Haiduc, Sonia Amalia (Date of defense: 2021-03-19)
This thesis examines the sub-genre of the literary biopic and its intersections with literary texts and other film genres through the lens of the melodramatic mode. It explores the dramatization of the ...
Atalaya Fernández, Irene (Date of defense: 2018-02-09)
Teodoro Llorente (1836-1911) fue un personaje prolífico donde los haya: traductor, poeta en valenciano y castellano, periodista, fundador y director de Las Provincias, político, crítico e historiador ...
Aliaga-Garcia, Cristina (Date of defense: 2017-12-14)
Adult second language learners often experience major difficulties in perceiving and producing non-native speech sounds. Several perception training studies (Iverson & Evans, 2007; Nishi, & Kewley-Port, ...
Ortega Montero, Óscar (Date of defense: 2022-03-18)
This Ph.D. dissertation explores the transformative potential of the HIV/AIDS experience in post-apartheid South Africa during the age of denialism under Thabo Mbeki’s mandate (1999-2008). To that end, ...
Buchholz, Anna (Date of defense: 2019-12-18)
En la presente tesis se indaga la recepción del Primero sueño y de la Respuesta a Sor Filotea de la Cruz en el ámbito germanohablante a lo largo del siglo XX por medio de las versiones alemanas de estas ...
Resano, Dolores (Date of defense: 2017-09-22)
This dissertation analyzes a typically overlooked novel within the corpus of post-9/11 fiction studies, Jess Walter’s The Zero (2006), and puts forward some hypotheses for this under-examination. It ...
Gesa Vidal, Ferran (Date of defense: 2019-11-29)
Whether and how video viewing is beneficial for language learning has been a matter of debate over the last decades (Vanderplank, 2015). Multimedia learning theories (Mayer, 2009; Paivio, 1986) suggest ...
Patz Sievers, Evelyn (Date of defense: 2018-04-10)
Die drei schlichten Worte „Ich bin Spaniolin” im Titel der vorliegenden literaturwissenschaftlichen Forschungsarbeit beinhalten das fundamentale Bekenntnis der jüdisch-sephardischen Schriftstellerin ...
Ortega Duran, Mireia (Date of defense: 2016-11-18)
The study of crosslinguistic influence (CLI), a phenomenon that emerges due to the interaction of different languages in the learners’ mind, has attracted the attention of SLA researchers since the ...
Puyuelo Ureña, Eva (Date of defense: 2022-11-21)
[eng] Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me (2015) is nowadays considered one of the most detailed registers of the different forms that racial violence takes—from direct manifestations of physical ...