Doctor of Philosophy in Composition and TESOL program (now the Composition and Applied Linguistics program)
2020
Alhodithi, Nawal. (2020). Undergraduate Research Within an Interdisciplinary English Department: Composition Faculty Experiences and Perceptions. [Dissertation Advisor: Hanauer]
Field Rothschild, Katherine. (2020). "I Was a Writer, even if Teachers Brought Me Down": The Impact of WID-Oriented Curriculum on Students' Writerly Identity Development. [Dissertation Advisor: Driscoll]
Gagich, Melanie. (2020). Examining First-Year Students' Emotional Responses Towards Multimodal Composing and Online Audiences. [Dissertation Advisor: Vetter]
Grant, John. (2020). Mutuality For Universal Access: A study of Diablism, Ableism, and Ablelist Normative Violence Accessing Disability Access in First-Year Composition. [Dissertation Advisor: Bizarro]
Hull, Brittany. (2020). When You Use Ya White Voice Ta Git Da Job: Linguistic Identity Negotiation and the Black Woman English Teacher-Scholar. [Dissertation Advisor: Vetter]
Jiang, Jialei. (2020). From First-Year Writers to Multimodal Public Rhetors: Exploring the Potential of Posthuman Praxis for Multimodal Design and Social Advocacy. [Dissertation Advisor: Vetter]
Krack, Daniel. (2020). An Ethnodramatic Exploration of the Experiences of LGBTQ+ High School Students. [Dissertation Advisor: Deckert]
Schiera, Anthony. (2020). The Positioning of Middle East Regional Writing Centers, Writing Tutors, and Student Clients. [Dissertation Advisor: Deckert]
Tchekpassi, Tewero. (2020). The Becoming of Sub-Saharan Africa's Higher Education Policy: A Critical Discourse Analysis and Posthuman Reading of a Teacher's Experiences. [Dissertation Advisor: Porter]
Webb, Marie. (2020). Negotiating Professional Identities of English Language, Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing Studies Instructors: Implications for Teacher Education Across Disciplines. [Dissertation Advisor: Park]
Yacoub, Mohamed. (2020). Exploring the Narrated Experiences of Four Multilingual Muslim Students in Separated and Integrated Undergraduate Composition Courses with Implications for Composition Programs. [Dissertation Advisor: Porter]
Zhang, Tong. (2020). Exploring the Value of Rubric Co-Construction on Second Language Writer Formative Assessment Experiences and Metacognition in Writing Learning. [Dissertation Advisor: Hanauer]
2019
Al Harthy, Said. (2019). Investigating Omani Parental Involvement in Their Childrens' English Language Learning. [Dissertation Advisor: Stewart]
Anokye, Jane. (2019). Theorizing the Multilingual Perspectives on African American English Through HBCU Composition Faculty Members' Lived Experiences. [Dissertation Advisor: Rafoth]
Cureton, Darius. (2019). Composing In a Digital Age: Unpacking the Techtinuum Among First Year Writing Faculty at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. [Dissertation Advisor: Pagnucci]
Dunning, Wesley. (2019). Poetic Rhetoric: Composing Academic Essays with Poems. [Dissertation Advisor: Pagnucci]
Hasan, Mousa. (2019). Exploration of Multilingual Linguistic Landscape as a Source of Input in Second Language Acquisition: Linguistic, Sociolinguistic, and Pedagogical Analysis of English-Arabic Public Signage. [Dissertation Advisor: Savora]
Johnston, Sandra. (2019). Towards "Comprehensive Internalization": A Study of International Student Perceptions and Experiences of L2 Writing Across the Curriculum [Dissertation Advisor: Park]
Lyon, Thomas. (2019). A Pragmatic Analysis of Public Discourse on American Women in Combat [Dissertation Advisor: Pagnucci]
Mendenhall, Lora. (2019). Mitakuye Oyasin and Service-Learning: A Narrative Plan for Ecological Restorative Justice, Jasper County, Indiana. [Dissertation Advisor: Pagnucci]
Oates Primus, Debonair. (2019). Racialized and Gendered Madness: Decolonizing Psycho-Social Hysteria in African American and Postcolonial African Black Womens' Fiction. [Dissertation Advisor: Yang]
2018
Alhamdan, Alaa. (2018). Multilingual Codeswitiching Between Arabic and English: Structural Patterns, Conversation Strategies, Identity Exhibitions, and Educational Applications. [Dissertation Advisor: Savora]
Brown, Debra. (2018). Instructor-Student Conferencing as Pedagogy: Measuring ISC Pedagogy's Impact on Student Writing and Self-Efficacy. [Dissertation Advisor: Driscoll]
Bakri, Haytham. (2018). The Effect of Dynamic Written Corrective Feedback on Saudi EFL Students' Writing Accuracy: A Four-Week Study [Dissertation Advisor: Rafoth]
Darwish, Abdullah. (2018). Exploring Academic and Disciplinary Literacy Socialization and Enactment of Seven International Undergraduate Business Students. [Dissertation Advisor: Driscoll]
Dickinson, Summer. (2018). Writer(s) Material and Sensorial Worlds: The Story of a Writer Who Raised a Writer. [Dissertation Advisor: Porter]
Liao, Fang-Yu. (2018). Translingual Creative Writing Pedagogy Workshops: University Teachers' Transformations on Pedagogical Ideas. [Dissertation Advisor: Hanauer]
Morales, Jack. (2018). Literacy Sponsorship at Staten Island Community College of the City University of New York, 1969-1976. [Dissertation Advisor: Vetter]
Nicholes, Justin. (2018). Exploring How Chemistry and English Majors Understand and Construct Disciplinary Identities in Relation to Life, Departmental, and Writing Experiences: Implications for WAC and Retention. [Dissertation Advisor: Hanauer]
Powell, Roger. (2018). The Impact of Teacher and Student Mindsets on Responding to Student Writing in First Year Composition. [Dissertation Advisor: Driscoll]
Reid, Evelyn. (2018). Stakeholders in the Politics of Literacy Instruction: A Descriptive Study of Narrativized Accounts in Journal of Basic Writing and Computers in Composition: An International Journal. [Dissertation Advisor: Rafoth]
Saaty, Ahdab. (2018). Wiki-Supported Collaborative Writing: Saudi Female Graduate Students' Discourse Practices, Writing Patterns, and Participant Perceptions. [Dissertation Advisor: Savora]
2017
Algubaisi, Bader. (2017). Exploring and Understanding of Administrators', Teachers', and Students' Expectations and Actual Use of Technology - Enhanced Language Learning in a Saudi Tertiary Context. [Dissertation Advisor: Porter]
Alluhaydan, Khulud. (2017). Writing to Learn in an Online Community of Practice: An Exploratory Study of Arab ESL Learners' Texts and the Corrective Commentary Feedback They Received. Linguistic, Pedagogical, and Sociolinguistic Analysis. [Dissertation Advisor: Savora]
Carter, Angie. (2017). An Eye Toward Change: Examining Requests in Teacher-Student Writing Conferences. [Dissertation Advisor: Rafoth]
Charles, Quanisha. (2017). Black Teachers of English in South Korea. [Dissertation Advisor: Park]
Cobb, Gretchen. (2017). Habitus of Deafhood: Using Sociolinguistics of Sign Language to Compile an Academic ASL Dictionary. [Dissertation Advisor: Bizarro]
Donohue, William. (2017). Student Assessment of a Composition Program: A Descriptive Study of Program Outcomes from the Student Perspective. [Dissertation Advisor: Pagnucci]
Hepler, John. (2017). The Influence of Technological Knowledge on Professional Identity of New English Program Faculty. [Dissertation Advisor: Pagnucci]
Hopkins, Justin. (2017). The Story of Them: Outcomes of Practicing Autoethnography in Undergraduate Writing Courses. [Dissertation Advisor: Hanauer]
Lee, Alice. (2017). Exploring the Identity Construction of Multilingual Writers in World Englishes Writing Centers. [Dissertation Advisor: Deckert]
Lee, Melissa. (2017). Student-Centered Englishes Pedagogy: A Case Study Exploration of a New Orientation to Composition. [Dissertation Advisor: Park]
Lucia, Brent. (2017). The Posthuman Turn in Composition: Critical Regionalists Inquiry and its Pedagogical Implications. [Dissertation Advisor: Porter]
Ryan, Emmett. (2017). Slow Composition and Fast Food: Teaching Writing for a More Sustainable Future. [Dissertation Advisor: Pagnucci]
Schubert, Laura. (2017). Exploring the Connections Between Students' Mindsets and Their Writing: An Intervention Study with a Course-Embedded Writing Tutor. [Dissertation Advisor: Rafoth]
Sheridan, Cheryl. (2017). A Qualitative Study of Four Humanities and Social Sciences English Medium National Scholarly Journals in Taiwan. [Dissertation Advisor: Hanauer]
Simnitt, Emily. (2017). Novice Academic Authorship in the Multilingual, Digital Age. [Dissertation Advisor: Deckert]
Simpson, Shelah. (2017). Student Perceptions of Online Writing Center Designs for Fully-Online Programs. [Dissertation Advisor: Rafoth]
Zamin, Nadia. (2017). Mindful Writers, Sustainable Writing: Implementing Mindfulness Intervention to Support the Writing Practices of Advanced Academic Writers Engaged in High Stakes Writing Projects. [Dissertation Advisor: Driscoll]
2016
Azizogly, Basak. (2016). The Lore of Second Language Literacy: The Development of a Creative Writing Program for Second Language College Students. [Dissertation Advisor: Bizarro, P.]
Crawford, Frances. (2016). An Investigation of Writing Center Certification and Accreditation. [Dissertation Advisor: Rafoth]
Ganni, Jessica. (2016). Validating Placement for Teaching and Learning. [Dissertation Advisor: Williamson]
Ismail, Fikri. (2016). Perceived Influence of Formal Second Language Education on First Language Writing. [Dissertation Advisor: Savora]
Jones, Nathan. (2016). Discovering Essensce of College-Level Writing: Transcendental Phenomenology Inquiry in a Midwestern Community College. [Disseertation Advisor: Rafoth]
Ramon, Alva. (2016). Introducing the Prison Writer to Composition: A Multilayered, Many Stranded, Nested, and Textured Meta-Narrative that Begins to Unfold the Untold Story of Prison Writing. [Dissertation Advisor: Pagnucci]
2015
Ahmed, Mohamed. (2015). Androgynous Content: Gender-Inclusive Language in Qur'anic Arabic and Egyptian Arabic. [Dissertation Advisor: Deckert]
Al Hasnan, Basim. (2015). Teachers' Perceptions of the Importance of Intercultural Communicative Competence in Saudi EFL Education. [Dissertation Advisor: Savora]
Alawdat, Maha. (2015). A Qualitative Case Study Exploring the Implementation of ePortfolios in PASSHE English Departments. [Dissertation Advisor: Pagnucci]
Anyango-Kivuva, Leonora. (2015). "I can write my own story": A Narrative Study of Refugee Autobiographical Writing. [Dissertation Advisor: Hurlbert]
Ben-Duhaish, Fahad. (2015). When English is Performed Rather than Spoken: The Narrative Inquiry of Saudi M.A. Students' Experiences with Pragmatic Competences. [Dissertation Advisor: Park]
Collie, Gillian. (2015). A Bahktinian Approach to (Re)visioning Heroic Rhetoric in Medical Discourse. [Dissertation Advisor: Bizarro]
Curtis, Jennifer. (2015). Captivating Culture and Composition: Life Writing, Storytelling, Folklore, and Heritage Literacy Connections to First-Year Composition. [Dissertation Advisor: Bizarro, P.]
Donelli O'Connell, Shevaun. (2015). Harry Potter and the Order of the Metatext: a Study of Nonfiction Fan Compositions and Disciplinary Writing. [Dissertation Advisor: Pagnucci]
Fotinakes, Brian. (2015). A Belief and an Act of Will: Hope in the Composition Class. [Dissertation Advisor: Hurlbert]
Fujieda, Yutaka. (2015). Academic Literacy and Discourse Socialization of Seven Multilinguals in a Research Seminar Course in a Japanese University. [Dissertation Advisor: Park]
Griffo, Rachel. (2015). Recontextualizing Composition Studies: The Translingual Practices of Chinese Scholars Teaching in U.S. Universities (1987-2014). [Dissertation Advisor: Hurlbert]
Gutierez, Leslie. (2015). (Re)framing the Immigrant Narrative: Exploring Testimonios that Counter the Eseentialized Image of (Un)documented People in the Discourses of Contemporary United States Rhetoric. [Dissertation Advisor: Deckert]
Herb, Margaret. (2015). Reimagining the Dominant Narratives of Peer Tutoring: A Study of Tutors' and Writers' Stories. [Dissertation Advisor: Rafoth]
Houston, Maria. (2015). Writing Stories Across Languages: The Exploration of Students' Books Construction in an EAP Writing Classroom. [Dissertation Advisor: Hurlbert]
James, Mitchell. (2015). Aristotle, the Sublime, and Quantum Rhetoric: New Approaches to Understanding the Fiction Writing Process. [Dissertation Advisor: Bizarro, P.]
Kim, Kyung Min. (2015). Negotiation of Different Sources of Feedback on Academic Writing at the Graduate Level: A Case Study of Multilingual Students in the United States. [Dissertation Advisor: Hanauer]
Lee, Youn-Kyoung. (2015). Understanding the Korean Culture of Assessment and Development of an EFL Writing Test. [Dissertation Advisor: Hanauer]
Mangini, Sabatino. (2015). Dissertations in Composition: y[Our] Collaborative Resistance. [Dissertation Advisor: Pagnucci]
Mangini, Laura. (2015). Collaborative Dissertations in Composition: A Feminine Disruption of the Status Quo. [Dissertation Advisor: Pagnucci]
Nuske, Kyle. (2015). Investigating Students' Situated Understandings of Criticality in a Master's of Teaching Arts TESOL Course. [Dissertation Advisor: Hanauer]
Poole, Dana. (2015). The emotional constructs of professionalization in a Master's of Teaching English as a Second Language program. [Dissertation Advisor: Alvine]
Salako, Olubukola. (2015). Sociolinguistic Analysis of Nigerian Pidgin English in Nigerian Film. [Dissertation Advisor: Savora]
Sorensen-Lang, Karen. (2015). Voice in Advocacy Sites and the Composition Classroom. [Dissertation Advisor: Hurlbert]
Virgil, Sharon. (2015). A Year of Change: Students Writing Hope. [Dissertation Advisor: Hurlbert]
Warwick, Nicole. (2015). Expanding Narrative Representations: A Narrative Study of TA Preparation Programs in Rhetoric and Composition. [Dissertation Advisor: Williamson]
Whitehead, Elizabeth. (2015). Writing in Fashion: An Exploratory Case Study Investigating Fashion Faculty Approaches Toward Teaching with Writing. [Dissertation Advisor: Williamson]
Yeh, Wan-Ning. (2015). Business Literacy Practices: The Negotiation b/t L1 & L2 Among Taiwanese MAStudents in Taiwan and the U.S. [Dissertation Advisor: Hanauer]
2014
Aben Ahmed, Mahdi. (2014). English for Business Communication and Workplace Needs: Saudi Students' and Business Managers' Perceptions. [Dissertation Advisor: Williamson]
Bailey, Christine. (2014). The Role of Aesthetic Artifacts in Creative Writing Research: Casting Student Identity Narratives as Cultural Data. [Dissertation Advisor: Bizarro, P.]
Baker, John. (2014). An Investigation into the Mis/match between the Readability of Rhetorics and the Reading Levels of the English Learners Who Use Them. [Dissertation Advisor: Fontaine]
Boyd, John. (2014). Writing Centers and the Problem of Expertise: Knowing and Doing in Peer Tutoring. [Dissertation Advisor: Rafoth]
Gallaher, Robin. (2014). On Being an Island: A Grounded Theory Study of Being a WPA and the Only Composition Scholar at an Institution. [Dissertation Advisor: Williamson]
Garcia, Christopher. (2014). Profiling Writing Knowledge: Exploring Peer Review Feedback Beyond Revising and Editing. [Dissertation Advisor: Rafoth]
Girardi, Tamara. (2014). It Can Be Acquired and Learned: Building a Writer-Centered Pedagogical Approach to Creative Writing. [Dissertation Advisor, Bizarro, P.]
Golden, Lara. (2014). Discourse of the Disengaged: A Case Study Examination of Male High School Dropouts' Percepts of Their Writing Literacy. [Dissertation Advisor: Pagnucci]
Hulst, Craig. (2014). Toward the Creation of a Personal Ethical Perspective for Teaching Writing. [Dissertation Advisor: Hurlbert]
Long, Jason. (2014). The Road Not Taken: A Writer's Approach to Research on Poetry Writing in Creative Writing Studies. [Dissertation Advisor: Bizarro, P.]
McClure, Kristene. (2014). Traveling in Aplhabets: Narratives of Multilingual Armenian Immigrant Women. [Dissertation Advisor: Park]
McHarg, Molly. (2014). Exploring Faculty Perceptions of American Medical University in Qatar's Writing Center through a Sociocultural and Social Capitalist Framework. [Dissertation Advisor: Bizarro, P.]
Mina, Lilian. (2014). First Year Composition Teachers' Uses of New Media Technologies in the Composition Class. [Dissertation Advisor: Williamson]
Park, Soon Bok. (2014). Exploring Five Korean English Language Teachers' Identities in the Korean Teaching Contexts. [Dissertation Advisor: Park]
Rodden, Jennifer. (2014). Literacy (Re) Constructed: A critical Analysis of Textbook and Educational Policy Discourse. [Dissertation Advisor: Rafoth]
Romagnoli, Alex. (2014). Exploring Graphic Novels as Primary Texts: A cross-Case Analysis of College English Classrooms. [Dissertation Advisor: Pagnucci]
Sabatino, Lindsay. (2014). Interactions of the Online Writing Center: Student's Perspectives [Dissertation Advisor: Rafoth]
Schreyer, Jessica. (2014). A Theoretical Study Linking Ecocomposition and New Media Theories. [Dissertation Advisor: Pagnucci]
Tanghe, Shannon. (2014). A Qualitative Critical Study of Collaborative Co-teaching Practices of English Language Teachers in Public Elementary Schools in South Korea. [Dissertation Advisor: Park]
Truesdell, Thomas. (2014). The Space Between: An Examination of Practicing Theorists and Writing Center Work. [Dissertation Advisor: Rafoth]
Wells, Jennifer. (2014). Millennial Strike Back: Transitions from High School Reading & Writing to College Reading & Writing. [Dissertation Advisor: Rafoth]
Wise, Melody. (2014). A Study of Writing Assessment in Rural Two-Year Colleges: Preparing Students for Work in a Globalized, Fast-Capitalist Workplace. [Dissertation Advisor: Williamson]
Wu, Zhiling. (2014). Washback Effects of the Reformed CET-4 on College English Teaching and Learning in China: Students' Perspectives. [Dissertation Advisor: Williamson]
2013
Amicucci, Ann. (2013). A Descriptive Study of First-year College Students' Non-academic Digital Literacy Practices with Implications for College Writing Education. [Dissertation Advisor: Williamson]
Hrebik, Johnny. (2013). The Mutually-Minded Classroom Model: Creating Emancipatory Teacher-Student Relationships through Response and Interactivity. [Dissertation Advisor: Williamson]
Mulally, Dauvan. (2013). Faculty Community Building: Portfolio Assessment Groups as Teaching Circles. [Dissertation Advisor: Pagnucci]
Pant, Deepak. (2013). An Autobiographical Study of Second Language Literacy and Pedagogy. [Dissertation Advisor: Hurlbert]
Paye, Massaer. (2013). Discursive Formations of UNESCO's Policies on Literacy. [Dissertation Advisor: Deckert]
Reilly, John. (2013). Mutuality as a Means of Overcoming Student Resistance. [Dissertation Advisor: Bizarro, P.]
Richards, Kathleen. (2013). "Knowledge Growth": A multiple case study of English literature teachers' learning experiences for teaching composition. [Dissertation Advisor: Park]
Serna-Dimas, Hector. (2013). Identity, Subjectivity, and Agency in L1-L2 Writing Processes in Spanish-English Young Learners in a K-12 Bilingual School in Bogota, Colombia. [Dissertation Advisor: Bizarro, P.]
Slick, Joseph. (2013). Speaking their hearts through academic second language: ESL language achievement and social emotional learning. [Dissertation Advisor: Bizarro, P.]
Thomas, Kimberly. (2013). Thesis, Race, Identity, and Composition: The Experiences of African Americans in the Professoriate. [Dissertation Advisor: Hulbert]
Verbout, Mary. (2013). A Quantitative Analysis of Basic Writing Students from Assessment and Through English 101 at a Community College. [Dissertation Advisor: Williamson]
Ye, Weier. (2013). Achieving Coherence in Persuasive Discourse: A Study of Chinese ESL Undergraduates. [Dissertation Advisor: Savora]
2012
Alqadoumi, Omar. (2012). E-Tutoring and the Academic ESL Writer. [Dissertation Advisor: Gian Pagnucci]
Burke, Brian. (2012). Using Comic Books and Graphic Novels to Improve and Facilitate Community College Students' Literacy. [Dissertation Advisor: Gian Pagnucci]
Chamcharatsri, Pisarn. (2012). Emotionality and Composition in Thai and in English. [Dissertation Advisor: David Hanauer]
Gatto, Roseanne. (2012). Composition and Rhetoric. [Dissertation Advisor: Claude Hurlbert]
Grant, Abigail. (2012). Distinguishing Online and Face-to-Face Learning; Acquisition, Learning, and Online Pedagogy. [Dissertation Advisor: Patrick Bizzaro]
Guelcher, John. (2012). Reflection-on-Juncture Within Composition: The Promise of Transfer. [Dissertation Advisor: Gian Pagnucci]
Harley, Diane. (2012). Doing a School Literacy Information Project in a South Africa Context. [Dissertation Advisor: Resa Bizzaro]
Justice, Clifton. (2012). Coming Out in Composition: The Relationship Between Gay disclosure Practices and the field's Discourse. [Dissertation Advisor: Ben Rafoth]
Klompien, Kathleen. (2012). Truth to Power: Composition and Activism in the Age of Excellence. [Dissertation Advisor: Claude Hurlbert]
Lei, Ruo-Wan. (2012). A Case Study of a Taiwanese Teacher's Group Exploring Narrative Pedagogy. [Dissertation Advisor: Gian Pagnucci]
Nicolas, Corinne. (2012). Understanding Students' use of Sources in Research Writing through an Epistemological Lens. [Dissertation Advisor: Ben Rafoth]
Park, Seung Ku. (2012). Adult Korean ESL Learners' Imbalance of Pragmatic Competences and the Relationship b/t English Teaching Experience and Metapragmatic Awareness. [Dissertation Advisor: Gloria Park]
Power, Karen. (2012). A Social History of Second Language Writing: First Generation L2 Composition Scholars in the Process Era. [Dissertation Advisor: Dan Tannacito]
Quinn (Peluso), Julie. (2012). Where does Writing End? Academic Writing as "Artifact". [Dissertation Advisor: Claude Hurlbert]
Rudd, LeAnn. (2012). Leavings, Returnings, and the Explanations in Between: Students' Stories of Withdrawing from Freshman Composition. [Dissertation Advisor: Claude Hurlbert]
Sarver, Whitney. (2012). "Doing School" Right: How University Students from Diverse Backgrounds Construct their Academic Literacies and Academic Identities. [Dissertation Advisor: Gloria Park]
Sikorski-Julier, April. (2012). Rhetorical Responding and Grading: A Case Study of Best Practices in "Instructive Evaluation". [Dissertation Advisor: Michael M Williamson]
Slick, Joseph. (2012). Speaking their hearts through academic second language: ESL language achievement and social emotional learning. [Dissertation Advisor: Patrick Bizzaro]
Sukasem, Ngarmnij. (2012). Online Literacy Practice: Blogs and Authorship in Thai Learners of English. [Dissertation Advisor: Jeannine Fontaine]
Wang, Lan. (2012). Behind the Curtain: A Critical View of Theory and Practice of Tutoring English Language Learners at University Writing Centers. [Dissertation Advisor: Dan Tannacito]
Wester, Jason. (2012). Private Writing, Public Classrooms: the Personal Journal in English Composition. [Dissertation Advisor: Michael M Williamson]
Yeh, Shu Fen. (2012). A qualitative study of Taiwanese students' Academic Writing Practices and positioning in North American Universities. [Dissertation Advisor: Jeannine Fontaine]
2011
Ashour, Ibrahim. (2011). The EFL Enterprise in Syria: An Examination of Teachers' and Inspectors' Interactive Relationships, Beliefs, and Attitudes. [Dissertation Advisor: Patrick Bizzaro]
Chambers, Leah. (2011). Defining Place, Understanding Race: A Discussion of Student and Community Members' Perception of Life in a Small town. [Dissertation Advisor: Ben Rafoth]
Cheng, Shu-Fen. (2011). A Historical Analysis of English and Chinese Sections of Joint College Entrance Examinations in Taiwan. [Dissertation Advisor: Jeannine Fontaine]
Duncan, Elizabeth. (2011). Mail Order Brides: a Narrative Inquiry Profiling the Lives of Five Female Second Language Learners and their Acquisition of the English Language. [Dissertation Advisor: Dan Tannacito]
Getchell, Kristen. (2011). Examining Student Feedback in Assessment: Validating a Writing Placement Program. [Dissertation Advisor: Michael M Williamson]
Goertel, Rachel. (2011). An Examination of Six Nonnative College English Speaking Students' Ordinary Conversations with Native English Speakers and other Nonnative English Speakers: The Pragmatic Use of English Discourse Markers. [Dissertation Advisor: Dan Tannacito]
Golden, David. (2011). Students and Teachers' Perceptions of "Community" in Online College Composition. [Dissertation Advisor: Gian Pagnucci]
Haggerty, Jessica. (2011). Mentoring Relationships and Student Empowerment: A Phenomenological Study of Four Women's Experiences. [Dissertation Advisor: Gloria Park]
Hassan, Mai. (2011). Unheard Voices: Narratives of Developing TESOL Professionals in a Graduate Discourse Community. [Dissertation Advisor: Jeannine Fontaine]
House, Brent. (2011). The Muses on the Mountains: Mentoring Relationships Among Creative Writers. [Dissertation Advisor: Patrick Bizzaro]
Huster, Kimberli. (2011). Language Journeys of Hmong Generation 1.5 Women. [Dissertation Advisor: Dan Tannacito]
Kazakbaeva, Roza. (2011). The Role of the English language in Kyreyz Immigrants' Acculturation Processes in the United States. [Dissertation Advisor: Nancy Hayward]
Kim, So Yeon. (2011). Dynamics Under the Silence: Exploration of Various Negotiations of One Korean Writing Teacher and His Students. [Dissertation Advisor: Jeannine Fontaine]
Lederman, Josh. (2011). Applying Current Validity Theory to College Writing Assessment. [Dissertation Advisor: Michael M Williamson]
Lee, Sarah Henderson. (2011). Claiming Their Right to Write: Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Learners. [Dissertation Advisor: Gloria Park]
Littleton, Chad. (2011). The Role of Feedback in Two Fanfiction Writing Communities. [Dissertation Advisor: Ben Rafoth]
Messekher, Hayet. (2011). Voices of Pedagogy, Positionality, and Power: A Narrative Inquiry of Algerian Graduate Students at American Universities. [Dissertation Advisor: Gloria Park]
Natiladdanon, Korakote. (2011). Genre Awareness Among Thai EFL Readers and Writers: A Qualitative Study. [Dissertation Advisor: Jeannine Fontaine]
Payne, Cynthia. (2011). Passionate Purpose in Non-Academic Writing--Implications for the College Writing Classroom. [Dissertation Advisor: Patrick Bizzaro]
Roliston, Lou. (2011). African American Female Literacy Identity: Languages Culture and Power. [Dissertation Advisor: Ben Rafoth]
Sadek, Nehal. (2011). A Hybrid Dynamic Assessment (HDA) Model of Essay Writing by English Language Learners (ELI): An Exploratory Qualitative Study. [Dissertation Advisor: Dan Tannacito]
Senese, Marcelene. (2011). Women in the Writing Center: Gender and Language Intersections. [Dissertation Advisor: Ben Rafoth]
Stanko, Sandra. (2011). Negotiating the Chasm: the Function of Writing in Managing Maternal-Professional Roles, Responsibilities, and Identities. [Dissertation Advisor: Jeannine Fontaine]
Wells, Jennifer. (2011). Millennials Strike Back: Transitions from High School Reading and Writing to College Reading and Writing. [Dissertation Advisor: Ben Rafoth]
Wetzl, Ana. (2011). When WE (World Englishes) get invited to the composition course: A study of American students' perception of WE Writing. [Dissertation Advisor: David Hanauer]
2010
Amer, Mahmoud. (2010). Film in Composition: Developing Critical Thinking Skills Through the Study of Film in First-Year Composition. [Dissertation Advisor: Dan Tannacito]
DePolo, Jason. (2010). Discursive Transformation and the Reconstruction of Identity: A Critical Discourse Analysis of African American Student Texts. [Dissertation Advisor: Dan Tannacito]
Diamond, Joel. (2010). The Identity, Second Language, and the Classroom Dynamic: Participant Observation in a Beginning Korean as a Second Language Classroom. [Dissertation Advisor: Jeannine Fontaine]
Fels, Dawn. (2010). The Vernacular Architecture of Composition Instruction: What the Voices of Writing Center Tutors Reveal about the Influences of Standardized Instruction and Assessment. [Dissertation Advisor: Ben Rafoth]
Ganda Nabi, Mahamadou. (2010). Teacher Professional Development: The Needs of TESOL Teachers in the Republic of Niger. [Dissertation Advisor: Gian Pagnucci]
Glicker, Eric. (2010). The Student Writer as Blogger: A Longitudinal Case Study of a Blogger's Critical Narrative Events. [Dissertation Advisor: Gian Pagnucci]
Goldberg, Amanda. (2010). Stolen Voices: Literacy, Identity, and Acculturation of Resettled Somali-Bantu Refugees. [Dissertation Advisor: Dan Tannacito]
Ismail, Soliman. (2010). Arabic and English Persuasive Writing of Arabs from a Contrastive Rhetoric Perspective. [Dissertation Advisor: Michael M Williamson]
Lapidus, Alexander. (2010). L2 Cultural Negotiation and Visual Literacy: A Multilingual Perspective. [Dissertation Advisor: David Hanauer]
Liu, Pei-Hsun. (2010). White Prestige Ideology, Identity, and Investment: ESL Composition Class as a Site of Resistance and Accommodation for Taiwanese Students. [Dissertation Advisor: Dan Tannacito]
Miller, K. (2010). Stranger than Fiction: A Study of Student Perceptions of Writer's Block and Film in the Composition Classroom. [Dissertation Advisor: Gian Pagnucci]
Sams, Deborah. (2010). An Analysis of Leadership Beliefs and Practices of 25 TESOL Leaders. [Dissertation Advisor: Nancy Hayward]
Santos-Bamba, Sharleen. (2010). The Literate Lives of Chamorro Women in Modern Guam. [Dissertation Advisor: Nancy Hayward]
Stevenson, Heidi. (2010). Finding our Places, Defining our Places: Service Learning and Ecocomposition in the First-Year Composition Classroom. [Dissertation Advisor: Claude Hurlbert]
Worajittipol, Kandanai. (2010). Online Interaction Between Thai EFL Learners and English Speaking Chat Partners: An Exploration of Negotiation for Meaning and Development Relationships. [Dissertation Advisor: Jeannine Fontaine]
Zacharias, Nugrahenny. (2010). The Evolving Teacher Identities of 12 South/East Asian Teachers in US Graduate Programs. [Dissertation Advisor: Nancy Hayward]
2009
Al-Momani, Husam .(2009). Caught Between Two-Cultures: The Realization of Requests by Jordanian EFL Learners. [Dissertation Advisor: Dan Tannacito]
Bouman, Kurt. (2009). A Phenomenological Investigation of College Students' Construction and Representation of Plagiarism. [Dissertation Advisor: Ben Rafoth]
Costanzo, Ryan. (2009) .The Function and Use of the Textbook in an Undergraduate Nursing Program. [Dissertation Advisor: Nancy Hayward]
DiGregorio, Daniela. (2009). The Phenomenon of International Adoption with a Focus on Second Language Acquisition: A Case Study of Internationally Adopted Children and Adolescents from Russia. [Dissertation Advisor: Nancy Hayward]
DiPaula, Lauren. (2009). A Chaotic Companion: Writers and Writing with Bipolar Disorder. [Dissertation Advisor: Gian Pagnucci]
He, Jiajia. (2009). Applying Contemporary Western Composition Pedagogical Approaches in University EFL Writing Context: A Case Study of a Writing Workshop at a Chinese University. [Dissertation Advisor: Jeannine Fontaine]
Hendrix, Ellen. (2009). "A Long Row to Hoe": Life and Learning for First-Generation College Students in the 21st Century Rural South. [Dissertation Advisor: Ben Rafoth]
Huang, Yi-Wen. (2009). Listening to Their Voices: An In-depth Study of Language Anxiety and Cultural Adjustment Among Taiwanese Graduate Students in the United States. [Dissertation Advisor: Jeannine Fontaine]
Lei, Jiun-lung. (2009). An Investigation of the Effects of Discourse Types of Taiwanese College Students' Reading Strategy Use. [Dissertation Advisor: Jeannine Fontaine]
Lynch-Biniek, Amy. (2009). Refiguring Composition through Theory. [Dissertation Advisor: Claude Hurlbert]
McCaffrey, Kelly. (2009). The Role and Representation of Technology in Composition Handbooks. [Dissertation Advisor: Michael M Williamson]
Methitham, Phongsakorn. (2009). An Exploration of Culturally-Based Assumptions Guiding ELT Practice in Thailand, a Non-colonized Nation. [Dissertation Advisor: Jeannine Fontaine]
Minett, Amy. (2009). Reproduction, Resistance, and Supranational Language Management: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Role of Soros-Funded English Language Programs in the Building of Open Societies. [Dissertation Advisor: Dan Tannacito]
Ninacs, Michele. (2009). Crossing Over to the Multimodal Side: A Study of the Consensus Building Strategies Employed by Miami University in Support of a Multimodal First-Year Writing Curriculum. [Dissertation Advisor: Michael M Williamson]
Osailan, Ghassan. (2009). The English Literacy Experiences of Advanced Saudi EFL Professionals in the United States. [Dissertation Advisor: Jeannine Fontaine]
Peterson, Heather. (2009). Literacy Practices and Identity in Slavic Immigrant Congregation: An Ethnographic Study. [Dissertation Advisor: David Hanauer]
Pierce, Janet. (2009). A Co-Construction of Space Trilogy- Examining how ESL Teachers, English Language Learners, and Classroom Designs Interact. [Dissertation Advisor: Dan Tannacito]
Romanelli, Marie. (2009). Exploring the Culture and Cognition of Outsider Literacy Practices in Adult Readers of Graphic Novels. [Dissertation Advisor: Ben Rafoth]
Stewart, Marjorie. (2009). Fear and Loathing in the English Department: The Strange and Terrible Saga of Composition and Creative Writing. [Dissertation Advisor: Gian Pagnucci]
Wang, Shu-Chuan. (2009). A Qualitative Study of English as a Foreign Language Learning (EFL) by Rural Taiwanese Students with Christian Native-English-Speaking Teachers. [Dissertation Advisor: Jeannine Fontaine]
2005
Miller, Patricia L. (2005). Ecological Interaction in ESL Writing: Perceiving and Acting on Affordances for Self-regulation in Discourse and Grammar. [Dissertation Advisor: Dan J Tannacito]
2004
Hector-Mason, Anestine E. (2004). Cultural Processes and Cultural Learning Experiences: How Hispanic ESL Adults Adjust to Life in a Small Central Texas Town. [Dissertation Advisor: Jerry G Gebhard]
Koch, Robert T. (2004). Articulating a Moo-Integrated Writing Pedagogy. [Dissertation Advisor: Michael M Williamson]
Lanteigne, Betty Fay. (2004). Task Descriptions of Non-Western English Language Use with Cross-Cultural Evaluations and discussions of Language Choice. [Dissertation Advisor: Michael M Williamson]
Ozbilgin, Alev .(2004). Turkish and English Literacy in an English Medium University in Turkey: A Qualitative Study. [Dissertation Advisor: Dan J Tannacito]
Sterling-Deer, Carolyn. (2004). Liberating Silent Voices: Socio-Linguistic Expressions of Identity in Dominican Female Second Language Learners' Online Communication. [Dissertation Advisor: Bennett A Rafoth]
Wallace, Robert M. (2004). This Wild Strange Place: Local Narratives of Literacy Use in Appalachian Families Over Three Generations. [Dissertation Advisor: Gian Pagnucci]