Theses from 2024
Autophonia: A Memoir in Essays, Amy Blanchard
Edison Elliot and the MIDAS Files, Brianne Hankes
READ THE BONES: Creative Work, Craft and Critical Analysis, Tera J. Johnson-Swartz
Navigating Black Identity: Black Young Adults’ Perception of Being ‘Black Enough’ in America, Tabitha Omanano
Theses from 2023
The Amulet of Nethelar, Sarah J. Brown
The Wellington Affair: A Detective Story, Anakin Weston
Representation of South Asia in American Television, Zahin Zaima
Theses from 2022
Hybrid Learning and Standards Based Grading: Fostering Writing Instruction During a Pandemic, Elizabeth Dietz
Twenty-Nine Delusions Concerning Love, Jackie Donaldson
"Comic"ally Calling for Cultural Competency: Using Graphic Narratives to Teach Social Justice in the Writing Classroom, Travis Moody
Elliott, Brian Nierman
David Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus: An Anti-Fantasy, Bryan Wysopal
Theses from 2021
Imaginary Things, Heather Gardewine
Day Trips, Life in Camp, and Dogs: An Alaskan Memoir, Karen Reed
Theses from 2020
"There is Nothing Else Like It": The Innovative Personality of Lowney Turner Handy, Nathan Crews
Translingualism: Breaking the Language Policies and Politics in Composition Pedagogy and Protecting Cultural Identities of International Students, Md Fahad Hossain
The Cast of a Giant's Shadow, Angela Kay Steineman
Theses from 2019
Cavalier Reading: Examining the Problematic Nature of Signifiers, Monique Nichelle Branscumb
Baby Fat -- A Legacy, Brandi M. Gard
One Way: Miles to Go, Jamie Lynn Golladay
Surrender Dorothy: A Battle with Alzheimer's, Rebecca Lynn Lawson
Mary McGovern: Adapting a Life in Three Genres, Kelly M. Pierce
Narrating Trauma: Youth, Masculinity, and Storytelling in the Midst of War, Rebekah Smith
Workers, Athletes and Artists: The Historical Continuity of White Control of Black America, Courtney Walton
Theses from 2018
Professional and Technical Writing in the High School Setting, Kristy C. Bennett
Student and Instructor Attitudes Toward 21st Century Writing Technologies in the Rural Secondary English Classroom, Casey Crowhurst
The Biopolitical Elements in Yan Lianke's Fiction Worlds, Xiaoyu Gao
Branding & Style Guides: Editing for Usability (A Project for Lake Land College), Baylor D. Gardner
Things Miraculous and Strange: A Poetic Interpretation of the Death and Afterlife of Agnes Sampson, Ann Mary Hart
Using Young Adult Literature to Confront Mental Health: A Culturally Relevant Approach, Briana Hendrickson
Introducing the Hero of Stasis: An Examination of Heroism in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest and The Pale King, Gregory Robert Peterson
Theses from 2017
"Novel" Biopolitics: Reading Defoe and Coetzee through Foucault, Derrida, and Esposito, Ben Cravens
Fantissity, Alexandra N. Dean
"In Motion", McKenzie Dial
Unfinished: A Memoir, Bryan Edward Hebeler
Riemannian Reading: Using Manifolds to Calculate and Unfold Narrative, Heather Lamb
Citizens on Twitter: A Rhetorical Analysis of Emerging Political Satire, Kathryn Miller
Girls in Graphic Novels: A Content Analysis of Selected Texts from YALSA's 2016 Great Graphic Novels for Teens List, Tiffany Mumm
A Monstrous Tomorrow, Ty Noel
Deceiving, Fraudulent, and Seductive: The Discourses of Money in US Novels of the Early Republic, Fabian Rempfer
Theses from 2016
Female Anti-Heroes in Contemporary Literature, Film, and Television, Sara A. Amato
Genesis B from MS Junius 11 and Paradise Lost: Possible Connections, Alicia D. Arnold
"If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself": Language, Adaptation, and the Myth of Visual Nonsense, Dianna M. Bellian
Hanging the Servant Girl to Hunting the Ripper: The Victorian Birth of the True Crime Genre, Jonathan G. Brown
Neon Calico, Joshua Webb Garrett
Heroic Texts and Special Effects, Joshua D. Goss
Render Down, Nathan Hinote
Intersections of Space, Movement, and Diasporic Subjectivity in Brick Lane, White Teeth, and Maps for Lost Lovers, Md. Alamgir Hossain
Idealism, Pragmatism, and Student Motivation: Implementing Grading Systems, Practices, and Policies in Context, Kaleigh McRoberts
To Teach Reading and Writing Well: "Genre Awareness" in Basic Writing, Tara Peck
Theses from 2015
Accommodating Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder in the Writing Center, Rebekah Barton
Yeah You Write: AuthentiCity and Authority in Katrina Literature, Terri Coleman
Troubled, Solomohn Nallshi Ennis-Klyczek
Between Heaven and Hell and Heathens, Gabrielle Knock
The Shadow of the Hyperobject in Thomas Pynchon's V. and Gravity's Rainbow, Trevor Martinson
The Lyric and the Lathe: Dreams of Perfect Poetic Efficiency, 1800-1917, Steven A. Nathaniel
The Problem of Love and Codes of Conduct for the Younger Courtiers in King Lear, Debora L. Pfeiffer
Growing Pains: The Good, The Nasty, The Ugly, Sarah Porter-Liddell
Woodlawn: A Collection of Working Class Poems, Anthony Travis Shoot
For Quality and Training Purposes: Stories, Sean Towey
From Prairienet to the CDI: Writing the History, Sally van der Graaff
Mental Illness in Early American Fiction: Charles Brockden Brown and the Sentimental Novelists, Katie E. Walk
Creative Writing Pedagogy: The Autobiographical Narrative in Hybrid Projects as a Means to Explore Intersectionality, Tana G. Young
Theses from 2014
Grayscale, Emily Bowers
How I Love You, Hannah R. Green
Reuniting Old Allies: A Case for Creative Composition, Stephen M. Jefferies
Revitalizing Grammar Instruction for High School Juniors: Toward a Contextual, Student-Driven, and Minimalistic Method, Heather L. Lindenmeyer
Evaluation of Student Writing and Its Effects on Motivation, Scott May
Female Identity and Experience in ABC's LOST, Jennifer L. Reichart
Red Star Studded Chaos: Sex Scandal, Juan Salas
And By the Grace of God, We'll Travel West, Aaron White
The Risks and Rewards of Personal Writing in the High School Classroom, Dannette L. Williamson
Placement of ELL Students in Writing Classrooms: Perceptions, Implications, and Suggestions, Soha Youssef
Theses from 2013
Speaking Silence Fluently: Encouraging Student Understanding of Counterhegemonic Strategies in African American Literature, Kathleen S. Decker
Conceptualizing Identity as Performance in Young Adult Dystopian Literature, Kelly F. Franklin
Narcissistic Intertextuality in the Works of Bret Easton Ellis, Jennifer Grindstaff
Pubs, Temperance, and the Construction of Irishness in James Joyce's Ulysses, Leslie Sweet Myrick
Knowing One's Place in the Post-Millennial, South African Novels of van Niekerk, Wicomb, and Matlwa, Stephen C. Poggendorf
Fragile Glass, Christopher Robison
Dolus's Doctrine, Gretchen Schaible-Smith
Upvoting the Audience: A Burkean Analysis of Reddit, Doug Urbanski
Imprisonment, Punishment, and Progress in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Ashley Breanne Waggoner
Queering the Sublime: Virginia Woolf, Sexology, and Sexuality, Emily Whitmore
Fantasy's weight: A tale of Zaria DeKarthan, Heather Wohltman
Theses from 2012
Framing Jane: Film Adaptation and Jane Eyre, 1934-2006, Joy Wohlman Boyce
A study in micro discourse community learning: The subject-driven micro discourse community session model, Philip Brandon Gallagher
Bridging the cultural gap: Using Commonwealth young adult literature in American secondary schools, Jennifer Hrejsa-Hudson
Five people like this: How writers perceive and interact with their Facebook audience, Luke E. Kingery
Genre awareness: Effectively teaching composition through genre awareness at a community college, Ashley D. Klinginsmith
"Through the keyhole of his eye": The restoration of Jack Kerouac's Duluoz legend, Gina Marie LoBianco
Nonprofit visual identity: Evaluating the needs and wants, Whitney R. Noland
"I am not minor": Characters' apparent autonomy in J.M. Coetzee's fiction, Brigid Erin O'Malley
The Anglicization of Ælfric's "Passio Sancti Eadmundi Regis et Martyris", Benjamin W. Potmesil
Sickness and health, Anthony Smith
Book production in the medieval West Midlands: The case for organized bookmaking, Rashelle Spear
Sketching as an ally in the first-year composition classroom, Kenneth P. Webb
Project in grant proposal writing, Betsy Wells
