Dissertation Research
2006:
Kara Alexander: Literacy Narratives Unveiled: Rhetorical Appeals, Shared Stories, and Social Class.
Dana Nichols: Democratizing Diversity: Race, Rhetoric, and Conflict in the University.
Iswari Pandey: Imagined Nations, Re-Imagined Roles: Literacy Practices of South Asian Immigrants.
Elizabeth Powell: Spoken Discourse in Collaborative Writing Groups.
Carolyn Skinner: Delicate Authority: Ethos in the Public Rhetoric of Nineteent-Century American Women Physicians.
Aaron Toscano: Positioning Guglielmo Marconi’s Wireless: A Rhetorical Analysis of a Monumental Early Twentieth Century Technology.
Darci Thoune: Act Your Age: Age, Gender, and Instructor Identity in the Composition Classroom.
Steven Wexler: Rhetorics of Globalism.
2005:
Richard Butsch: Against Fragmentation: The Case for Writing Across the Curriculum in the Community College.
Richard Carpenter: You and I/Me and Not-Me: Romantic Love and the Relational Self (A Literacy Study).
Mark Crane: Social Literacies in the Networked Classroom.
Rodney Dick: Does Interface Matter?: A Qualitative Study of Web Authoring and Editing by Inexperienced Web Writers.
Kelli Grady: ESL Students and the Complex Practices of Cultural Positioning.
Mickey Hess: From Bricks to Billboards: Race, Rhetoric, and the Hip-hop Career.
2004:
Jacqueline Brown: Beguiling Beginnings and Dialectical Salvaging: The Presidential Inaugural Speech and African American Leader's Speeches.
Christopher Carter: Rhetoric and Resistance in the Corporate Academy.
Anthony Edgington: Reflecting on Teacher Response.
Amy England: Teachers' Approaches to Referencing and Plagiarism: Theory and Practice.
Christopher Ervin: Cultivating Green Ethos: Organic Rhetoric in the Mainstream Market.
Camille Newton: Discourse Negotiation and Identity Construction in Preparing Future Faculty Programs.
Annette Powell: The Politics of Practice and Meaning: Theorizing Access and Digital Literacy.
Leah Schweitzer: Writing in the Crossroads: Examining First-Year Composition and Creative Writing.
Katherine Wills: A Study of Technological Literacy in Writing Programs.
2003:
Susan Ghiaciuc: Shifting Literacies: Investigating Bilingual Latino Children's Literacy Practices.
Linda Holt: Portfolios in the Contact Zone: Intersections of Meaning.
Monica Luebke: Constructions of the Sophists: "Paths Taken" and "Paths Not Taken."
Laura Bartlett Snyder: The Rhetoric and Composition of the Corporate University: Literacy, Labor, and Subjectivity.
2002:
Vicki Hester: Emergent Theories of Assessment and Response.
Susan Popham: The Intersection of Medicine and Business.
Anthony Scott: Dear Reviewer: Reflective Writing as an Institutional Genre.
2001:
Anthony D. Baker: Theorizing Student Reflection in Composition.
Elizabeth Basham: Organizing Discourse Under a Different "Sign."
Timothy D. Catalano: Community, Composition, and Curricular Reform: A Learning-Community Case Study.
Robert Mark Hall: The "Oprahfication" of Literacy: Reading Oprah's Book Club.
Michael R. Neal: The Real Costs of Writing Assessment: Validity, Technologies, and Social Consequences.
Cassandra Mach Phillips: The Politics of Constructing, Enacting, and Measuring Community Literacies: An Instructors "Elastic Environment."
Buzz R. Pounds: Student/Teacher T(t)heories of Writing and Language.
