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We extend congratulations and best wishes to our 2008-2009 Graduates.

CONCENTRATORS

AYLA BLOOMBERG, combined Italian/Spanish
KENDRA BOOTHE, Italian Studies
MARÍA CRISTINA CIGARROA, Latin American Studies
SAMANTHA DE GENNARO, Italian Studies
CHRIS DOTSON, combined Italian/Spanish
JAMES GOLDSCHMIDT, joint Italian/Literature
MEGAN GRANNAN, Portuguese-Brazilian Studies
ANGELA MAYORGA, Latin American Studies
ANITA MUKHERJI, combined French/Italian
KEVIN O'HERIN, Hispanic Studies
GALINA SHYNDRIAYEVA, joint French/Classics
MATTHEW SPELLBERG, joint English/French
OLUJIMI TOMMASINO, joint Hist. of Art and Architecture/Italian Studies
CATHERINE TUTTLE, combined French/Spanish
OLGA TYMEJCZYK, Latin American Studies

Congratulations to our two Hoopes Prize winners, JAMES GOLDSCHMIDT and
MATTHEW SPELLBERG.

DOCTORS OF PHILOSOPHY

BRUNO CARVALHO, Portuguese: New City in a New World: literary spaces of an Afro-Jewish Brazilian neighborhood
CHRISTIAN CLAESSON, Spanish: The Role of the Author in Juan Carlos Onetti and Juan José Saer 
SARA KIPPUR, French: The Translingual Self: Life-Writing across Languages in the Works of Hector Bianciotti, Jorge Semprun, and Raymond Federman
JULIETA VICTORIA MUÑOZ ALVARADO, Spanish: La poética de la amistad en Los seis libros de la Galatea 
MARÍA OSPINA, Spanish: Evocar y convocar: Violencia y representación en la narrativa 
FELISA VERGARA REYNOLDS, French: Literary Cannibalism: Almost the Same,
but Not Quite/Almost the Same, but not White  
JOAQUIN TERRONES, Spanish: American Baroques: The Ethics of Excess in Borges,
Stevens, Lezama Lima, Gorostiza and Drummond de Andrade (1935-1940)
VICTORIA G. TILLSON, Italian: From Myth to Borgata: Rome in Postwar Italian Narrative