Theses/Dissertations from 2017
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
Reading Neoliberalism: Rhetoric and Resistance in Contemporary Geopolitical Literature, Michael Gibson Wollitz
The Laundry Tub Contortionist: a Differently-Abled Memoir, Michelle Cathleen Wright Dottore
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Teaching Stigmatized Englishes: Counteracting Linguistic Prejudice Using a Critical Pedagogical Approach to the Introductory Linguistics Course, Sarah Elizabeth Hercula
Life Writing the Civil War of Sierra Leone: Appropriation, ( Mis ) Representation, and Erasure, Samuel Alpha Sonny Kamara
Virginity and Intellectual Construction: the Function of Virginity within the Early English Novel, Jayna Morgan Leipart Guttilla
The Embodiment and Performance of Complex Character-Identity in Open World Computer Games: a Study of Simulation, Emergence, and the Experience of Identity in a Cultural Studies Classroom, David Joseph Marshall
[ De ] Constructing Author, [ re ] Defining Reader, [ Un ] Mapping Genre: the Making of an Architext, Kathleen Miller
Grappling with the Uncanniness of Time in the Post -saw Horror Films of James Wan, Cody Herman Parish
Braving Shame: the Rhetoric of Bravery in Contemporary Women's Memoir, Debra Gayle Parker
Shifting Sensations: Using a Feminist Sensory-Rhetorical Framework in Social and Environmental Justice, Technical Communication, and Pedagogy, Lisa Lou Phillips
Queer Horizons: Queer Assemblages and ( re ) Visioning the"Coming-out"Trauma Narrative in Fiction, a Critical Introduction, Eric Jason Pitman
Writing Resistance: Agency and Politics in the Postmodern and Contemporary Novel, Bradley Michael Poling
All Hands Bury the Dead, Summer Qabazard
Reveling in Failure and Inertia: Creative Applications of Materialist Feminisms, Marion C. Sakaluk
Systemic Noise: Investigating the Posthuman Rhetorical Movement of"You Did N't Build That", Maclain Bernabei Scott
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Multimodality, Migration, and Accessibility in Online Writing Instruction, Jason M. Dockter
Ideographs and American Mass Media: Understanding the Narrative on the Israel-Palestine Conflict and Its Influence on Publics, Savanna Lynn Fowler
Fragile United: a Grand Tour, Brian Walter Hedgepeth
Playing at Crusoe: Gender, Place, and Identity in Girls' Robinsonades, Amy Hicks
Alive and Human: Situating Wallace, Lethem, and Russell in Contemporary Fiction, Carissa Kampmeier
Rhetorics of Engagement across and about Faith and Worldview Difference, John MacLean
"What Happened to Americans First ???": Rhetorics of Whiteness in Online Reader Comments, Kristi McDuffie
The Storm Still Echoes: Suspense and Ambivalence as a Way of Life, Shailen Mishra
Rhetorics of Silence and Disarticulation in Transgenerational Spaces in World War I and World War Ii Literature, Irina Nersessova
Dr. Frankenstein's Hideous Progeny: a Typology of the Mad Scientist in Contemporary Young Adult Novels and Computer Animated Film, Farran Leanne Norris Sands
Harry Potter and the Moral Spectrum of Care: Using Feminist Care Ethics To Analyze Morality, Shelby Ragan
From Footnotes to Focus: Reconceptualizing Modernist Culture through the Labor, Gendered Materialism, Economics, and Lesbian Discourse of Sylvia Beach, Natalie Barney, and Gertrude Stein, Catherine A. Ratliff
Technical Communication as Teaching: a Grounded Theory Study of Cognitive Empathy and Audience Engagement among Computer Science Majors in a Technical Communication Classroom, Robert Michael Rowan
Waking Dormant Researchers: Student Co-research as Writing Research Methodology and Pedagogy, Angela Renee Sheets
Applying a Feminist Disability Methodological Framework in Technical Communication by Interrogating Access & Deconstructing Social Barriers of Exclusion, Barbi Smyser-Fauble
The Quiet Girl in the Quiet Room: Can the Subaltern Speak?, Julie Tran
Fan the Flames of Discontent: Contemporary Labor Literature and Social Movements, Ericka Rae Wills
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Consuming Food Memoirs: Identity, Experience, Legitimization as Rhetorical Sustenance, Kayla Bruce
You Are that: an Upanishadic Approach to Empathic Writing Instruction in a High School Social Science Course, Andrew Otto Davis
Linguistic Vomit Ferments the Brain: Exploring the Boundaries of Narratives, Katherine DuBois
Discourses of the Nineteenth-Century Family: Reading British Victorian Women and Their Families through Communicative Representation, Gretchen Marie Frank
The Invisible Composition Classroom: the Reciprocity of Face, Identity, and Politeness, Pennie L. Gray
U.S.- Educated Multilingual Students in Community College: Transitioning from Esl to English 101, Melinda S. Harrison
Perpetuating Social and Racial Linguistic Inequalities: Sentence-Level Pedagogies in the Anti-grammar Age, Stefanie Mescal Lovelass
Ideological Trends in Film Adaptations of Children's Literature: Children's Books on the Big Screen, Meghann Meeusen
Limitation, Subversion, and Agency: Gendered Spaces in the Works of Margaret Mahy, Cynthia Voigt, and Dia na Wynne Jones, Elizabeth Ann Pearce
Firefly Song, Lasantha Rodrigo
"some Things Are Worth the Pain They Cause": a Study of Self-Awareness, Voice, and Assessment in a High School Memoir Project, Christopher Randall Wyant
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Tight Void, Brooke Burns
Homophonic Translation, Appositional Writing, and the Monster, Ryan Landry Clark
An Uncommon Splice: Seeking Mutations in the Life-Writing and Short Fiction of Mary Butts and Djuna Barnes, Susan George
Framing Eve: Contemporary Retellings of Biblical Women for Young People, Elizabeth Gillhouse
Iffy the Crumbsnatcher, Craig Steven Halle Jr.
Why Do Teachers Hate Ai N't? Eighteenth-Century Ideologies and Attitudes in Twenty-First-Century Classrooms, Robin Elise Halsey
Zuzu's Petals, Jeffrey James Jarot
Who Do You Play for? : Naming, Difference and the Creation of Scandal in Literature, Tristan Lipe
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Traumatic Infidelities: Translating the Literature of the Armenian Genocide, Shushan Avagyan