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Dissertations from 2013
A Multidirectional Memory Approach to Representations of Colonization, Racism, and Genocide in Literature, Pamela Lagergren Williams, English
The Everyday Feast: Recreational Consumption and Social Status in Early Modern English Drama, Timothy W Zajac, English
Dissertations from 2012
The Guerilla Tongue": The Politics of Resistance in Puerto Rican Poetry, Natasha Azank, English
The Poems of Lady Hester Pulter (1605?-1678): An Annotated Edition, Stefan Graham Christian, English
The poems of Lady Hester Pulter (1605?–1678): An annotated edition, Stefan Graham Christian
Technologies of Racial Formation: Asian-American Online Identities, Linh Dich, English
How Should I Act?: Shakespeare and the Theatrical Code of Conduct, Ann E. Garner, English
A 'Living Art': Working-Class, Transcultural, and Feminist Aesthetics in the United States, Mexico, and Algeria, 1930s, Tabitha Adams Morgan, English
“The Labor We Delight In”: Amateur Dramatists In The London Professional Theaters, 1590-1642, Matteo A Pangallo, English
“The labor we delight in”: Amateur dramatists in the London professional theaters, 1590–1642, Matteo A Pangallo
Elizabeth's fruitless crown: Ovidian poetry, the end of Tudor genealogy, and the incomplete past, Kevin Petersen
Elizabeth’s Fruitless Crown: Ovidian Poetry, The End Of Tudor Genealogy, And The Incomplete Past, Kevin Petersen, English
Dissertations from 2011
“Transformed Oft, And Chaunged Diuerslie”: Shapeshifting And Bodily Change In Spenser, Milton, Donne, And Seventeenth-Century Drama, Youngjin Chung, English
“Transformed oft, and chaunged diuerslie”: Shapeshifting and bodily change in Spenser, Milton, Donne, and seventeenth-century drama, Youngjin Chung
To have and to hold: Courting property in law and literature, 1837–1917, Abigail Armstrong Dallmann
"Whether Writers Themselves Have Been Changed": A Test of the Values Driving Writing Center Work, Michelle Deal, English
Following Eshu-Eleggua's codes: A comparative approach to the literatures of the African diaspora, Jacob A Dyer-Spiegel
Following Eshu-Eleggua’s Codes: A Comparative Approach To The Literatures Of The African Diaspora, Jacob A Dyer-Spiegel, English
Writing the Local-Global: An Ethnography of Friction and Negotiation in an English-Using Indonesian Ph.D. Program, Amber Engelson, English
The Transparent Mask: American Women's Satire 1900-1933, Julia Boissoneau Hans, English
The Writer and The Sentence: A Critical Grammar Pedagogy Valuing the Micro, Sarah Elizabeth Stanley, English
Milton's Visionary Obedience, Timothy Irish Watt, English
Dissertations from 2010
Gothic Journeys: Imperialist Discourse, the Gothic Novel, and the European Other, Charles Michael Bondhus, English
“You Look Very Authentic:” Transgender Representation And The Politics Of The “Real” In Contemporary United States Culture, Michel J Boucher, English
“You look very authentic:” Transgender representation and the politics of the “real” in contemporary United States culture, Michel J Boucher
Raiding the Inarticulate: Postmodernisms, Feminist Theory and Black Female Creativity, C. Margot Hennessy, English
From spiritual guides to eager consumers: American girls' series fiction, 1865–1930, Emily A Honey
'Just Like Hitler': Comparisons To Nazism in American Culture, Brian Scott Johnson, English
“Most Brought A Little Of Both”: The Bible As Intertext In Toni Morrison’s Vision Of Ancestry And Community, Diane De Rosier Mackie, English
“Most brought a little of both”: The “Bible” as intertext in Toni Morrison's vision of ancestry and community, Diane DeRosier Mackie
Practices Of Value: A Materialist View Of Going Public With Student Writing, Denise Paster, English
Practices of value: A materialist view of going public with student writing, Denise Paster
Dissertations from 2009
Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd: Parabolic drama and the question of absurdity, Michael Y Bennett
Digital Storytelling At An Educational Nonprofit: A Case Study And Genre-Informed Implementation Analysis, Lisa Dush, English
Writing Across the Curriculum Program Development as Ideological and Rhetorical Practice, Carolyn J. Fulford, English
Saying “I am” experimentalism and subjectivity in contemporary poetry by Claudia Rankine, M. Nourbese Philip, and Myung Mi Kim, Dawn Lundy Martin
Saying “I Am” Experimentalism And Subjectivity In Contemporary Poetry By Claudia Rankine, M. Nourbese Philip, And Myung Mi Kim, Dawn Lundy Martin, English
First-year students' perception and interpretation of teacher response to their writing: Ten students speak, Missy-Marie Montgomery
First-Year Students’ Perception And Interpretation Of Teacher Response To Their Writing: Ten Students Speak, Missy-Marie Montgomery, English
History And Memory In The Fiction Of Chinua Achebe, John Edgar Wideman, And Zakes Mda, Okey Ndibe, English
History and memory in the fiction of Chinua Achebe, John Edgar Wideman, and Zakes Mda, Okey Ndibe
Literacy and Religious Agency: An Ethnographic Study of an Online LDS Women’s Group, Catherine Matthews Pavia, English
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