Banks, Donna (Date of defense: 2022-01-20)
This dissertation takes a transatlantic approach in its exploration of identity and representation by examining artistic practices within areas of the Caribbean, Europe, and the United States. Australia ...
Theofanopoulou, Constantina (Date of defense: 2019-03-21)
In my thesis I investigate the evolution of human sociality and its possible role for providing a scaffold to the evolution of language. My approach is multidisciplinary and includes studies ranging ...
Kogan, Vita (Date of defense: 2020-02-21)
Adult language learners often experience difficulty acquiring a new sound system. Empirical studies have shown that native phonetic categories function as a filter that removes specific acoustic cues ...
Tirado Mauri, Marta (Date of defense: 2022-06-14)
This PhD thesis, entitled “Ethical Intentionality in Sarah Kane’s Blasted: Dramaturgy, Performance and Reception / Intencionalitat ètica a Blasted, de Sarah Kane: dramatúrgia, escenificació i recepció,” ...
Komorowska, Katarzyna (Date of defense: 2021-01-27)
This thesis examines paranoid perception as a tool for the emancipation of women in Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 and David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive. Both the novel and the film are set in a ...
Choquet, Marianne (Date of defense: 2013-07-18)
This composite thesis is the fruit of a marriage between the creative, imaginative, and critical aspects of writing. The overall aim of its elaboration has been the creation and critical examination of ...
Serra Pagès, Conrad (Date of defense: 2020-02-21)
The aim of this thesis is to assess David Malouf’s contribution to the field of gender and men studies in his fiction books. In order to do so, I have proceeded by offering a close reading of each of ...
Bernardo Flórez, Marina (Date of defense: 2021-12-16)
Chicano children’s literature was born in the wake of the so-called El Movimiento, the Chicano Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and especially the 1970s. In the 1990s, as a part of the rising trend ...
Fontanals García, David (Date of defense: 2020-03-02)
In July 1941, Stefan Zweig (1881-1942), finished the first draft of his memoirs, which he titled Blick auf mein Leben. One month later, in August 1941, he and his wife Lotte would leave for Brazil never ...
Joan Rodríguez, Meritxell (Date of defense: 2019-11-29)
This dissertation aims to put forward a thorough reflection on contemporary processes of identity constructions, both individual and collective, which are criss-crossed by experiences of migration ...