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Theses/Dissertations from 2024

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HOUSE OF HORRORS: SHIRLEY JACKSON AND THE PERILS OF THE DOMESTIC IN AMERICAN LITERATURE, 1945-1965, AnnMarie DeMichiel

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THE EMPIRE: A DYSTOPIAN NOVEL, Tatiana Duvanova

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FROM PAGE TO STAGE: ENLIGHTENMENT COMMON SENSE & THE SEMIOTICS OF THE BODY, 1660–1820, Nilton X. Gomes

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ANGELENO: A NOVELLA, Sue Yon Kim

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THIS COULD BE HEAVEN OR THIS COULD BE HELL: FIGURATIONS OF URBAN LIFE IN CONTEMPORARY CALIFORNIA, Diana Turken

Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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Muscadine: Poems, Albert Hosia Jerriod Avant

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MIDDLE CHILDREN OF HISTORY: MALE-AUTHORED POST-1960s FICTION & THE NIHILISM OF WHITE MALE PROTAGONISTS, Emma C. Baughman

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THE (MIS)FORMATION OF IDENTITY IN JOSEPH CONRAD’S NOVELS: IDEOLOGY, COMMUNITY, AND THE SELF, Youngji Cho

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COMPUTATIONAL CLOSE READING: A CRITIQUE OF DIGITAL LITERARY METHODOLOGY, Damiano Consilvio

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DIAGNOSTIC BRAINS, EXPERIENTIAL MINDS AND METAMODERNISM: MCEWAN, SELF, AND MCCARTHY AS CASE STUDIES, Mohamed Anis Ferchichi

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RESISTING ARREST: AN (AUTO-THEORETICAL) ESSAY ON PRISON LITERATURE, James A. Ferry

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WAITING TOO LONG TO MOVE AT GREEN LIGHTS, Michael Landreth

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IS IT FREEDOM YOU WANT?: FEMINIST MORMON HOUSEWIVES “DEAR FMH” COLUMN AS A PARTICIPANT IN THE ETHICS OF CARE IN AMERICAN WOMEN’S ADVICE COLUMNS, Julia Unger

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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THE TEXT(TILES) OF ADINKRA SYMBOLS: WEST AFRICAN ART, GENDER, & POETIC TRANSLATIONS, Rachel A. Ansong

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BLACK FEMINIST AUTOETHNOGRAPHY: HOW IDENTITY CAN AFFECT PEER REVIEW PRACTICES IN THE COLLEGE WRITING CLASSROOM, Eileen M. James

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TO SCALE DRAGONS: COMPRISING THINGS LOST AND TWO ESSAYS ON FANTASY, André V. Katkov

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THE ALICE ATOM COMPENDIUM, Nick Mendillo

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BROKEN DOZER, HAUNTED VALE: THE ECOPOETICS OF AMBIENT LANGUAGE, Andrew Merecicky

Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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TRUE CRIME, WOMEN, AND SENSATIONALIZED REPRESENTATIONS IN THE ITALIAN AMERICAN IMAGINARY, Francesca Borrione

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FANTASIZING REPRODUCTION: THE BIOLOGIZATION OF THE DESIRE FOR PROGRESS IN VICTORIAN LITERATURE, Xinqiang Chang

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GENDERED & GENREFIED BODIES: HEROISM AS PRODUCTION AND PERFORMANCE IN SWORD & SORCERY FANTASY, Anthony Conrad Chieffalo

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INTIMATE DISTANCES: AN ARCHIPELAGO, Elizabeth Foulke

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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PREPARING FOR DEATH: CANNIBALISM, CONSUMPTION AND INCORPORATION IN WOMEN’S SHIPWRECK NARRATIVES, Danielle Cofer

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FEMALE COMIC GROTESQUE CHARACTERS IN VICTORIAN NOVELS: INVESTIGATING THE POSSIBILITIES OF LIMINALITY, Barbara A. Farnworth

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READING THE READER: ANALYZING DEPICTIONS OF MALE READERS IN SERIAL VICTORIAN FICTION, Ashton Foley-Schramm

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REORIENTING THE FEMALE GOTHIC: CURIOSITY AND THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE, Jenna Guitar

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ECOLOGIES OF MATERIALITY AND AESTHETICS IN BRITISH MODERNIST WAR-TIME LITERATURE, 1890-1939, Molly Volanth Hall

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FICTIONS OF CAPTIVITY: RACIALIZING RELIGION IN EARLY U.S. LITERATURE AND CULTURE, Serap Hidir

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BETWEEN SIBLINGS: HOW THE SIBLING METAPHOR REIMAGINES AFFECTIVE ENTANGLEMENTS IN THE VICTORIAN NOVEL, Beth Leonardo Silva

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OPENING CEREMONY: A WRITING PRACTICE TOWARDS QUEER FUTURITY, Laura Marie Marciano

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“THE SKIPPING KING”: MASCULINITY AND EFFEMINACY IN EARLY MODERN DRAMA, Danielle Johanna Sanfilippo

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THE MARK OF THE VANISHING READER: INTRADIEGETIC INTERACTION IN MULTIMODAL NARRATIVE, Catherine Ann Winters

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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PRACTICING TRANSLINGUALISM: FACULTY CONCEPTIONS AND PRACTICES, Adrienne Jones Daly

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TO BE CONTINUED: SERIALITY IN NEW MEDIA, Ryan Engley

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CONSTRUCTING TRANSGRESSION: CRIMINALITY IN EXPERIMENTAL LITERATURE, Charles Kell

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WELCOME TO THE CLUB: AN ARCHIVAL INQUIRY INTO THE DEWEY LABORATORY SCHOOL AS RHETORICAL EDUCATION, Krysten Manke

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“THERE IS NO RACISM IN CUBA”: A FIELD STUDY OF THE “POST-RACE” RHETORIC OF MODERN CUBA, Clarissa J. Walker

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CHARMED MODERNISMS: FANTASIES OF SOCIALITY AND DIFFERENCE IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE, Kara Watts

Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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THE NEW SINCERITY IN AMERICAN LITERATURE, Matthew J. Balliro

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Understanding Reading Sponsorship Through Analysis of First-Year Composition Students’ Literacy Narratives, Nancy A. Benson

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Widening the Sphere: Mid-to-Late Victorian Popular Fiction, Gender Representation, and Canonicity, Anna J. Brecke

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Demonstrating Feminist Metic Intelligence Through the Embodied Rhetorical Practices of Julia Child, Lindy E. Briggette

The Men That Sleep Built, Samuel Simas

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Questing Feminism: Narrative Tensions and Magical Women in Modern Fantasy, Kimberly Wickham

Theses/Dissertations from 2017

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Writing Irish America: Communal Memory and the Narrative of Nation in Diaspora, Beth O'Leary Anish

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Speaking Truth to Power: Stand-Up Comedians as Sophists, Jesters, Public Intellectuals and Activists, Jillian Belanger

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Architectures of Captivity: Imagining Freedom in Antebellum America, Rachel Boccio

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Virginia Woolf's Pedagogical Art, William R. Bowden

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Undergraduate Student Perspectives on Electronic Portfolio Assessment in College Composition Courses, Bridget Fullerton

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Metadata and Relational Architecture: Advancing Arrangement, Agency, and Access with New Methodology, Jenna Morton-Aiken

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Agency in Eating Disorders: American Literary and Visual Memoirs of Anorexia and Bulimia, Jenny Platz

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To Start, Continue, and Conclude: Foregrounding Narrative Production in Serial Fiction Publishing, Gabriel E. Romaguera

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"You Will Hold This Book in Your Hands": The Novel and Corporeality in the New Media Ecology, Jason Shrontz

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Exploring the Use of NoRedInk as a Tool for Composition Instruction, Alyson Snowe

Theses/Dissertations from 2016

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You Are What You Eat: Investigating Food Discourse and Digitally-Mediated Identities, Katelyn Leigh Burton

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Exquisite Clutter: Material Culture and the Scottish Reinvention of the Adventure Narrative, Rebekah C. Greene

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“A Peculiar Power of Perception”: Scottish Enlightenment Rhetoric and the New Aesthetic of Language, Rosaleen Greene-Smith Keefe

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Absurdity and Artistry in Twentieth Century American War Literature, Brittany B. Hirth

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The Color of Grammar and the Surface of Language: 20th Century Avant-Garde Poetics in Gertrude Stein, Mina Loy, and Blaise Cendrars, Sarah E. Kruse

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Consent Puzzles: Narrative Ambiguities of Girls' Sexual Agency in Literature and Film from the 1990s, Michele Meek

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John Dewey's Letters from Asia: Implications for Redefining "Openness" in Rhetoric and Composition, Karen Pierce Shea

Theses/Dissertations from 2015

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Automated Essay Evaluation and the Computational Paradigm: Machine Scoring Enters the Classroom, Catherine M. Barrett

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Bringing the World Inside: British Modernism and Taste – Gustatory, Social, and Aesthetic, Michael David Becker

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Permeable Boundaries: Globalizing Form in Contemporary American and British Literature, Nancy Caronia

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AT HOME IN THE DIASPORA: DOMESTICITY AND NATIONALISM IN POSTWAR AND CONTEMPORARY CARIBBEAN-BRITISH FICTION, Kim Caroline Evelyn

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AN EXAMINATION OF ARGUMENTATION IN UNDERGRADUATE COMPOSITION TEXTBOOKS, Wendy Lee Grosskopf

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Stories That Shape: The Work of Writing Program Administration, Marcy Isabella

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OFF THE HIP: A THERMODYNAMICS OF THE COOL, Rebecca Kanost

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INSOMNIA AND IDENTITY: THE DISCURSIVE FUNCTION OF SLEEPLESSNESS IN MODERNIST LITERATURE, Sarah Kingston

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TEMPERANCE IN THE AGE OF FEELING: SENSIBILITY, PEDAGOGY, AND POETRY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, Sarah Hattie Maitland

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UNCONSCIOUS STATES: A NOVEL, Rachel May

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Life vs. Unlife: Interspecies Solidarity and Companionism in Contemporary American Literature, Barnaby McLaughlin

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TOWARD A PSYCHOSOCIAL UNDERSTANDING OF SUICIDE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE OF THE 1990’S, Sara E. Murphy

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THE SENTINELLE AFFAIR: A STUDY IN MULTILINGUAL LANGUAGE PRACTICES, Jason Peters

Theses/Dissertations from 2014

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Firefighters’ Multimodal Literacy Practices, Timothy R. Amidon

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ARGUMENT, RHETORIC, AND TRANSCENDENCE: “THE ADHERENCE OF MINDS” WITHIN THE DISCOURSE OF SPIRITUALITY, Gavin Forrest Hurley

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OPTING-IN ONLINE: PARTICIPANTS’ PERCEPTIONS OF KNOWLEDGE CONSTRUCTION IN PUBLIC FORUM COMMUNITIES, Jennifer C. Lee

Theses/Dissertations from 2013

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LIGHTNING-ROD MEN, MAGNETIC LIVES, BODIES ELECTRIC: ELECTROMAGNETIC CORPOREALITY IN EMERSON, MELVILLE, & WHITMAN, James Patrick Gorham

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Women's Historiography in Late Medieval European Literature: Giovanni Boccaccio, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Christine de Pizan, Eva M. Jones

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SAVING PRINCE PEACH: A STUDY OF “GAYMERS” AND DIGITAL LGBT/GAMING RHETORICS, M. William MacKnight

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Affective Reconfigurations: A New Politics of Difference, Laurie Rodrigues

Theses/Dissertations from 2010

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Flight of the mind: Reading Virginia Woolf reading, Maria Chiancola Glade

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Taking stock of the Warehouse Cooperative School: A personal inventory of the formation of adolescent subjectivity in the context of 1970s alternative education, Theo Greenblatt

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The drift: Rethinking the affective dynamics of adaptation, John Hodgkins

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Bodies of evidence: Critical theory and audience response to American Gothic narratives, Bruce G. Johnson

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Writing Across the Curriculum: Faculty workshop practices (1977-1997), Owen Brian Kaufman

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Homeless chic: Cultural contradictions in contemporary American literature, Jennifer Joyce Kissko

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Subjectivities and counterpublics in 20th-century Christian leftist texts, Robert LeBlanc

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Mitigations of shame: Represented and elicited affect in Vietnam War films of the late 1980s, Bryan D. Marinelli

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Rewriting the script: Using rhetorical theory to mitigate the effects of media violence, Lee H. Marshall

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Rhetorics of place and ecological relationships: The rhetorical construction of Narragansett Bay, Matthew Ortoleva

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Around, alongside, inside, and in-between: The geometries of performance in contemporary U.S. play and film, Piotr A. Skuza

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Inside writing assessment: One faculty's collective engagement & active critique within departmental course outcomes, Valerie A. Vancza

Theses/Dissertations from 2009

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Sex for dinner, death for breakfast: James Bond and the body, Brian A. Dixon

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A study of selected errors in Arab students' English compositions and an investigation of Arabic rhetoric, Samaa Gamie

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East meets West: Chinese reception and translation of Virginia Woolf, Guanglan Jin

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Writing Ethics in the Writing Major: Rhetorical applications for plagiarism pedagogies in the collaborative age, Daniela Antonina Ragusa

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"All the world's a stage": (Re)familiarizing Shakespeare: A study of Romeo and Juliet in the East and the West, Beau La Rhee

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Persistence, resistance, and change: Toward a critical praxis for student researched writing, Bryna L. Siegel

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Scoring silent film: Music/nation/affect, George Steele