Communication Theses
Theses/Dissertations from 2025
Multilingual Voices, Monolingual Spaces: Linguistic, Academic, and Cultural Challenges of ESL Students, Farhana Akter
What I Was and Who I Am, and before and after, Molly K. Del Rossi
Dystopian Politics in the Hunger Games Series, Tristan Hogan
Threshold: Stories & Graphic Memoir, Emily Kay Lewandowski
Translating the Ocean, Damilola Ruth Oyedeji
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Genie Duty, Savannah S. Franklin
Word Reimagined: Analyzing Fanfiction's Transformative Force and Relationship With the Young Adult Literary Landscape, Megan Louise Reaves
Nohbody Goes to Nashville, Eli Slover
Outside Inside: Poems, Emma Jane Sullivan
Empowered Womanhood in Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s “Sultana’s Dream” and Greta Gerwig’s Barbie: Keys to the Ideal World, Tasnuva Tabassum
Women in Religious Leadership Roles, Amanda Wadkins
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Creating the Pause: A Theoretical Approach to Helping Students Achieve Creative Independence, Amanda J. Anderson
Mrs. Blackbird and the Visiting Chair, Taylor Barnhart
Reading in Place: Ordinary Language Philosophy, Wendell Berry, and Post Critique, Calvin L. Coon
Yes, Baby: Essays, Amy Gault
The Rhetorical Use of the Other: An Analysis of Symbolic Disability in Contemporary Horror Films, Seth Hadley
Right Turn at Reality: A Rhetorical Analysis of Right Wing Negotiations on Race and Masculinity in Online Spaces, Andrew R.J. Hart
Revisiting History: Anti-Racialist Afrofuturism in Octavia Butler's Kindred, Brad C. Kelly
Domesticity and Religion: Women in Italian American Literature and Culture of the 1930s, Madeleine J. Kirkpatrick
Ash Grove, William LaPage
Preparations, Sarah E. Lewis
Menagerie Pains, Rachel D. McClay
Saprotrophic, Hailey Jean Pedersen
How to Become a Fairy Godmother, Anne Roberts
Invisible Monsters: Chuck Palahniuk’s Transgressive Look at a Hyperrealized Society, Jordan R. Trevarthen
Auto-Exploited: Narrative Explorations of the Commodification of Time, Grace C. Willis Ms.
An Education in Democracy: Understanding and Subverting Censorship in the English Classroom, Hannah R. Woolsey
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Their Eyes Were Always Watching and Other Stories, Steve A. Booker Jr
The Impact of Freewriting on Writing Teachers' Self-Perceptions, Katherine A. Busch
Conceptualizations of a Flea Market Space, Tyler D. Curran
The Me [Unnamed]: Essays, Rebecca Ann Harris
England's Fairest Creatures, Madison Hart
Crutches, James Preston Heil
Online Speech & Debate: Should We Zoom Into the Future?, Parker E. Hopkins
Beyond the Veil, Alyssa K. Malloy
Queering Job: Inverted Liberation in Boy Erased and Other Conversion Trauma Narratives, Harrison Beau Palen
Sheltered Cohort: A Restorative Approach to Relational Conflict and Disempowering Policies at a Men’s Homeless Shelter, Shaun A. Sletten
Splitleaf, Sean M. Turlington
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Brides of the Jasmine Land: A Collection of Short Stories Exploring Womanhood in the Middle East, Batool Alzubi
Life, Love, and Loss: Redefining the Trauma, Samantha Crystal Rae Barnette
"What Camelot Means": Women and LGBTQ+ Authors Paving the Way for a More Inclusive Arthuriana through Young Adult Literature, Jeddie Mae Bristow
Affinity-Seeking: Student Desirability and Motivation in the Classroom, Taylor D. Corlee
Fragmented Worlds, Fractured Families - Narrative Levels in Graphic Memoir, Henry Wilson Essman
Multiracial Identity: Membership and Cultural Representation, Bethanne Grover
Reviewing the Review Process: Designing Better Review Forms for Student Editors of Undergraduate Research Publications, Meluso Rosaria Meluso
Self-portraits of the Byelingual Immigrant, Sujash Purna
The Co-Requisite Collaboration: Building Self-Confidence, Self-Efficacy, and Rapport through Dialogue Journals in a Basic Writing Course, Timothy Jacob Pyatt
Sex Differences in Communication During Times of Conflict, Erin J. Snider
Terrorism, Trauma, and Memory: Constructing National Identity at The 9/11 Museum and The Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum, Caroline L. Whittenburg
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Allyship as an Act: The Performative, Power-Laden, and Contradictory Co-Cultural Strategies of Straight Allies, David Dooling
Critical Veganism: A Posthuman Understanding of ‘Becoming With’ Others, Kensey Dressler
Brilliant Women: Prose and Poetry, Amelia Fisher
Skin: Stories, Poems, and Essays, Amanda G. Hadlock
Inviting Entry-Level Composition Students to Interact with Their Instructor outside of the Classroom: Influences, Trends, and New Perspectives, Alyssa K. Knight
A Path Unfolding, Sarah Lucille Parris
Leaving the Good Place: Examining Organizational Exit in Nonprofits, Michaela Lauren Sees Plummer
Imaginative Empathies: Exploring the Role of Creative Writing in Developing Social Skills of College Students with Autism, Rebekkah N. Richner
Writing Through the Senses in the Basic Writing Classroom, Danielle M. Schull
Between the Lines: Reflexive Misogyny and Remediated Forms in a Secret Online Group of Women Poets, Rae Elizabeth Snobl
Billion-Dollar Bride: Book 1—Godric's Academy for Young Ladies, Kaylin N. Stickley
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
“We Carry These Conflicts, These Ruptures of History:” the Hybridity of the Self in the Conflict between Tradition and Modernity in Laleh Khadivi’s the Age of Orphans, Karwan Karim Abdalrahman
If We Are Honest, Lisa L. Anthony
The Resurrection of Nora O'Brien, Abigail Elizabeth Benson
Middle Car, Christopher Daniel Crabtree
Using Orality to Improve Student Writing, B. Webster Freeman
At Least Buy Me a Drink First, Ali Renee Geren
The Impact of Bureaucracy, Power, and Structure on the Black Graduate Student Experience, Demetria Scherell Green
The Boys with the Spare Keys, Katelyn Elizabeth Grisham
Developing Perceptions: Piloting a Corequisite Writing Course, Kailyn Shartel Hall
Exploring Motivations for Intercollegiate Debate Participation, Joe Hamaker
My Poetry Writing, My Defeat of Illusion, Binghui Jin
How to Water the Body, Taylor M. Lorenzo
Collaboration in Social Hobby Groups: Transferring Qualities of Teamwork from the Social Sphere to the Professional Sphere, Emily M. McCormick
Mutts: A Collection of Short Fiction, Shane E. Page
Queering Performative Face Theory: Analyzing Coming Out Narratives, Dominic A. Pecoraro
I Was a Teenage Misanthrope: Essays, Lane E. Pybas
The Effects of Color Choice in Web Design on the Usability for Individuals with Color-Blindness, Theresa Marie Sparks
Fire to Vellum, Jessica L. Warren
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Tangled, Shannon Marie Ashley
Video Composition, Creative Discourse, and Facilitated Freedom: A Teacher's Journey to Reveal Student Potential, Michael A. Brinkmeyer
Tree Song, Amie Elizabeth Case
Learning to Fish and Learning My Place: Joy and Power Struggles in Alaska Seasonal Work, Mary E. Chiles
A Matter of Value: Creative Writing Strategies and Their Transference to Composition, Brandy Dawn Clark
Dear Me, Hannah Patricia Farley
Ghetto Birds and Other Things That Lurk, Mary Frances Henn
Gongshi Meditation on the American Prairie, Brandon A. Henry
A Relational Dialectics Approach to the Identity Development of Millennial Mothers, Shawna L. Merrill
Critical Pedagogy and the Ethics of Care: How Values Affect the Classroom Dynamic, Colby D. Reed
What's in a Name? Exploring Anglicized Naming Practices amongst Chinese International Students, Garrett R. Ruzicka
Fortune Glen, Breea N. Schutt
You Are What You Write, Yumeng Wang
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Dinner at Eight, Anastasia M. Berkovich
Peppermint, Anthony Isaac Bradley
Self-Confessions, Brandy Dawn Clark
Breaking Expectations: Deviations from Genre, Gender, and Social Order in the Clerk's and the Merchant's Tales, Rachel Lea Combs
Boys Club, Elizabeth Fiset
Mementos: A Collection of Essays, Linda S. Foster
Ship of Fools, Kevin Grzybowski
An Idol of the Old Errors, Amy Kaye Lafferty
