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English Dissertations

Dissertations from 2012 2012

Foot Tracks on the Ocean: Zora Neale Hurston and the Creation of an African-American Transcultural Identity, Patricia Coloma Penate

The Role of the Home in Eudora Welty's Delta Wedding and the Optimist's Daughter, Claire Elizabeth Crews

The Exchange: A Novel, Peter A. Fontaine

Speaking Voices in Postcolonial Indian Novels from Orientalism to Outsourcing, Barbara J. Gardner

Storied Subjects: Posthuman Subjectivization Through Narrative in Post-1960 American Print and Televisual Narrative, Julie Hawk

Beautiful Day. Pleasant Walk: Walking and Landscape in the Works of Eswick Evans, John D. Godman, Elizabeth Fries Ellet, and Bradford Torrey, Scott R. Honeycutt

21st-Century Neo-Anticolonial Literature and the Struggle for a New Global Order, Shauna Morgan Kirlew

The Postdisciplinarity of Lore: Professional and Pedagogical Development in a Graduate Student Community of Practice, Juliette C. Kitchens

Unquiet Things, James D. May

Corporeal Violence in Early Modern Revenge Tragedies, Matthew McIntyre

The Art of Future Discourse: Rhetoric, Translation and an Interdisciplinary Pedagogy for Transglobal Literacy, Estefania Olid-Pena

Composing on the Screen: Student Perceptions of Traditional and Multimodal Composition, Jeannie C. Parker Beard Ph.D.

Should Have Known Better, Calaya M. Reid

Flowers of Rhetoric: The Evolving Use of the Language of Flowers in Margaret Fuller's Dial Sketches and Poetry, Elizabeth Stoddard's The Morgesons, Edith Wharton's Summer, Mary Austin's Santa Lucia and Cactus Thorn, and Susan Glaspell's The Verge, Corinne Kopcik Rhyner

Carnival's Dance of Death: Festivity in the Revenge Plays of KYD, Shakespeare, and Middleton, Benjamin O. Rollins

Undone, Emily Schulten

Teaching Speculative Fiction in College: A Pedagogy for Making English Studies Relevant, James H. Shimkus

Resisting Diaspora and Transnational Definitions in Monique Truong's the Book of Salt, Peter Bacho's Cebu, and Other Fiction, Debora Stefani

BL Cotton Caligula Aii, Manuscript Context, The Theme of Obedience, and a Diplomatic Transcription Edition, Denise C. White

Dissertations from 2011 2011

The Function of Religion in Selected Novels of George Gissing, Lawton A. Brewer

Ordinary Madness, Matthew Byars

Two New Heuristics in Response to Formulaic Writing: What Lies beyond Oversimplified Composition Instruction, James T. Davis II

Sensory Coding in William Faulkner's Novels: Investigating Class, Gender, Queerness, and Race through a Non-Visual Paradigm, Laura R. Davis

Elizabeth Carter's Legacy: Friendship and Ethics, Afag S. Fazlollahi

"A Revolution by Due Course of Law": Matthew Arnold, G.W.F. Hegel, and the State's Revolutionary Role, Shannon N. Gilstrap

Re-Membering Ancient Women: Hypatia of Alexandria and her Communities, Cara Minardi

Walker Percy and the Magic of Naming: The Semeiotic Fabric of Life, Karey L. Perkins

The Sermonic Urge: Postsecular Sermons in Contemporary American Fiction, Peter W. Rorabaugh

The Old Biology Book, Michele E. Rozga

The Spaces of History: Francis Parkman's Literary Landscapes and the Formation of the American Cosmos, Florian Schwieger

Bite Size, Melissa B. Smith

Secular Understanding and Shattering the Myth of the American Dream: A Chronological Analysis of Changing Attitudes and Depictions of Murder within the Twentieth-Century American Literary Canon, Tsipi Wagner

Mothering and Surrogacy in Twentieth-Century American Literature: Promise or Betrayal, Kimberly C. Weaver

From Orators to Cyborgs: The Evolution of Delivery, Performativity, and Gender, Victoria E. Willis

Dissertations from 2010 2010

Letter to So-and-So from Wherever, Michael Scott Dockins

Persistent Pasts: Historical Palimpsests in Nineteenth-Century British Prose, Tamara Gosta

Writing and Wellness, Emotion and Women: Highlighting the Contemporary Uses of Expressive Writing in the Service of Students, Cantice G. Greene

The Southern Gentleman and the Idea of Masculinity: Figures and Aspects of the Southern Beau in the Literary Tradition of the American South, Emmeline Gros

J. R. R. Tolkien, War, and Nationalism, Amanda J. Johnston

Liminal Resistances: Local Subjections in my Story, Vidheyan, and the God of Small Things, priya menon

Human-Computer Interface Design for Online Tutoring: Visual Rhetoric, Pedagogy, and Writing Center Websites, Alice J. Myatt

Bend, Break, Robert R. Pfeiffer

The Fashioning of Fanny Fern: A Study of Sara Willis Parton's Early Career, 1851-1854, Amy S. Porche

Early Medieval Rhetoric: Epideictic Underpinnings in Old English Homilies, Jennifer M. Randall

Dissertations from 2009 2009

An Apology for Thomas Churchyard, Kerri Lynn Branham Allen

Ecocritical Theology Neo-Pastoral Themes in American Fiction from 1960 to the Present, Joan Anderson Ashford

Mentor-Teaching in the English Classroom, Timothy R. Blue

The Good Cut: The Barbershop in the African American Literary Tradition, Terry Sinclair Bozeman

Big in Japan: The Novel, Christopher Bundy

Toward a Rhetoric of Scholar-Fandom, Tanya R. Cochran

Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan: Honing the Hybridity of the Graphic Novel, Dallas Dycus

"Nam-Shub versus the Big Other: Revising the Language that Binds Us in Philip K. Dick, Neal Stephenson, Samuel R. Delany, and Chuck Palahniuk", Jason Michael Embry

Granite Butterfly, Kerin Flatley

Feminist Online Writing Courses: Collaboration, Community Action, and Student Engagement, Letizia Guglielmo

Our Lady of Refuge, James S. Iredell

Lay Writers and the Politics of Theology in Medieval England From the Twelfth to Fifteenth Centuries, Carola Louise Mattord

Literature as Prophecy: Toni Morrison as Prophetic Writer, Khalilah Tyri Watson

Dissertations from 2008 2008

The Great Gatsby and its 1925 Contemporaries, Marjorie Ann Hollomon Faust

By her Own Hand: Female Agency through Self-Castration in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction, Angela Marie Hall-Godsey

William Faulkner, His Eye for Archetypes, and America's Divided Legacy of Medicine, Geraldine Mart Harmon

In the Body, Katherine Sungwon Hyon

The Third Person in the Room: Servants and the Construction of Identity in the Eighteenth-Century Gothic Novel, Jennifer Thomson Lawrence

Memory, Place, and Desire in Late Medieval British Pilgrimage Narratives, Ruth Anne McIntyre

The Power of Timelessness and the Contemporary Influence of Modern Thought, Katie Reece Moss

Old School, San Antonio, Heather K. Russel

Women's Relationships: Female Friendship in Toni Morrison's Sula and Love, Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter and Sefi Atta's Everything Good Will Come, Kadidia Sy

Reading Autistic Experience, Natalie Collins Trice

Origins and Orthodoxy: Anthologies of American Literature and American History, Daniel Richard Vollaro

Good Christian, Lydia Williams

Resisting the Vortex: Abjection in the Early Works of Herman Melville, Jennifer Mary Wing

Dissertations from 2007 2007

On the Limits of Culture: Why Biology is Important in the Study of Victorian Sexuality, Robert Jonathan Burns

The "Infernal World": Imagination in Charlotte Brontë's Four Novels, Cara MaryJo Cassell

"A Little Labour of Love": The Extraordinary Career of Dorothy Ripley, Female Evangelist in Early America, Elisa Ann Everson

Communication Strategies as a Basis for Crisis Management Including Use of the Internet as a Delivery Platform, Gordon Alan Harrison

Captive Women, Cunning Texts: Confederate Daughters and the "Trick-Tongue" of Captivity, Rebecca L. Harrison

Images of Loss in Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, Marsha Norman's night, Mother, and Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive, Dipa Janardanan

The Literary and Intellectual Impact of Mississippi’s Industrial Institute and College, 1884-1920, Sheldon Scott Kohn

Days of the Endless Corvette, Emanuel Henry Martin

Sound of Terror: Hearing Ghosts in Victorian Fiction, Melissa Kendall Mcleod

Winning, Losing, and Changing the Rules: The Rhetoric of Poetry Contests and Competition, Marc Pietrzykowski

They Know "What Work Is": Working Class Individuals in the Poetry of Philip Levine, Jeffrey Edmond Rumiano

To Hold as T'were the Mirror Up to Hate: Terrence McNally's Response to the Christian Right in Corpus Christi, Richard Kimberly Sisson

Low Brows and High Profiles: Rhetoric and Gender in the Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century Theater, Elizabeth Anne Tasker

After My Third Tattoo, Elizabeth A. Wurz

Dissertations from 2006 2006

Reclaiming the Human Self: Redemptive Suffering and Spiritual Service in the Works of James Baldwin, Francine LaRue Allen

The Sexual Politics of Meat Substitutes, Gregory James Flail

Why Tell the Truth When a Lie Will Do?: Re-Creations and Resistance in the Self-Authored Life Writing of Five American Women Fiction Writers, Piper Gian Huguley

Beasts of the Earth and Air, John Gregory Johnson

"Lines Written in my Closet": Volume One of Judith Sargent Murray's Poetry Manuscripts, Tammy Mills

Y'all Go Out and Make Us Proud: The Commencement Address and the Southern Writer, Dana J. Nichols

Sugar Skulls, James Richards

"Like Another Esther": Literary Representations of Queen Esther in Early Modern England, Saralyn Ellen Summer

Peer Review in the Contemporary Corporation, Shannon Warren Wisdom

Dissertations from 2005 2005

Buttressing a Monarchy: Literary Representations of William III and the Glorious Revolution, Richard L. Dolan, Jr.

Cotton Mathers's Wonders of the Invisible World: An Authoritative Edition, Paul Melvin Wise