Theses/Dissertations from 2025
Examining Shifts in Reader Identity Through Explicit Fluency Instruction, Mercedes Allen
Epic Fantasy as a Postsecular Genre: The Stormlight Archive's Approach to Religion and Belief, Liz Busby
"Peace [That] Could Only be Amazement, too": Narrativizing Wonder and Strangeness in Marilynne Robinson's Lila, Tricia Cope
"The Truth of Our Historic Encounter": Curating Networks of the Past in Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad, Holden O. d'Evegnee
"She could worship now even in the desert": The Monastic Life as an Escape to Higher Consciousness in the Works of Henry James, Tabetha A. Madsen
Human Passion in the City and the Jungle: Translating Horacio Quiroga’s “Dieta de Amor,” “El Simún,” and “Polea Loca”, Washington C. Pearce
Wordsworth's Literary Signposts: Writings on Epitaphs and Tourism, 1807-1835, Matthew W. Rudy
Learning Stations as a Dialogical Teaching Strategy in English Language Arts, Kaylee Smedley
Mythology of Autism: Pop Culture, Rhetoric, and Vaccines, Makenzi Strate
Teaching Information Synthesis in First-Year Writing: A Replication and Extension Study, Rachel M. Terry
"Because he was a cripple": Collective Care and the Theory of Complex Embodiment in Dickens's A Christmas Carol, Briley Wyckoff
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Songs and Flowers of the Wasatch: Rhetorical Aesthetics and Latter-day Saint Women's Poetry, JoLyn D. Brown
"A Ghostly Roll of Drums Remorselessly Beat the Measure of Life": Mrs. Ramsay's Mediation of Time and Memory in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, Kirsten Walker Burningham
"Pasted Up and Printed Out": Watchmen as Ontographic Network, Thomas B. De Groff
"A Love That Transcends Hunger": Choice and Edenic Imagery in Contemporary Queer Poetry, Aubrey Dickens
Student Driven Feedback: A Study in Self-Efficacy, Jennifer L. Dunn
The Effects of Writing Groups on Student Self-Efficacy, Katie Francom
Andromedus: A Novel, Ariel Renae Hochstrasser
Visualizing Intergenerational Kinship: Humor, Grief, and Youth-Led Resurgence in Reservation Dogs, Emily Catherine Huillet
Lingampally, Mackenzie Anne Jaggi
Information Literacy in First Year Writing: A Case Study in Instruction, Rebekah A. Jakeman
The Sound of Silence: Listening for God in Cormac McCarthy's The Road, Brittany Higgins Maloy
Arthur is Only Sleeping: A Reawakening of John Steinbeck's The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights, Caroline J. Raines
Subversive Compliance in a Precarious Nation: Camp in the Skopje 2014 Project, Lila Rice
Objects and Museal Rhetoric, Isaac James Richards
Recognizing the Role of Rhetoric in Secondary Writing Groups, Catherine Schrecengost
"The First Fruits of a Woman's Wit": Reclaiming the Childbirth Metaphor in Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, Carolyn Mae Shakespear
The 1950s Davy Crockett Craze: Strengthening National Identity After the Korean War, Donna Marie Stapley
Acceptable Things, Janaya Lucile Tanner
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Visions of Mary: Patria as the New Mestiza Madonna in Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies, Mila Argueta
Reaching Readers Beyond the Screens: Understanding How and Why Student Writers Compose for Audiences of Self-Sponsored Digital Writing, Emily Elizabeth Brown
Finding Words for God: Poetic Foraging in Louise Glück's The Wild Iris, Rachel Cardall
Working-Through Traumatic Memory in Young Adult Fiction, Amanda Charles
Physiognomy and Emotional Abuse in Elizabeth Gaskell's "The Grey Woman", Natalie Ann Davis
The Impact of Independence: A Look at First-Generation College Student Writers' Help-Seeking Behaviors, Emily Durney
Gyno-Gerontological Discourse and the Dearth of Old Women Narrators in British Fiction 1790-1860, Lavender Elisabeth Earnest
Finished, Shayla Frandsen
Semantic Overflow of Powerful Feelings: Digital Humanities Approaches and the 1805 and 1850 Versions of Wordsworth's Prelude, Dylan Hansen
On and On and On, Rachel Hansen
While it's Still Morning, Cosenza Marie Hendrickson
The Rhetoric of Teaching a Crisis: Incorporating Rhetorical Pedagogy into Crisis Communications Textbooks, Maren Louise Johnson
Progressive Education in C. S. Lewis's Prince Caspian, Voyage of the Dawn Treader, and The Silver Chair: Narnia as a Remedy to The Green Book, Megan Marie Johnson
Dorothy Wordsworth, Religion, and the Rydal Journals, Emily Stephens Kasper
Dead Men Tell No Tales: How the British Empire Destroyed Pirates With Monstrous Legal Rhetoric, Ashley L. Nef
The Performative History of Tomboys in Anglophone Literature Prior to Little Women, Kimber Palmer
Ecology and Retribution: Blake, Tokarczuk, and Animal Rights, Kristina Isaak Powell
"What Would it Mean for us to Seem 'Good' to Each Other?": Contemporary Black Women+ on Fat Phobia and Misogynoir, Devon Ariel Thomas
One the Equal and Opposite of the Other: More Humanity than Christianity in "Our Sea of Islands" and Tales of the Tikongs, Drois Nadia Vi
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
An Archive of Poetry: Surviving Settlement, Upholding Feminine Virtue, and Practicing Narrative Discipline in Anne Bradstreet's and Eliza R. Snow's Poetry, Britta Karen Adams
Literacy Identity and Motherhood: Implications of Hermans' Dialogical Self Theory, Chelsea J. Ames
Settler-Author Allyship in Centering Indigenous Ecologies: Communal Will Through Collective Environmental Guilt in This Tender Land and Caleb's Crossing, Elena Marie Arana
The World, Rebecca Dawn Billings
Home Planet, Whitney Brown
Aesthetic Response to the Fires at Notre Dame: A Case for Rhetorical Aesthetics Within Conventional Rhetorical Analysis, Amanda Clifford
Chameleon: A Collection of Poems, Daniel Albert Daw
Satanic Injustice: A Pentadic Rhetorical Analysis of State of Arkansas v Echols and Baldwin, Shaelee Bryne Erickson
Tidal Translations: Thinking-With Untranslatability in Craig Santos Perez's from Unincorporated Territory, Maryn Gardner
The Cholera-Fiend: Cheap Fiction, Medical Professionals, and Entertainment, Sariah Fales Harrington
Cherry Red Greenwashing: The Rhetoric Behind Corporate Recycling Narratives, Jessica Wallace Haws
"A poem is a gesture toward home": Formal Plurality and Black/Queer Critical Hope in Jericho Brown's The Tradition, Kaitlin Hoelzer
"Do Not Blame Me": James Baldwin on White Christian Guilt and Racial Repentance, Celeste LaFollette
Being "Rightly Known": Otherness and the Ethics of Reading in Charlotte Brontë's Villette, Tin Yan Grace Lee
How She Sleeps at Night, Alexandra Malouf
Russell Means' Use of the Universal Ecosystem Metaphor as an Act of Indigenous Resistance, Clarissa McIntire
Affective Transfer in Writing: Utilizing Affect in Teaching for Transfer, Emily Morgan
"I don't think you understand": Performativity and Comprehensibility in Washington Square, Robyn Amy Peterson
"Newstead and I stand or fall together": Memorial Ecology and Multispecies Agency in Byron's Early Poetry, Taylore Ann Wintch
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
"Al this loude fare:" The Echo of Renown in Chaucer's The House of Fame, Madeline Nicole Anderson
“God’s fair land of Ireland did not hold her equal”: Disgust As an Anti-Eugenics Tool in James Joyce’s Ulysses, Lizzie Belnap
Understanding How Temporal Duration and Rhetorical Influence Shape Student Writing Processes, Shaila Bringhurst
From Captive to Captor: Hannah Duston and the Indian Removal Act, Olivia Cronquist
"Arguing the Point" in Marryat's Midshipman Novels, Jessica Johnson
Witnessing "Story Truth" and the Narrative of the Resurrection: Reintegration after Crisis in Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, Hayley E. Langton
From Trump Tower to Trump White House: The Rhetoric of Donald Trump's 'Winning' Brand, Benjamin Metcalf
"An endeavour at something spiritual": Queer Spirituality in Virginia Woolf's The Waves, Hannah Murdock
Figures of Virtue: Margaret Fell and Aemilia Lanyer's Use of Decorum as Ethical Good Judgment in the Construction of Female Discursive Authority, Kirsten Marie Osmani
More than Stories: Indigenous Environmental Reciprocity in the Poetry of Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner, Rebecca Purse
"Out of the Living Rock": The Assemblage of Ruins in H. Rider Haggard's She, Rachel E. Rackham
Experiential Education in the Writing Classroom: Developing Habits for Citizenship, Anika Shumway
Cultivating Internal Rhetoric: Lessons on Self-Directed Rhetoric from Protestant Meditation Manuals and Modern Metacognitive Theory, Jared Vanhille
Disabled Epistemologies: Failures of Knowledge and Care in Shakespeares's Merchant of Venice and Othello, Amie Elisabeth Wambach
From Sea to Waterless Sea: Archipelagic Thought and Reorientation in When the Emperor Was Divine, Summer Weaver
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Reconsidering Essence, Christopher T. Althoff
"Defensive Flippancy": Play, Disorientation, and Moral Action in Brian Friel's The Freedom of the City, Hannah Brooke Azar
Shakespeare's Leading Franciscan Friars: Contrasting Approaches to Pastoral Power, Amy Camille Connelly Banks
"Life will be a brief, hollow walk": The Future of Humanity Through Maternal Eyes in Tracy K. Smith's Life on Mars, Mallory Lynn Bingham
Emblems of Incarnation: The Hypostatic Union of Word and Image in Francis Quarles' Emblemes, Amber Bird
A Conceptual Analysis of the Adam and Eve Myth and Its Manifestation in Political Rhetoric, Katie Bullock
Rewriting "Plumb Crazy Indian Women": Reframing Mental Illness as Cultural Power in Linda Hogan's Solar Storms, Hannah Dian DeTavis
"I am Pamela, her own self!”: Psychosocial and Moral Development in Samuel Richardson’s Pamela, Angelina Dulong
“Descending into Eeriness”: Navigating “the Uncanny Valley” Present in Hollywood Adaptations of Japanese Narratives, Megan Jo Finley
Shakespeare's Rebels: The Citizen's Responsibility Toward a Tyrannical Ruler, Rebecca Evans Hansen
"Fidelity and Ripeness": The Telos of Milton's Mature Christian Learners, Steven McKay Hansen
Connections in High School Writers: Affective Connections as a Writing Self-Efficacy Dimension, Sarah Kate Johnson
Conceited Souls and Renaissance Cures: Sympathetic Magic Between Bodies in Shakespeare's Hamlet, Andrew Levine
"The World Without a Self": Non-Being and Ontological Leveling in Virginia Woolf's The Waves, Morgan Ashley Lewis
Becoming Faramir: Escapism as Responsibility and Hope through Adaptation and J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, Megan Kathryn Myers
Charming Child-Snatchers: Forming the Bogeyman in The Pied Piper, Peter Pan, and The Ted Bundy Tapes, Maren Noel Nield
Fairy Tales en pointe: Fairy Brides, Ballerinas, and Ballets that Made the Tale, Jacqueline Nichole Smith