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Linguistics Theses:
   
  Simounet Bey, Alma. (1970) . "The Grammar of 'Than' in Contemporary English "
   
  Cartagena, Ismael. (1975) . "The Avoidance of 'Tú' and 'Usted' in Puerto Rico"
   
  Chow, Felix H. (1976) . "Language Interference from Spanish to Cantonese Among Cuban Chinese in Puerto Rico"
   
  Klau, Susan l.  (1977) . "The Use of Spanish in the Works of Piri Thomas"
   
 

Haiman Arena, Ada. (1986). "Code Switching in Pedro Juan Soto's Ardiente Suelo, Fría Estación"

   
Pagan Cordero, Judith E. (1988) . "The Pidginization Hypothesis: A Sociolinguistic Study of the Acquisition of English as a Second Language Among Native Puerto Rican Spanish Speakers"
   

Espinet, Idalia. (1989). "Language and Culture: Turn-taking in English as a Second Language Classes"

   
Medina Rosado, Luis. (1992). "English Language Use in a Changing Economy, an Analysis of the Use and Functions of English in Industry in Eastern Puerto
Rico"
   
  Cuadrado Rodriguez, Donato. (1993). "Bilingualism Among Eastern Professionals in Puerto Rico"
   
  Méndez de Rosado, Luz E. (1993). "Teenage Attitudes Toward Spanish-English Code Switching "
   
  Santiago Perez, Marisol. (1995). "The Vocabulary of English: 1500 Years of
Indo-European Loanwords"
   
  Hollady, Linda. (1995). "The Influence of Puerto Rican English on Native English
Speakers"
   
Aponte Suárez, Carmen A. (1996). The Influence of English in the Spanish of Puerto Rican Newspapers"
   
López Rivera, Lillian. (1996). "The Neglected Work of Harold Frederic"
   
Mahdavi, Saideh.  (1996). "The English language and Its Ongoing Relationship with other Languages"
   
Ortiz Rivera. (1996). "The Use of English in a Tourist oriented Economy: The case of Hotels in the Northeastern Side of Puerto Rico"
   
Rodríguez Aviles, Brenda. (1996) . "Bilinguals on Bilingualism: A Look at the Attitudes Bilinguals Have Towards Their Own Bilingualism"
   
Ruiz Correa, Sandra.  (1996). "The Origins and Development of the English and Spanish Languages Compared"
   
Peña Ramírez, Rosymar. (1998). "Resumptive pronouns in the Second Language Acquisition of Restrictive Relative Clauses in English"
   
Yancy-Crespo, Carlos A. D. (1998). "Codeswitching in Ten Interlingual Poems of Chicano and Neorican Writers: A Sociolinguistic Approach"
   
Irizarry, Anamari. (2000)." Knowledge of the Spanish Verb Paradigm Among Second Language Speakers as a Function of Naturalistic vs. Classroom Acquisition Contexts"
   
Rosada, Wanda I.  (2002). "The Role of Organization of Jehovah's Witnesses in the Maintenance of Minority Languages, The Case of Africa" 
   
Pérez Mass, Evelyn.  (2002). "Puerto Ricans´ Perception of the English Spoken in the United States"
   

Soto, Ismael. (2003). “Spanish Historical Present in Puerto Rican ESL Students' Writings”

   

Ayot, Joy. (2004). ““C’est La Vie! ”: An Ethnographic Approach to the Study of Language in a University Residence Hall”

   
Cuenca Ramos, Amelia. (2004). “The Influence of the English Language on the Spanish Language of Newspapers in Puerto Rico”
   

Cole, Sharyn Laurel.  (2005). "Models of World Englishes: The Case for the Puerto Rican English"

   
Armstrong Pedersen, Clifton D. (2006). "Stress, Sonority, and The Syllable in Creoles and Other Languages"
   

Cortés Piñeiro, Mayra I. (2006). "Using Embodied Construction Grammar to Analyze Measure Phrase as a Subconstruction of the Associative Noun Phrase in English and Spanish"

   
Ramos Isern, Magda. (2007). "The Discourse of Race as Reflected in the Press of St. Croix in the 1970's and 1980's"
   
   

 

 

Literature Theses:
   
 

Davy, Bette-Jeanne. (1966). "Jane Austen: A Study of Her Comedy"

   
  Martin III, Riley T. (1966). "The Religious Thought of J.M. Synge: An Examination of Synge´s Paganism as Reflected in His Life and Work"
   
 

Villanueva Collado, Alfredo R. (1966). "The Horror and the Glory: Mathew Arnold´s Poetic Vision"

   
  Niemic de Cruz, Rosemarie. (1967). "Woman and the Church in the Plays of Sean O´Casey"
   
  Robinson, Bob L. (1967). "Satirical Utopias: A Study of the Satirical and Utopian Elements on Selected Works of Samuel Butler, Aldous Huxley and George Orwell"
   
Cattan, Rosalie. (1968). "The Changing Appeal of Malvolio"
   

De Osborne, Dorothy K. (1968). "Dickens and Penology: His Fiction Compared with Actual Conditions from 1770 to 1870"

   
Lewis de Orraca, Evelyn. (1968). "The Protagonist in the Gothic Novel as Hero, Anti-Hero and Villain"
   
 

McDonough, Vincent. (1968). "Beginnings of Modern English Historical Writing, More, and the Latin Historians"

   
  Crommett, Martha. (1969). "Eugene O´Neill: The Importance of the Irish-Puritan New England Environment and Ibsen and Strindberg for Strange Interludes and Mourning Becomes Electra"
   
  Lawton de Torruella, Maria Elena. (1969). "The Noh Plays of Japan and Yeats: Four Plays for Dancers a Study of Their Relationships"
   
 

Quiñones de Polanco, Beda. (1969). "Wordsworth´s Sonnets of Affection to Members of His Family"

   

Acuña, Julio. (1970). "Is Not a Jew a Man: The Ambiguity of Shylock"

   

Cancel Ortiz, Rafael. (1970). "The Malamud Hero"

   
Haines de Brown, Lola M. (1970). "James Joyce: The Dead"
   

Sánchez, Julián M. (1970). "Edward Albee: His Contribution to the Theatre of the Absurd"

   
Taracido, Maria D. (1970). "A Search for Identity: An Interpretation of the Puerto Rican Identity: A Translation of Antonio S. Pedreira´s Insularismo "
   

Walgand, Sister Alphonse. (1970). "Evelyn Waugh: A Prophet in the Wasteland"

   

Drummond, Marlene. (1970). "William Makepeace Thackeray: The Serial Formula and The Novel of Triumph - Vanity Fair "

   

Ferguson, Mary V. (1971)."The Parable of the Fat Lady: Salinger´s Syncretic Salvation"

   
Heflin, Jacqueline I. (1971). "The Poetry of Alienation: An Investigation of the Tramp as a Dramatic Symbol in the Plays of John Millington Synge"
   

Calem, Leonore (1972). "Leopold Bloom: Schlemiel"

   

Gauman, Gladys Ann. (1972). "A Study of the Broadside Ballad as the Newspaper of Tudor-Stuart England, a Reflection of the Time"

   

Jimenez, Sister Nilda. (1972). "The Redemptive Concern of Flannery O´Connor´s Work"

   

Rosario Adsuar, Carmen. (1972). "The Allegory of Love in Chaucer´s Troilus and Criseyde "

   

Bielecki, Dolores. (1973). "Othello: More Black than Fair"

   
Bird, Susan. (1973). "Hemingway´s Heroines -- Their Effect on His Works"
   
Rodriguez Pagan, María Cristina. (1973). "Quentin Compson: Twentieth-Century Tragic Hero"
   

López de Villegas, Consuelo. (1974). "The Marriage of Two Worlds´: A Study of Sexual Imagery in W.B. Yeats ' The Land of the Heart's Desire, The Only Jealousy of Emer, and The Herne´s Egg "

   

Newton, Robert P. (1974). "The Love Theme in the Early Love of T.S. Eliot"

   

Álvarez, Lillian. (1975). "The Mother-Whore: A Study of Female Roles in Harold Pinter's Plays"

   
Chamberlain, Anita Raquel. (1975). "The Development of the Theme of Responsibility in the Major Plays of Arthur Miller"
   

Kelley, Kathleen. (1975). "The Theme of Emigration in the West Indian Novel Written in English"

   

Maldonado Díaz, Arturo. (1975). "A George Lamming Bibliography" [Annotated]

   
Rodríguez de Font, Carmen. (1975). "The Mystical Experience of the Journey as Seen in Metaphysical Imagery of George Herbert's The Temple "
   

Cohen de Pomales, Barbara. (1976). "James Joyce: The Hades Episode"

   
Gaylord de Colón, Martha. (1976). "A Study of House Images in Selected Works of Henry James"
   
Hogan, Jerry. (1976). "The Problem of Self-Identity in the Early Fiction of Philip Roth"
   

Van Trieste, Robert F. (1976). "John Barth's Existentialism in The Floating Opera & The End of the Road "

   
Arandes de Morales, Inés. (1977). "What Cressida is: Development of a Character in Chaucer Henryson & Shakespeare
   
Guinals, Iris V. (1977). "The Search for Moral Values as Reflected in Major Characters in Three of George Eliot's Novels: Adam Bede , Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda "
   
Méndez Muñoz, Emma. (1977). "Point of View in the Major Works of Ken Kesey"
   

Gordon de Santos. (1978). "The Truth of the Gull"

   
Gurell, Marsha. (1978). "A Description of Four Types of Women in the Works of Philip Roth"
   

Kemper Stolberg, Katherine. (1978). "'Outside the Machine': Jean Rhy's Defense of the Underdog"

   
Lugo, Angela. (1978). "The New Woman in Four Victorian Novels"
   

Buxo Palacio, Jorge. (1979). "The Musicality of Walt Whitman's and Sifney Lanier's Verse "

   
Cohen de Vargas, Sandra. (1979). "A Study of the Search for Freedom in Selected Fiction of Kate Chopin"
   
Garayta Myares, Isabel. (1979). "John Fowles: Art, Artists and 'Artefacts'"
   

Otero Garabis, Ingrid. (1979). "The Floating Opera Comes to the End of the Road: Identity, Value and Fictionalization in John Barth´s The Floating Opera and The End of the Road "

   
Álvarez Machín, Maritza. (1980). "Correspondences Between Themes & Images in D.H. Lawrence's Etruscan Places & L ast Poems "
   

Rivera Laborde, María E. (1980). "The Great House in Caribbean Writing"

   
Waterston, Louise M. (1980). "Abraham Cowley Apostle in Muse´s Land"
   

Mangual Cartagena, Elisa. (1981). "Women in David Copperfield : A Study of the Main Female Characters"

   

Bondy, Caroline. (1982). "Forster and the Concept of Balance: A Study of the Characters in His Four Pre-War Novels"

   

Chico Resto, Félix. (1982). "Nightmare and Nihilism: The Novels of Nathaniel West"

   

Fiol-Matta, Liza. (1982). "The Path Toward Nightwood : A Study of the Early Works of Djuna Barnes"

   
Vega Vega, Luz Iraida (1982). "Johnson's Prejudice Against Swift: An Appraisal"
   
Ortiz, Naida. (1983). "Lighting Out for the Territory: The Meaning of Huck´s Escape"
   
White Tietjen, Carol. (1983). "Mature Women in Anthony Trollope's Palliser Series: Breaking Down Victorian Myths"
   
Zavala Díaz. (1983). "Response to racism in Characters from Richard Wright's Major Works"
   
Á lvarez Swihart, Patricia. (1985). "Patterns of Imagery: Cyclical and Ascending Movements in the Poetry of Matthew Arnold and the Search for the Poetic."
   
González Rivera, Diana. (1985). "The Changing View of Love in Kate Chopin's Work"
   
Hevia de Dardet. (1985). "William Kienzle: The Innovator."
   
López Dávila, Stella. (1985). "The Role of Opposites in Toni Morrison's Work."
   
Rullán Romanat, Joan. (1985). "Recorder and Creator: The Anthropological Influence in the Novels of Barbara Pym."
   
Cuevas-Segarra, Marisol. (1985). "Samuel Johnson's Rasselas and Voltaire's Candide."
   
Miskimen de Arbona, Kathryn Ann. (1986). "Politics and Shelley´s The Cenci "
   
Santos Valentín, Minerva. (1986). "Death as Resolution in the Poetry of Christina Rosetti."
   
Wilcox de Santiago, Deanna (1986) "Edward Taylor: Glory and Grace in the Meditative Tradition"
   
Almansa, Emily. (1987) "The Woman Question in Margaret Drabble: A Contemporary Writer in the Tradition of the Nineteenth-Century British Novelists."
   
Friedman, Virginia. (1987) "Shakespeare's Comic Boy Characters."
   
Luciano, Elsa. (1988). "The Search for Identity in Katherine Anne Porter's Fiction."
   
Pomales, Luis. (1988) "The Voices´ and the Readers´ Search for Truth in Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book. "
   
Ramírez, Peggy. (1988). "Four Plays by Derek Walcott as Allegories on the Changing Racial Relationships from Emancipation to the Present"
   
Medina Martínez, Milton David. (1989). "The Function of the Play-within-the -play in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and Love's Labor's Lost. "
   
Garrison Olvarria, Eric Lloyd. (1990). "The Function of Hypermetric Lines in Old English Poetry."
   
Turner Lugo, Franklin D. (1990). "The Quest for a Belle Ideal: A Study of Women in Byron's Don Juan. "
   
Canals, Juan C. (1991). "Growing Up in the West Indies: A Reading of Naipaul's A House for Mr. Biswas as a West Indian Bildungsroman ."
   
Prado Rodríguez, Nereida. (1991). "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein : A Question of Identity . "
   
Rivera Vega, Carmen Haydée. (1991. "Pasts and Presents in Sam Shepard's Family Plays: Buried Child , True West , and Fool for Love ."
   
Rodríguez Santiago, Sandra. (1991). "Social Attitudes in Literature: A Look at Queen Guinevere over a Five-Century Period."
   
Vélez Ortiz, Julio. (1991). "The Language of Alchemy in Chaucer's "The Canon Yeoman's Tale" and Ben Jonson´s The Alchemist. "
   
Dávila Goncalves, Michele C. (1992). "El Bildungsroman Femenino en la Novelas: Wide Sargasso Sea y El pluie et Vent Sur Telumee Miracle ."
   
Jones Garrasteugui, Alicia. (1992). "Harold Pinter."
   
Rodríguez Colón, Aida Luz. (1992). "The Flaws of the Paragon: Samuel Richardson's Sir Charles Grandison and Jane Austen´s Pride and Prejudice. "
   
Cancel Olmo, Maribel de Lourdes. (1993). "Kofman's Theory of the Female Gender in Wilkie Collin's The Woman in White ."
   
Knudson Blanchard, Thomas. (1993). "A Radical Feminist Materialist Reading of Zora Neal Hurston´s Fiction."
   
Rivera Agosto, Nelson. (1993). "Painting a New Landscape: Western Art and the Caribbean Artist in Derek Walcott's Another Life ."
   
Steeves Franco, Jean (1993) "William Dean Howell's Armando Palacio Valdes , and the Art of Realistic Fiction."
   
Fernández Ruiz, Enrique. (1994). "Genre, Style and Characterization: The Foundations of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings ."
   
Bethell Bennett, Ian A. (1995). "Nurturing and Perpetuating the Margin: The Role of the Mother / Grandmother in Three Caribbean Novels."
   
Bigatel-Abeniacar, Bridget Lee. (1995). "Film and-as Literature: Into the Heart of Apocalypse Now ."
   
Moya, Consuelo T. (1995). "The Power of Nurturing in Plays by Caryl Churchill: Cloud Nine , Top Girls , and Fen. "
   
Rivera Rivera, Gretchen. (1995). "A Poetry of Resistance: William Morris' 'The Defence of Guinevere' and Other Poems."
   
Rodríguez Rossy, Ramón Silven. (1995). "Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness : The Journey, The Hero, the Myth."
   
Sanders, Celia Elizabeth. (1995). "Swinburne's Aesthetics in Laus Veneris , The Leper and St. Dorothy. "
   
Santiago, Daisy. (1995). "Reconstruction of the Homeland in Narrative Fiction by Three Spanish-Speaking Women Writing in English."
   
Stanchich, Maritza. (1995). "The Caribbean 'Other' in Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! : Conquest as Maligned Myth."
   
Valles López, Ilsa. (1995). "The Socially Disadvantaged Woman in Elizabeth Gaskell's Fiction."
   
Arzola Rivera, Diana. (1996). "'To Make Fools Wise': Shelley's and Robert Owen's Quest for Freedom in the Nineteenth Century."
   
Concepción Pérez, Elda Luz. (1996). "A Materialist-Feminist View in Three English Plays From the Restoration to the Present."
   
Coyne Cordero, Nora C. (1996). "Humankind's Options for Fulfillment in Faulkner and Pynchon."
   
Echevarría Marín, Roberto. (1996). "The Concept of Time in Algernon Swinburne's 'The Triumph of Time.'"
   
Harris Fiveash, Jo Anne. (1996). "Prologues/Epilogues: Dryden's Public Commentary in the 1680s."
   
López Rivera, Lillian. (1996. "The Neglected Work of Harold Frederic."
   
Marrero, Michael M. (1996). "The Protagonists' Quest Towards Identit(ies) in Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven and Maryse Conde's Tree of Life ."
   
Vassos, Inés Patricia. (1996). "'A Tribe of Unrealities': An Example of Hawthorne's Influence on the 20th Century Magical Realist."
   
Benn Jones, Yvonne P. (1997). "Dystopian Feminism in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. "
   
Díaz Rivera, Diana. (1997). "Some Instances of the Technical Influence of Film on F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. "
   
Goode, Walter C. (1997). "By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them: T. S. Eliot's Treatment of the Jews."
   
La Torre Lagares, Elidio. (1997). "Jack Kerouac's Quest: Searching for Spirituality on the Road to Transcendentalism and Tibetan Buddhism."
   
López Mazzeo, Denise. (1997). "Mystical Romanticism: The Poetry of Emily Bronte."
   
Morales de Molina, Luisa M. (1997). "Manipulation in Jane Austen's Afflicted Characters: A Study of Emma and Persuasion ."
   
Vaughan Rees, Kristen L. (1997). "Dispelling the Myth: Two Fictionalized Views of Hollywood."
   
Brignoni Vera, Teotista. (1998). "Self-Redemption Through Resistance: Caliban's Caribbean Daughter."
   
Ramos Rosado, Gloria M. (1998). "The Code of Female Behavior and Discontent: Parallel Roads in Frances Burney's Evelina ."
   
Stahlschmidt Albert, Alexandra. (1998). "Three Portrayals of Clerical Corruption: Theron Ware, Elmer Gantry, and Gabriel Grimes."
   
Torres Rivera, Carmen Milagros. (1998). "Scientific Thought in In Memoriam : The Victorian Quest to Understanding Nature."
   
Vázquez Rivera, Nellie. (1998). "Disruptive Women in Shakespeare."
   
Anibarro Soto, Glorivette. (1999). "Creoles vs. Americans in 19th Century New Orleans: A Study of the Conflict Presented in George Washington Cable"
   
Hernández López, Ligia I. (1999). "Apocalyptic Allusions in Percy Bysshe Shelley's "The Mask of Anarchy"
   
Bermúdez Sanabria, Sheila.(2000). "Rebels with a Cause: Escape and Pursuit in Post World War II American Novels."
   
González Rivera, Carmen N. (2000). "Absent Mothers and Maids as Surrogate Mothers"
   
Lewis Roldán, Salinda .(2000). "White Supremacy, Male Fantasy and the Politics of the Body in Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom "
   
Morsellino, John (2000) "Cooper's Caribbean: Red Skin, White Masks in The Last of the Mohicans "
   
Teitelbaum, Mae (2000). "The Changing Portrayal of the Hero-ine in African American Poetry"
   
Alfonso Serrano, Melanie. (2001). "Dining on Domestic Discourse: Edith Wharton's View of Nineteenth Century America's Table Manners and Eating Habits in The House of Mirth ."
   
Bratt Cho-Yee, Marc C. (2001). "The Literary Sermon: An Analysis of Structure, Theme, and Purpose in ´Hrothgar´s Sermon´ from Beowulf , ´The Parson´s Tale´ from The Canterbury´s Tales "
   
Collazo Vélez, Edna G. (2001). "Woman as Embodiment of Nature: Tess of the D'Urbervilles"
   
Recondo Pietrantoni, Juan R. (2001). "The Spirit Negritude in Relations of Power as Seen in Novels by Chinua Achebe, Earl Lovelace, Roger Mais and Ngugi wa Thiongo"
   
Gil Piñeda, Nemesio. (2002). "A Visual Reconstruction of Shakespeare's Narrative: Laurence Olivier's and Kenneth Branagh's Screen Adaptions of Hamlet"
   
López Rodríguez, Mildred María. (2002). "´The Slut You Are So Hell Bent on Becoming´: Sexuality as Colonial Resistance in Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother"
   
Noel, Peter. (2002). "The Major Creative Influences in the Life of War Poet Wilfred Owen"
   
Villanueva, Wendell. (2002). "The Role of Christianity in the Colonizing Process of Africa and Its Diaspora as Represented in the Works of Three Modern Black Writers"
   
Quiles Rivera, Ana M. (2003). "Difference, Elsewhere and Gendered Characters: Eustacia Vye in The Return of the Native and Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights"
   

Rodríguez Alamo, Irina C. (2003). "The Haunted: The Supernatural and Violence as a Means Toward Redemption in William Faulkner's Absalom Absalom and Toni Morrison's Beloved "

   
Meltzer, Susan J. (2004). "Decolonizing the Mind: Recent Grenadian Fiction"
   

Rodríguez Flecha, Samuel. (2004). “Christina Rossetti’s Outcast Voices”

   

Valle Javier, Pedro C. (2004). “Two Dancing on the Red Earth: A Novel”

   
Maxwell-Gibb, Melinda. (2004). "Ave Atque Vale: The Influence of Charles Baudelaire on the Poetry of A. C. Swinburne"
   
Humes, Mark Anthony. (2005). "A Good Man is Hard to Find: Re-Constructing Black Feminist Literary 'Diss'-Mantling of Black Masculinity"
   
Auger Vega,  Olga M. (2005). "Body Image and the Pathology of Eating Disorders in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar"
   
Grant, Norman J.   (2005). "The Man Who Wasn't There: Three Minus Two Equals Zero: The Susan Smith Case as Seen in Cornelius Eady's Brutal Imagination"
   
Marquez Carrasquillo, Narielys. (2006). "The 'Disappearance' of Zora Neale Hurston"
   
Meléndez Varela, Miguel E. (2006). "The Anxious Man and The Elusive Woman, Gender Relations in American Modernist Fiction"
   
Rivera Alvarez, Milagros B. (2006). "The Use of Ghosts in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Elizabeth Nuñez's Beyond the Limbo Silence"
   
Haiman Arena, Ada. (2006). "The Discourses of Childhood: A Child-centered Critique of Anglo-Caribbean Literature"
   
Barragán Bothwell, José E. (2007). "'When You Have to Shoot, Shoot - Don't Talk!' History, Genre and Landscape in the Works of Cormac McCarthy and Sergio Leone"
   
Tietelbaum, Mae. (2007). "The Complicit Intellectual: The (Mis)Representation of Politics and History in Three Contemporary Caribbean Narratives of Puerto Rico, Cuba, and Jamaica"
   
Cintrón Ortiz, Lynette. (2007). "Seeing in the Dark: Film Noir and the Imperialist Script"
   
González Cotto, Lourdes. (2007). "Kate Chopin's Winning Hand: The Combination of Literary Movements and the Power of Nature Imagery in Selected Stories"
   
Moreno Aponte, Glenda. (2007). "The Use of Music as a Narrative Tool of Political and Ideological Dominance and Resistance in Film Adaptation: The Case of Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness"
   
 

 

 

Caribbean Literature Theses: (or theses of interest to Caribbeanists)
   
 

Kelley, Kathleen. (1975). "The Theme of Emigration in the West Indian Novel Written in English"
Thesis Director: Eugene V. Mohr
Readers: J. Raban Builder, Thomas Noel
Caribbean Literature: Carew, Clarke, Dathorne, Lamming, Marshall, Salkey, Selvon

   

Maldonado Díaz, Arturo. (1975). "A George Lamming Bibliography" [Annotated]
Thesis Director: David McWilliams
Readers: Eugene V. Mohr, Frederick E. Kidder
Caribbean Literature: Lamming

   
 

Kemper Stolberg, Katherine. (1978). "'Outside the Machine': Jean Rhy's Defense of the Underdog"
Thesis Director: Bernard Lockwood
Readers: Kenneth Gavrell, Eugene V. Mohr
Caribbean Literature: Rhys

   

Rivera Laborde, María E. (1980). "The Great House in Caribbean Writing"
Thesis Director: Eugene V. Mohr
Readers: Janet B. Hayward, Bernard Lockwood
Caribbean Literature: H.G. de Lisser, Hearne, Lamming, Rhys, Walcott

   
 

Ramírez, Peggy. (1988). "Four Plays by Derek Walcott as Allegories on the Changing Racial Relationships from Emancipation to the Present"
Thesis Director: Steven Carter
Readers: Kenneth Gavrell, María Cristina Rodríguez
Caribbean Literature: Walcott

   

Canals, Juan C. 1991). "Growing Up in the West Indies: A Reading of Naipaul´s A House for Mr. Biswas as a West Indian Bildungsroman ."
Thesis Director: Nalini Natarajan
Readers: Gerald Guinness, Lowell Fiet
Caribbean Literature: Naipaul

   
 

Dávila Goncalves, Michele C. (1992). "El Bildungsroman Femenino en la Novelas: Wide Sargasso Sea y El pluie et Vent Sur Telumee Miracle ."
Thesis Director: (Comparative Literature Department)
Caribbean Literature: Rhys

   

Knudson Blanchard, Thomas. (1993). "A Radical Feminist Materialist Reading of Zora Neal Hurston´s Fiction."
Thesis Director: Steven Carter
Readers: María Cristina Rodríguez, Michael Sharp
Caribbean Literature: Zora Neal Hurston

   
 

Rivera Agosto, Nelson. (1993). "Painting a New Landscape: Western Art and the Caribbean Artist in Derek Walcott´s Another Life ."
Thesis Director: Steven Carter
Readers: Bernard Lockwood, María Cristina Rodríguez
Caribbean Literature: Walcott

   
 

Bethell Bennett, Ian A. (1995). "Nurturing and Perpetuating the Margin: The Role of the Mother / Grandmother in Three Caribbean Novels."
Thesis Director: María Cristina Rodríguez
Readers: Mark Staebler, Lowell Fiet
Caribbean Literature

   

Stanchich, Maritza. (1995. "The Caribbean 'Other' in Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! : Conquest as Maligned Myth."
Thesis Director: Maria Cristina Rodríguez
Readers: Nalini Natarajan, Diane Accaria
Caribbean Literature: Faulkner

   
 

Marrero, Michael M. (1996). "The Protagonists' Quest Towards Identit(ies) in Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven and Maryse Conde's Tree of Life ."
Thesis Director: María Cristina Rodríguez
Readers: Lowell Fiet, Diane Accaria
Caribbean Literature: Cliff, Conde

   

Brignoni Vera, Teotista. (1998). "Self-Redemption Through Resistance: Caliban's Caribbean Daughter."
Thesis Director: Reinhard Sander
Readers: María Cristina Rodríguez, Nalini Natarajan
Caribbean Literature

   
 

Anibarro Soto, Glorivette. (1999). "Creoles vs. Americans in 19th Century New Orleans: A Study of the Conflict Presented in George Washington Cable"
Thesis Director: Michael Aceto
Readers: Reinhard Sander, Diane Accaria
Caribbean Literature: Creole culture, Washington Cable

   

González Rivera, Carmen N. (2000). "Absent Mothers and Maids as Surrogate Mothers"
Thesis Director: Nalini Natarajan
Readers: María Cristina Rodríguez, Diane Accaria
Caribbean Literature: Rhys

   
 

Lewis Roldán, Salinda. (2000). "White Supremacy, Male Fantasy and the Politics of the Body in Faulkner´s Absalom, Absalom "
Thesis Director: Diane Accaria
Readers: María Cristina Rodríguez, Nalini Natarajan
Caribbean Literature: Faulkner

   

Morsellino, John. (2000). "Cooper's Caribbean: Red Skin, White Masks in The Last of the Mohicans "
Thesis Director: Diane Accaria
Readers: Lowell Fiet, Reinhard Sander
Caribbean Literature: Fennimore Cooper

   
 

Teitelbaum, Mae. (2000). "The Changing Portrayal of the Hero-ine in African American Poetry"
Thesis Director: Reinhard Sander
Readers: Loretta Collins, Lowell Fiet
Caribbean Literature: poetry

   
 

Recondo Pietrantoni, Juan R. (2001)."The Spirit Negritude in Relations of Power as Seen in Novels by Chinua Achebe, Earl Lovelace, Roger Mais and Ngugi wa Thiongó"
Thesis Director: Reinhard Sander
Readers: María Cristina Rodríguez, Lowell Fiet
Caribbean Literature: Lovelace, Mais

   
 

López Rodríguez, Mildred María. (2002). "´The Slut You Are So Hell Bent on Becoming´: Sexuality as Colonial Resistance in Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother"
Thesis Director: María Cristina Rodriguez
Readers: Lowell Fiet, Reinhard Sander
Caribbean Literature: Kincaid

   

Villanueva, Wendell. (2002). "The Role of Christianity in the Colonizing Process of Africa and Its Diaspora as Represented in the Works of Three Modern Black Writers"
Thesis Director: Reinhard Sander
Readers: Nalini Natarajan, Lowell Fiet
Caribbean Literature: Achebe, Lovelace, Wright

   

Rodriguez Alamo, Irina C. (2003 ). "The Haunted: The Supernatural and Violence as a Means Toward Redemption in William Faulkner's Absalom Absalom and Toni Morrison's Beloved"
Thesis Director: Diane Accaria
Readers: María Cristina Rodríguez, María Soledad Rodríguez
Caribbean Literature: Faulkner, Morrison

   

Rivera Alvarez, Milagros B. (2006). "The Use of Ghosts in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Elizabeth Nuñez's Beyond the Limbo Silence"
Thesis Director: Diane Accaria
Readers: Reinhard Sander, María Cristina Rodríguez
Caribbean Literature: Morrison, Nuñez

   

Haiman Arena, Ada. (2006). "The Discourses of Childhood: A Child-centered Critique of Anglo-Caribbean Literature"
Thesis Director: Nicholas Faraclas
Readers: Nalini Natarajan, Diane Accaria

   
Teitelbaum, Mae. (2007). "The Complicit Intellectual: The (Mis)Representation of Politics and History in Three Contemporary Caribbean Narratives of Puerto Rico, Cuba, and Jamaica"
Thesis Director: Nalini Natarajan
Readers: Reinhard Sander, Nicholas Faraclas
   
   
   

 
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