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Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Alumni

Year 

Name 

Degree 

Dissertation/Thesis Title 

Dissertation/Thesis Director; Committee Members 

Placement 

2024

Meagan (Cobb) Heath

PhD

Ecoaldeas as a Critical Dystopic Landscape 

Andrew C. Rajca; Susan Divine; Mercedes López Rodríguez; Francisco J. Sánchez

Aux Trois Pommes (New Haven, CT)

2022 

Adrienne D. Banko  

PhD 

Interrogating Rosa Montero’s Transition to Consensus: The Literary Interview as Lieu de Mémoire 

Maria Van Liew, Francisco J. Sánchez; 

Rebecca Janzen; 

Andrew Shifflet 

Xaverian Brothers High School

2022 

Fritz Culp 

PhD 

Mining for Progress: Copper, Conflict, and Corporate Social Responsibility 

Mercedes López Rodríguez; Rebecca Janzen,  

Andrew C. Rajca;  

José Eduardo Cornelio 

 

2022 

Hyanghee Lee 

PhD 

La materialidad de las vivencias femeninas: cuerpos discapacitados, prostituidos y violados en las narrativas mexicanas escritas por las mujeres 

Rebecca Janzen, Andrew C. Rajca; Mercedes López Rodríguez; 

Oswaldo Estrada (UNC) 

 

2022 

Tamara A. Morgan 

PhD 

 

Wandering and Wondering: Mapping the Confines of the Introspective Spaces of Julio Cortázar, Sergio Chejfec, and Samanta Schweblin  

Andrew C. Rajca; 

Jorge Camacho, Mercedes López Rodríguez; 

Justin Read 

Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish,  

Wake Forest University 

 

2021 

(Francisco) David Mesa (Muñoz) 

PhD 

Los Milagros de Santiagocomo sustrato ideológico en la formación de una identidad protonacional castellana (The Miracles of Saint James as an Ideological Substratum in the Formation of a Protonational Castilian Identity) 

Francisco J. Sánchez; 

Jorge Camacho, Mercedes López Rodríguez, Christian Anderson 

Profesor Ayudante Doctor, Universidad de Córdoba

2021 

Nicole Donoghue  

MA 

El Hambre y La formación Del Sujeto: Un Estudio transatlántico De Lazarillo De Tormes y Naufragios 

Francisco J. Sánchez; 

Mercedes López Rodríguez 

 

2021 

Perla J. Richerson 

MA 

 

Sentir con la Memoria: prácticas Espaciales Desde la Cotidianidad Sistemática del Subalterno en Roma, La Teta Asustada y La Mujer Sin Cabeza 

Andrew C. Rajca; 

Rebecca Janzen 

 

2018 

Benjamín García Egea 

PhD 

Feminist Strategies and the Advancement of Women in 19 th-Century Spain: Press and Freethinking 

María C. Mabrey; 

Francisco J. Sánchez, Andrew C. Rajca, María Rosario Quintana 

Senior Instructor, USC LLC-Spanish Program 

2018 

Stephanie R. Orozco 

PhD 

(Re) Thinking the Past through Performance: The (Re) Construction of Militant Childhood Imaginaries in the Post-Dictatorship of Argentina's Cultural Production from 2003-2015 

Mercedes López Rodríguez; 

María C. Mabrey, Andrew C. Rajca, Rocío Zalba 

Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina, Aiken 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Year First Name Last Name Thesis Program
(hidden column)
1971 Jeanelle Williams   Spanish
1972 Jane Jervey   Spanish
1974 Teresa Soufas   Spanish
1975 Rita Bergoudian   Spanish
1976 Deborah Huskins   Spanish
1976 Thomas Stephens   Spanish
1977 Graciela Dam   Spanish
1977 Gale Ashmore   Spanish
1977 Paula Cook   Spanish
1977 Rosario Sanchez   Spanish
1977 Lourdes Estevez   Spanish
1980 Teresa Parker   Spanish
1980 Sandra Cope   Spanish
1980 Debra Helms   Spanish
1980 Elliot Garcia   Spanish
1981 Charles Simmons   Spanish
1981 Dora Leonard   Spanish
1982 Hal Kizer   Spanish
1982 Maria Fernandez   Spanish
1982 Pamela Peek   Spanish
1982 Judith Sterne   Spanish
1984 Virginia Bouvier   Spanish
1984 Alice Albarran   Spanish
1984 Mario Cabezas   Spanish
1985 Peter Roetzel   Spanish
1985 Inés Subiros-Bosch   Spanish
1987 Livia Gonzalez   Spanish
1987 Wigberta Martin   Spanish
1988 Carmen Gavidia Gadea   Spanish
1988 Dina Fabery   Spanish
1989 Mayra Feliciano   Spanish
1989 Kathleen O'Quinn-Havens   Spanish
1991 Elisa Kondor   Spanish
1991 José Gomariz   Spanish
1991 Lourdes Manye   Spanish
1991 Sheryl Kucherov   Spanish
1992 Salvador Pujol   Spanish
1992 Maria Santamaria   Spanish
1992 Ivan Tapia Bravo   Spanish
1993 Wendy Caldwell   Spanish
1993 Catherine Vinel   Spanish
1994 Sara Drummond   Spanish
1994 Maria Zabala-Pena   Spanish
1995 Susan Feuer   Spanish
1995 Jesus Salamanca   Spanish
1996 Sharon Knight   Spanish
1997 Suzanne Pollard   Spanish
1998 Alicia Martin   Spanish
1998 Amelia Carrasco Bundo   Spanish
1998 Heather Hauck   Spanish
1998 Olga West   Spanish
1999 Mary Ippolito   Spanish
2000 Purificacion Crowe   Spanish
2000 Dulce Tienda-Martagon   Spanish
2001 Sara Paez   Spanish
2001 Raquel Blazquez   Spanish
2001 Darris Hassell   Spanish
2001 Charlene Kinard   Spanish
2002 Ana Perez-Manrique   Spanish
2002 Maria Alvarez Whatley   Spanish
2003 Mary Uzarraga   Spanish
2003 Brian Chandler   Spanish
2003 Keri Nicholson   Spanish
2003 Tania Chipman   Spanish
2003 Carla Aguado De La Fuente   Spanish
2004 Josh Hemlee   Spanish
2004 Mary Cook   Spanish
2004 Chary-Sy Copeland   Spanish
2004 Timothy Mcateer   Spanish
2005 Amy Myers   Spanish
2005 Wendy Schneider   Spanish
2005 Erin Linden   Spanish
2006 Ana Cueto   Spanish
2006 Cari Kepner   Spanish
2006 Haydee Lavariega   Spanish
2006 Leann Hillman   Spanish
2006 Brittany Powell   Spanish
2006 Lydia Alvarado-Guzman   Spanish
2007 Steven Lownes   Spanish
2007 Rachel Stelzer   Spanish
2007 Emily Apple   Spanish
2007 Leah Miller   Spanish
2008 Mary Katherine Letchworth   Spanish
2008 Heidi Montes   Spanish
2008 Meghan Jones   Spanish
2008 Andrew Corley   Spanish
2008 Gloria Losada   Spanish
2008 Michael Greene   Spanish
2008 Natasha Tiniaco   Spanish
2009 Sherry Weeks   Spanish
2010 Ellory Schmucker   Spanish
2010 Carolina Arias   Spanish
2010 David Joo   Spanish
2010 Clara Mengolini   Spanish
2010 Jennifer Pilat   Spanish
2011 Adrienne Banko   Spanish
2011 Angelina Fletcher-Resendiz   Spanish
2011 Eliot Raynor   Spanish
2011 Marcus Antley   Spanish
2011 Alejandra Madrigal   Spanish
2011 William Benner   Spanish
2011 Margaret Korn   Spanish
2011 Christopher Hasty   Spanish
2012 Keris Suttles   Spanish
2012 Melissa Milanese   Spanish
2012 Wendy Waskovich   Spanish
2013 Whitney Waites   Spanish
2013 Adrianne Woods   Spanish
2013 Matthew Street   Spanish
2013 Maria Rivero   Spanish
2013 Mary J. Shepherd   Spanish
2014 Elizabeth Panagiotakopoulos   Spanish
2014 Kendel C. Scott   Spanish
2014 Paul J. Coats   Spanish
2015 Andres F.  Arroyave   Spanish
2015 Benjamin M. Driscol   Spanish
2016 Ryan M.  Beber   Spanish
2017 Samantha L. Gosnell   Spanish
2018 Colleen E. Scutt   Spanish
2018 Fritz Culp   Spanish
2019 Coty B. Hoover   Spanish
2020 Nicole R.  Donoghue   Spanish
2021 Perla J.  Richerson   Spanish

 

 


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