Placement Highlights

Santiago Navarrete Astorquiza

Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Notre Dame (2023-2024)

Dissertation: “La extracción del texto: relaciones entre literatura y extractivismo en la región andina del siglo XX” (Director Ben Heller, 2023)

Ruth Solarte Hensgen

Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at Saint Mary's College (Indiana)

Dissertation: "La escena del crimen: violencia contra la mujer, paisajes tanatológicos y una nueva crítica de la misoginia" (Director María Rosa Olivera-Williams, 2022)

Leonor Taiano Campoverde

Placement: Assistant Professor of Spanish, Carson Newman University

Dissertation: “Alabanzas sospechosas: Máscaras imperiales y posturas novohispanas en la corte de Gaspar de la Cerda” (Director Ben Heller, 2021)

Katrina C. Barrientos

Placement: Spanish Teacher, Monsignor Donovan Catholic High School (Georgia)

Dissertation: “Bodies Remembered: The Performance of Race, Class, and Gender in Contemporary Feminist Poetry of the Afro-Hispanic Caribbean” (Director Marisel Moreno, 2021)

Valeria Mora Hernández

Placement: Independent Scholar and life coach.

Dissertation: “Víctimas y sobrevivientes: gestión de la violencia e identidad en la narrativa española premoderna” (Director Encarnación Juárez, 2021).

Paola Uparela Reyes 

Placement: Assistant Professor of Spanish, University of Florida

Dissertation: “Gaze, Power, and Genitality: Colonial Bodies and the Visual Engendering of Gender” (Director Carlos Jáuregui, 2019). Dissertation Winner of the 2020 Eli J. and Helen Shaheen Graduate School Award in the Humanities

Catherine M. Brix

Placement: Lecture of Hispanic Studies, William and Mary College

Dissertation: “Transformative (Re) Inscriptions: Traumatic Memories and Testimonio in Chile” (Director María Rosa Olivera-Williams, 2019)

Ingrid Luna

Placement: Visiting Research Assistant Professor of Spanish, Carleton College

Dissertation: “Carnaval, fiesta popular y cultura letrada en la región Andina.” (Director Carlos Jáuregui, 2018)

Luis Alberto Bravo Galassi

Placement: Associate Professor of Spanish,  Instituto de Profesores Artigas / Universidad de Montevideo (Emeritus)

Dissertation: “Poéticas de la liberación: la escritura de Ibero Gutiérrez y el 68 en clave latinoamericana” (Director María Rosa Olivera-Williams, 2018).  2018 Shaheen Graduate School Dissertation Award in the Humanities.

Santiago Quintero

Placement: Assistant Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures, Furman University

Dissertation: “Modernidad en la sangre: vampirismo y cultura en América Latina, S. XX-XXI” (Director Carlos Jáuregui, 2017)

Hector Melo

Placement: Assistant Professor of Spanish, Carleton College

Dissertation: “Rebeliones urbanas: narrativas sobre la violencia popular latinoamericana” (Director Carlos Jáuregui, 2018)