Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Grammar in the Composition Classroom: Rewriting the Tradition, Debra Lynn Reece
We Know Better and It's Time to Act Like It: Ending Written Feedback, Jacob S. Rees
Ethical Metafiction in Dickens's Christmas Hauntings, Mark Brian Sabey
Saints in Gilead: Robinson's Revisionist Calvinism and John Ames as a Reconciliatory Figure in American Congregationalist History, Makayla Camille Steiner
A Theory of Text as Action:Why Delivery through Publication Improves Student Writers and Their Writing, Lisa Kae Thomas
George Canning, Liberal Toryism, and Counterrevolutionary Satire in the Anti-Jacobin, Martha Thompson
Translation as Katabasis and Nekyia in Seamus Heaney's "The Riverbank Field", Gerrit van Dyk
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Nourishing the Self: Cookbooks as Autobiography, Rebecca Quist Barlow
Composing 'An Experience': Experiential Aesthetics in First-Year Writing, Aimee E. Blau
At Second Glance: Retroactive Continuity in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Stephen Clancy Clawson
The Virgin's Kiss: Gender, Leprosy, and Romance in the Life of St. Frideswide, Gary Stephen Fuller
Indexing and Dialectical Transcendence: Kenneth Burke's Critical Method, David Erland Isaksen
The Poetics of a Dominican Holocaust and the Aesthetics of Witnessing, Andrew Mark Merrill
De-Centering the Dictator: Trujillo Narratives and Articulating Resistance in Angie Cruz's Let It Rain Coffee and Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Kelsy Ann Mortensen
Frontier, Displacement, and Mobility in Joss Whedon's Firefly, Emma Leigh Boone Nelson
Gilded Age Travelers: Transatlantic Marriages and the Anglophone Divide in Burnett's The Shuttle, Rebecca L. Peterson
Mormon Characters in Young Adult Novels, Toni E. Pilcher
Seeing (the Other) Through a Terministic Screen of Spirituality: Emotional Integrity as a Strategy for Facilitating Identification, Jarron Benjamin Slater
Identification Through Inhabitation in Literature, Film, and Video Games, Charlotte Palfreyman Smith
"The River Duddon" and William Wordsworth's Evolving Poetics of Collection, Shannon Melee Stimpson
Power by Possession: Cuban-American Types and Collecting in The Agüero Sisters, Ashley Noelle Walton
Healing the Cartesian Split: Understanding and Renewing Pathos in Academic Writing, Travis Washburn
Converting Ovid: Translation, Religion, and Allegory in Arthur Golding's Metamorphoses, Andrew Robert Wells
Rhetoric in Dialectical Behavior Therapy: Healing Minds Through Argumentation, Celeste Lloyd Zsembery
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
The Realm of the Real: Imitation and Authenticity in Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country, Brittany Brie Atkinson
First Psalm: Poems and Paintings, Ashley Mae Christensen
The Unsuccessful Harvesting of Figs from Thistles and Other Failures of Idealized Masculinity in Ella D'Arcy's The Bishop's Dilemma, Elizabeth Watson Christianson
Cross-Cultural Ecotheology in the Poetry of Li-Young Lee, Sienna Miquel Palmer Dittmer
Signifyin' Black Power: Soul on Ice and the Subversion of Normative Whiteness, James David Fife
"It's What You Do That Defines You": Batman as Moral Philosopher, Vilja Olivia Johnson
The Conduit: A Creative thesis, Rachelle Larsen
Redefining Self in the Midst of "Things": Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping, Kristin Lowe
Death Becomes Her: Theodicy in Neil Gaiman's The Sandman, Jack K. Mallard
Gesamtkunstwerk and Other Trifles: Poems, Derk A. Olthof
Letting Go and the Silence that Remains: The Effects of Translating Point-of-view from Text to Film in The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go, Jennifer L. Price
The "Crafting" of Austen: Handicraft, Arts and Crafts, and the Reception of Austen during the Victorian Period, Natalie Quinn
Kenneth Burke, John Dewey, and the Rhetoric of Aesthetics, Meridith Reed
Between the Camera and the Gun: The Problem of Epistemic Violence in Their Eyes Were Watching God, Katherine Ann Rich
Reviving the Latent Content of Alchemy in William Shakespeare's Othello, Sarita Clara Rich
Things Are in People, People Are in Things: A Phenomenological Approach to H.D.'s HERmione and the Modernist Prosthetic Body, Alison Stone Roberg
Terror, Performance and Post 9/11 Literature, Elise Christine Silva
The Ingenious Narrator of Poe's Dupin Mysteries, Timothy Paul Wirkus
More than "Wisteria and Sunshine": The Garden as a Space of Female Introspection and Identity in Elizabeth von Arnim's The Enchanted April and Vera, Katie Elizabeth Young
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Humphry Davy: Science, Authorship, and the Changing Romantic, Marianne Lind Baker
Criticism as Redemption: Jonathan Safran Foer's Theory of Meaning, Lauren Nicole Barlow
Reading Holiness: Agnes Grey, Ælfric, and the Augustinian Hermeneutic, Jessica Caroline Brown
Public Spheres, Democracy, and New Media: Using Blogs in the Composition Classroom, Katherine Elizabeth Cowley
Anonymous Pseudo-Autobiographies: Passing the New Southern Studies in The Southerner and The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, Matthew S. Dinger
Burke, Dewey, and the Experience of Aristotle's Epideictic: An Examination of Rhetorical Elements Found in the Funerals of Lincoln, Kennedy, and Reagan, Xanthe Kristine Allen Farnworth
Reason, Conflict, and Psychological Haunting: Considering The Turn of the Screw as an Adapation of Wieland, Elisa A. Findlay
Drink Me, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Blog, James Arthur Goldberg
National Identity Transnational Identification: The City and the Child as Evidence of Identification Among the Poetic Elite, Mary L. Hedengren
Proposing a Purpose: Rhetorical Paideia Goals for First Year Composition, Lauren Everett Johnson
Shavian Self-Fashioning: Authorized Biography and Shaw's Superman, Cort H. Kirksey
Interrupting the Cycle: Idealization, Alienation and Social Performance in James Joyce's "Araby," "A Painful Case," and "The Dead.", Nicholas Muhlestein
Reverence and Rhetorology: How Harmonizing Paul Woodruff's Reverence and Wayne Booth's Rhetorology Can Foster Understanding Within Communities, Jonathan D. Ogden
Merit Beyond Any Already Published: Austen and Authorship in the Romantic Age, Rebecca Lee Jensen Ogden
Women Mourners, Mourning "NoBody", Jennifer Pecora
The Level of the Beasts That Perish: Animalized Text in Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna's Helen Fleetwood, Christie Anne Peterson
From Poe and Hitchcock to...Reality TV?, Kelsey W. Phelps
Layering the March: E. L. Doctorow's Historical Fiction, Rachel Yvette Redfern
Pierced Through the Ear: Poetic Villainy in Othello, Kathleen Emerald Somers
"Who Would Keep an Ancient Form?": In Memoriam and the Metrical Ghost of Horace, Ryan D. Stewart
Twitter Rhetoric: From Kinetic to Potential, Jeffrey C. Swift
Murder Will Out: James Hogg's Use of the Bier-Right in His Minor Works and Confessions, Tanya Ann Terry
Civic Participation in the Writing Classroom: New Media and Public Writing, Jonathan S. Wallin
Alexander Korda and his "Foreignized Translation" of The Thief of Bagdad (1940), Jessica Caroline Alder Wiest
The Absurd in the Briar Patch: Ellison's Invisible Man and Existentialism, Eliot J. Wilcox
Number, Newtonianism, and Sublimity in James Thomson's The Seasons, Jessie Leatham Wirkus
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Literary Case Histories and Medical Narratives in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Travis Wade Austin
Fealty and Free Will: Catholicism and the Master/Servant Relationship in The Lord of the Rings, Emily Bytheway
Feathers: A Creative thesis, M. Shayne Clarke
The Life and Origins of Paul Bunyan: Part One, Michael Ryan Croker
An Irresistible Invitation: Enhancing Academic Publication in Rhetoric and Composition by Inviting Online Peer Commentary, Sarah L. Cutler
Shootin Up the Past: Terministic Frontiers in Angle of Repose and High Noon, James C. Dalrymple
The culture of habits and dispositions: Associationist Psychology and Unitarian Education in Gaskell's Wives and Daughters, Lori Ann Dickson
A Poem, a Fervid Lyric, in an Unknown Tongue: Translation, Multilingualism, and Communication in Charlotte Brontë's Shirley, Amanda Bishop Erdmann
Adjusting the Rearview Mirror: Higher Level Reflection Strategies in First-Year Composition, Jessica Ann Green
Public Environmental Rhetoric: The Rhetorical Fashioning of Civic Responsibility, Maggie Ngar Dik Hong
Ancient Superstitions Steeped in the Human Heart: Rumors of the Supernatural as Resistance Narrative in The House of the Seven Gables, Marie E. Horne
Beyond Eden: Revising Myth, Revising Allegory in Steinbeck's "Big Book", Jeremy S. Leatham
The Covenant: How the Tension and Interpretation Within Puritan Covenant Doctrine Pushes Toward More Equality in English Marriage, Maren H. Miyasaki
American Totalitarianism in Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead and The Armies of the Night, Benjamin E. Onofrio
Lake Salt: A Creative thesis, Erica Lindsay Plummer
Revisiting the Desert Sublime: Billy's Ecotheological Journey in Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing, Michael J. Riding
Theatrical Ideology: Toward a Rhetoric Theatricality, Jacob L. Robertson
Negotiating Identity: Culturally Situated Epideictic in the Victorian Travel Narratives of Isabella Bird, Katherine Reilly Robinson
Reinventing Virtue: Sensibility and Sentiment in the Works of Maria Edgeworth, Octavia Cathryn Sawyer
The Tractarian Penny Post's Early Years (1851–1852): An Upper-Class Effort "To Triumph in the Working Man's Home", Kellyanne Ure
Strangers and Intimates: A Collection of Short Stories, Kathy Marie West
Speaking of Myself: Independence, Self-Representation, and the Speeches of Rudyard Kipling, Jacob M. Wilkes
Standing in the Center of the World: The Ethical Intentionality of Autoethnography, Nicole Wilkes
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
The Progymnasmata: New/Old Ways to Teach Reading, Writing, and Thinking in Secondary Schools, Natalie Sue Baxter
Transcendental Exchange: Alchemical Discourse in Romantic Philosophy and Literature, Elizabeth Olsen Brocious
Marina Carr's Hauntings: Liminality and the Addictive Society On and Off the Stage, Hillary Jarvis Campos
Towards a New Currency of Economic Criticism, Jason G. Douglas
Sugar Nine: A Creative thesis, Emily L. Dyer
A Reassessment of James Joyce's Female Characters, Anna Margaretha Gordon
Sympathetic Observations: Widowhood, Spectatorship, and Sympathy in the Fiction of Henry James, George Michael Gordon-Smith
The Rhetoric of Violence, James Christiansen Gunter