Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Magical American Jew: The enigma of difference in contemporary Jewish American short fiction and film, Aaron Tillman
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Eighteenth-century gothic novels and gendered spaces: What's left to say, Gretchen M. Cohenour
Grammatical errors: Perceptions and responses of students, first-year composition instructors, and business communication instructors, Michelle Niestepski
Speaking out: Class, race, and gender in the writings of Ruth McEnery Stuart, Edith Summers Kelley, and Harriette Simpson Arnow, Claire E. Reynolds
Queen Elizabeth I and Shakespeare: Image of gender, power, and sexuality, Frederick Schweizer
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
An empirical study of students' expectations of writing centers, Deborah Lucia DePiero
Public writing inside and outside the classroom: A comparative analysis of activist rhetorics, Eileen Medeiros
Speech and power negotiations in industrial novels from 1849 to 1866, John Condon Murray
Modernism's nervous genre: The diaries of Woolf, James, and Sassoon, Kimberly A. Sims
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Space-people-language: A grounded theory of a place-based pedagogy in a first year writing class, William Burns
Discourse on diversity: A qualitative study of a college communication course in multiculturalism, Mary V. Gormley
The genres of tutor training: Searching for reflective practice, Elaine Hays
The rhetorical war: Class, race and redemption in Spanish-American War fiction. Stephen Crane, Frank Norris, Richard Harding Davis and Sutton Griggs, David Scott Kramer
"Man with Box", David D. Malley
The horror of looking: Lynching and the empathetic eye, Greta Methot
What's wrong and who cares? Reader reaction to error, Susan Rashid Horn
The postcolonial body in queer space and time, Rebecca Fine Romanow
The color of sympathy: Biology, race, and feeling in republican and antebellum culture, Edward M. Williams Jr.
Riding the hyphen: Derrida-Woolf, Andrea L. Yates
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
The representation of race in composition studies and stories, Carole Eileen Center
Women-writing-women: Three American responses to the Woman Question, Theresa Defrancis
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Queer times: Christopher Isherwood's modernity, Jamie M. Carr
Revaluing the literary naturalist: John Burroughs's emotive environmental aesthetics, Stephen Mark Mercier
From discourse to activism: Trajectories of Percy Bysshe Shelley's nonviolence philosophy in literatures of resistance, Susan Joan Peterson
Prolegomenon to the literary study of hypertext, Edward Steven Shear
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
Manifestoes: A Study in Genre, Stevens Russell Amidon
Making the Grade: Academic Literacies and First-Generation College Students in a Highly Selective Liberal Arts College, Theresa Perri Ammirati
Making the grade: Academic literacies and first-generation college students in a highly selective liberal arts college, Theresa Perri Ammirati
Writing across cultures: Contrastive rhetoric and a writing center study of one student's journey, Christine M. Fox
From free/slave binaries to Black/White dialectics: The problem of race in antebellum discourse (1831-1861), Sally Gomaa
The Offering: Writing a historical screenplay, Alicia B. Lyon
Mystical discourse as ideological resistance in Wordsworth and Whitman: A transatlantic bridge, Donald J. Moores
Gilded Age spaces, actual and imagined: Edith Wharton as a spatial activist and analyst, Renee Dara Somers
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
A friend of Edward's: Identity, homosexuality, and the literature of Edward II, 1300-1630, Michael Gary Cornelius
Leftist literature and the ideology of eugenics during the American Depression, Sarah Catherine Holmes
Digging up roots in "Gardens of Eden": Michelene Wandor's feminist midrash, Lisa Renee Kenyon
Ghosts at the table: Historiography and nonfiction narrative as rhetorical constructs of the Mexican Counter-Revolution of 1913, Sylvia Montgomery Shaw
Holistic grading of essays written by native and non-native writers by instructors and independent raters: A comparative study, Margaret Mary Sheehan
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
Piety and intolerance: A rhetorical inquiry into the constituting of Christian fundamentalist identity, Mary K. Cardinale
Street Theater, Angel Yvonne Green
Legal subjects: The tropological construction of "woman" in legal narratives, Kate Mele
Traces of Enlightenment: Eighteenth-century travel writing and the reproduction of knowledge(s), Richard Kenneth Van Dyke
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
Acts of dissent: Literatures of coming to consciousness in the United States and Latin America, Donna M. Bickford
Encouraging a civic literacy: A pedagogy of self-reflection, agency, and action, Susan L. DeRosa
Historical uncertainty and moral ambiguity in postwar America: An examination of selected black humor novels of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, Jeffrey Matthew Foster
Lars Saabye Christensen's "Beatles": A study in literary translation and cross-cultural influence, Kerstin Elizabeth Ketteman
Whose Story Is It, Anyway, Janet L. Massa
The Colors and Shadows of My Word(s), Lydia A. Saravia
Theses/Dissertations from 1999
Toni Morrison: Rethinking the Past in a Postcolonial Context, Hanan Abdullatif
Foundations for the study of American rhapsody, Stanley D. Harrison
Student desire and the history of composition, Jeffrey Laurence Hoogeveen
Blood on the tracks: Biblical law and sacrifice in the eighteenth-century English novel, Penelope Hope
Representations of violence in Gothic literature: Consumer practices and cultural identity, Katherine A. McGurl
Part-time practitioners: Deliberating the contradictions, Helen M. O'Grady
Maid in voyage: Maid Marian and female heroism in twentieth century retellings of the legend of Robin Hood, Evelyn Mooar Perry
Runaway nuns, runaway bestsellers: Representations of gender and *class in antebellum convent captivity narratives and fictions, John J. Regan
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
(Re)Envisioned (Pre)History: Feminism, Goddess Politics, and Readership Analysis of The Clan of the Cave Bear and The Valley of the Horses, Glenna M. Andrade
"Accidents of terrain": The native and foreign worlds of David Plante, Susan L. Aylward
Fiction in the Latino autobiography, Jose Beselin Gonzalez
Commercial underground radio and the sixties: An oral history and narrative, Michael Curtis Keith
Craft criticism, composition theory, and the future(s) of English studies, Timothy Robert Mayers
"A certain something": Reclaiming Grace Sartwell Mason, Diane Wellins Moul
Rites of passage in the plays of David Mamet, Ira Schaeffer
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
Indicated Silences in American Novels, Catherine Adamowicz
Cynics, Spaces, and Subjects: Toward a Tactical Ethics of Rhetoric, Kristen Francis Kennedy
The representation of women in contemporary Bangladeshi literature: A new challenge in the postcolonial field, Saiyeda Khatun
Fay Weldon: A contemporary critical voice, Victoria Pickett Kirby
The translation of art into revolution: Visual text, auditory art and the subversive role of the art poet across the cultures, Suzanne Elizabeth O'Hop
"The Freiris of Berwik": A critical edition, Edward-David E. Ruiz
Narratives of toil: A study of labor, ideology, and narrative form in late-Victorian social fiction, Kevin Ray Swafford
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
Rhetorics, politics, and ecologic: The production of nature in American culture, 1840-1990, Lisa Terese Lebduska
Who To Watch Out For, Penny Ann Newbury
Space-time and the city: Glasgow and the literature of the urban peripheries, Lorraina Barr Pinnell
Conserving the balance: Frank Herbert's "Dune" as propaganda, Barbara Ann Silliman
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
Our Beloved Lizzie; Constructing an American Legend, Gabriela Schalow Adler
ReWrighting Afro-American manhood: Negotiations of discursive space in the fiction of James Baldwin, Alice Walker, ohn Edgar Wideman, and Ernest Gaines, Philip George Auger
Dickens' search for freedom: The landscape of "Martin Chuzzlewit", Jane Helen Berard
The seduction novel of the early nation: A call for sociopolitical reform, Donna R. Bontatibus
More about Jane Austen, Mary C. Braga
Of subversion and sexuality: A discursive analysis of late twentieth-century American popular culture, S. Elaine Craghead
Domesticity, home and the culture of the everyday in four American twentieth-century novels, Christina Hunter Felix
Monkey in the middle, Moira Eileen Keating
Jews in space: On an American road to know where, Craig Ira Kleinman
To make a better self: A spiritual reading of Jane Austen's "Emma", Edith Agnes Kostka
Changing representations of the horse: A study in discursive practices, Robin A. Muksian
Signs of family: Images of family life in contemporary American literature, Nancy L. Nester
My Cambodian Son: Another Race: Another Culture, Patricia Russell
The reclamation of the future dream: Dreams in British science fiction, Ronald Emil Schmitt
Gendered states: Literature, film, and theatre in Northern Ireland, Megan Mary Sullivan
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
An NEH Fellowship Examined: Social Networks and Composition History, Stephanie A. Almagno
Mountaineering and heroic masculinity: Nationalist topographies in modernist mountaineering narratives, Peter Lawrence Bayers
Within and without margins: Cross-cultural spaces in novels by Louise Erdrich, Maxine Hong Kingston, Alice Walker, Dianne Comiskey
The power of a whisper: Subversive words in a dominant text, Joyce Carol Cote
Thomas De Quincey: Subjective unification and the representation of gender, Donald Joseph Currivan
American masculinity and the gridiron: The development of the football narrative, Donald Lee Deardorff II
The "Fine Line" of Otto Rank, Philip J. Hecht
Tricky tribal discourse: The poetry, short stories, and fables of Creek writer, Alex Posey, Alexia M. Kosmider
Women's negotiation of power in early modern ballads, prose romances, and plays, William Reginald Rampone Jr.
Bath and the English country house in Jane Austen's "Northanger Abbey", Joan Robinson Vredenburgh