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 2014
Prompting discussion : writing prompts, habits of mind, and the shape of the writing classroom., William Matthew Wiles
Competing conceptions of literacy : intersections in a dual-credit writing program., Caroline Wilkinson
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Translingualism in post-secondary writing and language instruction : negotiating language ideologies in policies and pedagogical practices., Nancy Bou Ayash
"Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished" : mortality, sexuality and spirituality in the early modern period., Whitney L. Brown
Our mess is more., Conyer Clayton
Wine with pharaohs., Jean Fox DeMoisey 1974-
Literacy and identity in popular and participatory culture., Laura A. Detmering
Exploring the interaction of explicit, genre-based instruction with antecedent genres and student engagement., Jason Charles Dietz
Ideologies of response in composition classrooms., Matt Dowell
"Two machines similarly constructed" : humanity between apes and clones., Emily Regina Freund
Before your eyes., Zachary Garrett Hardin
From farmer to market : the rhetorical construction of farmers in the local food movement., Hannah Virginia Harrison
The day of the Lord., Neil David James 1989-
Numinous awakenings in The golden key., Trisha Anne Maclin 1989-
The rhetoric of Africa : historical turns in constructing a continent, 1780-1890., Dexter Peck Mahaffey
Navigating the field : an examination of rhetorical spaces in the Journal of sex research., Deanna McGaughey-Summers
Consider David Foster Wallace, or reconsidering DFW : literary self-fashioning and slacker genius., Michael Franklin Miller
Discursive affordances : police, transfer, and the performance of identity., Robert John Terry
Transformations : material terms for writing on religion in composition classrooms., Mark Alan Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
The incredible tale of Johanna, the blessed listener., Jared Andrew Beek 1986-
Literacy by subscription: writing instruction in turn-of-the-century American periodicals., Alicia Brazeau
Rifted paradise : poems., Josh English
Happy death men., Jessica Marie Fletcher 1982-
Investigating commenting formats and content in first year composition and the virtual writing center., Rebecca Hallman
Rethinking human and nonhuman animal relations in J. M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello (2003)., Rodrigo Martini Paula
Ideological tensions, pedagogical gaps : multilingual engineering scholars' response to language variation in academic writing., Ghanashyam Sharma
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Historiography, disciplinarity, and the future(s) of composition., Lisa R. Arnold
Noir ontology : existing in the fragmented spaces of Los Angeles., Jacob Andrew Goessling
In the words of another : on the promises and paradoxes of rhetorics of empathy., Eric Wallace Leake 1980-
The moonlight schools : adult literacy education in the age of Americanization., Samantha Hope NeCamp
The name of the sandwich itself., Amanda Lee Phillips
Writing out the storm : trauma and the work of composition., Scott L. Rogers
Retrograde movements and the educational encounter : working-class adults in first-year composition., James Eric Romesburg
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
"Subject to change" : the composition course syllabus and intersections of authority, genre, and community., Christopher Michael Alexander 1976-
Reading aloud in the writing center : a comparative analysis of three tutoring methods., Rebecca Ryan Block 1979-
Insiders or outsiders? : the rhetoric of compromise in post-Reconstruction institutionally-sponsored African American literacy., Anne Lawson Whites Heintzman
Cultivating our mosaic : understanding the language choices of Canadian immigrant students., Julia E. Kiernan
Re-conceptualizing the Bible Belt : Southern spirituality in the novels of James Wilcox., Ashton Moats
"Still I rise!" Public discourse surrounding the development of public schools for African Americans in Louisville, Kentucky, 1862--1872., Michelle Bachelor Robinson
Writing in/on the Borderlands : (basic) writers and the writing center., Allison Egnew Smith
Queer tension : Le Teuer inside me., Nicholas Ryan Wood 1986-
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
In the wor(l)d but not of it : literacy practices of an Amish community in southeast Ohio., Tabetha Adkins
"Metaphors we teach by": representations of disciplinary and teacherly identity., Stephen Edwin Neaderhiser 1978-
Ultrakinetic features of anime texts: revisioning composition theory and exploring visual rhetoric pedagogy., Karen Ware 1973-
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Playing House., Tracey Bennett 1979-
Multimodal and print composition : an examination of instructors and students transferring rhetorical knowledge in first-year composition., Sonya Compton Borton
Breaking into the tutor's toolbox : an investigation into strategies used in writing center tutorials., Kate Brown
Within walls., Melinda Floyd 1980-
Literacy practices in a First Nations community : women writing culture., Alanna Frost
Celtic subtleties : Brian Friel's appropriation of the O'Donnell clan., Leslie Anne Singel 1984-
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Violence and horror : the anti-technology of subjectivity., Christopher William Curry 1973-
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Implicit response : instructor values and social class in the literacy narrative assignment., Kara Poe Alexander
Ukiyo., Robert Ritchie 1981-
Gary Snyder's idiosyncratic Buddhist poetics and the "razoredge"., David Gerhardt Thimme 1970-
Positioning Guglielmo Marconi's wireless : a rhetorical analysis of an early twentieth-century technology., Aaron Antonio Toscano 1976-
Rhetorics of globalism., Steven Nathaniel Wexler
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
A local model of writing program assessment : fourteen community college faculty define and evaluate writing proficiency., Richard Anthony Butsch 1956-
The Breakfast table., Allison Leigh Egnew 1980-
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Beguiling beginnings and dialectical salvaging : the presidential inaugural speech and African-American leaders' speeches., Jacqueline Elaine Brown
Writing in the crossroads : examining first-year composition and creative writing., Leah Schweitzer 1973-
A study of technological literacy in writing programs., Katherine V. Wills 1957-
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
Patience : a play in two acts., Mary Rotella 1958-
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
Frank O'Hara's oranges : poetry, painters and painting., Karen Ware 1973-
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
Global coherence and the teaching of composition., Frank A. Davis 1953-
Theses/Dissertations from 1992
Social warrants and classroom practices., Carol Mattingly 1945-
Theses/Dissertations from 1976
One Blake : the principles and method of visionary awakening in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Milton, and Jerusalem., Richard Lee Record
Theses/Dissertations from 1949
An analysis of the methods used by John William De Forest in translating his personal war experiences into realistic fiction as shown in Miss Ravenel's conversion., Elizabeth Maxwell Bright 1923-2010
An analysis of Shelley's Hymn to intellectual beauty., Mona Belle Campbell
The structure of Whitman's Song of myself., Jane Kinney Hill
Theses/Dissertations from 1948
Kentucky autobiography and Kentucky culture., William F. Keirce
Milton's religious attitude in Samson Agonistes., Milton Gerald Miller
A study of Virginia Woolf., Virginia Powell Reid
Shelley's God., Albert Stutzenberger
Significant modern interpretations of Joan of Arc., Virginia Quarrier Wynn
Theses/Dissertations from 1947
Tragic implications of man's frustration by society in three of Dreiser's novels., Susan Mae Robinson
Theses/Dissertations from 1946
The relationship of seventeenth century and twentieth century metaphysical poetry., Joseph E. Duncan 1921-1991
Theses/Dissertations from 1944
Mutations of the Gothic romance., Sarah Virginia Rose
Theses/Dissertations from 1943
Martha Finley's fiction for girls., Virginia Haggard Rost
The Christmas story in American literature., Katharine Allyn See
Theses/Dissertations from 1942
Waldo Frank's treatment of women., Mary Hodge Cox
The treatment of adolescence in contemporary American literature., Goldie Mae Fertig
Theses/Dissertations from 1941
The resolution of conflict in the fiction of D. H. Lawrence., William Sterett Bowmer
Milton's thought on divorce., Annie Murray Ferry 1906-1973
Bulwer-Lytton's place in the English drama of the middle Nineteenth Century., Martha Kennerly Gibson
Theses/Dissertations from 1940
Elizabeth Madox Roberts : her interpretation of life, Andrew J. Beeler
Noel Coward's contribution to the comedy of manners., Clara-Marie Doughtry
Edmund Wilson's development as critic., W. E. Lensing
An analysis and interpretation of Keats' Endymion., Lucie Lowry
How effectual was Shelley? : a study in Shelley criticism., Harriet B. Salin
Theses/Dissertations from 1939
The interpretation of the American Civil War in American fiction., Florence Murray Bailey
Cale Young Rice : a study of his life and works., Jenny Rose Bere 1900-1987
The treatment of the factory in English novels, 1830-1914., Clara Bell McLellan
Basic philosophic themes in the drama of Eugene O'Neill., Nancy Mae Warren
Theses/Dissertations from 1938
Joseph Altsheler : his contribution to American fiction for boys., Ona Belle Demaree 1898-1951
The little theatre movement in Louisville., Fred J. Karem
The activity program versus the traditional method of instruction at the second grade level., Ruth Marie Martin
Theses/Dissertations from 1937
A guide to Hamlet criticism., Helen Moran
