Student Research Projects: M.A.

Current Students

Name	Thesis	Graduation Year	Advisor
Kae Dennert-Frederick
Ernesto Iñiguez

Past Students

Name	Thesis	Graduation Year	Advisor
Rose Fuher	Agitprop: A deep dive into leftist affinity spaces	2024	Andrea Delgado
Fortunato J	Exploring colorism in children’s literature: Sulwe and Black is Brown is Tan	2024	Andrea Delgado
Natalie Raquel Acuña	Countering dominant narratives in community: The many voices in spoken word poetry	2024	Christina Hsu Accomando
Mary Lipiec	Nothing about us: three models of disability in three works of literary fiction	2023	Janelle Adsit
Anthony Lowe	Make a foreigner of yourself: An analysis of the dueling critical utopias of The Dispossessed and Trouble on Triton	2023	Renée Byrd
Ken Rainey	A black Prometheus among the gods: illuminating African American literary tradition in Sam Greenlee's The Spook Who Sat by the Door	2023	Christina Hsu Accomando
Cole Shepard	Problematizing progress: Building a postcapitalist present	2023	Janet Winston
Kim Sisu	The revolution will be memed: Digital memes as sites for hegemonic and counter-hegemonic practices	2023	Lisa Tremain
Allison Iafrate	Our Place in Research: Understanding Social Productions of Knowledge Using Digital Spaces	2022	Janelle Adsit
Karen Zurita	Words Made from Flesh and Bones: How Xicanx Queer Authors are Decolonizing Writing to Reclaim Their Indigeneity	2022	Christina Hsu Accomando
Jonathan Abidari	Multimodality in Focus	2021	Lisa Tremain
Alysia Hegg	Write Yourself Awake: The Double Pursuit of Mindfulness Meditation and Writing Theory	2021	Lisa Tremain
Aaron Laughlin	Hózhó, "To Walk in Beauty and Balance": Indigenous Writers Decolonize Theories of Myth	2021	Michael Eldridge
Kelley Ellion	Understanding Reading in the English Program: An Inquiry of How Students are Guided with Advanced Reading Materials	2020	Lisa Tremain
Grace Hart	You Have a Voice Here: Implementing Armenian Feminist Literature within Feminist Discourse	2020	Christina Hsu Accomando
Hallie Lepphaille	(In)Equities in the Publishing Industry: The Politics of Representation	2020	Janelle Adsit
Chris Ramponi	Reflections of an Impossible Ideal: Passion as the Will to Downfall in Madame Bovary	2020	Mary Ann Creadon
Morgan Thornburg	The Ginger, The Pin-up, or the Stepchild? Redheadedness as an Embodied Trope	2020	Michael Eldridge
Felix Boers	Toward a Working Theory of Queer Hypermedia: An Analysis of Queer Textual Structures in Gone Home and What Remains of Edith Finch	2019	David Stacey
Justin Egan	Towards a Critical Game Based Pedagogy in Composition	2019	Lisa Tremain
Marcos Hernandez	Publishing for Transfer: Notes Toward an Editorial Pedagogy for the Transfer-Oriented Writing Program	2019	Lisa Tremain
Natalie Ray	On the Edge of Inclusion: A Look at the Shifting of Representation in Museum Display and Archival Cataloging	2019	Janelle Adsit
Dakota Rohlin	Ethos in Climate Change Communication: Analyzing Digital and Broadcast News Coverage of the Fourth National Climate Assessment	2019	Janelle Adsit
Melissa Wise	Serving in the Kingdom: A Volunteer Experience in the Development of EFL Literacy in Tonga	2019	Suzanne Scott
Cassandra (Curatolo) Johnson	Historical Consciousness, The Cultural Imaginary and Postcolonial Subjectivity in Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being	2018	Janet Winston
Emily Bushta	Playing and Learning Through Text and Images: Examining Features of Adolescent Literacy and the Potential of Graphic Novels as a Supportive Tool	2018	Nikola Hobbel
Thomas King	Writing Center Tutor Training: An Examination of Emphasis on Critical Pedagogy in Tutor Training Handbooks	2018	Lisa Tremain
Corrina Wells	Tracing Writer/Reader Identity in, and in Response to, Queer Latinx Autohistoria-Teorìa	2018	Janelle Adsit
Christopher Gordon	27 Months of Solitude: A Peace Corps Story	2017	Suzanne Scott
Laura Gorman	Considering “Disparate” Genealogies Analogously: A Survey into the Histories of Peer Response and their Impact on Current Peer Response Practices	2017	David Stacey
Robin Imholte	Abjection in Late Nineteenth Century British Literature	2017	Mary Ann Creadon
Deva Richards	EFL Teaching and Teacher Training in Nicaragua: A Master's International Experience	2017	Suzanne Scott
Jason Stibi	Motivation, Imagination, and the Future Self in Second Language Acquisition	2017	Suzanne Scott
Samuel Gabriels	The Effects of Literature as a Guidebook: Reimagining Landscapes through Barry Lopez’s Desert Notes	2015	Mary Ann Creadon
Amanda Alexander	“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 Fiction	2014	Mary Ann Creadon
Stephanie G. Cowherd, San Carlos Apache"	Spirals of (Re)knowing: An Analysis of the Construction of Place/Space in Women’s Communities through Ceremony in Joy Harjo's Poetry	2014	Barbara Brinson Curiel
Lauren MacDonald Reagan	Craft and the Corporeal in Composition: Embodied Metaphors in Writing Practice	2014	David Stacey
Amanda Alexander	Students' Right and the First Year Composition Classroom: A Critical Reflection of One First-Time Teacher's Experience	2013	Nikola Hobbel
Laura Exline	Revolutionizing Higher Education: An Analysis of Massive Open Online Courses in Popular Media	2013	Nikola Hobbel
Adrienne Jones	Archiving Trauma: Navigating Shame and Trauma in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves and Cherríe Moraga’s Loving in the War Years	2013	Mary Ann Creadon