Theses/Dissertations from 2017
“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
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