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Dissertations from 2024
From Serial to Subreddit: An Analysis of Modern True Crime and Web Sleuths, Alyssa T. Compton
(Di)versification: Transgressive Poetics in the Twenty-First Century Classroom, Ronnie K. Stephens
Dissertations from 2023
“I HOPE YOU ARE NOT BEING STUPID ABOUT CHILDREN”: TRANSFORMING LITERATURE PEDAGOGY THROUGH CHILDREN’S LITERATURE, Ashley Cheyenne Johnson
Dissertations from 2022
Asian Modernities: The Historical Unconscious in Asian and Asian American Literatures, Amanda Brooke Monteleone
Post-Factum Studies in Trans-corporeal Rhetoric: Triangularities of Genre, Ethics, and Aesthetics in Kenneth Burke and Michel Foucault, Hubert Woodson
Making Selves as We Make Scholars: The Many Uses of Life Writing in College English, Lindsey Rose Gendke
A TEACHER GOES TO SCHOOL: A RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF PEDAGOGICAL INSIGHTS ON SECONDARY WRITING INSTRUCTION, Karen Stelter Otto
(RE)FASHIONING GENDER: DRESS AS EMBODIED FEMINIST CRITIQUE IN MODERNIST WOMEN’S WRITING, Lauren Elizabeth Sperandio Phelps
Dissertations from 2021
Crip Mothering: Representation of Disability and Motherhood in Post-1980 American Films, Mohammed Ali H. Sumili
POSTHUMAN NURTURING IN AMERICAN LITERARY FUTURITIES, Andrew Ryan Tolle
DECENTERING WHITE SPACE IN THE TWO-YEAR COLLEGE ENGLISH CLASSROOM: A PERSPECTIVE THROUGH CRT, TRIBALCRIT, AND LATCRIT, Kassandra Angela Ramirez Buck
SERMONIC FUGUES EVALUATED IN A THEMATIC COLLECTION OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HOMILETICAL RESPONSES TO THE 9/11 TRAGEDY USING DISTANT READING ANALYTICS, Terrance Andrew Ford
Dissertations from 2020
STRONGER THAN FICTION: LITERARY AND CULTURAL MERIT OF CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN AMERICAN CHRISTIAN FICTION, Shewanda LaRue Riley
THROUGH THE NARROW GATE: CONDUCT, CONVERSION, AND COMMUNITY IN NINETEENTH- AND TWENTIETH-CENTURY WOMEN'S NOVELS, Katherine Lee Jones
WRAITHS AND WHITE MEN: THE IMPACT OF PRIVILEGE ON PARANORMAL REALITY TELEVISION, Antares Russell Leask
Space Opera: The Aesthetics of Personhood in the Works and Worlds of Philip K. Dick, Gabriel Francis Mamola
Dissertations from 2019
I, Gamer: Addressing Toxic Ludology and Narratology in the Gamer Discourse Community Through Reinterpreting Video Games as Hypertexts, Andrew S. Latham
Material Intimacy: Bearing Witness, Listening, and Wandering The Ruins, Miriam R. Rowntree
The Domestic Bible: William Tyndale's Vernacular Translation, Joul Layne Smith
LEAF, BARK, THORN, ROOT: ARBOREAL ECOCRITICISM AND SHAKESPEAREAN DRAMA, Jason Charles Hogue
BORN OR MADE: PROBLEMS OF PROSE STYLE & STYLISTIC IMPROVABILITY AT THE SENTENCE LEVEL, AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH, Hope Petrash McCarthy
Directive/Facilitative Commenting in the Disciplines and its Effects on Student Revision, Christina Montgomery
Dissertations from 2018
Italian American Literature and Food: A Match Made in the Kitchen A Handbook, Monica Marchi
Masculinity and Chivalry: The Tenuous Relationship of the Sacred and Secular in Medieval Arthurian Literature, Kaci McCourt
Teaching Elsewhere: Curating↔Calibrating Posthumanist Possibilities, Sarah Alice Shelton
Dissertations from 2017
Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Metacognitive Reflection: A Case Study of Faculty Teaching in Learning Communities, Melissa Perry
The Many Masks of a Writer: A Dramaturgical Approach to Composition Pedagogy and Literature Analysis, Kathryn Quesenbury
"A Shot in the Dark": Post-9/11 One-Off Speculative Fiction, Michael Lynn Brittain
Disabling Sex Education: Science, Narrative, and the Female Body in Feminist Medical Fiction, 1874-1916, Stephanie P. Tavera
Colonial Shame and its Effect on Puerto Rican Culture, Alison Torres Ramos
Dissertations from 2016
Practical Magic: Magical Realism and the Possibilities of Representation in Twenty-First Century Fiction and Film, Rachael Mariboho
Rethinking Resistance: Race, Gender, and Place in the Fictive and Real Geographies of the American West, Tracey Daniels Lerberg
“THE GOD OF THE AGE”: RELIGION AND SERVITUDE IN THE WORKS OF AUGUSTA JANE EVANS, Jeffrey Warren King
Queering the Aftermath: Rethinking the Queer in Postcolonial and the (Post)colonial in Queer, Robert LaRue
Strange and Unstable Bodies: Shifting Materialities in Early American Natural History Correspondence Networks, Julie Marie McCown
Dissertations from 2015
Teaching/writing Workshop: A Critical Memoir Of Training Teacher Candidates In Developmental Composition, Chere Harden Blair
The Fecundity Of The Figural: Ethical And Phototextual Di-vision In Postmodern American Fiction, Brian Scott Carroll
Removing The Binaries Between Humanity And Nature: The Female Perception Through Science Fiction Utopias, Sarah Gail Farrell
The Performing Mother: Maternal Ethics Beyond Embodiment, Charles Hicks
Constructing Mothering Performances: The Motherhood Ideal In Caldecott And Newbery Winners, 1980-2014, Dana McCullough Brewer
Dissertations from 2014
Make it plain, preacha': African American rhetorical license, African American Vernacular English (AAVE), and a modern rendering of epideictic rhetoric, Leslie E. Similly
Positioning First-year Composition: Hybrid Learning For Student Engagement And Sustainability, Lorie Stagg Jacobs
Confronting The Spectacle Of The Other (than Human): Posthumanism And The Convergence Of Art, Aesthetics, And Ethics, Matthew Lerberg
Negotiating The Sacred In Secular Writing Spaces: The Rhetoric Of Religion In American University Composition Textbooks, Myra Lee Salcedo
The Tool/maker: the bird, the cage, the radio, the sea, the rock, the eye, the space, Johnny A. Stein
Dissertations from 2013
The Possibilities Of Children's Literature: A Rhetoric-oriented Approach To Juvenile Texts, Basil Chadwick Chisholm
One High Heel On Each Side Of The Border: A Closer Look At Gender And Sexuality In Chicana And Anglo Young Adult Literature, Christi Cook
The Found Object(s) Of Rhetoric, Nathan Gale
Black Rhetoric: The Art Of Thinking Being, April Leigh Kinkead
Embodied Climate Change: Materiality, Language, Mediation, And The Legitimation Of The Unintelligible, Justin Lerberg
Mapping Men: Toward A Theory Of Material Masculinity, David R. Wallace
Dissertations from 2012
Indi'n Humor, Tricksters, And Stereotype In Selected Works Of Gerald Vizenor, Thomas King, And Sherman Alexie, Corby J. Baxter
Liquid Assets: The Functions Of Forgetting In Shakespeare's Second Henriad, Jonni Koonce Dunn
Envisioning A Postfeminist Composition Studies, Melissa Miles
Language, Order And The Problem Of The Other: Inventing A Postmodern Service-learning Pedagogy, Dianne Pearman
Rhetoric, Composition And Preaching: What Homiletic Pedagogy Can Learn About Imitation From Composition Pedagogies, Calvin Frederick Pearson
The Destroyer Of Souls: The Rhetoric Of Fear In Old English Literature, Thomas A. Tutt
Dissertations from 2011
US Poets Laureate: A Literary And Cultural History, Toni M. Holland
Korean American Matters And Identity In Korean American Novels, Seung-Won Kim
My Child And My Life: Sacrificial Obligation And Chaucer, Gary Scott Montano
Toward A Theory Of Narrative Rhetoric, Edwardo Raul Perez
No Longer Estranged: Women, Science, Science Fiction, Christy Tidwell
Dissertations from 2010
From Eve To Eve: Women's Dreaming In The Middle Ages And Renaissance, Rebecca Dark
(Re)using Women: The Image Debate In Early Modern Allegory, Sandi J. Hubnik
Chicken And Dumplings: The Motif Of Food In Appalachian Literature, Cynthia L. Sibley Thayer
Rogerian Democratic Pedagogy And Its Implications In Composition Studies For Students, Service Learning, And The Public Writing Movement, Stacy Fussell Thorne
Dissertations from 2009
"A Condition Of Potentiality": American Women's Utopian And Science Fiction, 1920-1960, Bridgitte Barclay Arnold
Playing In The Prose: Writing Instruction And Underprepared Student-athletes In Division I-a Universities, Billie S. Hara
Speaking Through The Silence: Voice In The Poetry Of Selected Native American Women Poets, D'juana Ann Montgomery
Imagining Judith: An Examination Of Judith's Representation In The Middle English Metrical Paraphrase Of The Old Testament, Terri Vaughn
Dissertations from 2008
Selected Correspondence From The Horton Foote Collection, 1912-1991, Susan Christensen
Misreading Justice: The Rhetoric Of Revenge In Feminist Texts About Domestic Violence, Kimberly Paige Bowers
Recollecting Memory, Reviewing History: Trauma In Asian North American Literature, Guan-Rong Chen
Tracking Whiteness: Portrayals Of Whites In American Indian Literature, Mary (Peggy) M. Ruff
Native Spaces Of Continuation, Preservation, And Belonging: Louise Erdrich's Concepts Of Home, Jonathan Max Wilson
Dissertations from 2007
Frantic Fathers And Misplaced Mothers: Hegemonic Patriarchal Reinforcement Of The Traditional Family In American Film, Teriann Gaston Blaisdell
Reinventing The Self: Native American Women's Autobiographies, Kristin Lynn Rozzell
Down And Back Again: A Swimmer's Body Moves Through Feminism, Young Adult Sport Literature And Film, Michelle Renee Sanders
Dissertations from 2006
Kairos, Nomos, New Media: Paradox As A Reservoir For Invention, Robert Leston
Dissertations from 2005
Teilhard De Chardin's View Of Diminishment And The Late Stories Of Flannery O'connor, Steven Watkins