Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Dissertation: Reading with Social, Digital Annotation: Encouraging Engaged Critical Reading in a Challenging Age, Miranda L. Egger
Thesis: The Forms of Things Unknown, Anna Marie Fogler
Thesis: Radically Inclusive Pedagogy and Praxis, Danie Jules Hallerman
Dissertation: “Finding a Balance”: User, Reader, and Learner Functions in First-Year Composition Textbook Engagement, Travis Vincent Holt
Thesis: Addressing Public Perceptions About Cell-Based Meat and Cellular Agriculture Through Metaphors, Yvette Emma Hubbard
Dissertation: Fragmentation in the Dual Enrollment Experience: The Importance of Students’ Self-Perceptions in Dual Enrollment First-Year Composition Students, Sarah Crystal Johnson
Thesis: Serendipityblah, Amanda Linn Kunkel
Thesis: Toggling Between, Briana Morris
Thesis: IPROBLEMS, Matthew G. Moscato
Thesis: In the Wild a Parasite, Kelsey Ryann Orsini
Thesis: Symbiotic Complexity, Francesca Santos
Thesis: You Are The Right One, James Joseph Valliere
Thesis: Flying In Mind, Paula Jean Walashek
Thesis: Bad Actors, Wendell Ward
Thesis: Greenbox to Barbershops, Willie Wilson
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Thesis: When They Came for Us, Samia Ahmed
Dissertation: The Spooky Vein: The Reparative Gothic-Modern in the Works of Richard A.W. Hughes, Corwin R. Baden
Thesis: Manifesting Devi, Roudri Bandyopadhyay
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
Thesis: Maladies & Remedies, Timothy Michael Fulghum
Dissertation: Building Bridges in First-Year Composition: Investigating the Support of Threshold Concepts in Writing-Related Transfer Across the Curriculum, Elise Antoinette Green
Thesis: Inter Alia, Richard Leise
Thesis: Bastard, Rashad McDowell
Thesis: Storied, Healing, Lili Louzhi Nizankiewicz
Thesis: Don't Destroy Yourself, Timothy Norton
Thesis: Never Pull an Arrow Out of a Body, Matthew Gerald Olive
Thesis: Tools and Ornaments, Tracy E. Rice Webber
Thesis: The Flame Returned: A Novel, Lee H. Smith
Thesis: Inside You, Your Cells Dividing Like Stars, Courtney Lauren Tala
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Thesis: Diagnosis: Weirdo, James Corbett Beardsley
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
Thesis: Colin and the Nachtmar, Elizabeth Sarah Golliher
Dissertation: A Rhetorical Frame Analysis of Palestinian-Led Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) Movement Discourse, Jennifer Megan Hitchcock
Thesis: The Open Heart Furnace, David Jacobson
Thesis: The Shape of Things We Won't Say, Raoul Lobo
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: Narmada, Bhavika Sicka
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 [Short Stories], 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