Theses/Projects/Dissertations from 2015
GLASS SHOULDERS, Carol Jean Simpson (Eva Warren)
Rhetorical Construction of Masculinity Among Wounded Warriors, Joseph P. Whatford
Theses/Projects/Dissertations from 2014
CONFESSIONS OF A HIP-HOP HIPPIE, Tristan D. Acker
CYBORG GENESIS, Andrew T. Castillo
MEMORIC FORM: POEM AS MEMORY, Lawrence V. Eby
Americhicano, Isaac R. Escalera
Proficiency, Andrea J. Fingerson
You Have Never Been Here Before, Ryan James Garcia
Narrative Accounts of Third-Generation Mexican-Americans: Bilingualism in a Third Space, Ryan A. Goble
BECOMING INFINITE: A BAKHTINIAN CONSIDERATION OF DAVID FOSTER WALLACE’S INFINITE JEST, Brianna Nicole Lafond
THE DYNAMICS OF XENOGENETICS AND SECTRANRIANISM IN LOVECRAFTIAN HORROR: A STUDY OF NIHILISM AND SCIENTIFIC UPHEAVAL, Brandon L. Matsalia
THE LEMON TREE: MY TREE OF LIFE, Meghan E. McCarthy
"Purple People": "Sexed" Linguistics, Pleasure, and the "Feminine" Body in the Lyrics of Tori Amos, Megim A. Parks
SCREAM IF YOU CAN, Heather L. Reyes
KALAMAZOO REVISITED: HERITAGE LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE AMONG LATVIANS IN NORTH AMERICA, Margaret J. Stepe
Kitchen Space, Cauldron Calling: Origins of Psychic Shells and the Poetry of Pain, Kelly L. Straight
TO PEER OR NOT TO PEER?: LOCALLY CO-CONSTRUCTING EXPERTISE, NOVICENESS, AND PEERNESS IN WRITING CENTER CONFERENCES, Jaclyn M. Vasquez
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Hybrid identities in radio discourse, Francisco Javier Aguirre
The difficulties of weightlessness, David Camberos
From the sidewalk of our street and other stories, Jaclynn Elaine Carbajal
Galton to Himmler: An archeology of eugenics discourse, Jeffery Logan Clark
Visualizing hate: Maus as Holocaust literature, Geoffrey Daniel Curran
Punk and punk-related subcultures: Striving for change and always changing, Elliot Chi Wang Fong
One blurred profile speaking, Casey Brooke Goodson
Pro se, Ashley Nichole Hayes
The internet, anonymous, and our public identities recreating democracy, Leslie Anne Hutchinson
Buttercup moth in a beer glass, Andrea Lynn Ingham
For the crows that come knocking, André Vassili Katkov
Performing hegemonic masculinity: The rhetorical spectacle of mixed martial arts, Allison Marie Mark
A wound like a lung, Caroline Clare Mays
Resisting the "Sound of Muzak": Alienating effects in conceptual progressive music, Bryan Michael McCulley-Mendoza
Parks in the sky: How urban rejuvenation is re-writing wilderness, Sarah Anne Mercurio
Full thickness, s. Nicholas
The fat virgin and other stories, Michael Clive Richey
Rowboats in Panthalassa, Natalie Skeith
Script-based reading lessons and socialized language usage, Joseph James Spencer
Khao I Dang: A memoir, Bory Thach
Guarding the rock and other stories, James Joseph Wheeler
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Toward solving the teacher-student contradiction: Using whole-class workshops to crate a student-focused, rhizomic writing community, Bridgette Mary Callahan
Thump, Nikia Jensen Chaney
A critical discourse analysis of language policy in California, Steven Gomez
In the half-light of the canyon, Melissa Gaye Haklitch
Slytherin pride: The othering of the Slytherins and their redemption through fandom, Kristy Leann Krumsiek
Elegy for the problematic, Connie Ann Lopez-Hood
Lazarus, Timothy Patrick Manifesta
River rocks and vanishing oranges, Liliana Monteil-Doucette
Connecting Burke and Levinas: A counter to the rhetoric and ethics of expediency, Gerry Joseph Morrow
Identity, morality, and the human-monster: Dexter as a postmodern text, Robyn Carol Nelson
Bon Mua, John Perham
A secret cunning in the fens: Subversive female identity and the plight of Grendel's mother, Candice Rae Sequine Roark
Seaweed rises in this posture: Manuscript collection, Christopher Jonathan Shaw
Activities of daily living stories, Melissa Ann Sonico
Imprint split, Angela Thomson-Brenchley
Ketai shosetsu: Remediation, hypermediacy and the hyperreal, Cari Michele Tulleys
Whatever: Prosodic context cues and their influence on pragmatic meaning, Pamela Kathleen Wahler
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
The cultural self: The novel as griot in African American fiction, Eric Christian Atkinson
Cyborg rhetoric and revelation of self: Identity, writing, and the instantiation of the cyborg in digital texts, Thomas Keywon Cho
In the winds: a novel, Jeffery Logan Clark
No freak of nature, Kevin James Colpean
Drag around, Nicole Laura Ann Comstock
The end of yellow bricks, Justin Michael Elgar
Access denied: The rhetorical construction of undocumented students in postsecondary education, Yanira Estrada Figueroa
Coursing a trail of dead bees, Melissa Jean Fowler
The many stones of Colby Cairns, Gina Marielynn Hanson
Boneyard, Sara Lynn Hastings
Fall back, Valerie Ann Henderson
Coming down, Bryan Casey Henery
Transmission overhaul: Negotiating the shift in information and knowledge construction among Generation M, Thomas Timothy Hite
Nervous laughter, Joseph Andrew Huver
To speak or not to speak: The implications of silence in Shakespeare's Hamlet, Margaret Rose Jones
A Burkean analysis of Jehovah's Witness apocalyptic rhetoric, Katherine Elizabeth Kacarab
A Burkean analysis of anti-immigration websites: Recurring scapegoating rhetorical moves, Aldo Quiroz Lewis
Reluctant subversions, Jared William Justin Lively
The English experience: An examination of Philippine English use among Filipino immigrants in the United States, Nicholas Macias-Williams
International graffiti and the Israeli Separation Barrier, Veronica Evangelina Miranda
Mentone Beach: A novel, Mark William Muckenfuss
Zero days, Orlando Moises Ramirez
Gloria Anzaldua and Alanis Morisette: The untangled flavors of conocimiento, Audrey Nathalie Romero
Being Marshall Midwest, Ashley Kahlen Russell
Politics, power, agency and the end comment genre, Cynthia Ann Ruthford
Tracings in crystal, Marsha Lee Schuh
Liberation is not always so liberating: Rethinking Paulo Freire's critical pedagogy for the writing classroom, Joshua Daniel Shinn
Last call for alcohol: Peace out, La Sirena, Elisa Suzanne Urmston
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Composition, meditative thinking, and the writing classroom: A historical analysis and empirical study, Gregory Todd Baran
Bridging the gap: Composition studies and applied linguistics/teaching English as a second language in the writing center, Chloe Anne De Los Reyes
Theatre of the uncanny: Lesbian theatre and the uncanny valley response, Gina Marielynn Hanson
Autobiography as self-defense in the works of Agnes Newton-Keith and Michelle Kennedy, Robin Heim
Is gothic dead?:Tthe evolution of the vampire novel, Janis Haigwood Hudson
Shifting the literacy paradigm in Indonesian higher education, Isnarti Isnarti
The (re)invention of feedback, Jason Wayne Loan
Tupac Shakur and the search for the lost tribe, Christopher Jacob Marcos
Phonological awareness and its affect on second language acquisition, Mallory Ann Ruiz
Rewriting Christians: A rhetoric analysis of emergent church texts, Frances Marie Suderman
Sources of fear in American society: Representations in short horror fiction, 1950s-present, Mona Moin Syed
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Satire's Club: Reality, reason, and knowledge in Joseph Andrews, Heather Anne Law Davis
A critical analysis of L1 and L2 composition scholarship on instructor feedback, Danny Elbar Marenco
Whitman, elegy, and the nineteenth century culture of death and mourning, Susan Renee Nylander
Ballads as "poetic" rhetoric in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Norma Jeanne Peterson
Project-based learning as situated practice, Sandra Jeane Rice
United States mainland speakers' use of Hawaiian Creole English and standard American English across social situations, Nicole Kaylani Kanahele Stutz