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David Gregory Negron: A New Space for Aesthetics: Contemporary Literature and David Gregory Negron: A New Space for Aesthetics: Contemporary Literature and Gregory Negron: Filmic Representations of Alterity within the Southern Cone .' His dissertation defense was approved with commendation, January 2014. Dr. Gregory Negron is a Lecturer at Universidad Interamericana, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

María Guadalupe Arenillas 'Time Set in Stone: Memory and Space in Argentina and María Guadalupe Arenillas 'Time Set in Stone: Memory and Space in Argentina and Guadalupe Arenillas Uruguay Post-Dictatorship .' Her d issertation defense was approved with commendation, July 2010. Ms. Arenillas was awarded the Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning Pre- doctoral Fellowship, to conduct research and co- teach the course ' Chile y Argentina desde los 60: políticas, estéticas, memorias' (Chile and Argentina from the 1960s: Politics, Aesthetics, Memories) with Professor Michael Lazzara at the University of California, Davis, during the 2009-10 academic year. Dr. Arenillas received tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature at Northern Michigan University (2016).

Catalina Pérez Abreu ' Whence the Other Speaks: A Transnational Approach to Catalina Pérez Abreu ' Whence the Other Speaks: A Transnational Approach to Pérez Abreu Home and Discourse in the Fictional Narratives of María Amparo Ruiz de Burton and Teresa de la Parra.' Her dissertation defense was approved with High Pass, July 2009. Ms. Pérez Abreu was awarded a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures of the University of Notre Dame, 2009-2010. Dr. Pérez Abreu is Assistant Professor of Spanish and TransAmerican Studies at Albion College.

James Hussar 'Cycling Through the Pampas: Fictionalized Accounts of Jewish James Hussar 'Cycling Through the Pampas: Fictionalized Accounts of Jewish Hussar Agricultural Colonization in Argentina and Brazil.' His dissertation defense was approved with High Pass, March 2008. Mr. Hussar received the 2008 Shaheen Graduate School Award in the Humanities at the University of Notre Dame, the highest recognition in academics that the Graduate School bestows to a recent Ph.D. and the 2008 Dondanville Family Graduate Award in Arts and Letters for excellence in teaching. Dr. Hussar received early tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures at California State University, Fullerton (2012).

Graduate Student Committees , Ph.D. in Literature Comprehensive Exam: Marisol Fonseca Malavasi Director , Ph.D. in Literature Comprehensive Exam: Javier Mocarquer Director , Ph.D. in Literature Comprehensive Exam: David Gregory Negrón Director , Ph.D. in Literature Comprehensive Exam: María Guadalupe Arenillas Director , Ph.D. in Literature Comprehensive Exam: Catalina Pérez-Abreu Director , Ph.D. in Literature Comprehensive Exam: Marisol Fonseca Malavasi , Ph.D. in Literature Comprehensive Exam: Javier Mocarquer , Ph.D. in Literature Comprehensive Exam: David Gregory Negrón , Ph.D. in Literature Comprehensive Exam: María Guadalupe Arenillas , Ph.D. in Literature Comprehensive Exam: Catalina Pérez-Abreu

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, Ph.D. in Literature Comprehensive Exam: Ingrid Luna López Ph.D. in Literature Comprehensive Exam: Santiago Quintero Ph.D. in Literature Dissertation Defense: Santiago Quintero

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, Ph.D. in Literature Permission to Proceed Exam: Catherine Brix , Ph.D. in Literature Permission to Proceed Exam: Javier Mocarquer , Ph.D. in Literature Permission to Proceed Exam: David Gregory Negrón , Ph.D. in Literature Permission to Proceed Exam: María Guadalupe Arenillas , Ph.D. in Literature Permission to Proceed Exam: Catalina Pérez Abreu