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