Theses/Projects/Dissertations from 2024
DECONSTRUCTING STANDARD ENGLISH IDEOLOGY: ELEMENTS OF EQUITABLE AND INCLUSIVE LANGUAGE AND LITERACY EDUCATION FOR OUR TIMES, Gricelda Carbajal
PLAGIARISM AND ORIGINAL AUTHORSHIP IN THE AGE OF AI: PRESENT COMPLICATIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS, Sarah D. LaGioia
An Emerging Voice in United States Literature: 19th-Century Poetry in Los Angeles, Savannah Salazar
COMPOSING FROM THE MARGINS: THE BREAKING OF WRITING BARRIERS, EMPOWERING VOICES & BROADENING THE WORK OF FEMINIST COMPOSITION STUDIES, Jasmin Salgado
Jane Austen and a Biographical Study of the Historical Narrative Process, Serena Young
Theses/Projects/Dissertations from 2023
COALESCING PEDAGOGIES: CREATIVE WRITING AND THE ESL COMPOSITION CLASSROOM, Kariana Anderson
THE AMERICAN DREAM, THE AMERICAN LIE: AN EXAMINATION OF QUEERNESS, DISABILITY AND AMERICAN IDENTITY IN MISS LONELYHEARTS, Vivian Arias
THE HATE U GIVE AS COUNTERNARRATIVE: A RHETORICAL SITE OF COMPETING FRAMES & THE DISRUPTION OF DOMINANT NARRATIVES THROUGH COUNTER-STORYTELLING & HOMING, Jackeline Camacho
“TOO GOOD TO KILL”: LITERARY GERONTOLOGY AND LATE STYLE IN MARGARET ATWOOD’S GILEAD NOVELS, Serina Item
TBLT: Authentic Tasks Designed For Second-Language Learners, Salma Ahmad Khan
WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL? EXAMINING THE ROLE OF HEGEMONY THROUGHOUT U.S. HISTORY IN INFLUENCING MULTILINGUAL DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICES WITHIN ACADEMIC POLICIES AND LEGISLATION, Katie Olivia Wallen
Theses/Projects/Dissertations from 2022
SLOW VIOLENCE, CLI-FI, AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR CHANGE HOW BIPOC FUTURISMS PROMOTE ACTIVISM, Francisco Baeza
LANGUAGE IDEOLOGIES IN FIRST YEAR COMPOSITION TEXTBOOKS, Joanna Clevenger
WHEN BOOKS SING: THE MUSICALIZATION OF FICTION AND INTERMEDIALITY IN CRAIG RUSSELL’S FRAGMENT, Kathleen Collins
IMAGE, TEXT, AND SOUND THROUGH THE ARABESQUE IN THOREAU'S WALDEN, Lupina Farhana
CONCEPTIONS OF SPACE, GENDER, AND MOVEMENT WITHIN LITERATURE AND FILM: AN ANALYSIS OF "THE WHIMPER OF WHIPPED DOGS" & WESTWARD THE WOMEN, Stephanie Fishleigh
QUEERING MARIANNE: WITCHCRAFT AS A MEANS OF SEXUAL FREEDOM, Amber Guerena
CO-CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITIES WITHIN THE HOME BREWING COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE, Ryan Julius Miller
FROM FAST FASHION TO SUSTAINABLE SLOW FASHION, Isabel Agatha Millward-Pena
Visual Rhetoric and The English Careers Website, Ifeoma C. Oforah
Applying the Dialogic Method in an Eighth Grade English Curriculum, Maggie Repko
Chronic Poetics: A Waiting Room of One's Own, Madeleine Simmons
RADICALIZING FIRST YEAR COMPOSITION: A NOVICE EDUCATOR’S VENTURE INTO REVOLUTIONARY TEACHING, Xochilt Trujillo Flores
Happy Objects and Bloom Spaces: Investigating the Potential of Rupi Kaur's Poetry, Miguel Vega
Theses/Projects/Dissertations from 2021
BREAKING DOWN THE GENDERED BARRIERS IN CRITICAL PEDAGOGY, ToniAnne Erickson
REFRAMING THE PEDAGOGICAL UNDERPINNINGS OF TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD: QUEERING A HIGH SCHOOL TEXT, Hovsep Hovannesian
Adaptation and Cultural Study of Mythology: Exploration of Riordan's Literature, Breanna Martin
SHOPPING FOR A CAUSE: SOCIAL INFLUENCERS, PERFORMATIVE ALLYSHIP, AND THE COMMODIFICATION OF ACTIVISM, Emily McKellar
WRITING BLACK CHARACTERS OUT OF THE MARGINS OF FANTASY WITH SECRETS OF CANDEO, Julienne Parks
TEACHER-TEACHER? OR NATIVE SPEAKER?, Sixta Payan
Sex Matters: Bodies, Desire, and Activism in Contemporary Disability Poetics, Beatriz Sorrells
Over-Looking Disclosure: Disability and the Writing Center, Robert Louis Sorrells
“MY BRAND IS SICK GIRL”: IDENTITY FORMATION IN THE YOUNG ADULT CHRONIC ILLNESS NOVELS THE FAULT IN OUR STARS AND SICK KIDS IN LOVE, Natalie Thompson
Theses/Projects/Dissertations from 2020
Reinforcing Inequity: The Advanced Placement English Language and Composition Exam as Gatekeeper, Lorrie Cobain
ROMANTICISM IN THE AGE OF ECOCRITICISM, DIANA DE LA CRUZ
Death Positivity: A New Genre of Death and the Genre Function of Memento Mori, Melony Elsie Del Real
EXPLORING THE RHETORICAL POWER OF SPECULATIVE FICTION THROUGH JEWELLE GOMEZ’S THE GILDA STORIES AND OCTAVIA BUTLER’S FLEDGLING, Monique Dixon
Depressed & Dis-eased: Storytelling, Melancholia and the Rhetorical Affordances of Affect, Carlee Franklin
R&B SONG LYRICS AS A PEDAGOGICAL TOOL: TOWARD A PEDAGOGY FOR TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY MULTICULTURAL STUDENTS, Shelly Jackson
CRITICAL PERIOD CONTROVERSIES FOR SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: IMPLICATIONS FOR LANGUAGE TEACHING, Randy Lucio
THE COLONIAL SEED IN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE: THE EFFECTS OF PERIODIZATION ON A POSTCOLONIAL CRITIQUE OF BEOWULF, Alejandra Marquez
Extending the Postmodern: Finding Agency Amidst the Death of the Self, Heather Norwood
“THIS IS A STUNNING, STUNNING NIGHT”: NEWS MEDIA CONSTRUCTIONS OF EMOTIONAL REALITY, Karrina Janelle Oravetz
Chicano English at the Dinner Table, Elena Silva
THE R/EVOLUTION OF THE LATINX ADOLESCENT WOMAN PROTAGONIST, Brittney Zappia
Theses/Projects/Dissertations from 2019
Illustrating Sherlock Holmes: Adapting the Great Detective in Granada Television’s Sherlock Holmes, Katie Louise Chavez
A R(EVOLUTION) OF ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS: YOUNG-ADULT DYSTOPIAN FICTION AS A VEHICLE FOR ECOCRITICAL AWARENESS, Megan S. Davis
Nystagmic Poetics in Lorine Niedecker’s Postwar Poetry, Edward Ferrari
ODYSSEUS RE-IMAGINED: EXPERIMENTAL FICTION RESPONDS TO THE CALL OF THE ANCIENTS- TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE FULFILL CLASSIC EPIC DEVICES IN CLOUD ATLAS AND THE SILENT HISTORY, Debra Jeanette Freeland
THE VISUAL RHETORIC OF WOMEN’S TATTOOS: REWRITING WOMEN’S BODIES, RECLAIMING POWER, AND CONSTRUCTING A TATTOO RHETORIC, Sonya Gay Gonzales
ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS IN K-12 CLASSROOMS: PROBLEMS, RECOMMENDATIONS AND POSSIBILITIES, Trisha Henderson
L2 LEARNERS AND THE INTELLIGIBLITY OF THE BOSTONIAN AND CALIFORNIAN ACCENTS, Russell Paul Kapryn
MULTICOMPETENCE, MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES AND FIRST-YEAR COMPOSITION STUDENTS, Patricia Rice'-Daniels
UTILIZING VISUAL RHETORIC: A NEW APPROACH TO COMICS, SUPERHEROES, AND RED SUNS, Tabitha Rose-Ann Zarate
Theses/Projects/Dissertations from 2018
BUILDING A STRONG CHICANA IDENTITY: YOUNG ADULT CHICANA LITERATURE, Rocio Janet Garcia
Prosthetic Adaptation: Disability in/of Richard III in Manga and Film, Mikhel L. Hudrlik
HISTORY THAT HEMORRHAGES: CORMAC MCCARTHY’S THE CROSSING, SIMULACRA, AND THE RHETORIC OF VIOLENCE, Angel Granillo Lua
The Right to Be Human: Universal Design for Learning and Literacy Sponsorship as Liberatory Pedagogy, Jeremy Lunasco
Roller Derby Performativity: Utilizing Alt Narratives in the Composition Classroom, Katherine Orr
(UN)WELCOME TO AMERICA: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF ANTI-IMMIGRANT RHETORIC IN TRUMP’S SPEECHES AND CONSERVATIVE MAINSTREAM MEDIA, Erika Sabrina Quinonez
Cultivating Uncertainty Through a Multimodal Perspective on Process to Encourage Transfer, Ariel Zepeda
Theses/Projects/Dissertations from 2017
EXAMINING EXPERIENCES WITH ENGLISH LANGUAGE STUDIES IN TAIWAN AND IN THE UNITED STATES, Ying-Mei Chien
TRACING TRAJECTORIES IN A COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE THROUGH PODCASTS, Richard W. Mansikka
BANKSY, RHETORIC, AND REVOLUTION, Derek Tanios Imad Mkhaiel
LANGUAGE CULTURE WARS: EFFECTS OF LANGUAGE POLICY ON LANGUAGE MINORITIES AND ENGLISH LEARNERS, Ambar A. Perez
Your Abjection is in Another Castle: Julia Kristeva, Gamer Theory, and Identities-in-Différance, Ricardo R. Ramirez
THE FUNCTIONALITY OF REBOOTS, Dustin L. Shepherd
Theses/Projects/Dissertations from 2016
THE BRONX COCKED BACK AND SMOKING MULTIFARIOUS PROSE PERFORMANCE, Alex Avila
Revising Rhetorical Theory in "My Bondage and My Freedom": Narrativizing and Theorizing a Rhetoric of Blackness, D'Angelo A. Bridges
Untitled Memoir, Tara Lee-Geerlings Cummins
COMING OUT OF THE COFFIN AS THE POSTHUMAN: POSTHUMAN RHETORIC AND HARRIS’ SOOKIE STACKHOUSE SERIES, Rebecca Ann Garcia
CRAFTING THE FEVER, Andrea Nikki Harlin
Wild Embrace, Timothy Hatch
J4CK MERED34TH, Edgar Hernandez
A MEDITATION ON I, WE, AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN "ONLY WE CAN PULL", Allyson Elizabeth Jeffredo
VS, Bolin Jue
SCIENCEFRICTION: OF THE POSTHUMAN SUBJECT, ABJECTION, AND THE BREACH IN MIND/BODY DUALISM, John Perham
Silence, Power, and Mexicans in Willa Cather's The Song of the Lark, Sefferino Ramos
GATEKEEPERS TO THE THIRD SPACE: AUTHORITY, AGENCY, AND LANGUAGE HIERARCHY IN FIRST-YEAR COMPOSITION, Guadalupe Rincon
The Chronicles of Autzen, Trayevion Maurice Satterwhite
Embodied Narratives in Video Games: The Stories We Write as We Play, Patrick John Harrington Sichter
The Narrative Performances of Teenage Girls: Participation, Identity, and Authority as the Foundation for Power, Chere M. Smith
Goodbye to All That Again, Charles Bradley Von Nordheim
Capitalist Rhetoric and the Redirection of Power Through Metaphor in Reviews of Alejandro Gonzales Iñárritu Films, Isidro Zepeda
Theses/Projects/Dissertations from 2015
La Llorona Don't Swim The L.A River: A Trickster's Guide To The Poetics Of The Pit, Rosie Angelica Alonso
I'LL TALK, YOU LISTEN: WRITING CENTER TUTORS READING ALOUD IN SESSIONS WITH L2 TUTEES, Francesca M. Astiazaran
ME WITHOUT YOU, Michelle Bracken
IDENTITY AND ENERGY IN POETRY TINY HOUSE. TELL ME A SECRET., Chance D. Castro Jr
WELCOME TO THE PLANET: FORT LIVING ROOM O ROTTING SUN, Michael T. Cooper
Correlations Between Vowel Lengths and Emotion in Narratives, Brett Anthony Diaz
That Which Binds Us, Tracey M. Dover
The Secret Language of the Desert: Poetry, Loss, and Awakening, Elisha P. Holt
IDENTITY PHAUXNETICS, Nathan T. Jones
On Bike Riding and Writing, Maritza Ocampo
Oscuridad Unraveled, Orlinda Pacheco
BREAKING BREAD, SHAPING UNDERSTANDING: THE ECO-FOOD COMMUNITY AS COGNITIVE SYSTEM, Pamela Mae Portenstein
The Real Thing, Ruben T. Rodriguez
THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: POIESIS AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE MULTILINGUAL SUBJECT, Courtney E. Scarborough
John Spaghotte, Peter C. Schuler
