Theses/Dissertations from 2026
Representations of Motherhood in 19th and 20th Century American Literature, Zabrina L. Shkurti
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
The Monsters in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Illustrated Adaptation of Beowulf for Children and Young Adults, Johanna Katharine Burton
The Drama of Last Things: Reckoning in Late Medieval and Early Modern English Drama, Spencer M. Daniels
African Spirituality in Literature Written by Women of African Descent, Brigét V. Harley
Reimagining Web Design: Empowering Agency of Specialized Audiences through User-Centered Heuristics, Haley Jones
Hidden Monstrosities: The Transformation of Medieval Characters and Conventions in Shakespeare's Romances, Lynette Kristine Kuliyeva
Making the Invisible Visible: (Re)envisioning the Black Body in Contemporary Adaptations of Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Urshela Wiggins McKinney
Lawful Injustice: Novel Readings of Racialized Temporality and Legal Instabilities, Danielle N. Mercier
Soaked in Alcohol: Beyond the Female Archetype as Reflected in Djuna Barnes, Dorothy Parker, and Zelda Fitzgerald, Chondell C. Villines
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Of Mētis and Cuttlefish: Employing Collective Mētis as a Theoretical Framework for Marginalized Communities, Justiss Wilder Burry
Reading Suffering Between the Lines: Trauma and Witnessing in Old and Middle English Literature, Anca Olguta Giorgiana Garcia
What on earth are we doing (?): A Field-Wide Exploration of Design Courses in TPC, Jessica L. Griffith
Organizations Ensuring Resilience: A Case Study of Cortez, Florida, Karla Ariel Maddox
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Using Movie Clips to Understand Vivid-Phrasal Idioms’ Meanings, Rasha Salem S. Alghamdi
Writing Supports for Honors Thesis Students: An Applied Program Evaluation Study, Krysta Banke
An Exercise in Exceptions: Personhood, Divergency, and Ableism in the STAR TREK Franchise, Jessica A. Blackman
Vulnerable Resistance in Victorian Women’s Writing, Stephanie A. Harper
Curricular Assemblages: Understanding Student Writing Knowledge (Re)circulation Across Genres, Adam Phillips
Anthropocene Fiction: Empathy, Kinship, and the Troubled Waters at the End of the World, Megan Mandell Stowe
PAD Beyond the Classroom: Integrating PAD in the Scrum Workplace, Jade S. Weiss
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Social Cues in Animated Pedagogical Agents for Second Language Learners: the Application of The Embodiment Principle in Video Design, Sahar M. Alyahya
A Field-Wide Examination of Cross-Listed Courses in Technical Professional Communication, Carolyn M. Gubala
Labor-Based Grading Contracts in the Multilingual FYC Classroom: Unpacking the Variables, Kara Kristina Larson
Land Goddesses, Divine Pigs, and Royal Tricksters: Subversive Mythologies and Imperialist Land Ownership Dispossession in Twentieth Century Irish and American Literature, Elizabeth Ricketts
Oppression, Resistance, and Empowerment: The Power Dynamics of Naming and Un-naming in African American Literature, 1794 to 2019, Melissa "Maggie" Romigh
Generic Expectations in First Year Writing: Teaching Metadiscoursal Reflection and Revision Strategies for Increased Generic Uptake of Academic Writing, Kaelah Rose Scheff
Reframing the Gothic: Race, Gender, & Disability in Multiethnic Literature, Ashely B. Tisdale
Intersections of Race and Place in Short Fiction by New Orleans Gens de Couleur Libres, Adrienne D. Vivian
Mental Illness Diagnosis and the Construction of Stigma, Katie Lynn Walkup
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Rhetorical Roundhouse Kicks: Tae Kwon Do Pumsae Practice and Non-Western Embodied Topoi, Spencer Todd Bennington
9/11 Then and Now: How the Performance of Memorial Rhetoric by Presidents Changes to Construct Heroes, Kristen M. Grafton
Kinesthetically Speaking: Human and Animal Communication in British Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century, Dana Jolene Laitinen
Glamour in Contemporary American Cinema, Shauna A. Maragh
Instrumentalization Theory: An Analytical Heuristic for a Heightened Social Awareness of Machine Learning Algorithms in Social Media, Andrew R. Miller
The Power of Non-Compliant Logos: A New Materialist Approach to Comic Studies, Stephanie N. Phillips
Female Identity and Sexuality in Contemporary Indonesian Novels, Zita Rarastesa
"The Fiery Furnaces of Hell": Rhetorical Dynamism in Youngstown, OH, Joshua M. Rea
“We developed solidarity”: Family, Race, Identity, and Space-Time in Recent Multiethnic U.S. American Fiction, Kimber L. Wiggs
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Remembrance of a Wound: Ethical Mourning in the Works of Ana Menéndez, Elías Miguel Muñoz, and Junot Díaz, José Aparicio
Taking an “Ecological Turn” in the Evaluation of Rhetorical Interventions, Peter Cannon
New GTA’s and the Pre-Semester Orientation: The Need for Informed Refinement, Jessica L. Griffith
Reading Rape and Answering with Empathy: A New Approach to Sexual Assault Education for College Students, Brianna Jerman
The Karoo, The Veld, and the Co-Op: The Farm as Microcosm and Place for Change in Schreiner, Lessing, and Head, Elana D. Karshmer
"The weak are meat, and the strong do eat"; Representations of the Slaughterhouse in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature, Stephanie Lance
Language of Carnival: How Language and the Carnivalesque Challenge Hegemony, Yulia O. Nekrashevich
Queer Authority in Old and Middle English Literature, Elan J. Pavlinich
Because My Garmin Told Me To: A New Materialist Study of Agency and Wearable Technology, Michael Repici
No One Wants to Read What You Write: A Contextualized Analysis of Service Course Assignments, Tanya P. Zarlengo
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Beauty and the Beasts: Making Places with Literary Animals of Florida, Haili A. Alcorn
The Medievalizing Process: Religious Medievalism in Romantic and Victorian Literature, Timothy M. Curran
Seeing Trauma: The Known and the Hidden in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Alisa M. DeBorde
Analysis of User Interfaces in the Sharing Economy, Taylor B. Johnson
Border-Crossing Travels Across Literary Worlds: My Shamanic Conscientization, Scott Neumeister
The Spectacle of The Bomb: Rhetorical Analysis of Risk of The Nevada Test Site in Technical Communication, Popular Press, and Pop Culture, Tiffany Wilgar
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Traveling Women and Consuming Place in Eighteenth-Century Travel Letters and Journals, Cassie Patricia Childs
“The Nations of the Field and Wood”: The Uncertain Ontology of Animals in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, J. Kevin Jordan
Modern Mythologies: The Epic Imagination in Contemporary Indian Literature, Sucheta Kanjilal
Science in the Sun: How Science is Performed as a Spatial Practice, Natalie Kass
Body as Text: Physiognomy on the Early English Stage, Curtis Le Van
Tensions Between Democracy and Expertise in the Florida Keys, Elizabeth A. Loyer
Institutional Review Boards and Writing Studies Research: A Justice-Oriented Study, Johanna Phelps-Hillen
The Spirit of Friendship: Girlfriends in Contemporary African American Literature, Tangela La'Chelle Serls
Aphra Behn on the Contemporary Stage: Behn's Feminist Legacy and Woman-Directed Revivals of The Rover, Nicole Elizabeth Stodard
(Age)ncy in Composition Studies, Alaina Tackitt
Constructing Health Narratives: Patient Feedback in Online Communities, Katie Lynn Walkup
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Shaping Climate Citizenship: The Ethics of Inclusion in Climate Change Communication and Policy, Lauren E. Cagle
Drop, Cover, and Hold On: Analyzing FEMA's Risk Communication through Visual Rhetoric, Samantha Jo Cosgrove
Material Expertise: Applying Object-oriented Rhetoric in Marine Policy, Zachary Parke Dixon
The Non-Identical Anglophone Bildungsroman: From the Categorical to the De-Centering Literary Subject in the Black Atlantic, Jarad Heath Fennell
Instattack: Instagram and Visual Ad Hominem Political Arguments, Sophia Evangeline Gourgiotis
Hospitable Climates: Representations of the West Indies in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, Marisa Carmen Iglesias
Chosen Champions: Medieval and Early Modern Heroes as Postcolonial Reactions to Tensions between England and Europe, Jessica Trant Labossiere
Science, Policy, and Decision Making: A Case Study of Deliberative Rhetoric and Policymaking for Coastal Adaptation in Southeast Florida, Karen Patricia Langbehn
A New Materialist Approach to Visual Rhetoric in PhotoShopBattles, Jonathan Paul Ray
Tracing the Material: Spaces and Objects in British and Irish Modernist Novels, Mary Allison Wise
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Representations of Gatsby: Ninety Years of Retrospective, Christine Anne Auger
Robust, Low Power, Discrete Gate Sizing, Anthony Joseph Casagrande
Wrestling with Angels: Postsecular Contemporary American Poetry, Paul T. Corrigan
#networkedglobe: Making the Connection between Social Media and Intercultural Technical Communication, Laura Anne Ewing
Evidence of Things Not Seen: A Semi-Automated Descriptive Phrase and Frame Analysis of Texts about the Herbicide Agent Orange, Sarah Beth Hopton
'She Shall Not Be Moved': Black Women's Spiritual Practice in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Beloved, Paradise, and Home, Rondrea Danielle Mathis
Relational Agency, Networked Technology, and the Social Media Aftermath of the Boston Marathon Bombing, Megan M. Mcintyre
Now, We Hear Through a Voice Darkly: New Media and Narratology in Cinematic Art, James Anthony Ricci
Navigating Collective Activity Systems: An Approach Towards Rhetorical Inquiry, Katherine Jesse Royce
Women's Narratives of Confinement: Domestic Chores as Threads of Resistance and Healing, Jacqueline Marie Smith
Domestic Spaces in Transition: Modern Representations of Dwelling in the Texts of Elizabeth Bowen, Shannon Tivnan
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Paradise Always Already Lost: Myth, Memory, and Matter in English Literature, Elizabeth Stuart Angello
Overcoming the 5th-Century BCE Epistemological Tragedy: A Productive Reading of Protagoras of Abdera, Ryan Alan Blank
Acts of Rebellion: The Rhetoric of Rogue Cinema, Adam Breckenridge
Material and Textual Spaces in the Poetry of Montagu, Leapor, Barbauld, and Robinson, Jessica Lauren Cook
Decolonizing Shakespeare: Race, Gender, and Colonialism in Three Adaptations of Three Plays by William Shakespeare, Angela Eward-Mangione
Risk of Compliance: Tracing Safety and Efficacy in Mef-Lariam's Licensure, Julie Marie Gerdes
Beyond Performance: Rhetoric, Collective Memory, and the Motive of Imprinting Identity, Brenda M. Grau
Subversive Beauty - Victorian Bodies of Expression, Lisa Michelle Hoffman-Reyes
Integrating Reading and Writing For Florida's ESOL Program, George Douglas Mcarthur
Responsibility and Responsiveness in the Novels of Ann Radcliffe and Mary Shelley, Katherine Marie McGee
