Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Welcome to the world of tomorrow today: Matt Groening's Futurama as posthuman mediator, Amanda Jill Taylor
From demigods to slayers: Contemporary mythology and gender economies in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Adam Kem Yerima
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Religion in language policy, and the survival of Syriac, Ibrahim George Aboud
Frank Zappa and Mikhail Bakhtin: Rabelais's carnival made contemporary, Sarah Hill Antinora
The rhetoric of nonfiction: An examination of Sebastian Junger's The perfect storm, LaShawn Jon Janice Cole
Eugenic discourse in the work of D.H. Lawrence, Christopher Lawrence Cotton
Is there a male victim?: Discursive subjection in representations of female-on-male childhood sexual abuse, James Ireland Ducat
Compensations for exile: A Lacanian analysis of Aeneas's destiny and Dido's tragedy in Virgil's Aeneid, Jessica Marie Hayes
Self-perceived personality shift on non-native English speakers, Yalin Lee
The sound bites of George W. Bush during the 2004 presidential election examined and unpacked, Jack McKelvey
Pipe dream: Eugene O'Neill's rhetoric of tragedy, Ryan Francis Murphy
The materiality of the female in Shirley Jackson's short fiction, Lydia Marie Pearson
Research, writing, and computer technology: A reconsideration of invention and process, Donna Price Seckrater
George Orwell and the Rhetoric of Tyranny, Charlene Ann Stark
The rhetoric of Dean Koontz's Intensity, Krista Michelle Wagner
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
The plenary address: A rhetorical analysis, William James Amrine
Everquest, reality, and postmodern theories of community, Brian Jacob-Paul Bailie
Sex and the city: A postmodern reading, Antoinette Christine Di Guglielmo
Movie poster advertisements: A relevance theory persepctive, Steven Lawrie Forrett
The Habermas/Foucault debate: Implications for rhetoric and composition, Fiona Jane Harris-Ramsby
The beaded web: Metaphor and association in John Edgar Wideman's Sent for you yesterday, Joel Wesley Kilpatrick
Exploring Sara Paretsky's detective fiction from the perspective of ecofeminism, Maureen Frances McCarthy
Focus in the structure of concepts in analytic discourse, Julia Carlson Merrill
Error feedback in second language writing, Carol Ann Miller-Cornell
Composition heuristics and theories and a proposed heuristic for business writing, Katharine Louise Peake
Charles Brockden Brown's place within the gothic and the influence of early America's social issues on Brown's writing, Shirley Ann Regis
A vision of human solitude: Rhetoric of isolation and ephemerality in two novels by Virginia Woolf, Marsha Lee Schuh
A liminal examination of always already meaning within language, James Richard Starr
Multiplicity and gendering the Holy Grail in The Da Vinci Code and the Mists of Avalon, Victoria Anne Villasenor-Oldham
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
A comparative study of book reviews in Thai and English, Prach Aowsakorn
Cultivating dissent: Queer zines and the active subject, Angela Connie Asbell
"What now?": Willa Cather's successful male professionals at middle age, Deena Michelle Baker
Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl novels: Contemporary subversive tales, Amy Ruth Wilson Clark
Situating the cetacean: Science and storytelling in Witi Ihimaera's The whale rider, Lee Elton Dionne
Bubbling vs. writing: Bridging the gap between fourth grade writing standards and composition theory, Pamela Lynn Dobbins
The writing center as a Burkean parlor: The influence of gender and the dual engines of power: collaboration and conflict, Clara Louise Enoch
Evolving outcomes of the outcomes statement, Judith Miriam Holiday
Life experiences that influence language acquisition in generation 1.5 students, Ellen Sook Hyang Howell
A comparative study of editorials in Chinese and English, MeiYen Huang
Stimulating intrinsic motivation: Brain-based pedagogy for the second-language writing classroom, Kristin Marie Kucia-Stauder
Black and white and read all over: An analysis of narratives in the O.J. Simpson murder trial, Martin Larry Lastrapes
Irony, rhetoric, and the portrayal of "no place": Construing the elaborate discourse of Thomas More's Utopia, Davina Sun Padgett
Self-repair in second language interaction: Dyad groups in action, Beatriz Rangel-Studer
The function of pronouns lacking references in William Faulkner's As I lay dying, Brian Michael Sherman
Chuck Palahniuk and Jean Baudrillard: The terminal state of human subjectivity, Elisabet 'Osk Takehana
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Style: A new perspective on Kate Chopin, Daniel Arredondo
The representation of rape in Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadias, Angela Denise Bullard
An interdisciplinary comparison of master's thesis abstracts, Patricia Belle Chance
The literacy event horizon: Examining orality and literacy in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony, Andréa Diane Davis
"Is it really a natural fit?": The construction of "technology" in composition studies, Irina Fealy
We should be like water: Choosing the lowest place which all others avoid: John Steinbeck as a modern messenger of Taoism, Andrea Marie Hammock
Facing tough realities and inspiring change: The comic satire of Sherman Alexie, Jill Alison Henry
Negotiating "post" era writing pedagogies, Hannah Sloan Holbrook
When English as a Second Language students meet text-responsible writing, Miso Jung
Hybrid identity and Arab/American feminism in Diana Abu-Jaber's Arabian Jazz, Nicole Michelle Khoury
From Darwin to Dracula: A study of literary evolution, Erin Alice Lamborn
A skeptical feminist exploration of binary dystopias in Marion Zimmer Bradley's The mists of Avalon, Alexandra Elizabeth Anita Lindstrom
Translingual literature: The bone people and Borderlands, Jill Marie Murphy
Movie in search of America: The rhetoric of myth in Easy Rider, Hayley Susan Raynes
Electronic dictionaries in the ESL composition class, Rebecca Lynn Rudd
The split dark rider: An examination of labor conflict and John Steinbeck's Of mice and men, Richard Stephen Sabolick
A study of the interlanguage of apology by Taiwanese English-Language learners, Ching-Yi Shih
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
A contrastive approach to the thematic analysis of text and genre: An examination of lead news articles in Le Monde, Al-Ittihad, and The New York Times, Christine Marie Burlaga
Professional writing: How California State University, San Bernardino's Master of Arts in English Composition can prepare graduates for careers in the public sector, Margaret Celia Cecil
A corpus-based investigation of collocational errors in EFL Taiwanese high school students' compositions, Yi-Chin Chen
The role of imaginative literature in First Year Composition, Randee Teresa Cowles
Illusions of idle prattle: Disney, voice and The Little Mermaid, Veronica Diaz-Cox
Causes of unease: Horror rhetoric in fiction and film, Benjamin Kane Ethridge
Language as a tool for self-inquiry, Alice Elizabeth Griffin
Genre in first year composition: The missing link to transferability?, Sandra Patricia Halsey
Shakespeare's Bolingbroke: Rhetoric and stylistics from Richard II to Henry IV, part 2, DeAnna Faye Jenson
Stephen Gosson's rhetorical strategies in The School of Abuse, Timothy Paul Johnson
The rhetoric of state assessment: Educational politics in the public school system, Renee Michelle Longshore
Refiguring Milton in Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, Rebecca Kirk Marsh
Anxiety and motivation in second language learning, Glenn Edward Moore
The other within the other: Chicana/o literature, composition theory, and the new mestizaje, Charles Ray Murillo
How grammar instruction can benefit students in the second language classroom, Barbara Jean Bivins Peterson
Writing inside the caja: Constructing pasos in English composition studies, Linda Joyce Preciado
Taran: An individuated hero for the collective unconscious, Edward Tucker Raetz
Rhetorical and narrative structures in John Hersey's Hiroshima: How they breathe life into the tale of a doomed city, James Richard Smart
Being Sisyphus: A writing pedagogy for at-risk students, Eric David Sullivan
The influence of Finnegans Wake on Robert Anton Wilson's Masks of the Illuminati, Eric Robert Wagner
Authentic materials in English as a Second Language conversation instruction, Xiangmei Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
Home and who: A rhetorical analysis of Rudyard Kipling's "Tiger! tiger!' and "Letting in the jungle", Steven Clark Estus
Exploring visual learning in the basic writing classroom, Prince Michael Ferguson
The working hour: A rhetorical analysis of the lyrics of Tears for Fears, Jennifer Anne Gross-Mejía
Re-examining the personal narrative in first year composition, Kathryn Marie Hansler
Blurred relationships: The factual fiction of John Edgar Wideman, Melissa Bakeman Hartmann
Looking into phrasal verbs, David Immanuel Kovitz
The avoidance of absolute commitment in speech acts: Modality, Deborah Kay Leavell
Internal dialogues: Construction of the self in The Woman Warrior, Ann Shirley Modzelewski
Implicature and argumentation, Jon Nelsen Preacher
The knowledge and skills of freshman writers, Aram Paul Sarkisian
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
Critical thinking and ideology: A study of composition's secondary curricula, Jonathan Barney Anderson
What's in a word?: Connotation in teaching English to speakers of other languages, Marie Linnea Bozzetti-Engstrom
A stylistic analysis of 2pac Shakur's rap lyrics: In the perpspective of Paul Grice's theory of implicature, Christopher Darnell Campbell
The challenges of and opportuniies in using a literature-based assignment in a composition class, Jeffrey Merrit Carman
Computers and composition communities: Solidarity as a research paradigm, Richard James Colby
Gender issues, core curriculum, and statewide content standards, Scott Douglas Godwin
The speech act of request: A comparative study between Korean ESL speakers and Americans, Soong-Hee Koh
