This collection includes theses and dissertations from the Department of English, in the College of Arts & Sciences. It is not exhaustive since most paper theses and dissertations have not been digitized. Generally, paper copies of theses and dissertations published prior to 2014 can be accessed in the University of Louisville Libraries. If you would like to add your thesis or dissertation to this collection, please fill out the Electronic Theses & Dissertations form.
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
You don’t look sick: Epistemic injustice, ethos, and embodied expertise in narratives of chronic illness., Caitlin Burns Allen
Faculty and "Teams": Academic literacies in the post-lockdown, digital university., Morgan Alexandria Blair
Inside the dojo of digital media: What marginalized student perspectives reveal about multiliteracy center practices., Lauren Fusilier
Winter's threads., Andrew Wesley Messer
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
“Difference in/at the center" a transnational approach for mobilizing international multilingual graduate writers' writing assets during writing instruction., Olalekan Adepoju
The forest for the trees: how a local arboretum shapes rhetoric and discourse surrounding environmentalism., Cooper Day
Author(iz)ing literacy: a rhetorical/historical analysis of literacy for college readiness in Kentucky from KERA to the Common Core (and beyond)., Susannah Kilbourne
Rainforests of the mind: Conceiving transnational composition from a mobilities perspective on knowledge., Tobias Lee
Non-western rendition of ambient rhetoric of Khajuraho monuments., Shiva Hari Mainaly
From "smart talk" to "living well": Commonplaces and their role in narratives of rare disease., Caitlin E. Ray
Communicating in crisis: Rhetorical (de)stabilization during the COVID-19 pandemic., Brittany Nicole Smart
“Long live ear x-tacy!”: an oral history study of rhetorics of nostalgia and place., Aubrie Warner
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Re-localizing writing assessment: sites of knowledge mobilization., Charlotte Asmuth
Taiwanese indigenous representation, rhetoric of resistance, and heteroglossia in warriors of the rainbow: SEEDIQ bale., John Yu-Choh Chang
Disorienting object oriented ontology: Queer landscapes and ecological bodies in Richard Siken and Harryette Mullen., Andrew N. Hutto
Progymnasmata and practicality: classical composition in the contemporary classroom., Chelsea Murray Schaper
Definitions and depictions of rhetorical practice in medieval English Fürstenspiegel., Joseph Ethan Blaine Sharp
(De)Legitimizing genres: rhetoric and tactical institutional critique., Walker Smith
Rewriting writing as transmodal and translingual: Tranßcribing Japanese., Alex Way
The glass coffin: gothic adaptations and the formation of sexual subjectivity., Colton T. Wilson
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Acting on what we hear: the impact of a listening methodology in a community literacy program., Megen Farrow Boyett
Resonating otherness: rethinking the body through Octavia Butler's dawn., Tristan DeWitt Carr
Imagination in practice: writing studies and the application of hospitality., Edward Alan English
Transnational writing program administration: mobility, entanglement, work., Joseph Franklin
Writing program administration at public liberal arts colleges., N. Claire Jackson
The space between: listening within difference in writing center consultations., Jessica S. B. Newman
Part-time., Anthony Mark Piedmonte
A translingual approach to the theory and practice of basic writing., Rachel Rodriguez
In a Victorian fog: constructing identities in female gothic novels., Hayley Salo
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Louisville's dark tourist: Liminality, legend, and the macabre., Montgomery Quaid Adams
Long for death., Ashley William Bittner
"Don't put an 'or' where God puts an 'and'": constitutive rhetoric in queer Appalachia., Brooke Elizabeth Boling
The sick ones., Christian Loriel Lucas
Making modality: transmodal composing in a digital media studio., Chris Scheidler
No vacancy: Family vacations on the road, on the water, and on the edge., Amy Jackson Sellers
Regression and progression: portrayals of midnighter and apollo wildstrom and dc comics., Adam J. Yeich
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Do LGBTQ-identified, postsecondary writing instructors come out in their classrooms?, Michael Baumann
Vital data : writing and circulating data in non-profits., Patrick Danner
Wounds and writing : building trauma-informed approaches to writing pedagogy., Michelle L. Day
Learning and laboring : student-workers’ networked experiences of literacy, agency, and mobility in the Neoliberal University., Layne Porta Gordon
Subversive sponsorship : organized literacy education and the long civil rights movement., Jaclyn Hilberg
Coming to terms with Gonzo journalism : an analysis in Russian formalism., Beau Kilpatrick
Brokering words and work: complexities of literacy sponsorship in the oilfields of south Texas., Jennifer L. Marciniak
Mapping rural literacy sponsorship networks : literacy infrastructures and perceptions in Abbyville., Amy McCleese Nichols
This to which we've come., Holly Tabor
Character arcs: mapping creative writers' trajectories into the composition classroom., Jon Udelson
The emergent matter of archives : a rhetorical investigation of the queer formation of the Williams-Nichols archive., Richard Wysocki
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Conciencia bilingüe : the multilingual and academic writing practices of undocumented immigrant activists., Sara del Pilar Alvarez
Uncertain certainties: an analysis of the American response to the 2014-2016 West African Ebola epidemic., Kelly Carty
'Where history meets the future' : a historiographic exploration of Mississippi : the view from Tougaloo., Khirsten L. Echols
Universal truths, verisimilitude, and hyperreality: Baudrillard’s simulacra and simulation in Pride and Prejudice and the Lizzie Bennet diaries., Kathryn M. Kohls
Pens, print, and pixels : gendered writing and the epistolary genre in transitional eras., Keri Elizabeth Mathis
A fractured conversation : the professional, scholarly, and disciplinary identities of two-year college writing faculty., Laura Sceniak Matravers
"We're asking you to show up" : accountability as rhetorical practice for queer, feminist, and racial justice allyship., Laura Tetreault
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
His scent of sandalwood., Lujain Almulla
Eight pieces of pie., Maggie E. Cassaro
Stories at work : restorying narratives of new teachers' identity learning in writing studies., Rachel Gramer
New genres and new challenges : five interdisciplinary case studies of master's student writers., Meghan Lynne Hancock
Aspirations into action : navigating structures for community engagement at the University of Louisville., Megan Faver Hartline
Articulating the new normal(s) : mental disability, medical discourse, and rhetorical action., Andrew Wesley Holladay
A curriculum of civic responsibility : transitioning Black American students to college-level writing., Jamila M. Kareem
Retellings : a collection of nonfiction essays., Jennifer Kiefer
The military meets the university : mapping issues of literacy sponsorship across military and academic settings., Ashley Ludewig
Short stories., Karley Miller
Trinity part one : food of the Gods., Thomas Edward Olges
Ironic deference : an inquiry into the nineteenth-century feminist rhetoric of Kesiah Shelton., Melissa Rothman
Hard to see through the smoke : remembering the 1912 Hillsville, Virginia courthouse shootout., Travis A. Rountree
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
"If this stuff matters, why isn't it being shared?" : citations, hyperlinks, and potential public futures of online writing in rhetoric and composition., Elizabeth Frances Bergeron Chamberlain
Master Buddha & the jolly golly fun time gang., Todd Edward Evans
"This machine kills fascists" : the public pedagogy of the American folk singer., Harley Ferris
To my betas, endless chocolate frogs! : exploring the intersections of emotion, the body, and literacy in online fanfiction., Brittany Kelley
"Clarity" and "The romantic Marvin Milkweed"., Adam Christopher Lippert
The zodiac army., Keith Charles Marks
Stories of single mothers : narrating the sociomaterial mechanisms of community literacy., Kathryn Elizabeth Perry
New game+, Bobby Rich
This sleep of reason., Brit Thompson
The available means of imagination : personal narrative, public rhetoric, and circulation., Stephanie D. Weaver
Amused teachers and public readers : empathy and derision in "student blooper" collections., Jessica Winck
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Language difference and expansive learning : negotiating concepts, contexts, and identities in writing-related transfer studies., Megan Jeanne Bardolph
Doing time by conceiving space : the rhetorical cartographies of imprisoned writers., Benjamin Bogart
An unnamed God., Luke Cash Mansfield
Mediation in literacy : language, technology, and modality., Hem Sharma Paudel
A few good men and women : the rhetorical constitution of military personnel identity., Ashly Bender Smith
Places in the polity of rhetoric : topoi, evolution, and the fragmentation of discourse., Benjamin James Bickel Wetherbee
Hidden sites of 'first-year' composition : what do we mean when we say 'AP'? : the diversity of practices in AP English language and composition courses., Hollye Nicole Wright
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Corn cantos., John E. Burgett
Mobilizing modernist magazines : Peter Sloterdijk and the Transatlantic review., Daniel Lee Conrad
Undoings : reversals and dissolutions of binaries in the narrative films of Peter Greenaway., Kristina Sue Bohleber Groves 1978-
Yours, mine, and ours : confronting the originality burden through remix and intertextuality., Barrie Olson Harvey
"My watch begins" : identification and procedural rhetoric on second screens and social networks., K. Shannon Howard
Servants of my people first : an examination of the political literacies of the Black Liberation Front International (BLFI), 1969-1973., Joilynn Karega-Mason
The language politics of doctoral studies in rhetoric and composition : toward a translingual revision of graduate education in the field., Carrie Byars Kilfoil
Globalizing literacies and identities : translingual and transcultural literacy practices of Bhutanese refugees in the U.S., Tika R. Lamsal
Prankster questionaire., Matthew Landan 1972-
Composing college and career : mobility, complexity and agency at the nexus of high school, college and work., Brice Nordquist
Transfer and the commodification of practice., Kenneth Andrew Smith
The ethos of conspiracy argument : "character" as persuader in conspiracy rhetoric., Michael James Sobiech
Pedagogy : reconsiderations and reorientations., John Vance
