Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Beauty and the Beasts: Making Places with Literary Animals of Florida, Haili A. Alcorn
The Medievalizing Process: Religious Medievalism in Romantic and Victorian Literature, Timothy M. Curran
Seeing Trauma: The Known and the Hidden in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Alisa M. DeBorde
Analysis of User Interfaces in the Sharing Economy, Taylor B. Johnson
Border-Crossing Travels Across Literary Worlds: My Shamanic Conscientization, Scott Neumeister
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Traveling Women and Consuming Place in Eighteenth-Century Travel Letters and Journals, Cassie Patricia Childs
“The Nations of the Field and Wood”: The Uncertain Ontology of Animals in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, J. Kevin Jordan
Modern Mythologies: The Epic Imagination in Contemporary Indian Literature, Sucheta Kanjilal
Science in the Sun: How Science is Performed as a Spatial Practice, Natalie Kass
Body as Text: Physiognomy on the Early English Stage, Curtis Le Van
Tensions Between Democracy and Expertise in the Florida Keys, Elizabeth A. Loyer
Institutional Review Boards and Writing Studies Research: A Justice-Oriented Study, Johanna Phelps-Hillen
The Spirit of Friendship: Girlfriends in Contemporary African American Literature, Tangela La'Chelle Serls
Aphra Behn on the Contemporary Stage: Behn's Feminist Legacy and Woman-Directed Revivals of The Rover, Nicole Elizabeth Stodard
(Age)ncy in Composition Studies, Alaina Tackitt
Constructing Health Narratives: Patient Feedback in Online Communities, Katie Lynn Walkup
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Shaping Climate Citizenship: The Ethics of Inclusion in Climate Change Communication and Policy, Lauren E. Cagle
Drop, Cover, and Hold On: Analyzing FEMA's Risk Communication through Visual Rhetoric, Samantha Jo Cosgrove
Material Expertise: Applying Object-oriented Rhetoric in Marine Policy, Zachary Parke Dixon
The Non-Identical Anglophone Bildungsroman: From the Categorical to the De-Centering Literary Subject in the Black Atlantic, Jarad Heath Fennell
Instattack: Instagram and Visual Ad Hominem Political Arguments, Sophia Evangeline Gourgiotis
Hospitable Climates: Representations of the West Indies in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, Marisa Carmen Iglesias
Chosen Champions: Medieval and Early Modern Heroes as Postcolonial Reactions to Tensions between England and Europe, Jessica Trant Labossiere
Science, Policy, and Decision Making: A Case Study of Deliberative Rhetoric and Policymaking for Coastal Adaptation in Southeast Florida, Karen Patricia Langbehn
A New Materialist Approach to Visual Rhetoric in PhotoShopBattles, Jonathan Paul Ray
Tracing the Material: Spaces and Objects in British and Irish Modernist Novels, Mary Allison Wise
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Representations of Gatsby: Ninety Years of Retrospective, Christine Anne Auger
Robust, Low Power, Discrete Gate Sizing, Anthony Joseph Casagrande
Wrestling with Angels: Postsecular Contemporary American Poetry, Paul T. Corrigan
#networkedglobe: Making the Connection between Social Media and Intercultural Technical Communication, Laura Anne Ewing
Evidence of Things Not Seen: A Semi-Automated Descriptive Phrase and Frame Analysis of Texts about the Herbicide Agent Orange, Sarah Beth Hopton
'She Shall Not Be Moved': Black Women's Spiritual Practice in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Beloved, Paradise, and Home, Rondrea Danielle Mathis
Relational Agency, Networked Technology, and the Social Media Aftermath of the Boston Marathon Bombing, Megan M. Mcintyre
Now, We Hear Through a Voice Darkly: New Media and Narratology in Cinematic Art, James Anthony Ricci
Navigating Collective Activity Systems: An Approach Towards Rhetorical Inquiry, Katherine Jesse Royce
Women's Narratives of Confinement: Domestic Chores as Threads of Resistance and Healing, Jacqueline Marie Smith
Domestic Spaces in Transition: Modern Representations of Dwelling in the Texts of Elizabeth Bowen, Shannon Tivnan
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Paradise Always Already Lost: Myth, Memory, and Matter in English Literature, Elizabeth Stuart Angello
Overcoming the 5th-Century BCE Epistemological Tragedy: A Productive Reading of Protagoras of Abdera, Ryan Alan Blank
Acts of Rebellion: The Rhetoric of Rogue Cinema, Adam Breckenridge
Material and Textual Spaces in the Poetry of Montagu, Leapor, Barbauld, and Robinson, Jessica Lauren Cook
Decolonizing Shakespeare: Race, Gender, and Colonialism in Three Adaptations of Three Plays by William Shakespeare, Angela Eward-Mangione
Risk of Compliance: Tracing Safety and Efficacy in Mef-Lariam's Licensure, Julie Marie Gerdes
Beyond Performance: Rhetoric, Collective Memory, and the Motive of Imprinting Identity, Brenda M. Grau
Subversive Beauty - Victorian Bodies of Expression, Lisa Michelle Hoffman-Reyes
Integrating Reading and Writing For Florida's ESOL Program, George Douglas Mcarthur
Responsibility and Responsiveness in the Novels of Ann Radcliffe and Mary Shelley, Katherine Marie McGee
Ghosts, Orphans, and Outlaws: History, Family, and the Law in Toni Morrison's Fiction, Jessica Mckee
The "Defective" Generation: Disability in Modernist Literature, Deborah Susan Mcleod
Science Fiction/Fantasy and the Representation of Ethnic Futurity, Joy Ann Sanchez-Taylor
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Rhetorical Spirits: Spirituality as Rhetorical Device in New Age Womanist of Color Texts, Ronisha Witlee Browdy
Disciplinarity, Crisis, and Opportunity in Technical Communication, Jason Robert Carabelli
The Terror of Possibility: A Re-evaluation and Reconception of the Sublime Aesthetic, Kurt Fawver
Unbearable Weight, Unbearable Witness: The (Im)possibility of Witnessing Eating Disorders in Cyberspace, Kristen Nicole Gay
the post- 9/11 aesthetic: repositioning the zombie film in the horror genre, Alan Edward Green, Jr.
An(other) Rhetoric: Rhetoric, Ethics, and the Rhetorical Tradition, Kathleen Sandell Hardesty
Mapping Dissertation Genre Ecology, Kate Lisbeth Pantelides
Dead Man's Switch: Disaster Rhetorics in a Posthuman Age, Daniel Patrick Richards
"Of That Transfigured World" : Realism and Fantasy in Victorian Literature, Benjamin Jude Wright
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Failed Heroes: Hypermasculinity in the Contemporary American Novel, Josef D. Benson
Electronic Peer Feedback in a Collaborative Classroom, Cassandra A. Branham
"Free Your Mind . . . and the Rest Will Follow": A Secularly Contemplative Approach To Teaching High School English, Kendra Nicole Bryant
Talking About Talk: The Problem of Communication as an Object of Study in Public Participation Research, Lauren Leigh Cutlip
The Dark Circle: Spiritualism in Victorian and Neo-Victorian Fiction, Joseph Good
Lower Sacraments: Theological Eating in the Fiction of C. S. Lewis, Gregory Philip Hartley
Toward a Working Theory of Neurorhetorics, Jeffrey L. Honnold
Shaping Identity: Male and Female Interactions in Cinema, Jonette Lauren Lagamba
"Bite on Boldly": Staging Medieval and Early Modern Heretics, Cameron Hunt Mcnabb
Circling Back Home: A Lifelong Odyssey into Feminism, Scott Leslie Neumeister
Musical Rhetoric and Sonic Composing Processes, Kyle D. Stedman
Tracing Boundaries, Effacing Boundaries: Information Literacy as an Academic Discipline, Grace L. Veach
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
The Portia Project: The Heiress of Belmont on Stage and Screen, Ann Mccauley Basso
Religion as Aesthetic Creation: Ritual and Belief in William Butler Yeats and Aleister Crowley, Amy M. Clanton
Repression/Incitement: Double-Reading Vita Sackville-West's The Edwardians Through Freud and Foucault, Aimee Elizabeth Coley
"A Blaze of Light and Finery": The Victorian Theater and the Victorian Theatrical Novel, Dorinda Mari Davis
The Tyranny of Plot: Anzia Yezierska's Struggle to Free the Voices of Her Community through the Autobiographical Self, Kristie Kelly Dowling
"The Wound and the Voiceless: The Insidious Trauma of Father-Daughter Incest in Six American Texts", Christine Lynn Grogan
How to Get from Here to There: Poetic Connections in Tracy Letts's "Man from Nebraska," "August: Osage County," and "Superior Donuts.", Deborah Ann Kochman
Interpreting with "All Possible Caution, on Mental Tiptoe": Nabakov's Post-Romantic Renewal of Perception in Lolita, Curtis Donald Le Van
Saved by the (Alexander Graham) Bell: An Analysis of Synchronous Communication and Student Satisfaction / Retention Rates in the First Year Online Composition Classroom, Jennifer Jane Lynch
Poe as Magazinist, Kay Ellen McKamy
Cold War Playboys: Models of Masculinity in the Literature of Playboy, Taylor Joy Mitchell
Delinquencies, Bryan Thomas Rice
Small Flowerings of Unhu: the Survival of Community in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Novels, Dana Rine
"Show Me the Money!": A Pecuniary Explication of William Makepeace Thackeray's Critical Journalism, Gary Simons
National Identity, Gender, and Genre: The Multiple Marginalization of Lotte Reiniger and The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926), K. Vivian Taylor
Narratives of Architectural Revolution in Online Christian Rhetoric, Quentin David Vieregge
The Time Machine and Heart of Darkness: H.G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, and the fin de siecle, Haili Ann Vinson
Celestial Bodies, Jared Calvin White
Addressing the Decline of Academic Performance Among First-Year Composition Students: A Usability Analysis of Two Important Online Resources, Kate Zephyrhawke
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Haole, Shawn Alff
Female agency in Restoration and nineteenth-century drama, Haley D. Anderson
Re-composition: Considering the intersections of composition and creative writing theories and pedagogies, Danita Berg
Melville’s Unknown Pathology: The Humoral Theory of Disease and Low Grade Lead Poisoning in Bartleby the Scrivener, Gerard Bogin
Alien encounters and the alien/human dichotomy in Stanley Kubrick's 2001, a space odyssey and Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris, Keith Cavedo
"In My Church We Don't Believe in Homosexuals": Queer Identity and Dominant Culture in Three Texts of the AIDS Era, Steven Cooper
Dust, ash, and the sublime: Tracing Kant's aesthetics in Cormac McCarthy's The crossing and The road, Ben Gerdts