Student Research Projects: M.A.
Current Students
Graduated
Literary Studies
Natalie Raquel Acuña
M.A. Project: Countering dominant narratives in community: The many voices in spoken word poetry
M.A. Project Chair: Christina Hsu Accomando
Fortunato J
M.A. Project: Exploring colorism in children’s literature: Sulwe and Black is Brown is Tan
M.A. Project Chair: Andrea Delgado
Digital Humanities
Rose Fuher
M.A. Project: Agitprop: A deep dive into leftist affinity spaces
M.A. Project Chair: Andrea Delgado
Digital Humanities
Kim Sisu
M.A. Project: The revolution will be memed: Digital memes as sites for hegemonic and counter-hegemonic practices
M.A. Project Chair: Lisa Tremain
Literary Studies
Mary Lipiec
M.A. Project: Nothing about us: three models of disability in three works of literary fiction
M.A. Project Chair: Janelle Adsit
Cultural Studies
Cole Shepard
M.A. Project: Problematizing progress: Building a postcapitalist present
M.A. Project Chair: Janet Winston
Digital Humanities
Allison Iafrate
M.A. Project: Our Place in Research: Understanding Social Productions of Knowledge Using Digital Spaces
M.A. Project Chair: Janelle Adsit
Literary Studies
Writing Studies & Pedagogy
Alysia Hegg
M.A. Project: Write Yourself Awake: The Double Pursuit of Mindfulness Meditation and Writing Theory
M.A. Project Chair: Lisa Tremain
Jonathan Abidari
M.A. Project: Multimodality in Focus
M.A. Project Chair: Lisa Tremain
Literary Studies
Aaron Laughlin
M.A. Project: Hózhó, "To Walk in Beauty and Balance": Indigenous Writers Decolonize Theories of Myth
M.A. Project Chair: Michael Eldridge
Writing Studies & Pedagogy
Publishing
Hallie Lepphaille
M.A. Project: (In)Equities in the Publishing Industry: The Politics of Representation
M.A. Project Chair: Janelle Adsit
Literary Studies
Grace Hart
M.A. Project: You Have a Voice Here: Implementing Armenian Feminist Literature within Feminist Discourse
M.A. Project Chair: Christina Hsu Accomando
Chris Ramponi
M.A. Project: Reflections of an Impossible Ideal: Passion as the Will to Downfall in Madame Bovary
M.A. Project Chair: Mary Ann Creadon
Cultural Studies
Morgan Thornburg
M.A. Project: The Ginger, The Pin-up, or the Stepchild? Redheadedness as an Embodied Trope
M.A. Project Chair: Michael Eldridge
Writing Studies & Pedagogy
Justin Egan
M.A. Project: Towards a Critical Game Based Pedagogy in Composition
M.A. Project Chair: Lisa Tremain
Marcos Hernandez
M.A. Project: Publishing for Transfer: Notes Toward an Editorial Pedagogy for the Transfer-Oriented Writing Program
M.A. Project Chair: Lisa Tremain
Archival Studies
Natalie Ray
M.A. Project: On the Edge of Inclusion: A Look at the Shifting of Representation in Museum Display and Archival Cataloging
M.A. Project Chair: Janelle Adsit
Publishing
ESL/TESL
Melissa Wise
M.A. Project: Serving in the Kingdom: A Volunteer Experience in the Development of EFL Literacy in Tonga
M.A. Project Chair: Suzanne Scott
Digital Humanities
Writing Center Studies
Thomas King
M.A. Project: Writing Center Tutor Training: An Examination of Emphasis on Critical Pedagogy in Tutor Training Handbooks
M.A. Project Chair: Lisa Tremain
Literary Studies
Corrina Wells
M.A. Project: Tracing Writer/Reader Identity in, and in Response to, Queer Latinx Autohistoria-Teorìa
M.A. Project Chair: Janelle Adsit
Writing Studies & Pedagogy
ESL/TESL
Christopher Gordon
M.A. Project: 27 Months of Solitude: A Peace Corps Story
M.A. Project Chair: Suzanne Scott
Deva Richards
M.A. Project: EFL Teaching and Teacher Training in Nicaragua: A Master's International Experience
M.A. Project Chair: Suzanne Scott
Jason Stibi
M.A. Project: Motivation, Imagination, and the Future Self in Second Language Acquisition
M.A. Project Chair: Suzanne Scott
Literary Studies
Robin Imholte
M.A. Project: Abjection in Late Nineteenth Century British Literature
M.A. Project Chair: Mary Ann Creadon
Writing Studies & Pedagogy
Literary Studies
Samuel Gabriels
M.A. Project: The Effects of Literature as a Guidebook: Reimagining Landscapes through Barry Lopez’s Desert Notes
M.A. Project Chair: Mary Ann Creadon
Literary Studies
Writing Studies & Pedagogy
Lauren MacDonald Reagan
M.A. Project: Craft and the Corporeal in Composition: Embodied Metaphors in Writing Practice
M.A. Project Chair: David Stacey
Writing Studies & Pedagogy
Cultural Studies
Laura Exline
M.A. Project: Revolutionizing Higher Education: An Analysis of Massive Open Online Courses in Popular Media
M.A. Project Chair: Nikola Hobbel