Theses/Dissertations from 2024
HOUSE OF HORRORS: SHIRLEY JACKSON AND THE PERILS OF THE DOMESTIC IN AMERICAN LITERATURE, 1945-1965, AnnMarie DeMichiel
THE EMPIRE: A DYSTOPIAN NOVEL, Tatiana Duvanova
ANGELENO: A NOVELLA, Sue Yon Kim
THIS COULD BE HEAVEN OR THIS COULD BE HELL: FIGURATIONS OF URBAN LIFE IN CONTEMPORARY CALIFORNIA, Diana Turken
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Muscadine: Poems, Albert Hosia Jerriod Avant
MIDDLE CHILDREN OF HISTORY: MALE-AUTHORED POST-1960s FICTION & THE NIHILISM OF WHITE MALE PROTAGONISTS, Emma C. Baughman
THE (MIS)FORMATION OF IDENTITY IN JOSEPH CONRAD’S NOVELS: IDEOLOGY, COMMUNITY, AND THE SELF, Youngji Cho
COMPUTATIONAL CLOSE READING: A CRITIQUE OF DIGITAL LITERARY METHODOLOGY, Damiano Consilvio
DIAGNOSTIC BRAINS, EXPERIENTIAL MINDS AND METAMODERNISM: MCEWAN, SELF, AND MCCARTHY AS CASE STUDIES, Mohamed Anis Ferchichi
RESISTING ARREST: AN (AUTO-THEORETICAL) ESSAY ON PRISON LITERATURE, James A. Ferry
WAITING TOO LONG TO MOVE AT GREEN LIGHTS, Michael Landreth
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
THE TEXT(TILES) OF ADINKRA SYMBOLS: WEST AFRICAN ART, GENDER, & POETIC TRANSLATIONS, Rachel A. Ansong
BLACK FEMINIST AUTOETHNOGRAPHY: HOW IDENTITY CAN AFFECT PEER REVIEW PRACTICES IN THE COLLEGE WRITING CLASSROOM, Eileen M. James
TO SCALE DRAGONS: COMPRISING THINGS LOST AND TWO ESSAYS ON FANTASY, André V. Katkov
THE ALICE ATOM COMPENDIUM, Nick Mendillo
BROKEN DOZER, HAUNTED VALE: THE ECOPOETICS OF AMBIENT LANGUAGE, Andrew Merecicky
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
TRUE CRIME, WOMEN, AND SENSATIONALIZED REPRESENTATIONS IN THE ITALIAN AMERICAN IMAGINARY, Francesca Borrione
FANTASIZING REPRODUCTION: THE BIOLOGIZATION OF THE DESIRE FOR PROGRESS IN VICTORIAN LITERATURE, Xinqiang Chang
GENDERED & GENREFIED BODIES: HEROISM AS PRODUCTION AND PERFORMANCE IN SWORD & SORCERY FANTASY, Anthony Conrad Chieffalo
INTIMATE DISTANCES: AN ARCHIPELAGO, Elizabeth Foulke
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
PREPARING FOR DEATH: CANNIBALISM, CONSUMPTION AND INCORPORATION IN WOMEN’S SHIPWRECK NARRATIVES, Danielle Cofer
FEMALE COMIC GROTESQUE CHARACTERS IN VICTORIAN NOVELS: INVESTIGATING THE POSSIBILITIES OF LIMINALITY, Barbara A. Farnworth
READING THE READER: ANALYZING DEPICTIONS OF MALE READERS IN SERIAL VICTORIAN FICTION, Ashton Foley-Schramm
REORIENTING THE FEMALE GOTHIC: CURIOSITY AND THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE, Jenna Guitar
ECOLOGIES OF MATERIALITY AND AESTHETICS IN BRITISH MODERNIST WAR-TIME LITERATURE, 1890-1939, Molly Volanth Hall
FICTIONS OF CAPTIVITY: RACIALIZING RELIGION IN EARLY U.S. LITERATURE AND CULTURE, Serap Hidir
BETWEEN SIBLINGS: HOW THE SIBLING METAPHOR REIMAGINES AFFECTIVE ENTANGLEMENTS IN THE VICTORIAN NOVEL, Beth Leonardo Silva
OPENING CEREMONY: A WRITING PRACTICE TOWARDS QUEER FUTURITY, Laura Marie Marciano
“THE SKIPPING KING”: MASCULINITY AND EFFEMINACY IN EARLY MODERN DRAMA, Danielle Johanna Sanfilippo
THE MARK OF THE VANISHING READER: INTRADIEGETIC INTERACTION IN MULTIMODAL NARRATIVE, Catherine Ann Winters
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
PRACTICING TRANSLINGUALISM: FACULTY CONCEPTIONS AND PRACTICES, Adrienne Jones Daly
TO BE CONTINUED: SERIALITY IN NEW MEDIA, Ryan Engley
CONSTRUCTING TRANSGRESSION: CRIMINALITY IN EXPERIMENTAL LITERATURE, Charles Kell
WELCOME TO THE CLUB: AN ARCHIVAL INQUIRY INTO THE DEWEY LABORATORY SCHOOL AS RHETORICAL EDUCATION, Krysten Manke
“THERE IS NO RACISM IN CUBA”: A FIELD STUDY OF THE “POST-RACE” RHETORIC OF MODERN CUBA, Clarissa J. Walker
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
THE NEW SINCERITY IN AMERICAN LITERATURE, Matthew J. Balliro
Understanding Reading Sponsorship Through Analysis of First-Year Composition Students’ Literacy Narratives, Nancy A. Benson
Widening the Sphere: Mid-to-Late Victorian Popular Fiction, Gender Representation, and Canonicity, Anna J. Brecke
Demonstrating Feminist Metic Intelligence Through the Embodied Rhetorical Practices of Julia Child, Lindy E. Briggette
The Men That Sleep Built, Samuel Simas
Questing Feminism: Narrative Tensions and Magical Women in Modern Fantasy, Kimberly Wickham
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Writing Irish America: Communal Memory and the Narrative of Nation in Diaspora, Beth O'Leary Anish
Speaking Truth to Power: Stand-Up Comedians as Sophists, Jesters, Public Intellectuals and Activists, Jillian Belanger
Architectures of Captivity: Imagining Freedom in Antebellum America, Rachel Boccio
Virginia Woolf's Pedagogical Art, William R. Bowden
Undergraduate Student Perspectives on Electronic Portfolio Assessment in College Composition Courses, Bridget Fullerton
Metadata and Relational Architecture: Advancing Arrangement, Agency, and Access with New Methodology, Jenna Morton-Aiken
Agency in Eating Disorders: American Literary and Visual Memoirs of Anorexia and Bulimia, Jenny Platz
To Start, Continue, and Conclude: Foregrounding Narrative Production in Serial Fiction Publishing, Gabriel E. Romaguera
"You Will Hold This Book in Your Hands": The Novel and Corporeality in the New Media Ecology, Jason Shrontz
Exploring the Use of NoRedInk as a Tool for Composition Instruction, Alyson Snowe
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
You Are What You Eat: Investigating Food Discourse and Digitally-Mediated Identities, Katelyn Leigh Burton
Exquisite Clutter: Material Culture and the Scottish Reinvention of the Adventure Narrative, Rebekah C. Greene
“A Peculiar Power of Perception”: Scottish Enlightenment Rhetoric and the New Aesthetic of Language, Rosaleen Greene-Smith Keefe
Absurdity and Artistry in Twentieth Century American War Literature, Brittany B. Hirth
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
Consent Puzzles: Narrative Ambiguities of Girls' Sexual Agency in Literature and Film from the 1990s, Michele Meek
John Dewey's Letters from Asia: Implications for Redefining "Openness" in Rhetoric and Composition, Karen Pierce Shea
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Automated Essay Evaluation and the Computational Paradigm: Machine Scoring Enters the Classroom, Catherine M. Barrett
Bringing the World Inside: British Modernism and Taste – Gustatory, Social, and Aesthetic, Michael David Becker
Permeable Boundaries: Globalizing Form in Contemporary American and British Literature, Nancy Caronia
AT HOME IN THE DIASPORA: DOMESTICITY AND NATIONALISM IN POSTWAR AND CONTEMPORARY CARIBBEAN-BRITISH FICTION, Kim Caroline Evelyn
AN EXAMINATION OF ARGUMENTATION IN UNDERGRADUATE COMPOSITION TEXTBOOKS, Wendy Lee Grosskopf
Stories That Shape: The Work of Writing Program Administration, Marcy Isabella
OFF THE HIP: A THERMODYNAMICS OF THE COOL, Rebecca Kanost
INSOMNIA AND IDENTITY: THE DISCURSIVE FUNCTION OF SLEEPLESSNESS IN MODERNIST LITERATURE, Sarah Kingston
TEMPERANCE IN THE AGE OF FEELING: SENSIBILITY, PEDAGOGY, AND POETRY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, Sarah Hattie Maitland
UNCONSCIOUS STATES: A NOVEL, Rachel May
Life vs. Unlife: Interspecies Solidarity and Companionism in Contemporary American Literature, Barnaby McLaughlin
TOWARD A PSYCHOSOCIAL UNDERSTANDING OF SUICIDE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE OF THE 1990’S, Sara E. Murphy
THE SENTINELLE AFFAIR: A STUDY IN MULTILINGUAL LANGUAGE PRACTICES, Jason Peters
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Firefighters’ Multimodal Literacy Practices, Timothy R. Amidon
ARGUMENT, RHETORIC, AND TRANSCENDENCE: “THE ADHERENCE OF MINDS” WITHIN THE DISCOURSE OF SPIRITUALITY, Gavin Forrest Hurley
OPTING-IN ONLINE: PARTICIPANTS’ PERCEPTIONS OF KNOWLEDGE CONSTRUCTION IN PUBLIC FORUM COMMUNITIES, Jennifer C. Lee
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
LIGHTNING-ROD MEN, MAGNETIC LIVES, BODIES ELECTRIC: ELECTROMAGNETIC CORPOREALITY IN EMERSON, MELVILLE, & WHITMAN, James Patrick Gorham
Women's Historiography in Late Medieval European Literature: Giovanni Boccaccio, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Christine de Pizan, Eva M. Jones
SAVING PRINCE PEACH: A STUDY OF “GAYMERS” AND DIGITAL LGBT/GAMING RHETORICS, M. William MacKnight
Affective Reconfigurations: A New Politics of Difference, Laurie Rodrigues
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
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
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
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
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
Indicated Silences in American Novels, Catherine Adamowicz
Cynics, Spaces, and Subjects: Toward a Tactical Ethics of Rhetoric, Kristen Francis Kennedy
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
Our Beloved Lizzie; Constructing an American Legend, Gabriela Schalow Adler
My Cambodian Son: Another Race: Another Culture, Patricia Russell
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
An NEH Fellowship Examined: Social Networks and Composition History, Stephanie A. Almagno
The "Fine Line" of Otto Rank, Philip J. Hecht
Theses/Dissertations from 1993
Theses/Dissertations from 1992
*Baby Shoe Tattoo*: A Film Script and Critical Preface, Anthony R. Amore Jr.
Out of the Shadows: A Structuralist Approach to Understanding the Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft, James A. Anderson
Lilacs in November, Marjorie L. Briody
The Jeovah Imperative: Images of Incest and Blood Sacrifice in Walpole's "The Castle of Otranto" and Flannery O'Connor's "Wise Blood", Penelope Hope Goff
Theses/Dissertations from 1988
Sub-Versions of History in Three Twentieth-Century Novels, Gabriella Schalow Adler
Joyce and the Dialogical: Literary Carnivalization in Ulysses, Stephanie A. Almagno
Home Before Morning: A Teleplay, Susan E. Apshaga
"Dear Uncle George" Ezra Pound's Letters to Congressman Tinkham of Massachusetts, Philip J. Burns