English Language and Literature ETDs
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Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Fishers of Men, Michael Noltemeyer
Rulers and the Wolf: Archbishop Wulfstan, Anglo-Saxon Kings, and the Problems of His Present, Nicholas Schwartz
Exoskeletons, Sarah Sheesley
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Nuclear Family, Ty Bannerman
The Early-Modernization of the Classical Muse, Bruce Carroll
Beyond the Lore: A Research-Based Case for Asynchronous Online Writing Tutoring, Kathryn M. Denton
Persons Unknown, Ben Dolan
Until We Sink and other stories, Christina Glessner
Animal People, Sabrina Golmassian
BACK 2 LIFE, Donna Gutierrez
Case Not Closed: Whiteness and the Rhetorical Genres of Freedom Summer, Lindsey Ives
Jiggs and Other Stories, Vondell Jones
Out of Time: Temporal Colonization and the Writing of Mexican American Subjectivity, Erin Murrah-Mandril
Narratives of Hostility and Survivance in Multiethnic American Literature, 1850-1903, Jennifer M. Nader
The Great Green Wall, Catherine Pelletier
Remapping the U.S. "Southwest": Early Mexican American Literature and the Production of Transnational Counterspaces, 1885-1958, Diana Noreen Rivera
Selections from SHADOWS OF CLOUDS ON THE MOUNTAINS, Mike Smith
Mommy Maladies, Nicole Vigil
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Domain of the Marvelous, Anastasia Andersen
The Black Acres, Bonnie Arning
Skinning the Deer: A Love Story, Heather Campbell
THE LITERACIES OF LITERARY TEXTS: RHETORICAL BRIDGES BETWEEN ENGLISH STUDIES DISCIPLINES AND FIRST-YEAR WRITERS, Genesea Carter
The Cull, Laurel Coffey
Before You Become Improbable, Nick DePascal
A Hermeneutic Composition Pedagogy: The Student as Self, Citizen, and Writer in Dewey, Arendt, and Ricoeur, Gregory Haley
Morning Rituals, Nora Hickey
Private Matters: The Place of Privacy in English Legal Records, Romances, and Letters, 1300-1500, Christine Kozikowski
This Side Up, Upside Down, Adam Christopher Nunez
DIVERSE COLLEGE WRITERS AND THE CONVERSATION ON ERROR AND STANDARDIZATION ACROSS THE CURRICULUM, Tommy Pierce
The Verging Cities, Natalie Scenters-Zapico
'A Moment of Magic': Coyote, Tricksterism, and the Role of the Shaman in Rudolfo Anaya's Sonny Baca Novels, Roy Turner
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
A River of Voices: Confluences and Cross-Currents in the Discourse of the Colorado River, Paul Formisano
The Visual Exchange: The Intersection of Vision, Gender, and Empire in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, Stacey L. Kikendall
The Other Vanishing American: Disappearing Farmers in American Literature, 1887-1939., Carolyn Kuchera
When We Were Hunted, Casandra Lopez
A Falling Sky: A Novel, Richard Raab-Faber
Some Truths, Some Lies, Suzanne Richardson
The Plight of Rudy "Gordo" Sanchez and Other Short Stories, David Andrew Rubalcava-Talamantes
Reconstructing My Mother, Jennifer Simpson
Close, A Family Memoir, Elizabeth Tannen
Winter Bird, Tanaya Winder
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
On Unstable Ground: A Journey in Time, Memory, and Place, Molly Beer
The Paper-Haired God, Chris Boat
Influence, Agency, and the Women of England: Victorian Ideology and the Works of Sarah Stickney Ellis, Ashley Lynn Carlson
For the Lost, Carrie Cutler
The Magical Mystery Donkey Tour, Lucy Gwyn DuPertuis
A More Virtuous Empire: The Ideology of Manifest Destiny in American Literature and Film, Randall Lee Gann
Dollo & Me (Aftermath with Permutations) and The Relenting, Lisa Gill
Domestic Violence and Empire: Legacies of Conquest in Mexican American Writing, Leigh Johnson
Twine Ball: Stories, Felicia Megan Karas
Across Water, Nari Kirk
In the Clothes of Others, Jennifer Krohn-Bourgeois
The Random Occurrence of Parallel Acts, Linda Rickert
Contraband, Erika Sanchez
Nothing Free, Valerie Santillanes
Story of the Tierra Psycho, Rudolfo Serna
Decolonizing Gender: Indigenous Feminism and Native American Literature, Leah Sneider
The View From Here, Samantha Erin Tetangco
At the Rim of Vision, Melanie Unruh
Paydazed and a Song for Shenandoah, Richard R. Vargas
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
The Path to Personal Salvation: The Hermetic Trope of Self-Mastery in Shakespeare, Bacon, and Milton, Cassandra Amundson
Blood Heist, Dan Darling
Motherland, Emily Morelli
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Beloved Savages and Other Outsiders: Genre and Gender Transgressions in the Travel Writings of Herman Melville, Bayard Taylor, and Charles Warren Stoddard, Kelvin Ray Beliele
TOWARD A VISUAL PAIDEIA: VISUAL RHETORIC IN UNDERGRADUATE WRITING PROGRAMS, Candice Welhausen
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Still Life with Guns, John D. Bess
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Stahot' sewo' oms - I'll see you again : a study in the working of collaboration : the narratives of Bill Red Hat, Cheyenne Keeper of the Arrows, Sibylle M. Schlesier
Rhetoric and Craft: Essays on Conservation, Nature, and the Outdoors, Craig La Rue Springer
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
"I Give You Back": Memory, Language, And Transformation In Joy Harjo'S Poetry, Janice May Gould
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
The Poems and Prose of Elizabeth Moody, Jan Wellington
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
Ripple in Still Water, James Cosgrove
Theses/Dissertations from 1990
Rough on a Tangent, Cynthia Wynne Wooley
Theses/Dissertations from 1979
George Orwell'S Exploitation Of Two Propaganda Techniques In Animal Farm And 1984, Linda Ann Ramsey
Theses/Dissertations from 1978
Piers the Plowman and the Building of Truth, Rose Cothren Anstine
Theses/Dissertations from 1977
Now and Forever My Own Mistress: Virginia Woolf's Essay Style, Robert Steven Ferebee
Fondling the Brave Hello: Selected Poems of William Pearlman, William Pearlman
The Confidence Man: Melville's Problem of Faith, Thomas Vaughan Quirk
The Function of Biblical Sources in the Structure and Meaning of Blake's Milton, Donna Standfier Rix
The Utopia Within: Some Psychological Aspects of Edward Bellamy's Early Writing, Betty Cobey Senescu
Theses/Dissertations from 1976
Little Epics: More Lively and Choleric, Nancy Conrad Martinez
The Sound and the Fury: An Archetypal Reading, Theresa Lee Pearson
Twenty-Two Poems, Michael John Penny
Shared Fire: Reciprocity in Contemporary American Indian and Related Literature, Geri Marlane Rhodes
Rebuilt, Jim Sagel
Theses/Dissertations from 1975
The Dragon by the Road: An Archetypal Approach to the Fiction of Flannery O'Connor, Charles J. Olson
Away from Concord: The Travel Writings of Henry Thoreau, Robert Sattelmeyer
Theses/Dissertations from 1973
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: Apostle to the Disillusioned, Paul Nicholas Pavich
Theses/Dissertations from 1972
The Rhetoric Of Swift's "A Modest Proposal.", Nancy Jean Conrad
Selected Poems, 1970-1972, Thomas John Hill
The Female Warrior in the Renaissance Epic, Phillip Elliott Parotti
The Fiction of Kate Chopin, Peter James Peterson
Recognition and Reversal in Samson Agonistes, June Haig Simons
Theses/Dissertations from 1971
Backgrounds of Mexican American Literature, Philip D. Ortego
Landscape Imagery in Shelley's Major Poetry: The Forest and Related Settings, Ingrid J. Parker
Theses/Dissertations from 1969
Odysseus:The Confrontation With Death, Eric N. Havill
A Consideration Of Some Archetypes In Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur, Philip Lawrence Mead
Politics, Government, and Man in Swift's 1710-1714 Writings and Gulliver's Travels, Phil R. Phelps
