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  Revisiones de lo Afrocubano: Diálogo e interdisciplinariedad en Lydia Cabrera y Wifredo Lam 

  Amaya Ortega, Oscar Fernando (Georgetown University, 2021)

  This dissertation analyzes the representation of Afro-Cuban subjects and cultures in the works of Lydia Cabrera and Wifredo Lam. The exploration of the Afro-Cuban religious universe and its articulation of the experience ...
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  A Nation of Flesh: Confronting Cattle at the Argentine Slaughterhouse (1839-2001) 

  Meiller, Valeria (Georgetown University, 2021)

  This dissertation explores a cultural history of the slaughterhouse in Argentina from the inception of the nation to the beginning of the twentieth century. Against the understanding of the slaughterhouse as a space designed ...
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  Poéticas Amargas: Estéticas Y Políticas De La Plantación De Azúcar En Brazil Y El Caribe (1990-2018) 

  Arrieta Fernández, Nohora Alejandra (Georgetown University, 2021)

  Bittersweet Poetics asks how a multimedia group of works of art about the sugar plantation —ranging from graphic novels and installation art made out of sugar to photographs—reimagine and rewrite national discourses about ...
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  Hungry Narratives: Multifocal Readings of Human and Non-human Affects in the Americas 

  Thums, Willyam Vinícius (Georgetown University, 2021)

  The crafting of travel accounts was decisive for the implementation of exploitative practices towards indigenous societies and nature in the New World. The descriptions of flora, fauna, and local inhabitants not only ...
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  The Category of Gender in Spanish–English Bilingual Grammars: Corpus and Experimental Evidence of Switched Determiner Phrases 

  Cruz Flores, Abel (Georgetown University, 2021)

  This dissertation is about the category of gender in bilingual grammars. The specific focus is on the interplay between the linguistic properties that correlate with gender assignment in Spanish–English codeswitched speech ...

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