DISSERTATIONS
PhD DISSERTATIONS in progress
- Abellás Cobas, Beatriz. “Make your statement, face your fear”: Orality, Liminality and Horror in The Magnus Archives and Welcome to Night Vale. Director: Jorge Sacido-Romero
- Aira Gallardo, Maika. As mulleres levantan a voz: violencia de xénero e irmandade femenina no teatro norteamericano dos 70 escrito por mulleres. Directores: Constante González Groba e Patricia Fra López.
- Álvarez Caldas, Patricia. Unha realidade edulcorada: a evolución do musical ó medio televisivo. Directora: Patricia Fra López.
- Cabezas Amigo, Rita. Literary Treatment of the taibhsear character in Walter Scott’s waverly novels. Directores: Fernando Alonso Romero e Cristina Mourón Figueroa.
- Cortada Roberto, Isabella Alessandra. ReJoycing MusiCage: “Writing Through Finnegans Wake” Again. Directora: Margarita Estévez-Saá
- Díaz Martínez, Julián. Aestheticism and Dandism in Wilkie Collins’ Works. Director: Jorge Sacido Romero.
- Díaz Rodríguez, Ana. Portraits of Old Women in Contemporary Literature in English: A Study from the Perspective of Literary Criticism, Age and Gender Studies. Directora: Margarita Estévez-Saá.
- Fernández Fernández, Martín. The Emmett Till Case in U.S. Fiction and Drama. Director: Constante González Groba.
- Figueiras Campos, Tania. The American Dream ‘Upside Down’: Decoding Sociocultural Anxieties through Stranger Things and the American Horror Science Fiction Literary and Audiovisual Tradition. Directora: Patricia Fra López.
- García Varela, Ana Patricia. Theme and Thematic Progression in English and Spanish Journalistic Discourse. Directoras: María de los Ángeles Gómez González e María Teresa Sánchez Roura.
- Gómez López, Esther. Family Relationships in Joyce Carol Oates’s Fiction. Directora: Susana Jiménez Placer.
- Gómez Seoane, Almudena María. Arthurian Women: Characterization, Function and Evolution of Elaine in Different Literary Versions of the Arthurian Legend. Directora: Margarita Estévez-Saá.
- González Alonso, María. Os diferentes procesos de tradución fílmica dunha mesma obra literaria. O gran Gatsby. Directora: Patricia Fra López.
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González Bernárdez, Sara. The Fantasy of the Female: Identity Construction and Gender Representation in the Fantasy Genre. Directores: Laura Mª Lojo Rodríguez e Jorge Sacido Romero.
- Guerreira Labrador, Elena. Identidad y género en la narrativa breve de autoras británicas contemporáneas. Directores: Laura Lojo Rodríguez e Mario Cal Varela.
- Guzmán de la Concepción, Marta. La influencia de la educación en las cuestiones de género. Directora: Laura Lojo Rodríguez.
- Iovine, Flavia. Irish Women Short Story Writers: A Reappraisal of Mary Lavin’s and Julia O’Faolain’s Contribution to the Genre. Directora: Margarita Estévez-Saá.
- Kulsoom Indad. An Analysis of J. R. R. Tolkien’s On Fairy-Stories in The Lord of the Rings. Directora: Cristina Mourón Figueroa.
- Ledo Fernández, Mónica. A personaxe sureña de Lillian Hellman na gran pantalla: unha lectura do Sur mediante a análise de personaxes. Directora: Patricia Fra López.
- López Ferrás, Carlota. Children’s Perspective in the English Narrative. Directora: Laura Lojo Rodríguez.
- López Sande, Sergio. Literature Beyond Solipsism: Self-Consciousness, Empathy and the Other in the Short Fiction of David Foster Wallace. Directora: Laura Lojo Rodríguez.
- Marchetto Santorun, María Cecilia. A Comparative Study of William Blake’s illustrated writings and Alan Moore’s comic books. Director: José Manuel Barbeito Varela.
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Martínez Ponciano, Regina. Masculinities in Late Victorian Fiction. Directores: Laura Lojo Rodríguez e Jorge Sacido Romero.
- Patiño Eirín, María Rosario. Mistress of Herself. The New Woman in the Late Victorian Novel. Directora: Manuela Palacios González.
- Pérez Alonso, Sabela, Genre and Gender Debates in SF Studies: An Analysis of Four Case Studies. Directora: Margarita Estévez-Saá
- Pérez Vilas, Rubén. Bourgeoisie and Dissatisfaction in the Literature of the Nineteenth-century Fin de Siècle: A Transcontinental Perspective. Directora: Margarita Estévez-Saá
- Portela Fernández, Marta. Women in Flight: The Need to Escape in Irish Women Writer’s Literary Production. Directora: Manuela Palacios González.
- Resúa Muñiz, Santiago José. A New Discourse from the Chair of St. Peter? Ideology and Power Relations in Pope Franci’s Discourse. Directora: María de los Ángeles Gómez González.
- Rodríguez Durán, Jorge. Literary Cartographies of Nothern Irish Urban Landscapes. Directora: Manuela Palacios González.
- Rodríguez Pazo, Dolores. Representations of Ireland and Galicia in the Rural Novel. Directora: Manuela Palacios González.
- Soage Juncal, Lourdes. Evaluative Discourse Markers in English and Spanish. Directora: María de los Ángeles Gómez González.
Completed PhD DISSERTATIONS
2020
Boán Francis, Iago. El bestiario rowlingiano en la saga Harry Potter: fuentes literarias y mitológicas. Directora: Cristina Mourón Figueroa.
Díaz Martínez, Julián. The Progress of Taste in Mid-Nineteenth Century England: Art in Wilkie Collins’ Early Writing. Dir Jorge Sacido Romero
Gómez López, Esther. Family Relationships in the Fiction of Joyce Carol Oates. Dir. Susana Jiménez Placer
Riobó Pérez, Nerea. Wicked women or Passive Heroines? Sexuality and Female Characters in Angela Carter. Directora: Laura Lojo Rodríguez.
2018
Morales Polo, Ángela. Reescrituras fílmicas. Autoría y adaptación de textos anglosajones en Isabel Coixet: My Life Without Me, Elegy y Another Me. Director: Jesús Varela Zapata.
2017
Gálvez Gómez, Laura. The Arthurian World of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings: a Reassessment. Directora: Cristina Mourón Figueroa.
2016
Amelia Piñeiro Santorun. Female Vampires: Sexuality and Mother-Daughter Relationship in Five Vampire Stories in English. Directora: Margarita Estévez-Saá.
Fernández, Richard Jorge. The Irish Gothic Short Story in the Nineteenth Century: James Clarence Mangan, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker. Directora: Margarita Estévez-Saá.
Mato Collazo, Pablo. El retorno del héroe en la literatura de Tolkien, el cine de Jackson y la cultura de masas: el arquetipo heroico de la Saga del Anillo. Directora: Patricia Fra López.
Rabelo Câmara, Yls. Morgana vs. Guinevere: Analysis of the Dichotomy Paganism-Christianism in the Celtic World of Avalon. Directores: Fernando Alonso Romero e Cristina Mourón Figueroa.
Saavedra Carballido, Jesús Manuel. Golding’s Metaphysics: William Golding’s Novels through Arthur Schopenhauer’s Philosophy. Director: José Manuel Barbeito Varela.
2015
Fernández Mosquera, Ana Isabel. The Nineteeth-Century English ‘Family Novel’: The Feminine Model of Charlotte Yonge. Directores: Laura Mª Lojo Rodríguez e Veljka Ruzicka Kenfel.
Losada Pérez, Ana María. Postmodernism in Angela Carter’s Short Fiction: A Zizekian Approach. Directores: Laura Lojo Rodríguez e Jorge Sacido Romero.
Navarro Romero, Betsabé. British Intellectuals and Blairism: Counter-Hegemonic Voices during Tony Blair’s Premiership. Directores: Laura Lojo Rodríguez e José Francisco Fernández Sánchez.
Pereira Ares, Noemí. Dressed Bodies that Matter: A Study of Dress in the Literature of the South Asian Diaspora in Britain. Directores: Margarita Estévez-Saá e José Manuel Estévez-Saá.
Rodríguez Lamas, María Luisa. Lexical Anglicism on Spanish TV in the Transition to the New Millennium. Directora: María de los Ángeles Gómez González.
2014
Lestón Mayo, María Aurora. Tracing the Dragon: A Study of the Origin and Evolution of the Dragon Myth in the History and Literature of the British Isles. Directores: Cristina Mourón Figueroa e Fernando Alonso Romero.
Pérez Tilve, María Teresa. Mothers and Daughters in Contemporary Irish and Galician Women Poetry. Directora: Manuela Palacios González.
2013
Casado Villanueva, María. Enchanting and Disenchanted Narratives: The Short Fiction of Katherine Mansfield and D.H. Lawrence. Directora: Laura Lojo Rodríguez.
López Pérez, Ana Belén. Female Identity in Katherine Mansfield’s Work. Director: José Manuel Barbeito Varela.
2012
Goldar Diéguez, Jorge. Inter-Stratum Synchronic Study: Context and Representation in The Canterbury Tales and Piers Plowman. Directora: Cristina Mourón Figueroa.
2011
Torrado Cespón, Milagros. Fascinology in the Society and Literature of the British Isles. Director: Fernando Alonso Romero.