English Ph.D. Dissertations
Dissertations from 2022
Dispositions and Dual Credit: A Study on Student Attitudes toward Writing, Morgan Elizabeth Buchs
Constellating Graduate Students' Perceptions of the Impostor Phenomenon, Writing, and Mentoring, Emma Lee Guthrie
Durable WAC: A Sustainability Study of Two WAC Programs at Two, Two-Year Colleges, Timothy D. Snyder
Dissertations from 2021
Force of Nurture: Influences on an Early-Career Secondary English Teacher's Writing Pedagogy, Brandie L. Bohney
Fans are Going to See it Any Way They Want': The Rhetorics of the Voltron: Legendary Defender Fandom, Renee Ann Drouin
Reading Our Writing | Writing Our Reading: Threshold Concepts for Graduate-Level Reading in Composition, Adam Lawrence Kuchta
"Nowhere is Straight Work More Effective:" Women's Participation in Self-Culture, Bailey M. Poland
Rhetorically Interpreting Ohio Revised Law, Section 3345.281: Comparative Analysis of Two Oral Proficiency Program Models, Tammie L. Southall
Adapting Writing Transfer for Online Writing Courses: Instructor Practices and Student Perceptions, Brian Urias
A Revisionist History of Loving Men: An Autoethnography and Community Research of Naming Sexual Abuse in Relationships, Lena M. Ziegler
Dissertations from 2020
Being and Otherness: Conceptualizing Embodiment in Africana Existentialist Discourse (The Bluest Eye, The Fire Next Time, and Black Skin, White Masks), Jonathan J. Brownlee
The Revolution Will Be Spotified: A Rhetorical Analysis of Music as a Mode of Resistance in the 21st Century, Triauna Rachelle Carey
Making Their Voices Heard: How Women in Kosovo Used Amplification to Ensure Representation in a Newly Created Democracy, Darlene A. Johnston
Dissertations from 2019
By Any Other Name: (Mis)Understanding Transfer-Focused Feminist Pedagogy, Sara A. Austin
Becomings of Space and Collaboration: Applying Design Thinking to a Study of Space and Collaboration in the Collab Lab, Lauren Garskie
The Queer Art of Writing: (Re)Imagining Scholarship and Pedagogy Through Transgenre Composing, Kristin LaFollette-Samson
Rhetorical Embodied Performance in/as Writing Instruction: Practicing Identity and Lived Experience in TA Education, Kelly A. Moreland
Harnessing Multimodality in First-Year Composition Classroom in Second Language (L2) Settings to Enhance Effective Writing, Stephen Ohene-Larbi
Networks of Interaction: Writing Course Design through Fourth Generation Activity Theory and Principles of Play, Marshall Saenz
The Role of Space and Place: A Case Study of Students', Experiences in Online First-Year Writing Courses (OFWYCs), Lauren E. Salisbury
Dissertations from 2018
Theorizing a Settlers' Approach to Decolonial Pedagogy: Storying as Methodologies, Humbled, Rhetorical Listening and Awareness of Embodiment, Danielle E. Donelson
Teaching Them to Fish: Creative Nonfiction as a Toolkit for Transfer, Nicholas Edmund Novosel
From Pro-Ana to Bikini Bridge: The Online Discourse of Eating Disorders, Stephen John Raulli
The Phenomenon of Academic Labor in 21st Century Composition: A Heuristic For Textual Study, Joseph William Robertshaw
Dissertations from 2017
Learning to Teach Locally: A Case Study of Graduate Students', Teaching Philosophies and Classroom Practices, Caleb Acton James
General Studies Writing (GSW) Digital Communication at Bowling Green State University: To Web 2.0 or not to Web 2.0?, Brianna C. Mauk
Digital Literacy and Composing Practices of Second Language Students: A Student Perspective on Writing, Technology, and Privilege, Jeffrey Salem Moore
Devout Pedagogies: A Textual Analysis of Late Nineteenth Century Christian Women, Tiffany R. Wang
Dissertations from 2016
Tools of Play: Developing a Pedagogical Framework for Gaming Literacy in the Multimodal Composition Classroom, Tina Arduini
Practitioners of Earth: The Literacy Practices and Civic Rhetorics of Grassroots Cartographers and Writing Instructors, April Rayana Conway
Literacies in Context: Working-Class Deaf Adults, Christine Marie Garbett
Fat Cyborgs: Body Positive Activism, Shifting Rhetorics and Identity Politics in the Fatosphere, Aimee N. Taylor
Dissertations from 2015
Through Their Lenses: Examining Community-Sponsored Digital Literacy Practices in Appalachia, Megan Elizabeth Adams
Computer Algorithms as Persuasive Agents: The Rhetoricity of Algorithmic Surveillance within the Built Ecological Network, Estee Natee Beck
Claiming and Framing African American Male Ethos: Case Studies of the Literacy Practices of Two African American Male Writers, Shirley Elizabeth Faulkner-Springfield
At War with Words: Understanding U.S. Service-Personnel's Literate Practices for a Universal Design for Learning Worldview, Mariana Grohowski
Socializing First Year Composition: A Study of Social Networking Sites', Impact on First Year Students, Kenneth J. Hayes
Rhetorical Inquiry: Feminist Argumentative Modes and Expectations in Detective Fiction, Eden Leone
New at Barnes and Noble: An Argument for More Public Based Scholarship in Rhetoric and Composition Studies, Craig Truitt Olsen
Dissertations from 2014
Theorizing Mental Models in Disciplinary Writing Ecologies through Scholarship, Talk-Aloud Protocols, and Semi-Structured Interviews, Laural L. Adams
Multimodal Expressions of Young Arab Muslim American Women, Amira Akl
Fostering Language Diversity through Classroom-Based Writing Assessment Practices, Amanda Gall Athon
Writing in the Age of Mobile: Smartphone and Tablet Multiliteracies and Their Implications for Writing as Process, Matthew Bridgewater
The Semiotics, Practical Application, and Assessment of the Modalities, Kent Alan Lenz
Reconsidering Teacher Commentary As Interactive And Collaborative Dialogue: Implications For Student Writing And Revising, Deborah Eileen Morris
A Sharper Point: A Feminist, Multimodal Heuristic for Analyzing Knitted Rhetoric, Heather Elizabeth Pristash
Teaching People, Not Writing: Civic Education & Critical Pedagogies in the Multimodal Writing Classroom, Michael David Salitrynski
Affective Possibilities for Rhetoric and Writing: How We Might Self-Assess Potentiality in Composition, Martha Wilson Schaffer
Relationship Literacy and Polyamory: A Queer Approach, Heather Anne Trahan
Dissertations from 2013
Post-Literacy: Designing Writing Curricula around Emerging Literate Activities, George Bret Bowers
Community-Sponsored Literate Activity and Technofeminism: Ethnographic Inquiry of Feministing, Kerri Elise Hauman
Identity Chats: Co-Authorized Narratives and the Performance of Writerly Selves in Mass-Multiliterate Times, Stacy Kastner
Writing Centers as Literacy Sponsors in the 21st Century: Investigating Multiliteracy Center Theory and Practice, Jeffrey S. J. Kirchoff
Preaching and Technology: A Study of Attitudes and Practices, Alison C. Witte
Dissertations from 2012
"Among Ourselves:" The Collaborative Rhetorics of Nineteenth Century Ladies' Literary Societies, Katherine Helene Fredlund
Process and PostProcess in China's Educational Context, Jie Li
Some (Still) Like it Hot: Re-envisioning Transdisciplinarity and Collaboration in First Year Composition and Jazz, Krista L. Petrosino
Deliberative Rhetoric in the Twelfth Century: The Case for Eleanor of Aquitaine, Noblewomen, and the Ars Dictaminis, Shawn D. Ramsey
Dissertations from 2011
Silence as a Rhetor's Tool: Rhetorical Choices for and uses of Silence, Suzan E. Aiken
First-Generation College Students Transitioning to Graduate Teachers of Writing: A Proposed First-Generation Pedagogy, Emily Jordan Beard
Digital Media Ethics in the Writing Classroom, Toby F. Coley
Latino/as in Higher Education: Modes of Accommodation in First-Year Writing Programs, Vanessa Michelle Cozza
Composing Rhetoric and Composition Program Websites: A Situated Study and a Heuristic Model, Joey Jason Erickson
Answering the Call of Duty: Composition Pedagogy Problems, Multimodal Solutions, and Gaming Literacies, Bobby James Kuechenmeister
Dissertations from 2010
Preparing Doctoral Students in Rhetoric and Composition for Faculty Careers that Contribute to the Public Good, Stephanie M. Anderson Quinn
Epideictic Without the Praise: A Heuristic Analysis for Rhetoric of Blame, Elizabeth L. Church
Transitioning to E-Portfolios in a First-Year Writing Program, Brittany Barger Cottrill
Remediating Democracy: Youtube and the Vernacular Rhetorics of Web 2.0, Erin F. Dietel-McLaughlin
The Adult Learner in the Online Writing Course, Cheryl A. Hoy
Remediating the Professionalization of Doctoral Students in Rhetoric and Composition, Meredith Graupner Hurley
Placing One Program's Assessment and Its Effects on a Novice Teacher, Jeremy Lee Schnieder
Remediating Rhetorical Room at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair: Lucy Stone, Mary Cassatt, and Ida B. Wells, Yvonne R. Schultz
Weaving Web 2.0 and the Writing Process with Feminist Pedagogy, Ruijie Zhao
Dissertations from 2009
Rhetoric and The Scholarship of Engagement: Pragmatic, Professional, and Ethical Convergences, Heather Renae Fester
The Multimodal Kitchen: Cookbooks as Women’s Rhetorical Practice, Elizabeth Jean Fleitz
The Art of Heterotopian Rhetoric: A Theory of Science Fiction as Rhetorical Discourse, Robert Christopher Graves
Preparation of Graduate Assistants Teaching First-Year Writing at Ohio Universities, Amie Caroline Wolf
Dissertations from 2008
The Girls of MySpace: New Media as Gendered Literacy Practice and Identity Construction, Jennifer Marie Almjeld
From Cyberspace to Print: Re-examining the Effects of Collaborative Online Invention on First-year Academic Writing, Florence Elizabeth Bacabac
Audience Matters: Exploring Audience in Undergraduate Creative Writing, Christine Peters Cucciarre
Feminist and other Intertwining Pedagogies of Writing Instruction in The University of Findlay's Intensive English Language Program, Erin Knoche Laverick
Female Fabrications: An Examination of the Public and Private Aspects of Nüshu, Ann-Gee Lee
Community Revisited: Invoking the Subjectivity of the Online Learner, Sergey Rybas
Acquiring Literacy: Techne, Video Games and Composition Pedagogy, James Robert Schirmer
Dissertations from 2007
Toward Seamless Transition? Dual Enrollment and the Composition Classroom, Christine M. Denecker
Post-9/11 Rhetorical Theory and Composition Pedagogy: Fostering Trauma Rhetorics as Civic Space, Robin M. Murphy
Confronting Aging and Serious Illness through Journaling: A Study of Writing as Therapy, Lucie Shetzer
Dynamic Criteria Mapping: A Study of the Rhetorical Values of Placement Evaluators, Eric Wesley Stalions
Indirectness in Vietnamese Newspaper Commentaries: A Pilot Study, Thai T. Tran
Turning the Noose that Binds into a Rope to Climb: A Textual Search for Rhetorical and Linguistic Gender-markings in Speech Samples of Three Contemporary Female Orators, Angela Wallington Zimmann
Dissertations from 2006
“Old Wine” and “New Wineskins”: (De)Colonizing Literacy in Kenya’s Higher Education, Mwangi Chege
Computers, Composition and Context: Narratives of Pedagogy and Technology Outside the Computers and Writing Community, Richard Colby
First-year Composition Handbooks: Buffering the Winds of Change, Christopher Sean Harris
The Construction of Self in the Contemporary Creative Writing Workshop: A Personal Journey, Brent Jason Royster
Resistance as Negotiation: Strategies and Tactics for Redefining Power Relationships in the Composition Classroom, Rebekah Shultz Colby