Explore master's theses and doctoral dissertations from graduates of the URI Department of English.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2009

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Magical American Jew: The enigma of difference in contemporary Jewish American short fiction and film, Aaron Tillman

Theses/Dissertations from 2008

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Eighteenth-century gothic novels and gendered spaces: What's left to say, Gretchen M. Cohenour

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Grammatical errors: Perceptions and responses of students, first-year composition instructors, and business communication instructors, Michelle Niestepski

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Speaking out: Class, race, and gender in the writings of Ruth McEnery Stuart, Edith Summers Kelley, and Harriette Simpson Arnow, Claire E. Reynolds

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Queen Elizabeth I and Shakespeare: Image of gender, power, and sexuality, Frederick Schweizer

Theses/Dissertations from 2007

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An empirical study of students' expectations of writing centers, Deborah Lucia DePiero

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Public writing inside and outside the classroom: A comparative analysis of activist rhetorics, Eileen Medeiros

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Speech and power negotiations in industrial novels from 1849 to 1866, John Condon Murray

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Modernism's nervous genre: The diaries of Woolf, James, and Sassoon, Kimberly A. Sims

Theses/Dissertations from 2006

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Space-people-language: A grounded theory of a place-based pedagogy in a first year writing class, William Burns

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Discourse on diversity: A qualitative study of a college communication course in multiculturalism, Mary V. Gormley

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The genres of tutor training: Searching for reflective practice, Elaine Hays

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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

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"Man with Box", David D. Malley

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The horror of looking: Lynching and the empathetic eye, Greta Methot

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What's wrong and who cares? Reader reaction to error, Susan Rashid Horn

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The postcolonial body in queer space and time, Rebecca Fine Romanow

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The color of sympathy: Biology, race, and feeling in republican and antebellum culture, Edward M. Williams Jr.

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Riding the hyphen: Derrida-Woolf, Andrea L. Yates

Theses/Dissertations from 2005

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The representation of race in composition studies and stories, Carole Eileen Center

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Women-writing-women: Three American responses to the Woman Question, Theresa Defrancis

Theses/Dissertations from 2004

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Queer times: Christopher Isherwood's modernity, Jamie M. Carr

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Revaluing the literary naturalist: John Burroughs's emotive environmental aesthetics, Stephen Mark Mercier

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From discourse to activism: Trajectories of Percy Bysshe Shelley's nonviolence philosophy in literatures of resistance, Susan Joan Peterson

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Prolegomenon to the literary study of hypertext, Edward Steven Shear

Theses/Dissertations from 2003

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Manifestoes: A Study in Genre, Stevens Russell Amidon

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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

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Writing across cultures: Contrastive rhetoric and a writing center study of one student's journey, Christine M. Fox

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From free/slave binaries to Black/White dialectics: The problem of race in antebellum discourse (1831-1861), Sally Gomaa

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The Offering: Writing a historical screenplay, Alicia B. Lyon

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Mystical discourse as ideological resistance in Wordsworth and Whitman: A transatlantic bridge, Donald J. Moores

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Gilded Age spaces, actual and imagined: Edith Wharton as a spatial activist and analyst, Renee Dara Somers

Theses/Dissertations from 2002

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A friend of Edward's: Identity, homosexuality, and the literature of Edward II, 1300-1630, Michael Gary Cornelius

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Leftist literature and the ideology of eugenics during the American Depression, Sarah Catherine Holmes

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Digging up roots in "Gardens of Eden": Michelene Wandor's feminist midrash, Lisa Renee Kenyon

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Ghosts at the table: Historiography and nonfiction narrative as rhetorical constructs of the Mexican Counter-Revolution of 1913, Sylvia Montgomery Shaw

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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

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Piety and intolerance: A rhetorical inquiry into the constituting of Christian fundamentalist identity, Mary K. Cardinale

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Street Theater, Angel Yvonne Green

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Legal subjects: The tropological construction of "woman" in legal narratives, Kate Mele

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Traces of Enlightenment: Eighteenth-century travel writing and the reproduction of knowledge(s), Richard Kenneth Van Dyke

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Cultural conditioning and mother/daughter conflicts in the development of identity and voice: The autobiographical fiction of Dorothy Allison, Wan-So Pak, and Maxine Hong Kingston, Eunjoo Woo

Theses/Dissertations from 2000

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Acts of dissent: Literatures of coming to consciousness in the United States and Latin America, Donna M. Bickford

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Encouraging a civic literacy: A pedagogy of self-reflection, agency, and action, Susan L. DeRosa

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Historical uncertainty and moral ambiguity in postwar America: An examination of selected black humor novels of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, Jeffrey Matthew Foster

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Lars Saabye Christensen's "Beatles": A study in literary translation and cross-cultural influence, Kerstin Elizabeth Ketteman

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Whose Story Is It, Anyway, Janet L. Massa

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The Colors and Shadows of My Word(s), Lydia A. Saravia

Theses/Dissertations from 1999

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Toni Morrison: Rethinking the Past in a Postcolonial Context, Hanan Abdullatif

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Foundations for the study of American rhapsody, Stanley D. Harrison

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Student desire and the history of composition, Jeffrey Laurence Hoogeveen

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Blood on the tracks: Biblical law and sacrifice in the eighteenth-century English novel, Penelope Hope

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Representations of violence in Gothic literature: Consumer practices and cultural identity, Katherine A. McGurl

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Part-time practitioners: Deliberating the contradictions, Helen M. O'Grady

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Maid in voyage: Maid Marian and female heroism in twentieth century retellings of the legend of Robin Hood, Evelyn Mooar Perry

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Runaway nuns, runaway bestsellers: Representations of gender and *class in antebellum convent captivity narratives and fictions, John J. Regan

Theses/Dissertations from 1998

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(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

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"Accidents of terrain": The native and foreign worlds of David Plante, Susan L. Aylward

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Fiction in the Latino autobiography, Jose Beselin Gonzalez

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Commercial underground radio and the sixties: An oral history and narrative, Michael Curtis Keith

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Craft criticism, composition theory, and the future(s) of English studies, Timothy Robert Mayers

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"A certain something": Reclaiming Grace Sartwell Mason, Diane Wellins Moul

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Rites of passage in the plays of David Mamet, Ira Schaeffer

Theses/Dissertations from 1997

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Indicated Silences in American Novels, Catherine Adamowicz

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Cynics, Spaces, and Subjects: Toward a Tactical Ethics of Rhetoric, Kristen Francis Kennedy

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The representation of women in contemporary Bangladeshi literature: A new challenge in the postcolonial field, Saiyeda Khatun

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Fay Weldon: A contemporary critical voice, Victoria Pickett Kirby

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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

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"The Freiris of Berwik": A critical edition, Edward-David E. Ruiz

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Narratives of toil: A study of labor, ideology, and narrative form in late-Victorian social fiction, Kevin Ray Swafford

Theses/Dissertations from 1996

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Rhetorics, politics, and ecologic: The production of nature in American culture, 1840-1990, Lisa Terese Lebduska

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Who To Watch Out For, Penny Ann Newbury

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Space-time and the city: Glasgow and the literature of the urban peripheries, Lorraina Barr Pinnell

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Conserving the balance: Frank Herbert's "Dune" as propaganda, Barbara Ann Silliman

Theses/Dissertations from 1995

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Our Beloved Lizzie; Constructing an American Legend, Gabriela Schalow Adler

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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

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Dickens' search for freedom: The landscape of "Martin Chuzzlewit", Jane Helen Berard

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The seduction novel of the early nation: A call for sociopolitical reform, Donna R. Bontatibus

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More about Jane Austen, Mary C. Braga

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Of subversion and sexuality: A discursive analysis of late twentieth-century American popular culture, S. Elaine Craghead

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Domesticity, home and the culture of the everyday in four American twentieth-century novels, Christina Hunter Felix

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Monkey in the middle, Moira Eileen Keating

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Jews in space: On an American road to know where, Craig Ira Kleinman

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To make a better self: A spiritual reading of Jane Austen's "Emma", Edith Agnes Kostka

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Changing representations of the horse: A study in discursive practices, Robin A. Muksian

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Signs of family: Images of family life in contemporary American literature, Nancy L. Nester

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My Cambodian Son: Another Race: Another Culture, Patricia Russell

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The reclamation of the future dream: Dreams in British science fiction, Ronald Emil Schmitt

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Gendered states: Literature, film, and theatre in Northern Ireland, Megan Mary Sullivan

Theses/Dissertations from 1994

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An NEH Fellowship Examined: Social Networks and Composition History, Stephanie A. Almagno

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Mountaineering and heroic masculinity: Nationalist topographies in modernist mountaineering narratives, Peter Lawrence Bayers

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Within and without margins: Cross-cultural spaces in novels by Louise Erdrich, Maxine Hong Kingston, Alice Walker, Dianne Comiskey

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The power of a whisper: Subversive words in a dominant text, Joyce Carol Cote

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Thomas De Quincey: Subjective unification and the representation of gender, Donald Joseph Currivan

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American masculinity and the gridiron: The development of the football narrative, Donald Lee Deardorff II

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The "Fine Line" of Otto Rank, Philip J. Hecht

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Tricky tribal discourse: The poetry, short stories, and fables of Creek writer, Alex Posey, Alexia M. Kosmider

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Women's negotiation of power in early modern ballads, prose romances, and plays, William Reginald Rampone Jr.

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Bath and the English country house in Jane Austen's "Northanger Abbey", Joan Robinson Vredenburgh