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Student Research Projects: M.A.

Current Students

NameThesisGraduation YearAdvisor

Kae Dennert-Frederick

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Ernesto Iñiguez

Ernesto Iñiguez

Past Students

NameThesisGraduation YearAdvisor
Jemimah Lodes
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 Hope transforms: an analysis of the novel Indiana2025
Noemí Maldonado
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 The experience of child language brokering in Latin/Hispanic students: understanding how CLB shapes attitudes towards higher education2025
Rachel Matteri
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 True crime podcasts as a scene of feminist reckoning: a comparative analysis of My Favorite Murder and Sistas Who Kill2025
Nicholas Nielsen
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 Large language models and identity: a reflexive approach2025
Milagros Ortega
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 Breaking barriers: the first-generation experience in pursuit of the American dream2025
Audriana Peñalosa
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 Representation in higher education: a closer look into Cal Poly Humboldt’s HSI designation through the Courageous Cuentos retrospective2025
Nic K Poulter
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 We weren't just reading about adventures; we were living them”: immersion, transgressive play, and Dungeons & Dragons2025
Holly Rae
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 Grieving in doorways: a critical autoethnographic exploration of embodied knowledge amid shifting reality and radical possibility2025
Amber Rae
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 Lineation to liberation: the transformative power of poetic rhetoric2025
Samm (Samantha) Sanchez
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 The social critic: challenging cultural norms through the adaptation and interpretation of Euripides' Medea2025
Necahual Toltecatl [Gamboa]
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 The masa that holds us: Indigenous epistemologies and the food we share2025
Ian Vargas
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 All red inside: embodied metaphor in Clive Barker's Books of Blood2025
Jasmine Fortunato
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 Exploring colorism in children’s literature: Sulwe and Black is Brown is Tan2024
Rose Fuher
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 Agitprop: A deep dive into leftist affinity spaces2024

Andrea Delgado

Elizabeth Hershey
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 "Kindness eases change / love quiets fear": Mapping change and movement in Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower2024
Fortunato J
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 Exploring colorism in children’s literature: Sulwe and Black is Brown is Tan2024

Andrea Delgado

Linda Kuckuk
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 The persistent voice of the colonizer: troubling a mascot’s settler-colonial past2024
Kaitlyn O'Dell
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 A post-colonial criticism of Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia2024
Natalie Raquel Acuña
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 Countering dominant narratives in community: The many voices in spoken word poetry2024

Christina Accomando

Sara Spradley
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 Disney adult or Disney cult?: observing the effects and perceptions of transmedia storytelling onto fandom2024
Nickolas Sykora
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 Anxieties About the Future: Ecocriticism and Dystopian Landscapes in the works of Philip K Dick2024
Mary Lipiec
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 Nothing about us: three models of disability in three works of literary fiction2023

Janelle Adsit

Anthony Lowe
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 Make a foreigner of yourself: An analysis of the dueling critical utopias of The Dispossessed and Trouble on Triton2023

Renée Byrd

Ken Rainey
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 A black Prometheus among the gods: illuminating African American literary tradition in Sam Greenlee's The Spook Who Sat by the Door2023

Christina Accomando

Cole Shepard
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 Problematizing progress: Building a postcapitalist present2023

Janet Winston

Kim Sisu
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 The revolution will be memed: Digital memes as sites for hegemonic and counter-hegemonic practices2023

Lisa Tremain

Allison Iafrate
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 Our Place in Research: Understanding Social Productions of Knowledge Using Digital Spaces2022

Janelle Adsit

Karen Zurita
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 Words Made from Flesh and Bones: How Xicanx Queer Authors are Decolonizing Writing to Reclaim Their Indigeneity2022

Christina Accomando

Jonathan Abidari
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 Multimodality in Focus2021

Lisa Tremain

Alysia Hegg
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 Write Yourself Awake: The Double Pursuit of Mindfulness Meditation and Writing Theory2021

Lisa Tremain

Aaron Laughlin
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 Hózhó, "To Walk in Beauty and Balance": Indigenous Writers Decolonize Theories of Myth2021

Michael Eldridge

Kelley Ellion
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 Understanding Reading in the English Program: An Inquiry of How Students are Guided with Advanced Reading Materials2020

Lisa Tremain

Grace Hart
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 You Have a Voice Here: Implementing Armenian Feminist Literature within Feminist Discourse2020

Christina Accomando

Hallie Lepphaille
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 (In)Equities in the Publishing Industry: The Politics of Representation2020

Janelle Adsit

Chris Ramponi
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 Reflections of an Impossible Ideal: Passion as the Will to Downfall in Madame Bovary2020

Mary Ann Creadon

Morgan Thornburg
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 The Ginger, The Pin-up, or the Stepchild? Redheadedness as an Embodied Trope2020

Michael Eldridge

Felix Boers
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 Toward a Working Theory of Queer Hypermedia: An Analysis of Queer Textual Structures in Gone Home and What Remains of Edith Finch2019

David Stacey

Justin Egan
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 Towards a Critical Game Based Pedagogy in Composition2019

Lisa Tremain

Marcos Hernandez
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 Publishing for Transfer: Notes Toward an Editorial Pedagogy for the Transfer-Oriented Writing Program2019

Lisa Tremain

Natalie Ray
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 On the Edge of Inclusion: A Look at the Shifting of Representation in Museum Display and Archival Cataloging2019

Janelle Adsit

Dakota Rohlin
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 Ethos in Climate Change Communication: Analyzing Digital and Broadcast News Coverage of the Fourth National Climate Assessment2019

Janelle Adsit

Melissa Wise
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 Serving in the Kingdom: A Volunteer Experience in the Development of EFL Literacy in Tonga2019

Suzanne Scott

Cassandra (Curatolo) Johnson
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 Historical Consciousness, The Cultural Imaginary and Postcolonial Subjectivity in Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being2018

Janet Winston

Emily Bushta
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 Playing and Learning Through Text and Images: Examining Features of Adolescent Literacy and the Potential of Graphic Novels as a Supportive Tool2018

Nikola Hobbel

Thomas King
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 Writing Center Tutor Training: An Examination of Emphasis on Critical Pedagogy in Tutor Training Handbooks2018

Lisa Tremain

Corrina Wells
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 Tracing Writer/Reader Identity in, and in Response to, Queer Latinx Autohistoria-Teorìa2018

Janelle Adsit

Christopher Gordon
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 27 Months of Solitude: A Peace Corps Story2017

Suzanne Scott

Laura Gorman
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 Considering “Disparate” Genealogies Analogously: A Survey into the Histories of Peer Response and their Impact on Current Peer Response Practices2017

David Stacey

Robin Imholte
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 Abjection in Late Nineteenth Century British Literature2017

Mary Ann Creadon

Deva Richards
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 EFL Teaching and Teacher Training in Nicaragua: A Master's International Experience2017

Suzanne Scott

Jason Stibi
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 Motivation, Imagination, and the Future Self in Second Language Acquisition2017

Suzanne Scott

Samuel Gabriels
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 The Effects of Literature as a Guidebook: Reimagining Landscapes through Barry Lopez’s Desert Notes2015

Mary Ann Creadon

Amanda Alexander
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 “In Our Veins Flows the Blood of Many Brave Races”: The Influence of the German Literary Vampire on Constructions of Race and Nation in Nineteenth-Century British Vampire Fiction2014

Mary Ann Creadon

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 Spirals of (Re)knowing: An Analysis of the Construction of Place/Space in Women’s Communities through Ceremony in Joy Harjo's Poetry2014

Barbara Brinson Curiel

Lauren MacDonald Reagan
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 Craft and the Corporeal in Composition: Embodied Metaphors in Writing Practice2014

David Stacey

Amanda Alexander
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 Students' Right and the First Year Composition Classroom: A Critical Reflection of One First-Time Teacher's Experience2013

Nikola Hobbel

Laura Exline
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 Revolutionizing Higher Education: An Analysis of Massive Open Online Courses in Popular Media2013

Nikola Hobbel

Adrienne Jones
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 Archiving Trauma: Navigating Shame and Trauma in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves and Cherríe Moraga’s Loving in the War Years2013

Mary Ann Creadon

M.A. Program Contact

Janet Winston
Graduate Coordinator
707.826.3913
winston@humboldt.edu
Location: FH 213

English Department
707.826.3758
ma-english@humboldt.edu

Megan Mefford
Coordinator of International Admissions & Immigration
mefford@humboldt.edu & international@humboldt.edu 

Cal Poly Humboldt admissions requirements for International students 

Resources

Department of English

Founders Hall 201

(707) 826-3758

english@humboldt.edu