On 16 December 2016 José Carregal Romero successfully defended his doctoral dissertation Contemporary Redefinitions of the Irish Family in Colm Tóibín's Fiction ("Mención internacional") at the Faculty of Philology and Translation in Vigo. The dissertation was supervised by Dr María Teresa Caneda Cabrera. Committee members included Professor Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin), Dr Marisol Molares Ladrón (U Alcalá) and Dr Martín Urdiales Shaw (U Vigo).
