English Language and Literature ETDs
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Theses/Dissertations from 2015
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
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
To Grips, Mike Shearer
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
Willa Cather: A Feminist Study, Sharon R. Barba
