2016
Camille Braun: “Essaying the Essay Film: How Mercedes Álvarez, Cecilia Barriga, and Toni Serra/Abu Ali Choose to Film”
Isabelle Ibibo: “Life After Death: The Zombie Myth in Latin American Literature”
Tenaya Wilson-Charles: “A Demon of Four Letters: HIV/AIDS in Cuba from 1986-1994”
2015
Jordyn Adeboye: “The Discourse of Santa Teresa: an Exploration of How the Personal and Subjective Become Political”
Amelia Bell: “The Poetics of Belén Gopegui”
Catherine Berman: “The Reader-Producer in Roberto Bolaño and Walter Benjamin”
Sonja Dangler: “No One is Innocent: Gender and Class in Elena Poniatowska’s De noche vienes“
Anthony Harb: “My Dearest Doña Elena: An Analysis of the National Catholic Discourse in the Consultorio de Elena Francis”
Tenzin Lendey: “The Invention of the Modern Novel: The Role of the Reinvention and Rewriting of the Female Character in Don Quixote“
Katherine Strong: “Daugther Luchadora Cuauhtémoc: A Theory-based Analysis of the Role of Women in Revoltuion”
Lindsay Szper: “Literature or Translation: Two Bilingual Authors’ Views on Language and Writing”
Anya Zach: “Cineasta de la censura: Víctor Erice and the Censorship of Film in Francoist Spain”
2014
Will Biagi: “The Poetics of Javier Pérez Andújar”
Erica Cruz: “Blurring the Lines of Time and Culture in Leyendas de Guatemala by Miguel Angel Asturias”
Anne Lombardi: “Relief Effort or Political Effort?: A Look at Children During the Spanish Civil War and Those who Helped Them”
Helen Strnad: “An Encounter with Evil: The Revealing Power of Crime Fiction”
Swathi Varanasi: “The Woman’s Body and its Role in Society: An Analysis of “El campo” and “El desporjamiento” by Griselda Gámbaro”
Daniela Williams-Condor: “Narrating the Unspeakable, the Unimaginable: Encounters with the Abject in Post-war Central American Literature and Society”
Collin Young: “The Ligament of Sound and The Transmemberment of Song: the Singular Contrapuntal Harmony of José Lezama Lima and Hart Crane”