Theses/Dissertations from 2023
“Hideous things have happened here”: Rape myths, rape culture, and healing in adolescent literature, Holly J. Greca
Moments of excess: Type 1 diabetes and the myth of control in adolescent fiction for girls, Michelle E. LeGault
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
A sociophonetic analysis of female-sounding virtual assistants, Alyssa Allen
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
Overhearers’ perceptions of familiarity between interlocutors in computer-mediated communication based on GIF usage, Alexa F. Druckmiller
Feminism by proxy: Jane Austen’s critique of patriarchal society in Pride and Prejudice and Emma, Alexis Miller
The memory of mythmaking: Transgenerational trauma and disability as a collective experience in Afrofuturist storytelling, Jessica Tapley
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Body image/imagining bodies: Trauma, control, and healing in graphic memoirs about anorexia, Kristine M. Gatchel
Word-final /t/-release and linguistic style: An investigation of the speech of two Jewish women from metro Detroit, Janet Leppala
Hermione syndrome: Reexamining feminist sidekicks and power in 2000-2010 children’s and young adult fantasy literature, Josiah Pankiewicz
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Fear and (non) fiction: Agrarian anxiety in “The Colour Out of Space”, Antonio Barroso
Sculpted from clay, shaped by power: Feminine narrative and agency in Wonder Woman, Mikala Carpenter
Players in a storm: Climate and political migrants in The Tempest and Othello, Darcie Rees
Reclaiming racial/ethnic identity vs. reconstructing Asian American masculinity in Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese, Hyun-Joo Yoo
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
The organization of turn-taking in fieldwork settings: A case study, Amy Brunett
Exploring the political impact of literature and literary studies in American government, Taylor Dereadt
"We met in a bar by happenstance": Master narratives in couples stories, Brent A. Miller
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
What is the negro woman's story?: Negro Story Magazine and the dialogue of feminist voices, Maureen Convery
Phonemic inventory of the Shor language, Uliana Kazagasheva
Cannibalism in contact narratives and the evolution of the wendigo, Michelle Lietz
Parody and the pen: Pippi Longstocking, Harriet M. Welsch, and Flavia de Luce as disrupters of space, language, and the male gaze, Kelsey McLendon
Haec fortis sequitur illam indocti possident: A linguistic analysis of demonstratives in genres of early Latin fragments, Erica L. Meszaros
Tricking for change: Establishing the literary trickster in the western tradition, Christopher Michael Stuart
Because, x: A new construction of because in popular culture, Stephanie Walla