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Dissertations from 2024

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The Diasporic Unconscious: Trauma, Parsi Zoroastrian Identity, and Global South Displacement, Abhik Banerjee

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Destinations: A Novel, Dylan Fisher

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Three Dinners in Richmond, Leah Franqui

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American Millennial and Between Drowning and Drought, Emily Lake Hansen

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The Assignment as Strategic Communication and Heuristic for Operationalizing Multimodal Composing, Colleen Ijuin

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The Vanished Worlds of Konstantine Baker: A Novel, James Jordan

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Contested Authority: How Christian Nationalist Cultural Networks Shaped the COVID-19 Vaccination Debate, Keaton Lamle

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Groundwork // Notes from the Field, Scarlett A. Peterson

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Re-imagining Life from Anti-Life Force: An Interdisciplinary Study between History and Literature of the Indian Fourth World and Pan-African Black Women’s Trauma and Resistance, Shabana Sayeed

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lovehanger, Jillian Smith

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Student Perceptions of First Year Composition Assignment Design and Classroom Policy, Alina Thurman

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An Insidious Thread: Biological Determinism and Victorian Poetry, Kerry Jessica Walsh

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Expanding Public Writing Circulation and Its Impact on the First Year Composition Classroom, Jodi Williams

Dissertations from 2023

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Consume Her, Caroline Chavatel

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"Relations in the Unseen": An Asexual Reading of Long Nineteenth Century British Literature, Keith H. Derrick

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Husk: Poems, Anna Sandy Elrod

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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

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Destroyed by Madness: Fighting Stigma and Building Empathy through the Narrative Experience, Kelley N. Gladden Walker

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Identifying with Conspiracy Theorists: Uncovering Rhetorical Questions in the QAnon Movement, Jenna Harte

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Addressing the Aristotelian Pedagogical Bias: Reassessing Aristotle’s Rhetoric and its Place in 21st Century Composition Studies, Matthew Higgins

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Coffin for Head of State, Samuel Kolawole

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Ethan Allen’s Reason The Only Oracle of Man, or a Compenduous System of Natural Religion (Bennington, Vt: Haswell And Russel, 1784). A Critical Edition with an Introduction and Notes, Benjamin Kolenda

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Transatlantic Utopia: American Antebellum Novels and Their Reflexive Historicism, Andrew J. Lamb

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Analyzing the Rhetorics of Wine: Ethnographic Research of Wine Community Narratives, Bailey McAlister

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Oral History, Activism, and Remembrance: The Rhetorical Agency of Georgia’s Women Activists in and Beyond the Equal Rights Amendment, Jessica Edens McCrary

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The Modern Anti-Hero, Shawn G. Merritt

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Monsoon Season: A Collection of Stories, Wanjiku Ngugi

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Meta-Awareness about Multimodal Composition: Identifying Components of Multimodal Writing Development, Euguenia Novokshanova

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Lost and Found in Translation: Women Translating the Classics as Rhetorical Acts, Alexandra Sladky

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The Atlantic Voice: Narrative and the Creation of the Circum-Atlantic World, James Harper Strom

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Fools of War: The Trope of the Fool in Contemporary American War Narratives, Alan R. Swirsky

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Sound, Subjectivity, and Feminism: Victorian Novels and Their Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Adaptations, Calabria D. Turner

Dissertations from 2022

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Ecofeminist Sensibilities in Contemporary Fiction from Women Writers of the Appalachian South, Deedee Abbott

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Preparing Student Researchers: An Investigation of Obstacles in the Inclusion of Primary Research Methods in First Year Composition, Sarah E.S. Carter

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Instructions for Transcending the Human Body, Chaz Chitwood

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Family Trees: Stories, LaRue Cook

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From “Speaking for” to “Speaking with”: Articulation and Representation in Multilingual South Africa, Namrata Dey Roy

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The Narrows, Abigail C. Greenbaum

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Ghostwriting as a Critical Lens: Authorship and Attribution in Professional and Academic Contexts, Charles Grimm

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Secondary & Collegiate English Composition Education in Turkey: a Case Study of History and Present State, Haris U. Haq

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Fiction, History, Feelings: American Africanism and the Market of Feelings in US Historical Novels, History Textbooks and Teaching Methods, 1892 – 1998, Joshua R. Jackson

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Communication in Transition: Telecommunication Technology in British and American Literature 1880–1913, Sara Keel

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Georgia Immigrant Voices: Intersecting Texts and Testimonies, Maria Demetra Mackas

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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

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No Boys Allowed, Jennifer E. Murphy

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To Decorate the Dungeon with Flowers, Cora Rowe

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Threshing Floor: Poetry Inspired by the Black Arts Movement, Valerie Smith

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(Re)making a Frontier: The Ethos of Motherhood, Midwifery, and Public Health in 1920s Southeastern Kentucky, Elizabeth Topping

Dissertations from 2021

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“Where—Am I?”: H.D.’s Search for Identity, Dianne D. Berger

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Double Bind, Caroline Crew

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American Ambivalence: Temporality and Trauma in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature, Randall Harrell

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William Shakespeare's Sacramental Vision, Joseph L. Kelly

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Disambiguating Dystopia: Readjusting the Critical Lens on Contemporary Dystopian Literature, Shana L. Latimer

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Composing Online: A Case Study of Embodiment, Digitality, and YouTube, Meagan E. Malone

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Narrating Jinnah's Nation: Towards a Pluralist Identity in Pakistani English Fiction, Saba Y. Naseer

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Stories I Have Always Heard: The Rhetorical Life of an American Song, Jessica Rose

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Because The Wreck: Poems, Eric Saye

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Convergent Grounds: Black and Native Women Imagining America, Carlye Schock

Dissertations from 2020

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Seepage: Developing and Conserving Global Literary Environmentalities, Christine D. Anlicker

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Happy Are They: Stories, Nora J. Bonner

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Recollecting Romantic Rhetoric: An Inquiry into Myths, Traps, and Implications, Sarah K. Bramblett

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What the Water Gave Us, Megan L. Clark

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Adopting Home Language and Multimodality in Composition Courses, Mack Curry

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Whenever You Eat This, Gregory Emilio

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Storied Stones: An Exploration of Material Silence in Postcolonial Fiction, Donald Fentem

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Re-Envisioning the Mother in Mitchell's Gone with the Wind, Faulkner's Light in August, Welty's The Golden Apples, and Trethewey's Native Guard and Other Poems, Jill Goad

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Earth of Inedible Things, Joshua Martin

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The Mustard Seed, Zachary Matteson

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Playing for Whom? Understanding Empathy and Trauma in Postcolonial and Global South Videogame Narratives through Witnessing, Jenn Olive

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Eco-Traffic: Globalization, Materiality, and Subalternity in Asia-Pacific Literature, David E. St. John

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Basic Alchemy: Dramatism as a Tool for Progressing Basic Writing, William G. Vickery

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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

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The Good Life is out there Somewhere: British and U.S. Women's Utopian Literature 1836-1916, Dan M.R. Abitz

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Ann Berthoff from the Margins: An Infusion of All-at-once-ness for Contemporary Writing Pedagogy, Paige Davis Arrington

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Programmed 'Treasuries of Eloquence’: A Rhetorical Take on Productivity Aids in Audio Engineering Software, Thomas Breideband

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Rhetoric of Public Crises: Constructing Communication Networks in Transcultural Contexts, Lin Dong

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Reservoir, Jessica E. Lindberg

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Empathetic Humanism and Multiethnic Narratives, Ashley Cheyemi McNeil

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The Superfluousness of Big Brother: Charting the Evolution of Surveillance in Twentieth and Twenty First Century American and Global Anglophone Literature and Television, Ryan Pine

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Integrating Disability Studies into the English Department, Kristen Ruccio

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First-Year Writers and Intermodality: A Case Study of Educational Experiences with Multimodal Composition, Matthew Sansbury

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Transformation and Punishment: Revisiting Monstrosity in Anglo-Saxon Literature, Virginia Rachel Scoggins

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“Take Root in the Stars”: Black Women’s Speculative Fiction as Liberation Biomythographies, Roslyn Smith

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Screens: A Novel, Michael Stoneberg

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A Comparative Study of Army ROTC Writing Pedagogy, Ryan Strader

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Current-Traditional Rhetoric and the Hodges Harbrace Handbook: A Study in the Disconnect Between Theory and Practice, Leslie S. Taylor

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Sacraments of Desire, Simona Chitescu Weik

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"Enough of the World is Mine": Decadence, Homosexuality and Catholicism in the Life of John Gray, Lewis Whitaker

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Minotaur in the Hotel Villa Paradiso, Carey Scott Wilkerson

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Theories of Damage, Allison Wright

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Through the Funnel of Audiences: How Chinese Audiences Shape Media in the Context of Hegemony, Meng Yu

Dissertations from 2018

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European Bridges in Selected Plays of Paula Vogel: Adaptation and (In)Fidelity, Rasha Alabdullah

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Strange Visitor: The Subjective Identity of Superman, Edward J. Anderson

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The Reifying Center Archive Process: Sustainable Writing Center Archive Practice for Praxis, Research, And Continuity, Roger Austin

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Mapping Los Angeles: Spatial Representations of the Margin in Fiction, Anna Barattin

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Autism Literacy: A Rhetorical and Social Inquiry Through Archival Research, Kristeen E. Cherney

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Sisters, Stephanie L. Devine

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Performing Valor, Redeeming Virtue, Karen Dodson

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The Roles of Servant Characters in Restoration Comedy, 1660 - 1685, Patricia A. Godsave

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A Selkie Tale: The Mythical Journey of the Charlotte Bronte Heroines, Pallabi Gupta