Graduation Term
2021
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Department of English: English Studies
Committee Chair
Julie M Jung
Abstract
Teachers, students, and administrators already know that universities were, and still are, developed for a certain type of privileged student. Institutional genres are conceptualized in kind: a response to idealized situations within the framework of messy institutions—spaces where many students first learn how to live on their own, grappling with necessary literacies that exist within and beyond the classroom. Because of their institutional positioning, these genres form systems of power that affect students in different ways. Implicit in institutional communication are mechanisms of hegemonic oppression that may dissuade women and other marginalized individuals from taking action and subverting the norms constructed through institutional texts. This dissertation project begins the work of investigating how institutional genres elicit effects for students who often have little control in negotiating these texts and the actions they provoke.
Access Type
Dissertation-Open Access
Recommended Citation
Cox, Courtney, "Defining Compulsory Academic Genres: a Feminist Rhetorical Interrogation of Required Institutional Practices" (2021). Theses and Dissertations. 1524.
https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/etd/1524
DOI
https://doi.org/10.30707/ETD2022.20220606094400252308.999986