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Recent Completed Dissertations

December 2003

Timothy Coleman, “ Hollywood and Will Rogers: American Nationalism of the 1930's”

Coretta Pittman, “Race, Rights, and Respects: The Rhetorical Possibilities of Composition Studies”

Craig Smith, “Eustace Tilley's Closet: Gay and Lesbian Writers at The New Yorker , 1925-1992”

Chris Wilkey, “Composition Studies and Social Justice: Re-visioning Possibilities”

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May 2003

Willie J. Harrell, Jr.,“To Bear The ‘Slave's Heavy Cross' : Religion and the Jeremiadic Tradition as Literary and Social Construction in African-American Protest, 1760-1865”

Julie E. Towell, “The ‘Rise and Progress' of Anglo-Saxonism and English National Identity: Old English Literature in the Nineteenth-Century”

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December 2002

Mark Aune, “An Englishman on an Elephant: Thomas Coryate, Travel Writing and Literacy Culture in Early Modern England ”

Robert I. Carr, III, “The Dialectic of Legal Techne”

Richard Scott Nokes, “The old English Charms and their manuscript context: British Library Royal 12 D. XVII and British Library Harley 585”

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December 2001

Joseph Helminski, “ Rome in America : Anti-Catholicism and American Identity in Antebellum Literature”

Susan Honeyman, “Elusive Childhood: Impossible Representation in Modern American Fiction”

Schneider, Gary , “The Culture of Epistolarity: Letters and Letter-Writing in Early Modern England , 1500-1700”

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May 2001

Samantha Blackmon, "(Re) Constructing the University: A History of Writing Instruction at Two Historically Black Colleges or Universities (HBCUs)"

Sarah W. Chandler, “Theorizing Interpretation in Context: A Feminist Ethnographic Study of an Elder Women's Writing Group”

Theresa Girard, “Alternate Futures: The Transposition of Women's Roles in Science Fiction from Print to Visual Media”

Amy Hawkins, “Nurturing, Bargaining, Working: Negotiating Agency in Composition Studies”

Marshall Kitchens, "Literacy, Technology, and Justice in Postindustrial Detroit : Rhetoric for the 21st Century"

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Dec. 2000

Lisa McNeilley, "Writing Women's Studies: Students Engage in the Creation of Meaning"

Jay Miller, "Soldier of the Class War: The Life and Writing of William E. Trautmann"

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May 2000

Barbara Schneider Dickson, "The Pregnant Body: Conceived for the Common Good"

Valerie Kinloch, "A Cultural Critique of the City as a Site of Rhetorical Education"

Lisa Ortiz, "Modes of Autoethnography: Genealogical, Autobiographical, and Historical Recovery in the Novels of Alvarez, Cliff and Danticat"

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