Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Talk to Text, George Gallagher (2016)
The Victorian Influence on Virginia Woolf's Domestic Feminist Aesthetic in Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, Heather Mary Greenberg (2016)
Toward a Phenomenological Poetics : The Interplay of Philosophy and Poetry in William Butler Yeats’s “The Tower” and “Meditations in Time of Civil War”, Peter Michael Lang (2016)
History of Housewives in First-Year Composition and Effects on Students, Pay, and Pedagogy, Vera Lynn Lentini (2016)
Lost Generations and the Problem of American Identity : The Emergence of Racial Nativism in American Culture (1890s-1920s), Gloria Lugo (2016)
Bridging the Gap Between Manner and Matter : The Friction of Reticence and Resistance in Sylvia Townsend Warner's Intimate Poems, Giana Milazzo (2016)
Bridges, Not Towers: Connecting Universities and Local Communities for Community Writing Projects, Alicia Remolde (2016)
"A Better Calm / of Meet Companionship" : Augusta Webster's (Re)Vision of Victorian Wifehood and Marriage, Jennifer Sabatelli (2016)
"Gutless Bitch" Camouflage : Post-Postmodern Barbarism and Shifting Gender Performativity in AMC's The Walking Dead, Lynette Marie Surie (2016)
Domesticity, Literacy, and Self in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Abigail Walker (2016)
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Robo-Teaching? : Automated Essay Scoring and K-12 Writing Pedagogy, Swati Viren Chauhan (2015)
Putting Pedagogical Compositional Theory in Action : A Case Study of Process Based Approaches to Exploring Unfamiliar Writing Tasks, Brett Conrad (2015)
Sorry, Not Sorry : Speech as Action for Women in the Works of Aemilia Lanyer and John Milton, Tiffany Ann Errickson (2015)
Politics and Prophecy : Melville's America in Moby-Dick and Benito Cereno, Michelle T. Fernandes (2015)
"Academia, Here I Come!" : Plain Language and Academese in the Postsecondary Academy, Heather Lockhart (2015)
Ghettoizing Black Women's Literature : A Socio-Historic Study of Black Women Writers and the White Publishing Industry, Kimberly Wiley Luna (2015)
A Classroom Stuck in Time : The Theoretical Ambitions of Curriculum and the Reality of Classroom Practice, Rebecca McGrath (2015)
Secular Transformations and Spiritual Manifestations : Three Poems by Auden, Zachary Rosenblum (2015)
Dynamic Future : Movements Beyond Postmodernism in Three Contemporary American Novels, Christopher Aleixo Teixeira (2015)
Beelzebub : Satan's Consort in John Milton's Paradise Lost, Beth Tippenreiter (2015)
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Visions of Terror : Reconstructing Literature Through 9/11 Texts, Jennifer Michelle Agens (2014)
Technical and Structural Experimentation in Dave Eggers' A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Samantha Branin (2014)
Optical Misperception and Shakespearean Drama, Lisa Marie Castelluber (2014)
More Than a Jester : Dorothy Parker's Use of the Popular Magazine Market for Social Criticism, Megan Dempsey (2014)
An Examination of Narrative and Thematic Devices in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse and Mrs. Dalloway, Mary Houghtaling (2014)
Gender, Globalization, and the Ciudad Juarez Femicide in Selenidad and Roberto Bolaño's 2666, Emily Lagg (2014)
Eyes Under The Stairs : The Influence of the Panopticon on the Master-Servant Relationship in Edith Wharton’s Ghost Stories and Henry James’s The Turn o f the Screw, Alisha LoRe (2014)
Modern Female Tricksters : Satirists or Satiric Objects?, Shawn McDonald (2014)
Free Schools and Self-Efficacy Beliefs : Research for an Alternative, Vanessa Phillips (2014)
The Struggle to Utopia : Social Reform, Accumulation, and Transformation in Howards End, Danielle Marie Rettino (2014)
Gothic Servants : Mothering Power Under the Guise of Servility, Valerie Jean Santo (2014)
In Our Defense : Sheridan's The Camp, The Glorious First of June, Pizarro and The Fate of the British Nation in Late Eighteenth-Century England, Patricia Mari Valatka (2014)
'Tis Murder's Best Face When a Vizard's On, Lauren Vezina (2014)
High School Teachers' Attitudes Toward the Student Portfolio as a Tool for Writing Assessment, Meghan Leigh Wilk (2014)
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Political Twittoric : The Rhetorical Use of Twitter by the Obama 2012 Presidential Campaign, Kainat Najmi Abidi (2013)
Beneath The Frock and Beyond the Original Plumbing : A Visual Rhetorical Analysis of Transgender Magazines, Dayna Arcurio (2013)
Dreams of Prosperity in America met with Disillusionments and Despair for Eastern & Southern European Immigrants, Mayda C. Bosco (2013)
"No Preaching, I Say!" : A Rhetorical Analysis of E.D.E.N. Southworth's Temperance Motives and Motifs, Janine Marie Butler (2013)
What is Woman? : Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Ladies Almanack, and Woman's Search for Her Identity in the 1920s, Timothy Coyne (2013)
"You Write Like A Girl" : Analyzing the Rhetoric of Gender Bias in the Literary Establishment and Implications for Student Writing Development, Julie Robin Dalley (2013)
Perceptions of Writing Center Consultants Towards Online Writing Consultation, Janet Dengel (2013)
W.B. Yeats's Construction of India, Ashim Dutta (2013)
Redefinitions of Selfhood: Stan Brakhage, Bob Dylan, and Allen Ginsberg as Thoreauvian Counterculturists, James Anthony Galione (2013)
Paradox in Shakespeare's Tragicomedies : Pericles, Cymberline, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest, Seamus Gilson (2013)
The Living Dead Austen : Exploring the Zombie Trope in American Culture, Film, and Literature, Katherine Godin (2013)
The Liminality of the Black Female “Freed” Slave in the Novels of Morrison, Hurston, and Williams, Karen Ingram (2013)
Charles Wright’s Seasonal Poetry : The Inscrutable, Spiritual Landscape and Ars Poetica, Marian Jeanette Kelleher (2013)
Reading War : Modern Warfare in the Age of Terror and Recent American Literature, Kyle Anthony Kovacs (2013)
The Emergence of the New Woman in Kate Chopin's The Awakening and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps' The Story of Avis, Alison Frances Reidy (2013)
The Transformative Power of Voice in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, Nicole L. Scimone (2013)
The Best Practices for Teaching Writing to Postsecondary Students With Acquired Brain Injuries, Julianne Candio Sekel (2013)
Don’t Turn That Dial : Advertising, Mass Media, and the God Character in the Novels of Philip K. Dick, Masha Taborisskaya (2013)
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Transcendentalism’s Advocacy and Perpetuation of Capitalist Ideology : The Physical and Spiritual Profitability of Henry David Thoreau, Geoffrey D. Borshof (2012)
Negotiating National Identity : “Between the Saxon Smile and Yankee Yawp. The Devil and the Deep Sea.”, Norman C. DeFIlippo (2012)
Tracking the Basic Writer, Timothy Donohue (2012)
The Illusion of Influence : Gender and Class Conflict in Three Gothic Works by Louisa May Alcott, Katie Elizabeth Dowson (2012)
The "Stamp" of Black Science Fiction in the Works of Octavia Butler, and the White SF of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Liamog Seamus Drislane (2012)
Connections and Disconnections between Academic Writing Theory and Writing in the Business World, Shannon N. Fanning (2012)
Captain Cook's Writing Assignment, Leonard F. Grant III (2012)
The Politics of Writing in the Works of Cicero and Ovid, Caroline Ann Kyzek (2012)
Linden Hills and The Women of Brewster Place : Race, Class, and Gender Seen Through the Gothic, Nicole Marie Riotto (2012)
Writing in the Preschool Classroom : The Emergent Writer, Lisa Walsh (2012)
The Bean Field Quandary : Environmental Ethics in Emerson and Thoreau, Nicole Elaine Wittenburg (2012)
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
The Rhetoric of a Buffy Fandom : A Study of Fan Writing, Interaction, and Activism in an Online Community Environment, Kristen Julia Anderson (2011)
Visual Symbols of the Damaged Families in Sam Shepard’s Family Trilogy, Kathryn Ann Baran (2011)
Poe's Women : A Male Obsession with Fear, Richard R. Carpenter (2011)
Hawthorne’s Independent Women : Individualism and Self-Reliance as Empowerment, Abigail Davis (2011)
'When the Ocean Begins' : Personal Narrative, Shifting Roles, and a Teenage Woman's Search Through the Wreckage, Lauren Michele Fazzio (2011)
The Power of the Subversive Female in Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and Blithedale Romance, Jenifer P. Hecht (2011)
Using a Wiki to Teach College Level Academic Writing, Dawn Moore (2011)
Burning Down the House : Reclaiming Homeplace in Gloria Naylor’s Linden Hills and Mama Day, Jenny Elizabeth Mundell (2011)
Socioeconomics and the Digital Divide : Access, Literacy, and the Online-Classroom Space at the U.S. Postsecondary Institution, Alison Lorraine Nolan (2011)
An Examination of the Emerging Feminist Voice in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Kate Chopin's The Awakening, Fran Shultz (2011)
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
The Bachelor Narrator Motif in the Sketches of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Carol L. Anderson (2010)
A Divided Family : Examining the Physical Displacement in Robert Olen Butler’s A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, Alex William Csedrik (2010)
Life Beyond The Scarlet Letter, Shauna Ciarco DeMarco (2010)
Gods as Parental Figures in Euripides’ Alcestis, Hippolytus, Iphigenia in Aulis and Tauris, Valbone Dushaj (2010)
The Rhetorical Construction of Reader-Writer Identities in Contemporary Fiction Reviews, Katherine G. Giannisis (2010)
Beyond Berenice : Edgar Allan Poe as a Magazine Editor, Critic, and Supporter of Women, Karen Affinito Greco (2010)
Gendered Spaces in James Joyce’s Dubliners, Cynthia J. Hacker (2010)
Disrupting Social Order : The Widows of Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, Jacklyn Grace Ievoli (2010)
Defining a Metaphorical Space to Speak From : Exploring the Relationship Between Women and Place Within Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place and Toni Morrison's Sula, Adriana Maria Immediate (2010)
The Struggle Between the Self and Not-Self : The Influence of Zen Buddhism and the Upanishads in Yeats’s Later Poetry, William Paul Kadar (2010)
Fairway Community College’s English Basic Skills Departmental Exam : Mastery Test Madness, Kelly Alanna Keane (2010)
Preparing Low-Income Middle and Secondary Students to Participate Effectively in Academic Discourse Through Writing, Franc Lacinski (2010)
Does Introductory Writing Instruction Help Students To Succeed At Montclair State University?, Sean Molloy (2010)
‘But they would not teach her to play’ : Child Heroines, Fantasy, and the Victorian Debate on Female Education, Nicole Papaioannou (2010)
Lost in a Lie : Examining the Language of Storytelling, Lying and Untruths in Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Idiot, Demons and The Brothers Karamazov, Anastasia Shamin (2010)
A Case of Identity, Robert R. Sillery (2010)
The Effects of Coauthoring on Student Writing, Stacey E. Spector (2010)
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Unruly Wives and Dancing Girls : The Objectification of Women in Aristophanic Comedy, Jessica Marie Berhang (2009)
Suicide and Self-Sacrifice in the Works of Arthur Miller, Robert Anthony Coakley (2009)
A Feminist Revolution on the Popular Front : Muriel Rukeyser's 1930s Poetry, Janis Hubschman (2009)
Literacy Instruction and the Learning Disabled High School Student : Ideas and Applications for a Mindful Classroom, Suzanne E. Kos (2009)
Challenging the Idea of Community : Angels in America, The Laramie Project and Take Me Out, Meghan Kathleen Kurta (2009)
“Out of Many, One People” : A Comparative Analysis of Short Fiction by Michelle Cliff, Jennifer Nicole Laster (2009)
Taking Facebook Seriously : A 21st Century Writing Space for Collaboration and Learning, Anastasia Rubis (2009)
Problems of Connection : The Critique of Englishness, Empire, and Nationhood in E.M. Forster's A Passage to India, Virginia Woolf's Orlando and George Orwell's "England Your England", Alexandra Megan Schultz (2009)
Stressed Sexuality : How Props, Stage Directions and Setting Convey Tormented Male Protagonists in Selected Plays of Tennessee Williams, Sara Temme (2009)
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Indians, Land, and Ideology : The Disruption of Nationalism in the Works of Lydia Maria Child and Henry David Thoreau, Lynn Marie Fedele (2008)