On August 24, 2017, Daphne Martínez Luengo, defended her thesis titled From Puerto to Madrid: Travel Sketches, a translation from English into Spanish of De Puerto Rico a Madrid: estudios de viaje by Manuel Fernández Juncos.
The Thesis Committee, formed by Marian Polhill, Ph. D., Luis A. García Nevares, Ph. D., and thesis advisor David Auerbach, Ph.D., awarded her thesis the grade notable.