Theses/Dissertations from 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)
Using Creative Writing Instruction in the Urban High School English Classroom to Promote Writing Skills in Remedial Level Students, Maureen Harrison (2008)
Student Writing and Composition Instruction Using Web 2.0 : The Problems and Promise of Collaborative Technology, Bruce Robert Henecker (2008)
Work, Alienation, and Humor : A Marxist Reading of Samuel Beckett's "Murphy" and "Waiting for Godot", Catherine Keeran (2008)
Montclair State University’s Secondary English Education Program : Perceptions and Expectations of Pre-Service and Beginning Teachers of Writing, David B. Malter (2008)
The Narrative “I” and Eye : Hawthorne’s Artist as Social Observer, Orah Dan Massarsky (2008)
In Search of Female Space : Resistance and Creation in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions and She No Longer Weeps, Diana McKenna (2008)
Evelyn Waugh's Deceptions of the "Decline and Fall" of "Vile Bodies" into "A Handful of Dust", Allison Elaine Nazimek (2008)
Artemus Ward : The Gentle Humorist, John Raymond Pascal (2008)
The Many Masks of Louisa May Alcott’s Gothic Heroines, Lisa Poggi (2008)
Listen Carefully : A Rhetorical Analysis of Speeches Delivered by President George W. Bush, Jennifer R. Priore (2008)
Replacing the Native American with the "New American" in Margaret Fuller's Summer on the Lakes, in 1843, Laura M. Reilly (2008)
Lack of Proportion in Antic Hay : Understanding Aldous Huxley’s Early Aesthetic and Social Views, Sandy Reyes (2008)
The Ethical Implications of Assigning Personal Narratives, Krista Ann Schlomann (2008)
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Nick Hornby and the Plight of Generation X, Michael Berkowitz (2007)
“You May Explore Yourself Freely" : Gender and the Fantastic in Jeanette Winterson and Angela Carter, Elissa Cording (2007)
From One to Many-Sided : Negotiating an Ethics of Liberalism in Daniel Deronda, Anne Cecilia De Marzio (2007)
A Record of the Struggle : Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah, Fruita Louise Diaz-Jenkins (2007)
“These Would Have Been All My Friends” : Families of Birth, Families of Choice, and Personal Autonomy in Mansfield Park, Emma, and Persuasion, Tavya Jackson (2007)
Steeltown Roots : Duality, Detachment, and the Search for Identity in Postwar Pittsburgh Literature, Genna Elizabeth Knight (2007)
Class Indifference - A Divided Nation : Finding Common Ground Through American Pragmatism and Democratic Principles in the Composition Classroom, Stacey L. Morrison (2007)
Ghostly Writing : Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Issues of Visibility, Erin Barclay Nemiroff (2007)
There’s No Place Like Home : The Changing Definition of Exile in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children and Shame, Patricia J. Soliman (2007)
"The Problematic Business of Living Itself" : David Mamet's Devolving Theater, Kristopher Aaron Spring (2007)