Dissertations from 2024
A Rhetorical-Sociological Understanding of Emotion, Amy Boone
On Counter-Memes: A Rhetorical Study of Allyship in Social Media Memetics From 2015-2024, Kaitlyn Samons
Dissertations from 2023
Force Displacement, Forced Perspective: the Rhetorics of Refugee Experience, Jonathan Burgess
“We Felt Powerful and Rebellious”: Contested Spaces, Lesbian Identity, and the Evolution of Separatism, Sarah Cooper
Genealogical Blackness: Listening Rhetorically to Identities, Ancestors, and the Legacies of Slavery in Archival Spaces, Sheila K. Dodson
Social Distortion: Disinformation, Polarization, and the Politics of Identity in an Online World, Jennifer Duck Brown
A Burkean Herstory: Liminal Narratives in the Life and Work of Kenneth Burke, Heather F. Hartness
Trash, Fragments, and Breaking Things: Toward a Grotesque Cripistemology for Disabled Life Writing, Michelle Anne Lloyd
Storytelling in Motion: Rhetorical Approaches to Autoethnography, Critical Pedagogy, and African Filmmaking, Sethunya Mokoko
The Myth of Perfection: Charting the Rhetoric of Veteran Disability for a Course to Stability, Nicholas Rader
Buried Forensics: A Rhetorical/Material Analysis of Gendered Death, Sarah Richardson
Unruly Periods: Reproductive Futurities and the Rhetorics of Menstruation, Hannah Taylor
The Erasure of Rural West Texas Voices in Higher Education Institutions an Autoethnographic Study of Minoritized Students of West Texas in Their Journey to Obtain Success in Higher Education Institutions, David Whaley-Weems Sr
Dissertations from 2022
Poetic Justice: Connecting the Modern American Prosecutor to Her Rhetorical Roots, Michael Caves
Data In-Form: Measuring the Effect of Visualization Rhetoric, Matthew Chambers
Coding Christianity: Negotiating Religious Dialogue in Online Participatory Spaces, Shauna Chung
Drawn to Life: A Common Theory of Making, J. Ryan Garner
Walking Back the System Trope: Reimagining Incarceration and the State Through a Spatial Theory Approach, Cody Hunter
Crip Theory and Creative Briefs: Interpreting Disability in the Creative Process, Josh Loebner
Ecologies of (Domestic) Trauma, Ecologies of (Domestic) Violence: A Rhetorical Procession Toward Mourning, Charlotte E. Lucke
Reading Toward Breath: A Poetic Ecology of Creative Reading, Jessica Schad Manuel
Inventing Network Composition: Mobilizing Rhetorical Invention and Social Media for Digital Pedagogy, Jacob Richter
Narrating Madness: Building Narratives Against Privileged Identity, Kristin Santa Maria
Rewilding with AR and VR: Facilitating Care with Photography in Physically Immersive Apps, Kailan Sindelar
Dissertations from 2021
Reading Memory: A Dual Heuristic Method for Interpreting Rhetorical Architectural Memory Texts, Diane Quaglia Beltran
Princesses, Divas, and Mother Runners: Gendered Institutional and Vernacular Rhetorics in Running Events, Stacy Cacciatore
Revolutions of Virtues: Revisiting the Underpinnings of Rhetorical Education, Eric Reid Hamilton
Altared Bodies: Evangelical Purity Rhetorics in the Age of Sexual Politics, Victoria G. Houser
Cultivation 2.0: The Mediated Environment as Message in the 21st Century, Chelsea Slack
BREAKING NEWS: Professional Participatory Journalism, Charmayne Lavone Smalls Brown
Dissertations from 2020
A Rhetoric of Resentment: Dismantling White Supremacy Through Definition, Scholarship, and Action, Whitney Jordan Adams
Student Journalists and Mass Communication Ethics – Attitudes and Pedagogy, Karyn S. Campbell
Soundscapes for Social Change: Community and Consciousness through Sound Design Rhetorics, Amy Patterson
Rhetorical Invention in a 21st Century Technoculture: A New Ludic Framework for Learning, Christopher Michael Stuart
Dramatistic User Experience Design: The Usability Testing of an e-Government System in A Non-Western Setting, Octaviyanti Dwi Wahyurini
Dissertations from 2019
The Rhetoric of Neo-Orientalism: The Perpetuation of Ideological Entanglements for Pakistan, Firasat Jabeen
Composing Counter-memories: Using MEmorial and Community Engagement to Disrupt Dominant Narratives, April OBrien
Dissertations from 2018
Microworld Writing: Making Spaces for Collaboration, Construction, Creativity, and Community in the Composition Classroom, Daniel Frank
Modding the Apocalypse: (Re)Making Videogames as Post-Structuralist Free Play, Samuel Jackson Fuller
Dis/Orienting 'Middle East': A Cart-Rhetorical Rhizomatic Mapping, Eda Ozyesilpinar
The Clemson Ghost Tour: Disrupting Rhetorical Stagnation, Stephen Joseph Quigley
Persuasive Intelligence: On the Construction of Rhetor-Ethical Cognitive Machines, Nathan D. Riggs
Prisons, Genres, and Big Data: Understanding the Language of Corrections in America's Prisons, Eric Stephens
Affective Gaming: At the Intersection of Rhetoric, Affect, and Video Games, Joshua A. Wood