Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Mental Trauma, Colonial Mimicry, and Internalized Racism in Tsitsi Dangarembga's the Book of Not, Lily Kay Lynn Cook
Medieval to Modern: Morgan Le Fay As Folk Icon of Women in Power in Modern King Arthur Stories, Colleen Victoria Etman
Reading Ecogothic Memory in Contemporary Southern Swamp Novels, Megan Caroline Brockhard Knight
Sacred Symbols in a Secular World: Religious Imagery in the Works of Jack London and Sylvia Plath, Kathleen Elizabeth Long
Placebos, Rhetoric, and the Power of Expectation, Jennifer M. Reeher
Sappho and Shakespeare: Aristotelian Views on Relationships, Catherine Corinne Reisinger
(Re)imagining Decolonial Cookbooks After Deforestation, Kamran Shams
“…She Complained…”: The Female Complaint and Voice in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Works, Kristina Syrigos
Eco-Domestic Femininity: The Collapse of Domestic and Wild in Southern Women’s Writing, Christina Xan
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Disco Murder City, Caleb Bethea
Teaching About Transfer: Making the Invisible Visible Through Explicit Instruction, Brittany Morgan Capps
Portrayals of Roman Catholicism in North American Children’s And Adolescent Literature Following Vatican II, Kathleen Anna Carroll
After Erasure: Contingency and the Persistence of Subjectivity, Nathan DeProspo
Animal Representation of Race in The Princess and the Frog, Tiffany Tyantyan Enoch
How Do You Feel, Kaitlyn Alexis Guinyard
Diffracting the Christine: Documenting a Building Multiple, Charles Brian Dedrick Harmon
Identity in Literacy Narratives: Toward Reflexive Pedagogy in First Year Writing, Laiken Elizabeth Harrigan
Communicative Kissing With Alien Poetry: New Muses in Neil Gaiman’s “How to Talk to Girls at Parties”, Leanna Ashley Herbert
Hardly Working: The Labor Concerns of Graduate Student Assistants in Writing Programs, Lily Victoria Howard-Hill
Whiteface, Briley D. Jones
Nature as Culture: Ecofeminist Narratives of Environmental and Colonial History, Sydney Leimbach
Iowa Gothic, Caroline Bailey Lewis
Nothing Overlaps, Samantha Hope Liming
Kurt Vonnegut, a Difficult Feminist: Investigating Female Characters in Bluebeard, Matthew Steven Medl
“Speak for Yourself”: Ovidian Women and the Suppression of Voice and Complaint in Metamorphoses and Heroides, Grayson Elizabeth Newman
The Moneylender, Hannah Jane Pearson
Revolting Motherhood: [De]Generative Breast Stories Transmuting Medical/Moral Paradigms in Britain During the Long Nineteenth Century, Leslie Rene Pearson
Queer Mary: Queer Temporalities in Late Medieval and Early Modern Drama, Bradley James Peppers
Learning to Spell, Alana Ines Perez
Anthropocene Composition: Teaching Terminal Generations in the Pre-Apocalyptic Classroom, John Michael Purfield
Sites of Peace and Pain: The Black Grandmother Figure in Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Jazz, and Sula, Alexus Joannea Ray
Rhetorical New Materialism, Queers, and Cringe, Katherine Anne Schell
Tragic Relief!, Katherine Shanks
Mouth Stuff, Jacob Connor Smith
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
“The Time Has Not Been Wasted”: The Accounting Diaries of Marian Evans and Louisa May Alcott, Ashley A. Alvarado
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
Literature as a Monument: Uncle Tom’s Cabin Reflecting the Morality of a Nation, Shalane Parcenue Conrads
Speculative Pasts: American Historical Fiction in an Age of Empire, Gregory William Deinert
The Divine Consumptive: The Depiction of Tuberculosis in Jane Eyre, Haley Highfield
Fireweed, Robert Kopfensteiner
Metaphors of Memory: Complexity and the Fourth Canon, Amber Lee
Screwball, Alexandra Mayer
Brave Irene, Nicole McCaffety
The Night’s Last Howl, Victoria Genevieve Mullis
Bough and Hollow, Jeffrey Dylan Nutter
Restoring Paradise Through Providence: The Emergence of the Serendipitous Hero in the Hunger Games, Alexandra Elizabeth Oberempt
Embodied Participation in Digital Publics: Somnambulance, Surveillance, and the Construction of Identity, Adam S. Padgett
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