Recent Graduate Alumni

Spanish

• Alex Bakke, "The Instruction of Discourse Markers in the Spanish L2 Classroom: Considerations and Implications" (Prof. Colleen Balukas), 2024.
  Current Position: Visiting Lecturer of Spanish, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA.
• Eva Flores Romero, "Representación y ubicación: análisis de la mujer trans en Cambio de sexo (1977), Todo sobre mi madre (1999), y Una mujer fantástica (2017)" (Prof. Elizabeth Scarlett), 2023.
  Current Position: Spanish Teacher and Language Department Leader, Odyssey Academy, Greece Central School District, NY.
  
• Marietta Fernández López, "(Des)encuentros barrocos: itinerarios emancipatorios y horizontes ecopoéticos en tres novelas hispano-caribeñas" (Prof. David Castillo), 2024.
  Current Position: Adjunt Faculty, Hilbert College, Hamburg, NY.
• Zurisaday Getty Moreno, "The Role of Literature in the Fight for Individual Liberty: Transatlantic writers for freedom in Cuba and Spain" (Prof. Elizabeth Scarlett), 2024.
  Current position: Upper School Spanish Teacher, the Oakridge School, Arlington, TX.
  

French

• Amelia Gayle, "Women, Instruments, and Techniques of Touch in Diderot, Sand, and Cixous" (Prof. Fernanda Negrete), 2024.
  Current Position: French Teacher, Nardin Academy, Buffalo, NY.
• Marie Dufay-Verbié, "Rires Sinistres : Éthique et esthétique d’une praxis de résistance de l’ère postrévolutionnaire à nos jours" (Prof. Christian Flaugh), 2024.
  Current Position: Visiting Assitant Professor of French, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA.
• Paulin Toutché, "Violence, équilibre et vodun-vodou: Les quêtes de la terre et du pain entre les Afriques et les Caraïbes" (Prof. Christian Flaugh), 2024.

Spanish

• Beatriz Llugany, "Hauntings and the Fantastic Works of Cristina Fernández Cubas" (Prof. Elizabeth Scarlett), 2022.
  Current Position: Spanish Teacher (retired), Canisius High School, Buffalo, NY.
• Diana Cortés-Evans, “El mártir político como narración nacional y cultural en la literatura del siglo XX” (Prof. Justin Read), 2022.
  Current Position: Assistant Professor, Ashland University.

French

• Ashley Byczkowski. "Feminine Selfhood: Mothers and Daughters in Francophone Women’s Life-Writing (1827-2001)" (Prof. Jean-Jacques Thomas), 2022.
  Current position: Assistant Professor of French, Niagara University.
  
• Guillaume Yoboué, "Africana Faith Dramas: Religion, Community, and the Francophone Theaters of Africa and the Caribbean" (Prof. Christian Flaugh), 2022.
  Current position: French and Kiswahili/African Culture Teacher, Rochester City School District.

French

• Elham Dehghanipour, "Rethinking Dualities: Reading Male and Female Bodies across East and West in Marguerite Duras, Assia Djebar and Shirin Neshat" (Prof. Fernanda Negrete), August 2021.
  Current Position:  Visiting Assistant Professor of French, Department of Classical & Modern Languages, Austin College, Sherman, TX.
  
• Benoit Ngolo, "Mariage précoce ou prématuré dans certains textes représentatifs de la littérature africaine.  Comment la littérature doit-elle traiter cette practique sociale établie?" (Prof. Jean-Jacques Thomas), September 2021.
  Current Position:  Adjunct Professor, World Languages and Cultures, Meredith College, Raleigh, NC.
  
• Geneviève Oliveira, "The Authentic Trickster:  Québecois conteurs in the Era of Globalization" (Prof. Amy Graves Monroe), June 2021.
  Current Position: Senior Lecturer/French Language Program Coordinator: Dartmouth College
  
• Matthew Skrzypczyk, "Queer Worlding:  Global Making of Sexual Citizens Across Francophone Literary, Visual, and Film Arts" (Prof. Christian Flaugh), August 2021.
  Current Position:  Lecturer, Oberlin College
  

Spanish

• Joëlle Carota, "The Italo-Venezuelan Community of Pescara (Italy): A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Spanish in Contact with Italian" (Prof. Wolfgang Wolck), August 2021.
  Current Position:  Visiting Assistant Professor ofltalian, Nazareth University 
  
• Yuting Jia, "El significado de los objetos en la narrativa contemporánea de España" (Prof. Colleen Culleton), June 2021.
  Current Position:  Lecturer, Northwestern University 
  

French

• Maria-Gratias Sinon, "In/Visibility Crises: Transnational Correctives and the Happiness of Black Women in Francophone Prose Fiction and Dramatic Film" (Prof. Christian Flaugh), June 2020.
  Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor of French, Pennsylvania State University
  
  

Spanish

• Nicole Sedor, "Investigating the Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA) in University Classrooms" (Prof. Erin Kearney), May 2020.
  Current Position:  Academic Program Specialist, Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
  
• Dijana Savija,  "Espacios de violencia: Literatura, silencio y memoria en Argentina" (Prof. Justin Read), September 2020.
  Current Position:  Spanish Instructor, Buffalo Seminary, Buffalo, NY.
  
• Wendy Ureña, "Subalternidad: Territorialidad y Marginación En Latinoaméricana" (Prof. Margarita Vargas), September 2020.
  Current Position:  Finance Manager, HR, Fiance & Corporate Aviation/Pfizer, Brooklyn, NY.
• Lori Chilcott, “The Meta-Reality of the Early Sixteenth Century Ibero-Italian Dialogue Form: The Socio-Cultural Rise of the Student-Teacher Relationship” (Prof. Henry Berlin).
  Current position: Spanish teacher, Williamsville Central Schools.
  

Spanish

• Felipe Hugueño, "La reconstrucción imaginaria de la nación chilena: la estética poética en tiempos de violencia moderna" (Prof. Justin Read), August 2019.
  Current Position:  Assistant Professor of Spanish, Virginia Wesleyan University, Norfolk.
  

French

• Cynthia A. Jones, “North Atlantic monstrosity: Cultural embodiment of nostalgia and progress in nineteenth-century French and Québécois literature” (Professor Christian Flaugh), February 2018.
  Current Position:  Assistant Professor of French, Weber State University
  

• Laure Bordas-Isner, Héroïnes ou criminelles:  Représentations de la subversion feminine dans la littérature française du xviie siècle” (Professor Amy Graves Monroe), February 2017.
  Current Position: Assessment Specialist, Cambridge Michigan Language Assessments, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Spanish

• Gregory Przybyla, “Shifting cartographies: transformations of urban space in buenos aires, 1920-2001” (Professor Justin Read), September 2017.
  Current Position:  Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish,Villanova University, Villanova, PA.

• Alberto Monteagudo Canales, "Body and posthegemony in Spain: Affect, habitus, and multitude in contemporary Spanish novels” (Professor Colleen Culleton), September 2016.

Spanish

• Yu-Ju Hung, “Tense and aspect in Mandarin Chinese and Spanish: Contrasts manifested in the Mandarin translation of Javier Maria’s Corazón tan blanco” (Prof. Jorge Guitart), February 2016.
  Current Position:  Adjunct Instructor of Spanish, Providence University at Taichung, Taichung, Taiwan.
  
• Tanya Farnung-Morrison, “The Andalusian Faces of Spanishness: Myth, Icons and Identity in Andalusian Theatre of the Second Republic, ” (Prof. Colleen Culleton), May 2016.
  Current Position: Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Spanish and French, Truckee Meadows Community College, Reno, NV.
  

French

• Isabelle Fournier, “La Considération éthique des ȇtres non humains dans la  science-fiction québécoise,”(Prof. Jean-Jacques Thomas), May 2016.
  Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor of French, Trent University, Peterborough, ON, Canada.
• Nicole Bojko, “Architectures of Angst: Spatial Poetics in 20thCentury Existential Literature,” (Prof. Jean-Jacques Thomas), May 2016.
  Current Position: Adjunct Instructor, French, Chaffee College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA.
  
• Dany Jacob, “Psychoanalyse du dandy comme anti-dox: cessation, contestation, dysfonctionnement culturel dominant,” (Prof. Jean-Jacques Thomas), May 2016.
  Current Position: Assistant Professor of French, University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse
  
• Lena Marilee Taub, “Towards an Aesthetics of Movement: Body, Language and Space in Francophone and Hispanic Caribbean Literature,” (Prof. Christian Flaugh), May 2016.  
  Current Position: Associate Professor of French, California State at Bakersfield
  

Spanish

• Reyna Vergara, “The Omnipotence of Ideology: The Struggle for Redemption in La Divina reclusa (1938), Respuesta a Sor Filotea (1691), and El Periquillo sarniento (1816)” (Prof. Margarita Vargas), May 4, 2015. 
  Current Position: Foreign Language Department Chair, The Gow School, South Wales, NY.
• Andrea Peréz-Mukdsi, “The Music of Silence: Neobaroque and Exile in the Narrative of Julio Cortázar” (Prof. David Castillo), May 11, 2015.
  Current Position: Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Spanish, University of North Georgia.
• Jesús Muñoz Merchán, “La mirada barroca: Opacidad y transparencia” (Prof. David Castillo), June 22, 2015.
  Current Position: Adjunct Instructor, SUNY Brockport.
  
• Michael Martínez-Raguso, “(De)forming Woman: Images of Feminine Political Subjectivity in Latin American Literature, from Disappearance to Femicide” (Prof. Justin Read), July 20, 2015.
  Current Position: English Teacher, Peekabo School of English, Gijón, Spain
  
• Laura Arribas Tome, “The Paradox of Pilgrimage: Cultural Representations of the Camino de Santiago in Contemporary Spain” (Prof. Colleen Culleton), August 10, 2015.
  Current Position: Spanish Teacher, Nichols School, Buffalo.

Spanish

• Beth A. Kuberka, “Modes of Reproduction: Gender, Subjectivity, and Familial Relations in Southern Cone Literature since 1950” (Prof. Justin Read) May 2nd 2014.
  Current Position: Spanish Teacher, Queen of Heaven School, West Seneca, NY.
• Sarah A. Hart, “Loss of the Old Spanish -udo participle: A Corpus Based Study” (Prof. Jorge Guitart) May 12th 2014.
  Current Positions: Instructor of Spanish Language, Daemen College, Buffalo, NY; High School Spanish Instructor, Charter School for Applied Technologies, Buffalo, NY.
  
• Brian Philips, “Social Illness Embodied: Pícaros, Converts and Free Women in the Literature of the Golden Age” (Prof. David Castillo) Jun 30th 2014.
  Current Position: Associate Professor of Spanish & Foreign Languages Program Coordinator, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS.

French

• Olivier Le Blond, “Homosocialité francophone: écriture identitaire dans la littérature contemporaine du Maghreb arabo-musulman” (Dr. Christian Flaugh) March 27th, 2014. 
  Current Position: Associate Professor of French, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, University of North Georgia, Dahlonega GA.
• Aubrey Kubiak, “Love and Labor: Representations of the Female Body in Québécois Literature from 1882-1970” (Prof. Christian Flaugh) May 15th 2014.
  Current Position: Tenure-track Assistant Professor of French, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah.

French

• Valerie Hastings, “Les Formes de L’Humain.  Volatilité des Frontières dans le Roman Francophone Autofictionnel Contemporain” (Prof. Jean-Jacques Thomas) November 11th 2014. 
  Current Position: Associate Professor of French, University of North Georgia, Dahlonega, NC.