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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Somers Wicka, Katerina (advisor: Robert Howell) On Cliticization in Otfrid s Evangelienbuch Portuguese Literature & Culture Studies Jones Kellogg, Rebecca L. (advisor: Ellen W. Sapega) Alexandre Herculano and the Historical Gothic tradition in Portugal: Dark times, mad monks and national critique in O Fronteiro d Africa ou Três Noites Aziagas (1838), Eurico, o Presbítero (1844) and O Monge de Cister (1848) Spanish Literature & Culture Studies 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 Atkins, Elizabeth (advisor: Anne Vila) The sacred and the moral in the age of sensibility: Readings in eighteenth century French literature and religious discourse Brian, Amber E. (advisor: Margarita M. Zamora) Dual identities: Colonial subjectivities in seventeenth century New Spain, Don Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora and Don Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxóchitl Casas, María Lourdes (advisor: Alda Blanco) La novela de quiosco: el eslabón perdido ( u olvidado?) en la historia cultural y literaria del primer tercio del siglo XX español. De el cuento semanal a la novela mundial Kempen, Mary A. (advisor: Alda Blanco) Concepts of the nation and nationalism in Benito Pérez Galdós s Episodios nacionales Rodríguez Rodríguez, Ana María (advisor: Steven Hutchinson) La representación de las relaciones hispano musulmanas en tres obras del siglo XVII: topografía e historia general de Argel, Cautiverio y trabajos de Diego Galván e historia de Mindanao y Joló Skupas, Danielle P. (advisor: Alda Blanco) Contesting Francoist domestic ideology: Carmen de Icaza s mothers and daughters Xavier, Subhagnana (advisor: Aliko Songolo) L économie du texte migrant: Pour une théorie de la littérature migrante Française Iranian Literature & Culture Studies Kalami, Proshot (advisor: Sheldon Lu) Poetic Cinema: Trauma and Memory in Iranian Films