Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Rhetorical Spirits: Spirituality as Rhetorical Device in New Age Womanist of Color Texts, Ronisha Witlee Browdy
Disciplinarity, Crisis, and Opportunity in Technical Communication, Jason Robert Carabelli
The Terror of Possibility: A Re-evaluation and Reconception of the Sublime Aesthetic, Kurt Fawver
Unbearable Weight, Unbearable Witness: The (Im)possibility of Witnessing Eating Disorders in Cyberspace, Kristen Nicole Gay
the post- 9/11 aesthetic: repositioning the zombie film in the horror genre, Alan Edward Green, Jr.
An(other) Rhetoric: Rhetoric, Ethics, and the Rhetorical Tradition, Kathleen Sandell Hardesty
Mapping Dissertation Genre Ecology, Kate Lisbeth Pantelides
Dead Man's Switch: Disaster Rhetorics in a Posthuman Age, Daniel Patrick Richards
"Of That Transfigured World" : Realism and Fantasy in Victorian Literature, Benjamin Jude Wright
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Failed Heroes: Hypermasculinity in the Contemporary American Novel, Josef D. Benson
Electronic Peer Feedback in a Collaborative Classroom, Cassandra A. Branham
"Free Your Mind . . . and the Rest Will Follow": A Secularly Contemplative Approach To Teaching High School English, Kendra Nicole Bryant
Talking About Talk: The Problem of Communication as an Object of Study in Public Participation Research, Lauren Leigh Cutlip
The Dark Circle: Spiritualism in Victorian and Neo-Victorian Fiction, Joseph Good
Lower Sacraments: Theological Eating in the Fiction of C. S. Lewis, Gregory Philip Hartley
Toward a Working Theory of Neurorhetorics, Jeffrey L. Honnold
Shaping Identity: Male and Female Interactions in Cinema, Jonette Lauren Lagamba
"Bite on Boldly": Staging Medieval and Early Modern Heretics, Cameron Hunt Mcnabb
Circling Back Home: A Lifelong Odyssey into Feminism, Scott Leslie Neumeister
Musical Rhetoric and Sonic Composing Processes, Kyle D. Stedman
Tracing Boundaries, Effacing Boundaries: Information Literacy as an Academic Discipline, Grace L. Veach
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
The Portia Project: The Heiress of Belmont on Stage and Screen, Ann Mccauley Basso
Religion as Aesthetic Creation: Ritual and Belief in William Butler Yeats and Aleister Crowley, Amy M. Clanton
Repression/Incitement: Double-Reading Vita Sackville-West's The Edwardians Through Freud and Foucault, Aimee Elizabeth Coley
"A Blaze of Light and Finery": The Victorian Theater and the Victorian Theatrical Novel, Dorinda Mari Davis
The Tyranny of Plot: Anzia Yezierska's Struggle to Free the Voices of Her Community through the Autobiographical Self, Kristie Kelly Dowling
"The Wound and the Voiceless: The Insidious Trauma of Father-Daughter Incest in Six American Texts", Christine Lynn Grogan
How to Get from Here to There: Poetic Connections in Tracy Letts's "Man from Nebraska," "August: Osage County," and "Superior Donuts.", Deborah Ann Kochman
Interpreting with "All Possible Caution, on Mental Tiptoe": Nabakov's Post-Romantic Renewal of Perception in Lolita, Curtis Donald Le Van
Saved by the (Alexander Graham) Bell: An Analysis of Synchronous Communication and Student Satisfaction / Retention Rates in the First Year Online Composition Classroom, Jennifer Jane Lynch
Poe as Magazinist, Kay Ellen McKamy
Cold War Playboys: Models of Masculinity in the Literature of Playboy, Taylor Joy Mitchell
Delinquencies, Bryan Thomas Rice
Small Flowerings of Unhu: the Survival of Community in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Novels, Dana Rine
"Show Me the Money!": A Pecuniary Explication of William Makepeace Thackeray's Critical Journalism, Gary Simons
National Identity, Gender, and Genre: The Multiple Marginalization of Lotte Reiniger and The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926), K. Vivian Taylor
Narratives of Architectural Revolution in Online Christian Rhetoric, Quentin David Vieregge
The Time Machine and Heart of Darkness: H.G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, and the fin de siecle, Haili Ann Vinson
Celestial Bodies, Jared Calvin White
Addressing the Decline of Academic Performance Among First-Year Composition Students: A Usability Analysis of Two Important Online Resources, Kate Zephyrhawke
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Haole, Shawn Alff
Female Agency in Restoration and Nineteenth-Century Drama, Haley D. Anderson
Re-Composition: Considering the Intersections of Composition and Creative Writing Theories and Pedagogies, Danita Berg
Melville’s Unknown Pathology: The Humoral Theory of Disease and Low Grade Lead Poisoning in Bartleby the Scrivener, Gerard Bogin
Alien Encounters and the Alien/Human Dichotomy in Stanley Kubrick‘s 2001: A Space Odyssey and Andrei Tarkovsky‘s Solaris, Keith Cavedo
"In My Church We Don't Believe in Homosexuals": Queer Identity and Dominant Culture in Three Texts of the AIDS Era, Steven Cooper
Dust, Ash, and the Sublime: Tracing Kant's Aesthetics in Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing and The Road, Ben Gerdts
Ernest Hemingway’s Mistresses and Wives: Exploring Their Impact on His Female Characters, Stephen E. Henrichon
Trials and Verdicts: Narratives of Recollection in The Good Soldier and Lolita, Constance Elizabeth Holmes
Illusion in Troilus and Cressida, Edward Janz
Goddesses and Doormats, Elizabeth Kicak
"Something Begins its Presencing": Negotiating Third-Space Identities and Healing in Toni Morrison's Paradise and Love, Kristen King
Enclosure, Transformation, Emergence: Space And The Construction Of Gender Roles In The Novels Of Charlotte Brontë, Michelle Dawn Lattanzio
The Waiting Unknown: Stories, James R. Miller
Imagined Realities, Defying Subjects: Voice, Sexuality and Subversion in African Women's Writing, Sarah Namulondo
The Fiction of The Rime: Gaspara Stampa’s “Poetic Misprision” of Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Elegy of Lady Fiammetta, Ellan B. Otero
Writing to (Re)New Orleans: The Post-Hurricane Katrina Blogosphere and Its Ability to Inspire Recovery, Daisy Pignetti
“An Indescribable Sound” in William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, Lynn Ramsey
Testimony of Trauma: Ernest Hemingway’s Narrative Progression in Across the River and into the Trees, Kathleen K. Robinson
"Speaking" Subalterns: A Comparative Study of African American and Dalit/Indian Literatures, Mantra Roy
I Know I Shouldn’t Generalize, but…: A Rhetorical Critique of Ethnography in Composition Studies, Micheal W. Taber Jr.
Politics and Poetry: Not so Separate Spheres (Voice of the Minority Muse), Denice N. Traina
The Accidental Practitioner: Principles of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy in the Works of Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph J. Ward
Refusing To Go Silently: Female Wit As Combating A Culture Of Silence In Frances Burney And Elizabeth Inchbald's Texts, Megan M. Weber
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Interrogating Virginia Woolf and the British Suffrage Movement, Gwen Trowbridge Anderson
Running Toward the Apocalypse: John Updike’s New America, Bob Batchelor
(Re)Appropriation: A Reading of The Tempest, Kapalkundala, and Disgrace, Sunayani Bhattacharya
Gulliver’s Travels to the Screen, Giant and Tiny, Mark Dekle
Literary Bodies: The Novel As Experience, Britt Dienes
Establishing Creative Writing Studies as an Academic Discipline, Dianne J. Donnelly
Historical Imagination in/and Literary Consciousness: The Afterlife of the Anglo-Saxons in Middle English Literature, Richard Joseph Ellman
Swift: Peculiar Supporter of Female Writers, Robert N. Gamache
The Politics of Space and Place in Virginia Woolf’s The Years, Three Guineas and The Pargiters, Ángel Luis Jiménez
A new understanding of sophistic rhetoric: A translation, with commentary, of Mario Untersteiner's "Le origini sociali della sofistica", Elisabeth LoFaro
From maiden to whore and back again: A survey of prostitution in the works of William Shakespeare, Tiffany Lowden Messerschmidt
Photography's creative influence on Lewis Carroll's Alice's adventures in Wonderland and Through the looking glass and what Alice found there, Bridget Mahoney
"Desirable images": Sexual mapping in William S. Burroughs's Naked lunch and Samuel R. Delany's Dhalgren, Patrick McGowan
Choice and discovery: An analysis of women and culture in Flora Nwapa's fiction, Mary D. Mears
Songs for cripples, Michael Nelson
Found a gun in the woods, empty, Daniel Purificato
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: A Reflection of the Tension Between Conformity and Rebellion in the Life and Times of Mary Wollstonecraft, Ann Sofia-Rothschild
Coffins, Closets, Kitchens, and Convents: Women Writing Of Home In Gendered Spaces, Nicole Spottke
Dressing Psychic Wounds: Clothing as Metaphor in Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow and Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony, Angela D. Tartaglia
Structural Polarities In J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Quincey Vierling Upshaw
“I Stand for Sovereignty”: Reading Portia in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, Deborah Van Pelt
Gothic Cathedral as Theology and Literature, Mary E. Wilson
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Black Beauty as Antebellum Slave Narrative, Bonnie L. Blossom
Historical and Self-Imposed Asylums in Samuel Beckett’s Murphy, Malone Dies, and “First Love”, Suzanne Desmond
Blank Power: The Social and Political Criticism of Blank Fiction and Cinema, Ashley Minix Donnelly
“Pleasant Episodes” of Gastronomy: Food and Drink in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Beautiful and Damned, Melissa Faith Dullaghan
Altogether Governed by Humors: The Four Ancient Temperaments in Shakespeare, Caitlin Jeanne Fahey
Yeats, Eliot, and Apocalyptic Poetry, Nancy Helen Fletcher
The Drowned Girl, Karen Brown Gonzalez
Boundary and Longing: Narrative Modes in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and The Last Man, Marie Hendry
Secret Servants: Household Domestics and Courtship in Eliza Haywood’s Fiction, Marisa C. Iglesias
Garden Doors: Tempting The Virtuous Heroine In Clarissa And Betsy Thoughtless, Jamie Kinsley
