Graduate Student Dissertation Titles
2009
Iver Arnegard, Ph.D., Creative Writing
"Farland"
Lisa Cunningham,
"Correcting Arthur Munby: Philanthropy and Disfigurement in Victorian England"
Don Dudding, Ph.D., Rhetoric and Composition
"Between Saints and Snakes: Explicating the Historical, Philosophical, and Theoretical Foundations of Rhetorical Authority”
Gwen Hart, Ph.D., Rhetoric and Composition
"Composing Metaphors: Metaphors for Writing in the Composition Classroom"
Rachael Peckham, Ph.D., Creative Writing
"Where the Watchers Wait"
2008
John Michael Drew, Ph.D., Literature
"Shakespear and the Language of Doubt"
Kelley Evans, Ph.D., Rhetoric and Composition
"Body Composition"
Talinn Philips, Ph.D., Rhetoric and Composition
"Examining Bridges, Expanding Boundaries, Imagining New Identities: The Writing Center as Bridge for Second Language Graduate Writers"
Matthew Stallard, Ph.D., Literature
"John Milton’s Bible: Scriptural Resonance in Paradise Lost"
Sherman Sutherland, Ph.D., Creative Writing
"Diary of the Coolville Killer: Reflections on the Bush Years, Rendered in Fictional Prose"
2007
Carl Boon, Ph.D.,
"Torque and Ideology: Ron Silliman's Alphabet"
Michelle Disler, Ph.D., Creative Writing
"Archipelago"
Anna Dzirkalis, Ph.D., Literature
"Investigating the Female Detective: Gender Paradoxes in Popular British Mystery Fiction, 1864–1930"
Carrie Oeding, Ph.D., Creative Writing
"Nobody Knows What to Say"
Michael C. Ryan, Ph.D., Literature
"From the Wilderness Act to The Monkey Wrench Gang: Seeking Wild Nature in American Environmental Writing, 1964-1975"
2006
Nathan Anderson , Ph.D., Creative Writing: Poetry
"I Don't Think I'm Right in There"
Jeffrey Hanson, Ph.D., Creative Writing: Poetry
"Saving Appearances"
Hayley Haugen, Ph.D., Literature
"Writing the 'Self-Determined' Life: Representing the Self in Disability Narratives by Leonard Kriegel and Nancy Mairs"
Jennifer Pauley-Gose, Ph.D., Literature
"Imperial Scaffolding: The Indian Mutiny of 1857, the Mutiny Novel, and the Performance of British Power"
Eleanor (Elly) Williams, Ph.D., Creative Writing: Fiction
"The Divine and Miss Johanna"
2005
David Bruzina, Ph.D., Creative Writing: Poetry
"Working Title "
Kelly Kinney, Ph.D., Rhetoric and Composition
"A Political Administration: Political Pedagogy, Institutional Location, and Teaching Assistant Preparation"
Lisa Stein, Ph.D., Literature
"The Travel Narrative as Spin: My Trip Abroad and 'A Comedian Sees the World'"
John Pruitt, Ph.D., Literature
"British Drama Museums: History, Heritage, and Nation in Collections of Dramatic Literature 1647-1814 "
2004
Elaine Arvan-Andrews, Ph.D., Literature
"The Physiognomy of Fashion: Faces, Dress, and the Self in the Juvenilia and Novels of Charlotte Bronte"
Patrick Madden, Ph.D., Creative Writing: Nonfiction
"Uruguary"
Desirae Matherly Martin, Ph.D., Creative Writing: Nonfiction
"Aggregaria"
2003
Scott Gallagher, Ph.D., Creative Writing: Fiction
"Do As I Say, Not As I Do"
Tony Viola, Ph.D., Creative Writing: Fiction
"It Used to Mean Something to Be Italian"
Candace Stewart, Ph.D., Rhetoric and Composition
"(Re) Imagining the Person (al): A History of Composition's
Scholarly Representations of the Self, 1980-2002"
Christina Fisanick, Ph.D., Rhetoric and Composition
"The Embodied Pedagogue: Teaching and Writing with the Body"
2002
Shannon Lakanen, Ph.D., Creative Writing: Nonfiction
"Residues"
Tom Conroy, Ph.D., Creative Writing: Fiction
"All of Us Lovers"
Christy Veladota, Ph.D., Creative Writing: Poetry
"Dual"
James Wells, Ph.D., Literature
"Shakespeare's Play of Paradox: Body and Character in Drama"
2001
Neil Browne, Ph.D., Literature
"Nature Writing as Experience: Pragmatist Literary Ecology and
Twentieth Century American Nature Writing"
Eric Schwerer, Ph.D., Creative Writing: Poetry
"It Isn't Like This: Accessible World, Attended Ontologies, & Selected Poems"
Michael Danko, Ph.D., Creative Writing: Nonfiction
"Educations"
Sachi Nakachi, Ph.D., Literature
"Mixed-Race Identity Politics in Nella Larsen and Winnifred Eaton
(Onoto Watanna)"
2000
Corey Andrews, Ph.D., Literature
"Paradox and Improvement: Literary Nationalism in Eighteenth-Century
Scottish Club Poetry"
Tom Noyes, Ph.D., Creative Writing:Fiction
"In-Between Places: Stories"
1999
John Gallaher, Ph.D., Creative Writing: Poetry
"Of Mid & Air"
Tracie Church Guzzio, Ph.D., Literature
"'All Stories Are True': John Edgar Wideman's Responses to History"
Mimi Hart, Ph.D., Literature
"Hardly an Innocent Diversion: Music in the Life and Writings of Jane Austen"
Abdul-Qader A. Khattab, Ph.D., Literature
"Encountering the Non-Western Other in Laurence Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet"
Patrick Smith, Ph.D., Literature
"'In My Own Memory, Time Has Never Stopped': Essays on Jim Harrison's Fiction"
Elizabeth Wallace, Ph.D., Literature
"Effecting the Fall of an Icon: Shakespeare's Use of Argument in Constructing the Leader/Orator"