Ph.D. Alumni and Dissertation Titles (2000-Present)
The following table lists chronologically Ph.D. Degrees in Spanish & Portuguese from 2000 to present:
| Year | Author | Dissertation Title |
| 2000 | Nowak, Lisa J. | Optical Illusions: Directing the Audience's Perspective in Spain's Golden Age Theatre |
| 2000 | Rico, Alicia | Sociedades en transición: La novela fantástica escrita por mexicanas y españolas en la década de los ochenta |
| 2000 | Stevens, Camilla | From the House to the Stage: Family and Identity in Contemporary Cuban and Puerto Rican Drama |
| 2000 | Boyer, Charles G. | Revolution and Romance: Social Change and Desire in Mexican Narrative, 1955–1989 |
| 2001 | Misemer, Sarah M. | Cultural Icons in Latin American Theater: Studies of Frida Kahlo, Carlos Gardel, Eva Perón and Selena Quintanilla-Pérez |
| 2002 | Blair, Laura Senio | The Return Home: Experiences of Deterritorialization in Post-Pinochet Chilean Literature |
| 2002 | Freire Hermida, María Del Mar | Viaje con nosotros. De la euforia cultural al desencanto político |
| 2002 | Díaz de León, Aída | From Disappearing Narrators to Signs of the Author: Images of the Subject in the Short Stories of Silvina Ocampo |
| 2002 | Evers, Michelle | Staging the Nations: Performing Identity in Post-Franco Spain |
| 2002 | Irizarry, Roberto | Mulatos Melosos "Hibridez y vanguardia en Puerto Rico, Cuba, y Brasil" |
| 2002 | Olive, Elena Maria | Popular Culture in Contemporary Spanish Poetry: From the Novísimos to the New Millennium |
| 2002 | Paredes Méndez, Maria Francisca | La regeneración nacional y el discurso de género en la ficción española de 1900 a 1931 |
| 2002 | Strichartz, Ariel | Cooking, Feeding, and Eating: Theatre and Dictatorship in the Southern Cone |
| 2003 | Chacón Rivera, Tomás | Intelectuales, mártires y caudillos en el teatro de la Revolución mexicana |
| 2003 | Chavarría, María Gabriela | El sueño político de los primeros modernistas en Centroamérica a través de la imagen de sus ciudades: Rubén Darío, Juan Ramón Molina, Francisco Gavidia y Enrique Gómez Carrillo |
| 2003 | Fernández Iglesias, Juan Carlos | El espejo fragmentado: La expresion de la subjetividad en la poesía mexicana contemporánea |
| 2003 | Koessler Avellanet, Sheila | The Discourse of Desire During Times of Crisis in Mexican Novelas of the 1980s |
| 2003 | Leone, Maryanne L. | Borderland Identities and Contemporary Spanish Fiction |
| 2003 | Torrico-Sánchez, Benjamín | Emblematica y narrativa en el siglo de oro |
| 2004 | Akrabova, Maria G. | Sheherazada en el espejo: Una aproximación a lo fantástico femenino |
| 2004 | Bermúdez, Nayibe I. | Sujetos (trans)nacionales: la negociación de la etnia, el género sexual y la clase social en cine y literatura de fines de siglo XX |
| 2004 | Fallon, Jr.,Paul Francis | Borderline Tactics: Negotiations of Community, Subjectivity, Nation, and Agency in Temporal Representations in Northern Mexican Border Narratives |
| 2004 | Harpring, Mark | The Bachelor at the Crossroads of Gender and Class in the Late Nineteenth-Century Spanish Novel |
| 2004 | Hernández, Paola S. | La identidad en la era de la globalización: Resistencia y desencanto en el teatro de Argentina, Chile y Brasil |
| 2004 | Mohn, Mary Christine | The Novels of Álvaro Pombo: Registers of the Sociopolitical History of Contemporary Spain |
| 2004 | Vásquez-Mendoza, Jesús A. | Entre la palabra y la imagen: "Relaciones narrativas entre prosa y cine mexicanos" |
| 2005 | Adlung Kellogg, Kirsten M. | A Question of Character: Narrative and Theatrical Subjects in the Works of Sabina Berman and Marco Antonio de la Parra |
| 2005 | Boero, Paulo J. | The Figure of the Outsider in Contemporary Argentine Narrative: Talking Argentina Out of the Proceso (1976–1996) |
| 2005 | Brown, Michael L. | Dams, Doors, and Divans: Staging a National Narrative Therapy in Chile, Argentina, and Spain |
| 2005 | Krebs, Brenda L. | The Early Modern Stage as Editorial Page: The Theater as a Mass Communication Medium in Seventeenth-Century Spain and England |
| 2006 | Ballesteros, José R. | El imperio desde el centro: Representaciones indianas sexualizadas en la temprana edad moderna española |
| 2006 | Bayers, Leslie | Voice, Visuality, and Performance: Alternative Expression in Contemporary Peruvian Poetry |
| 2006 | Cardone, Resha Sophia | Acting up and Carrying on: Women Writers of Chile, 1945-2006 |
| 2007 | Gomis-Izquierdo, Vicente | "Siempre hubo clases": Clases medias y modernización en la literatura hispánica decimonónica |
| 2007 | Kanost, Laura | Political Asylums: Locating Mental Illness in Latin American Literature (1980–2000) |
| 2007 | Tomé, Patricia | Saboreando Cuba: Corporalidad y gastronomia en la producción cultural cubana y cubano-americana (1980-2000) |
| 2007 | Zalba, Rocío | Comunidades teatrales: La melancolía y la nostalgia en la representación y formación de la identidad argentina a fines del siglo XX y principios del siglo XXI |
| 2008 | Acuna-Zumbado, Eduardo | Hacia la construccíon del sujeto y sus procesos de lectura en la hipertextualidad latinoamericana |
| 2008 | Drickey, Kirsten M. | En carne propia: Embodied identities in Cuban and Mexican cultural production |
| 2008 | Finzer, Erin S. | Poetisa Chic: Fashioning the Modern Female Poet in Central America, 1929-1944 |
| 2009 | Amend, Tracie | The Adulteress in Spanish Tragedy (1830-1930) |
| 2009 | Burckhardt, Omega Sunshine | Paradictatorial nostalgia: The exile poetry of Juan Gelman, Ferreira Gullar, and Gonzalo Millán |
| 2009 | Fonseca, Alberto | Cuando llovió dinero en Macondo: Literatura y narcotráfico en Colombia y México |
| 2009 | Tolentino-Solano, Adriana | Familias desmembradas y orfandades: Representaciones de una actidud posmoderna hacia la nación mexicana |
| 2009 | Whitney, Kendall A. | Wanderl[o]st: Lost Identities and Losing Place in the New World (Dis)order |
| 2010 | Meijide Lapido, Arturo | Alonso Quijano en el Callejón del Gato: Las ficciones de psycho-killers españolas |
| 2010 | Moreno, José Antonio | Deseos de comunidad en el personaje intersticial y marginal: en la novela y el cine de los noventa en México |
| 2010 | Thornton, Megan L. | The Power of the Voice: Listening to Mexican and Central American Immigrant Experiences (1997–2010) |
| 2011 | García, Hernán Manuel | La globalización desfigurada o la post-globalizacíon imaginada: La estética cyberpunk (post)mexicana |
| 2011 | Postma, Regan Lee | Freeways and Free Speech, Rail Cars and Rancheras: Geographic and Linguistic Mobility in Contemporary Mexican and Mexican-American Cultural Production |
| 2011 | Romo Blas, Ana María | Ciudad de México y la Habana: Imágenes y representaciones urbanas en torno a la violencia y la memoria |
| 2012 | García Otero, María J. | Hag(e)ografía. Propaganda ideológica y política geográfica en los discursos hagiográficos peninsulares. La construccion de la nación española (Siglos XIII a XVII) |
| 2012 | Lisenby, J. David | Recurrent Racialisms: Contemporary Enactments of Nineteenth-Century Cuban Figures, Types, and Tropes |
| 2013 | Gowan, Ian Pope | Work and the Post-Crisis: Artistic Representations of Claustrophobic Labor Spaces in Argentina (2001–2011) |
| 2014 | Celis-Castillo, Pablo Genaro | Manchanayta Rikuj Ñawiruntukuna or The Terror that the Eyes Saw: Visual Tropes in Peru's Cultural Production about the Armed Struggle |
| 2014 | García Puente, María | Érase de nuevo una princesa: Las reescrituras feministas de cuentos de hadas de la España del tercer milenio |
| 2014 | Miller, Tiffany Dawn Creegan | Amplifying Subaltern Voices: (Media)tion and Marginalized Identities in Guatemala, Mexico, and Brazil |
| 2014 | O'Brien, Michael Patrick, Jr. | Competition and Conflict: Ludic Structures and Strategies in Late Medieval Iberian Romance |
| 2014 | Rapp, Jacob | Living the Polemic: The Mexican Novel in the Age of Modernismo, 1876-1908 |
| 2014 | Villalobos, Elizabeth | Asesinos fronterizos: Performance de transgresión de los derechos humanos en el imaginario social del norte y sur de México |
| 2015 | Dalton, David S. | Embodying Modernity in Mexico: Race, Technology, and the Body in the Mestizo State |
| 2015 | Sheldon, Megan | Cross-Cultural Queer Encounters: Women, Nation and Queer Culture in Contemporary Spanish Narrative and Film |
| 2015 | Stear, Ezekiel G. | Beyond the Fifth Sun: Nahua Teleologies in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries |
| 2016 | Barbosa, Maria Emilia da Costa Redondo Estrela Esteves | Body Talk: Performing Violence Against Women in Contemporary Guatemala |
| 2016 | Delgado Solórzano, Edma I. | Crusaders, Martyrs, and Saints: Representations of Christian militancy in Mexico, 1850-2013 |
| 2016 | Foster, Jennifer M. Abercrombie | (Un)Natural Pairings: Fantastic, Uncanny, Monstrous, and Cyborgian Encounters in Contemporary Central American and Hispanic Caribbean Literature |
| 2016 | Trujillo, Jean Marie | Artistic Representations of Andean Diasporas: Food and Carework; Music and Dance Performance; and Human Trafficking |
| 2017 | Alder, Erik | Subaltern Saints: Medieval Iberian Hagiography in Dialogue with Latin American Testimonio |
| 2017 | Barroso, Javier | The Representation of Nazism and World War II in the Literature of Argentina and Mexico |
| 2017 | García Genel, Angélica | Memoria prestada. La represión y los movimientos estudiantiles en dos casos de estudio: México (1968) y España (1960-1977) |
| 2017 | Rodríguez Cortés, Luis Alberto | Identidades en tránsito: La (supra)nación en narrativa, cine y espacios de difusión cultural latinoamericanos del siglo XXI |
| 2017 | Valadez, Rafael | When the Literary Mutates and the Digital Emboldens: Transformations in Spanish Electronic Literature of the 21st Century |
| 2018 | Alonso, Raciel | La isla en presente perfecto: Articulaciones de lo cotidiano en la producción cultural de Cuba posterior a 1974 |
| 2018 | González, Mirla Andrea | Artificial Futures and Posthuman Subjects: Social and Moral Implications of Technology and Scientific Advancement in Spanish Science Fiction |
| 2018 | Pineda, Ginett | Rescatando a la Pachamama |
| 2018 | Soll, Katherine | Performing Invisibilities: Conjuring the Ghosts of the Forgotten and Ignored on the Stage |
| 2019 | Ivers, Christina Elizabeth | Imprints of Devotion: Print and the Passion in the Iberian World (1472-1598) |
| 2020 | Elder, Cayce | Projecting Spanishness: The Golden Age Comedia and Film in Spain |
| 2021 | Risso, Marcela | Geografías afectivas de la modernidad del Atlántico Norte en relatos de viajeras latinoamericanas (1835-1935) |
| 2021 | Muñoz-Marquez, Lina | Poéticas y políticas de la movilidad en el cine del Abya Yala |
| 2021 | Hill, Dana Anne Meredith | Stubborn Structures: Revaluing Masculinity in Mexican Women-Authored "novelas sobre la Revolución" (1963-2010) |
| 2022 | Rañales, Ángel M. | Poética caballeresca: libro y propaganda en la imagen literaria y editorial de Isabel I de Castilla (1489-1511) |
| 2022 | Román Alvarado, Juan Pablo | Narrativas de tránsito: movilidades y colonialidad en novelas y filmes de los siglos XX y XXI en Colombia y Ecuador |
| 2023 | Tenorio López, Ariadna Nohemí | Sobre nuestros cuerpos negros: Pureza colonial y racionalización en el México contemporáneo |
| 2023 | Gómez Lomelí, Luis Felipe | La naturaleza desde el mundo que no importa: sentir el antropoceno Luso-África y Latinoamérica |
| 2023 | Rabinovich, Andrés Nicolás | Neoliberal Tensions in Representations of Soccer in Argentina and Brazil (2003-2016) |
| 2024 | Camacho Adames, Ingrid Natalia | Rock y metal con las uñas: Transsubjetividades féminas estridentes desde Latinoamérica |
| 2024 | Glassett, Zachary N. | As If Revolution Was Possible: (Post)Neoliberalism and Metamodernism in Central American, Mexican, and United-Statesian Film and Literature |
| 2024 | Lee, Seungjoo | Peripheral Subempires: The Cinematic Representation of Economic Crises in Argentina, Greece, and South Korea (1990-2020) |
| 2024 | Raines, Scott | Defining the Infinite: Technologic and Transatlantic Perspectives of the (Neo)Baroque in Iberia and Latin America |