PhD Theses

Mª Antonia Oliver i Rotger, Crossroads and Battlegrounds: the Borderlands as Social and Imaginary Space in Contemporary Writings by Chicanas.  Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2000

Ana García Arroyo,  The Construction of Queer Culture in Contemporary India: Pioneers and Landmarks.   Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2005.

Esther Pujolràs i Noguer, An African (Auto)biography: Ama Ata Aidoo’s Literary Quest.  Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2010

Agus Morales Puga,   Luz y Materia. La poesía última y la pintura de Rabindranath Tagore como embriones de la modernidad india.  Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2012

MA Dissertations

MA in Comparative Literature

Lídia Villena, “Gender in Lindsey Collen´s Getting Rid Of It“. 2007

Agus Morales, “Juan Ramón Jiménez y Tagore”. 2007

Morena Escardó, “El colapso de visión en Guerrillas de V.S. Naipaul”. 2008

Miquel Pomar Amer, “Maps for Lost Subalterns. Revealing the Intricacies of Re-presentation in Maps for Lost Lovers, by Nadeem Aslam”, 2011

Adriana Kolijn, “The Journey of Defining the Self in the Novels Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Birdie by Tracey Lindberg”, 2018

MA English Studies

Melinda Dooly, “Wielding his Pen to Champion the Oppressed: a Cultural Studies Approach to the Political Agendas in Nuruddin Farah’s fiction”,  2000

Ana García Arroyo, “Suniti Namjoshi’s Feminist Fables: Beyond Gender and Sex Boundaries”, 2001

Salvador Faura, “The Impossibility of Interracial Intimacy: Memories of Rain by Sunetra Gupta”,  2002

Giselle Dubois, “Indentured Labour in David Dabydeen’s The Counting House”, 2002

Joan Carles Batalla, “The Prison Metaphor in James Baldwin’s Just Above My Head”, 2002

Judith Garrido, “Karen Blixen: Classism versus Racism on an African farm”, 2002

Mª Carme Crivillés,  “Rukhsana Ahmad’s The Hope Chest and the Imagery of Culture-bound Gendered Disorders”, 2002

Caterina Palom Grau, “Dishing Out Spices in Multicultural Britain: Conquering the Territory from a Plate”, 2012

Nadir el Morabit, “The Arab World: Clash and Modernity in Salih’s Season of Migration to the North and Bowles’s The Sheltering Sky”  2012

Laura Rodes Arbiol, “Chris Abani’s Song for Night: Reading My Luck as an Ogbanje, 2013

Nikolaos Moschos, “Dusklands: Coetzee’s Fictional Literary Reportage”, 2016

Wenjing Ye, “Ethnic Identity and Cultural Clash among the Chinese Diaspora of Mauritius: Peggy Lampotang’s The Coral Heart: A Shopkeeper’s Journey”, 2017

Laura Gutiérrez González, “Caught Between Islands: A Study of Cosmopolitanism in Andrea Levy’s Small Island“, 2018

Lara Tortosa Signes, “Female Struggle and Resistance in Colonial and Postcolonial Sierra Leone: Indigenous Feminism in Aminatta Forna’s novel Ancestor Stones”, 2018

Ainhoa Goichoechea Ortiz,  “Torn Between Two Worlds: An Experience of (not) Belonging in V. V. Ganeshananthan’s Love Marriage”, 2019

Shuyuan He  “Let Us Go to Another Country”: The Process of Identity Construction of Abdu and Julie in Nadine Gordimer’s The Pickup”, 2019

Aksil Ayoub Belgharbi,  “Freedom or/and Compulsion? Space, Women and Identity in Fatima Mernissi’s Autobiographical Fiction Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood“, 2020

Vanessa Sala i Roquet, “The Lion’s Tale: Analyzing Black Female Agency in South African literature through Sindiwe Magona’s Mother to Mother“, 2020

Master en Estudios para el Desarrollo, Fundació CIDOB

Fumie Yoshizawa, “Mujeres nepalíes en el hinduismo. Estudio sobre la sociedad hindú y el subdesarrollo de las mujeres”,  2008