Recent PhD thesis topics in Spanish

Jane Christie
Negotiating Gendered Discourses: Michelle Bachelet and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (PhD thesis in Spanish, 2012, supervised by Latin American Studies).
Marisol Rodríguez Rodríguez
Feminismo e innovación en la narrativa gallega de autoría femenina: Xohana Torres, María José Queizán, Carmen Blanco y Teresa Moure (PhD thesis in Spanish, 2010).
Paul Bowker
Post-Colonial Intersections between Spain and Latin America: Interpretations of Hispanidad in the Twentieth Century (PhD thesis in Spanish, 2010, with supervision also from Latin American Studies).
Dongmei Lin
Stress in Spanish Compounds. PhD Thesis. Supervisor Eduardo Piñeros. Co-supervisor: Jason Brown. (in progress)
Azariah Alfante
Roots in the Stone: Ecclesiastical Confiscation and Cultural Responses in Nineteenth-Century Spain. PhD Thesis in progress. Supervisor Christine Arkinstall, Co-supervisor Jose Colmeiro. (in progress)
Ekaterina Volkova
Re-imagining Galicianness: Visual Culture and National Identity in Galicia. PhD Thesis in progress. Supervisor Jose Colmeiro, Co-supervisor Jean-Jacques Courtine. (in progress)
Judy Neale
Politically-Committed Contemporary Spanish-Maghrebi Literature Relating to Arab/Maghrebi Immigration into Spain (in progress) Supervisors: Dr Wendy-Llyn Zaza and Professor Christine Arkinstall/Associate Professor Roberto Gonzalez-Casanovas
Omar Silverio Anica
The Politics of Contemporary Mexican Theatre (in progress) Supervisors: Dr Wendy-Llyn Zaza and Dr Kathryn Lehman
Carla Grosman, “The Allegory of the Standstill Traveller: Crisis and Recuperation of Utopia in the Latin American Cinema of the Neoliberal Era” (University of Auckland Doctoral Scholar, 2012). Supervisors Dr Walescka Pino-Ojeda and Associate Professor Roberto Gonzalez-Casanovas
Jane L. Christie
Negotiating Gendered Discourses: Michelle Bachelet and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (2012). Supervisors: Dr Kathryn Lehman and Dr Walescka Pino-Ojeda.
Marisol Rodriguez Rodriguez
Contemporary Galician Literature Written by Women (2010) Supervisors: Professor Christine Arkinstall and Dr Wendy-Llyn Zaza
Ashraf Anwar
Representing the Muslim “Other” in Spanish Renaissance Literature (submitted)
Elena Garcia Torres
La narrativa polifónica de Almudena Grandes y de Lucía Etxebarría: Transgresión, subjetividad e industria cultural en la España democrática (2007). Supervisors: Professor Christine Arkinstall and Dr Wendy-Llyn Zaza
Bryony Sinclair
(Hi)stories of Dis/placement: Catalan Cultural Identity in Women’s Writing (2005); Supervisors: Professor Christine Arkinstall and Dr Wendy-Llyn Zaza
Lara Anderson
Consuming Women: Decadence or Regeneration in the Spain of Emilia Pardo Bazán and Benito Pérez Galdós (2004) Supervisors: Associate Professor Mercedes Maroto-Camino and Dr Wendy-Llyn Zaza
Gwyn Fox
Hearts in the Hearth: Women’s Sonnets of Love and Friendship in Seventeenth-Century Spain (2004); UoA Prize for Best Doctoral Thesis 2005. Supervisors: Associate Professor Mercedes Maroto-Camino and Prof. Christine Arkinstall.
Sarah McDonald
From the People to the Popular: Fifty Years of Brazilian Film. (2004) Supervisors: Dr Kathryn Leyman and Dr Walescka Pino-Ojeda
Nicola Gilmour
Literary Cross-Dressers in Modern Hispanic Narrative (2001); UoA Prize for Best Doctoral Thesis 2002. Supervisor: Professor Christine Arkinstall
Francisca Da Gama
Locating the Mestizo: Race and Class in Mariátegui, Arguedas and Gutiérrez (2001). Supervisor: Dr Kathryn Lehman
Wendy-Llyn Zaza
Post-Francoist Theatre Written by Women Dramatists (2000). Supervisor: Professor Christine Arkinstall
Sarah Leggott
Biographical and Autobiographical Voices in 20th-Century Literature by Spanish Women Writers (1999); UoA Prize for Best Doctoral Thesis 2000 Supervisor: Professor Christine Arkinstall

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