Past Writing and Rhetoric PhD Dissertations
Spring 2025
Danielle DeArment-Donohue
"Making a Way Out of No Way:” Rhetorical Navigation of Workplace Lactation
Jenny Goransson
Contemplative Feedback Practices for the Endless Stack: A Qualitative Study of Mindfulness Practices for Writing Teachers’ Response Work
George Guay
The Rhetoric of Ghost Bikes
Jeannette Mulherin
Cults and Confidence: An Examination of Cult Recruitment Rhetoric Targeting Women and Its Presence in Mainstream Confidence Culture Discourse
Jonathan Marine
A Theoretical Model of Writing Engagement in Higher Education
Tyler Martinez
Sustainable Dwelling: Attuning to Metonymies and Revealing Spaces of Rhetorical Invention
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Fall 2024
Karen Bishop
The Rhetorical Embodied Dialogue of Yoga
Tanya Boucicaut
Let's Chill And Protest: Reclaiming Leisure and Identity for HBCU Students During Greekfest 1989
Indigo Erikson
Disrupting Despair: Faculty Reflection, Institutional Intervention, and the Transformation of Writing Pedagogies in Community College Composition
Ron'ada Hewitt
A Theoretical Model of Writing Engagement in Higher Education
Shantay Robinson
Who Controls the Image? Observing the Visual Rhetoric of Black Women Today
Heather Smith
Activity Theory and the Designation of Vulnerable Populations as Tactical Technical Communicators: Female Veteran Farmers as Knowledge-makers in the Use of Agriculture Tools
Emily Staudt
Dynamic Reflective Practices for Graduate Teaching Assistants in Composition: Pathways to Professional Development.
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Summer 2024
Laurie Miller
Writing Faculty Perception and Application of Linguistic Justice Principles
Munira Mutmainna
An Inquiry of Health Narratives of South Asian Immigrant and International Communities in the U.S.
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Spring 2024
Jackie Brown
Trust in Higher Education: Faculty Perspectives on the Facets of Trust in Business Writing-Intensive Classrooms
Jason Grant
Dialogic Rhetoric: How Publics Emerge, Meaning is Created, and Governments are Structured as Localized Solutions to Public Problems
Matt Green
Engines of Agency: Impact Events in the Development of Tabletop Roleplaying Games
Anna Habib
Linguistic Justice, Translingualism, and the Lived Experience of Language: “the Unraveling of What Once Felt Intact
Joan Hwang
Ethical Implications of Communicating Risk in the Media: A Heuristic for Reporting on Crisis Events with a Focus on Mass School Shootings
Chalet Jean-Baptiste
Neoteric Intellectuals: How African American Navigate and Exercise Agency at Predominantely White Institutions
Kathryn Meeks
Rhetoric of the Natural World: Temporal Tensions in Rhetoric After-the-Fact, Intergenerational Rhetoric, and Public Display
Michelle Ruehl
Theater as a Rhetorical Social Intervention: Using Trauma Responsive Rhetoric with Military and Veteran Communities
Megan Rathburn (Voelkel)
Virtual Effects: A Qualitative Research Study on the Influence of Event Context on Genre Use and Genre Knowledge
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Fall 2023
Lauren Foster
Metacognition as a Transformative Process in Teaching and Learning
Summer 2023
Christine Kervina
Toward a New Model for Disciplinary Literacy Instruction: Reuniting Reading and Writing as Co-equal Literacies with the WAC/WID Balanced Disciplinary Literacy Instruction Model
Caitlin Dungan
"There's No Way She's Straight": Towards a Heuristic of Positive Queer Representation in Gaming
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Spring 2023
Tom Polk
Accessing Authenticity: Theorizing a Holistic Model of Writing Development
Randa Saad
The Perceptions of Writers With Learning Disabilities: What Helps Them Write In College
Lauren Tuckley
Genre Performance and the Discursive Regulation of Value Alignment: How the Personal Statement Mediates Organizational Access and Ideologically Reproduces its Members
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Spring 2022
Jessica McCaughey
Dynamic Workplace Writing Transfer: Writing Across Career Change
Lacey Wooten
Doing the Right Thing: Professionalism, Deep Accountability, and Emotional Labor in Disciplinary Writing Instruction
David Corwin
Friendship Shouldn’t Hurt: Toward a Trauma-Literate Rhetoric of Friendship Through Post-2010 Television
Roni Garrison-Joyner
Black at the OBGYN: Rhetorics of Race in Women’s Health Care
Kyle Trott
A Rhetorical Analysis of Teacher Instructional Speech
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Fall 2021
Norma Coto
Persuasion by Word of Foot: A Rhetorical-Ontological Inquiry into Barefoot Running as a Health Practice
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Summer 2021
Ashley Yuckenberg
Ethical Implications of Communicating Risk in the Media: A Heuristic for Reporting on Crisis Events with a Focus on Mass School Shootings
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Spring 2021
Sarah Johnson
From Standard English to Synergistic English Work: Uncovering Writing Instructors’ Negotiations of the Standard English Dilemma and Paradox in Their Writing Assessment Practices
Robyn Russo
Towards an Expansive Equity: Reimagining How Writing in Two-Year Colleges can Facilitate a New Vision of Equity as a Practice
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Spring 2020
Jennifer Messier
How Contingent Composition Faculty Members Reframe Professional Identity Through Faculty Learning Communities
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Summer 2020
Bree McGregor
Secret, Unofficial, And Military-Connected: How Active-Duty U.S. Marines Use Social Media To Cultivate Professionalized Learning Communities
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Summer 2019
Elizabeth Martelli (Ferguson)
Decolonizing Epidemics: Power Structures that Define, Name, and Frame Medical Disasters
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Spring 2019
Amber Jensen
Preservice English Teachers and 21st Century Composition in Flux: Implementing Principles of Writing Across Sites of Learning
Lourdes Fernandez
Agency and Ontology in the Rhetorics of Sexual Assault
Kellie Gray
“It wasn’t supposed to be hairy”: From Variant Glyphs to Rendered Ecologies of Code, Constraint, and Culture
Rachael Lussos
Rhetorics of Quantification in the Context of Chronic Pain
Paul Michiels
Toward a Paraphrase Pedagogy for Multilingual Writers: Weighing Pedagogical Prescriptions Against Instructional and Disciplinary Practice
Beth Caravella
Teaching Gamefully: Proceduralizing the Classroom through Possibility Space Pedagogy
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Spring 2017
Colleen Reynolds
21st-century Rhetorical Practices for Business-to-Business Sales Professionals and Sales Educators that Synthesize Shakespeare and Improvisation with Theories of Kenneth Burke