This analysis examines the life and actions of the seventeenth-century Irish man, William Lamport, known in the Spanish-speaking world as Guillen de Lampart. In this thesis, William Lamport, influenced by the literary and intellectual trends of his time, stylized himself as an i…
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This dissertation identifies how four contemporary Iberian crime fiction novels similarly construct a paranoid reading. The project’s novels include: Secretos de Arenal by Félix González Mondroño (2014), Els ossos soterrats by Silvestre Vilaplana (2016), Res no és real by David …
My dissertation analyzes the Spanish Nobel Laureate poet’s transatlantic path and his relationship to Spain, the United States and Puerto Rico as expressed in his archival practices from 1916 (his first trip to the U.S.) until his death in 1958. Jiménez went into permanent exile…
El propósito principal de este estudio es explicar tres trilogías de las escritoras Josefina R. Aldecoa, Esther Tusquets, y Ana María Matute. La primera, Trilogía de memoria, de Josefina R. Aldecoa, Historia de una maestra (1990), Mujeres de negro (1994), La fuerza del destino (…
The Assemblies of God (AG) in Europe, specifically in Spain, currently struggles to reach families from a secular background. This study seeks to develop a description of the main competencies of children’s ministry needed to empower the Spanish Assemblies of God to evangelize a…
Beyond formal and iconographic discourse there has been little consideration of Juan Bautista Maíno's La Recuperación de Bahía de Todos los Santos's (1634-5) role as a representative of the New World and the perceived fragility of the imperial project in Brazil. This thesis depa…
Fourteenth-century Iberia was a complicated and intricate place of intertwining cultural and religious entities; this mingling is particularly evident in the architecture of the Kingdom of Castile. In 1364, Pedro of Castile began a new renovation on the Real Alcázar in Seville t…
Despite the vast research on Moriscos, Spanish Muslims who were forced to convert to Catholicism beginning in the 16th century, little is known about their writings that emerged in underground Muslim societies in spite of the Spanish Inquisition's scrutiny and burning sites. The…
Immigrant youth living in new immigration countries such as Spain stand at the intersection of competing discourses and policies, their unexpected presence in schools and society opening up dilemmas and debates related to questions of difference, belonging, and identity. This di…
Most approaches to the history of Mozarabs (Christians with lineal roots in Muslim-ruled Iberia) in Castilian Toledo are framed within linear narratives of assimilation, treating the fates of their communal linguistic, legal, and liturgical traits—that is, the use of Arabic, the…
This thesis explores attitudes of Christians toward Islam and Muslims in Spain in the sixteenth century and intends to destabilize Islam's traditional place as adversary in Early-Modern Spanish history. My research aligns itself with and employs new trends in historiography that…
Santa María de Uncastillo (1135–55), built during a crucial period of repopulation following the Christian conquest of northern Iberia, reveals the impacts of migration and social change upon the visual arts. Long the site of an impregnable fortress on the frontier between Chris…
This dissertation examines the deportation of Mexican “vagrants” and other convicts to the Philippines between 1765 and 1821 to demonstrate that the Spanish Pacific world, traditionally neglected by the historiography of Latin America, was an important part of the history of the…
The hagiographic comedy written by Tirso de Molina Los lagos de San Vicente (1607) presents the journey of Santa Casilda in search of the cure of an illness in her blood that affects her. Casilda rejects the medical assistance offered to her by Muslim doctors and miraculously sh…
This dissertation examines the genre, narrativity and use of humor in Colonel José Cadalso's 1774 work Cartas marruecas (Moroccan Letters). The Moroccan Letters consists of a fictitious correspondence carried on between three people: Gazel Ben-Aly, a Moroccan youth traveling in …
This dissertation locates and analyzes the mechanisms and forms of urban change that accompanied the forced mass migration of the Moriscos, descendants of Spanish Muslims forcibly converted to Catholicism. The Moriscos, converted between 1501 and 1526, and expelled first from Gr…
This study investigates the transnational behaviors of Senegalese and Gambian (Senegambian) immigrants in Spain in relation to their employment and immigration status, or economic integration. Contrary to suggestions that transnationalism is a response to the downward mobility t…
This thesis examines the artistic and cultural genesis of a group of five ceramic baptismal fonts produced in fifteenth-century Toledo. Generally considered to be representative of many more that would have been produced in the period, the rarity of these objects is likely due t…
This dissertation in environmental history is concerned with human landscapes of groundwater extraction. Using temporal and spatial comparison, it examines the role of groundwater tunnel-wells and human understandings of groundwater availability in the Western Desert of Egypt; t…