Job Placements & Dissertations
Graduates of our programs have taken positions at institutions worldwide. Below is a list of job placement and dissertation titles.
2022
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota
"The Dark Side of Community: Contemporary Perspectives of Spain's Conservative Right"
Advisors: William Viestenz & Ofelia Ferrán
Writer & Journalist
"Violencia, literatura, y el Estado en la narrativa mexicana de los siglos XX y XXI. "
Advisor: Ana Forcinito
Visiting Assistant Professor, Gustavus Adolphus College
"Vocalities of Violence: Acousmatic Sound and Trauma in Latin American Cinema"
Advisor: Ana Forcinito
Carolina Añon Suárez
Assistant Professor, Fairfield University
"Cuentan las pibas: reconfiguraciones contemporáneas de la memoria en la generación posdictadura en Argentina"
Advisor: Ana Forcinito
Natalia Defiel
Teacher, Modern Languages, DeLaSalle High School
"Humor y dictadura. Espacios de expresión y opresión creados por el humor en relación con la dictadura militar argentina (1976-1983)"
Advisor: Ana Forcinito
Timothy Frye
Teacher, World Languages, Benilde St. Margaret
"Megaprojects and Literature in Chile, Panama, and Brazil"
Advisor: Sophia Beal & Jaime Hanneken
Robert Hultgren
Teacher, Forest Lake High School
"Embracing the Text: Stories of Conversion in Sixteenth-Century Spain"
Advisor: Michelle Hamilton
Lauren Truman
Assistant Teaching Professor, Brigham Young University
"Language Use Patterns in a Spanish Immersion Algebra Class: Opportunities, Uptake, and Individual Learner Variables"
Advisor: Carol Klee
Mario Cossio Olavide, PhD
Post Doc, Universidad de Alcalá
"El que toma candela del fuego ajeno. Don Juan Manuel y la refundación castellana del mundo cortesano en el siglo XIV"
Advisor: Michelle Hamilton
Mónica de la Fuente Iglesias, PhD
Assistant Professor of Spanish, University of Texas at Arlington
"Contacto de lenguas e identidad regional: la variación vocálica en el castellano de Galicia"
Advisor: Carol Klee
Ana Cláudia dos Santos São Bernardo, PhD
Zemurray-Stone Post-Doctoral Fellow, Tulane University
"From the Dumpster to the Bookshelf: Black Brazilian Women’s Literature and the Quest for Mobility from 1960s to the Present"
Advisor: Ana Paula Ferreira
Marit Hanson, PhD
Visiting Assistant Professor, St. Olaf College
"Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, Cyborg: Feminist Posthumanism and Biopower Interventions in Peninsular Women’s Science Fiction"
Advisor: Ofelia Ferrán & William Viestenz
Carol Ready, PhD
Assistant Professor, Oklahoma State University
"Moroccan Immigrants in Granada, Spain: Negotiating language, culture, and identity"
Advisor: Carol Klee
Sandra Rellier, PhD
Youth Programs Coordinator, Alliance Française
"Recovering Returnee Memories: a Comparative Approach to Representations of Pieds-noirs and Retornados’ Experiences"
Advisor: Ana Paula Ferreira
Russell Simonsen, PhD
Assistant Professor, Miami University
"The Interaction between Word Order and Verb Type in L2 Spanish and L1 English Sentence Processing"
Advisor: Mandy Menke
Tripp Strawbridge, PhD
Assistant Professor, Santa Clara University
"The Social Networks: Characterizing L2 Spanish Proficiency Development in Study Abroad Through Social Network Analysis"
Advisor: Mandy Menke
Ángela Castro, PhD
Assistant Professor, Colorado College
"Estudio Palimpséstico del Cuerpo Feminino Afrocaribeño"
Advisor: Jaime Hanneken
Amy Hill Cosimini, PhD
Visiting Assistant Professor of Romance Languages - Spanish, St. Olaf College
"The Media of Memories: Argentine and Brazilian Transitional Justice as Seen on TV"
Advisor: Sophia Beal & Ana Forcinito
Eva Palma Zuñiga, PhD
Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish, Carleton College
"Literatura, memoria y medioambiente en Chile. Una experiencia ecocrítica."
Advisor: Ana Forcinito
Nico Ramos Flores, PhD
Assistant Professor of Spanish, Colby College
"The Kaleidoscopic Unsaid: Voice, Memory, and Body of the Afro-Americas"
Advisor: Ana Paula Ferriera & Ana Forcinito
see: Working Across Disciplinary Fields
Marcelo Fuentes, PhD
Assistant Professor, New Jersey City University
“An Empire of Two Religions: Muslims as Allies, Enemies, and Subjects in the Literature of the Iberian Christian Kingdoms”
Advisor: Michelle Hamilton
Veronica Menaldi, PhD
Assistant Professor, University of Mississippi
“Out of Love: Magic and Control of (an)Other in Premodern Iberia”
Advisor: Michelle Hamilton
see: Magic, Miracles, and Medicine in Medieval Spain
Assistant Professor, Providence College
"Interdental /s/ in Salvadoran Spanish: Finding Linguistic Patterns and Social Meaning."
Advisor: Carol Klee
Assistant Professor, St. Norbert College
“L2 Acquisition of Spanish Allophonic and Italian Phonemic Contrasts”
Advisor: Timothy Face
Director of Spanish Writing Center, Franklin & Marshall College
“Receding or Resurgent? On the use of cantase (and cantara) in Galician Spanish”
Advisors: Carol Klee and Francisco Ocampo
Lecturer, University of Minnesota
“Spain Interrupted: Examining Spanish Representations of Mass Violence in the former Yugoslavia”
Advisors: William Viestenz and Ofelia Ferran
Scott Ehrenburg
Pasco (WA) School District
"Living and Dying for the Plural Transformations of Queer Iberian Cinema"
Advisors: William Viestenz and Ofelia Ferran
UX and design researcher and strategist, Gomoll Research + Design
“The Longitudinal Development of Oral Linguistic Complexity and Accuracy of Spanish Learner Language in Second-Year University Students”
Advisor: Carol Klee
Assistant Professor; University of Wisconsin-River Falls
“Stories of Memory/Memory in Stories: Remembrance and Identity in Contemporary Jewish Argentine Cultural Production”
Advisors: Ana Forcinito and Amy Kaminsky
Assistant Professer; Centre College
"Black Intellectual Thought on the Margins: Race, Citizenship, and Knowledge in Brazil, Cuba and Portugal"
Advisors: Sophia Beal and Jaime Hanneken
Assistant Professor of Spanish, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
“Después del arresto: Una aproximación interdisciplinaria a la criminalización de las madres inmigrantes”
Advisor: Francisco Ocampo
Carla Manzoni
Visiting Assistant Professor, St. Olaf College
“Counter-Narratives in the Void: Memory in los rubios, its aesthetic heritage and its reverberations”
Advisors: Ana Forcinito and Amy Kaminsky
Assistant Professor, Simpson College
“El Quipu: Escritura Andina en las Redes informacticas Incaicas y Coloniales”
Advisor: Luis Ramos Garcia
Assistant Professor; Ball State University
“When Theory and Reality Collide: Exploring Chilean Spanish Intonational Plateaus”
Megan Corbin
Associate Professor; West Chester University
“Haunted Objects: Spectral Testimony in the Southern Cone Post-Dictatorship”
Advisor: Ana Forcinito
Director of Leadership Development at LatinoLEAD and Board member of Hispanic Advocacy and Community Empowerment through Research
Advisor: Ana Forcinito
Associate Professor; St. Mary's University, San Antonio, TX “
'That was the goal, for her to understand': Spanish anaphora in L2 speech”
Advisors: Francisco Ocampo and Elaine Tarone
Assistant Professor; University of St. Thomas
“La entonacion del español de Galicia desde una perspectiva sociofonetica”
Advisor: Timothy Face
Philip Thornberry
The Seven Hills School; Cincinnati, OH
“The L2 Acquisition of Buenos Aires Spanish Intonation During a Study Abroad Semester”
Advisor: Timothy Face
Daniel Arbino
Librarian for U.S. Latina/o Studies, University of Texas at Austin
“Orphans of the Other America: Contesting Community in Twentieth- Century Caribbean Literatures”
Advisors: Jaime Hanneken and Joanna O’Connell
Michael Arnold
Lecturer, University of Minnesota
“Saudade, Duende, and Feedback: The Hybrid Voices of Twenty-First- Century Neoflamenco and Neofado”
Advisors: Ofelia Ferran, Ana Paula Ferreira and Fernando Arenas
Nicholas Parmley
Assistant Professor; Whitman College
“Imagining the Mediterranean: Disruption and Connectivity in Medieval Iberian Tales of the Sea”
Advisor: Michelle Hamilton
John Timble
Assistant Professor, Weber State University
“Acquiring Variable L2 Spanish Intonation in a Study Abroad Context”
Advisor: Carol Klee
Megan Strom
Assistant Professor, Global Cultures & Languages
“Spanish-language print media in the United States: A critical social semiotic exploration of ideological representations”
Advisor: Carol Klee
Angela George
Assistant Professor, University of Calgary
“The Development of Castilian Dialectal Features During a Semester Abroad in Toledo, Spain”
Advisors: Timothy Face and Carol Klee
Maru Dominguez
“Feedback Cheerleader, Mean-Spirited Feedback Estudio critico discursivo de ideologias sobre el feedback escrito en un departamento universitario de espa?ol en Estados Unidos”
Advisor: Francisco Ocampo
Barbara Pierre-Louis
“Re-configuring Paternal Legacies Through Ritualistic Art: Daughters and Fathers in Contemporary Fiction by Women of African Descent”
Advisor: Fernando Arenas
Eleusio Filipe
“'Where are the Mozambican Musicians?': Music, Marrabenta, and National Identity in Lourenco Marques, Mozambique, 1950s-1975”
Advisors: Fernando Arenas and Heidi Gengenbach
Hispanic Linguistics
Angela Pinilla-Herrera
Assistant Professor; Georgia Southern University
Hispanic and Lusophone Literatures and Cultures
Barbara Pierre-Louis
Lecturer; Metro State University
Nelly Pilares-Manrique
Adjunct Assistant Professor; Whitman College
Hispanic Linguistics
Maru Dominguez
to be announced
Hispanic and Lusophone Literatures and Cultures
Carlos Baez
Spanish Faculty; North Hennepin Community College, Minneapolis, MN
Eleusio Filipe
Assistant Professor; faculdade de Letras e Ciências Sociais-Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique
Adriana Gordillo
Assistant Professor; Minnesota State University, Mankato
Alexis Howe
Assistant Professor; Dominican University, Chicago, IL
Katherine Ostrom
Lecturer; Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Michael Stannard
Honorary University Fellow; University of Exeter, UK
Joseph Towle
Assistant Professor; Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN
Carlos Vargas-Salgado
Assistant Professor; Whitman College
Naomi Wood
Associate Professor; Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
Hispanic Linguistics
Mandy Menke
Assistant Professor and Director of Language Programs; University of Minnesota
Hispanic and Lusophone Literatures and Cultures
Roy Ketchum
Assistant Professor; St. John’s University – College of St. Benedict, MN
Alejandro Enriquez
Assistant Professor; Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL
Sarah Boelts Miller
Assistant Professor; Grand View University, Des Moines, IA
Kajsa Larson
Assistant Professor; Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY
Marcela Garces
Assistant Professor; Siena College, Loudonville, NY
Marcus Brasileiro
Associate Professor; Utah State University, Logan, UT
Kelly McDonough
Assistant Professor; University of Texas, Austin
Vanesa Arozamena
Senior Instructor; Portland State University, Portland, OR
Hispanic Linguistics
Deyanira Rojas-Sosa
Associate Professor; SUNY, New Paltz, NY
Robert Strong
Assistant Professor; University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, WI
Sara Mack
Senior Lecturer, University of Minnesota
Hispanic and Lusophone Literatures and Cultures
Eric Dickey
Assistant Professor; Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO
Hector Alberto Reyes-Zaga
Assistant Professor; Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA
Hispanic Linguistics
Rachel Shively
Associate Professor; Illinois State University, Normal, IL
Julie Sykes
Director of Center for Applied Second Language Studies, Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Oregon
Tania Gomez
Associate Professor; St. Johns University- College of St. Benedict, MN
Maria Hellin Garcia
Associate Professor; The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
Hispanic and Lusophone Literatures and Cultures
Matthew Desing
Associate Professor; University of Texas, El Paso, TX
Hispanic Linguistics
Daniel Tight
Associate Professor; University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN
Hispanic and Lusophone Literatures and Cultures
Ana Adams
Assistant Professor; Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN
Alexandra Bergmann
Visiting Assistant Professor; Macalaster College, St. Paul, MN
Emily Knudson-Vilaseca
Assistant Professor; Pacific University, Forest Grove, OR
Hispanic Linguistics
Elena Kurinski
Associate Professor; St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN
Maria Kalbermatten
Associate Professor; Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN
Scott Alvord
Associate Professor; Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Hispanic and Lusophone Literatures and Cultures
Stephen Vilaseca
Assistant Professor; Pacific University, Forest Grove, OR
Luis Guadaño
Instructor; Saint Paul College, St. Paul, MN
Rebecca Ulland
Assistant Professor; Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI
Alrick Knight
Assistant Professor; Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL
Hispanic and Lusophone Literatures and Cultures
Caryn Connelly
Visiting Assistant Professor; Miami University, Oxford, OH
Luis Martín Martín-Estudillo
Associate Professor; University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Susan Campbell
Teaching position in Italy
Hispanic and Lusophone Literatures and Cultures
Eleonora Bertranou
Assistant Professor; St. Johns University-College of St. Benedict, MN
Hispanic Linguistics
Nelsy Echavez-Solano
Professor; St. Johns University- College of St. Benedict, MN
Hispanic and Lusophone Literatures and Cultures
Malcolm McNee
Associate Professor; Smith College, Northampton, MA
Amy Robinson
Assistant Professor; Bowling Green University, Bowling Green, OH
Juli Kroll
Associate Professor; University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN
David Russell George, Jr.
Lecturer; Bates College, Lewiston, ME
Juliet Lynd
Associate Professor; Illinois State University
Michael Joy
Associate Professor; Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI
Hispanic Linguistics
Julio César Felix-Brasdefer
Professor; Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Hispanic and Lusophone Literatures and Cultures
Paola Marín
Assistant Professor; Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN
Joshua Lund
Assistant Professor; University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Angela Carlson-Lombardi
Lecturer and 1003 Course Supervisor; University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Christina Mougoyanni
Assistant Professor; St. Johns University- College of St. Benedict, MN
Hispanic Linguistics
Laura Colantoni
Professor; University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Jennifer Ewald
Professor; St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia, PA
Hispanic and Lusophone Literatures and Cultures
Kim Euisuk
Associate Professor; Sacramento State
Rosa Rull
Visiting Assistant Professor; Macalester College, St. Paul, MN
Hispanic Linguistics
Anne Edstrom
Associate Professor; Montclair State University, Montclair, N
Maggie Broner
Associate Professor; St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN
Hispanic and Lusophone Literatures and Cultures
Wander Nunes Frota
Professor; Universidade Federal do Piauí, Brazil.
María Olaya
Assistant Professor; Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
Carmen Moreno-Nuño
Associate Professor; University of Kentucky
Moisés Castillo
Associate Professor; University of Kentucky
Donna LeGrand
Assistant Professor; Bethel College, St. Paul, MN
Susana Sandmann
Assistant Professor; St. Thomas University, St. Paul, MN
Sarah Grussing
Visiting Assistant Professor; Macalester College, St. Paul, MN
Chair of the Boston Human Rights Commission
Professor, Department of Latin American & Iberian Studies
University of Massachusetts Boston