Recent MA thesis topics in Spanish

  • Mohan Wali, “Postwar Children’s Narratives in Spain and Italy”. MA Thesis, in progress. Supervisor Jose Colmeiro, Co-supervisor, Franco Manai
  • Sheldon Ormsby, “La exponencia de las clases morfológicas complejas” (in progress). Supervisor: Dr Carlos-Eduardo Piñeros
  • Ekaterina Volkova, “Magical Realism in the Cultural Production of Galicia” (in progress). Supervisor: Professor Jose Colmeiro
  • Sorrel O’Leary, “Discourse, Power and Authenticity: The Latin American Cantautor and the Struggle for Truth.” (2011). Supervisor: Dr Walescka Pino-Ojeda
  • Sarah Stewart, “Transcending the Emprisonment Space in the Writing of Roseleen Walsh and Reinaldo Arenas.” (in conjunction with Comparative Literature, 2009). Co-supervisor: Dr Walescka Pino-Ojeda
  • Emma Stone, "National and Subnational Identity under Globalisation: Mexico, Argentina and Brazil" (2009). Supervisors: Dr Kathryn Lehman and Associate Professor Roberto Gonzalez-Casanovas
  • Kimberley Townsend, "Evolution of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza in Cervantes, Unamuno, Greene" (2007). Supervisor: Associate Professor Roberto Gonzalez-Casanovas
  • Carla Grosman, "El espectro de la ausencia cine argentino de postdictadura como re-narracio´n de la memoria colectiva" (2006). Supervisor: Dr Walescka Pino-Ojeda
  • Kara Morrison, "Violent Mexicans: Cinematic Violence and Authenticity in Recent Films about Mexico" (2006). Supervisor: Dr Kathryn Lehman
  • Iñigo Echevarria, "Conflictos en el País Vasco / Euskal Herria: Desde sus orígenes hasta hoy en el teatro de Ignacio Amestoy" (2005). Supervisor: Dr Wendy-Llyn Zaza
  • Lorena Garrido, "’Democracia en el pais y en la casa’ : poesia chilena femenina en tiempos de crisis poli´tica" (2004). Supervisor: Dr Walescka Pino-Ojeda
  • Judy Neale, "An Orchestrated Litany of Li(n)es: Contra el Guernica. Libelo, by Antonio Saura" (2004) (Awarded 2006 George Watt Memorial Prize, by Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA), New York). Supervisor: Dr Wendy-Llyn Zaza
  • Joyce Luke, "Modern Paradigms in the Latin American Space: Reconceptualising the Centre/Periphery Paradigm" (2002). Supervisor: Dr Walescka Pino-Ojeda
  • Elly Sharp, "Forbidden Passions: Nation, Religion and Sexuality in 19th-Century Argentina" (2002). Supervisor: Dr Kathryn Lehman
  • Ashraf Anwar, "Rethinking ‘Christians and Moors’: Cultural Perceptions in Medieval-Renaissance Iberian Texts" (2001) Supervisor: Associate Professor Roberto Gonzalez-Casanovas
  • Gwyn Fox, "Riddling, Perplexed, Labyrinthical Soul: Aspects of the Soul in the Poetry of John Donne and Francisco de Quevedo" (2001). Supervisor Associate Professor Mercedes Maroto-Camino
  • Lara Anderson, "Cuisine, Communication, Corpus: Emilia Pardo Bazán’s Naturalistic Vision of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Spain" (2000). Supervisor Associate Professor Mercedes Maroto-Camino
  • Sarsha Deeley, "The Sacred Bodies of El Cid’s Wife and Daughters: Honour through Chastity in the Medieval and Modern Characters of Doñas Jimena, Sol and Elvira" (2000). Supervisor: Associate Professor Roberto Gonzalez-Casanovas and Associate Professor Mercedes Maroto-Camino
  • Sarah McDonald, "Coercion, Crisis and Cultural Difference: Women’s Writing in Authoritarian Argentina and Brazil" (2000). Supervisor: Dr Kathryn Lehman
  • Bryony Sinclair, "Memories, Stories, Identities: Translations of the Past by Contemporary Catalan Women Writers" (2000). Supervisor: Professor Christine Arkinstall