Information on TFMs (September 2025)


USC

1.           Ángela Abelenda Calvo

Title of MA Thesis (in English): The Aesthetics of Breakdown: Gender, Adolescence, and the Representation of Mental Illness in Skins’ Cassie and Effy.

Examination Committee:
Committee member 1 (Chair): Dr. Margarita Estévez Saá
Committee member 2 (Secretary): Dr. Susana Jiménez Placer
Committee member 3: Dr. Jorge Sacido Romero
Substitute member: Dr. Noemí Pereira Ares

Supervisor: Dr. Laura Lojo Rodríguez

Date, place and time of the oral defence: 10th September 2025, 12:30 (room 303)

2.           Cecilia Fernández Cardero

Title of MA thesis (in English): The Trauma of Hunger in The Hunger Games and The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakeso

Examination Committee:
Committee member 1 (Chair): Dr. Constante González Groba
Committee member 2 (Secretary): Dr. Cristina Mourón Figueroa
Committee member 3: Dr. Patricia Fra López
Substitute member: Dr. Laura Lojo Rodríguez

Supervisor: Dr. Susana Jiménez Placer

Date, place and time of the oral defence: 16th September 2025, 16:30 (room 303)

3.   Manuel Fernández Peláez

Title of MA thesis (in English): Queerness and Gothic Monstrosity in Lady Gaga’s Oeuvre

Examination Committee:
Committee member 1 (Chair): Dr. Laura Lojo Rodríguez
Committee member 2 (Secretary): Dr. Jorge Sacido Romero
Committee member 3: Dr. Cristina Mourón Figueroa
Substitute member: Dr. Susana Jiménez Placer

Supervisor: Dr. Noemí Pereira Ares

Date, place and time of the oral defence: 9th September 2025, 11:00 (room 303)

4.           Ana Cristina Márquez Segovia

Title of MA thesis (in English): The teaching of English as a Foreign Language in Chilean primary education

Examination Committee:
Committee member 1 (Chair): Dr. Susana Doval Suárez
Committee member 2 (Secretary): Dr. Mario Cal Varela
Committee member 3: Dr. Elsa González Álvarez
Substitute member: Dr. Carlos Acuña Fariña

Supervisors: Dr. Ignacio Palacios Martínez and Dr. Paloma Núñez Pertejo

Date, place and time of the oral defence: 10th September 2025, 16:00 (online, via Microsoft Teams)

5.           Aixa Montero Ferreiro

Title of MA thesis (in English): Borders and Eco-Refugeeism in Gun Island (2019) by Amitav Ghosh

Examination Committee:
Committee member 1 (Chair): Dr. Laura Lojo Rodríguez
Committee member 2 (Secretary): Dr. Jorge Sacido Romero
Committee member 3: Dr. Margarita Estévez Saá
Substitute member: Dr. Cristina Mourón Figueroa

Supervisor: Dr. Noemí Pereira Ares

Date, place and time of the oral defence: 9th September 2025, 12:30 (room 303)

6.           Raquel Oliveira Chenlo

Title of MA thesis (in English): Growing up with war-induced trauma: Song for Night by Christopher Abani

Examination Committee:
Committee member 1 (Chair): Dr. Laura Lojo Rodríguez
Committee member 2 (Secretary): Dr. Susana Jiménez Placer
Committee member 3: Dr. Margarita Estévez Saá
Substitute member: Dr. Cristina Mourón Figueroa

Supervisors: Dr. Jorge Sacido Romero and Dr. Noemí Pereira Ares

Date, place and time of the oral defence: 9th September 2025, 10:00 (room 303)

7.           Sara Santiago Míguez

Title of MA thesis (in English): Ageing Bodies. Representation of Ageing Women in Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood

Examination Committee:
Committee member 1 (Chair): Dr. Cristina Mourón Figueroa
Committee member 2 (Secretary): Dr. Susana Jiménez Placer
Committee member 3: Dr. María Alonso Alonso
Substitute member: Dr. Patricia Fra López

Supervisor: Dr. Manuela Palacios González

Date, place and time of the oral defence: 10th September 2025, 11:00 (Sala Académica)

8.           Carla Santos Barcenilla

Title of MA thesis (in English): Sue — Forevermore! The Muse in Emily Dickinson’s Work

Examination Committee:
Committee member 1 (Chair): Dr. Margarita Estévez Saá
Committee member 2 (Secretary): Dr. Susana Jiménez Placer
Committee member 3: Dr. Jorge Sacido Romero
Substitute member: Dr. Cristina Mourón Figueroa

Supervisor: Dr. Laura Lojo Rodríguez

Date, place and time of the oral defence: 11th September 2025, 11:00 (room 303)

UVigo

Desirée Santos Piedras

Title of MA thesis (in English): The Piltover and Zaun Spectrum: An Analysis of Gender Performance and Norms in Christian Linke and Alex Yee’s Arcane (2021-2024)

Examination Committee:
Committee member 1 (Chair): Dr. Jorge Luis Bueno Alonso
Committee member 2 (Secretary): Dr. Aida Rosende Pérez
Committee member 3: Dr. Teresa Caneda Cabrera

Supervisor: Dr. Aida Rosende Pérez