Alumni | Modern Languages & Literatures | University of Miami

Lidiana de Moraes dos Santos

Ph.D. in Literary, Cultural, and Linguistic Studies

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Dissertation: 

"Reclaiming Political Spaces: Black Feminist Insurgencies in Contemporary Luso-Afro-Brazilian Literatures"

Employment: 

Dainerys Machado Vento

Ph.D. in Literary, Cultural, and Linguistic Studies

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Dissertation: 

"International Mediatization of Cuban Literature: A Cultural Study (2006-2018)"

Employment: 

Olivier Sales

Ph.D. in Literary, Cultural, and Linguistic Studies

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Dissertation: 

“Tout Niquer Devient Vital.” Rap Mediatizing of French Contemporary Society: Language, Body and the Urban"

Employment: 

Nicholas Sheets

Ph.D. in Literary, Cultural, and Linguistic Studies

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Dissertation: 

"A Child's Place in Modern Society, from Subject to Agent; Shifting Artistic and Cultural Perspectives in Cuba and Mexico"

Employment: 

Maria Veliz

Ph.D. in Literary, Cultural, and Linguistic Studies

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Dissertation: 

"Silences in Performance Art: Liveness in the Americas in 21st Century"

Employment: 

Salim Ayoub

Ph.D. in Literary, Cultural, and Linguistic Studies

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Dissertation: 

"Indegenes entre deux rives: 'Adopted Maghrebi' Writers (Rimbaud, Genet, Goytisolo) and Maghrebi Diaspora Voices (AbdellaTaia, Zahia Rahmani, Nabil Ayouch, Mehdi Ben Attia) Questioning and Queering Coloniality, Normatives and Nation-State in Language, Literature and Film"

Employment: 

Webster University, Jane M. and Bruce P. Roberts Assistant Professor of French and Director of the Francophone Center 

Zayer Baazaoui

Ph.D. in Literary, Cultural, and Linguistic Studies

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Dissertation: 

"Can the Nameless be Represented? Literary and Cinematographic Representations of MENA Female Same Sex Desire"

Employment: 

Providence College, Visiting Assistant Professor of French Studies

Nicolas Bordage

Ph.D. in Literary, Cultural, and Linguistic Studies

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Dissertation: 

"An Argentine in Paris: Gaspar Noé's Cinema Challenges France's Social, Political and Moral Values"

Employment: 

California State University - Long Beach, Language Program Coordinator

Elena Bonmati Gonzalvez 

Ph.D. in Romance Studies 

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Dissertation:

"Anarchism, Eroticism, and Sexology in Spanish Early Twentieth-Century Magazines and Literary Collections (1901-1936)"

Employment: 

The College of Idaho, Visiting Assistant Professor

Lorella Di Gregorio 

Ph.D. in Literary, Cultural, and Linguistic Studies

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Dissertation:

"The Global Journey of Mexican and Southern Italian Cultural Products in the Time of Flows"

Employment: 

University of Miami, Lecturer

Lina Jardines del Cueto

Ph.D. in Literary, Cultural, and Linguistic Studies

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Dissertation: 

"The New Barbudos Cultural Politics between Cuba and the Middle East"

Employment: 

University of Miami, Lecturer 

Lilianne Lugo Herrera

Ph.D. in Literary, Cultural, and Linguistic Studies

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Dissertation: 

"Mediated Archipelagoes: Theater, Women, and Media"

Winner of the 2021 Barrett Prize for Best Dissertation on a Latin American or Caribbean topic, awarded by the University of Miami Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas (UMIA).

Employment: 

University of Miami, Lecturer 

Americo Mendoza-Mori 

Ph.D. in Literary, Cultural, and Linguistic Studies

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Dissertation: 

"Gestores Andinos: Discursos Culturales en el Cusco Urbano Contemporáneo"

Employment: 

University of Pennsylvania, Faculty and Program Coordinator (Quechua and Spanish)

Nadia Naami

Ph.D. in Literary, Cultural, and Linguistic Studies

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Dissertation: 

"Desired Exiles and False Origins: Ethical Bastards in Decolonial Francophonies from North Africa, the Antilles and France"

Employment: 

University of Miami, Lecturer 

Fely Catan

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Dissertation: 

"Non-Sovereignty and Artistic Production in Puerto Rico, Martinique, and Guadeloupe: Rethinking Nationalism and Independence"

Employment: 

Pitzer College, Assistant Professor of French and Spanish

Delia Pamela Fuentes Korban 

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Dissertation:

"Soundtrack de los 90: Argentine Popular Music and Memory"

Employment:

University of Miami, Lecturer 

Elizabeth Camille Langley 

Ph.D. in Romance Studies 

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Disstertation: 

"The Occupied Strike Back: Writing against Empire and Constructing Postmemory in Occupied Hispaniola"

Employment: 

Fort Hays State University, Interim Chair; Assistant Professor in Spanish and French

Ariana Heydi Magdaleno

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Disstertation: 

"Mexicanidad Reloaded: Multiple Histories and Narratives in Contemporary Novels and Films from 1989 to 2002"

Employment: 

Downtown Doral Charter Elementary, Elementary school teacher 

Rosario Catalina Ramirez

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Dissertation: 

"Contemporary Central American Imaginaries Under (Re)Construction: Landings in Postwar Cultural Landscape"

Employment: 

Centner Academy, K-8 Reading Specialist; Literacy Curriculum Development Coach

Thouraya Ferid

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Dissertation: 

“Terrorists’ Imaginaries: Social Exclusion, Queerness, Repressive Apparatus and the Emergence of Post-religious ‘Terrorism’ in Contemporary Maghrebian Francophone Literature and Film” 

Employment: 

Returned to Tunisia, Currently applying for work in the States

Antoni Fernandez Parera

Ph.D. in Romance Studies

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Dissertation: 

"A Comparison of the Effects of Concept-Based and Grammar-Based Methods of Instruction on the Acquisition of the Subjunctive Among Heritage and Second Language Learners of Spanish"

Employment: 

Barnard College, Lecturer of Spanish 

Ernesto Fundora

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Dissertation: 

"The Uses of the Stage: Canon Formation Processes in Cuban Theater"

Employment: 

University of Jamestown, Assistant Professor

Melyssa Haffaf

Ph.D. in Literary, Cultural and Linguistic Studies

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Dissertation:

"Shifting Masculinities from North Africa: in Yasmina Khadra, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Mohamed Leftah and Abdellah Taïa’s Fictions" 

Employment: 

Georgetown University, Program Director - Gender Justice Intiative   

Hicham Mazouz

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Dissertation: 

"(Re) Mapping the Black Atlantic: Abject Blackness and Arabness Across the Atlantic in African-American, French and Maghrebian Literature"

Employment: 

Xavier University, Assistant Professor in French and Francophone Studies and African American Diaspora Studies

Amine Zidouh

Ph.D. in Literary, Cultural and Linguistic Studies

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Dissertation: 

"Phantom Arabic, Dislocated French: Auto-Anthropological Imaginaries: Jean Genet, Abdellah Taia,Leila Sebbar, Nabil Ayouch"

Employment: 

University of Missouri, Assistant Professor of French

Carlos Manuel Gamez Perez

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Dissertation: 

"Las Ciencias y las Letras: Pensamiento Tecno-científico y Cultura en España (1959-2016)"

Employment: 

University of Navarra, Instituto de Lengua y Cultura Españoles, Translator, Editor; Novelist; Lecturer Spanish 

Luz Ainai Morales Pino

Ph.D. in Romance Studies 

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Dissertation:

Éticas y estéticas de la profanación: redes y tensiones en la literatura peruana y venezolana del entre siglos (1880-1910)

Employment: 

Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Profesora Auxiliar de Literatura Latinoamericana 

Marelys Valencia

Ph.D. in Romance Studies  

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Dissertation: 

“The Children of the Cuban Revolution in the Diaspora: From Internationalism to Transnationalism and Cosmopolitan Imaginaries" 

Employment: 

Saint Mary's College, Assistant Professor 

Francisca Aguilo Mora

Ph.D. in Romance Studies 

Dissertation: 

"Language Crossing and Multiaccentuality in Women Writers del Gran Caribe: Narrative, Drama and Performance”

Employment:  

Columbia University, Lecturer in Spanish  

Julie Samit

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Dissertation: 

“Memories that Won't Desert. Transnational Legacies of Francoism and the Spanish Civil War in 21st Century Novel, Comic and Film” 

Employment:  

Le Bon Marché - Paris, Fine Jewelry Salesperson  

Eva Silot Bravo 

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Dissertation: 

“Reimagining Cubanidad: Transnational and Alternative Spaces in Contemporary Cuban Cultural Production” 

Employment: 

Alafia Creative Entertainment, Founder 

Gabriela Zaviezo 

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Dissertation: 

"The New New Man: (Re)Articulations of Masculinity in Post-Revolutionary Cuba" 

Employment: 

American Heritage School, Teacher 

Monica Alexandra Duran

Ph.D. in Romance Studies

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Dissertation: 

“Visual Narratives and Metaphors as Tools for Teaching in the Foreign Language Classroom: A Sociocultural and Critical Perspective” 

Employment: 

University of Miami, Lecturer, Law  

Benoit Dominique Mauchamp

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Dissertation: 

"A Journey Through Reality. Towards an Anthropo-Semiotics of Travel Representation: Literature, Photography, Cinema. 1861-1961" 

Employment: 

Miami Elite Language Services LLC, French Coach

Alfredo Inti Palacio

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Dissertation: 

“La anarquía del camaleón: Interculturalidad y participación ciudadana en la cinematografía ecuatoriana del nuevo milenio” 

Employment: 

Ransom Everglades School, World Languages Teacher  

Walter Shawn Temple

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Dissertation: 

"Redrawing the Territories of Desire and Melancholy: The Homoerotic Travel Writings and Films of Gide, Duvert, Barthes, Genet, Taia, Rachid O., Vallois and Bouzid" 

Employment: 

Utah Valley University, Assistant Professor in French and Director of the French Program

Mary Bartsh 

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Dissertation: 

"An Elusive Escape: "Feminine" Genres in Latin American Women's Fiction"

Employment: 

Miami Elite Language Services LLC, Exective Coach English, Portuguese, Spanish

Sara Gusky

Ph.D. in Romance Studies 

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Dissertation: 

"Living in Limb/o: Reading Dismemberment and Orphanhood in Contemporary Spanish Caribbean Literature" 

Employment: 

PhD Athletica 

Alexandra Perkins (Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah)

Ph.D. in Romance Studies 

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Dissertation: 

"Queer Transnationality: Narrative, Theatre, and Performance Across Temporal, Spatial, and Social Geographies"  

Employment: 

Texas State University, Assistant Professor in Spanish 

Lennie Amores

Ph.D. in Romance Studies

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Dissertation: 

Intimate Otherness: Immigration in Recent Spanish Narrative

Employment: 

Albright College, Assistant Professor of Spanish

Carlos Ariel Gutierrez Torres

Ph.D., University of Miami

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Dissertation: 

Paisajes Escenicos: El Teatro en la Ciudad Global. Buenos Aires 1988-2010

Employment:

Self employed - Sweden, Spanish Teacher

Maria Garcia Pardo 

Ph.D. in Romance Studies

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Dissertation: 

¿En Vías de Desarrollo? Libros para Niños y Modernidades en Latinoamérica 

Employment: 

University of Miami, Lecturer of Spanish 

Salvador Luis Raggio 

Ph.D. in Romance Studies

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Dissertation: 

The Mutant Factor. Transformations and Mutations of the Monstrous in Contemporary Ibero-American Texts

Employment: 

University of Minnesota, Visiting Assistant Professor

Maidelin Rodriguez

Ph.D., Romance Studies, University of Miami

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Dissertation: 

Postmodern Artist Texts: Constructing Fictional Autobiographical Projects Through Art in Contemporary Spanish Narratives

Employment: 

University of Miami, Lecturer

Enrique Téllez-Espiga

Ph.D., Romance Studies, University of Miami

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Dissertation: 

Remembering Madrid: Urban Space and Memory from the Spanish Civil War to the Transition to Democracy

Employment: 

Saint Joseph's University, Associate Professor of Spanish 

Annalea Marie Vincent 

Ph.D., University of Miami

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Dissertation: 

Violence, Primitivism and Animality: The Limits of Human Nature as Depicted in French World War I Narratives

Employment: 

Mairie de Paris, Safety Anaylst

Arthur F Tang

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Dissertation: 

May 68 and French Literary Production: A Periodization of Modern Revolutionary Writing in the Works of Conrad Detrez, Monique Wittig, and Jean Genet

Employment: 

Docent, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City

Melva Marguerite Persico

Ph.D. in Romance Studies 

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Dissertation: 

Counterpublics and Aesthetics: Afro-Hispanic and Belizean Women Writers. 

Employment: 

Clemson University, Senior Lecturer 

Joanne Pol Urrechaga

Ph.D., University of Miami

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Dissertation: 

Queering Latin American Theater: A Panoramic Study and Its Performative Implications.

Employment: 

Nova Southeastern University, Assistant Professor of Spanish

Sabrina Emilie Wengier

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Dissertation: 

The Politics and Poetics of Ekphrasis in Nineteenth-Century French Art Novels

Employment: 

Middle Georgia State University, Associate Professor of French