Master’s theses publicly defended

[Some authors have chosen to make their MA theses available online via the institutional repositories. Click on the title of the thesis to open the PDF file.]

2022-2023

University of A Coruña:

Caridad Pousa, Paula. Of Trees and Women: Ecofeminist Memoirs by Wangari Maathai and Vandana Shiva. Supervisor: Carolina Núñez Puente.
Doldán Pan, Natalia. Spiritual Ecofeminism: ‘‘Healing the Earth’’ with Starhawk’s Work. Supervisor: Carolina Núñez Puente.
Duggan, Daniel John. Better Late: Belated Space in Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes. Supervisor: José Liste Noya.
González Taracido, Miguel. Opening up frontiers through music: exploring narratives of identity, prophethood, father figure and trauma in Kendrick Lamar’s Mr Morale and The Big Steppers. Supervisor: José Manuel Estévez Saá.
Paz Moskowich-Spiegel, Lucía. “This World Is Rotten”: An Analysis of Eco-Fascist Discourse. Supervisor: Luis Miguel Puente Castelo.
Souto Castro, Alexia. Sue the Patriarchy: Analysing the “Mary Sue” Trope and Its Many Problems. Supervisor: David Mitchell Clark Mitchell.

University of Santiago de Compostela:

Blanco Vieira, Sara. Computer-mediated Communication: A Twitter Case study. Supervisor: Ignacio Palacios Martínez.
Cernadas Lema, Carmen Gloria. Gendered Bodies, Sexual Desire and Violence in A. L. Kennedy’s Indelible Acts. Supervisor: Laura Lojo Rodríguez.
Grela Castro, Ana. “Every woman is a mad ugly bad old witch, somewhere in her heart”: A Reinterpretation of Witchcraft in Philippa Gregory’s The White Queen (2009) and The Lady of the Rivers (2011). Supervisor: Cristina Mourón Figueroa.
Guerra Sandoval, Sara. The Construction of Female Monstrosity in Claire Kohda’s Woman Eating (2022). Supervisor: Laura Lojo Rodríguez.
Lens Fernández, Irene. Moving Towards the Margins of the Screen: Literary Allusions and Weird Liminality in Robert Eggers’sThe Lighthouse. Supervisor: Laura Lojo Rodríguez.
Orois Prado, Andrea.“We made it real”: A Study about Family Curses in What Remains of Edith Finch. Supervisor: Jorge Sacido Romero.
Simón López, Alexandra. “Paciencia y fé”: Immigration, identity, community, and the American Dream in In The Heights. Supervisor: Constante González Groba.
Ventoso Prado, María. “We’re bad feminists”: Feminism and Postfeminism in Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag (2016). Supervisor: Laura Lojo Rodríguez.

University of Vigo:

Beloborodova, Anastasia. Non-categorical variability in World Englishes: The clausal complementation profile of DENY in Pakistani, Indian, American and British English. Supervisor: Elena Seoane Posse.
Brandt Ablanedo, David. ‘Forever young’: The eternal child archetype in the post-apocalyptic world of Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story (2010). Supervisor: Martín Urdiales Shaw.
López Rial, Mireia. “Undoing the knots inside of me”: The Self-creation of a Dominican-American Identity Journey in Elizabeth Acevedo’s The Poet X (2018). Supervisor: María Araceli González Crespán.
Sánchez Rodríguez, Xulia. Pity that semi-insubordination (SIS) is so hard to retrieve from corpora: A pilot study of SIS in contemporary British English. Supervisors: Javier Pérez Guerra and Yolanda Fernández Pena.

2021-2022

University of A Coruña:

Corbalán Labora, Valentina Sofía. Diasporic Identity, Gender, and Representation: A Comparative Study of Chinese American Women in The Joy Luck Club and The Farewell. Supervisor: Begoña Simal González.
Dixon, Keah Amy. Projecting Galician Culture in English: Ethics and Strategies in the Anglophone Translation of ‘Os libros arden mal’. Supervisor: José Manuel Estévez Saá.

University of Santiago de Compostela:

Blanco Rodríguez, Martín. The Ghosts of the Northern Irish Troubles: Dealing with Trauma in Society and in the Arts. Supervisor: Margarita Estévez Saá.
Chen, Danyi. Exploring the Complexity of Love: Sally Rooney’s Novels through the Generic Lens of Romantic Fiction. Supervisor: Laura Lojo Rodríguez.
Cusin, Matteo. Twitter biographies and the presentation of self: a sociolinguistics on “traditional language” relevance on social media . Supervisor: María de los Ángeles Gómez González.
Egea Castañeda, Samuel. Posthumanism in the Fashion Industry: On Human Animals and Cyborgs. Supervisors: Margarita Estévez Saá and Noemí Pereira Ares.
Fernández Avilés, Jorge. An ecolinguistic approach to stance constructions in The Coronavirus Corpus: A pilot study. Supervisor: Mª José López Couso and Mª Belén Méndez Naya.
Fernández Naveiro, María Luísa. Learner translation corpora: the MUST project. Supervisor: Francisco Xabier Fernández Polo.
Suárez Álvarez, María. A Woman’s Place in the Struggle: A Post-Colonial Analysis and Feminist Study of Milkman by Anna Burns. Supervisor: Manuela Palacios González.
Sarmiento Fernández, Rafael Andrés. Colonialism and Imperialism in Comic Book Films. Supervisor: Cristina Mourón Figueroa.

University of Vigo:

Rodríguez Insua, Beatriz. Temptation, Seduction, Female Tropes and Sexualization: A case-study of the Femme Fatale Archetype in Visual Narratives. Supervisor: Jorge Luis Bueno Alonso.
Rodríguez Diéguez, Iago. Gendered Representations of the City: A Discussion of Dublin in Keith Ridgway’s The Long Falling. Supervisor: María Teresa Caneda Cabrera.
Del Río González, Lucía. The Digitalization of Feminization in Cyberfeminist Art: An Analysis of the Artistic Manifestations of VNS Matrix, Subrosa and Laboria Cuboniks between 1990-2020. Supervisor:Araceli González Crespán.
Castro Fontao, Mariña. Gendering the Coquette in Female-authored English Fiction of the Eighteenth Century. Supervisor: Jorge Figueroa Dorrego.
Castro Vázquez, Celia. “My dear Mary…ever affectionate and sincerely yours” – Norms and Use of Address Forms in the Late Eighteenth Century. Supervisor: Nuria Yáñez Bouza.
Orlova, Olesia. A Comparative Analysis of “Crime” in Present-Day English, Russian and Ukranian. Supervisor: Rosalía Rodríguez Vázquez.
Ivy J. Antonio. Spanish EFL learners’ perception and language attitudes towards acrolectal Philippine English. Supervisor: Elena Seoane.

2020-2021

University of A Coruña:

Carreira Rodríguez, Santiago. “Mystic River and Prisoners Viewed from Masculinity Studies and Affect Theory”. Supervisor: Carolina Núñez Puente.
García Domínguez, Paula. “’Progress—Isn’t That Wonderful?’: An Analysis of Ethnic American Fiction on the Future(s) of Race”. Supervisor: Begoña Simal González.
Guitián Carril, Xoán. “All Else Confusion: A Study of the Textual Violence on Alan Moore’s From Hell”. Supervisor: María Jesús Cabarcos Traseira.
López Pombo, Diego. “’Property, and a Valuable Property’: A Study of Disposability, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Slaves in Ta-Nehisi Coates’ ‘The Water Dancer’”. Supervisor: Begoña Simal González.
Moreno Carreira, Rocío. “Deconstructing Ian McEwan’s Atonement through Trauma, Memory and Imagination, the Hyperreal and Gender Roles”. Supervisor: David Mitchell Clark.
Pan Pérez, Yarizán. “Culture, Humour, and Subtitles: The Translation into English of Ocho Apellidos Vascos“. Supervisor: Elizabeth Anne Woodward Smith.
Portela Marín, Carla. “Reading Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah Transculturally”. Supervisor: José Manuel Estévez Saá.
Sánchez Barbeito, Elena. The Significance of Second Wave Feminism for Networked Feminism: The #MeToo Movement. Supervisor: Carolina Núñez Puente,

University of Santiago de Compostela:

Kaakejian, Jack. “COVID-19 in Online Media: A Comparative Critical Discourse Analysis”. Supervisor: Teresa Sánchez Roura.
Rumbo Calvo, Irina. “Discourse of news values analysis: Hurricane Laura in online media”. Supervisor: Teresa Sánchez Roura.
Álvarez Alonso, Noelia. “A Contrastive Critical Discourse Analysis of Right-wing Populism: The cases of Donald Trump and Santiago Abascal”. Supervisor: María de los Ángeles Gómez González.
Álvarez Manso, Hugo. “From lexis to grammar: a diachronic study of the modal verb will. Supervisor: Belén Méndez Naya.
Borisevičiūtė, Diana. “Rhythmic alteration in Standard American English and General Indian English: An analysis of broadcast news using the Praat tool”. Supervisor: María de los Ángeles Gómez González.
Fernández Jorge, Katia. “Racial Trauma in Toni Morrison’s Home”. Supervisor: Constante González Groba.
García Suárez, Adrián. “The impact of new technologies and their application in the teaching of English in the Galician educational system”. Supervisor: Ignacio M. Palacios Martínez.
Leiro Lorenzo, Jesús “Running Resultatives to the ground: A Construction Grammar approach to the status of the postverbal NP in “fake object” Resultative Constructions in English”. Supervisor: J. Carlos Acuña Fariña.
Pereiras Cristobo, Tamara. “Behind the scenes: a study on teachers’ perceptions of the Flipped Classroom method”. Supervisors: Elsa María González Álvarez and Susana María Doval Suárez.
Souto Casal, Marta. “A corpus-based study of the speech acts of apology: A comparison of British English, American English, Hong Kong English and Philippine English”. Supervisor: María José López Couso.
Fernández Quiroga, Nerea. “A comparative analysis of the speech of individuals with fluent and non-fluent aphasia”. Supervisor: J. Carlos Acuña Fariña.
Filloy López, Gonzalo. “(The teaching of) English as a Foreign Language at the 4th level of Primary Education: A course syllabus, with special reference to a cultural exchange between Galicia and the US”. Supervisor: Paloma Núñez Pertejo.
Fuentes Del Río, María Victoria. “’She hadn’t realized how long it takes to become somebody else’: Race, Gender and Identity in Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half“. Supervisors: Jorge Sacido Romero and Laura Mª Lojo Rodríguez.
Macías Alonso, Lara. “Changing Skins and Blurring Borders: Woman-Animal Metamorphosis and the Posthuman in Sarah Hall’s ‘Mrs Fox’”. Supervisor: Laura Mª Lojo Rodríguez.
Rubines Chisca, Olalla. “Her Horrible Body and Other Parties: The Female Body In Carmen María Machado’s Short Fiction”. Supervisor: Laura Mª Lojo Rodríguez.
Vladu, Adina. “A corpus-based study of conjunctive connectors: nevertheless and nonetheless”. Supervisor: Belén Méndez Naya.

University of Vigo:

Abalo Dieste, Laura. “Fragmentary constructions as proxies for colloquialisation in Present- Day written English”. Supervisor: Esperanza Rama Martínez.
Custodio Adán, Tania. “Beyond Prostitution: Giving Voice to the Jilt and the Picara in The London Jilt or the Politick Whore (1683)”. Supervisor: Jorge L. Bueno Alonso.
Domínguez Viso, Muriel. “Personal Truths and the Non-Fiction Essay: Shame, Silence and Pain in Emilie Pine’s Notes To Self and Sinéad Gleeson’s Constellations: Reflections from Life”. Supervisor: Teresa Caneda Cabrera.
Freire Gargamala, Lydia. “Ecological Imperialism in Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo and Lord Jim. Supervisor: Jorge Figueroa Dorrego.
Nieves Fernández, Mar. “An Orthoepical Analysis of /ŋ/ in Thomas Spence’s The Grand Repository of the English Language (1775)”. Supervisor: Nuria Yáñez Bouza.

2019-2020

University of A Coruña:

Blanco López, Estefanía. “Critical Discourse Analysis: The Rhetoric of Female Political Activism in the 21st Century. Yousafzai, Thunberg and Ocasio-Cortez”. Supervisor: Elizabeth Anne Woodward Smith.
Otero Bello, Yago. “‘Good Kid, M.A.A.D City’: An Analysis of Kendrick Lamar’s Works and His Role in Hip-Hop Movement”. Supervisor: María Frías Rudolphi.
Rañal Canosa, Noelia. “Unveiling the Mail-Order Bride: Mutated Arranged Marriages in Chitra Divakaruni’s ‘Clothes’ and Linh Dinh’s ‘Love, Like, Hate’”.Supervisor: Begoña Simal González.
Rodríguez Dafonte, Patricia. “Native Galician Speakers’ Production of English Vowels and Diphthongs”. Supervisor: Crespo María Begoña García.
Veiga Mariño, Patricia. “Audiovisual Translation: Translating Song Lyrics from English to Spanish”. Supervisor: Elizabeth Anne Woodward Smith.
Yürek, Ecem. “Perfectionism, Language Anxiety and Procrastination as Predictors of Foreign Language Learning Achievement”. Supervisor: Alan Albert Floyd Moore.

University of Santiago de Compostela:

Cima Fernández, Uxía. “Intersections of gender and ethnicity in British Indian Short stories: Tanika Gupta´s Rebecca and the Neighbours and Rahila Gupta’s An Answer for Rita”. Supervisor: Laura Mª Lojo Rodríguez.
Gabasa Vila, Erika. “Sing with me, sing for the year, sing for the laughter and sing for the tear: Music Genres and their Lexical Identity: Blues, Country, Folk, Metal, Punk and Reggae”. Supervisor: Belén Méndez Naya.
Gómez García, Ángela. “‘Not This, Not That, Beyond Definition’: Performativity, Queerness, and Gender Trouble Through Nico Tortorella’s Works”. Supervisors: Laura Mª Lojo Rodríguez and Jorge Sacido Romero.
Lorenzo Rial, Inés. “An Ecocritical Study of Sarah Orne Jewett’s The Country of the Pointed Firs”. Supervisor: Susana María Jiménez Placer.
Santana Silveira, Suellen. “English as the Language of Science — Insights from Brazil”. Supervisors: Francisco Javier Fernández Polo and Mario Cal Varela.
Santos Barral, María Olalla. “‘Not evil or irredeemable’: Women, Bodies and Sorority in Donal Ryan’s All We Shall Know”. Supervisor: Margarita Estévez Saá.

University of Vigo:

Douglas, Heidi. “The Impact of English as a Lingua Franca on English Language Teaching: A Preliminary Approach to Teachers’ Attitudes in Spain”. Supervisor: Elena Seoane Posse.
Longa Orozco, Victor. «Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: Towards a Multimodal Analysis of Tim Burton’s 1999 Filmic Adaptation”. Supervisor: Martín Urdiales Shaw.
Quintela Nantes, Ana. “Courtesan, Widow, and Wealthy Gentlewoman: Women who Refuse Marriage in Restoration Comedy”. Supervisor: Jorge Figueroa Dorrego.
Tojo López, Samanta. “Film Noir, Neorealism and Neo-Noir: James M. Cain’s The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934)”. Supervisor: Jorge L. Bueno Alonso.
Wu, Guizhen. “Medical Consultations: A Contrastive Study of Good and Bad Interactional Practices”. Supervisor: Esperanza Rama Martínez

2018-2019

University of A Coruña:

1. Caridad Barbosa, Christian. «‘A Bad Impersonation of Myself’: The Identities of Victor Mancini in Chuck Palahniuk´s Choke». Supervisor: Eduardo Barros Grela.

1. Currás Prada, María Paula. «‘The Mouth Is Just a Body Filled With Imagination’: Experimentation, Hunger and Dreams in Lyn Hejinian’s and Bernadette Mayer’s Language Poetry». Supervisor: José Liste Noya.

1. Deibe Paz, Alejandro. «The Search for Identity in James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room«. Supervisor: José Liste Noya.

1. Imdad , Kulsoom. «The importance of the Fairy-tale in the work of Tolkien: theory and practice». Supervisor: David Mitchell Clark Mitchell.

1. Martín Fernández, Pablo. «The Cutlass’s Edge: interpreting the hidden side of Melville’s Billy Budd«. Supervisor: José Liste Noya.

1. Praga, Martín Jorge. «‘To Be a Yardstick’: Individual Rebellion and Social Conformity in Cathy Park Hong’s Engine Empire«. Supervisora: Begoña Simal González.

1. Romero Rivera, Emérita. «A Corpus-Based Study of Gender and Use of Amplifiers in Conversation». Supervisora: Isabel Sofía Moskowich-Spiegel Fandiño.

1. Shu , Jin. «Nature Writing: from Aldo Leopold’s Land Ethic to Annie Dillard’s Spiritual Ecology.» Supervisor: José Miguel Alonso Giráldez.

Solla Vilas, Beatriz. «Spaces of Memory: Performing Identity in Travels in the Scriptorium«. Supervisor: Eduardo Barros Grela.

University of Santiago de Compostela:

1. Raquel Mosquera Chouza. “The influence of the Italian Renaissance in Shakespeare´s Othello and Romeo and Juliet”. Supervisor: José Manuel Barbeito Varela.

1. Judith González Brea. “Intersection of Gender and (Dis)ability in Sylvia Plath´s The Bell Jar”. Supervisora: Laura Lojo Rodríguez.

1. Vanesa Lado Pazos. “From Virginia Ambler to Dorinda Oakley: A Comparative Study of Femininity Models in Ellen Glasgow´s Novels”. Supervisor: Constante González Groba.

1. Ainara García Doval. “Sorority In Rupi Kaur´s milk and honey”. Supervisora: Laura Lojo Rodríguez.

1. Alba Alejandra Troncoso Graña. “Deirdre Madden’s Early Fiction: Women Artists and Irish Society in Hidden Symptoms and Nothing Is Black”. Supervisora: Margarita Estévez Sáa.

1. Irene Fernández López. “Body Facets in Éilís Ní Dhuibhne’s ‘The Pale Gold of Alaska’». Supervisora: Manuela Palacios González.

1. Marcos Hernández González. “’Beneath It All’: A Comparative Study of Silence in Philip Larkin and Harold Pinter”. Supervisor: José Manuel Barbeito Varela.

1. Sheila Mayo Maneiro. “Ageing and Disability in literature: an analysis of Anne Enright´s The Green Road”. Supervisora: Margarita Estévez Sáa.

1. Alberto Amoza Dávila. “Shadows over Arda: A Reading of Evil in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion”. Supervisora: Laura Lojo Rodríguez.

1. Antía Román Sotelo. “’So I write and wait’. Irish literature and Trauma in Jennifer Johnston´s How Many Miles to Babylon?” Supervisora: Laura Lojo Rodríguez.

1. Sergio Fernández Rodríguez. “Medieval English Queens in Game of Thrones: A Study of the Character of Cersei Lannister”. Supervisora: Cristina Mourón Figueroa.

1. Jasmine Nihmey Vasdi. “Evolving Ecofeminism: A Climate-Centric Analysis of bell hook´s Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place”. Supervisor: Constante González Groba.

1. Martin Majercik. “Doris Lessing´s African Stories: Intersections of Gender, class and ethnicity”. Supervisora: Manuela Palacios González.

1. Paula Pampin. “Historical development of phrasal verbs: The verb turn from 1700 to the Present-day as a case in point”. Supervisora: Belén Méndez Naya.

1. Elba Rego Conde. “’Clarissa Will Have Loved a Woman’: Motherhood and Sexuality in Michael Cunningham’s The Hours”. Supervisora: Laura Lojo Rodríguez.

1. Domingo Antonio Sabugueiro Avilés. “Animals and Gender in Claire Keegan´s Walk the Blue Fields”. Supervisora: Manuela Palacios González.

Beatriz Abellás Cobas. “’They Can Keep their Red Castle and their Iron Chair as well’. Nations, Nationalism, and Myth in Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire”. Supervisora: Cristina Mourón Figueroa.

University of Vigo:

1. De la Iglesia Sanjuán, Claudia. «Pitch accent production and placement in English Wh-questions by Galician Spanish speakers: A case study». Supervisora: Rosalía, Rodríguez Vázquez.

1. Dzigman, Natalia. «Interlanguage, Error Analysis and Second Language Acquisition: A Pilot Study with Spanish Students of English». Supervisora: Rosalía, Rodríguez Vázquez.

1. Hall, Bethan Ami. «Super Love and Super Loss in a Technological Dystopia: Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story (2010) through the Lens of Charlie Brooker’s “Be Right Back”, “Nosedive” and “Smithereens” from the Black Mirror Series (2013-2019)». Supervisor: Jorge L. Bueno Alonso.

1. Tabuyo Santaclara, Sara. «The Handmaid’s Tale across Adaptation: A Comparative Analysis of Atwood’s Novel (1985) and Miller’s Series (2017) through the Sociopolitical Context of each Publication». Supervisora: Belén Martín Lucas.

Verutina, Anastasia. «Gendered Language in Cosmetics Advertisements». Supervisora: Elena C. Seoane Posse.

2017-2018

University of A Coruña:

1. Aitor Bouso Gavín. «Atypical women: The feminist dialogics of Lucia Berlin, Lorna Goodison and Grace Paley». Supervisor: Carolina Núñez Puente.

1. Belén Eiras Reboiras. «Online English dictionaries in the EFL classroom: Students’ and teachers’ perceptions and use.» Supervisor: Elizabeth Woodward.

1. Borja Carlos Fernández Souto. “Common errors and mistakes in the production and comprehension of Primary Education pupils in English as a Foreign Language”. Supervisor: Elizabeth Woodward Smith.

1. Sara López Mariño. «10 Cloverfield Lane: Gender and genre subversion through film.» Supervisor: Carolina Núñez Puente.

1. Cristina Losada Sánchez. «Under his eye»: Power and gender performativity in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Oryx and Crake.» Supervisor: Begoña Simal González.

1. Beatriz Macías Digón. «The Crying of Lot 49: Reading the world otherwise». Supervisor: José Liste Noya.

1. Martín Mallo Meilán. «Identities in transit: Space and identity in T. C. Boyle’s The Tortilla Curtain.» Supervisor: Eduardo Barros Grela.

1. Laura Mato Varela. «Language acquisition and multilingualism: Advantages of a multilingual education.» Supervisor: Alan Floyd Moore.

María Medín Doce. «From subaltern to heroine: Sisterhood and empowerment in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple.» Supervisor: María Frías Rudolphi.

University of Santiago de Compostela:

1. Idoya Cancelas León. «Exploring verbal complementation profiles in World Englishes. Ditransitive and transfer-caused-motion patterns in Indian and British English». Supervisors: Teresa Fanego and Elena Seoane.

1. Abel Fernández Aguiar. “The exorcism of Martin Scorsese: A critical analysis of Scorsese’s anti-hero protagonists as alter-egos of the director himself”. Supervisor: Patricia Fra.

1. Sara González Bernárdez. “The fantasy of the female: Gender construction in the fantasy genre”. Supervisor: Laura M. Lojo Rodríguez.

1. Ana González Cancela. “Willa Cather’s My Antonia (1918): Gender roles and the American Dream”. Supervisor: Susana Jiménez Placer.

1. Elena Guerreira Labrador. «Of realism and identity. Sociolinguistic implications in Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South“. Supervisors: Laura Lojo Rodríguez and Mario Cal Varela.

1. Suzy Henriques Fraga. “A diachronic corpus-based approach to Northern English lexis”. Supervisor: Belén Méndez Naya.

1. Robin King. “The nature versus nurture debate: how much of language is innate?”. Supervisor: J. Carlos Acuña Fariña.

1. Duarte López Fernández. “The use of English in Higher Education: the case of the University of Santiago de Compostela”. Supervisor: Javier Fernández Polo.

1. Alejandra Losada Novoa. “The communicative breakdown in Pink Floyd”. Supervisor: Jorge Sacido Romero.

1. Lucía Otero Fernández. “A study on the role of women in the Irish society of James Joyce’s Dubliners“. Supervisor: Cristina Mourón Figueroa.

1. Laura Menéndez Bouzo. “Behind the madwoman in literature: a psychoanalitical approach”. Supervisor: Jorge Sacido Romero.

1. Sandra Regodeseves López. “Guilt and intertextuality in Ian McEwan’s fiction: Atonement (2001) and Nutshell (2016). Supervisor: Jorge Sacido Romero.

Paula Pérez Zamora. “The intercultural dimension of TEFL in Primary Education”. Supervisors: Susana Doval Suárez and Elsa M. González Álvarez.

University of Vigo:

1. Dolores Salomé Fernández Amigo. «Morphosyntactic variation in English as a Lingua Franca (ELF)». Supervisor: Elena Seoane.

1. Alexandre Vázquez Somoza. «Everyone deserves a great love story: Representations of queerness in American YA literature». Supervisor: Belén Martín Lucas.

Antonio Ángel Vílchez Valdivia. «Teaching English through board games». Supervisor: Rosa Alonso Alonso.

2016-2017

University of A Coruña:

1. Carolina Álvarez Otero. “Not like her: Trauma and motherhood in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory and Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club«. Supervisor: María Frías Rudolphi.

1. Anabella Soledad Barsaglini Castro. “WHAT: When humans are transcending. A corpus-based study”. Supervisor: Isabel Moskowich-Spiegel.

1. Elena Canido Muiño. “Creative muse: The young female artist and the role of arts in women’s Künstlerromans”. Supervisor: María Frías Rudolphi.

1. Raquel Fernández Uría. “All the way through: Transgression in Jim Henson’s Labyrinth“. Supervisor: Eduardo Barros Grela.

1. Tamara Mariño Díaz. “The American bandstand era: The representation of the African-American community in Shankman’s Hairspray”. Supervisor: José Liste Noya.

1. Ana Martínez Carrera. “Interference in translation. A study on the uses of argumentative linkers in English translations from Spanish”. Supervisor: Isabel Moskowich-Spiegel.

1. Raquel Martínez Neira. “’Real or not real?’ Exploring gender in Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games trilogy”. Supervisor: María Frías Rudolphi.

1. María Ángeles Porto Prado. “Multiple intelligences and growth mindset development in the foreign language classroom: A field study with secondary school students”. Supervisor: Elizabeth Anne Woodward Smith.

Vanesa Vázquez Novo. “Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald’s short stories: A reflection of her artistic aspirations and frustrations”. Supervisor: José Liste Noya.

University of Santiago de Compostela:

1. Magdalena Bakowska. «Semantic change and intensification: A study of four fear-related adjectives». Supervisor: Belén Méndez Naya.

1. Leticia García Barreiro. «Intersections of race and gender in Harper Lee’s fiction». Supervisor: Constante González Groba.

1. Sandra Gómez Garrido. «We take care of our own: Representations of the common man in Steinbeck and Springsteen». Supervisor: Patricia Fra López.

1. Adrián González Álvarez. «Masculinities under pressure. Analysis of Raymond Carver’s male characters». Supervisor: Laura Lojo Rodríguez.

1. Yin Li. «An analysis of Doris Lessing’s The grass is singing from the perspective of postcolonial feminism”. Supervisor: José Manuel Barbeito Varela.

1. Nerea López Montero. «Historicity vs fiction in Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander». Supervisor: Cristina Mourón Figueroa.

1. Lúa López Pomar. «Invented lives: The case of Zelda Fitzgerald in biography, fiction and TV». Supervisor: Patricia Fra López.

1. Tania Nogareda Couselo. «Word frequency in British advertising: verbs and adjectives». Supervisor: Mª Teresa Sánchez Roura.

1. Rubén Pérez Vilas. «The characterization of aristocracy at the turn of the century: Continental and transatlantic literary perspectives». Supervisor: Margarita Estévez Saá.

1. Lorena Ribao Camba. «Content and Language Integrated Learning in Spain. An analysis of the Galician situation». Supervisor: Ignacio Palacios Martínez.

1. Raúl Río Fernández. «Exploring the parallels between ontogenetic and diachronic grammaticalization: The emerging modal wanna in American English as a case in point». Supervisor: Mª José López Couso.

Yonay Rodríguez Rodríguez. «A study of classroom interactions in a multicultural context». Supervisor: Mario Cal Varela.

University of Vigo:

1. María Mallo Alfonso. «Phonology in eighteenth-century English dictionaries: Variation and change in long vowels». Supervisor: Nuria Yáñez Bouza.

1. Nair Melo Pazos. «‘Low standards’ and the National Curriculum in Primary Education in the UK». Supervisor: Nuria Yáñez Bouza.

1. Raquel Pereira Romasanta. «Synchronic variation in clausal complementation: The case of regret in British and American English». Supervisor: Elena Seoane.

1. Adriana Pérez Pazo. «Write-wrote-written? Verb forms in the preterite and participle in schoolchildren’s writings». Supervisor: Nuria Yáñez Bouza.

1. Jennifer Rivas González. «Growing up hybrid: Narratives of Asian girlhood in English-speaking diasporas». Supervisor: Belén Martín Lucas.

1. Estrela Rivas López. «Protection vs. liberation: The sex wars of the 80s in the 21st century and the postfeminism of today through the analysis of HBO’s Girls«. Supervisor: Belén Martín Lucas.

Carla Seabra Dacosta. «Epistolary writing in the eighteenth century: Terms of address and self-corrections». Supervisor: Nuria Yáñez Bouza.

2015-2016

University of A Coruña:

1. Laura de las Mercedes Buján Sánchez. “Pragmatic competence in Spanish students of EFL: Making requests and apologies”. Supervisor: Elizabeth Woodward Smith.

1. Malgorzata Ewa Chmielewska. “Content marketing as ideology. A Critical Discourse Analysis approach”. Supervisor: Begoña Crespo García.

1. Alba Díaz Pérez. “Feminism and humor in Lorrie Moores’s short stories”. Supervisor: Carolina Núñez Puente.

1. Roberto Gutiérrez Vázquez. “The Dublin of Joyce: Analysis of Dubliners”. Supervisor: Antonio Raúl de Toro Santos.

1. Seán Keane. “People never notice anything: Exploring Holden’s apparent mental disorder and estrangement with parental figures”. Supervisor: Eduardo Barros Grela.

1. Rebeca Martínez Trigo. “Exploring Linda’s identity formation in Monique Truong’s Bitter in the Mouth”. Supervisor: Begoña Simal González.

1. Natalia Paz Outumuro. “Verbing in spoken and written discourse across time”. Supervisor: Isabel Moskowich-Spiegel Fandiño.

1. María Esther Rabuñal Bermúdez. “Redemption through the Blues: Shug Avery, Mary Agnes [‘Squeak’] and Billie Holiday”. Supervisor: María Frías Rudolphi.

Bhavna Vasnani Vasnani. “Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple: An analysis and comparative depiction of female characters in the novels and television series”. Supervisor: David Clark Mitchell.

University of Santiago de Compostela:

1. Mónica Junquera Areas Pérez. “Gender and identity in Irish Contemporary fiction”. Supervisor: Manuela Susana Domínguez Pena.

1. Martín Fernández Fernández. “The apprenticeship of the Hemingway hero in The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell To Arms, and For Whom the Bell Tolls”. Supervisor: Constante González Groba.

1. Tania Figueiras Campos. “Creating an alter-ego and a hero: Perry Smith in Richard Brooks’s film adaptation of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood”. Supervisor: Patricia Fra López.

1. Pablo García Álvarez. “Forensic Linguistics: The case of real life and movie interrogations». Supervisor: María de los Ángeles Gómez González.

1. Carmen González Varela. “George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four: Revolution, sexuality, and the body of the female antiheroine”. Supervisor: Laura Lojo Rodríguez.

1. Regina Martínez Ponciano. “The sign of the Wildean four: Analyzing Oscar Wilde’s presence in Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes”. Supervisor: Jorge Sacido Romero.

Jorge Rodríguez Durán. “Urban tales: Women’s imaginaries in Irish Short Fiction about The Troubles”. Supervisor: Manuela Palacios González.

University of Vigo:

1. Sara Albán García. “Transliteration and analysis of a Late Middle English manuscript: Prick of Conscience MS 50”. Supervisor: Nuria Yáñez Bouza.

1. Manuel Bea Pintos. “The Cthulhu mythos and the unspeakable”. Supervisor: Martín Urdiales Shaw.

Martyna Bubacz. “L1 influence on the usage of English verb tenses: A case study of Polish and Spanish speakers”. Supervisor: Rosalía Rodríguez Vázquez.

2014-2015

University of A Coruña:

1. Verónica-Mirela Apostol. “William Shakespeare in popular culture: Franco Zeffirelli and Baz Luhrmann’s film adaptations of Romeo and Juliet”. Supervisor: David Clark Mitchell.

1. Ana López Pampín. “Geography and involvement: A linguistic analysis of women’s discourse”. Supervisor: Isabel Moskowich-Spieguel Fandiño.

1. Inés López-Sors Vázquez. “Living in rapture: Cultural perspectives and narrative techniques in the Bioshock Saga”. Supervisor: Eduardo Barros Grela.

Lucía Vázquez Martínez. “Primary education textbooks and their adequacy to LOMCE: A corpus-based study on lexical skills”. Supervisor: Isabel Moskowich-Spiegel Fandiño.

University of Santiago de Compostela:

1. Khawla Abed Albadi Abbas Al-Tawarh. “Euphemisms for death in Arabic-Jordanian and American English: A comparative study”. Supervisor: Luis Iglesias Rábade.

1. Noelia Castro Chao. “Changes in argument structure: Developments in impersonal constructions since Late Middle English. A preliminary corpus-based study”. Supervisor: Teresa Fanego.

1. Alba Dono Costoya. “Re-establishment of English in writing, 1300-1500”. Supervisor: Luis Iglesias Rábade.

1. Andrea Jamardo Seijo. “Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings in terms of race and gender”. Supervisor: Susana Jiménez Placer.

1. Alicia Martínez Aguín. “Language, gender and identity in Julia Álvarez’s How the García Girls Lost Their Accents”. Supervisor: Susana Jiménez Placer.

1. Angela Martínez Fachal. “Bards of the Nation: Eduardo Pondal and W.B. Yeats”. Supervisor: Margarita Estévez Sáa.

1. Daniela Beatriz Pettersson Traba. “A preliminary corpus-based diachronic analysis of the behavioural profile of a set of near-synonyms in American English”. Supervisor: María José López Couso.

1. Naara Queiruga Domínguez. “Segregation in Alice Childress’s Like One of the Family”. Supervisor: Susana Jiménez Placer.

1. Irene Vilariño Martínez. “Bobbie Ann Mason’s The Nancy Culpepper Stories: Region, writing, and identity”. Supervisor: Constante González Groba.

Marta Yáñez Castiñeira. “Women and ‘The Troubles’: Trauma and memory in Deirdre Madden’s One By One in the Darkness”. Supervisor: Margarita Estévez Sáa.

University of Vigo:

1. Martyna Bubacz. “L1 Influence on the acquisition of English verb tenses: A case study of Polish and Spanish speakers”. Supervisor: Rosalía Rodríguez Vázquez.

1. Marta Bukowska. “English in brand naming in the streets of Vigo. A sociolinguistic study of opinions and attitudes”. Supervisor: Nuria Yáñez Bouza.

1. Tania González González. “Female characters in the Arthurian Cycle and their representation in John Boorman’s Excalibur (1981) and Terry Gilliam’s The Fisher King (1991)”. Supervisor: Jorge L. Bueno Alonso.

1. Pedro Nogueira Chapela. “Ain’t never gonna be what it was: The social failure of post-industrial capitalism through The Wire’s Season Two”. Supervisor: Jorge L. Bueno Alonso.

1. Diana Ramos Soto. “O Henry’s New York Stories: Urban social classes at the turn of the 20th Century”. Supervisor: Martín Urdiales Shaw.

1. Raquel Sánchez Monterde. “An ‘unfinished tale’ of the Matter of Britain?: J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fall of Arthur and its contribution to his mythology for England.” Supervisor: Jorge L. Bueno Alonso.

Adriana Taboada González. “Gollum vs. The Gollum: Ring-bearing, duality & inner conflict and their narrative centrality in J.R.R. Tolkien’s (and Peter Jackson’s) The Lord of the Rings.” Supervisor: Jorge L. Bueno Alonso.

2013-2014

University of A Coruña:

1. Verónica Baldomir Pardiñas. “Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah: (Re)opening a conversation about race and beauty”. Supervisor: María Frías Rudolphi.

1. Verónica Goimil Vilacoba. “James Joyce in translation: Colloquialisms, vulgarisms and idiomatic and cultural expressions in the Spanish and Galician versions of Ulysses”. Supervisor: José Miguel Alonso Giráldez.

1. Antti Pekka Nykänen. “The culture of crisis”. Supervisor: José Manuel Estévez Saá.

1. Cristian Pernas Rubal. “Deconstructing Romantic (and other) conventions through Atwood’s and Munro’s short stories”. Supervisor: Carolina Núñez Puente.

1. Brais Romero Gómez. “Postmodern elements in Tarantino’s soundtrack”. Supervisor: Eduardo Barros Grela.

Carolina Celeste Valenzuela Zúñiga. “Blend formation: A cognitive approach”. Supervisor: Begoña Crespo García.

University of Santiago de Compostela:

1. Mikel Bermello Isusi. «The ability to cope with death in the American war novel: From WWI to Iraq». Supervisor: Constante González Groba.

1. Iago Boán Francis. «Literary portraits of King Richard III: History and fiction in William Shakespeare’s play and Sharon Penman’s The Sunne in Splendour«. Supervisor: Cristina Mourón Figueroa.

1. Mirian Buján Vigo. «Beauty blogs in English and Spanish: A contrastive multimodal analysis». Supervisor: Mª de los Ángeles Gómez González.

1. Ana Díaz Rodríguez. «Female aging in Doris Lessing’s The Diaries of Jane Sommers». Supervisor: Margarita Estévez Sáa.

1. Iria de Dios Flores. «Constructional networks and relations among constructions. Relative clauses as a case in point». Supervisor: J. Carlos Acuña Fariña.

1. Juan de Dios Liria Marrero. «The Placage system and the tragic mulatto in the fiction of George Washington Cable and Anne Rice». Supervisor: Constante González Groba.

1. Raquel Facorro Souto. «Paul Auster’s Travels in the Scriptorium«. Supervisor: Laura Lojo Rodríguez.

1. Esther Gómez López. «Family loss in Joyce Carol Oates’s fiction». Supervisor: Susana Jiménez Placer.

1. Paula Márquez Caamaño. «Interactivity and opportunism in agreement operations: An experimental study on the production of subject-verb agreement in English and Spanish». Supervisor: J. Carlos Acuña Fariña.

1. Jorge Mediero Veira. “True Detective by Nic Pizzolatto: An analysis of the figure of the investigator and the detective story from Poe to Film Noir”. Supervisor: Patricia Fra López.

1. Inmaculada Pérez Casal. «Women as mentors: The importance of female interrelationships in Lisa Kleypas’ Travis series». Supervisor: Patricia Fra López.

1. Lara Pinto Pérez. «Defining ‘steampunk’ as genre: Creating a past that never existed». Supervisor: Laura Lojo Rodríguez.

1. Leticia Prieto Vázquez. «Rewriting female myths in Irish and Galician women’s poetry». Supervisor: Manuela Palacios González.

1. Marta Regueira Vázquez. «New technologies in the teaching of English in Spain. Students’ and teachers’ views». Supervisor: Ignacio Palacios Martínez.

Santiago José Resúa Muñiz. «A revolutionary in the chair of St Peter? Ideology and power relations in Pope Francis’ discourse». Supervisor: Mª de los Ángeles Gómez González.

University of Vigo:

Sara Martínez Martínez. «Gender, sexuality and humour in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales«. Supervisor: Jorge Figueroa Dorrego.