LLC PhD Students

Visit our Alumni page to see a selection of our grads and what they've been doing.

Current LLC PhD Students

	Irlanda Álvarez Spanish: Hispanic Literature Dissertation research: I am interested in research about Hispanic and Caribbean authors that portray the ideology of contemporary society
	Mirna Álvarez Spanish: Hispanic Literature Dissertation research: A transatlantic poetic dialogue between female voices in the avant-garde
	Jenny Barranco Spanish: Dissertation research: To be determined
	Amber Bradley Spanish: Spanish cultural studies and literature minor Dissertation research: Bilingual Life Writing in Latinx Memoirs Currently working full time as a Labor Services Representative Spanish Language
	Elsa Cembrero Bonet Spanish: Dissertation research: To be determined
	Alejandra Escudero Spanish Linguistics: Sociophonetic variation in Venezuelan Spanish and morphological and syntactic variation in the Spanish of Cochabamba, Bolivia Dissertation research: Sociophonetic Analysis of the Degree of Laryngeal tension as a feature of voice quality in the Spanish of Caracas, Venezuela, Currently ABD
	Ricardo Estremera Spanish: Sociolinguistics with dialect contact and concentration in second language acquisition Dissertation research: A Sociolinguistic Study of Dominican Spanish Spoken in Urban Puerto Rico: Dialect Convergence of Second Generation Dominicans
	Caitlin Fanning Spanish: Sociolinguistics, Dialectology, Grammaticalization, Verb-Semantic change over time, Morphosyntax ,Immigration and Media Studies Dissertation research: Novel morphosyntactic structures in Central American Varieties of Spanish (tentative title)
	Katja Higgins Spanish: Latin American Literature Dissertation research: To be determined
	Karol Ibarra Alvarado Spanish: Dissertation research: To be determined
	Fiordaliza Ippolito Spanish:Latin American Literature and Cultural studies Dissertation research: Representations of post-memory, collective violence and transgenerational trauma in the narratives of two contemporary writers as well of the struggle for human rights from the dictatorial years that still impact the present day. Through history and fiction, I analyze the dictatorship regimes as well as the sociocultural trauma in the second-generation writers.
	Nyssa Knarvik Spanish: Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, Heritage Language Acquisition, Language Variation, Languages for Specific Purposes Dissertation research: Lexical complexity in the speech of second language and heritage speakers of Spanish Currently an Instructional Consultant at the Center for the Advancement of Teaching, Learning, and Online Education at the University at Albany
	Rocio Leguisamon Spanish: Sociolinguistics, language contact, Spanish in the US, and Spanish lexical and morphosyntactic variation Dissertation research: Code Switching and Lexical Phenomena in 3 Generations of Dominican Spanish Speakers in New Jersey
	Madalina Man Spanish: Linguistics Dissertation research: To be determined
	Benjamin Mielenz Spanish: Variationist sociolinguistics Dissertation research: Grammaticalization and morphosyntactic variation in conditional constructions in Peninsular Spanish
	Christopher Miller Spanish: Second Language Acquisition, and Learner Ideology of Dialectal features in Spanish Dissertation research: To be determined
	Michelle Monaco Spanish: Literature Dissertation research: How Latin American colonialization in film has been represented and rewritten Second year TA working on publication of a linguistics article in collaboration with colleagues and a book review
	Nerisha de Nil Padilla-Cruz Spanish:Hispanic Literature and Cultural Studies Dissertation research: The Role of Women in Narco-Culture
	Claudia Pique Spanish: Dissertation research: To be determined
	Sarah Rubio Spanish: Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Teaching Spanish as a Second Language, Processing Instruction, Cognitive Linguistics, Cognitive Grammar, Sociolinguistic Variation, Cognitive Sociolinguistics Dissertation research: La adquisición de variación sociolingüística en el aula: el caso del pretérito perfecto compuesto y pretérito perfecto simple a través del enfoque cognitivo
	Maria Alice Seixas Spanish: Linguistics, Language Contact between Portuguese and Spanish Dissertation research: Spanish in Rio de Janeiro: Issues in Bilingualism and Language Contact
	Ethan Sims Spanish: Contact Linguistics Dissertation research: Lexical Borrowing Strategies of Mexican Tabletop Role-players in Live-streamed Games currently a full-time Lecturer at Binghamton University and Coordinator and Faculty Lead for the Summer 2024 Colombia Language and Culture Program in Bogotá created in partnership with the Instituto Caro y Cuervo
	Bianca Zazzarini-Leon Spanish: Literature Dissertation research: How fantastical elements and technology manifest as violence in women’s bodies in Caribbean literature
	Edgardo Zea Spanish: Dissertation research: To be determined