Facultade de Filoloxía

IDAES Graduate Day 2017

University of A Coruña · Faculty of Philology · Salón de Graos
May 30th, 2017, 10 am - 7 pm

The Inter-university Doctoral programme in Advanced English Studies: Linguistics, Literature and Culture, run by the Universities of A Coruña (UDC), Santiago de Compostela (USC) and Vigo (UVigo), invites you to attend and participate in IDAES Graduate Day 2017, which will be held at the University of A Coruña (Facultade de Filoloxía) on May 30th, 2017.

Programme

10:00-10:15 Welcome, Dr. Nancy Vázquez Veiga, Deputy Vice-Chancellor UDC, IDAES General Coordinator, Dr. Ignacio Palacios, IDEAS UDC Coordinator, Dr. María Jesús Lorenzo Modia

10:15-11:15 Lecture by Prof. Marta Mateo (University of Oviedo): “Humour, Pragmatics and Translation: rendering Tobias Smollett’s Humphry Clinker into Spanish”

11:15-11:45 Break

11:45-13:15 Presentation of doctoral candidates' research projects (Session 1)

11:45-11:55 Raquel Pereira Romasanta (UVigo) Morphosyntactic variation in contemporary American and British English: The sentential complementation profile of emotion verbs
11:55-12:05 Verónica Pérez Gómez (UDC) English as a Lingua Franca in the Business Domain: The Case of University Spin-off Companies in Galicia
12:05-12:15 Raúl Río Fernández (USC) Exploring the Parallels between Ontogenetic and Diachronic grammaticalization: the Emerging modal wanna in American English as a case in point
12:15-12:25 Cristina Lastres-López (USC) Towards a functional-cognitive typology of if-clauses in English and their Spanish and French equivalents
12:25-12:35 Laura García Castro (UVigo) Determinants of Grammatical Variation in World Englishes: Remember as a Case in Point"
12:35-12:45 Sara Albán Barcia (UVigo) Language Variation in Late Middle English manuscripts: The case study of Richard Rolle of Hampole and Pricke of Conscience
12:45-12:55 Luis Miguel Puente Castelo (UDC) “If he is right, it is worth remarking...” A short account of conditionals as evidence of change in Late Modern English scientific register
12:55-13:05 Leida María Monaco (UDC) Looking at variation and change in late Modern scientific English
13:05-13:15 Celia Veiga Pérez (UVigo) The role of year-abroad studies in Second Language Acquisition: the development of oral skills in Spanish students of English
13.15-13.25 Cristina Blanco García (USC) On the notion of ephemerality in marking subordination: Causals as a case in point

13:25-14:00 Information from research groups involved in IDAES and research activities held at UDC, UVigo and USC

16:30-17:30 Lecture by Prof. Teresa Gibert (UNED): “Social Satire and Environmental Responsibility in Margaret Atwood’s Fiction”

17:30-19:10 Presentation of doctoral candidates' research projects (Session 2)

17.30-1740 Sara Villamarín Freire (UDC) The Father, the Other. Father Figures in Contemporary American Literature
17:40-17:50 Flavia Iovine (USC) Irish Women Short Story Writers: A Reappraisal of Mary Lavin’s and Julia O’Faolain’s Contribution to the Genre
17:50-18:00 Esther Gómez López (USC) Family Relationships in the Fiction of Joyce Carol Oates
18:00-18:10 Tamara Barreiro Neira (UDC) The Uses of Humor in Native American and Chicano/a Literature and Culture
18:10-18:20 Sandra Gómez Garrido (USC) Representations of the common man in Steinbeck and Springsteen: a comparative approach
18:20-18:30 José Manuel López Fernández (USC) The Fiction of William Styron: What Evil Certifies ...
18:30-18:40 María González Alonso (USC) The portrait of decadence: Fitzgerald and Gatsby on Film
18:40-18:50 Regina Martínez-Ponciano (USC) Spaces, Places, and Masculinities in Late Victorian Short Fiction
18:50-19:00 Martín Fernández Fernández (USC) The Emmett Till Case in US Fiction and Drama
19.00-19.10 Leticia García Barreiro (UDC) Race in the South: A Study of Harper's Lee To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman.