LLC PhD Students

Current LLC PhD Students and their research.

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

 

Current LLC PhD Students

 

Irlanda Álvarez

Irlanda Álvarez

Spanish: Hispanic Literature

Dissertation research: I am interested in research about Hispanic and Caribbean authors that portray the ideology of contemporary society

Jenny Barranco's

Jenny Barranco

Spanish: Hispanic Literature and Cultural Studies

Dissertation research: Collective Memories: Panamanian literature, music, and film concerning the 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama

Amber Bradley

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

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Elsa Cembrero Bonet

Spanish:

Dissertation research: To be determined

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Victoria Chizuk

Spanish:

Dissertation research: To be determined

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Claudia Cubiles Almaguer

Spanish: Linguistics 

Dissertation research: To be determined

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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

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

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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)

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Catalina Garcia Faundez

Spanish:

Dissertation research: To be determined

Karol Ibarra Alvarado

Karol Ibarra Alvarado

Spanish:

Dissertation research: To be determined

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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

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Victor Lucio

Spanish: 

Dissertation research:

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Madalina Man

Spanish: Linguistics

Dissertation research: To be determined

Benjamin Mielenz

Benjamin Mielenz

Spanish: Variationist sociolinguistics

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

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Christopher Miller

Spanish: Second Language Acquisition, and Learner Ideology of Dialectal features in Spanish

Dissertation research: To be determined

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Kurtis Miner

Spanish: Linguistics

Dissertation research: To be determined

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Michelle Monaco

Spanish: Latin American Literature

Dissertation research: How the Greek monster is reimagined in Latin American literature and film to challenge power, oppression, and societal norms through mythological rewriting.

PhD candidate and TA, with a published book review in Ámbitos Feministas and a forthcoming linguistics article co-authored with colleagues.”

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Danny Pintado Sacaquirin

Spanish:

Dissertation research: To be determined

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Maria Alice Seixas

Spanish: Linguistics, Language Contact between Portuguese and Spanish

Dissertation research: Spanish in Rio de Janeiro: Issues in Bilingualism and Language Contact

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Bianca Zazzarini-Leon

Spanish: Literature

Dissertation research: How fantastical elements and technology manifest as violence in women’s bodies in Caribbean  literature

Edgardo Zea

Edgardo Zea

Spanish:

Dissertation research: To be determined