Recent Ph.D. dissertations
| Title | Student | Year | Advisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Writers-First Principle: An Expressivist Approach to First-Year Writing Instruction & Teacher Research | Anthony DeGenaro | 2021 | Richard Marback |
| Theatrical Scholars: Scholarly Characters in Early Modern Popular Drama | Sean Levenson | 2021 | Simone Chess |
| Antiwar Literature in the US since 1945 | Kelly Polasek | 2021 | Jonathan Flatley |
| Named But Not Known: Teaching and Assessing the Research-Writing Process | Ruth Boeder | 2020 | Jeff Pruchnic |
| Curricular Inquiry: A Survey of Writing Pedagogy Practicum Instructors | Claire Russell | 2020 | Jeff Pruchnic and Donnie Sackey |
| Coming Out as Complex: Understanding LGBTQ+ Community Writing Groups | Hillary Weiss | 2020 | Donnie Sackey |
| Toward an Ecofeminist Embodied Pedagogy: A Study of Difference in Online and Offline | Rachel Dortin | 2020 | Donnie Sackey |
| The Politics of Hijab in American Culture | Noha Beydoun | 2020 | Sarika Chandra |
| Technical Communication Pedagogy: The Rhetoric of Online Gaming | Catherine Donaldson | 2019 | Frances Ranney |
| Reading Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Poetry in Terms of Spirituality and Feminism | Nadia Mohammad | 2019 | Michael Scrivener |
| A Rhetoric of Zaniness: The Case of Pepe the Frog | Sean Milligan | 2019 | Richard Marback |
| Under the Sign of Suicide | Theodore Prassinos | 2019 | Jonathan Flatley |
| Unsound Media: An Archaeology of Technics at the Limits of the Audible | Ian Kennedy | 2019 | Steve Shaviro |
| Everyday Transcendence: Contemporary Art Film and the Return to Right Now | Aaron Pellerin | 2019 | Steve Shaviro |
| Sonic Motion and Heaviness in Black Media | Kevin Ball | 2019 | Chera Kee |
| Distillation of Sound: Dub in Jamaica and the Creation of Culture | Eric Abbey | 2019 | Steve Shaviro |
| Enfreakment: Bodies as Spectacle in Children's and Young Adult Fiction | Nabilah Khachab | 2019 | Lisa Maruca |
| Blackness and the Rhetoric of Racism in the University of Cape Town's Rhodes Must Fall Movement and the University of Missouri's Concerned Student 1950 Movement | Joseph Lewis | 2019 | Richard Marback |
| Words [Don't Always] Fail Me: Contemplating the Complexities of Gender and Genre in American Short Fiction by Women | Erin Bell | 2019 | Renée Hoogland |
| Ambivalent Subversive Narratives: John Thewall, Mary Prince, and John Clare | Kemael Johnson | 2018 | Michael Scrivener |
| Blue to BDU: The Five Canons of Rhetoric and the Text of the Police Uniform | Vytautas Malesh | 2018 | Frances Ranney |
| Border Ends: Anti-Imperialism, Settler Colonialism, and the Mexican Revolution in U. S. Modernism | Brad Flis | 2018 | Barrett Watten |
| Chivalry and Governance in Maolry's Le Morte Darthur and Tennyson's Idylls of the King | Shawn Cooper | 2018 | Caroline Maun |
| Democratic Communication: Lessons from the Flint Water Crisis | Melinda Myers | 2018 | Richard Marback |
| Gender, Geography, and Alterity in Shakespeare | Elizabeth Acosta | 2018 | Ken Jackson |
| Queer Slashers | Peter Marra | 2018 | Chera Kee Steven Shaviro |
| The Center of All Beauty: Radical Democracy and Critical Knowledge of the Poetic Subject in 20th-Century American Poetry | Marcus Merritt | 2018 | Barrett Watten |
| Toward a Theory of Work: Personal Responsibility, Self-Regulation, and Identity in the Age of America's Work Crisis | Katrina Newsom | 2018 | Sarika Chandra |
| Strange Lands of Opportunity--Representations of Moral, Social, and Economic Profit in Late Medieval and Early Modern Literature. | Lisa Kanniainen | 2017 | Jaime Goodrich |
| (An) Unsettled Commons: Narrative and Trauma After 911 | Chinmayi Kattemalavadi | 2017 | Jonathan Flatley |
| Affective Dissonance: (Post)Feminism and Popular Cultural Expressions of Motherhood | Judith Lakämper | 2017 | Renée Hoogland |
| Servant Voices and Tales in the British Gothic Novel, 1764-1847. | Reema Barlaskar | 2017 | Michael Scrivener |
| This is Us Saying Who We Are: Speaking the Rhetoric of Mental Disability. | Renuka Uthappa | 2017 | Richard Marback |
| After the Clinic: Gendered Pathology in Modernist Literature | Alisa Allkins | 2016 | Barrett Watten |
| Ecological Awareness: Enacting an Ecological Composition Curriculum to Encourage Student Knowledge Transfer | Nicole Varty | 2016 | Jeff Pruchnic |
| Emerging Genres of Online Technical Communication | Luke Thominet | 2016 | Jeff Pruchnic |
| Memes, ARGs and Viral Videos: Spreadable Media, Participatory Culture, and Composition Pedagogy | Mary Karcher | 2016 | Francie Ranney |
| Novelistic Intimacies: Reading and Writing in the Late Age of Print | Vincent Haddad | 2016 | Renée Hoogland |
| Politics and Pedagogy: Recuperating Rhetoric and Composition's Native Ethical Tradition | Derek Risse | 2016 | Jeff Pruchnic |
| Reconceptualizing the Construct of the Individual Writer in Composition Studies: A Felt Life Model of Writing | Wendy Duprey | 2016 | Ellen Barton |
| Rethinking the Mulatto Character and National Identity: 1865 and Beyond in African American and Brazilian Literature | Theresa Lindsey | 2016 | Melba Boyd |
| Saving Innocents: Tracing the Human Monster Hunter's Hetero-Normative Agenda from the 1970s to Today | Adam Yerima | 2016 | Chera Kee |
| Self-Directed Learning and the Development of Self-Efficacy in Basic Writing | Amy Latawiec | 2016 | Gwen Gorzelsky |
| The Role of Enculturation in Student Writing-Related Beliefs, Values, and the Potential for Transfer | Joseph Paszek | 2016 | Gwen Gorzelsky |
| The Role of Explicit Genre Pedagogy and Genre Awareness: Investigating Student Perceptions of Instructor Feedback in Intermediate Composition | Jule Thomas | 2016 | Ellen Barton |
| Time in American High Modernism: Reading Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Faulkner | Masahiko Seki | 2016 | Caroline Maun |
| Weird Propaganda: Texts of the Black Power and Women's Liberation Movements | Marie Buck | 2016 | Jonathan Flatley |
| Life is a Luminous Halo': Gender and Androgynous Time in Virginia Woolf | Ashley Whitmore | 2015 | Anca Vlasopolos |
| A Recursive Service Learning Program: Empowering Students of Color Traveling Within Community Borders | Cindy Mooty-Hoffmann | 2015 | Jeff Pruchnic Gwen Gorzelsky |
| Chivalric Lieux de Mémoire: Nostalgia, Communal Memory, and the Burden of Historical Consciousness in Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur | Wilkie Collins | 2015 | Elizabeth Sklar |
| Literacy Potentials: Agency, Embodiment, and Hybridity in Cézar Chávez's Discourse Practices | Clay Walker | 2015 | Gwen Gorzelsky |
| Public Subjects: Wayne State, Institutional Texts, and Public Rhetoric | Michael McGinnis | 2015 | Ellen Barton |
| Sowing Seeds of Subversion: Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers' Subversive use of Fairy Tales and Folklore | Shandi Wagner | 2015 | Michael Scrivener |
| Turning the Page: Fandoms, Multimodality, and the Transformation of the 'Comic Book' Superhero | Matt Cicci | 2015 | Chera Kee |
| A Genealogy of Ecological Rhetoric: Heraclitus, Bacon, Darwin and Huxley | Jared Grogan | 2014 | Jeff Pruchnic |
| Annihilation and Accumulation: Postcolonial Literatures of Genocide and Capital | Shashi Thandra | 2014 | Robert Aguirre |
| In Particularity We Trust: Richard Dutcher's Mormon Quartet and a Latter-Day Saint Spiritual Film Style | Mark Brown | 2014 | Steven Shaviro |
| Marketing Good Taste: Print Agents' Use of Paratext to Shape Markest and Readers in Early Modern England | Andie Silva | 2014 | Simone Chess |
| Re-Imagining Invention (Post)Pedagogy from Ulmer's Electracy to Design | Ruth Clayman | 2014 | Richard Marback |
| Acting Out Citizenship in Global and Local Contexts | Whitney Hardin | 2014 | Richard Marback |
| Responsive Classroom Ecologies: Supporting Inquiry and Rhetorical Awareness in College Writing Courses | Adrienne Jankens | 2014 | Gwen Gorzelsky |
| Sex, Labor, and the American Way: Detroit Aesthetic in Mid-Twentieth-Century Literature | Jenna Gerds | 2014 | Barrett Watten |
| Technologically-Mediated Writing in the First-Year Writing Classroom: Twitter and Immediate Writing | Jason Kahler | 2014 | Richard Marback |
| The Traumatized/Traumatizing Subject in Anna Deveare Smith, Suzan-Lori Parks, and August Wilson | Christopher Giroux | 2014 | Lisa Ze-Winters |
| Undermining the Angelic Restrictions of First-Wave Feminism: What the New Woman Did, Didn't, and Wouldn't Do | Jane Asher | 2014 | Anca Vlasopolos |
| Commedia: Rhetoric and Technology in the Media Commons | Conor Shaw-Draves | 2014 | Jeff Pruchnic |
| A Cognitively Enabling Approach: Cognitive Diversity in Composition Studies | Crystal Starkey | 2013 | Jeff Pruchnic |
| Drawn Out in Love: Religious Experience, The Public Sphere, and Evangelical Lay Women's Writing in Eighteenth Century England | Andrew O. Winckles | 2013 | Michael Scrivener |
| Jane Eyre And Her Transatlantic Literary Descendants: The Heroic Female Bildungsroman And Constructions of National Identity | Abigail Heiniger | 2013 | Anca Vlasopolos |
| The Materialism of the Encounter: Queer Sociality and Capital in Modern Literature | Michael Schmidt | 2013 | Barrett Watten |
| Without Content: Rhetoric, American Anarchism, And the End(s) of Radical Politics | Mike Ristich | 2013 | Jeff Pruchnic |
| On Beauty and Ethics in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries | Renuka Gusain | 2013 | Ken Jackson |
| Faith and (Un)Certainty in the Writing of Stowe, Hawthorne, and Dickinson: The Intersecting Language of Theology and Feminism | Denise Yezbick | 2012 | Ross Pudaloff |
| Flickering Cities: Multimedia City Fabrics and the Changing Nature of Citizenship | Andrew Geddes Engel | 2012 | Richard Marback |
| Motion(less) Pictures: The Cinema of Stasis | Justin Remeselnick | 2012 | Kirsten Thompson |
| This Fact Which is Not One: Differential Poetics in Transatlantic American Modernism | Sara Ruddy | 2012 | Barrett Watten |
| Wired & Dangerous: Hacks, Hair Extensions and Other Twists on Traditional Technical Communications | Hilary Sarat-St. Peter | 2012 | Frances Ranney |
| Writing the Self: Feminist Experiment And Cultural Identity | Jill Darling | 2012 | Barrett Watten |
| Hallowed Ground: Literature And the Encounter with God in Post-Reformation England, c. 1550-1704 | Michael Thomas Martin | 2012 | Ken Jackson |
| Gender and Race, Online Communities and Composition Classrooms | Jill Morris | 2011 | Richard Marback |
| Making Memory: Techne, Technology, and the Refashioning of Contemporary Memory | Kimberly Lacey | 2011 | Richard Marback |
| Reassembling Documentary: From Actuality to Virtuality | Emine Selmin Kara | 2011 | Richard Grusin |
| Staging Witchcraft: The Elizabethan and Jacobean Dramatic Appropriation of The Witch-Lore and Witch-Hunt | Kyoung Hee Lee | 2010 | Arthur Marotti |
| 'Eve's Apples': Growing Ladies in the Brontëan Sublime, 1826-1853 | Victoria Abboud | 2010 | Anca Vlasopolos |
| Rhetorical Outcomes: A Genre Analysis of Student Service-Learning Writing | Thomas Trimble | 2010 | Gwen Gorzelsky |
| Distributed Cinema: Interactive, Networked Spectatorship in the Age of Digital Media | Erik Marshall | 2010 | Robert Burgoyne |
| Female Detectives, Female Criminals: An Examination of Crime, Modernity and the New Woman in Early French and American Crime Films in the U.S. During the 1910s | Sarah Delahousse | 2010 | Robert Burgoyne |
| From Baby Formula to Solid Food: How the Influence of Media has Nourished Children's Literature | Nicole L. Wilson | 2010 | John Reed |
| Jonson and Women | Tara Hayes | 2010 | Arthur F. Marotti |
| The Circulation and Recontextualization of Dramatic Excerpts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts | Laura Ann Estill | 2010 | Ken Jackson |
| Thinking Globally, Writing Locally: Re-Visioning Critical and Service Learning Pedagogies with Globalization Theory | Cara Kozma | 2010 | Gwen Gorzelsky |
| Woman's Sphere in the Law of God": Biblical Women and Domesticity in the Writings of Felicia Hemans, Grace Aguilar, Harriet Beech Stowe, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Anne Nichols | 2010 | Michael Scrivener |
| Composition Under Review: A Genre Analysis of Book Reviews in Composition Journals, 1939-2007 | Sandy Valensky | 2010 | Ellen Barton |
| Teaching with Spirit: Freire, Dialogue and Spiritual Discourse in the Composition Classroom | Justin Vidovic | 2010 | Gwen Gorzelsky |
| Gender, Sexuality, and Masquerade: Representations of Masculinity and Femininity in Restoration Breeches Dramas | Carrie E. Nartker | 2009 | Ken Jackson |
| Time's Menagerie: Evolutions in Victorian Sex and Subjectivity | Justin Prystash | 2009 | Robert Aguirre |
| Democracy and Dystopia in Post-Watergate American Fiction | April Pitts | 2009 | Barrett Watten |
| Fictive Systems: Interfaces in the Postmodernist Avant-Garde+A86 | Gregory Lattanzio | 2009 | Barrett Watten |
| Imagined Identities: Adapting White Imaginings of Black Female Identity in African American Literature before the Renaissance | Ellesia Blaque | 2009 | Renata Wasserman |
| Personal Writing, Academic Writing, and Critical Pedagogy in the Community-Based Classroom | Kim Davis | 2009 | Gwen Gorzelsky |
| Re-remembering the Past: Feminist Storytelling Appropriations in the Fiction of Eudora Welty, Gayl Jones, Julia Alvarez and Octavia Butler | Sarah Burcon | 2009 | Ross Pudaloff |
| The Laugh of the Oppressed Creature: Early Twentieth Century American Magazine Humor as Affective Adaptation to Modernity | Jonathan Brown Gillham | 2009 | Richard Grusin |