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.

Marina Bonilla-Conejo

Spanish:

Dissertation research: To be determined.

Amber Bradley

Spanish: Spanish cultural studies and literature minor.

Dissertation research: To be determined.

Elsa Cembrero Bonet

Spanish:

Dissertation research: To be determined.

Erika Clarkin

Spanish: Spanish Sociolinguistics, bilingualism, Second Language Learning.

Dissertation research: "The acquisition of variation in future time expressions by High School student learners of Spanish in upstate New York."  Currently ABD.

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: To be determined.

Caitlin Fanning

Spanish:

Dissertation research: To be determined.

Tara Feeney

Spanish: Linguistics.

Dissertation research: To be determined.

Gabriel Guadalupe

Spanish: Identity and bilingualism and sociolinguistics.

Dissertation research: "Exploring language maintenance in New York Dominican Spanish by analyzing sociolinguistic variation of /l/ and /r/" Currently ABD.

Katja Higgins

Spanish: Latin American Literature.

Dissertation research: To be determined.

Karol Ibarra Alvarado

Spanish:

Dissertation research: To be determined.

Fiordaliza Ippolito

Spanish:

Dissertation research: To be determined.

Nyssa Knarvik

Spanish: Spanish Linguistics

Dissertation research: "Analyzing differences in lexical development in Spanish second-language and heritage speakers"

Rocio Leguisamon

Spanish:

Dissertation research: To be determined.

Benjamin Mielenz

Spanish: Variationist sociolinguistics.

Dissertation research: Grammaticalization and morphosyntactic variation in conditional constructions in Peninsular Spanish.

Jaime Mundo

Spanish:

Dissertation research: To be determined.

Nerisha de Nil Padilla-Cruz

Spanish:

Dissertation research: To be determined.

Juanita Reyes

Spanish: Spanish linguistics with a concentration in sociolinguistics.

Dissertation research: "Variación dialectal del español dominicano."

Sarah Rubio

Spanish: Spanish linguistics with a concentration on the process of second language acquisition and its dialectal variations.

Dissertation research: To be determined.

Maria Alice Seixas

Spanish:

Dissertation research: To be determined.

Ethan Sims

Spanish:

Dissertation research: To be determined.

Bianca Zazzarini-Leon

Spanish:

Dissertation research: To be determined.

Edgardo Zea

Spanish:

Dissertation research: To be determined.