Master’s theses publicly defended (2014-2015)
University of A Coruña:
- Verónica-Mirela Apostol. “William Shakespeare in popular culture: Franco Zeffirelli and Baz Luhrmann’s film adaptations of Romeo and Juliet”. Supervisor: David Clark Mitchell.
- Ana López Pampín. “Geography and involvement: A linguistic analysis of women’s discourse”. Supervisor: Isabel Moskowich-Spieguel Fandiño.
- 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:
- Khawla Abed Albadi Abbas Al-Tawarh. “Euphemisms for death in Arabic-Jordanian and American English: A comparative study”. Supervisor: Luis Iglesias Rábade.
- Noelia Castro Chao. “Changes in argument structure: Developments in impersonal constructions from Late Middle English onwards. A preliminary study”. Supervisor: Teresa Fanego.
- Alba Dono Costoya. “Re-establishment of English in writing, 1300-1500”. Supervisor: Luis Iglesias Rábade.
- Andrea Jamardo Seijo. “Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings in terms of race and gender”. Supervisor: Susana Jiménez Placer.
- Alicia Martínez Aguín. “Language, gender and identity in Julia Álvarez’s How the García Girls Lost Their Accents”. Supervisor: Susana Jiménez Placer.
- Angela Martínez Fachal. “Bards of the Nation: Eduardo Pondal and W.B. Yeats”. Supervisor: Margarita Estévez Sáa.
- Daniela Beatriz Pettersson Traba. “A corpus-based diachronic analysis of the semantic internal structure and behavioural profile of a set of near-synonyms in American English”. Supervisor: María José López Couso.
- Naara Queiruga Domínguez. “Segregation in Alice Childress’s Like One of the Family”. Supervisor: Susana Jiménez Placer.
- 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:
- Martyna Bubacz. “L1 Influence on the acquisition of English verb tenses: A case study of Polish and Spanish speakers”. Supervisor: Rosalía Rodríguez Vázquez. [Grade obtained in May and July 2015: 4 (Fail).]
- Marta Bukowska. “English in brand naming in the streets of Vigo. A sociolinguistic study of opinions and attitudes”. Supervisor: Nuria Yáñez Bouza.
- 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.
- 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.
- Diana Ramos Soto. “O Henry’s New York Stories: Urban social classes at the turn of the 20th Century”. Supervisor: Martín Urdiales Shaw.
- 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.