Congratulations to 2 Summer Graduates!
Congratulations to Tijana Cupic and Gonzalo Carretero Martínez, who both successfully defended their dissertations this summer!
Tijana’s dissertation is titled, Hidden Solidarities: Transnational Affect in Mexican/Latinx and Post-Yugoslav Migration Literature. From her abstract:
“This dissertation explores the affective politics of migration through a comparative literary approach to two immigration flows: migrations from Mexico to the United States and from the former Yugoslavia to the West. By examining these two distinct yet parallel migratory experiences, this study develops the concept of affective transnational immigrant culture, emphasizing that the characters’ feelings in each narrative are politically conditioned and impact their everyday lives. In these cultural settings, colonial and imperial practices between the countries of origin and destination countries shape a complex emotional landscape in which the individual stories are interrelated with geopolitical and historical circumstances.”
Gonzalo’s dissertation is called, La admiración, Don Quijote de la Mancha y las preceptivas poéticas del renacimiento. From his abstract:
“The dissertation analyzes the concept of admiration in the poetic precepts of Renaissance theoreticians and its presence in the magnum opus of Miguel de Cervantes. To this end, it situates Renaissance admiration within a “family of ideas” that includes admiratio in its classical formulation, the medieval marvel, and the Christian miracle. They all involve cognitive processes that produce an emotion arising from that which is “new” or “rare” and that serve a poetic function. […] The analysis shows that admiration is associated with the emotions of surprise and interest and that it differs from other members of the “family of ideas” to which it belongs because it arises from an autonomous fictional world that validates the veracity of the events narrated by means of the internal coherence of the narrative.“