Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Growing up Water, Dominique Barbee
Methodological Mutability: Shifting Research in the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, John Schuler Benson III
That Strange Darkness, Matthew Boedy
Poetic Self-Representation Among Russian and British Female Poets in the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries, Ulyana Brewer
Fireweed, Robert Kopfensteiner
Metaphors of Memory: Complexity and the Fourth Canon, Amber Lee
Screwball, Alexandra Mayer
Brave Irene, Nicole McCaffety
Bough and Hollow, Jeffrey Dylan Nutter
Restoring Paradise Through Providence: The Emergence of the Serendipitous Hero in the Hunger Games, Alexandra Elizabeth Oberempt
Stasis, Eric Pahre
The Whale Hunt and Other Stories, Bradley Petit
Trans-Atlantic Composition: The History of British Academic Writing, Gareth George Rees-White
Creating Discursive Spaces to Promote Productive Discourse and Dissuading Sectarianism in Online Political Enclaves on TikTok, Kenneth Root
Race and Technology in Southern Literature, Civil War to Civil Rights, Kaitlyn Elizabeth Smith
‘Conspiring Together’: Woolf’s Investigations on ‘Party Consciousness’ and Interwar Instability in Mrs. Dalloway and To The Lighthouse, Madeline Smith
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
There Fly the Crows, Daniel R. Adler
“What can there be but witchcraft?”: History, Women, and Witches in Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes and Graham Swift’s Waterland, Thomas Bedenbaugh
Southern United States English as a Rhetorical Device in The Field of Marketing: A Study and Implications for Business Writing Pedagogy, Megan Jacklynn Busch
“Power and the Orientations of Resistance in Twentieth-Century American Literature”, Victoria Eleanor Chandler
Spatial Orphans: Cultural Mobility and the Extranatural in Black American Literature, Kelsey Nichole Flint-Martin
Postcapitalist Desert Visions from Earth to Anarres, David J. Goff
Sanctuary Poetics and Contemporary US Culture, Alex Howerton
This World Hasn’t Killed Us Yet, Marcus Jamison
Transgressive Migrations: Gender Roles, Space, and Place In American Novels, 1900-1999, Selena Gail Larkin
Lake Water Inventory, Katarina Merlini
Capable, Arianna Elise Miller
“Where Beauty and Anguish Had Contended”: Eden, Gender, and Creativity in Melville’s Pierre, Kersey Reynolds
Cult of The Day Moon, Markham Sigler
Reimagining Prince Hall: Race, Freemasonry, and Material Culture In Boston, 1775-1870, Sueanna Smith
Wonderland Station, Melanie Elizabeth Walker
Creation’s Face in Moby-Dick, Richard Jackson Guignard Wells
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
“That Confusion of Who Is Who, Flesh and Flesh”: Mothers, Daughters, and the Body in Postwar and Contemporary American Literature, Jennifer Renee Blevins
Septentrionalism: Whiteness and 19th Century Representations of Scandinavia, Madison Elisabeth Boland
A Return to Turtle Island: Eco-cosmopolitics in American Indian Literature, 1880-1920, Kristen Brown
Reviving Rhetoric Through Conversation: Feminist Rhetorical Pedagogies for a Deliberative Democracy, Sadie Suzanne Carr
Ivy Dreams On, Emily Davis
Aesthetic Activisms: Language Politics and Inheritances in Recent Poetry From the U.S. South, Sunshine Dempsey
Calculating a Hero: Computational Analysis and Chivalry in Chaucer’s the Canterbury Tales, Alexander Handley Humphreys
Beowulf : A Translation in Blank Verse, Alexander Jones
The Logic of Capital and the Possibility of Resistance in Chris Abani’s GraceLand, Caleb Smith
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Sand, Water, Salt: Managing the Elements in Literature of the American West, 1880-1925, Jada Ach
Russian Roots in Southern Soil, James Preston Edge
The Warped One: Nationalist Adaptations of the Cuchulain Myth, Martha J. Lee
Divine Absence, Divine Presence: The Theological Arguments of Elizabeth Singer Rowe’s the History of Joseph, Laura MacGowan
Women’s Writing and the Poetics of Scientific Knowledge, 1620-1740, Rachel Mann
The Judgement of Southern Motherhood in Works by Doris Betts, Gail Godwin, Dorothy Allison, and Kaye Gibbons, Jennifer Martin
Building Worlds Out of Inadequate Materials: Infrastucture and Affect in John Dos Passos’ Manhattan Transfer and John Steinbeck’s the Grapes of Wrath, David Scott Mathews
Beyond the Limits of Sight, Catherine Ntube
The Conversational Dynamic in American Public Life, Hannah Goff Spicher
“A Solid Foundation of Stable Possessions”: Gendered Genealogies in Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Andi Waddell
Moral Ambiguity in the Works of Cormac McCarthy, Christina Xan
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Not-So-Compehensive Health Education: Teacher Attitudes Toward Heteronormative Sexuality Education, Sarah Elizabeth Burnham
Building Community Within the Writing Center, Candace Cooper
“As The Occasion Demands”: Constraint-Based Practice In Rhetoric And Composition, Erica Kerstin Fischer
Sir Walter Scott And Lady Anne Lindsay: New Light On Their Relationship, Sarah Flatt
Frontier Re-Imagined: The Mythic West In The Twentieth Century, Michael Craig Gibbs
Twisting Reality for a Cause: American Mythology, Early Surrealism, and Audience Empowerment in the Works of George Lippard, Joseph Samuel Hall
Writing With Risk: Dangerous Discourses And Event-Based Pedagogies, Ben Harley
Rhetoric and Plants, Alana Hatley
An Existentialist Approach to Teaching Writing: Anguish, Bad Faith, and Seriousness in Composition, Andreas Peter Herzog
‘Held By Thy Voice’: Navigating Time In John Milton’s Poetry, Jessica Junqueira
Showing One’S Manhood: The Social Performance Of Masculinity, Fayaz Kabani
Backcountry Robbers, River Pirates, and Brawling Boatmen: Transnational Banditry in Antebellum U.S. Frontier Literature, Samuel M. Lackey
Aporetic Rhetoric: The Use of Uncertainty in Healthcare Contexts, Adam S. Lerner
Print On Demand: Stereotyping And Electrotyping In The United States Printing Trades And Publishing Industry, 1812-1860, Jeffrey Michael Makala
Fighting Rhetoric And Training Composition: Theory And Pedagogy Of Mixed Martial Arts Argument, Trevor C. Meyer
Temporal Collapse And Historical Erasure In David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, Amy Rogers
“Poetry Doesn’T Restore Ecosystems”: Garbage And Poetry In The Anthropocene, Joseph Russell Hendryx
The Ghosts Of Lucy Snowe: Queer Temporality In Villette, Lauren Schuldt
The Leap In Place: Rethinking Key Concepts In The History Of Composition And The Return Of Lore., David Stubblefield
Unlovely Mechanical Devices: Disability, Masculinity, and Sexuality in Victorian Fiction, Derek V. Bedenbaugh
Bodies In Play: Female Athleticism In Nineteenth-Century Literature, Jillian Weber
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Cross Roads of the Living and the Dead: Necropolitics and Market Logic in Chris Abani's Graceland, Joshua Dunn
Walter Brut's Utilization of Profeminine Rhetoric Towards Ecclesiastic Reformation, Ashley Gomez
The Nature of Power and Corruption in Plato and J.R.R. Tolkien, Lily Howard-Hill
Queer Practices, Queer Rhetoric, Queer Technologies: Studies of Digital Performativity in Gendered Network Culture, Gerald Jackson
Engendering Ethics through Practice in the Project-Based Business Communciation Course, Jonathan H. Jackson
Risky Business: Case Study Pedagogy and Business Communication, Jonathan A. Maricle
Translingual Conversations: Interrogating Default Whiteness in College Writing, Stephanie Eve Boone Mosher
“Present Mirth Hath Present Laughter; What's To Come Is Still Unsure”: Death And Humor In Early Modern England, Elisha James Sircy
Song of the Scapegoat: How Silence Augments Kenneth Burke’s Notion of the Scapegoat in Political Rhetoric, Mary Elizabeth Smith
Toward a Networked Feminist Pedagogy for Composition, Leah Vitello
Fugitive Verses & Faded Histories: Recovering The Poetry & Influence Of The British American Loyalists, Michael C. Weisenburg
We [Still] Have a Moment: Multimodal Values and Curricular Practices in a First-Year Writing Program, Kelly L. Wheeler
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
The Poetry Of Wilmer Mills, Rachael Acheson
Textile As Intercessor: Understanding Margery Kempe's Sartorial Body, Hannah Lynn Davis
Education Through Violence In Modern American Literature, Adam Griffey
From The Multi To The Modal: Relations In Multimodal Composition, Sebastian Ivy
Patient Agency, Terministic Screens, and The Role of the Public in the Cases of Karen Ann Quinlan and Terri Schiavo, Ashley Marie Moore
Becoming South: Postmodern Southern Distinction, Melody Knight Pritchard
The Classical And The Christian: Tennyson's Grief And Spiritual Shift From "The Lotos-Eaters" To "Ulysses", Carleen Lara Miller Ratcliffe
Bound Bodies: Book Use And The Early Modern Reader, 1450-1660, Emily Rendek
Tarred and Floral: Femininity, Race, and the Abject in Bayou, Chalice Ritter
The Last Gentlemen: Southern Conservative Superfluity and the Work of William Alexander Percy, Walker Percy, and Peter Taylor, William Matthew Simmons
The Civil, Silent, and savage in Ishiguro's The Buried Giant, Alexander J. Steele