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Ph.D. program alumni
(In chronological order)
Serafín Roldán-Santiago. Thesis: "Literary strands, transference, and colonial discourse in V.S. Naipaul's writings" (April 2006)
Edgardo Pérez Montijo. Thesis: "Earl Lovelace: Performance writer" (May 2006)
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Edgardo Pérez |
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Tatiana Tagirova. Thesis: "Claude McKay's liberating narrative: Russian and Anglophone Caribbean literary connections" (May 2006)
Elsa Luciano Leal. Thesis: "Caribbean women writers in exile: Dionne Brand, Jamaica Kincaid and Pauline Melville" (December 2006)
Ada Haiman Arena. Thesis: "The discourses of childhood: A child-centered critique of Anglo-Caribbean literature" (December 2006)
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Ada Haiman, Nalini Natarajan, Diane Accaria & Nicholas Faraclas |
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Clifton D. Armstrong. Thesis: "Stress, sonority, and the syllable in creoles and other languages" (December 2006)
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Mervyn Alleyne, Emily Krasinski, Clifton D. Armstrong & Yolanda Rivera |
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Magda Ramos Isern. Thesis: "The discourse of race as reflected in the press of St. Croix in the 1970s and 1980s" (March 2007)
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Alma Simounet, Alicia Pousada, Magda Ramos & Mervyn Alleyne |
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Mae Teitelbaum. Thesis: "The complicit intellectual: The (mis)representation of politics and history in three contemporary Caribbean narratives of Puerto Rico, Cuba and Jamaica" (March 2007)
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Profs. Natarajan, Sander, and Faraclas with Mae Teitelbaum after her dissertation defense |
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Víctor Vázquez. Thesis:"Reading and writing life: Discourse analysis and a sociology of language inquiry into the effects of Protestant literacy efforts within the slave communities of the Danish West Indies and Jamaica" (May 2008)
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Profs. Emily Krasinski, Nicholas Faraclas, and Alma Simounet with Víctor Vázquez (second from left) at his dissertation defense |
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Jo Anne Harris Fiveash. Thesis: Uncovering creole representations of empire in eighteenth-century Barbados: From Caribbeana (1741) to Creoleana (1842)" (May 2008)
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Profs. Kuwabong, Natarajan, Pedreira with Jo Anne Harris (pictured second from left) after her defense |
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Suzanna Engman. Thesis: " Quantum ghosts: Gateway to the imagination in the novels of Wilson Harris" (May 2008)
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Profs. Faraclas and Stanchich with Suzanna Engman during her defense (Librarian Rosa Rivera in the background) |
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Marta Viada. Thesis:"Matelots, metis, and maroons meet mass comparison and the matrix: Possible influences from the indigenous languages of the Caribbean on the grammars of Caribbean creoles" (May 2008)
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Profs. Faraclas, Simounet, Sued Badillo with Marta Viada
after her defense |
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Nereida Prado. Thesis:“African Caribbean Spirituality in West Indian novels: From realism to spiritual realism.” Dec. 2008
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Nereida Prado with her committee members, Profs. Kuwabong and Accaria (Prof. Collins, not pictured) |
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Miriam Plata. Thesis: "Phonological features of Crucian Creole." Dec. 2008
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Miriam Plata and Magda Ramos |
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Geissa Torres. "Attitudes of Crucian Students and Educators toward Crucian Creole as a Language of Learning." March 2009
Edward Mitchell. "St. Lucian Kwéyòl in St. Croix: A Study of Language Choice and Attitudes." March 2009
Orville Omar Villanueva Feliciano. "A Constrastive Analysis of English Influences on the Lexicon of Puerto Rican Spanish in Puerto Rico and St. Croix." April 2009
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Orville Villanueva responding to a question
during his doctoral defense. |
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