Theses/Dissertations from 2026
Transgender Representation in Japanese Video Games and Their Corresponding American Fandoms, AJ Abad
Teaching and Reading as Meaning-Making, an Intervention to Support Underserved Students in an English Language Arts Classroom, Kelly G. Adkins
Reawakening Waⁿdat: Community Research & Reclamation, Darcy Allred
Centering Disciplinary Skills Through the Identification of New Resources: A Reexamination of One Teacher’s Schooling Experiences and the Ways In Which It Impacted Their Teaching of Reading, Raquel Julissa Armas
Toward a Restorative Justice Composition Pedagogy: What Can Sulh صٌلحْ (Reconciliation) and Other Restorative Rhetorics Offer to Composition Pedagogy?, Khadidja Belhadi
Children’s and Adult Perspectives on Mental Health in Children’s Youth Literature and Media, Edcel J. Cintron-Gonzalez
The Right to Read: Opposing the Censorship of Young Adult Literature on Grounds of Sexually Explicit Content, Kate Fortner
Even in Another Time: A Creative Dissertation, Audrey T. Heffers
An Object of Her Own Making: Object-Oriented Feminist Readings of Women’s Agency in Behn, Barker, Haywood, and Montagu, Hye Hyon Kim
Advocating Legal Literacies and Housing Justice in Technical and Professional Communication: A Case Study of Tenancy Laws, Agreements, and Stories in Ghana, Eric Nuamah Korankye
Abject and Uncanny Manifestations of Sexuality and Sexual Desire in Nineteenth-Century Gothic Literature, Varvara Kuznetsova
Turning 30 in 600 Feet, Tate Lewis-Carroll
Vocabulary Assessment and Washback: English Teachers' Practices in Preparing Students for the WASSCE in Ghana, Ishmael Nii Amon Neequaye
The Wife and the Hunter: Interiority in the Hippolytus Myth, Greta Terfruchte
America the Not Yet Beautiful: Unfulfilled Promises in a Racist-Capitalist Society, Kaitlyn Tibbetts
Dying to Live: The Killing of United States Citizens Through the Health Care System, Kayla Pica Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2025
The Path from Acceptance to Adoption for Linguistic Innovations Dealing with Gender in the Language Classroom, Juan Carlos Acevedo Fontecha
Attitudes and Perceptions toward the Qassimi Dialect, Fahad M. Alwehaibi
Growing Through the Questions: Studying Sticking Points to Strengthen Commitments to Socially Just English Language Arts Teaching, Kaitlyn P. Blake
Skin And Bones: Transgenerational Trauma, Experimental Storytelling, And The Texture Of Hope, A Creative Dissertation, Janine Blue
Promoting a Pedagogy of Critical Engagement: Teaching English Grammar and Usage Through a Socio-Historical, Investigative Approach, Robin E. Cross Halsey
Weighted Suffixation and Symbiosis in Morphology: The Suffixes -meister and -o, Zachary Dukic
Investigating Meaningful Reflection through Teacher Research, Brandon Hillary
Lady Macbeth's Maternity and Morality, Lauren Johnson
Making Monsters: The Intersection of Black and Queer Characters in Vampire Fiction, Jalissa Jones
A Word is Worth a Thousand Words: Sustained Alphabetic Narratives and the Academic Success of English Language Learners at the Secondary Level, Ricardo D. King Jr
At the Mercy of All Things: Nurturing Experimental Queer Writing on Embodied Mothering, Charley Koenig
Breaching the Screen: A Digital Technofeminist Methodology for Virtual and Augmented Realities, Frank Macarthy
The Trouble with the Doing Part: Coming to See the Need for Dialogism as a Stance in English Teacher Education Field Instruction, Shannon Maney-Magnuson
Area of Effect The History and Effects of Linguistic Choices Made in the Final Fantasy Franchise, Camille McDermott
Intersectionality and the Canon of Romanticism, Serenah Minasian
Among the Flowers of Brass: Writing Through Hardship, A Creative Dissertation, Alicia Shupe
Positioning in Narrative and Writing: An Ethnographic Study of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CLD) Graduate Students in an English Language Institute, Demet Yigitbilek
Naming My Selves: Psychotic Rhetorics and Nonbinary Reality, Void Yuen
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Fabulating the Alien: Black Speculative Fiction and a Re-reading of the Xenological Archive, Edmund Hammah Ankomah
The Space between Pedagogy and Praxis: Enacting an Accessible, Critical Disability Studies Pedagogy through the Course Syllabus, Jennifer M. Coe
Digital Safe Spaces: Nonbinary Community Building on Tiktok, Xan Daggett
“So Much Happens between those Two Spaces ”: Focalization and Parent-Child Relationships in the Moth Keeper and the Magic Fish, Sarah DelMaramo
Talking to the Patriarchy: a Linguistic and Rhetorical Investigation into the Language of Feminism, Allison Hauser
Mapping the Mess: a Literate Activity Method for Teacher Research on Civic Literacies in Writing Classrooms, Brittany Larsen
Russian Verbs of Motion: Analyzing Pedagogical Approaches and Developing a Handbook for Russian Language Learners, Elena Petrova
Resonance: a Methodology and Pedagogy for Socially Just Storytelling, Helen Plevka-Jones
Elements, Andres L. Sanchez
A Poetics of Entanglement: the Enmeshed Creation of Interrogative Space, Phil Spotswood
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Reframing Writing Teachers as Writers: Using Online Messages as Teaching Tools during Crisis and Beyond, Emily Capan
Decolonizing Assessment: Witnessing, Disrupting, and Reimagining Assessment in Rhetoric, Composition, and Technical Communication, Lisa Schuler Dooley
A Case for the Negotiation of Agency by Disenfranchised Subjects in Contemporary Nigerian Literature, Chinelo Eneh
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