• A Postmodern Examination of a College Writing Curriculum 

  Swedin, Julie Ann (2019)

  A POSTMODERN EXAMINATION OF A COLLEGE WRITING CURRICULUM Abstract by Julie Ann Swedin, Ed.D Washington State University May 2019 Chair: Richard D. Sawyer The purpose of this dissertation was to examine a college ...

• English Matters, Spring/Summer 2019 

  Washington State University Department of English (2019)

• RENDERING THE FIRST WORLD WAR: NARRATOLOGY, MODERNISM, AND [RE]VISIONS OF EXPERIENCE 

  Solomon, Samantha Lauren (2018)

  This dissertation analyzes narratives that render the experience of war in ways other than the realist representations that dominate the literary history of the First World War. While narratives that focus on the soldier ...

• How Sight Becomes Subject: Cultural Image Design in the Age of Digital Rhetoric 

  Johnson, Lucy Anne (2018)

  This dissertation challenges machine-based understandings of digital rhetoric and literacy. Rather than focus on the tools themselves as integral to the process of multimodal composition, this dissertation turns the emphasis ...

• TROPES OF THE NATION: TRACING THE COLONIAL ORIGINS OF THE MATRIARCHAL FIGURES OF MEXICAN NATIONALISM 

  Fernandez, Miriam Lizette (2018)

  This dissertation engages with scholarship on nations and nationalism to argue that some nations, like Mexico, have an origin myth that helps the nation define its ideological identity. The origin myth functions rhetorically ...

• JOHNNY CAN WRITE: IDENTIFYING THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL LANGUAGE OF UNDERGRADUATE WRITERS 

  Frye, Matthew Jay (2017)

  This dissertation examines the epistemological moves made by Washington State University undergraduates in their general education course writing and during two impromptu writing assessment exams administered by the WSU ...

• A Technology of Violence: Materiality, Discourse, and Victim Functionality in the Contemporary Horror Genre 

  Hetland, Timothy John (2016)

  This dissertation examines the function and role of the victim in the contemporary horror genre. By looking at a number of important films over the course of the genre’s history, such as Frankenstein, Dracula, Psycho, ...

• THE DIGITAL LOCAL: CROWDFUNDING, RHETORIC, AND COMMUNITY 

  Friedman, Jacob Evan (2016)

  Crowdfunding services such as Kickstarter.com, Indigogo, Gofundme, and several others have, in recent years, been drawing increasing attention and funding from both small-scale creative projects and larger-scale personalities ...

• Ecomysticism: Materialism and Mysticism in American Nature Writing 

  Tagnani, David (2015)

  This dissertation investigates the ways in which a theory of material mysticism can help us understand and synthesize two important trends in the American nature writing--mysticism and materialism. Material mysticism--what ...

• "Resources of Ambiguity": An Exploration of Pathos 

  Obara, Justin (2015)

  This dissertation depicts the relationship between rhetorically and pedagogically limited versions of pathos and the types of writing instruction and writing practices that can inadvertently enact oppressive institutional, ...

• COMMUNITY-BASED DIGITAL LITERACIES: A CYBERFEMINIST ANALYSIS OF LITERACY PRACTICES IN BIRTH WITHOUT FEAR 

  De Hertogh, Lori Beth (2015)

  This dissertation develops the concept of community-based digital literacies, a term that refers to the rhetorical, civic, and technological knowledge and literacy practices communities sponsor and employ for civic action. ...

• Gender and Agency in Tender Is the Night, Save Me the Waltz, and The Garden of Eden 

  Wagenblast, Becky Ann (2015)

  This dissertation centers its readings of Tender Is the Night, Save Me the Waltz, and The Garden of Eden through the women protagonists’ voices, a radical critical shift. By considering the evolutionary attempts of Nicole, ...

• Writing Out (from) Prisons: Critical Literacy, Prison Abolition, and a Queer(ed) Public Pedagogy 

  Sutcliffe, Michael George (2015)

  This dissertation will demonstrate how normative discourse and neoliberal ideology have contributed to the construction and maintenance of a prison literacy complex. Justice has been swept out of the prison system in favor ...

• Engaging Students in Autobiographical Critique as a Social Justice Tool: Narratives of Deconstructing and Reconstructing Meritocracy and Privilege with Pre-service Teachers 

  Boyd, Ashley; Noblit, George; Neikirk, Joseph R. (Educational Studies, 2015)

  This self-study involves instructors of a Social Justice in Education course at a large university who engaged pre-service teacher education students with assignments intended to solicit their critical self-reflection and ...

• Batteries, big red, and busses: Using critical theory to read for social class in Eleanor & Park 

  Boyd, Ashley; Pennell, Summer (Study and Scrutiny, 2015)

  In this article, the authors posit the avenue of young adult literature as an untapped resource for cultivating students’ knowledge of social theories and their recognition of societal inequities. Combining specific ...

• Tribal Archives, Traditional Knowledge, and Local Contexts: Why the “s” Matters 

  Christen, Kimberly (Journal of Western Archives, 2015)

  In this article I examine the landscape of tribal or Indigenous archival management as it relates to digital assets and, more specifically, how these might help us reimagine the intellectual property needs of local, ...

• Shakespeare's Chaucerian Entertainers 

  Hughes, Jacob Alden (2014)

  As has been established by scholars Ann Thompson and E. Talbot Donaldson, Shakespeare was heavily influenced by the medieval poet Geoffrey Chaucer. Shakespeare continually references Chaucer throughout his career, borrowing ...

• A Lingering Coloniality: Considering the Epistemic and Structural (Im)Possibilities of University-Sponsored Prison Writing Programs 

  Plemons, Anna (2014)

  Walter Mignolo suggests a fused relationship between modernity and coloniality. I suggest that prison writing sponsorship carries the possibility of this coloniality in the ways that sponsors account for and justify programs. ...

• 'Sole Author, I': Isolation and the Devotional Self in Early Modern English Literature 

  Holmes, Caitlin Cornell (2013)

  This dissertation investigates the use of "solitude" in seventeenth-century religious texts as a means to challenge the dominant scholarly conceptualization of "renaissance self-fashioning" as premised upon aesthetic ...

• "WHATEVER THE DAY SHALL BRING": LIVES OF WOMEN IN A NORTH IDAHO 

  Sullivan, Gwen Ellen (2013)

  This is a focus on the history of the small rural town of Pierce, Idaho, where gold was discovered in 1860 in what was then a part of Washington Territory. Although an illegal action, as the land belonged to the Nez Perce ...

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