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Doctoral Degrees Granted in Foreign Languages in the United States, 2007
FOREIGN/SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND TEACHING
F/SLA & T: Asian Languages
University of Iowa:
Mali, Zoliswa (advisors: Judith Liskin-Gasparro & Sue Otto)
“Exploring Communication Strategy Used by Learners of Isizulu in Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication (S–CMC)”
Takahashi, Nobuaki (advisor: Judith Liskin-Gasparro)
“The Differential Effects of Perceptual Saliency on Recasts in L2 Japanese: Learners’ Noticing, Interpretation, Detection, and Subsequent Oral Production”
Ohio State University:
Ananth, Priya (advisor: Mari Noda)
“Acquisition of Tense and Aspect in Toki ‘When’ Clauses in Japanese as a Second/Foreign Language”
Sawasaki, Koichi (advisor: Mineharu Nakayama)
“L2 Reading by Learners of Japanese: A Comparison of Different L1s.”
Shepherd, Eric (advisor: Galal Walker)
“A Pedagogy of Culture Based on a Chinese Storytelling Tradition”
F/SLA & T: European Languages
University of California, Davis:
Marques Pascual, Laura (advisor: Robert Blake)
“The Effect of Study Abroad on the Acquisition of Word Order with Intransitive Verbs in L2 Spanish”
Minor, Denise (advisor: Maria Cecilia Colombi)
“En la escuela, you have to speak Spanish. Language choices and their effect upon L2 proficiency in a Spanish Immersion Classroom”
Pardo-Ballester, Maria-Cristina (advisor: Robert Blake)
“The Development of a Web-Based Spanish Listening Placement Exam”
University of Wisconsin, Madison:
Martinson, Kirk (advisor: Mark Louden)
“Emerging Syntax in Early Second Language Learners: Cross-Linguistic Influence in Early German Immersion Students”
Wilkerson, Miranda (advisor: Monika Chavez)
“(In) Variability in Accent Perception: A Comparison of Native and Non-Native Speakers of German of Varying Proficiency on What Constitutes ‘Nativeness’ of Accent in German”
Pennsylvania State University
Blattner, Geraldine (advisor: Paola Dussias)
“Processing Verbal Arguments in a First and Second Language: The Role of Immersion Experience
Carlson, Matthew (advisor: Henry Gerfen)
“The Acquisition of Probabilistic Patterns in Spanish Phonology by Adult Second Language Learners: The Case of Dipthongization”
F/SLA & T: English as a Second Language (ESL)
University of Iowa
Byrd, David (advisor: Leslie Schrier)
“Investigating How Second Language Teachers are Prepared to Teach Culture: An Analysis of Methods Course Syllabi”
Plakans, Lia (advisor: Leslie Schrier)
“Second Language Writing and Reading-to-Write Tasks: A Process Study”
Tsun-Lih, Yang (advisor: Michael Everson)
“Factors Affecting EFL Teachers’ Classroom Assessment Practices”
University of Minnesota
Brzoskobarratt, Katarzyna (advisors: Diane Tedick, Jerry McClelland)
“The Experiences of Student Teachers and Cooperating Teachers in ESL: A Phenomenological Study”
Smidt, Chui Kian (advisor: Martha Bigelow)
“Race, Class, and Gender: Immigrant Understandings in an English as a Second Language College Writing Class”
Zhang, Xu (advisor: Constance L. Walker)
“An Ethnographic Study on the Development of Online Academic Language Learning Communities in a College-Level Adjunct ESL Program”
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
He, Yeqin (advisor: Richard Anderson)
“Influence of Reading Proficiency on Text Representation in L1 and L2”
Moon, Do-Sik (advisor: Fred Davidson)
“The impact of contract learning on ESL students' experiences in an ESL writing class: case studies of ESL graduate students”
LINGUISTICS: THEORETICAL/APPLIED
University of Connecticut
An, Duk-Ho (advisor: Ž. Boškovi)
“Syntax at the PF Interface”
Chung, Inkie (advisor: A. Calabrese)
“Ecology of PF: A Study of Korean Phonology and Morphology in a
Derivational Approach”
Rakhlin, Natalia (advisor: W. Snyder)
"Semantic Manifestations of the Developing Theory of Mind"
Rodríguez-Mondoñedo, Miguel (advisor: Ž. Boškovi)
“The Syntax of Objects. Agree and Differential Object Marking”
Quichua
University of Pittsburgh:
Lenk, Sonia (advisor: Robert DeKeyser)
“Can Minority Languages Survive in a Situation of Sustained Bilingualism? Ethnolinguistic Vitality and Language Behavior Among Indigenous Speakers of Quichua in Ecuador”
German
University of Wisconsin, Madison:
Dubenion-Smith, Shannon (advisor: Mark Louden)
“Verbal Complex Phenomena in the West Central German Dialects”
Lucht, Felecia (advisor: Joseph Salmons)
“Language Variation in a German-American Community: A Diachronic Study of the Spectrum of Language Use in Lebanon, Wisconsin”
Morandi, Rita (advisor: Robert Howell)
“Contact-induced Language Change and its Socio-historical Correlates. The Case of Cimbrian in Luserna, Italy”
Pfrehm, James (advisors: Monika Chavez & Robert Howell)
“An Empirical Study of the Pluricentricity of German: Comparing German and Austrian Nationals’ Perceptions of the Use, Pleasantness, and Standardness of Austrian Standard and German Standard Lexical Items”
Spanish
University of California, Davis:
Rodriguez, Angelo (advisor: Travis Bradley)
“The Role of Early Alignment in Broad/Narrow Focus Declaratives in Buenos Aires Spanish”
Rao, Rajiv Gururaja (advisor: Travis Bradley)
“Issues in the Phrasing of Barcelona Spanish”
Pennsylvania State University
Jacobs, April (advisors: Judith Kroll, Henry Gerfen)
“Segmental Production in Bilingual Speech: A Psycholinguistic Approach”
Sheldon, Michael (advisor: Henry Gerfen)
“An Experimental Approach to Syllable Weight and Stress in Spanish”
LITERATURES & CULTURE STUDIES
French Literature & Culture Studies
University of California, Davis:
Guessaier, Badis (advisor: Julia Simon)
“Etrangers de la Revolution, etrangers a la Revolution: Francisco Miranda, Anacharsis Cloots et Thomas Paine sous le regne de la Terreur, 1792–1795”
Duke University:
Dupont, Nathalie (advisor: Toril Moi)
“Poèmes délirants, sujets disloqués: Déviance, négativité et réflexivité dans l'écriture contemporaine française”
Emory University:
McGrath, Brian (advisor: Cathy Caruth)
“Future Reading: Romanticism, Aesthetics, Politics”
[Doctor of Philosophy (French/German)]
Wichelns, Kathryn (advisors: Elissa Marder and Michael Moon)
“‘Une Autre Oreille’: Staging Difference in Henry James and Marguerite Duras”
[Doctor of Philosophy (French/Spanish)]
Pennsylvania State University
Kulkarni, Amruta (advisor: Allan Stoekl)
“Jean-Luc Godard: The Evolution of a Radical”
McLaughlin, Noah (advisor: Allan Stoekl)
“Strategies of the French War Film”
Merfeld-Langston, Audra (advisor: Willa Silverman)
“The Villages du Livre: Local Identity, Cultural Politics, and Print Culture in Contemporary France”
Njoya, Wandia (advisor: Thomas Hale)
“In Search of Eldorado? The Experience of Migration to France in Contemporary African Novels”
Perrais, Stephanie (advisor: Norris Lacy)
“Le fantastique dans les romans arthuriens médiévaux français et son importance pour la littérature arthurienne postérieure“
Petit-Rasselle, Roxanne (advisors: Kathryn Grossman, Jean-Claude Vuillemin)
“Sous l’oeil de Dionysos: Les Trois Mousquetaires ou le mythe littéraire”
Ohio State University
Akindjo, Oniankpo (advisor: Danielle Marx-Scouras)
“Poétique de la relation scolaire dans le roman francophone”
Donovan, Virginia (advisor: Jean-Francois Foumy)
“D’Iberville, de Léry, Laterrières, and Tocqueville: Quebec through the Prism of Absolutism, Enlightenment, and Romanticism”
Golumbeanu, Adriana (advisor: John Conteh-Morgan)
“Représentations urbaines dans le roman francophone subsaharien et antillais”
Wardle, Nancy (advisor: Eugene Holland)
“Representations of African Identity in 19th and 20th-Century Francophone Literature”
German Literature & Culture Studies
Indiana University, Bloomington:
Allingham, Liesl (advisor: William Rasch)
“Pushing Boundaries: The Female Cross-Dresser in German Literature around 1800”
Kahnke, Corinna (advisor: Claudia Breger)
“Gender (Trouble) in the Generation Golf – Popliteratur in 1990’s Germany”
Klocke, Sonja (advisor: Claudia Breger)
“Heroines of a Different Kind: Reading Illness and the Fantastic in Depictions of the GDR from the 1960s to Present”
Petrescu, Mihaela (advisor: William Rasch)
“Social Dances in the Weimar Republic”
Stewart, Faye (advisor: Claudia Breger)
“Queer Investigations: Genre, Geography, and Sexuality in German-Language Lesbian Crime Fiction”
University of California, Davis:
Schwarzer, Susanne Margit (advisor: Elisabeth Krimmer)
“The Construction of Queer Selves in Bettina Brentano von Arnims Epistolary novels Die Gunderode, Goethes Briefwechsel mit einem Kinde, and Clemens Brentanos Fruhlingskranz”
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis:
Beuker, Brechtje (advisor: Leslie Morris)
“Stage of Destruction: Performing Violence in Postdramatic Theater”
Grewling, Nicole (advisor: Ruth-Ellen Joeres)
“Fighting the Two-Souled Warrior: German Colonial Fantasies of North America”
Guenther-Pal, Alison (advisors: Ruth-Ellen Joeres & Rick McCormick)
“Projecting Deviance/Seeing Queerly: Homosexual Representation and Queer Spectatorship in 1950s West Germany”
Hoyer, Jennifer (advisor: Leslie Morris)
“‘The Space of Words’: Diaspora and Exile in the Work of Nelly Sachs”
Moyrer, Monika (advisors: Ruth-Ellen Joeres & Arlene Teraoka)
“Unheimisch in Deutschland. Fragmentation, Collage, and Performative Aesthetics in Herta Müller’s Writings”
Reuter, Bernard (advisor: Jack Zipes)
“Questions of Assimilation within the Reception of Victor Klemperer’s Autobiographical Texts in Post-Wall Germany”
University of Washington, Seattle:
Koerner, Morgan (advisor: Brigitte Prutti)
“Intermediality and Laughter in Contemporary German Theater after 1990”
Washington University in St. Louis:
Feldman, Robert (advisor: Paul Michael Lützeler)
“Journalismus als Beruf: Truth and the Anti-Semitic Journalist Stereotype in the Writings of Maxim Biller and Rafael Seligmann”
Simfors, Per (advisor: Paul Michael Lützeler)
“Extrakte des Schweigens zu Sprache und Stil bei Peter Altenberg”
University of Wisconsin, Madison:
Somers-Wicka, Katerina (advisor: Robert Howell)
“On Cliticization in Otfrid’s Evangelienbuch”
Spanish Literature & Culture Studies
University of California, Davis:
Alfieri, Amy Pettigrew (advisor: Adrienne Martin)
“Burlas and Burladores in Don Quixote”
Perez, Vanessa Y. (advisors: Ines Hernandez-Avila and Neil Larsen)
“From Puerto Rican Nationalism to Latinidad: The Life and Work of Juloia de Burgos”
Wing-Paz, Elizabeth Anne (advisor: Marc Blanchard)
“Subverting History: Orality and Place in the Novel of the Americas”
University of California, Los Angeles
Capraroiu, Elena Gabriela (advisor: Verónica Cortínez)
“La Conexión rumana: Alberti, Neruda, Lara”
Choi, Eun-Kyung (advisor: Adriana Bergero)
“La recuperación de lo imaginario utópico: literature, film, movimientos socials durante el neoliberalismo bajo las dictaduras y las posdictaduras en el Cono Sur”
Mesa Higuera, Claudia Liliana
“La Emblemática en Mateo Alemán y su círculo intelectual”
James, Brent Alan (advisor: Elizabeth Marchant)
“Crime and Contact in Rio de Janeiro’s Belle Epoque”
Kendrick-Alcantara, Carolyn (advisor: Elizabeth Marchant)
“Life Among the Living Dead: The Gothic Horrors of Latin American Literature”
Duke University:
Garcia Soormally, Mina (advisor: Margaret Greer)
“Idolatry and the Construction of the Spanish Empire”
Illas, Edgar (advisor: Teresa Vilaros)
“The Euphoric Politics of Postmodern Barcelona”
Saenz de Viguera Erkiaga, Luis (advisors: Ariel Dorfman & Adrián Francisco-J. Hernández)
“Dena Ongi Dabil! ¡Todo va Dabuten!: Tensión y Heterogeneidad de la Cultura radical Vasca en el Límite del Estado Democrático (1978-...)”
Emory University:
Cannerelli-Peck, Anjela (advisor: María Mercedes Carrión)
“Caving Subjects, Wonderful Monsters: Convivencia After 1492”
Figueroa, Sylvia (advisor: José Quiroga)
"Espacio y velocidad: tecnologías para una nueva mirada en la poesía virtual latinoamericana"
Ford, Katherine (advisor: José Quiroga)
"Transforming Spectacles: Violence in Cuban and Argentine Theater (1968-1974)"
Hegarty, Kerry (advisor: José Quiroga)
"The New Urban Heroes: Representations of Cultural Modernity in 1960s and 1970s Mexican Literature and Film"
Kelman, David (advisor: Elissa Marder)
“Counterfeit Politics: The Conspiracy Narrative in Twentieth Century U.S. and Argentine Literature” [Doctor of Philosophy (Spanish/German)]
Thomas, George (advisor: Karen Stolley)
“Occasional Nun: The Politics and Poetics of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz”
Weintraub, Scott (advisor: José Quiroga)
“Reading the Crisis, the Crisis of Reading: Politics, Ethics and Poetics in Néstor Perlongher, Osvaldo Lamborghini and Raúl Zurita”
University of Pittsburgh:
Gómez, Antonio (advisor: Gerald Martin)
“El discurso latinoamericano del exilio: extraterritorialidad y novela en Argentina y Cuba desde los años 70”
Melgarejo Acosta, Maria del Pilar (advisor: Joshua Lund)
“El lenguaje de la regeneración: producción del discurso político en Colombia y México”
Muyolema Calle, Armando (advisor: John Beverley)
“Colonialismo y representación. Hacia una relectura de los discursos latinoamericana, indigenista y clasista-étnico en los Andes del Siglo XX”
University of Wisconsin, Madison:
Atkins, Elizabeth (advisor: Anne Vila)
“The sacred and the moral in the age of sensibility: Readings in eighteenth-century French literature and religious discourse”
Xavier, Subhagnana (advisor: Aliko Songolo)
“L’économie du texte migrant: Pour une théorie de la littérature migrante Française”
Iranian Literature & Culture Studies
University of California, Davis:
Kalami, Proshot (advisor: Sheldon Lu)
“Poetic Cinema: Trauma and Memory in Iranian Films”
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