Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Thesis: On Being Seen or For Those Who Break Like Me, Shanisha K. Branch
Thesis: Rescripting Father-Daughter Dynamics: New Masculinities and Relational Possibilities in Post-Apocalyptic Video Games, Sarah Mortazavi Brooks
Dissertation: Building Bridges in First-Year Composition: Investigating the Support of Threshold Concepts in Writing-Related Transfer Across the Curriculum, Elise Antoinette Green
Thesis: The Flame Returned: A Novel, Lee H. Smith
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Dissertation: Students at a Crossroads: TA Development Across Pedagogical and Curricular Contexts, Cassandra Ann Book
Dissertation: Terrorists, Zombies, and Robots: The Political Unconscious, Thematics, and Affectual Structures of the Post-9/11 American Fear Narrative, Nathanael J. Cloyd
Dissertation: Global Language Variation in Online Writing Instructional Spaces: English as a Lingua Franca Among Global Participants in a Massive Open Online Course, Angela May Dadak
Dissertation: A Rhetorical Frame Analysis of Palestinian-Led Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) Movement Discourse, Jennifer Megan Hitchcock
Dissertation: Concept Maps as Sites of Rhetorical Invention: Teaching the Creative Act of Synthesis as a Cognitive Process, Amy Lee Marie Locklear
Dissertation: Climate Change Games as Boundary Objects: Fostering Dialogic Communication within Stakeholder Engagement, Megan L. McKittrick
Dissertation: Holy Stitches Batman, or, Performative Villainy in Gothic/am, A. Luxx Mishou
Dissertation: Leveraging Maternal Rhetoric, Space, and Experience: La Leche League's Emergence as a Counterpublic, Jenny Lynn Moore
Dissertation: Playing on the Threshold: Topological Chronotopes and Video Games, Michael Joseph Piero
Dissertation: Shelter Rhetorics: Narrative Pathways & Assemblages of The U.S. Asylum Process, Monica Reyes
Thesis: What We Do Not Perceive When We Perceive It, Hannah Jane Trammell
Dissertation: Critical Language Awareness Pedagogy in First-Year Composition: A Design-Based Research Study, Megan Michelle Weaver
Thesis: Responsible Friend, Nina Correa White
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Thesis: Pangaea, Nishat Manzoor Ahmed
Dissertation: Rhetorics of Functionally Applicative Game Design: Designing and Testing the Project Management Game Scrummage, Matthew Carson Beale
Thesis: Spiraling, Madeline Flynn Carey
Dissertation: The Women of Explosive Ordnance Disposal: Cyborg, Techno-Bodies, Situated Knowledge, and Vibrant Materiality in Military Cultures, April Michelle Cobos
Dissertation: Collaboration and Community in Undergraduate Writing Synchronous Video Courses (SVCs), Kimberly Fahle
Dissertation: Rhetorical Agency in Algorithm-Centered Digital Activity: Methods for Tracing Agency in Online Research, Daniel L. Hocutt
Dissertation: Adding Soul to the Message: Applying African American Jeremiad Rhetoric as Culturally Competent Health Communication Online, Wilbert Francisco LaVeist
Thesis: Sugartown, Emma Moore
Dissertation: Familiar Forms, Strange Uses: Paratexts, Narrative Interventions, and the Queering of Possible Worlds in Illicit Narratives of Nineteenth-Century Britain, Jessica Saxon
Dissertation: Crafting A Pedagogical Identity: A Multiple-Method Examination of an English Department’s Writing Pedagogy, Nathan Alan Serfling
Dissertation: Around Her Table: A Digital Community Archive Featuring Azorean-American Women in New England, Suzanne Lyn Parenti Sink
Thesis: Speaking for the Grotesques: The Historical Articulation of the Disabled Body in the Archive, Violet Marie Strawderman
Thesis: No Net to Catch You, Will Yarbrough
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Thesis: The Backwoods Stories: A Saga of Fear and Wonder, James McClendon Adams
Thesis: Sub/Mission, Abigail Naomi Brunt
Thesis: Safe Passage to the End of Earth, Gregory Martin Chandler
Thesis: A Right-Hand Man: A Novel, Christopher Giofreda
Thesis: Sugar Acts, Amanda Raquel Gomez
Thesis: Are We All #NastyWomen? The Rhetoric of Feminist Hashtags and Respectability Politics, Kimberly Lynette Goode
Thesis: The Last Cherokee of Blue Ridge, Dexter Benjamin Gore
Thesis: Girlhood, Tarin Kovalik
Thesis: Your Favorite Place, Christina Marable
Thesis: Permanent Resident, Joshua McGarry
Thesis: The Quality of Mercy, Kerry McNamara
Dissertation: Constructing an Early Modern Queen: Posturing, Mimicry, and the Rhetoric of Authority, Megan K. Mize
Thesis: We Are the Bobcats, Jacquelyn Mohan
Thesis: Museum of Unforeseen Circumstances, Ethan Forrest Ross
Dissertation: An Examination of the Key Features of Salman Rushdie’s Historiographic Metafiction: A Possible Worlds Theory Approach, George Shamshayooadeh
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Thesis: Unconditional Positive Regard, Tyler Beckett
Dissertation: Reconceptualizing the Work of a Content Provider for an Online Audience: A Case Study for How Pedagogical Strategies Can Provide Models of Engagement for Producers of Entertainment, Diane Cooke
Thesis: Algorithm Controls: An Examination of Ethos, Agency, and Interfaces in the Fallout Series, Daniel Cox
Thesis: Intersexion, Cynthia Davis
Thesis: Healthy Living and Other Electives, Lamar Giles
Dissertation: BBC News: Defining Britishness in the Early Twenty-First Century, Christine Gilroy-Reynolds
Thesis: With Light, Emily Howell
Thesis: Mexican Bingo, Amanda Michelle Galvan Huynh
Thesis: Clubbie: Two Seasons with Baseball's Broken Dreamers, Gregory Scott Larson
Thesis: Dead Cooks, Aaron David Lawhon
Thesis: A Little Bit of a Breakdown, Margaret Libby
Thesis: New Elegies, Sarah McCall
Dissertation: Being Retained: Perspective of the Online First-Year Composition Student, Catrina Marie Mitchum
Thesis: The Otherworlds of Men, Aaron Morris
Dissertation: Women’s Entrance Into the Fire Department: A Theory of Collaboration and Crisis, Sarah Vee Moseley
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Dissertation: Aristotle's Ink: Tattooing a New Understanding of Invention in Collaborative Writing, Rachel L. Bragg
Thesis: EPortfolios, Google Drive, and Cognitive Process Theory, Sarah Elizabeth Carl
Thesis: Sex, Love, and Black Lives, Mack Curry IV
Thesis: Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species, Leslie Samuels Entsminger
Dissertation: Communities in (Digital) Space: Creating Networks for Daily Living Through Pervasive Media, Jamie Lynn Henthorn
Thesis: Versus Los Angeles, Thomas Vincent Kelly
Thesis: Explaining Poetry to the Open Heart, Matthew Wayne Larrimore
Thesis: Misplaced Boys, Shori Matsumoto
Thesis: Well This Was Unexpected: Stories from My Life, Barbara Middlebrook
Dissertation: Leveraging Digital Communities of Practice: How Asynchronous Digital Collaboration Afforded a Complex Reading/Writing Dialogue for Secondary School Students, Susanne Lee Nobles
Dissertation: Collaborative Development of an Interdisciplinary Scientific Research Proposal: Negotiation through Boundary Objects, Laura Emond Paganucci
Dissertation: Innovation Adoption and Diffusion in Synchronous Tutoring Owls: A Cross-Contextual Case Study Using Diffusion of Innovations Theory, Cynthia Marie Pengilly
Thesis: Ulu Boyar, Caleb true
Thesis: In the Blooming Red, Elaine White
Thesis: The Secret Society of Fish-Gazers, Hannah Woodlan
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Dissertation: Multimodal Composing Across Disciplines: Examining Community College Professors’ Perceptions of Twenty-First Century Literacy Practices, Elizabeth Bensen
Dissertation: Community, Identity, and Transition: Student Veterans and Academic Writing at the Two-Year College, Mark Edward Blaauw-Hara
Dissertation: Embodied Literate Practices of Freshman Women Students: A Phenomenology of Students in First-Year Composition, Carmen Lynn Christopher
Dissertation: Governing Bodies: Caster Semenya and the Rhetorical Management of Sex and Gender Ambiguity in Professional Athletics, Samuel Robert Evans
Dissertation: Identities and Interactions in a Transcultural Online Collaboration Project, Zsuzsanna Bacsa Palmer
Dissertation: Pedagogy at Play: Gamification and Gameful Design in the 21st-Century Writing Classroom, Danielle Roney Roach
Dissertation: Creating Memories: Writing and Designing More Memorable Documents, James Eric Sentell
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Dissertation: Narrative Space and Serialized Forms: Story-Spaces for the Mass Market in Victorian Print and Contemporary Television, Laura Daniel Buchholz
Dissertation: "That Doesn't Sound Like Me:" Student Perceptions of Semiotic Resources in Written-Aural Remediation Practices, Jennifer Johnson Buckner
Dissertation: "Warning: This Is a Must Read": Participation and Disruption in Social Artifacts and Spaces, Angela M. Harrison Eng
Dissertation: Refusing a Spoiled Identity: How the Swinger Community Represents on the Web, Barbara Kreston
Dissertation: "Do You Bant?" William Banting and Bantingism: A Cultural History of a Victorian Anti-Fat Aesthetic, Jaime Michelle Miller
Dissertation: Stuck in the Last Ice Age: Tracing the Role of Document Design in the Teaching Materials of Writing Courses, Erin Duffy Pastore
Dissertation: Microblogging as a Facilitator of Online Community in Graduate Education, Vincent Anthony Rhodes
Dissertation: From Viva La Revolutión-ish to the Free Space: Toward a Theory of Guerrilla Rhetoric, Cheri Lemieux Spiegel
Dissertation: Death on Display: Understanding the Publicized Eulogies of African American Cultural Figures as an Empowering Rhetorical Discourse, Melody Shelton Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Dissertation: The User Experience of Participation: Tracing the Intersection of Sociotechnical Design and Cultural Practice in Digital Ecosystems, David L. Jones
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Dissertation: Sifting the Commonplace: Topoi and the Grounds for Argument in Classical and Modern Rhetoric, Daniel Verlo Cutshaw
Dissertation: Textualizing the Nation: The Sociopolitical Negotiation of Atatürk's Nutuk, and Visions of National Identity in Contemporary Turkey, Elif Guler
Dissertation: The Effects of Digital Technology on Basic Writing, Leslie Denise Norris
Dissertation: Facebook and Its Users: Using Grounded Theory to Understand Perceived Interactivity as a Constraint in the Rhetorical Situation, Katie Lee Retzinger Pruitt
Dissertation: Woman at the Top: Rhetoric, Politics, and Feminism in the Texts and Life of Annie Smith Peck, Hannah Scialdone-Kimberly
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Dissertation: Memory, Identity, and the Rhetoric of Quilts, J. Jane Amelon
Dissertation: Namaste: Pedagogical Methods for Designing Yoga & Art Experiences for/with Teen Participants, Tiffani Olivia Bryant
Thesis: Writing Program Design for ESL Writers, Kacie M. Kiser