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Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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“Hideous things have happened here”: Rape myths, rape culture, and healing in adolescent literature, Holly J. Greca

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Moments of excess: Type 1 diabetes and the myth of control in adolescent fiction for girls, Michelle E. LeGault

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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A sociophonetic analysis of female-sounding virtual assistants, Alyssa Allen

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Vampire narratives: Looking at queer-centric experiences in comparison to hetero-centric norms in order to model a new queer vampiric experience, Marah Heikkila

Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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Overhearers’ perceptions of familiarity between interlocutors in computer-mediated communication based on GIF usage, Alexa F. Druckmiller

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Feminism by proxy: Jane Austen’s critique of patriarchal society in Pride and Prejudice and Emma, Alexis Miller

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The memory of mythmaking: Transgenerational trauma and disability as a collective experience in Afrofuturist storytelling, Jessica Tapley

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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Body image/imagining bodies: Trauma, control, and healing in graphic memoirs about anorexia, Kristine M. Gatchel

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Word-final /t/-release and linguistic style: An investigation of the speech of two Jewish women from metro Detroit, Janet Leppala

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Hermione syndrome: Reexamining feminist sidekicks and power in 2000-2010 children’s and young adult fantasy literature, Josiah Pankiewicz

Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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Fear and (non) fiction: Agrarian anxiety in “The Colour Out of Space”, Antonio Barroso

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Sculpted from clay, shaped by power: Feminine narrative and agency in Wonder Woman, Mikala Carpenter

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Players in a storm: Climate and political migrants in The Tempest and Othello, Darcie Rees

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Reclaiming racial/ethnic identity vs. reconstructing Asian American masculinity in Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese, Hyun-Joo Yoo

Theses/Dissertations from 2017

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The organization of turn-taking in fieldwork settings: A case study, Amy Brunett

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Exploring the political impact of literature and literary studies in American government, Taylor Dereadt

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"We met in a bar by happenstance": Master narratives in couples stories, Brent A. Miller

Theses/Dissertations from 2016

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What is the negro woman's story?: Negro Story Magazine and the dialogue of feminist voices, Maureen Convery

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Illustrating adolescent awareness: Teaching historical injustices and promoting agency through picture books in secondary classrooms, Melissa Hoak

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Phonemic inventory of the Shor language, Uliana Kazagasheva

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Cannibalism in contact narratives and the evolution of the wendigo, Michelle Lietz

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Parody and the pen: Pippi Longstocking, Harriet M. Welsch, and Flavia de Luce as disrupters of space, language, and the male gaze, Kelsey McLendon

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Haec fortis sequitur illam indocti possident: A linguistic analysis of demonstratives in genres of early Latin fragments, Erica L. Meszaros

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Tricking for change: Establishing the literary trickster in the western tradition, Christopher Michael Stuart

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Because, x: A new construction of because in popular culture, Stephanie Walla