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
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
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
Defending White America: The Apocalyptic Meta-Narrative of White Nationalist Rhetoric, Michael Scott Walton
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
A Light in the Dark: A Case for YA Literature Through the Lens of Medical Dystopias, Thomas Jace Brown
Walt Before Leaves: Complicating Whitman's Authorship Through Jack Engle, Christopher Preston Burright
1930s Gold Digger Films and #MeToo: Collaging Modernist Moments, William Drew Chandler
Salem Belles, Succubi, and The Scarlet Letter: Transatlantic Witchcraft and Gothic Erotic Affect, Sylvia Cutler
Troll-in-Chief: Donald Trump, Antinomic Rhetoric, and the Short-Circuiting of Civic Discourse, Joseph Wayne Fisher
Playable Cases as Authentic Practice in Online Classrooms, Kevin Scott Haws
"I dare not venture a judgement”: Spirituality and the Postsecular in Hogg’s Confessions, Conor Bruce Hilton
Navigating Palimpsest’s Sea Garden: H.D.’s Spiritual Realism, Mari Anne Murdock
"Yup, So-Jeer": Interlanguage and Ruptured Translation in Charles Dickens's The Perils of Certain English Prisoners, Jacob Kurt Nielsen
Humans and the Red-Hot Stove: Hurston's Nature-Caution Theorizing in Their Eyes Were Watching God, Heather Sharlene Higgs Randall
The Hero's Mother, Rosalyn Joy Ribeira
The Uncanny Mind: Perpetrator Trauma in Poe’s “The Black Cat”, Bethanie Allyson Sonnefeld
Transfer in the Writing Center: Tutors Facilitating Students' Understanding of Transfer, Shannon Nicole Tuttle
“Chosen Instruments”: Tolkien’s Hobbits and the Rhetoric of the Dispossessed, Samuel Bennett Watson
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
;Blackwood's ;Responses to Hawthorne in Light of Its Mid-Nineteenth Century Transatlantic Reputation, Holly Young Boud
Blackwood's to Hawthorne in Light of Its Mid-Nineteenth Century Transatlantic Reputation, Holly Young Boud
L. T. Meade's Avaricious Anomaly: Â Madame Sara, British Imperialism, and Greedy Wolves in The Sorceress of the Strand, Laurie Langlois Denning
Exploring Video Analytics as a Course Assessment Tool for Online Writing Instruction Stakeholders, Jason Michael Godfrey
Rain of Gold's Prison Play: Identity Making and Maneuvering, William Henry Guajardo
Stagnant Supers: Amplifying the Superhero Genre Through Novelistic Maturity, Ariel Elizabeth Hubbard
A Case Study: Incorporating Young Adult Literature into General Education To Improve Intellectual and Emotional Intelligence, Katherine Ann Irion
New Perspectives on Paul and Marx: William Blake's <">The Chimney Sweeper<"> in <<>i>Songs of Innocence and Experience<<>/i>, Lianna Jean Manibog
Mark Twain and Eliza R. Snow: The Innocents Abroad, Kathryn Marie Meeks
Machismo, Carnival, and the Decolonial Imagination in the Writings of Junot D<Ã>az, Joshua Evans Price
Where Have All The Rebels Gone? Ideology and Conformity in Young Adult Dystopian Literature, Meghan I. Rimmasch
"What do the divils find to laugh about" in Melville's The Confidence-Man, Truedson J. Sandberg
"Laughter Is Part of My War Effort": The Harmonizing and Humanizing Influences of Laughter in Andrea Levy's Small Island, Jacob Holt Shumway
Meteorological Time in Dorothy Wordsworth's Rydal Journal, Amanda Ann Smith
The Wicked Widow: Reading Jane Austen<&trade>s Lady Susan as a Restoration Rake, Amanda Teerlink
An Annunciation for a Secular Age: The Struggle for Faith in Mary Szybist's Incarnadine, Devin Morgan Theurer