• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• Becoming Visible in Invisible Space: How the Cyborg Trickster is (Re)inventing American Indian (NDN) Identity 

  Chisum, Pamela Corinne (2013)

  This dissertation investigates issues of representation surrounding the American Indian (NDN) and the mixedblood. By conflating images of the trickster as described by NDN scholars with the postmodern theories of Donna ...

• Critical Race Consciousness and the Technical Writing Classroom 

  Edwards, Jessica R. L. (2013)

  My project is informed by rhetorical theory as it engages student writing and conversations about race and racism in the workplace. It identifies critical race theory as a way to think about and theorize rhetorical strategies ...

• Alternative Wildernesses: Finding Wildness in 21st Century America 

  Bunting, Ben S (2012)

  This dissertation is a critique of the American concept of wilderness. Traditionally, this concept has assumed the necessity of a geographic locus that embodies the qualities of "the natural," but I challenge this assumption, ...

• THE LABOR OF LEARNING IN COLLEGE COMPOSITION 

  Rysdam, Sheri (2012)

  Using theories of political economy within composition theory, I attempt to better understand the economic influences at play within higher education, and, more specifically, college composition. This work is aimed at ...

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