Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Heirlooms, Candace Gayle Wiley
The Rhetorical Event of Modern Southern Humor: "A Requisite Element in Discourse", David Allen Wright
A Global Joyce: Early Sightings of Cosmopolitan Ethics in Ulysses, Matthew Zeller
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
That Rotten Richness': Old Maids and Reproductive Anxiety In U.S. Southern Fiction, 1923-1946, Alison Arant
Strangers, Robert Baden
Acting Alone: Solo Female Performers, Their American Audiences, and Embodiment, Jamie Libby Boyle
“Of Considerable Interest But of No Great Importance”: Models of Relationality in the Work of Jane Bowles, Rachel Jane Carroll
The Fragile "Bonds of Whiteness": Relationships Between Native White Southerners and Foreigners in Porter, Mccullers, and O'Connor, Jessica Shuck Christensen
Songs On the Water: Stories, Jackson Campbell Culpepper
"Sung Out of the Void": Yeats's Folkloric Nationalism, Virginia Fleming Joczik
The Marquess and Other Stories, Elizabeth Marie Jones
"Like a Donut Maker, Only Slower": Don Delillo's Advice to Writers, Raphael Jones
Making offense A Skill: The Vice, the Machiavel, and the Problem of Legitimacy In Shakespearean Histories, Ralph Hervey Lawson
Circulating the Female Figure In the Marketplaces of Print and Reputation: Women and Defamation In Early Modern England, Mary Christine Learner
Dreams of Years Like Stones, Lisa Lopez Snyder
The Balance Between Mechanical and Creative Writing In David Copperfield, Ralph Frame Matthews
Landscape and Performance In the Narratives of Frederick Douglass, Hannah Crafts, and Henry Bibb, Kyle McClure
Folding City Flats, Michael Zachary Mueller
Murdoch, Woolf, Rhys, and the Ethics of the Resistance to Narrative Closure, Kayla Shown Pohl
From L.A. to Breakfast, Chad Rhoad
The Conditions of Kindness In Politics, Susan Marie Ryan
An Intersectional Analysis of Nella Larsen's Quicksand, Anna Rebecca Smith
"an identification and a plan for action to supplant a plan for action": EPIC Conventions Transformed in Williams, Zukofsky, and Olson, Graham Buckner Stowe
Burn: A Novel, Alexis Loring Stratton
Road Noise, Ashley Lauren Strosnider
Rhetorical Perspectives of American Civil-Military Relations, Joseph Leo Wyszynski
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Information Literacy In the Composition Classroom: An Annotated Bibliography of Collaborations Between Librarians and Composition Teachers, Elyn Beth Blackman
Abundant Rhetoric: Memory, Media, and the Multiplicity of Composition, Casey Andrew Boyle
Textual Reconstruction: The Deployment of Late Medieval Texts In Early Modern England, Melissa Ann Crofton
Brownies Like Heroin, Virginia Elizabeth Daniel
In the Here and Then; Forms of Time, Chronotope and Trauerspiel In Gorboduc and King Lear, Ken Fullam
The Warrior and the Witan: Searching For the Culture of Wisdom In Beowulf, Reid Fuller Hardaway
Philanthropy, Leslie Nevin Haynsworth
Fossil Poetry, theBirth of Geology, and the Romantic Imagination, 1790-1860, John Robert Higgins
An Alternate Spirit of the Age: George Colman the Younger's Production of Romantic-period Identity, Glenn Jellenik
Stephen Crane and the Cinematic Spectacle of the New York Slums, Euel Durwood Jones III
Fortunes of A Hero: Anglo-Saxon Principles of Excellence In the Fortunes of Men and Beowulf, Mae Therese Kilker
'Shrike Laughed:' Celebrating Humor In Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts, Andrea Erika Krafft
"Reading Is Meant For Training": Maps, Nation, and Empire In British Children's Literature, 1800-1940, Corey Meissner
Confiding History: Stories We Lived When No One Was Watching, Heidi Gabrielle Nobles
Late Summer Weather, Zachary O'Neill
Folk Music As A Cultural Signifier In the Contemporary American South, Kyle Petersen
Least Knowen and Most In Practice': The Nature and Utility of Practical Music In Early Modern English Thought, Elisha James Sircy
Becoming-Spiritual: Conceiving the Spiritual Family in Post-Reformation England, Jonathan Lawrence Sircy
Shall We Gather At the Table?: the Symbolic, Material, and Cultural Significance of the Table In American Life and Letters, Abigail Lundelius Smith
When the Soil Was Everything: Unearthing the Roots of American Environmental Writing, Stephen Spratt
Re(f)use: The Aesthetics of Waste In American Fiction, Kevin Douglas Trumpeter
Treadmill: A Novel, Robert Lowell Wentworth
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
The Spectator, Adam Smith, and the Evolution of Fictionality in Eighteenth-century England, Kyle C. Alexander
"A More Perfect Indian Wisdom": Transcultural Exchange in the Writings of Henry D. Thoreau, Jessie Nichole Bray
Beyond the Objectivity of Sexual Consent: Toward Rhetorical Expressions of Negotiation, Larissa Amber Brian
Elegant Complexity: The Presence of Cold War Game Theory In Postmodern American Fiction, Jeremey Edward Cagle
How Far Is Home: A Novella and Short Stories, Robin Caine
The Art of Self-Making: American Modernist Fiction and the Performances of Identity and Authorship, Kenneth Michael Camacho
Theft, Phil Christman
John Donne'S Misogyny, Richard Crandall
Affirmation and "Make It New": Nietzsche, Deleuze, and the Great Dictum of Modernism, Jonathan Daniel Elmore
The Futility of Conformity: The Danger of Gender Constructs In the Sound and theFury, Ula Gabrielle Gaha
Incorporating the White Shadow: The Destructive Masculinities of Richard Wright, Steven Michael Gleeson
East Side Story: Jewish American Writing In New York City, 1898-1934, Ashley F. Grooms
Dueling and Identity: Constructions of Honor Violence In Nineteenth-Century Southern Letters, Todd Hagstette
Goodbye Now, Goodbye!, John A. Harrison
The Composition of Postsecondary Institutions: An Ecological Approach to Pedagogy, Brian Robert Henderson
A Dynamic Examination of the Disparity in African-American College Enrollment, Jon Anthony Hermesch
Romantic-Era Periodicals and the Rise of Population, John Thomas Knox
Buried Alive: Gothic Oppression in the Novels of Edith Wharton', Laura Gayle Kotti
Kickaround Nixon, Eric Lockaby
Identity Is A Laughing Matter: Humor and British National Identity In the Nineteenth Century, Jennifer L. Martinsen
The Man-Midwife'S Tale: Re-Reading Male-Authored Midwifery Guides In Britain and America, 1750-1820, Marcia D. Nichols
Through A Glass, Darkly: Uncanny and Fantastic Heterotopias In Middle English Poetry, Annette Rebecca Pomeroy
Postmodern Alienation: Projecting Worlds/Feigning Subjects, Michael James Rizza
Debating Legitimacy: Connecting 1990-1994 International Law Commission Deliberations to Present Controversies Over the International Criminal Court, Hannah Goff Spicher
Self-Creation, Community, and Autonomy: theLiberation of Richard Rorty'S Philosophy of Self As Imagined by Absalom, Absalom!, Nathaniel B. Street
Nucor Steel: A Leader In Culture Manufacturing, Lynda Sleigher Stutler
Survival of the Fittest: Persistent Memes and Their Victorian Environments, Virginia Britt Terry
Reworking the Gothic: Representations of London, WWII-Present, Natalie Vereen
Masculine Fantasies In Selected Novels by Charles Dickens, Janet T. Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
The Subject of Voice: The Object of Rhetoric, Mark Dean Brantner
Capital, Darien Cavanaugh
The Composition of Crisis and the Future of the University: Theory, Pedagogy, and Identity In Rhetoric and Composition Studies, Paul Gregory Cook
The Hands of Labor: Depictions of Antebellum Authorship and the Shaping of Class In the Willis Family (Nathaniel Parker Willis, Fanny Fern, and Harriet Jacobs), Michelle Renee Cooper