Dissertations from 2009
Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd: Parabolic drama and the question of absurdity, Michael Y Bennett
On the threshold: Placing servants in modernist domesticity, Mary Elizabeth Wilson
Dissertations from 2008
The grace of effort: Studies in contemporary Anglophone Caribbean form, Nicole Catherine Matos
From pathos to pathology: Ibsen's English hosts, 1891--1893, Timothy Matos
Locating the homeless: Citizenship, advocacy, and the limits of narrative, Shannon Payne
Mothers and motherhood in the Middle English romances, Ju Ok Yoon
Dissertations from 2007
Performing fiction: The inward turn of postcolonial discourse in anglophone Caribbean fiction, Carol Y Bailey
"Foreigners in their own country": The Struldbruggs and the changing language of aging in Swift's world, Cheryl A Groeneveld
Personal, reflective writing in business communication and management, Pamela H Lawrence
Opaque words: Arabic importations at the limits of translation, Mazen Naous
The problem of memory in modernism: Gestures of memory in Virginia Woolf, Wallace Stevens, Marcel Duchamp, and Samuel Beckett, Robert J Reginio
Dissertations from 2006
By a gentle force compell'd: An analysis of rape in eighteenth-century English fact and fiction, Stephen M Constantine
Writing class and value in the information economy: Toward a new understanding of economic activity in the composition classroom, Michael R Edwards
The mark of the hero: Language and identity in the Middle English romance, Ann Margaret Higgins
Old words in new orders: Multigenre essays in the composition classroom, Susan Anne Johnson
Unpacking the suitcases they carried: Narratives of Dominican and Puerto Rican migrations to the northeastern United States, Victoria Nunez
Towards a transnational aesthetics: Literary displacement and translation as a transnational narrative space, Seonjoo Park
Rewriting ideologies of literacy: A study of writing by newly literate adults, Lauren Rosenberg
Pledging transnational allegiances: Nationhood, selfhood, and belonging in Jewish American and Asian American immigrant narratives, Cathy J Schlund-Vials
Dissertations from 2005
Trauma's palimpsests: The narrative cycles of Louise Erdrich and Richard Rodriguez, Karen M Cardoza-Kane
Style, substance, audience: A qualitative study of the use of a queer text in three composition courses, Jennifer Digrazia
Touching whiteness: Race, grief, and ethical contact in contemporary United States ethnic novel, Monika I Hogan
Frederick Douglass's "The Heroic Slave": Text, context, and interpretation, Melba P Jensen
Romancing the nation: Allegorical romance in nineteenth-century Irish and British novels, Bridget Matthews-Kane
An implicit continuum: Elegiac impulses and poetics of loss in nineteenth-century British poetry, Ismet Ozkilic
Writing at the small liberal arts college: Implications for teaching and learning, Michael Reder
Technology and the role of peer tutors: How writing center tutors perceive the experience of online tutoring, Kandy S Robertson
Dissertations from 2004
We are chosen: Jewish narratives in Galveston, Montreal, New York, and Buenos Aires, Wendy H Bergoffen
Community acts: Locating Pilipino-American theater and performance, Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns
The minstrel in the parlor: Nineteenth-century sheet music and the domestication of blackface minstrelsy, Stephanie Elaine Dunson
Modernism at the margins: De-forming sentimentalism in Mourning Dove, Virginia Woolf, Jessie Redmon Fauset, and Gertrude Stein, Justine S Dymond
Vanitas: The circle of intentions, Nancy Frazier
Teachers' perceptions of a hybrid inservice delivery model: A qualitative study, Alan Gil Girelli
Reading female sanctity: English legendaries of women, ca. 1200--1650, Mary Elizabeth Long
Narrative justice: The gothic and the law in Anglo-America, 1790--1860, Bridget M Marshall
Black South African writing against apartheid, 1959--1983, Philden Ndlela
Writing from normal: Critical thinking and disability in the classroom, Margaret Price
Language of the soul: Galenism and the medical disciplines in Elyot, Huarte, and Shakespeare, David Wesley Swain
Bad niggers, real niggas, and the shaping of African-American counterpublic discourses, Albert Uriah Anthony Turner
Literary journalism as artfulness: The resonant voice of Tracy Kidder, Henry O. Wefing
Electronic deliberation and the formation of a public sphere: A situated rhetorical study, Winifred J Wood
Writing "out of all the camps": J. M. Coetzee's narratives of displacement, Laura Wright
Dissertations from 2003
"Who 'twas that cut thy tongue": Postmodern and Hollywood Shakespeares and the betrayal of the adolescent audience, Melissa A Bagg
A study of the element of play in the teaching of composition, Thomas Alan Batt
"Now, literature, philosophy, and thought, are Shakspearized": American culture and nineteenth-century Shakespearean performance, 1835--1875, Elaine Brousseau
Home feelings with the past: Antebellum American literature and the anachronistic imagination, Jeffrey Robert Insko
"Gone with the Wind" and the Vietnamese mind, Thi Thanh Le
Using learning objects in critical thinking pedagogy and to facilitate entry into discourse communities, Warren R Longmire
Miss-behaving: Conduct, the underread, and the history of the novel, 1800--1830, Patricia A Matthew
Between two classrooms: Graduate students of literature as teachers of writing, Michael Philip Mattison
Whiteness in Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, Sharon Desmond Paradiso
Representing children at play in literature of the Sho'ah, Catherine Wheeler
Dissertations from 2002
A New World for a new nation: The promotion of America in early modern England, Francisco Jose Borge
Caliban in the promised land: Literacy narratives, immigration narratives and racial formation in twentieth century United States culture, Kimberly Ann Costino
Keeping up appearances: "Normality" in postwar United States culture, 1945--1963, Anna Greenwood Creadick
Teaching to their strengths: Multiple intelligence theory in the college writing class, Kimberly Marcello De Vries
Clubs, secret societies and male quest romance, Thomas Michael Greene
Haunted by waters: Race and place in the American West, Robert Terry Hayashi
Students' views on writing and technology: Gender, race, and class, Susan Elizabeth Kirtley
Listening to the silences in our classrooms: A study of "quiet" students, Mary Margaret Reda
Coming of age in American cinema: Modern youth films as genre, Matthew P Schmidt
Alterity and the lyric: Heidegger, Levinas, and Emily Dickinson, Hyesook Son
The letter that gives life: Magic, writing, and the teaching of writing, Julia Ellen Wagner
Dissertations from 2001
Between profits and primitivism: Rehabilitating white middle-class manhood in America, 1880--1917, Athena Beth Devlin
The politics of generosity: Circulating gifts and cultural capital in the Victorian novel, Michael Patrick Grogan
Pragmatism and the unconscious: Language and subject in psychoanalytic theory, pragmatist philosophy, and American narrative, Christopher Hanlon
The scene of the crime: Imagining nature at the millennium, Camilla S Humphreys
Transatlantic convergence of Englishness and Americanness: Cultural memory, nationhood, and imperialism in twentieth century modernist fiction, Ymitri Jayasundera
"Gulliver's Travels": A journey through the unconscious, Nasir Jamal Khattak
The geography of silence: Women in landscape in Thomas Hardy's fiction, Charles David Lowe
Writing colonial history in post-colonial India, Deepika Marya
Recovering ground: Poetic strategies for placing oneself, Robin Amelia Morris
The development of the modern fantasy novel, Holly E Ordway
"I'm not the boy for you": Images of African American male homosexuality, Angelo DeWayne Robinson
The evolution of gender-neutral language: Can fathers mother?, Donald Nathan Stone Unger
'So-easily-vanquished skirmishers': A study of individuals within systems in the work of Randall Jarrell, Sherri Lynn Vanden Akker
Ruined bodies and ruined narratives: The fallen woman and the history of the novel, Amy L Wolf
Writing her way: A study of Ghanaian novelist Amma Darko, Louise Allen Zak
Dissertations from 2000
Tracking modernity: Writing the rails of empire, Marian Ida Aguiar
Re-mapping female space: The politics of exhibition in nineteenth-century women writers, Chih-Ping Chen
From madwomen to Vietnam veterans: Trauma, testimony, and recovery in post-colonial women's writing, Maureen Denise Fielding
Speaking our truths: Literacy, sexuality and social change, Zan Meyer Goncalves
Making the modern critic: Print-capitalism and national identity in seventeenth-century England, Barclay Everett Green
Conjured bodies, trickster voices: Transforming narrative, history, and identity in the literature of slavery, Suzanne Therese Lane
Individualism, community, and democracy: Melville's critique of liberalism in the later novels, Juro Otsuka
Having something to say: Invention in writing and the teaching of writing, Karen J Phillips
The intentional turn: Suicide in twentieth-century United States American literature by women, Kathleen O Ryan
Caryl Phillips, J. M. Coetzee, and Michael Ondaatje: Writing at the intersection of the postmodern and the postcolonial, Renee Therese Schatteman
The later evolution of Trollope's female characters, Karen Kurt Teal
Bubonic plague in English Renaissance utopian literature, Rebecca Carol Noel Totaro
Theorizing Asian America, Lingyan Yang
Dissertations from 1999
Containing the Amazon: Archetypal relocations of Joan of Arc, Meredith Albion Clermont-Ferrand
Breaking English: Postcolonial polyglossia in Nigerian representations of Pidgin and in the fiction of Salman Rushdie, Gillian Gane
Art and argument: The rise of Walt Whitman's rhetorical poetics, 1838--1855, Andrew Charles Higgins
Dreaming the unspeakable: Hemingway and O'Brien's soldier narratives and the traumatic landscape, Lisa Simone Kingstone