USC
1. Abdel Bari Ismail Obieda Alhafi
Title of MA Thesis: Jordanian EFL students’ perceptions of AI-generated vs. teacher-provided writing feedback
Examination Commitee:
Committee member 1 (Chair): Dr. Carlos Acuña Fariña
Committee member 2 (Secretary): Dr. Mario Cal Varela
Commitee member 3: Dr. Zeltia Blanco Suárez
Substitute member: Dr. María José López Couso
Supervisor: Dr. Tamara Bouso Rivas
Date, place and time of the oral defence: 15th July 2026, 10:30 (room 303)
2. Adrián Arasa Mayo
Title of MA Thesis: Sally Rooney’s “Nicely Polished Looking-Glass”: Identity Crises in Intermezzo (2024)
Examination Commitee:
Committee member 1 (Chair): Dr. Laura Lojo Rodríguez
Committee member 2 (Secretary): Dr. Noemí Pereira Ares
Commitee member 3: Dr. Susana Jiménez Placer
Substitute member: Dr. Jorge Sacido Romero
Supervisor: Dr. Margarita Estévez Saá
Date, place and time of the oral defence: 13th July 2026, 16:30 (room 303)
3. Priyanka Jha
Title of MA Thesis: The Role of Language Assistants in Bilingual and Multilingual Programmes in Galicia: Proposals for Improvement
Examination Commitee:
Committee member 1 (Chair): Dr. Mario Cal Varela
Committee member 2 (Secretary): Dr. Tamara Bouso Rivas
Commitee member 3: Dr. Susana María Doval Suárez
Substitute member: Dr. Paloma Núñez Pertejo
Supervisor: Dr. Ignacio Palacios Martínez
Date, place and time of the oral defence: 16th July 2026, 12:00 (room B15)
4. Kateryna Kruhliakova
Title of MA Thesis: Beauty as biopolitical control: the female body in Louise O’Neill’s Only ever yours
Examination Commitee:
Committee member 1 (Chair): Dr. Laura Lojo Rodríguez
Committee member 2 (Secretary): Dr. Noemí Pereira Ares
Commitee member 3: Dr. Margarita Estévez Saá
Substitute member: Dr. Cristina Mourón Figueroa
Supervisor: Dr. Manuela Palacios González
Date, place and time of the oral defence: 13th July 2026, 18:00 (room B03)
5. Raja Ledawe
Title of MA Thesis: How students ask, how AI answers”: A corpus-based linguistic analysis
Examination Commitee:
Committee member 1 (Chair): Dr. Carlos Acuña Fariña
Committee member 2 (Secretary): Dr. Paloma Núñez Pertejo
Commitee member 3: Dr. Ignacio Palacios Martínez
Substitute member: Dr. Mario Cal Varela
Supervisor: Dr. Tamara Bouso Rivas
Date, place and time of the oral defence: 15th July 2026, 12:00 (room 303)
6. Rosa María Mejuto Echeco
Title of MA Thesis: The Double Consciousness of Migration in Jhumpa Lahiri´s The Namesake (2003)
Examination Commitee:
Committee member 1 (Chair): Dr. Cristina Mourón Figueroa
Committee member 2 (Secretary): Dr. Martín Fernández Fernández
Commitee member 3: Dr. Rubén Jarazo Álvarez
Substitute member: Dr. Susana Jiménez Placer
Date, place and time of the oral defence: 15th July 2026, 10:00 (room B03)
UVigo
1. Saglam Buke
Title of MA Thesis: A Post-Anthropocentric Approach to Atmospheric Anxiety and its Linguistic Representation in Selected Stories of
Caitlín R. Kiernan
Examination Commitee:
Committee member 1 (Chair): Dr. Teresa Caneda Cabrera
Committee member 2 (Secretary): Dr. Martín Urdiales Shaw
Commitee member 3: Dr. Rosalía Rodríguez Vázquez
Substitute member: Dr. José Carregal Romero
Supervisor: Dr. Teresa Caneda Cabrera
Date, place and time of the oral defence: 26th July 2026 (room B13, Faculty of Philology and Translation
2. Jihane Elhachmi
Title of MA Thesis: The Representation of Libertinism in Seventeenth Century Spanish, French and English Theatre: The Don Juan Myth as a Study Case
Examination Committee:
Committee member 1 (Chair): Dr. Martín Urdiales Shaw
Committee member 2 (Secretary): Dr. Jorge Figueroa Dorrego
Committee member 3: Araceli González Crespán
Substitute member: Dr. José Carregal Romero
Supervisor: Dr. Jorge Figueroa Dorrego
Date, place and time of the oral defence: 22nd July 2026, 13:00
(online, Campus Remoto)
3. Alberto Quintá Vila
Title of MA Thesis: The Medieval Knightly Quest Reimagined in HBO’s Game of Thrones (2011-2019); Jaime Lannister’s and Sandor Clegane’s Journeys in Westeros
Examination Committee:
Committee member 1 (Chair): Dr. Jorge L. Bueno Alonso
Committee member 2 (Secretary): Dr. Jorge Figueroa Dorrego
Committee member 3: Dr. Martín Urdiales Shaw
Substitute member: Dr. Aida Rosende Pérez
Supervisor: Dr. Jorge L. Bueno Alonso
Date, place and time of the oral defence: 23th July 2026, 12:00 (Faculty of Philology and Translation)
4. Desirée Santos Piedras
Title of MA Thesis: Beyond the Norm: Analyzing Gender and Identity in
the Contrasting Worlds of Piltover and Zaun in Christian Linke and Alex Yee’s Arcane (2021-2024)
Examination Committee:
Committee member 1 (Chair): Dr. Jorge L. Bueno Alonso
Committee member 2 (Secretary): Dr. Aida Rosende Pérez
Committee member 3: Dr. Teresa Caneda Cabrera
Substitute member: Dr. Jorge Figueroa Dorrego
Supervisor: Dr. Jorge L. Bueno Alonso
Date, place and time of the oral defence: 2nd July 2026, 12:00 (room B06, Faculty of Philology and Translation)
5. Rafael Viñas Salgado
Title of MA Thesis: The Politics of Memory in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney
Examination Committee:
Committee member 1 (Chair): Dr. Teresa Caneda Cabrera
Committee member 2 (Secretary): Dr. José Carregal Romero
Committee member 3: Dr. Martín Urdiales Shaw
Substitute member: Dr. Jorge Figueroa Dorrego
Supervisor: Dr. Teresa Caneda Cabrera
Date, place and time of the oral defence: 27th July 2026, 11:00 (room B13, Faculty of Philology and Translation)
