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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Rodríguez Morales, Verónica (Date of defense: 2016-12-16)
The present PhD thesis, entitled “Globalisation in David Greig’s Theatre: Space, Ethics and the Spectator”, aims to contribute to the field of contemporary British drama and theatre studies in the form ...
Baró Gonzalez, Jana (Date of defense: 2022-09-01)
[eng] This thesis explores British Vogue’s self-appointed role as a guide to modern fashions and manners, that is, as a cultural intermediary, during the interwar period (1918-1939). Through a close ...
Winstanley, Laura (Date of defense: 2023-04-21)
[eng] This thesis explores the representation and construction of collective memory published in South Africa since 2007 by young, black, female authors. Collective memory is what is remembered about ...
Mendez Panadés, Albert (Date of defense: 2023-05-02)
[eng] This PhD dissertation, entitled “Neoliberalism, Class, Subjectivity: A Sociological Perspective on Post-Recession British Theatre / Neoliberalisme, classe, subjectivitat: una mirada sociològica ...