English Language and Literature ETDs
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Theses/Dissertations from 2123
The Museum of Clean: A Memoir, Cyrus Stuvland
Theses/Dissertations from 2121
The Walking, Mikaela E. Osler
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Resistance Narratives: Storytelling of Transnational Insurgencies in 1960-70s US and Mexico, Tania Libertad Balderas
THE VALUE OF STORYTELLING THROUGH DIGITAL FAMILY NARRATIVES: A CASE STUDY OF A DINÉ STORYTELLER, Sunnie R. Clahchischiligi
Menetekel: Ishmael's Black Whale and the Semiotics of Doom, Todd Tyner Cronkhite
An Infinite Number of Things, Ruben Miranda-Juarez Jr
Meadowlark: Poems, Tyler Mortensen-Hayes
Digitally Rural: Identifying How Technological Inequity Impacts Rural Students in First-Year Writing Courses, Jo Anna M. Nevada
Child of Earth, Charles S. O'Melia
Cinematic Camouflage, Jared Valdez
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Maneuvering Mestizaje in Shakespeare's Tragicomedies, Andrea Phiana Borunda
MAKING SPACE FOR CENTRAL AMERICAN DIASPORIC DECOLONIAL IMAGINARIES: AN AUTOETHNOGRAPHY OF A 1ST GENERATION CENTRAL-AMERICAN-AMERICAN, Melisa N. Garcia
Beyond Seeing: Sight, Mind, and Power in Early-Medieval England, Kevin S. Jackson
The Buried Train, Amanda Kooser
Spectator, Rhea Erica Ramakrishnan
Whose Body is Deserving: Discourse, Power, and Ideologies Concerning Non-Normative Bodies on Instagram, Misty Thomas
Starseed, Jennifer Tubbs
More than the Defiant Few: Lost Womanhood and Necro Women Dismantling Nineteenth-Century Gender Ideologies, Vicki Vanbrocklin
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Petal, Jennifer Lynn Conn
NADA MÁS QUE DECIR, Darren Donate
A Little Bird Told Me: Stories, Amarlie Foster
American Standard, Seth Garcia
Thank You, John., Michelle Gurule
Mothering, Jane Nneoma Kalu
Literacy, Rhetoric, Tradition, and Truth in the Age of Bede, Gerard A. Lavin III
Regional Domesticities: Recalling, Rewriting, and Redefining Gender and Domesticity in the Greater Southwest, A. Laurie Lowrance
NUMB: The Boy Who Couldn't Feel, Mario J. Montoya
Animal Texts: Critical Animal Concepts in Environmental Literature for the Anthropocene, Lauren Perry
“THE END OF ONE SHALL BE THE END OF ALL”: SOLIDARITY IN 19TH CENTURY AFRICAN AMERICAN TEXTS, David Puthoff
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
The Ego at an Impasse: Aesthetic Empathy and the Abject d’art in Fin de Siècle Supernatural Fiction, Leandra E. Binder
Portraits as Animal, Victoria R. Cardenas
CHARLOTTE SMITH, Heather Johnson
The Ridgeway Ghost, Mitch Marty
A Boy Named Ariel, Ariel E. McGuirk
First the Blessing, Then the Aftermath, Emily Murphy
The Magic of Love: Love Magic in Medieval Romance, Dalicia Raymond
Holy Body, Holy Place: The Veneration of St. Swithun from the Old Minster to Winchester Cathedral, Abigail G. Robertson
Mass & Shadow, Ruben T. Rodriguez
Getting to Denver: Instructor Participation in the Design of Writing Program Assessment Technologies, Soha Fransis Turfler
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Dissonances of Dispossession: Narrating Colonialism and Slavery in the Expansion of Capitalism, W. Oliver Baker
By Talon and By Tooth: Disaster Culture, American Literary Naturalism, and the Aesthetics of (Dis)integration, Vincent M. Basso
Travelling Light, Tatiana Duvanova
Material Matters: Paratextual Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Indigenous Book History, Amy Gore
THE CHAOTIC DOMESTIC: TRACING AFFECT IN REPRESENTATIONS OF NATION, CLASS, AND GENDER IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LABORING-CLASS WOMEN’S WRITING, Kelly J. Hunnings
RE-THINKING THE WEIRD (IN THE) WEST: MULTI-ETHNIC LITERATURES AND THE SOUTHWEST, Jana M. Koehler
FEMALE PROTAGONIST MEGA-ARCHETYPES: A STUDY IN MEDIEVAL EUROPEAN ROMANCES, Doaa Omran
675 Days: Stories Queer Kids Tell Themselves, Hayley Peterson
Multimodal Composition and Digital Technology: Investigating the Out-of-Class Experiences of Students in a First-Year Composition Class, Jennifer Morgan Sims
Calling All Corpses: An Examination of the Treatment of the Dead in Old English Literature, Jessica Troy
Multilingual Writers and Online Writing Instruction: Expanding Our Theoretical and Instructional Frameworks, Mariya V. Tseptsura
American Yogi, Lydia R. Wassan
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
“ENOUGH OF THOUGHT, PHILOSOPHER!”: EMILY BRONTË’S INTERROGATIONS OF DEATH, Katherine Marie Alexander
Body as News, Brent Colby Gates
Accidental Curators, Steven D. Howe
Material Culture in the Religious Narratives of the Old English Exeter Book, Justin J. Larsen
SUNSHINE ‘89, David O'Connor
Triangle A Novella with Short Stories, Faerl M. Torres
Raised by the River, Crystal J. Zanders
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Neither Surrogate Nor Complement: The Long Life of Visual Narratives, Ann L. D'Orazio
Invention, Integration, and Engagement With/In an Engineering Student Organization, Brian Hendrickson
The Price of Admission, Catherine A. Hubka
The Magic Weave, A veil is also a weave, Paula Hughson
Storyless: A Memoir, Ana N. June
Under the Rainbow, Celia Laskey
From the Kingdom of the Lost, Lawrence B. Reeder IV
West by Midwest, Lucas Shepherd
Devilish Leaders, Demonic Parliaments, and Diabolical Rebels: The Political Devil and Nationalistic Rhetoric from Malmesbury to Milton, Karra HK Shimabukuro
Every Last Bad Time, Jason Thayer
Embodying the West: A Literary and Cultural History of Environment, Body, and Belief, Julie E. Williams
On Leaving, Charles Wormhoudt
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
From Recovery to Discovery: Ethnic American Science Fiction and (Re)Creating the Future, Daoine S. Bachran
Siete Lenguas: The Rhetorical History of Dolores Huerta and the Rise of Chicana Rhetoric, Christine Beagle
Where Birds Go to Die, a Memoir, Daniel Joseph Berger
SHIFTING DREAMS: INTERSECTIONS OF THE RHETORICAL IMAGINATION OF U.S. IMMIGRATION POLICY AND THE WRITING PRACTICES OF DREAMERS, Genevieve Garcia de Mueller
A Guayaba's Heart, Melisa Garcia
Whistle, Brenna Gomez
Chicana Feminist Acts: Re-Staging Chicano/a Theater from the Early Twentieth Century to the Present, Natalie M. Kubasek
Thieves' Nest, Kathryne Lim
On Childhood and Other Sad Things, Matthew Maruyama
A New and Different Sun, Annie Olson
"I Heard the Same Thing Once Before": Intertextuality in Selected Works of Evelyn Waugh, Janelle Lynn Ortega
"THE DISTEMPER OF A GENTLEMAN": GROTESQUE VISUAL AND LITERARY DEPICTIONS OF GOUT IN GREAT BRITAIN 1744-1826, Calinda Shely
"The Bellows / of Experience": The Modernist Love Poem and Its Legacy, Stephanie Spong
The Gothic Presence of Poland in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Jill Noel Walker Gonzalez
Black Stone on a White Wind, Lynn Wohlwend
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
A Currency of Birds, Lucy Burns
What Happens Next, Carrie Classon
A Model Citizen: Ethos, Conservation, and the Rhetorical Construction of Aldo Leopold, Daniel Cryer
THE SURVIVORS: A Novel, Jill Dehnert
God's Chosen: The Cults of Virgin Martyrs in Anglo-Saxon England, Colleen Dunn
"The Fact of God": Form and Belief in British Modernist Poetry, Annarose Fitzgerald
Getting on the Same Page: The Hermeneutics of Peer Feedback in Composition Classrooms, Mellisa Huffman
Canaries, Logan MacClyment
The Hat, Katherine Minkin
The Wilderness in Medieval English Literature: Genre, Audience and Society, Lisa Myers
Fishers of Men, Michael Noltemeyer
