Theses/Dissertations from 2009
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
The New Feminine Rhetoric: Wollstonecraft, Austen, and the Forms of Romantic-Era Feminism, Elisabeth Louise Guyon
Blue Heron Goodbye, Holly Rose Hansen
Boot Camp for the Psyche: Inoculative Nonfiction and Pre-Memory Structures as Preemptive Trauma Mediation in Fiction and Film, Jacob Michael Hodgen
Coming of Age in Spite of the Contrast of Vagueness: Native Speaker and The House on Mango Street as Erziehungsroman, Melissa Lee Huff
Altered States of Style: The Drug-Induced Development of Jack Kerouac's Spontaneous Prose, Eric M. Izant
Facing God: Contemporary American Devotional Poetry, Sarah E. Jenkins
The Compatibility of Containment and Autonomy in Lydia Minatoya's The Strangeness of Beauty, Rachel Jeppsen
Mormon Rhetoric and the Theory of Organic Evolution, Kurt Wilford Laird
wwjd, Anna Christina Kohler Lewis
A True War Story: Reality and Simulation in the American Literature and Film of the Vietnam War, Alexis Turley Middleton
A Transnational Study: Young Adult Literature Exchanged Between the US and Germany, Kristana Miskin
Death in the Royal Family: Victorian Funeral Sermon Techniques in Tennyson's National Poetry, Daniel W. Newton
Dialectic, Perspective, and Drama, Ethan McKay Sproat
Resurrecting Speranza: Lady Jane Wilde as the Celtic Sovereignty, Heather Lorene Tolen
The Man in the Transatlantic Crowd: The Early Reception of Edgar Allan Poe in Victorian England, Brian Robert Wall
Rethinking the Historical Lens: A Case for Relational Identity in Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street, Annalisa Wiggins
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
To Take Posesion of the Crown: Forms, Themes, and Politics in Julia Palmer's Centuries, Brittany Beahm
It's Alive! The Gothic (Dis)Embodiment of the Logic of Networks, Anna Katharine Bennion
A Virginia Woolf of One's Own: Consequences of Adaptation in Michael Cunningham's The Hours, Brooke Leora Grant
A Gentlemen's Benevolence: Symptoms of Class, Gender, and Social Change in Emma, Nicholas Nickleby, and The Mill on the Floss, Aubrey Lea Hammer
Libertas Reborn: A Legend of Florence and Leigh Hunt's Literary Revival, Adrianne Gardner Malan
Wordsworth's Evolving Project: Nature, the Satanic School, and (underline) The River Duddon (end underline), Kimberly Jones May
In Defense of Ugly Women, Sara Deborah Nyffenegger
Beyond Fidelity: Teaching Film Adaptations in Secondary Schools, Nathan C. Phillips
Holmes, Alice, and Ezeulu: Western Rationality in the Context of British Colonialism and Western Modernity, Andrew B. Schultz
The Play's the Thing: Investigating the Potential of Performance Pedagogy, Tamara Lynn Scoville
In Search of Copia: Using Rhetoric to Teach Creative Writing, Ryan Solomon
Taking Mormons Seriously: Ethics of Representing Latter-day Saints in American Fiction, Terrol Roark Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
The Finest Entertainment: Conscious Observation on Film in Adaptations of Henry James' The Portrait of a Lady, The Wings of the Dove, and Washington Square, Rachael Decker Bailey
Negotiation through Identification: Elizabeth Tudor's Use of Sprezzatura in Three Speeches, Alisa Brough
Intertextuality in the Fiction of Cormac McCarthy, Benjamin J. Burr
Controversial Politics, Conservative Genre: Rex Stout's Archie-Wolfe Duo and Detective Fiction's Conventional Form, Ammie Cannon
Telling History Through the Stories of Women: Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies and In the Name of Salomé, Nicole Marie Carlson
Versions of America: Reading American Literature for Identity and Difference, Raj G. Chetty
The American Way: What Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, and the X-Men Reveal About America, Joseph J. Darowski
An Awakened Sense of Place: Thoreauvian Patterns in Willa Cather's Fiction, Breanne Grover
James Thurber's Little Man and the Battle of the Sexes: The Humor of Gender and Conflict, Andrew S. Jorgensen
The Rhetoric of Persecution: Mormon Crisis Rhetoric from 1838-1871, Zachary L. Largey
The Familiar Foreign Country: Reading Mexico in Cormac McCarthy, Jack Kerouac, and Katherine Anne Porter, Rachel Mae Ligairi
Interrogating History or Making History? Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, DeLillo's Libra, and the Shaping of Collective Memory, Mark Spencer Mills
Digital Storytelling: The Application of Vichian Theory, Karen Pierotti
Man Down South, Joseph B. Plicka
The Memory of the Body and Other Stories, Ryan Craig Shoemaker
A Seal of Living Reality: The Role of Personal Expression in Latter-day Saint Discourse, C. Julianne Smith
"Th' offense pardons itself": Sex and the Church in Othello and Measure for Measure, Jeffrey Wayne Windsor
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Such a Deal of Wonder: Structures of Feeling and Performances of The Winter's Tale from 1981 to 2002, Elizabeth Marie Burt
The Rhetoric of Newspaper Rivalry in the Face of Image Restoration and Transformation, Andrea Ludlow Christensen
The Wit and Wisdom in the Novels of Diana Wynne Jones, Elizabeth A. Crowe
Translating Huck: Difficulties in Adapting "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" to Film, Bryce Moore Cundick
Keeping Gardens: Poetry and Essay, Deja Anne Earley
Fortune Personified and the Fall (and Rise) of Women in Chaucer's Monk's Tale and the Autobiographical Writings of Christine de Pizan, Leona C. Fisher
Tauser Killed Both Dogs and Other Suburban American Family Folklore, Kristina Whitley Gashler
Sandra Cisneros as Chicana Storyteller: Fictional Family (Hi)Stories in Caramelo, Sally Marie Giles
The Translator's (In)visibility in Ann Patchett's Bel Canto, Amy Dawn Glauser
Perry Smith and Josef Kavalier: Historical and Literary Victimized Victimizers, Noella Jeo
Finding Where I Am: A Collection of Creative Nonfiction - Creative thesis, Jana Lloyd
Negotiating Hope and Honesty: A Rhetorical Criticism of Young Adult Dystopian Fiction, Lauren Lewis Reber
Saturday Nights Alone, Daniel C. Roberts
The Byronic Myth in Brazil: Cultural Perspectives on Lord Byron's Image in Brazilian Romanticism, Matthew Lorin Squires
Educating for Democracy: Reviving Rhetoric in the General Education Curriculum, David M. Stock
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Representations of Anglo-Saxon England in Children's Literature, Kirsti A. Bobo
Margaret Cavendish and Scientific Discourse in Seventeenth-Century England, Alisa Curtis Bolander
Learning to Create: A Collection of Personal Essays, Naomi Lund Christiansen
Casuistical Connections from Dunton to Defoe, John E. Fossum
Advanced Placement English and the College Curriculum: Evaluating and Contextualizing Policy, Jennifer Dawn Gonzalez
The Valuation of Literature: Triangulating the Rhetorical with the Economic Metaphor, Melissa Brown Gustafson
Satire's Liminal Space: The Conservative Function of Eighteenth-Century Satiric Drama, Sheila Ann Morton
The Rhetoric of the Frontier and the Frontier of Rhetoric, Carly Kay Paul
Leaving Her Story: The Path to the Second Marriage in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Middlemarch, Angela Myers Thompson
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
Ruling Powers, Scot A. Hanson
Island of Tranquility: Rhetoric and Identification at Brigham Young University During the Vietnam Era, Brian D. Jackson
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
"Woman Arise!": Political Work in the Writings of Lu Dalton, Sheree Maxwell Bench
"And Well She Can Persuade": the Power and Presence of Women in the Book of Mormon, Wendy Hamilton Christian
Turbulent Times: Epic Fantasy in Adolescent Literature, Karie Eliza Crawford
The Secret Wife, Jill Elena Sharland
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
Addressing Mormon Female Communities: Working towards a Woman's Capacity, Alyssa Snow Larson
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
Representing Culture: Reflexivity and Mormon Folklore Scholarship, David A. Allred
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
Utopian Marriage in Nineteenth-Century America: Public and Private Discourse, Brenda Olsen Andrus
Oral Performances as Ritual: Animating the invisible in Mormon Women's Miscarriage Stories, Kristin Leifson Ballif
Since Joseph Smith's Time: Lexical Semantic Shifts in the Book of Mormon, Renee Bangerter