Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Decolonizing Assessment: Witnessing, Disrupting, and Reimagining Assessment in Rhetoric, Composition, and Technical Communication, Lisa Schuler Dooley
Drenched and Drying: Regional Affects and Small-Scale Souths: a Creative Dissertation, Emily Fontenot
Otherhood: Tracing Childhood in Korean American Literature for Youth, Nina Hanee Jang
Monsters Can Do More: Teaching with Monster Studies, Colleen Karn
Ecofeminism Reimagined: Discourse & Embodiment in Young Adult Literature, Laurel Krapivkin
Language Ideologies and Practices in Ghana's English Language Education: a Critical Analysis of Golden English and National Literacy Acceleration Program Formative Report, Gideon Kwashie Kwawukumey
Fever City: Memory, Truama, and Storytelling via Hybrid Writing Methods: a Creative Dissertation, Samantha Moe
Illustrating Postcolonial Margins: Locating Experimental, Collaborative, Indian Graphic Narratives in the Twenty-First Century, Sayanti Mondal
Translingual Pedagogy in the First-Year Composition Classroom: an Examination of Divergent Student Uptake, Ashton Taylor Myerscough
An Authoethnographic Study of My Biliteracy Writing Practices as an Akan Speaker of English: Implications for L 2 Writing, Gabriel Opare
Community-Based Risk Communication during the Covid-19 Pandemic: a Biwoc Framework, Raven Latice Preston
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Exploring Second Language Writing Pedagogy in the Saudi Univeristy Context: a Descriptive Case Study of Writing Instruction and Feedback Strategies, Talal Waleed Daweli
Inheritance and Appropriation: Confronting Privilege in Magical Young Adult Fiction, Natalie Jipson
We Might Be Salvaged, Hannah Kroonblawd
Towards a Relational Understanding of Food, Identity, and Diversity in Children’s Literature, Katy Lewis
The Resistance of the Hondureña: Bridging Literary Graveyards through a Postcolonial-Ecofeminist Approach, Anna Linnea Ortiz
The Challenges of Navigating Feminism in Nigeria: a Case for Third Space Feminism, Pearl Osibu
Hearts of Gold: Adapting the Lives of 19th Century Alaskan Sex Workers into a Biopic, Kelly Pierce
Lydia’s Urn: Exploring Trauma, Non-binary Identity, and Plural Subjectivity via Metamodern Gaming, a Creative Dissertation, Eric Jason Pitman
The Perennial Quest: Working towards Equitable Assessment with Student-Centric Learning Contracts, Matthew W. Schering
The Urgency for a Transnational Feminist Methodology: an Inclusive Analytical Framework for Neocolonialism and Globalization, Sanam Shahmiri
Disability Representation: Sites of Grassroots Activism on Grief and Insidious Trauma, Shawna Marie Sheperd
Toward an Asian American Antiracist Pedagogy for First Year Writing, Dorothy Margaret Stone
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
English Medium Instruction ( Emi ) at King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences ( Ksau-Hs ): Students’ Needs and Instructors’ Attitudes, ABDULELAH MOHAMMED ALKHATEEB
Teaching English Language Varieties: Promoting Linguistic and Educational Change through a Critical Multicultural Pedagogical Approach in the “Introduction to Linguistics ” Course, Lyudmila N. Belomoina
The Pedagogy of Terror: Women's Education in the Gothic Novel, Faith Borland
Defining Compulsory Academic Genres: a Feminist Rhetorical Interrogation of Required Institutional Practices, Courtney Cox
Literate Activity Research and Narrative Analysis as Frameworks for Educational Change: an Examination of Writing Instruction in Two Alternative Education Programs, Leslie Rae Hancock
The Globalgothic Vampire: Application of and Benefits for the English Studies Model, David Lawrence Hansen
Peering at the Mirror of Reflection: Agency and Design Thinking in the Development of Writerly Identities, Elizabeth Louise Jones
An Autoethnographic Study of My Student and Teacher Experiences in First-Year Composition ( Fyc ) in Ghana: ( Re ) Developing More Inclusive Pedagogies in Fyc in the U.s., Eric Nuamah Korankye
The Politics of Di/visibility: Narrative Positioning and Disability Representation in Children’s Literature, Agathe Lancrenon
Queering Genre and Joy: Reclaiming and Navigating Queerness through Hybridity, Rebecca Meier
Keats and Shelley: a Pursuit towards Progressivism, Serenah Minasian
Treasure, Women, and Agency: Exploring Objectification in a World of Living Objects, Alexa Parker
“It Was Nice To Know I Was N’t the Only One Struggling: ” Establishing Empathy and Communal Awareness Using Life Writing at the Middle Level, Kristin Danielle Reynolds
Material Witnesses: Deconstructing Networks of Credibility and Objectivity in Medical Narratives from Mary Toft to the Contraceptive Pill, Krista Elizabeth Roberts
Arreidis ( Roots ): Fala Language and It S Quest for Identity, Claudia Sánchez Sánchez
The Pen Is the Sword: Fighting by Writing for Our Future, Clinton Alexander Soper
Interrogating Digital Rhetorical Privacy on Direct-to-Consumer Genetics Websites, Charles Fletcher Woods
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Autoethnography of Laughter: Transforming Identity by Teaching Composition and Linguistics through Humor, Olya Cochran
The Uses, Understandings, and Values of Student Strucutral Assisting Metatexts in College First Year Composition Courses, Joseph Ryan Dundovich
( Dis ) Ability Discourse and the Mediation of Disabled Identity in Young Adult Literature and Television, Daniel Freeman
Collaboration in the Technical Communication Classroom: Negotiating Team Contracts in a Pwi, Alyssa Herman
Minor Subjects: Power and Inequity in Children's and Adolescent Literature, Wesley Jacques
The Magic of Teaching and Assessing Writ [ Rid ] Ing, Kristina Koehler
By Your Powers Combined: Heroic Solutions to Climate Catastrophes in the Fifth Season, Avengers: Infinity War, and Horizon: Zero Daw N, Kematat Matthew Medrala
Theorizing Desire in the Young Adult Romance Genre, Shelby Ragan
From Cultural to Colonial: Differential Writing Practices and a Negotiation of Genre’s Value-Laden Nature in First-Year-Composition Classes, Md Mijanur Rahman
Sleuths as Social Activists: Negotiations of Power & Morality in Ya Sleuthing Stories, Heather Leigh Sanford
Bull and Vine, Hunter Houk Sheaffer
The Reading Eye, Ruminating Body, and Regulated Gaze: ( Re ) Constructing Gender in the Old English Lives of Saints, Thelma Trujillo
( Re ) Mapping Bisexuality through Space and Place in Young Adult Literature, Jennifer Tullos
Voice, Choice, and ( Material ) Agency: the Sexualized Feminine Body in Young Adult Literature, Tharini Viswanath
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Women in Fantasy: Healing Worlds from Trauma via Ethics of Care, Ann J. Borow
Resist and Rebel: Life Narrative Subjects That Use Gender Performance To Subvert Patriarchal Ideals, Elizabeth Calero
The Québecois Connection: the French-Canadian Diaspora in Jack Kerouac’s on the Road, Justin Charron
When Affect Meets the Relational: a Dialogical, Life Writing Approach to English Studies, D. Shane Combs
An Intersectional Feminist Rhetorical Reframing of Rhetorics of Efficiency within Public Policy: Embodied Knowledge and Usability, Oriana A. Gilson
Epic Stories: Sequence Fiction, Young Readers, and the Aesthetics of World Building, Jordana Estelle Hall
When Inexpressible Becomes Expressible: the Duality of Narrative in Graphic Memoirs of Growing up and Trauma, Nina Hanee Jang
Toward a Theory of Procedural Rhetorical Systems: Demonstrations of Player Agency in Uptake of Rules in Video Games, Sydney A. Klem
Inoculations against Dominant Masculinity: Form as Representation for Women, Charley Koenig
Identity in Life Writing: Fact, Fiction, and Memory, Bridget Langdon
Gatekeeping Remix: Fandom Spaces and Identity Politics, Brittany Larsen
Conceiving a “Veneration for Clowns ”: Popular Amusement and Social Subversion in the Novels of Charles Dickens, Abigail Palmisano
Manifest Destiny Continued: the Reification and Colonization of Time, Blake Reno
Beyond the Words: Paratextual and Bibliographic Traces of the Other Reader in British Literature, 1760-1897, Jeffrey Duane Rients
Complicating Advocacy with Intersectional Technofeminism: a Social Justice Methodology for Digital Rhetorics, Public Rhetorics, and Technical Communication, Sarah J. Warren-Riley
The Use of Discursive Features as a Representation of Voice and Identity in L2 Writing: a Case Study of Multilingual Graduate Students, Demet Yigitbilek
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
The Readers Constructed by Shakespeare Anthologies and Pedagogical Scholarship, Andrea Berns
“Destined To Make an Era ”: Elizabeth Palmer Peabody’s Transcendentalist Collaborations, Andrew Del Mastro
Writing Counternarratives: Authorizing the Black Woman’s Autobiographical Voice by Reading Ntozake Shange’s for Colored Girls as Life Narrative, Chereka C. Dickerson
Seeing Reading in First-Year Composition, Matthew Felumlee
Translating Le Fresne: Modeling Digital Scholarly Editions, Gabrielle Litwiller
“the Testing Served Its Purpose ”: High-Stakes Testing as a Method of Categorization and Control in Young Adult Dystopian Novels, Rebecca Lorenzo
( Re ) Making Insurrection: Genre, Historicity, and the Narrative Legacy of Nat Turner, Chamere Ranyail Poole
Chatting with Middle Schoolers: an Investigation of Student Uptakes of a Pedagogical Cultural-Historical Activity Theory Curriculum in 8 Th-Grade English Language Arts Classes, Deborah Riggert-Kieffer
Teaching Writing through Transformation: Linguistically Diverse Writing Teachers’ Enactments of Linguistic Diversity, Cristina Sanchez-Martin
The Tropes We Tutor by: Names and Labels as Tropes in Writing Center Work, Scott R. Sands
Here’s Looking at You, Kids: Dystopian Roadmaps to the Present in the Secondary Classroom, Michael Arthur Soares
Trauma and the Credibility Economy: an Analysis of Epistemic Violence and Its Traumatic Functions, Gina Stinnett
Old: a Personal Essayist’s Reflections of an Aging Adult, Marcia Irene Taylor
#Digitalactivism: Examining #yesallwomen and Teaching Social Media Activism in Technical Communication, Karishma Verma
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Toward an Interventionary Rhetoric for Technical Communication Studies, Julie Collins Bates
Post-Internet Writing: Social Media and Contemporary Fiction, Andrew Boomhower
Body Composition: Reading, Writing, and Resisting Weight Loss Autobiography as Biopolitical Pedagogy, Katherine Ann Browne
“It’s Not Rape -y Enough ”: How the Master Sexual Assault Narrative Restricts the Stories Writers Can Tell, Elizabeth Cachey
Canvases of Representation: Addressing the Cultural Politics of Black Male Superhero Identity in Graphic Narratives, Danielle L. Cochran
Writing Mental Illness and Interrogating Autobiographical Positionality, Ryan J. Edel
Entangled Bodies in the Medieval World: Anglo-Saxon Life Writing in Prefaces, Hagiography, and Letters, Megan Alise Gregory
Believing Mary Karr, Stephanie Rae Guedet
( Re ) Claiming History and Visibility through Rhetorical Sovereignty: the Power of Diné Rhetorics in the Works of Laura Tohe, Jessica Marie Safran Hoover
She Wanted It? : Examining Young Adult Literature and Its Portrayals of Rape Culture, Katy Lewis
On My Grind: Freestyle Rap Practices in Experimental Creative Writing and Composition Pedagogy, Evan Nave
Considering the Body: Sexual Agency and Material Selfhood in Alex As Well, Karlie Rodriguez
Enabling Pain, Enabling Insight: Opening up Possibilities for Chronic Pain in Disability Rhetoric and Rhetoric and Composition, Hilary Selznick
“I Awoke One Morning and Found Myself Famous ”: Exploring Lord Byron’s Affective Embodied Celebrity, Taylor M. Williams