Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Gagliardi, Paul, All Play and No Work: the Protestant Work Ethic and the Comic Plays of the Federal Theatre Project
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Alsuhaibani, Norah S., The Bluestockings, a Conservative Counterpublic, 1750-1799
Brame, Patrick, Uncovering the Domesticated Spectator: Film Exhibition and Spectatorship in the Home, 1920-1950
Doro, Paul, Rural Masculinities in American Scripted Television Series of the 2010s
Foster, Morgan E., Girlhood By the Book: Race, Gender, and Young Adult Literature, 1980-2020
Kleinke, Andrew, Hungry for More: American Food Writing and Globalization
Koo, Luisa Hyojin, Trauma and the Myth of Evolving Masculinity in Korean National Films
Lamloum, Yasmine, Polyphonic Texture: Survivance in Contemporary Transnational Fiction
Scruton, CJ, Ghost Lands: Spirit, Space, and the Construction of Cosmology in Native Ghost Stories
Serio, Joseph P., Hot Licks and Rhetoric: Collecting, Community, and Disruptive Literacies
Sternstein, Jeffery A., Dialogic Language as Digital Ethos: an Analysis of Language Used in the Anti-Vaccine Conversation on Twitter
Suneja, Carolyn, Printed and Bound: the Publishers' Case Binding and 19th-century Women's Critique of Marriage
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Burden, Ryan, Orphans
Henrichs, Kyle, Eco-Narratology and Contemporary American Fiction
Miner, Kyle, Narratives of Crisis and Independent Cinema: Production, Aesthetics, and Ideology in the Films of Ramin Bahrani
Sprague, Trevor Colin, A Culture of Civic Action: Deliberative Pedagogy for Composition
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Carnes, Jeremy M., Historical Dissidence: The Temporalities and Radical Possibilities of American Comics
Johnston, Jessica Elizabeth, The Business of the Girl: Celebrity and the Professionalization of Girlhood in Early Twenty-First Century Media Culture
Ubbesen, Molly E., A Pedagogy of Access Advocacy
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Bruss, Robert, The Time Is Now: Embodiments of the Hyper-Present in Contemporary American Literature
Cline, Franklin K.R., Trail Mix
Clinkenbeard, Mary Jean, Agency at the Seams: A Posthuman Approach to Disability in Family Interactions with Communication Technologies
Daigle, Allain, Fast Glass: Modernity, Technology, and the Cinematic Lens
Doan, Sara C., Course Goals and Feedback Workflows: Examining Instructors' Pedagogy in Professional Communication Service Courses
Gimse, Geoffrey, Culture and Code: The Evolution of Digital Architecture and the Formation of Networked Publics
Martinez, Shanae Aurora, Guides and Guidance: Subverting Tourist Narratives in Trans-Indigenous Time and Space
Purzycki, Kristopher John, A Player’s Sense of Place: Computer Games as Anatopistic Medium
Ravel, Kristin M., A Pedagogy of Techno-Social Relationality: Ethics and Digital Multimodality in the Composition Classroom
Schneider, Matthew, The Jeremiad in American Science Fiction Literature, 1890-1970
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Abbott, Lee Martin, Landscapes of Recovery: Belonging and Place in Post-Katrina Literatures
Baker, Kimberly Schnaderbeck, User Experience as Organizational Ethos Focused on Quality: a Case Study of UX-Receptive and UX-Reluctant Workplace Cultures
Blanchard, Ann-Marie, Amber Outskirts
Burzynski, Peter, Dear Anybody
Card, Daniel, Agents of Change: Scholarly Intervention at the Science-Policy Nexus
Cavallaro, Brittany, Unhistorical
DeVasto, Danielle, Negotiating Matters of Concern: Expertise, Uncertainty, and Agency in Rhetoric of Science
Fay, Kristin, Things from of Old
Johnson, Jay, Issues with Reality: Defining and Exploring the Logics of Alternate Reality Games
Kies, Bridget, Masculinity in American Television from Carter to Clinton
Nordstrom, Ingrid Jayne, "Becoming a Multicultural Teacher: Reflections on Responsibility in First-Year Writing"
Patel, Soham, The Daughter Industry
Scarano, Caitlin, Spur
Schumaker, Justin, The Labor of Play: the Political Economy of Computer Game Culture
Singh, Angela, Experience as Counterpoint: A Qualitative Study of Home, Happiness & Aging Amongst First-generation South Asian Migrants in the U.S.
Williams, Christopher McAllister, The Wrong Sky
Zamparutti, Louise, The Basovizza Monument: Rebranding Public Memory, Constructing Identity, and Normalizing Political Agenda
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Brand, Mark Robert, Passbook
Evans, Ashley, Expanding Composition Pedagogies: A New Rhetoric from Social Media
Felten, Ron, Just Say No: Authority, Disobedience, and Individuation in Some of Sam Peckinpah’s Minor Films
Finch, Zach, A’ Oor Ain: the Making of a Scottish National Cinema Through Short Fiction Films 1930-2016
Heck, Kalling, Film After Authority: the Transition to Democracy and the End of Politics
Kessler, Molly Margaret, Bodily Boundaries: Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Rhetorical Enactments of Self
Schnoll, Richard Scott, An Exploratory Study of Learning Transfer from the Online Technical Communication Course to the Workplace
Singel, Leslie, Commuters, Wanderers, and 'international Mongrels': Resistance and Possibility in Post-immigrant Literature
Sperling, Alison Nikki, Weird Modernisms
Wray, Tobias, False Spring
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Abou-Zeineddine, Ghassan, Madame Bandar's Theatre of Love
Both, Roswitha T., The Comedians: A Novel
Daigle, Lindsay, The Small Disasters LP
Edenfield, Avery, Collective Management in a Cooperative: Problematizing Productivity and Power
Heimermann, Mark, Neoliberal Darlings: the Commodification of Grotesque Children in Contemporary Comics and Literature
Lipton, Shawna, Queer Literary Criticism and the Biographical Fallacy
Morrissey, Katherine, Romance Networks: Aspiration & Desire in Today’s Digital Culture
Mueller, Erika Marie, The Waiting House
Nawrot, Dawn Arendt, The Female Accomplice: Rape, Liberalism, and the Eighteenth-Century English Novel
Piper, Alexis, Identifying with “The Native” in Anglo-american Environmental Writing: A Rhetorical Study
Poggioli-Kaftan, Giordana, Sicilian Intellectual and Cultural Resistance to Piedmont's Appropriation (1860-1920)
Shin, Heejoung, Granite and Rainbow: Queer Authority and Authorship in T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, and Virginia Woolf
Stratton, Reed, The Ambience of Innovation: a Material Semiotic Analysis of Corporate and Community Innovation Sites
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Anastasia, Andrew G., Teaching Discomfort: Students' and Teachers' Descriptions of Discomfort in First-year Writing Classes
Bowen, David, The Secret Hills
Chen, Ching-In, Recombinant
Herhuth, Eric DuWayne, Animating Aesthetics: Pixar and Digital Culture
Learned, Nicholas James, Critical Affects: Laughter as Inquiry in First-year Writing Courses
Pacton, Adam Matthew, Intertheory: Disability, Accommodation, and the Writing of Composition
Prins, Kristin, Materiality, Craft, Identity, and Embodiment: Reworking Digital Writing Pedagogy
Sullivan, Rachael Bradshaw, Interface Fantasies and Futures: Designing Human-Computer Relations in the Shadow of Memex
van de Graaf, Kara, Dear Satellite
Vollman, Thomas James, Tyne Darling: a Novel
Winkler, Scott Albert, The Meadow: a Novel
Wollersheim, Ruth Emelia, Retrograde Returns of the American Housewife: Reimagining an Old Character in a New Millennium
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Adams, Eric, The Non-Participants
Barth Walczak, Laurie, The Ordinary Trip: Heteronormativity and Homophobia in Young Adult Literature from 1969 to 2009
Brevvaxling, Royal, Radical Reflection: Toward the Transformation of Everyday Teaching and Learning in English Composition
Brown, Daniel Guy, The Highland Clearances and the Politics of Memory
Cristy, Aviva Englander, The Heart Is a Hollow Muscle
Drew, Christopher, We Eat This Gold
Kontny, Jennifer, A Pedagogy of Persistence: Access Through Arrangement in the Age of New Media
Kuroczycka Schultes, Anna, Caring and Cleaning "On Par": the Work of Au Pairs & Housecleaners in the Chicagoland Area
Moon, Hyong-jun, The Post-Apocalyptic Turn: a Study of Contemporary Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Narrative
Morrow, Melissa Anne, Black Lazarus: Conjure Book
Nastal-Dema, Jessica, (Re)Envisioning Placement for 21st Century Writing Programs
Nelson, Julie Dawn, Phantom Rhetorics: From Pathos to Affect
Nesheim, Kate Olson, The Talent Thief
Ochonicky, Adam R., Nostalgic Frontiers: Violence Across the Midwest in Popular Film
Rice-Bailey, Tammy JoAnn, Identity, Value, and Power: a Qualitative Study of the Complexity of the Working Relationship Between Technical Communicators and Subject Matter Experts
Van Wert Kosalka, Michelle Lynne, "Tales" of Text and Culture: Tropes of Imperialism, Women's Roles, Technologies of Representation, and Collaborative Meaning-making in Rita Golden Gelman's Tales of a Female Nomad, Female Nomad and Friends, and Personal Website