Dissertations from 2023
Consume Her, Caroline Chavatel
"Relations in the Unseen": An Asexual Reading of Long Nineteenth Century British Literature, Keith H. Derrick
Husk: Poems, Anna Sandy Elrod
Recipe for a New Republic: Foodways, Fiction, and American Identity in Selected Works of Lydia Maria Child, Sarah Josepha Hale, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, Gina Blankenship Flowers
Identifying with Conspiracy Theorists: Uncovering Rhetorical Questions in the QAnon Movement, Jenna Harte
Addressing the Aristotelian Pedagogical Bias: Reassessing Aristotle’s Rhetoric and its Place in 21st Century Composition Studies, Matthew Higgins
Coffin for Head of State, Samuel Kolawole
Transatlantic Utopia: American Antebellum Novels and Their Reflexive Historicism, Andrew J. Lamb
Analyzing the Rhetorics of Wine: Ethnographic Research of Wine Community Narratives, Bailey McAlister
Oral History, Activism, and Remembrance: The Rhetorical Agency of Georgia’s Women Activists in and Beyond the Equal Rights Amendment, Jessica Edens McCrary
The Modern Anti-Hero, Shawn G. Merritt
Monsoon Season: A Collection of Stories, Wanjiku Ngugi
Meta-Awareness about Multimodal Composition: Identifying Components of Multimodal Writing Development, Euguenia Novokshanova
Lost and Found in Translation: Women Translating the Classics as Rhetorical Acts, Alexandra Sladky
The Atlantic Voice: Narrative and the Creation of the Circum-Atlantic World, James Harper Strom
Fools of War: The Trope of the Fool in Contemporary American War Narratives, Alan R. Swirsky
Sound, Subjectivity, and Feminism: Victorian Novels and Their Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Adaptations, Calabria D. Turner
Dissertations from 2022
Ecofeminist Sensibilities in Contemporary Fiction from Women Writers of the Appalachian South, Deedee Abbott
Preparing Student Researchers: An Investigation of Obstacles in the Inclusion of Primary Research Methods in First Year Composition, Sarah E.S. Carter
Instructions for Transcending the Human Body, Chaz Chitwood
Family Trees: Stories, LaRue Cook
From “Speaking for” to “Speaking with”: Articulation and Representation in Multilingual South Africa, Namrata Dey Roy
The Narrows, Abigail C. Greenbaum
Ghostwriting as a Critical Lens: Authorship and Attribution in Professional and Academic Contexts, Charles Grimm
Secondary & Collegiate English Composition Education in Turkey: a Case Study of History and Present State, Haris U. Haq
Fiction, History, Feelings: American Africanism and the Market of Feelings in US Historical Novels, History Textbooks and Teaching Methods, 1892 – 1998, Joshua R. Jackson
Georgia Immigrant Voices: Intersecting Texts and Testimonies, Maria Demetra Mackas
Inside the Box: A Case Study of How Spatial Rhetoric in High School Computer Science Curricula Inhibited the Acquisition of Technology Competence, Bernadette A. Mc Adam
No Boys Allowed, Jennifer E. Murphy
To Decorate the Dungeon with Flowers, Cora Rowe
Threshing Floor: Poetry Inspired by the Black Arts Movement, Valerie Smith
(Re)making a Frontier: The Ethos of Motherhood, Midwifery, and Public Health in 1920s Southeastern Kentucky, Elizabeth Topping
Dissertations from 2021
“Where—Am I?”: H.D.’s Search for Identity, Dianne D. Berger
Double Bind, Caroline Crew
American Ambivalence: Temporality and Trauma in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature, Randall Harrell
William Shakespeare's Sacramental Vision, Joseph L. Kelly
Disambiguating Dystopia: Readjusting the Critical Lens on Contemporary Dystopian Literature, Shana L. Latimer
Composing Online: A Case Study of Embodiment, Digitality, and YouTube, Meagan E. Malone
Narrating Jinnah's Nation: Towards a Pluralist Identity in Pakistani English Fiction, Saba Y. Naseer
Stories I Have Always Heard: The Rhetorical Life of an American Song, Jessica Rose
Because The Wreck: Poems, Eric Saye
Convergent Grounds: Black and Native Women Imagining America, Carlye Schock
Dissertations from 2020
Seepage: Developing and Conserving Global Literary Environmentalities, Christine D. Anlicker
Happy Are They: Stories, Nora J. Bonner
Recollecting Romantic Rhetoric: An Inquiry into Myths, Traps, and Implications, Sarah K. Bramblett
What the Water Gave Us, Megan L. Clark
Adopting Home Language and Multimodality in Composition Courses, Mack Curry
Whenever You Eat This, Gregory Emilio
Storied Stones: An Exploration of Material Silence in Postcolonial Fiction, Donald Fentem
Earth of Inedible Things, Joshua Martin
The Mustard Seed, Zachary Matteson
Eco-Traffic: Globalization, Materiality, and Subalternity in Asia-Pacific Literature, David E. St. John
Basic Alchemy: Dramatism as a Tool for Progressing Basic Writing, William G. Vickery
America's Quandary-- Masking Injustice: Ideological Analyses of America's Moves Towards its Promise | A Pedagogical Primer on Rhetoric, Ronald J. Walker
Dissertations from 2019
The Good Life is out there Somewhere: British and U.S. Women's Utopian Literature 1836-1916, Dan M.R. Abitz
Ann Berthoff from the Margins: An Infusion of All-at-once-ness for Contemporary Writing Pedagogy, Paige Davis Arrington
Programmed 'Treasuries of Eloquence’: A Rhetorical Take on Productivity Aids in Audio Engineering Software, Thomas Breideband
Rhetoric of Public Crises: Constructing Communication Networks in Transcultural Contexts, Lin Dong
Reservoir, Jessica E. Lindberg
Empathetic Humanism and Multiethnic Narratives, Ashley Cheyemi McNeil
Integrating Disability Studies into the English Department, Kristen Ruccio
First-Year Writers and Intermodality: A Case Study of Educational Experiences with Multimodal Composition, Matthew Sansbury
Transformation and Punishment: Revisiting Monstrosity in Anglo-Saxon Literature, Virginia Rachel Scoggins
“Take Root in the Stars”: Black Women’s Speculative Fiction as Liberation Biomythographies, Roslyn Smith
Screens: A Novel, Michael Stoneberg
A Comparative Study of Army ROTC Writing Pedagogy, Ryan Strader
Current-Traditional Rhetoric and the Hodges Harbrace Handbook: A Study in the Disconnect Between Theory and Practice, Leslie S. Taylor
Sacraments of Desire, Simona Chitescu Weik
"Enough of the World is Mine": Decadence, Homosexuality and Catholicism in the Life of John Gray, Lewis Whitaker
Minotaur in the Hotel Villa Paradiso, Carey Scott Wilkerson
Theories of Damage, Allison Wright
Through the Funnel of Audiences: How Chinese Audiences Shape Media in the Context of Hegemony, Meng Yu
Dissertations from 2018
European Bridges in Selected Plays of Paula Vogel: Adaptation and (In)Fidelity, Rasha Alabdullah
Strange Visitor: The Subjective Identity of Superman, Edward J. Anderson
The Reifying Center Archive Process: Sustainable Writing Center Archive Practice for Praxis, Research, And Continuity, Roger Austin
Mapping Los Angeles: Spatial Representations of the Margin in Fiction, Anna Barattin
Autism Literacy: A Rhetorical and Social Inquiry Through Archival Research, Kristeen E. Cherney
Sisters, Stephanie L. Devine
Performing Valor, Redeeming Virtue, Karen Dodson
The Roles of Servant Characters in Restoration Comedy, 1660 - 1685, Patricia A. Godsave
A Selkie Tale: The Mythical Journey of the Charlotte Bronte Heroines, Pallabi Gupta
"Perhaps No One General Answer Will Do": Cotton Mather's Commentary On The Synoptic Gospels In "Biblia Americana", Grace Sara Harwood
Wayfaring, Brian Patrick Heston
Simbelmynë, Anna King
Literary Equivocation: Women Playwrights and the Early Modern “Closet”, Nancy Paxton-Wilson
The Sonnet in Twentieth-Century America, Zachary Rearick
The Past Informs the Future: War Representations and Their Influence on Future Soldiers, Danielle Rhodes
Reenchantment: A Case for a Cosmological Interpretive Strategy of Literature, Salvatore Talluto
Levinas and the New Woman Writers: Narrating the Ethics of Alterity, Anita Turlington
Rhetorical Being: A Metaphysics of Freedom and Essence, Nathan Wagner
Imprisoned by Sex, Spirit, and Speech: Complicating Diasporic Negritude, Natasha N. Walker
Re-examining the Indirect Myth of Chinese Rhetoric on Social Media, Yunye Yu
Composing Women: Intersections of Transatlantic Modernist Literature and Visual Media, Meredith Zaring
Dissertations from 2017
"[I]f such times came back upon us": Modes of Infidelity in the Late Romances of William Morris, Benjamin Barrett