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The Department of Romance Languages congratulates our M.A. and Ph.D. graduates whose degrees were conferred this morning at Stegeman Coliseum. Pictured here are Dr. Asmah Hyat and M.A.s Mélanie Longayrou and Raymond Friedman!

Please join us in warmly congratulating Ingrid Abisambra Miccheli on the successful defense of her dissertation, "Cognición y selección de sujetos: Análisis comparativo entre narrativas escritas y orales en el discurso de español como L2". The committee lauded her for her careful, in depth and insightful research and the clarity and organization of her writing. ¡Felicitaciones, Dra. Abisambra! Margaret Quesada (major professor) Sarah Blackwell…

Congratulations to Jorge García-Granados, who has successfully defended his dissertation, La travesía de tres Faustos andinos: Dramas de condenación en el Perú colonial del siglo XVIII. Congratulations, Dr. García-Granados!  Examination committee: Luis Correa-Díaz José Antonio Rodríguez-Garrido, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima (external evaluator) Alberto Villate Elizabet Wright (major professor)

Congratulations to Fernán Gómez Monedero, who has successfully defended his dissertation titled Privilegios negociados en Don Quijote, Fuenteovejunay La serrana de la Vera. A hearty congratulations to Dr. Gómez-Monedero!   Examination Committee: Dana Bultman Alberto Villate-Isaza  Elizabeth Wright (major professor)

Congratulations to our newest PhD in Francophone Studies, Dr. Asmah Hyat, who has successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation entitled “The ‘I’ in Hybrid Identities: Paradoxes of Muslim Women Written and Writing in Contemporary French Fiction.” Félicitations, Asmah!   Rachel Gabara Catherine Jones Jonathan Haddad Jonathan Krell Esra Santesso

We are pleased to announce that Mélanie Hélin-Longayrou has successfully defended her master's thesis entitled “Des Accents d’Occitan: L’influence de l’occitan sur la prononciation des voyelles nasales en français méridional" in which she argues for Occitan influence in the distinctive Southern French pronunciation of nasal vowels. Félicitations, Mélanie! Diana Ranson Catherine Jones Gary Baker

Congratulations to Bethany Bateman on the successful defense of her doctoral dissertation. Bethany’s dissertation, entitled “Contact-induced subjectivization in the compound past: an examination of PP/PRET variation in Cusco Spanish,” examines past reference among monolingual and bilingual speakers of Andean Spanish in Cusco, Peru. The committee was impressed with the clarity of Bethany’s research and the important implications it presents for…

We are pleased to announce that Raymond Friedman has passed his written and oral exams for the MA degree in French (non-thesis with a specialization in linguistics). Félicitations, Raymond ! Diana Ranson Catherine Jones Gary Baker

We are pleased to announce that Connie Taylor has passed her written and oral exams for the MA degree in French (non-thesis with a specialization in linguistics). Félicitations, Connie ! Diana Ranson Catherine Jones Gary Baker

Congratulations to Spanish major Elizabeth Henderson for the appearance of her scholarly essay "El uso político de la religión durante la Inquisición: El control psicológico y el trauma" in the Fall 2021 issue of El Cid, the journal of the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society Sigma Delta Pi, published at The Citadel. Elizabeth is a Fall 2020 graduate with Bachelor of Arts degrees in Spanish, Russian, and Asian Languages and…