera
Position: Assistant Professor, University of Montana
Dissertation: The subjunctive in New Mexican Spanish: Maintenance in the face of language contact
Dissertation Director: Rena Torres Cacoullos
Position: Director of LLM Data Services, Innodata
Dissertation: The prosodic-syntactic structure of intra-sentential multi-word code-switching in the New Mexico Spanish-English bilingual community
Dissertation Director: Rena Torres Cacoullos
2017
Nicole Benevento
Position: Associate Director of Articulation and Assessment at USC Dornsife Language Center, University of Southern California
Dissertation: Investigating prosodic prominence in spoken New Mexican Spanish
Dissertation Director: John Lipski
Christopher Champi
Position: Spanish Instructor at the South Carolina Governor’s School for Science and Mathematics
Dissertation: First and second singular subject pronoun expression in Dominican Spanish: The structure and acquisition of variable forms
Dissertation Director: Karen Miller
Position: Assistant Professor of Instruction, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Temple University
Dissertation: The Theater of Futures Past: Infrastructures of the Latin American Avant-Garde
Dissertation Director: Sarah J. Townsend
Position: Assistant Teaching Professor of Spanish and Director of Engaged Scholarship, Penn State
Dissertation: Investigating community norms and linguistic mechanisms in codeswitching: Bridging linguistic theory and psycholinguistic experimentation
Dissertation Director: Giuli Dussias
Dissertation: Adaptable Debility: Becoming Human Under Biocapitalism
Dissertation Director: John Ochoa
Position: Assistant Professor, Universidad de O’Higgins, Chile
Dissertation: A diachronic variationist approach to the study of subject pronoun expression in Spanish: first-person singular
Dissertation Director: Rena Torres Cacoullos
2015
Ana Cortejoso de Andrés
Position: Profesora de Enseñana Secundaria de la Junta de Castilla y León (Spain), Lengua Castellana y Literatura, Instituto Emilio Ferrari
Dissertation: ” Mamá, quiero ser artista “: la problemática metaficcional del escritor hispano contemporáneo como celebridad global
Dissertation Director: Matthew J. Marr
Tomás Hidalgo Navas
Position: Assistant Teaching Professor, Brigham Young University
Dissertation: Killing the Father, Killing the Children: Dialogues on Political Violence between Mexican History, Novel, and Film (1959-2013)
Dissertation Director: Julia Cuervo-Hewitt
Position: Associate Professor of Spanish, College of DuPage
Dissertation: Framing the Nation: The Family as a Model for Nation Building in the Nineteenth-century Spanish American Novel
Dissertation Director: Julia Cuervo-Hewitt
Position: Assistant Professor of Spanish, University of Texas, San Antonio
Dissertation: Direct object clitic placement preferences in Argentine Child Spanish
Dissertation Director: Karen Miller
2014
Colleen Balukas
Position: Assistant Professor, SUNY-Buffalo
Dissertation: The impact of code-switching and cognate status on phonetic realizations in the New Mexican Spanish-English bilingual community
Dissertation Director: Rena Torres Cacoullos
Amelia J. Dietrich
Position: Director for Research and Resources at The Forum on Education Abroad and Interim Editor of Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad
Dissertation: The role of probabilistic cues in L2 processing: Verb bias in Spanish and English
Dissertation Director: Giuli Dussias
Position: Assistant Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University at Buffalo
Dissertation: Inconsistent Input and Amount of Exposure: Child Language Acquisition of Fering, a dialect of North Frisian
Dissertation Director: Karen Miller
Position: Associate Professor of Spanish, Gettysburg College
Dissertation: The Performance of History and Memory in 17th-century Spanish Theater, Then and Now
Dissertation Director: Bob Blue
Position: Associate Professor, Bucknell University
Dissertation: Patterns of variable tense-aspect marking in Palenquero creole
Dissertation Director: Rena Torres Cacoullos
Position: Associate Professor of Spanish , University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Dissertation: The Artist, Myth, and Society in the Contemporary Spanish Novel, 1945-2010
Dissertation Director: Matthew J. Marr
Position: Natural Language Processing Engineer at Amazon
Dissertation: The role of L2 immersion in the processing of Spanish sentence complement/relative clause ambiguities
Dissertation Director: Giuli Dussias
2013
José Álvarez:
Position: Associate Professor, School of American and Global Studies, South Dakota State University
Dissertation Director: Sophia McLellen & John Ochoa
Joseph Bauman
Position: Associate Teaching Professor, Penn State
Dissertation: From possession to obligation: modal grammaticalization and variation
Dissertation Director: Rena Torres Cacoullos
Position: High school teacher, Colegio Nueva Granada CNG (Bogotá)
Dissertation: Saintly Lives: (anti)imperial and Transatlantic Discourses in Colonial Hispanic American Poetry and Painting (16th-to-18th-century New Kingdom of Granada and New Spain
Dissertation Director: Julia Cuervo-Hewitt
Position: Assistant Professor of Latin American Cultures, Arizona State University
Dissertation: Reading A Migrant Nation: the Aesthetics Of Internal Migration In 20th And 21st-century Peruvian Narratives
Dissertation Director: Julia Cuervo-Hewitt
Position: Associate Professor of English, Baylor University
Dissertation: The effects of form-focused training and working memory on the L2 processing and learning of morphological cues
Dissertation Director: Karen Miller
Position: Assistant Principal (H-N), Centennial High School
Dissertation: Very frequency effects and mood preference: Implications for the L2 teaching and learning of negated matrix verbs of belief
Dissertation Director: Giuli Dussias
2012
Rebecca Bender
Position: Associate Professor, Department of Modern Languages, Kansas State University
Dissertation: Negotiating the Changing Faces of Motherhood and Maternity through Narrative
Dissertation Director: Nicolás Fernandéz-Medina
Delfina Evelyn Durán Urrea
Position: Assistant Professor, Languages and Literatures, Lehman College CUNY
Dissertation: A community-based study of social, prosodic, and syntactic factors in code-switching
Dissertation Director: Rena Torres Cacoullos
Dissertation: After the Storm did not Come, the Calm: Love, Memory, and Identity in the Modern Mexican Novel, 1947-1963
Dissertation Director: John Ochoa
Position: Professor, University of Puerto Rico – Rio Piedras
Dissertation: Linking comprehension costs to production patterns during the processing of mixed language
Dissertation Directors: Giuli Dussias & Chip Gerfen
Position: Instructor, Municipalidad de General Pueyrredon – Argentina
Dissertation: Una retórica del disimulo: Discurso periodístico y memoria de los 70 en la narrativa de Tomás Eloy Martínez / A Rhetoric of (Dis)Simulation: Journalistic Discourse and Memory of the 70s in Tomás Eloy Martínez’s Narrative
Dissertation Director: Laurence Prescott
Position: Associate Professor, Modern Languages and Cultures, Arcadia University
Dissertation: How Second Language Learners Process Argument Structure: The Effects of First Language and Individual Differences
Dissertation Director: Chip Gerfen
Position: Associate Professor of Spanish and Linguistics, University of Florida
Dissertation: Using eye-tracking to study auditory comprehension in codeswitching: Evidence for the link between comprehension and production
Dissertation Director: Giuli Dussias & Chip Gerfen
2011
Christopher Botero
Position: Associate Professor, Department of English and Foreign Languages, Augusta University
Dissertation: Factors underlying the improvement of L2 phonological production using technology outside the classroom
Dissertation Director: Chip Gerfen
Kristopher Allen Davis
Position: Teaching Professor and Director, Basic Language Program, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Indiana University
Dissertation: Second Language Phonological Acquisition: The Role of Musical Aptitude
Dissertation Director: Chip Gerfen
Position: Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Mary Washington
Dissertation: Literary Feminism in Spain: The Splintering of Female Identity in the Contemporary Peninsular Novel
Dissertation Director: Matthew J. Marr
Position: Assistant Professor of Spanish, Oklahoma State University
Dissertation: Unaccusativity and word order in Mexican Spanish: an examination of syntactic interfaces and the split intransitivity hierarchy
Dissertation Directors: Jacqueline Toribio & John Lipski
Position: Assistant Professor, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro
Dissertation: De-Witching Female America: The Figure of the Sorceress in the Representation of America
Dissertation Director: Julia Cuervo-Hewitt
2010
David Counselman
Position: Associate Professor of Spanish, Ohio Wesleyan University
Dissertation: Improving pronunciation in the second language classroom
Dissertation Director: Giuli Dussias
Arlette DeJesus
Position: Assistant Professor of Spanish, Anderson University
Dissertation: The Teresian Epistolary or the Backstage of Foundings and Reforms: The Construction of Power in the Letters of Saint Therese of Avila
Dissertation Director: Mary Barnard
Position: Assistant Professor, Slippery Rock University
Dissertation: Los discursos de la maternidad, madres e hijas en la narrativa española del nuevo milenio escrita por mujeres
Dissertation Director: Matthew J. Marr
Position: Associate Professor of Spanish Linguistics, Appalachian State University
Dissertation: Hiatus Resolution in Spanish: An Experimental Study
Dissertation Director: Chip Gerfen
Dissertation: Female Agency in “El baúl de Miss Florence: fragmentos para un novelón romántico,” Dreaming in Cuban, and ¡YO!
Dissertation Director: Laurence Prescott