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
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
“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
Writing Practice: Invention And Pedagogy In Composition, Nathaniel Street
In the Belly of the Whale: Archive and Access in Melville’s Moby-Dick, Garrett Urban
Cut Purses and Poisoned Paintings: Resisting Gender Objectification, Meredith N. Will
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Of Wilderness, Forest, and Garden: An Eco-Theory of Genre in Middle English Literature, Barbara L. Bolt
Mourning, Melancholia, and the Need for Grace in Sherwood Anderson's "Godliness", Victoria Chandler
Natural Predators, Marie-Claire Churchouse
Natural Predators, Marie-Claire Churchouse
Anarchic Wills: De Factoism and its Discontents in Shakespeare and Milton, William Dean Clement
A Grenade of Paper Flowers: A Collection of Poems, Melissa Dugan
Stars Collaged of Gases (Or, We Are Not Lonely Anymore), Josh English
Eugene Debs and the Politics of Parrhesia, James P. Flynn
Maybe Mermaids and Robots Are Lonely: 40 Stories and a Novella, Matthew Fogarty
Counterfeiting and Power in Invisible Man and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Matthew Gassan
Historical Violence and Modernist Form in Zoe Wicomb's David's Story, Kaelie Rianne Giffel
Absolving the Sin: Redemptive Feminine Figures in Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Wife of Bath's Prologue" and John Milton's Paradise Lost, Rory Griffiths
Absolving the Sin: Redemptive Feminine Figures in Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Wife of Bath's Prologue" and John Milton's Paradise Lost, Rory Griffiths
Bottomfeeders, William Linn
Revival of the Fittest: A Return to Writer Subjectivity in Composition, Ashley McClary
The King’s Cabinet Splintered: The Impact of Digital Mediation on The Kings Cabinet Opened, Travis A. Mullen
Tropes of Blood, Body And The Ground of The Law: Becoming, Being And Beyond Wife On The Early Modern Stage, Emily Faye Murray
Counterfeiters, Brandon Rushton
Tactical Encounters:Material Rhetoric and the Politics of Tactical Media, Anthony Michael Stagliano
And Have Not Mercy, I Am Waiting: Conscious Inaction as Postcolonial Resistance in Patrick Kavanagh's "The Great Hunger" and Derek Walcott's "The Fortunate Traveller", Christopher Lowell Stuck
Creating The Self: Women Artists In Twentieth-Century Fiction, Bethany Dailey Tisdale
The Lonely Empire, Andrew Valencia
A Taste For Things: Sensory Rhetoric Beyond The Human, Justine Beatrice Wells
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Grand Prix: A Trainer's Guide to Show Ring Success, Lauren Rebecca Allen
Bluefield, Jennifer Sharain Bartell
The Poetic Works of Charlotte Smith: Philosophy, Sympathy, and Forging Community, Jessica Danielle Castillo
Musical Geography, Colena Corbett
Living on the Moon: Women, Home Making, and the House after World War II in Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Leslie Dennis
Smokers, Ajit Dhillon
Hope Chest: A Memoir of Home, Marriage, and Objects, Emilie L. Duck
Revising for Genre: Mary Robinson's Poetry from Newspaper Verse to Lyrical Tales, Shelley AJ Jones
'Precious Objects': Strange 'Things' in James and Wharton, John Kinard
Walker Percy, Heidegger, and Reentry, Jordan Alexander Markley
Receiver of Wreck: A Memoir, Brandi Lynn Perry
FROM CAPTURE TO CARE: ATTENTION, DIGITAL MEDIA, AND THE FUTURE OF COMPOSITION, Christian D. Smith
Volumes, Matthew Brooks Stark
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
The Finer Things, Jasmine Bailey
The Seeded Underground, Shannon Renee' Blake
And Still It Moves, Elizabeth Breen
Rewriting the Human: Death Anxiety and Posthuman Vision In Literature Since 1945, John Allen Brooks
Hiding In Plain Sight: the Rhetorical Workings of Simone De Beauvoir's Feminist Language, Emily Crawford
Literacy Crisis, Technology, and the Radical Reversal of Power, Erin Michelle Cromer