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Theses/dissertations from 2024 2024.
The Drama of Last Things: Reckoning in Late Medieval and Early Modern English Drama , Spencer M. Daniels
African Spirituality in Literature Written by Women of African Descent , Brigét V. Harley
Hidden Monstrosities: The Transformation of Medieval Characters and Conventions in Shakespeare's Romances , Lynette Kristine Kuliyeva
Making the Invisible Visible: (Re)envisioning the Black Body in Contemporary Adaptations of Nineteenth-Century Fiction , Urshela Wiggins McKinney
Lawful Injustice: Novel Readings of Racialized Temporality and Legal Instabilities , Danielle N. Mercier
“Manne, for thy loue wolde I not lette”: Eucharistic Portrayals of Caritas in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature and Drama 1350-1650 , Rachel Tanski
Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023
Of Mētis and Cuttlefish: Employing Collective Mētis as a Theoretical Framework for Marginalized Communities , Justiss Wilder Burry
What on earth are we doing (?): A Field-Wide Exploration of Design Courses in TPC , Jessica L. Griffith
Organizations Ensuring Resilience: A Case Study of Cortez, Florida , Karla Ariel Maddox
Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022
Using Movie Clips to Understand Vivid-Phrasal Idioms’ Meanings , Rasha Salem S. Alghamdi
Writing Supports for Honors Thesis Students: An Applied Program Evaluation Study , Krysta Banke
An Exercise in Exceptions: Personhood, Divergency, and Ableism in the STAR TREK Franchise , Jessica A. Blackman
Vulnerable Resistance in Victorian Women’s Writing , Stephanie A. Harper
Curricular Assemblages: Understanding Student Writing Knowledge (Re)circulation Across Genres , Adam Phillips
Anthropocene Fiction: Empathy, Kinship, and the Troubled Waters at the End of the World , Megan Mandell Stowe
PAD Beyond the Classroom: Integrating PAD in the Scrum Workplace , Jade S. Weiss
Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021
Social Cues in Animated Pedagogical Agents for Second Language Learners: the Application of The Embodiment Principle in Video Design , Sahar M. Alyahya
A Field-Wide Examination of Cross-Listed Courses in Technical Professional Communication , Carolyn M. Gubala
Labor-Based Grading Contracts in the Multilingual FYC Classroom: Unpacking the Variables , Kara Kristina Larson
Land Goddesses, Divine Pigs, and Royal Tricksters: Subversive Mythologies and Imperialist Land Ownership Dispossession in Twentieth Century Irish and American Literature , Elizabeth Ricketts
Oppression, Resistance, and Empowerment: The Power Dynamics of Naming and Un-naming in African American Literature, 1794 to 2019 , Melissa "Maggie" Romigh
Generic Expectations in First Year Writing: Teaching Metadiscoursal Reflection and Revision Strategies for Increased Generic Uptake of Academic Writing , Kaelah Rose Scheff
Reframing the Gothic: Race, Gender, & Disability in Multiethnic Literature , Ashely B. Tisdale
Intersections of Race and Place in Short Fiction by New Orleans Gens de Couleur Libres , Adrienne D. Vivian
Mental Illness Diagnosis and the Construction of Stigma , Katie Lynn Walkup
Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020
Rhetorical Roundhouse Kicks: Tae Kwon Do Pumsae Practice and Non-Western Embodied Topoi , Spencer Todd Bennington
9/11 Then and Now: How the Performance of Memorial Rhetoric by Presidents Changes to Construct Heroes , Kristen M. Grafton
Kinesthetically Speaking: Human and Animal Communication in British Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century , Dana Jolene Laitinen
Exploring Refugee Students’ Second Language (L2) Motivational Selves through Digital Visual Representations , Nhu Le
Glamour in Contemporary American Cinema , Shauna A. Maragh
Instrumentalization Theory: An Analytical Heuristic for a Heightened Social Awareness of Machine Learning Algorithms in Social Media , Andrew R. Miller
Intercessory Power: A Literary Analysis of Ethics and Care in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon , Alice Walker’s Meridian , and Toni Cade Bambara’s Those Bones Are Not My Child , Kelly Mills
The Power of Non-Compliant Logos: A New Materialist Approach to Comic Studies , Stephanie N. Phillips
Female Identity and Sexuality in Contemporary Indonesian Novels , Zita Rarastesa
"The Fiery Furnaces of Hell": Rhetorical Dynamism in Youngstown, OH , Joshua M. Rea
“We developed solidarity”: Family, Race, Identity, and Space-Time in Recent Multiethnic U.S. American Fiction , Kimber L. Wiggs
Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019
Remembrance of a Wound: Ethical Mourning in the Works of Ana Menéndez, Elías Miguel Muñoz, and Junot Díaz , José Aparicio
Taking an “Ecological Turn” in the Evaluation of Rhetorical Interventions , Peter Cannon
New GTA’s and the Pre-Semester Orientation: The Need for Informed Refinement , Jessica L. Griffith
Reading Rape and Answering with Empathy: A New Approach to Sexual Assault Education for College Students , Brianna Jerman
The Karoo , The Veld , and the Co-Op: The Farm as Microcosm and Place for Change in Schreiner, Lessing, and Head , Elana D. Karshmer
"The weak are meat, and the strong do eat"; Representations of the Slaughterhouse in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature , Stephanie Lance
Language of Carnival: How Language and the Carnivalesque Challenge Hegemony , Yulia O. Nekrashevich
Queer Authority in Old and Middle English Literature , Elan J. Pavlinich
Because My Garmin Told Me To: A New Materialist Study of Agency and Wearable Technology , Michael Repici
No One Wants to Read What You Write: A Contextualized Analysis of Service Course Assignments , Tanya P. Zarlengo
Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018
Beauty and the Beasts: Making Places with Literary Animals of Florida , Haili A. Alcorn
The Medievalizing Process: Religious Medievalism in Romantic and Victorian Literature , Timothy M. Curran
Seeing Trauma: The Known and the Hidden in Nineteenth-Century Literature , Alisa M. DeBorde
Analysis of User Interfaces in the Sharing Economy , Taylor B. Johnson
Border-Crossing Travels Across Literary Worlds: My Shamanic Conscientization , Scott Neumeister
The Spectacle of The Bomb: Rhetorical Analysis of Risk of The Nevada Test Site in Technical Communication, Popular Press, and Pop Culture , Tiffany Wilgar
Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017
Traveling Women and Consuming Place in Eighteenth-Century Travel Letters and Journals , Cassie Patricia Childs
“The Nations of the Field and Wood”: The Uncertain Ontology of Animals in Eighteenth-Century British Literature , J. Kevin Jordan
Modern Mythologies: The Epic Imagination in Contemporary Indian Literature , Sucheta Kanjilal
Science in the Sun: How Science is Performed as a Spatial Practice , Natalie Kass
Body as Text: Physiognomy on the Early English Stage , Curtis Le Van
Tensions Between Democracy and Expertise in the Florida Keys , Elizabeth A. Loyer
Institutional Review Boards and Writing Studies Research: A Justice-Oriented Study , Johanna Phelps-Hillen
The Spirit of Friendship: Girlfriends in Contemporary African American Literature , Tangela La'Chelle Serls
Aphra Behn on the Contemporary Stage: Behn's Feminist Legacy and Woman-Directed Revivals of The Rover , Nicole Elizabeth Stodard
(Age)ncy in Composition Studies , Alaina Tackitt
Constructing Health Narratives: Patient Feedback in Online Communities , Katie Lynn Walkup
Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016
Rupturing the World of Elite Athletics: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of the Suspension of the 2011 IAAF Regulations on Hyperandrogenism , Ella Browning
Shaping Climate Citizenship: The Ethics of Inclusion in Climate Change Communication and Policy , Lauren E. Cagle
Drop, Cover, and Hold On: Analyzing FEMA's Risk Communication through Visual Rhetoric , Samantha Jo Cosgrove
Material Expertise: Applying Object-oriented Rhetoric in Marine Policy , Zachary Parke Dixon
The Non-Identical Anglophone Bildungsroman : From the Categorical to the De-Centering Literary Subject in the Black Atlantic , Jarad Heath Fennell
Instattack: Instagram and Visual Ad Hominem Political Arguments , Sophia Evangeline Gourgiotis
Hospitable Climates: Representations of the West Indies in Eighteenth-Century British Literature , Marisa Carmen Iglesias
Chosen Champions: Medieval and Early Modern Heroes as Postcolonial Reactions to Tensions between England and Europe , Jessica Trant Labossiere
Science, Policy, and Decision Making: A Case Study of Deliberative Rhetoric and Policymaking for Coastal Adaptation in Southeast Florida , Karen Patricia Langbehn
A New Materialist Approach to Visual Rhetoric in PhotoShopBattles , Jonathan Paul Ray
Tracing the Material: Spaces and Objects in British and Irish Modernist Novels , Mary Allison Wise
Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015
Representations of Gatsby: Ninety Years of Retrospective , Christine Anne Auger
Robust, Low Power, Discrete Gate Sizing , Anthony Joseph Casagrande
Wrestling with Angels: Postsecular Contemporary American Poetry , Paul T. Corrigan
#networkedglobe: Making the Connection between Social Media and Intercultural Technical Communication , Laura Anne Ewing
Evidence of Things Not Seen: A Semi-Automated Descriptive Phrase and Frame Analysis of Texts about the Herbicide Agent Orange , Sarah Beth Hopton
'She Shall Not Be Moved': Black Women's Spiritual Practice in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Beloved, Paradise, and Home , Rondrea Danielle Mathis
Relational Agency, Networked Technology, and the Social Media Aftermath of the Boston Marathon Bombing , Megan M. Mcintyre
Now, We Hear Through a Voice Darkly: New Media and Narratology in Cinematic Art , James Anthony Ricci
Navigating Collective Activity Systems: An Approach Towards Rhetorical Inquiry , Katherine Jesse Royce
Women's Narratives of Confinement: Domestic Chores as Threads of Resistance and Healing , Jacqueline Marie Smith
Domestic Spaces in Transition: Modern Representations of Dwelling in the Texts of Elizabeth Bowen , Shannon Tivnan
Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014
Paradise Always Already Lost: Myth, Memory, and Matter in English Literature , Elizabeth Stuart Angello
Overcoming the 5th-Century BCE Epistemological Tragedy: A Productive Reading of Protagoras of Abdera , Ryan Alan Blank
Acts of Rebellion: The Rhetoric of Rogue Cinema , Adam Breckenridge
Material and Textual Spaces in the Poetry of Montagu, Leapor, Barbauld, and Robinson , Jessica Lauren Cook
Decolonizing Shakespeare: Race, Gender, and Colonialism in Three Adaptations of Three Plays by William Shakespeare , Angela Eward-Mangione
Risk of Compliance: Tracing Safety and Efficacy in Mef-Lariam's Licensure , Julie Marie Gerdes
Beyond Performance: Rhetoric, Collective Memory, and the Motive of Imprinting Identity , Brenda M. Grau
Subversive Beauty - Victorian Bodies of Expression , Lisa Michelle Hoffman-Reyes
Integrating Reading and Writing For Florida's ESOL Program , George Douglas Mcarthur
Responsibility and Responsiveness in the Novels of Ann Radcliffe and Mary Shelley , Katherine Marie McGee
Ghosts, Orphans, and Outlaws: History, Family, and the Law in Toni Morrison's Fiction , Jessica Mckee
The "Defective" Generation: Disability in Modernist Literature , Deborah Susan Mcleod
Science Fiction/Fantasy and the Representation of Ethnic Futurity , Joy Ann Sanchez-Taylor
Hermes, Technical Communicator of the Gods: The Theory, Design, and Creation of a Persuasive Game for Technical Communication , Eric Walsh
Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013
Rhetorical Spirits: Spirituality as Rhetorical Device in New Age Womanist of Color Texts , Ronisha Witlee Browdy
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MA in English Theses
Theses/dissertations from 2018 2018.
Implementing Critical Analysis in the Classroom to Negate Southern Stereotypes in Multi-Media , Julie Broyhill
Fan Fiction in the English Language Arts Classroom , Kristen Finucan
Transferring the Mantle: The Voice of the Poet Prophet in the Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Emily Dickinson , Heidi Brown Hyde
The Effects of Social Media as Low-Stakes Writing Tasks , Roxanne Loving
Student and Teacher Perceptions of Multiliterate Assignments Utilizing 21st Century Skills , Jessica Kennedy Miller
The Storytellers’ Trauma: A Place to Call Home in Caribbean Literature , Ilari Pass
Post Title IX Representations of Professional Female Athletes , Emily Shaw
Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017
“Not as She is” but as She is Expected to Be: Representations, Limitations, and Implications of the “Woman” and Womanhood in Selected Victorian Literature and Contemporary Chick Lit. , Amanda Ellen Bridgers
The Intrinsic Factors that Influence Successful College Writing , Kenneth Dean Carlstrom
"Where nature was most plain and pure": The Sacred Locus Amoenus and its Profane Threat in Andrew Marvell's Pastoral Poetry , James Brent King
Colorblind: How Cable News and the “Cult of Objectivity” Normalized Racism in Donald Trump’s Presidential Campaign , Amanda Leeann Shoaf
Gaming The Comic Book: Turning The Page on How Comics and Videogames Intersect as Interactive, Digital Experiences , Joseph Austin Thurmond
Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016
The Nature, Function, and Value of Emojis as Contemporary Tools of Digital Interpersonal Communication , Nicole L. Bliss-Carroll
Exile and Identity: Chaim Potok's Contribution to Jewish-American Literature , Sarah Anne Hamner
A Woman's Voice and Identity: Narrative Métissage as a Solution to Voicelessness in American Literature , Kali Lauren Oldacre
Pop, Hip Hop, and Empire, Study of a New Pedagogical Approach in a Developmental Reading and English Class , Karen Denise Taylor
Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015
Abandoning the Shadows and Seizing the Stage: A Perspective on a Feminine Discourse of Resistance Theatre as Informed by the Work of Susanna Centlivre, Eliza Haywood, Frances Sheridan, Hannah Cowley, and the Sistren Theatre Collective , Brianna A. Bleymaier
Mexican Immigrants as "Other": An Interdisciplinary Analysis of U.S. Immigration Legislation and Political Cartoons , Olivia Teague Morgan
Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014
"I Am a Living Enigma - And You Want To Know the Right Reading of Me": Gender Anxiety in Wilkie Collins's The Haunted Hotel and The Guilty River , Hannah Allford
Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013
Gender Performance and the Reclamation of Masculinity in Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns , John William Salyers Jr.
Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012
"That's a Lotta Faith We're Putting in a Word": Language, Religion, and Heteroglossia as Oppression and Resistance in Comtemporary British Dystopian Fiction , Haley Cassandra Gambrell
Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011
Mirroring the Madness: Caribbean Female Development in the Works of Elizabeth Nunez , Lauren Delli Santi
"Atlas Shrugged" and third-wave feminism: An unlikely alliance , Paul McMahan
"Sit back down where you belong, in the corner of my bar with your high heels on": The use of cross-dressing in order to achieve female agency in Shakespeare's transvestite comedies , Heather Lynn Wright
Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010
Between the Way to the Cross and Emmaus: Deconstructing Identity in the 325 CE Council of Nicaea and "The Shack" , Trevar Simmons
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English Masters Thesis Collection
Theses/dissertations from 2024 2024.
Team building through game-based learning in the Technical Communication classroom , Debra J. Crawford
Abductive empiricism: the significance of substance in Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary , Jordan Maloney
Liberty, Post-Colonialism, and RuneQuest: the discourse of Imperialism in tabletop RPGs , Thomas W. Nelson
Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023
A winter of animal suffering: sacrificial logic, the discourse of animality, and sensory rhetoric in Richard Adam's Watership down , Miina De Lara
Dreamin in Sahuptin: considering David Sohappy , Mikelle Gaines
The acceptance of womanhood: gender performance and self-actualization in L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, and Anne of the island , Lauren M. Hinshaw
Queer historicism as literary theory: an exploration of three texts , Theodore D. Kenning
Performative history: parody and rock 'n' roll in David Bowie's The rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars , William R. McPhee
Extranormal sorcery in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon , HarleyQuinn Wahl
Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022
Realism as weaponry: challenging Victorian ideals of femininity in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's secret and Wilkie Collins' Armadale , Taylor Aalgaard
Navigating the labyrinth of House of leaves through a postmodern archetypal literary theory , Samuel K. Hval
The value hierarchies of J.R.R. Tolkien and his legacy: a reimagining of fantasy fiction and the propagation of colonial racism , Alexander Richburg
Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021
"Trying hard to keep her from feeling outdoors": race, ability, and eugenics in early Morrison , Grace Caraway
Teaching fantasy fiction in K-12 classrooms: purpose, texts, and unit plans , Rachel Lynne Carroll
(Missed) connections: how the textual communication environment caused by Covid-19 impacted English Composition instructors' ability to communicate and connect with colleagues and students , Alyssa G. Cummings
Animistic poetics: William Carlos Williams' Paterson and Animistic ecology , Kurtis Ebeling
"It's odd, isn't it?": irony, breakdown, and self-healing in Doris Lessing's The golden notebook , Rachel M. Goodner
"To find healing in my wounds": the transformation of memory and trauma into art in J.R.R. Tolkien's The lord of the rings , Graysen S. Russell
Creating usable and accessible courses through usability testing in higher education: a Canvas usability assessment for diverse students , Carrie Schreiner
Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020
Teaching in hagwons in South Korea: a novice English teacher’s autoethnography , Brittany Courser
Facing the horror of uncertainty: using female slashers as a model for thinking about and practicing English Literature and Composition , Rose Hall
Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019
Mapping the Intertextual Parataxis “Cover Her Face”: Feminist Geography and the Reclaiming of Masterless Women , Cheryl L. Beedle
“A dark archway of rusticated stone”: depictions of moral obligation in Greene’s The Human Factor and Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited , Thomas J. Carter
“Racism doesn’t exist anymore, so why are we talking about this?”: An action research proposal of culturally responsive teaching for critical literacy in democratic education , Natalie Marie Giles
"Could I annoy you for a drink?" : Social management and alcoholism in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Tender is the night , Lucy Anderson Granroth
Stylistic imitation as an English-teaching technique : pre-service teachers’ responses to training and practice , Min Yi Liang
Considerations for selecting an edition of Daisy Miller , Katie J. Peterson
Sororal bonds actualized: sisterhood in Charlotte Bronte's Shirley and Louisa May Alcott's Work , Lorin Richard
Higher-order thinking in synchronous online discussion , Kathy L. Rowley
Telling stories and contextualizing lived experiences in the Cuban heritage language and culture: an autoethnography about transculturation , Tatiana Senechal
“This is the oppressor’s language, yet I need it to talk to you”: a critical examination of translanguaging in Russian speakers at the university level , Nora Vralsted
Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018
Multimodal Approaches to Literacy and Teaching English as a Foreign Language at the University Level , Ghader Alahmadi
Educating Saudi Women through Communicative Language Teaching: A Bi-literacy Narrative and An Autoethnography of a Saudi English Teacher , Eiman Alamri
The value of journaling on multimodal materials: a literacy narrative and autoethnography of an experienced Saudi high school English teacher , Ibrahim Alamri
Strategic Contemplation as One Saudi Mother’s Way Of Reflecting on Her Children’s Learning Only English in the United States: An Autoethnography and Multiple Case Study of Multilingual Writers at the College Level , Razan Alansari
“If you wanted me to speak your language then you should have stayed in your country”: a critical ethnography of linguistic identity and resiliency in the life of an Afghan refugee , Logan M. Amstadter
Comparing literate and oral cultures with a view to improving understanding of students from oral traditions: an autoethnographic approach , Carol Lee Anderson
Practical recommendations for composition instructors based on a review of the literature surrounding ESL and identity , Patrick Cornwall
One size does not fit all: exploring online-language-learning challenges and benefits for advanced English Language Learners , Renee Kenney
Understanding the potential effects of trauma on refugees’ language learning processes , Charis E. Ketcham
Let's enjoy teaching life: an autoethnography of a novice ESL teacher's two years of teaching English in a private girls' secondary school in Japan , Danielle Nozaka
Developing an ESP curriculum on tourism and agribusiness for a rural school in Nicaragua: a retrospective diary , Stan Pichinevskiy
User experiences of Spanish-speaking Latinos: usabiltiy of the Frontier Behavioral Institute website , Raquel Ramos
A Literacy Narrative of a Female Saudi English Teacher and A Qualitative Case Study: 12 Multilingual Writers Identify Challenges and Benefits of Daily Writing in a College Composition Class , Ghassoon Rezzig
Proposed: Technical Communicators Collaborating with Educators to Develop a Better EFL Curriculum for Ecuadorian Universities , Daniel Jack Williamson
Capital games: the Bourdieuxian movements of Heathcliff and Nelly Dean in Neo-Victorian revisitations of Wuthering Heights , Ryan S. Wise
Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017
BELL HOOKS’ “ENACTMENT OF NON-DOMINATION” IN THE “PRACTICE OF SPEAKING IN A LOVING AND CARING MANNER”: AN AUTOETHNOGRAPHY OF A SAUDI “WIDOW’S SON” , Braik Aldoshan
WHEN SPIRITUALITY AND PEDAGOGY COLLIDE: ACKNOWLEDGING RELIGIOUS BELIEFS AND VALUES IN THE ESL CLASSROOM , Carli T. Cumpston
HERITAGE LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE: A MEXICAN AMERICAN MOTHER’S SUCCESS WITH RAISING BILINGUAL CHILDREN , Maria E. Estrada-Loehne
TEACHING THE BIOGRAPHY OF PEARL S. BUCK: DEVELOPING COLLABORATIVE READING STRATEGIES FOR MULTILINGUAL WRITERS , Nichole S. La Torre
An Autoethnography of a Novice ESL Teacher: Plato’s Cave and English Language Teaching in Japan , Kevin Lemberger
INQUIRY-BASED PHILOSOPHICAL DIALOGUE FOR ESL COLLEGE COMPOSITION AND FOR CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS , Aiko Nagabuchi
A TRIPLE CASE STUDY OF TWO SAUDI AND ONE ITALIAN LANGUAGE LEARNERS' SELF-PERCEPTIONS OF TARGET LANGUAGE (TL) SPEAKING PROFICIENCY , Jena M. Robinson
Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016
"I am from Epifania and Tomas": an autoethnography and bi-literacy narrative of a Mexican American orchard workers' daughter , Brenda Lorena Aguilar
Technology use in young English language learners: a survey of Saudi parents studying in the United States , Hamza Aljunaidalsayed
Bilingualism of Arab children in the U.S.: a survey of parents and teachers , Omnia Alofii
"If you're not talkin' mess, then you should be ok": collegiate student-athletes' strategies and practices on social networking sites , Marc C. Anderson
College-level ELLs in two English composition courses: the transition from ESL to the mainstream , Andrew J. Copley
Increasing multimedia literacy in composition for multilingual writers: a case study of art analysis , Sony Nicole De Paula
Reviewing critical pedagogy's criticisms and providing a pragmatic heuristic , Dominick S. Giguere
Be loved from the other side: Amy Denver's influence in Toni Morrison's Beloved , Aubra D. Godwin
Multilingual writers' unintentional plagiarism: action research in college composition , Jacqueline D. Gullon
Games for vocabulary enrichment: teaching multilingual writers at the college level , Jennifer Hawkins
Exploring methodologies in feminist rhetoric and education: using Kirsch and Royster's terms of engagement in the college classroom , Elizabeth M. Matresse
The warrior kings and their giants: a comparative study of Beowulf and King David , Fred McFarland
Critical reflection and the savior role in service learning , Bradley W. Plummer
Identifying as author: exploring the pedagogical basis for assisting diverse students to discover their identities through creatively defined literacy narratives , Amber D. Pullen
Saltine box full of dreams: one Mexican immigrant woman's journey to academic success , Adriana C. Sanchez
Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015
An integrative approach to English composition, ESL, English for specific/special purposes (ESP), and technical communication , Brandy R. Bippes
Teaching the biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder: fostering a media literacy approach for multilingual writers , Kelly G. Hansen
Implementing a modified intercultural competency curriculum in an integrated English 101 classroom , Kathryn C. Hedberg
"Don't wake me, my desk is far too comfortable": an autoethnography of a novice ESL teacher's first year of teaching in Japan , Delaney Holland
ESL ABE, VESL, and bell hooks' Democratic education: a case study of four experienced ESL instructors , Michael E. Johnson
Hunter S. Thompson and gonzo journalism as literature , Michael P. Kiernan
Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014
Beyond Fascism: W.B. Yeats’s A Vision and the Complexities of His Authoritarian Politics , Justin Abel
Using Media to Teach Grammar in Context and UNESCO Values: A Case Study of Two English Teachers and Students from Saudi Arabia , Sultan Albalawi
A Double Case Study of Latino College Presidents: What Younger Generations Can Learn From Them , Sara Aymerich Leiva
ENTROPY, EVOLUTION, AND INFORMATION THEORY: SOCIAL ANXIETIES IN THE TIME MACHINE AND THE CRYING OF LOT 49 , Sara Jo Barrett
WRITTEN CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK IN THE L2 WRITING CLASSROOM , Daniel Ducken
Clothing in An American tragedy: a "True picture of life" , Rachel L. Flynn
Academic Reading and Writing at the College Level: Action Research in a Classroom of a homogeneous Group of Male Students from Saudi Arabia , Margaret Mount
TRANSFORMATIVE PEDAGOGY FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION: TEACHING TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION STUDENTS TO BRIDGE WITH ANZALDÚAN THEORIES OF SOCIAL CHANGE , Carlos Munoz
Reflections on Teaching and Host Mothering Chinese Secondary Students: A Novice ESL Teacher’s Diary Study and Autoethnography , Diane Thames
Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013
Peer editing in composition for multilingual writers at the college level , Benjamin J. Bertrand
Educating Ana: a retrospective diary study of pre-literate refugee students , Renee Black
Coming home: storytelling, place, and identity in N. Scott Momaday's House made of down and Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony , Azalyn Croft
The loathly lady from archaic to modern tales , Kirsten M. Dresker
Social pressure to speak English and the effect of English language learning for ESL composition students in higher education , Trevor Duston
The ABC's of font: effects of changing default fonts , Amanda P. Erickson
"The worry that you are yourself": Darl's unforgivable neurodiversity in As I lay dying , Neal Hallgarth
The Ogbanje in Little Bee by Chris Cleave , Courtney A. Harler
Othello as an enigma to himself: a Jungian approach to character analysis , Eric Iliff
Once upon a time: fairytales past and present , Jordan L. Keithley
Poetry in translation to teach ESL composition at the college level , Peter M. Lacey
Using media to teach a biography of Lincoln and Douglass: a case study of teaching ESL listening & viewing in college composition , Pui Hong Leung
The rhetoric of hyperreal hybrids: taming the multiracial woman in advertising , Karhonkwison Logan
"Rosa alchemica," "The tables of the law," and "Adoration of the magi," edited and with an introduction , Brady J. Peneton
Developing a pedagogy of pluralistic linguistic expression in the first year composition classroom , April Dawn Ridgeway
Learning how to learn: teaching preliterate and nonliterate learners of English , Jennifer L. Semb
Non-cognitive factors in second language acquisition and language variety: a single case study of a Saudi male English for academic purposes student in the United States , Nicholas Stephens
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Master of Arts in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Theses and Projects
Theses from 2024 2024.
Online ESL / EFL Instruction for Korean Children Under 7 Years Old: A Curricular Design , Seong Sun Kim
Game-Based Learning: A Handbook for Chilean Elementary EFL Educators , Bernardita Maria Ramirez Larrain
Master's Projects/Capstones from 2023 2023
Enhancing the Communicative Competence of Filipino Immigrants in America , Zsanel Aranas
Digital Literacy for Older Adult English Language Learners , Talley Caruso
When Culturally Responsive Practices Meet Social-Emotional Learning: A Guide for Educators , Sharon Ju-Ting Cheng
Cultivating Well-Being in English as a Second Language: Teaching Stress Reduction Techniques in the Adult ESL Classroom , Sara C. Coronado
Engaging Older Immigrants To Learn English: Advocating For Late-In-Life Learning For Everyone , Susan Marie Filous
People, Not Headlines: Teaching English to Ukrainian Refugees , Katherine Gardiner
Post-Pandemic Digital Experiences & Attitudes Among Adult Immigrant ESOL Learners , Lacey D. Goodloe
Addressing Linguistic Isolation through Community Based ESL and Emergency Preparedness , Lisa Guay
Understanding and Identifying Specific Learning Difficulties: Dyslexia, Autism Spectrum, and Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity in the Adult ESL/EFL Classroom , Kristen Kearns
Techniques for Reducing Public Speaking Anxiety in Adult English Learners , Andy Mardesich
English Pronunciation Skills and Intelligibility of Native Russian Speakers , Zoia Palgova
Uncorking the Speaking Skill: Wine and Prosody in Conversation , Efren Antonio Serra
Master's Projects/Capstones from 2022 2022
Interactive and Engaging Virtual/Online English Classes: Fostering Teaching and Social Presence , Merve Beyazit Taner
Language for Life: Heritage Language Maintenance , Ani Braude
Music and Humor in the Language Classroom: Language Acquisition and Affective Filter , Florencia Daris López
Problems and Suggestions to Improve Pronunciation Skills of English Language Learners in China , Yi Fang
Brain Waste Among Highly Skilled Immigrants in the United States , Kimberly Alva-Chavers Gardner
Enculturation for International Students in Online Classroom , Xiaohan Liang
Strategies in TOEFL Reading Comprehension for Chinese Students , Xiwen Li
Navigating Acculturative Stress: A Guide for Supporting Newcomer Students in California ESL Classrooms , Daniela Lopera Ruiz
Teaching Chinese International Students Two-Word Verbs Through Three C’s Approach , Xiaoli Lu
Decolonizing the Brazilian EFL Classroom: Creating Space for Afro-Brazilian Students of English , Robyn Diane Mosely
Teaching American English Pronunciation in a Spanish Speaking Context: A Guide for EFL Teachers in Chile , Martin P. Quarto
Bridging Language Through Folktales and Authentic Outings: A Guidebook for ESL/EFL Teachers , Natalie Sauvain
Navigating School: An English as a Second Language Curriculum for Multilingual Caregivers , Kerry Stimpson
ESP in Nursing: Building Communicative Competence for Internationally-Educated Nurses , Sami Vuong
The Need to Belong: Interweaving State History in Adult ESL to Support Culturally Responsive Teaching , Sandra Watkins
Zest for English: Teaching ESL Content-Based Instruction through the Culinary Arts , Melinda Joan Wright
Teaching English as a Foreign Language in China: A Unit Plan for Educators , Yun Xie
Master's Projects/Capstones from 2021 2021
Teaching the English Language through American Holidays: Halloween and Thanksgiving , Naranchimeg Bat-Yondon
Collateral Damage: How Expanding Public Charge Policy Influences Adult ESL Enrollment , Allison M. Eckert
Safety Awareness and Communication Skills for the Construction Workforce: A Curriculum for Adult ESL Instructors , Allison Knaus
Facilitating Adaptive and Dynamic Learning Transfer Using Genre-based, Translingual, and Multimodal Pedagogies in L2 Composition Instruction , Raina Levesque
Creating An Engaging Environment For Adult ESL Learners in E-Learning Settings: Reducing Affective Filters and Cognitive Overload , Qian Liu
Motivating Poetry in the Adult ESL Classroom , Lenore Marin Myers
Visual Aids Make a Big Impact on ESL Students: A Guidebook for ESL Teachers , Lucia Quecan
Bridging the Gap: The Digital Divide Among Higher Education Instructors , Allan Siochi
Master's Projects/Capstones from 2020 2020
Effective ways to lower Muslim immigrant students' anxiety in ESL classes: A handbook for educators , Mehrnaz Ayazi
Financial Literacy for Latino Immigrants: A Guidebook for ESL Teachers , Anna Braden
Using Bloom's taxonomy to teach college English in China: A handbook for educators , Yue Cai
An Effective Method of Teaching English: A Handbook for English Teachers in China , Zichen Cai
Teaching with Empathy in the Adult ESL Classroom: A Training Guide , Maureen Carapia
Black Unrealia: Handbook for Teaching the Structure of Past Counterfactual Statements , A. Carter
Understanding the Effect of Individual Differences on Second Language Acquisition: Focusing on Personality , Sihan Chen
Student-Created Videos as ESL Homework Assignments , Griffin Childers
How to Correct Fossilized Pronunciation Errors of English Language Learners , Kathleen Dolan
Using Trauma-Informed Teaching In Adult ESL , Elizabeth Eastman
Using Extensive Reading and Digital Flashcards for Vocabulary Acquisition , Zijin Feng
Mitigating Trauma In The Newcomer Classroom: A Commitment Beyond Borders , Laura Garriguez
Teaching English to Refugees and Immigrants with Low Literacy in their Native Language and Limited English Proficiency (Using the Language Experience Approach) , Jacqueline Hill
Digital Awareness for ESL Students , Ehab Khalaf
Helping New Immigrants Adapt to American Culture: Enhancing Students’ Language and Cultural Competence through the Use of the Ellen DeGeneres Show , Nuchinun Kluaythong
Using Sitcoms in ESL/EFL: A Handbook for Using Friends in the Classroom , Elif Konus
Supporting English Language Learners with Disabilities in Special Education , Margaret Kramer
Tools of Engagement for Language Acquisition , Cheng Li
Enhancing Advanced Chinese English Learners’ Listening and Speaking Comprehension , Xin Lin
Integrating Chinese Culture into English Textbooks for EFL teachers in Lesson Plans , Kexin Lu
Self-directed Learning Practices in ESL: How Beginning Adult Latinx English Language Learners Can Increase Learning Outcomes , Jessica Parisi
Competent and Confident: Empowering English Language Learners Through Pronunciation Instruction , Faith Pellas
Using Graphic Novels to Teach English and American Culture in Japanese Middle Schools , Jenna Pollack
From Anxiety to Motivation: Creating Anxiety-free Classrooms Using Culturally Responsive Teaching , Jing Rong
Taming Test Anxiety about Multiple-Choice Questions in Academic-Track ESL Students: A Test-Taking Skills Workshop Series , Lori Selke
Cross-cultural Adaptation of Mandarin-Speaking Undergraduate Students in the United States , Enhao Wang
Conquering ESL Students' English Listening Barriers , Dan Wu
Using Contextualized Materials to Teach English Grammar , Jingyi Yang
Promoting 21st-Century Learning: Online Collaboration through Design Thinking Framework for Today's ESL Students , HANDE YILDIZ
Master's Projects/Capstones from 2019 2019
A Closer Look at TOEFL Speaking Assessment Test: A Guide to Teaching TOEFL iBT Speaking , Glen Ryan Alejandro
Nurturing Community and Student Voice through Communicative Language Teaching and Storytelling , Dana Behr
Enriching Human Capital: How to Empower ESL/FL Learners Through P2P Design to Instruction , Christopher Carey
Welcoming Deaf or Hard of Hearing English Language Learners: A Guidebook for English Educators , Sarah Chang
Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and its Relevance in the Adult English as a Second Language Classroom , Helena Henkin
Multimedia Training for Novice EFL Teachers in East Asia , Franklin Hewins
Intercultural Communicative Competence: A Diversity Training for Educators, Administrators, and Managers , Amanda Marie Lowrey
Collaborative Drama for the Adult ESL Classroom: A Guidebook for Engaging Adult English Language Learners in their Oral Language Production through a Television Series , Molly McCarthy
Demystifying English Simple Past Tense: A Thai Teachers’ Guide to Teaching English Simple Past Tense to Thai Adult Learners , Chitkamon Tungkaburana
Energy Renovation While Learning English: A Guidebook for Elementary ESL Teachers , Di Yang
A communicative English-speaking supplementary curriculum: Using WeChat to develop Chinese EFL learners’ speaking fluency , Tianxing Yao
IELTS 360°: Increasing Fluency, Accessibility, and Familiarity for the IELTS Speaking Exam Through Virtual Reality and 360 Degree Videos , Kevin Zaragoza
Master's Projects/Capstones from 2018 2018
English Language Learning at National Historic Sites in the San Francisco Bay Area , Elizabeth Bognar
Thinking Outside the Box: Incorporating Critical Thinking Strategies in ESL Reading & Writing Instruction , Johanna Carranza
A CURRICULUM FOR IMPROVING CHINESE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS' LISTENING COMPREHENSION SKILLS THROUGH VIDEO GAMES , Ming Cheng
An Intensive ESL Camp Curriculum and Excursion Activities for International High School Graduated / College Students , Ying Chen
A Handbook for Teaching English to Afghan Women Refugees , Deborah de Lambert
Emphasizing the importance of cultural identity of second language learners in lesson plans , Sreyasi De
Empowering Students to Develop L2 Identity - Supplemental Online Lessons , Laura Espino
Music Education and Its Impact on L2 Learning , Johanna Nilsson
Understanding the Body Paragraph: A Handbook for EFL Teachers & Students , Terpsithea P. Papadopoulos
Bi or Multilingualism and its Curriculum for Children with SLI , Jeongmin Ryou
Building Engagement Through Developing Students’ Sense of Self-Control , Natalia Sanchez Gonzalez
Bearing Witness to the Lived Experience of Chinese Exclusion: An International Baccalaureate Inquiry Unit for Critical Literacy through Photovoice , Wesley Schoenherr
How Language Policies and Practices Affect Classrooms in Schools and Colleges , Gwendolyn F. Stanley
Effective Teaching Techniques and Study Strategies for English Language Learners in ESL Community College Classes , Dorothy M. Steiner
The Stress Management Handbook: The High-Stakes Test Takers of International Students , Shiying Sun
Crosslinguistic Influence of Chinese EFL learners on English Acquisition , Weijia Tang
Opportunities Beyond High School: An ELD Unit for Newcomer Students , Karen Toepp
English for Baking: Lessons for Kitchen Workers Using On-Site Learning , Christopher Torossian
Catholic School Teachers' Attitudinal Beliefs About Linguistic Diversity , Katie Trautman
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Department of English
Recent PhD Dissertations
Terekhov, Jessica (September 2022) -- "On Wit in Relation to Self-Division"
Selinger, Liora (September 2022) -- "Romanticism, Childhood, and the Poetics of Explanation"
Lockhart, Isabel (September 2022) -- "Storytelling and the Subsurface: Indigenous Fiction, Extraction, and the Energetic Present"
Ashe, Nathan (April 2022) – "Narrative Energy: Physics and the Scientific Real in Victorian Literature”
Bartley, Scott H. (April 2022) – “Watch it closely: The Poetry and Poetics of Aesthetic Focus in The New Criticism and Middle Generation”
Mctar, Ali (November 2021) – “Fallen Father: John Milton, Antinomianism, and the Case Against Adam”
Chow, Janet (September 2021) – “Securing the Crisis: Race and the Poetics of Risk”
Thorpe, Katherine (September 2021) – “Protean Figures: Personified Abstractions from Milton’s Allegory to Wordsworth’s Psychology of the Poet”
Minnen, Jennifer (September 2021) – “The Second Science: Feminist Natural Inquiry in Nineteenth-Century British Literature”
Starkowski, Kristen (September 2021) – “Doorstep Moments: Close Encounters with Minor Characters in the Victorian Novel”
Rickard, Matthew (September 2021) – “Probability: A Literary History, 1479-1700”
Crandell, Catie (September 2021) – “Inkblot Mirrors: On the Metareferential Mode and 19th Century British Literature”
Clayton, J.Thomas (September 2021) – “The Reformation of Indifference: Adiaphora, Toleration, and English Literature in the Seventeenth Century”
Goldberg, Reuven L. (May 2021) – “I Changed My Sex! Pedagogy and the Trans Narrative”
Soong, Jennifer (May 2021) – “Poetic Forgetting”
Edmonds, Brittney M. (April 2021) – “Who’s Laughing Now? Black Affective Play and Formalist Innovation in Twenty-First Century black Literary Satire”
Azariah-Kribbs, Colin (April 2021) – “Mere Curiosity: Knowledge, Desire, and Peril in the British and Irish Gothic Novel, 1796-1820”
Pope, Stephanie (January 2021) – “Rethinking Renaissance Symbolism: Material Culture, Visual Signs, and Failure in Early Modern Literature, 1587-1644”
Kumar, Matthew (September 2020) – “The Poetics of Space and Sensation in Scotland and Kenya”
Bain, Kimberly (September 2020) – “On Black Breath”
Eisenberg, Mollie (September 2020) – “The Case of the Self-Conscious Detective Novel: Modernism, Metafiction, and the Terms of Literary Value”
Hori, Julia M. (September 2020) – “Restoring Empire: British Imperial Nostalgia, Colonial Space, and Violence since WWII”
Reade, Orlando (June 2020) – “Being a Lover of the World: Lyric Poetry and Political Disaffection after the English Civil War”
Mahoney, Cate (June 2020) – “Go on Your Nerve: Confidence in American Poetry, 1860-1960”
Ritger, Matthew (April 2020) – “Objects of Correction: Literature and the Birth of Modern Punishment”
VanSant, Cameron (April 2020) – “Novel Subjects: Nineteenth-Century Fiction and the Transformation of British Subjecthood”
Lennington, David (November 2019) – “Anglo-Saxon and Arabic Identity in the Early Middle Ages”
Marraccini, Miranda (September 2019) – “Feminist Types: Reading the Victoria Press”
Harlow, Lucy (June 2019) – “The Discomposed Mind”
Williamson, Andrew (June 2019) – “Nothing to Say: Silence in Modernist American Poetry”
Adair, Carl (April 2019) – “Faithful Readings: Religion, Hermeneutics, and the Habits of Criticism”
Rogers, Hope (April 2019) – “Good Girls: Female Agency and Convention in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel”
Green, Elspeth (January 2019) – “Popular Science and Modernist Poetry”
Braun, Daniel (January 2019) – Kinds of Wrong: The Liberalization of Modern Poetry 1910-1960”
Rosen, Rebecca (November 2018) – “Making the body Speak: Anatomy, Autopsy and Testimony in Early America, 1639-1790”
Blank, Daniel (November 2018) – Shakespeare and the Spectacle of University Drama”
Case, Sarah (September 2018) – Increase of Issue: Poetry and Succession in Elizabethan England”
Kucik, Emanuela (June 2018) – “Black Genocides and the Visibility Paradox in Post-Holocaust African American and African Literature”
Quinn, Megan (June 2018) – “The Sensation of Language: Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, Mary Shelley”
McCarthy, Jesse D. (June 2018) – “The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War, 1945-1965
Johnson, Colette E. (June 2018) – “The Foibles of Play: Three Case Studies on Play in the Interwar Years”
Gingrich, Brian P. (June 2018) – “The Pace of Modern Fiction: A History of Narrative Movement in Modernity”
Marcus, Sara R. (June 2018) – “Political Disappointment: A Partial History of a Feeling”
Parry, Rosalind A. (April 2018) – “Remaking Nineteenth-Century Novels for the Twentieth Century”
Gibbons, Zoe (January 2018) – “From Time to Time: Narratives of Temporality in Early Modern England, 1610-1670”
Padilla, Javier (September 2017) – “Modernist Poetry and the Poetics of Temporality: Between Modernity and Coloniality”
Alvarado, Carolina (June 2017) – "Pouring Eastward: Editing American Regionalism, 1890-1940"
Gunaratne, Anjuli (May 2017) – "Tragic Resistance: Decolonization and Disappearance in Postcolonial Literature"
Glover, Eric (May 2017) – "By and About: An Antiracist History of the Musicals and the Antimusicals of Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston"
Tuckman, Melissa (April 2017) – "Unnatural Feelings in Nineteenth-Century Poetry"
Eggan, Taylor (April 2017) – "The Ecological Uncanny: Estranging Literary Landscapes in Twentieth-Century Narrative Fiction"
Calver, Harriet (March 2017) – "Modern Fiction and Its Phantoms"
Gaubinger, Rachel (December 2016) – "Between Siblings: Form and Family in the Modern Novel"
Swartz, Kelly (December 2016) – "Maxims and the Mind: Sententiousness from Seventeenth-Century Science to the Eighteenth-Century Novel"
Robles, Francisco (June 2016) – “Migrant Modalities: Radical Democracy and Intersectional Praxis in American Literatures, 1923-1976”
Johnson, Daniel (June 2016) – “Visible Plots, Invisible Realms”
Bennett, Joshua (June 2016) – “Being Property Once Myself: In Pursuit of the Animal in 20th Century African American Literature”
Scranton, Roy (January 2016) – “The Trauma Hero and the Lost War: World War II, American Literature, and the Politics of Trauma, 1945-1975
Jacob, Priyanka (November 2015) – “Things That Linger: Secrets, Containers and Hoards in the Victorian Novel”
Evans, William (November 2015) – “The Fiction of Law in Shakespeare and Spenser”
Vasiliauskas, Emily (November 2015) – “Dead Letters: The Afterlife Before Religion”
Walker, Daniel (June 2015) – “Sociable Uncertainties: Literature and the Ethics of Indeterminacy in Eighteenth-Century Britain”
Reilly, Ariana (June 2015) – “Leave-Takings: Anti-Self-Consciousness and the Escapist Ends of the Victorian Marriage Plot”
Lerner, Ross (June 2015) – "Framing Fanaticism: Religion, Violence, and the Reformation Literature of Self-Annihilation”
Harrison, Matthew (June 2015) – "Tear Him for His Bad Verses: Poetic Value and Literary History in Early Modern England”
Krumholtz, Matthew (June 2015) – “Talking Points: American Dialogue in the Twentieth Century”
Dauber, Maayan (March 2015) – "The Pathos of Modernism: Henry James, Virginia Woolf, and Gertrude Stein (with a coda on J.M. Coetzee)”
Hostetter, Lyra (March 2015) – “Novel Errantry: An Annotated Edition of Horatio, of Holstein (1800)”
Sanford, Beatrice (January 2015) – “Love’s Perception: Nineteenth-Century Aesthetics of Attachment”
Chong, Kenneth (January 2015) – “Potential Theologies: Scholasticism and Middle English Literature”
Worsley, Amelia (September 2014) – “The Poetry of Loneliness from Romance to Romanticism”
Hurtado, Jules (June 2014) – “The Pornographer at the Crossroads: Sex, Realism and Experiment in the Contemporary English Novel”
Rutherford, James (June 2014) – "Irrational Actors: Literature and Logic in Early Modern England”
Wilde, Lisa (June 2014) – “English Numeracy and the Writing of New Worlds, 1543-1622”
Hyde, Emily (November 2013) – “A Way of Seeing: Modernism, Illustration, and Postcolonial Literature”
Ortiz, Ivan (September 2013) – “Romanticism and the Aesthetics of Modern Transport”
Aronowicz, Yaron (September 2013) – “Fascinated Moderns: The Attentions of Modern Fiction”
Wythoff, Grant (September 2013) – “Gadgetry: New Media and the Fictional Imagination”
Ramachandran, Anitha (September 2013) – "Recovering Global Women’s Travel Writings from the Modern Period: An Inquiry Into Genre and Narrative Agency”
Reuland, John (April 2013) – “The Self Unenclosed: A New Literary History of Pragmatism, 1890-1940”
Wasserman, Sarah (January 2013) – “Material Losses: Urban Ephemera in Contemporary American Literature and Culture”
Kastner, Tal (November 2012) – "The Boilerplate of Everything and the Ideal of Agreement in American Law and Literature"
Labella, John (October 2012) – "Lyric Hemisphere: Latin America in United States Poetry, 1927-1981"
Kindley, Evan (September 2012) – "Critics and Connoisseurs: Poet-Critics and the Administration of Modernism"
Smith, Ellen (September 2012) – "Writing Native: The Aboriginal in Australian Cultural Nationalism 1927-1945"
Werlin, Julianne (September 2012) – "The Impossible Probable: Modeling Utopia in Early Modern England"
Posmentier, Sonya (May 2012) – "Cultivation and Catastrophe: Forms of Nature in Twentieth-Century Poetry of the Black Diaspora"
Alfano, Veronica (September 2011) – “The Lyric in Victorian Memory”
Foltz, Jonathan (September 2011) – “Modernism and the Narrative Cultures of Film”
Coghlan, J. Michelle (September 2011) – “Revolution’s Afterlife; The Paris Commune in American Cultural Memory, 1871-1933”
Christoff, Alicia (September 2011) – “Novel Feeling”
Shin, Jacqueline (August 2011) – “Picturing Repose: Between the Acts of British Modernism”
Ebrahim, Parween (August 2011) – “Outcasts and Inheritors: The Ishmael Ethos in American Culture, 1776-1917”
Reckson, Lindsay (August 2011) – “Realist Ecstasy: Enthusiasm in American Literature 1886 - 1938"
Londe, Gregory (June 2011) – “Enduring Modernism: Forms of Surviving Location in the 20th Century Long Poem”
Brown, Adrienne (June 2011) – “Reading Between the Skylines: The Skyscraper in American Modernism”
Russell, David (June 2011) – “A Literary History of Tact: Sociability, Aesthetic Liberalism and the Essay Form in Nineteenth-Century Britain”
Hostetter, Aaron (December 2010) – "The Politics of Eating and Cooking in Medieval English Romance"
Moshenska, Joseph (November 2010) – " 'Feeling Pleasures': The Sense of Touch in Renaissance England"
Walker, Casey (September 2010) – "The City Inside: Intimacy and Urbanity in Henry James, Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf"
Rackin, Ethel (August 2010) – "Ornamentation and Essence in Modernist Poetry"
Noble, Mary (August 2010) – "Primitive Marriage: Anthropology and Nineteenth-Century Fiction"
Fox, Renee (August 2010) – "Necromantic Victorians: Reanimation, History and the Politics of Literary Innovation, 1868-1903"
Hopper, Briallen (June 2010) – “Feeling Right in American Reform Culture”
Lee, Wendy (June 2010) -- "Failures of Feeling in the British Novel from Richardson to Eliot"
Moyer, James (March 2010) – "The Passion of Abolitionism: How Slave Martyrdom Obscures Slave Labor”
Forbes, Erin (September 2009) – “Genius of Deep Crime: Literature, Enslavement and the American Criminal”
Crawforth, Hannah (September 2009) – “The Politics and Poetics of Etymology in Early Modern Literature”
Elliott, Danielle (April 2009) – "Sea of Bones: The Middle Passage in Contemporary Poetry of the Black Atlantic”
Yu, Wesley (April 2009) – “Romance Logic: The Argument of Vernacular Verse in the Scholastic Middle Ages”
Cervantes, Gabriel (April 2009) – "Genres of Correction: Anglophone Literature and the Colonial Turn in Penal Law 1722-1804”
Rosinberg, Erwin (January 2009) – "A Further Conjunction: The Couple and Its Worlds in Modern British Fiction”
Walsh, Keri (January 2009) – "Antigone in Modernism: Classicism, Feminism, and Theatres of Protest”
Heald, Abigail (January 2009) – “Tears for Dido: A Renaissance Poetics of Feeling”
Bellin, Roger (January 2009) – "Argument: The American Transcendentalists and Disputatious Reason”
Ellis, Nadia (November 2008) – "Colonial Affections: Formulations of Intimacy Between England and the Caribbean, 1930-1963”
Baskin, Jason (November 2008) – “Embodying Experience: Romanticism and Social Life in the Twentieth Century”
Barrett, Jennifer-Kate (September 2008) – “ ‘So Written to Aftertimes’: Renaissance England’s Poetics of Futurity”
Moss, Daniel (September 2008) – “Renaissance Ovids: The Metamorphosis of Allusion in Late Elizabethan England”
Rainof, Rebecca (September 2008) – “Purgatory and Fictions of Maturity: From Newman to Woolf”
Darznik, Jasmin (November 2007) – “Writing Outside the Veil: Literature by Women of the Iranian Diaspora”
Bugg, John (September 2007) – “Gagging Acts: The Trials of British Romanticism”
Matson, John (September 2007) – “Marking Twain: Mechanized Composition and Medial Subjectivity in the Twain Era”
Neel, Alexandra (September 2007) – “The Writing of Ice: The Literature and Photography of Polar Regions”
Smith-Browne, Stephanie (September 2007) – “Gothic and the Pacific Voyage: Patriotism, Romance and Savagery in South Seas Travels and the Utopia of the Terra Australis”
Bystrom, Kerry (June 2007) – “Orphans and Origins: Family, Memory, and Nation in Argentina and South Africa”
Ards, Angela (June 2007) – “Affirmative Acts: Political Piety in African American Women’s Contemporary Autobiography”
Cragwall, Jasper (June 2007) – “Lake Methodism”
Ball, David (June 2007) – “False Starts: The Rhetoric of Failure and the Making of American Modernism, 1850-1950”
Ramdass, Harold (June 2007) – “Miswriting Tragedy: Genealogy, History and Orthography in the Canterbury Tales, Fragment I”
Lilley, James (June 2007) – “Common Things: Transatlantic Romance and the Aesthetics of Belonging, 1764-1840”
Noble, Mary (March 2007) – “Primitive Marriage: Anthropology and Nineteenth-Century Fiction”
Passannante, Gerard (January 2007) – “The Lucretian Renaissance: Ancient Poetry and Humanism in an Age of Science”
Tessone, Natasha (November 2006) – “The Fiction of Inheritance: Familial, Cultural, and National Legacies in the Irish and Scottish Novel”
Horrocks, Ingrid (September 2006) – “Reluctant Wanderers, Mobile Feelings: Moving Figures in Eighteenth-Century Literature”
Bender, Abby (June 2006) – “Out of Egypt and into bondage: Exodus in the Irish National Imagination”
Johnson, Hannah (June 2006) – “The Medieval Limit: Historiography, Ethics, Culture”
Horowitz, Evan (January 2006) – “The Writing of Modern Life”
White, Gillian (November 2005) – “ ‘We Do Not Say Ourselves Like That in Poems’: The Poetics of Contingency in Wallace Stevens and Elizabeth Bishop
Baudot, Laura (September 2005) – “Looking at Nothing: Literary Vacuity in the Long Eighteenth Century”
Hicks, Kevin (September 2005) – “Acts of Recovery: American Antebellum Fictions”
Stern, Kimberly (September 2005) – “The Victorian Sibyl: Women Reviewers and the Reinvention of Critical Tradition”
Nardi, Steven (May 2005) – “Automatic Aesthetics: Race, Technology, and Poetics in the Harlem Renaissance and American New Poetry”
Sayeau, Michael (May 2005) – “Everyday: Literature, Modernity, and Time”
Cooper, Lawrence (April 2005) – “Gothic Realities: The Emergence of Cultural Forms Through Representations of the Unreal”
Betjemann, Peter (November 2004) – “Talking Shop: Craft and Design in Hawthorne, James, and Wharton”
Forbes, Aileen (November 2004) – “Passion Play: Theaters of Romantic Emotion”
Keeley, Howard (November 2004) – “Beyond Big House and Cabin: Dwelling Politically in Modern Irish Literature”
Machlan, Elizabeth (November 2004) – “Panic Rooms: Architecture and Anxiety in New York Stories from 1900 to 9/11”
McDowell, Demetrius (November 2004) – “Hawthorne, James, and the Pressures of the Literary Marketplace”
Waldron, Jennifer (November 2004) – “Eloquence of the Body: Aesthetics, Theology, and English Renaissance Theater”
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Master's Theses - English Language and Literature
Theses/dissertations from 2023 2023.
“Hideous things have happened here”: Rape myths, rape culture, and healing in adolescent literature , Holly J. Greca
Moments of excess: Type 1 diabetes and the myth of control in adolescent fiction for girls , Michelle E. LeGault
Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022
A sociophonetic analysis of female-sounding virtual assistants , Alyssa Allen
Vampire narratives: Looking at queer-centric experiences in comparison to hetero-centric norms in order to model a new queer vampiric experience , Marah Heikkila
Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021
Overhearers’ perceptions of familiarity between interlocutors in computer-mediated communication based on GIF usage , Alexa F. Druckmiller
Feminism by proxy: Jane Austen’s critique of patriarchal society in Pride and Prejudice and Emma , Alexis Miller
The memory of mythmaking: Transgenerational trauma and disability as a collective experience in Afrofuturist storytelling , Jessica Tapley
Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020
Body image/imagining bodies: Trauma, control, and healing in graphic memoirs about anorexia , Kristine M. Gatchel
Word-final /t/-release and linguistic style: An investigation of the speech of two Jewish women from metro Detroit , Janet Leppala
Hermione syndrome: Reexamining feminist sidekicks and power in 2000-2010 children’s and young adult fantasy literature , Josiah Pankiewicz
Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018
Fear and (non) fiction: Agrarian anxiety in “The Colour Out of Space” , Antonio Barroso
Sculpted from clay, shaped by power: Feminine narrative and agency in Wonder Woman , Mikala Carpenter
Players in a storm: Climate and political migrants in The Tempest and Othello , Darcie Rees
Reclaiming racial/ethnic identity vs. reconstructing Asian American masculinity in Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese , Hyun-Joo Yoo
Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017
The organization of turn-taking in fieldwork settings: A case study , Amy Brunett
Exploring the political impact of literature and literary studies in American government , Taylor Dereadt
"We met in a bar by happenstance": Master narratives in couples stories , Brent A. Miller
Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016
What is the negro woman's story?: Negro Story Magazine and the dialogue of feminist voices , Maureen Convery
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Parody and the pen: Pippi Longstocking, Harriet M. Welsch, and Flavia de Luce as disrupters of space, language, and the male gaze , Kelsey McLendon
Haec fortis sequitur illam indocti possident: A linguistic analysis of demonstratives in genres of early Latin fragments , Erica L. Meszaros
Tricking for change: Establishing the literary trickster in the western tradition , Christopher Michael Stuart
Because, x: A new construction of because in popular culture , Stephanie Walla
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Temporal Fluency in L2 Self-Assessments: A Cross-Linguistic Study of Spanish, Portuguese, and French , Mandy Case
Biblical Hebrew as a Negative Concord Language , J. Bradley Dukes
Revitalizing the Russian of a Heritage Speaker , Aaron Jordan
Analyzing Patterns of Complexity in Pre-University L2 English Writing , Zachary M. Lambert
Prosodic Modeling for Hymn Translation , Michael Abraham Peck
Interpretive Language and Museum Artwork: How Patrons Respond to Depictions of Native American and White Settler Encounters--A Thematic Analysis , Holli D. Rogerson
Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021
Trademarks and Genericide: A Corpus and Experimental Approach to Understanding the Semantic Status of Trademarks , Richard B. Bevan
First and Second Language Use of Case, Aspect, and Tense in Finnish and English , Torin Kelley
Lexical Aspect in-sha Verb Chains in Pastaza Kichwa , Azya Dawn Ladd
Text-to-Speech Systems: Learner Perceptions of its Use as a Tool in the Language Classroom , Joseph Chi Man Mak
The Effects of Dynamic Written Corrective Feedback on the Accuracy and Complexity of Writing Produced by L2 Graduate Students , Lisa Rohm
Mental Contrasting with Implementation Intentions as Applied to Motivation in L2 Vocabulary Acquisition , Lindsay Michelle Stephenson
Linguistics of Russian Media During the 2016 US Election: A Corpus-Based Study , Devon K. Terry
Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020
Portuguese and Chinese ESL Reading Behaviors Compared: An Eye-Tracking Study , Logan Kyle Blackwell
Mental Contrasting with Implementation Intentions to Lower Test Anxiety , Asena Cakmakci
The Categorization of Ideophone-Gesture Composites in Quichua Narratives , Maria Graciela Cano
Ranking Aspect-Based Features in Restaurant Reviews , Jacob Ling Hang Chan
Praise in Written Feedback: How L2 Writers Perceive and Value Praise , Karla Coca
Evidence for a Typology of Christ in the Book of Esther , L. Clayton Fausett
Gender Vs. Sex: Defining Meaning in a Modern World through use of Corpora and Semantic Surveys , Mary Elizabeth Garceau
The attributive suffix in Pastaza Kichwa , Barrett Wilson Hamp
An Examination of Motivation Types and Their Influence on English Proficiency for Current High School Students in South Korean , Euiyong Jung
Experienced ESL Teachers' Attitudes Towards Using Phonetic Symbols in Teaching English Pronunciation to Adult ESL Students , Oxana Kodirova
Evidentiality, Epistemic Modality and Mirativity: The Case of Cantonese Utterance Particles Ge3, Laak3, and Lo1 , Ka Fai Law
Application of a Self-Regulation Framework in an ESL Classroom: Effects on IEP International Students , Claudia Mencarelli
Parsing an American Sign Language Corpus with Combinatory Categorial Grammar , Michael Albert Nix
An Exploration of Mental Contrasting and Social Networks of English Language Learners , Adam T. Pinkston
A Corpus-Based Study of the Gender Assignment of Nominal Anglicisms in Brazilian Portuguese , Taryn Marie Skahill
Developing Listening Comprehension in ESL Students at the Intermediate Level by Reading Transcripts While Listening: A Cognitive Load Perspective , Sydney Sohler
The Effect of Language Learning Experience on Motivation and Anxiety of Foreign Language Learning Students , Josie Eileen Thacker
Identifying Language Needs in Community-Based Adult ELLs: Findings from an Ethnography of Four Salvadoran Immigrants in the Western United States , Kathryn Anne Watkins
Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019
Using Eye Tracking to Examine Working Memory and Verbal Feature Processing in Spanish , Erik William Arnold
Self-Regulation in Transition: A Case Study of Three English Language Learners at an IEP , Allison Wallace Baker
"General Conference talk": Style Variation and the Styling of Identity in Latter-day Saint General Conference Oratory , Stephen Thomas Betts
Implementing Mental Contrasting to Improve English Language Learner Social Networks , Hannah Trimble Brown
Comparing Academic Vocabulary List (AVL) Frequency Bands to Leveled Biology and History Texts , Lynne Crandall
A Comparison of Mobile and Computer Receptive Language ESL Tests , Aislin Pickett Davis
Yea, Yea, Nay, Nay: Uses of the Archaic, Biblical Yea in the Book of Mormon , Michael Edward De Martini
L1 and L2 Reading Behaviors by Proficiency Level: An English-Portuguese Eye-Tracking Study , Larissa Grahl
Immediate Repeated Reading has Positive Effects on Reading Fluency for English Language Learners: An Eye-tracking Study , Jennifer Hemmert Hansen
Perceptions of Malaysian English Teachers Regarding the Importation of Expatriate Native and Nonnative English-speaking Teachers , Syringa Joanah Judd
Sociocultural Identification with the United States and English Pronunciation Comprehensibility and Accent Among International ESL Students , Christinah Paige Mulder
The Effects of Repeated Reading on the Fluency of Intermediate-Level English-as-a-Second-Language Learners: An Eye-Tracking Study , Krista Carlene Rich
Verb Usage in Egyptian Movies, Serials, and Blogs: A Case for Register Variation , Michael G. White
Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018
Factors Influencing ESL Students' Selection of Intensive English Programs in the Western United States , Katie Briana Blanco
Pun Strategies Across Joke Schemata: A Corpus-Based Study , Robert Nishan Crapo
ESL Students' Reading Behaviors on Multiple-Choice Items at Differing Proficiency Levels: An Eye-Tracking Study , Juan M. Escalante Talavera
Backward Transfer of Apology Strategies from Japanese to English: Do English L1 Speakers Use Japanese-Style Apologies When Speaking English? , Candice April Flowers
Cultural Differences in Russian and English Magazine Advertising: A Pragmatic Approach , Emily Kay Furner
An Analysis of Rehearsed Speech Characteristics on the Oral Proficiency Interview—Computer (OPIc) , Gwyneth Elaine Gates
Predicting Speaking, Listening, and Reading Proficiency Gains During Study Abroad Using Social Network Metrics , Timothy James Hall
Navigating a New Culture: Analyzing Variables that Influence Intensive English Program Students' Cultural Adjustment Process , Sherie Lyn Kwok
Second Language Semantic Retrieval in the Bilingual Mind: The Case of Korean-English Expert Bilinguals , Janice Si-Man Lam
Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Korean Heritage-Speaking Interpreter , Yoonjoo Lee
Reading Idioms: A Comparative Eye-Tracking Study of Native English Speakers and Native Korean Speakers , Sarah Lynne Miner
Applying the Developmental Path of English Negation to the Automated Scoring of Learner Essays , Allen Travis Moore
Performance Self-Appraisal Calibration of ESL Students on a Proficiency Reading Test , Jodi Mikolajcik Petersen
Switch-Reference in Pastaza Kichwa , Alexander Harrison Rice
The Effects of Metacognitive Listening Strategy Instruction on ESL Learners' Listening Motivation , Corbin Kalanikiakahi Rivera
The Effects of Teacher Background on How Teachers Assess Native-Like and Nonnative-Like Grammar Errors: An Eye-Tracking Study , Wesley Makoto Schramm
Rubric Rating with MFRM vs. Randomly Distributed Comparative Judgment: A Comparison of Two Approaches to Second-Language Writing Assessment , Maureen Estelle Sims
Investigating the Perception of Identity Shift in Trilingual Speakers: A Case Study , Elena Vasilachi
Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017
Preparing Non-Native English Speakers for the Mathematical Vocabulary in the GRE and GMAT , Irina Mikhailovna Baskova
Eye Behavior While Reading Words of Sanskrit and Urdu Origin in Hindi , Tahira Carroll
An Acoustical Analysis of the American English /l, r/ Contrast as Produced by Adult Japanese Learners of English Incorporating Word Position and Task Type , Braden Paul Chase
The Rhetoric Revision Log: A Second Study on a Feedback Tool for ESL Student Writing , Natalie Marie Cole
Quizlet Flashcards for the First 500 Words of the Academic Vocabulary List , Emily R. Crandell
The Impact of Changing TOEFL Cut-Scores on University Admissions , Laura Michelle Decker
A Latent Class Analysis of American English Dialects , Stephanie Nicole Hedges
Comparing the AWL and AVL in Textbooks from an Intensive English Program , Michelle Morgan Hernandez
Faculty and EAL Student Perceptions of Writing Purposes and Challenges in the Business Major , Amy Mae Johnson
Multilingual Trends in Five London Boroughs: A Linguistic Landscape Approach , Shayla Ann Johnson
Nature or Nurture in English Academic Writing: Korean and American Rhetorical Patterns , Sunok Kim
Differences in the Motivations of Chinese Learners of English in Different (Foreign or Second Language) Contexts , Rui Li
Managing Dynamic Written Corrective Feedback: Perceptions of Experienced Teachers , Rachel A. Messenger
Spanish Heritage Bilingual Perception of English-Specific Vowel Contrasts , John B. Nielsen
Taking the "Foreign" Out of the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale , Jared Benjamin Sell
Creole Genesis and Universality: Case, Word Order, and Agreement , Gerald Taylor Snow
Idioms or Open Choice? A Corpus Based Analysis , Kaitlyn Alayne VanWagoner
Applying Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis to an Unrestricted Corpus: A Case Study in Indonesian and Malay Newspapers , Sara LuAnne White
Investigating the effects of Rater's Second Language Learning Background and Familiarity with Test-Taker's First Language on Speaking Test Scores , Ksenia Zhao
Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016
The Influence of Online English Language Instruction on ESL Learners' Fluency Development , Rebecca Aaron
The Effect of Prompt Accent on Elicited Imitation Assessments in English as a Second Language , Jacob Garlin Barrows
A Framework for Evaluating Recommender Systems , Michael Gabriel Bean
Program and Classroom Factors Affecting Attendance Patterns For Hispanic Participants In Adult ESL Education , Steven J. Carter
A Longitudinal Analysis of Adult ESL Speakers' Oral Fluency Gains , Kostiantyn Fesenko
Rethinking Vocabulary Size Tests: Frequency Versus Item Difficulty , Brett James Hashimoto
The Onomatopoeic Ideophone-Gesture Relationship in Pastaza Quichua , Sarah Ann Hatton
A Hybrid Approach to Cross-Linguistic Tokenization: Morphology with Statistics , Logan R. Kearsley
Getting All the Ducks in a Row: Towards a Method for the Consolidation of English Idioms , Ethan Michael Lynn
Expecting Excellence: Student and Teacher Attitudes Towards Choosing to Speak English in an IEP , Alhyaba Encinas Moore
Lexical Trends in Young Adult Literature: A Corpus-Based Approach , Kyra McKinzie Nelson
A Corpus-Based Comparison of the Academic Word List and the Academic Vocabulary List , Jacob Andrew Newman
A Self-Regulated Learning Inventory Based on a Six-Dimensional Model of SRL , Christopher Nuttall
The Effectiveness of Using Written Feedback to Improve Adult ESL Learners' Spontaneous Pronunciation of English Suprasegmentals , Chirstin Stephens
Pragmatic Quotation Use in Online Yelp Reviews and its Connection to Author Sentiment , Mary Elisabeth Wright
Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015
Conditional Sentences in Egyptian Colloquial and Modern Standard Arabic: A Corpus Study , Randell S. Bentley
A Corpus-Based Analysis of Russian Word Order Patterns , Stephanie Kay Billings
English to ASL Gloss Machine Translation , Mary Elizabeth Bonham
The Development of an ESP Vocabulary Study Guidefor the Utah State Driver Handbook , Kirsten M. Brown
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211 Research Topics in Linguistics To Get Top Grades
Many people find it hard to decide on their linguistics research topics because of the assumed complexities involved. They struggle to choose easy research paper topics for English language too because they think it could be too simple for a university or college level certificate.
All that you need to learn about Linguistics and English is sprawled across syntax, phonetics, morphology, phonology, semantics, grammar, vocabulary, and a few others. To easily create a top-notch essay or conduct a research study, you can consider this list of research topics in English language below for your university or college use. Note that you can fine-tune these to suit your interests.
Linguistics Research Paper Topics
If you want to study how language is applied and its importance in the world, you can consider these Linguistics topics for your research paper. They are:
- An analysis of romantic ideas and their expression amongst French people
- An overview of the hate language in the course against religion
- Identify the determinants of hate language and the means of propagation
- Evaluate a literature and examine how Linguistics is applied to the understanding of minor languages
- Consider the impact of social media in the development of slangs
- An overview of political slang and its use amongst New York teenagers
- Examine the relevance of Linguistics in a digitalized world
- Analyze foul language and how it’s used to oppress minors
- Identify the role of language in the national identity of a socially dynamic society
- Attempt an explanation to how the language barrier could affect the social life of an individual in a new society
- Discuss the means through which language can enrich cultural identities
- Examine the concept of bilingualism and how it applies in the real world
- Analyze the possible strategies for teaching a foreign language
- Discuss the priority of teachers in the teaching of grammar to non-native speakers
- Choose a school of your choice and observe the slang used by its students: analyze how it affects their social lives
- Attempt a critical overview of racist languages
- What does endangered language means and how does it apply in the real world?
- A critical overview of your second language and why it is a second language
- What are the motivators of speech and why are they relevant?
- Analyze the difference between the different types of communications and their significance to specially-abled persons
- Give a critical overview of five literature on sign language
- Evaluate the distinction between the means of language comprehension between an adult and a teenager
- Consider a native American group and evaluate how cultural diversity has influenced their language
- Analyze the complexities involved in code-switching and code-mixing
- Give a critical overview of the importance of language to a teenager
- Attempt a forensic overview of language accessibility and what it means
- What do you believe are the means of communications and what are their uniqueness?
- Attempt a study of Islamic poetry and its role in language development
- Attempt a study on the role of Literature in language development
- Evaluate the Influence of metaphors and other literary devices in the depth of each sentence
- Identify the role of literary devices in the development of proverbs in any African country
- Cognitive Linguistics: analyze two pieces of Literature that offers a critical view of perception
- Identify and analyze the complexities in unspoken words
- Expression is another kind of language: discuss
- Identify the significance of symbols in the evolution of language
- Discuss how learning more than a single language promote cross-cultural developments
- Analyze how the loss of a mother tongue affect the language Efficiency of a community
- Critically examine how sign language works
- Using literature from the medieval era, attempt a study of the evolution of language
- Identify how wars have led to the reduction in the popularity of a language of your choice across any country of the world
- Critically examine five Literature on why accent changes based on environment
- What are the forces that compel the comprehension of language in a child
- Identify and explain the difference between the listening and speaking skills and their significance in the understanding of language
- Give a critical overview of how natural language is processed
- Examine the influence of language on culture and vice versa
- It is possible to understand a language even without living in that society: discuss
- Identify the arguments regarding speech defects
- Discuss how the familiarity of language informs the creation of slangs
- Explain the significance of religious phrases and sacred languages
- Explore the roots and evolution of incantations in Africa
Sociolinguistic Research Topics
You may as well need interesting Linguistics topics based on sociolinguistic purposes for your research. Sociolinguistics is the study and recording of natural speech. It’s primarily the casual status of most informal conversations. You can consider the following Sociolinguistic research topics for your research:
- What makes language exceptional to a particular person?
- How does language form a unique means of expression to writers?
- Examine the kind of speech used in health and emergencies
- Analyze the language theory explored by family members during dinner
- Evaluate the possible variation of language based on class
- Evaluate the language of racism, social tension, and sexism
- Discuss how Language promotes social and cultural familiarities
- Give an overview of identity and language
- Examine why some language speakers enjoy listening to foreigners who speak their native language
- Give a forensic analysis of his the language of entertainment is different to the language in professional settings
- Give an understanding of how Language changes
- Examine the Sociolinguistics of the Caribbeans
- Consider an overview of metaphor in France
- Explain why the direct translation of written words is incomprehensible in Linguistics
- Discuss the use of language in marginalizing a community
- Analyze the history of Arabic and the culture that enhanced it
- Discuss the growth of French and the influences of other languages
- Examine how the English language developed and its interdependence on other languages
- Give an overview of cultural diversity and Linguistics in teaching
- Challenge the attachment of speech defect with disability of language listening and speaking abilities
- Explore the uniqueness of language between siblings
- Explore the means of making requests between a teenager and his parents
- Observe and comment on how students relate with their teachers through language
- Observe and comment on the communication of strategy of parents and teachers
- Examine the connection of understanding first language with academic excellence
Language Research Topics
Numerous languages exist in different societies. This is why you may seek to understand the motivations behind language through these Linguistics project ideas. You can consider the following interesting Linguistics topics and their application to language:
- What does language shift mean?
- Discuss the stages of English language development?
- Examine the position of ambiguity in a romantic Language of your choice
- Why are some languages called romantic languages?
- Observe the strategies of persuasion through Language
- Discuss the connection between symbols and words
- Identify the language of political speeches
- Discuss the effectiveness of language in an indigenous cultural revolution
- Trace the motivators for spoken language
- What does language acquisition mean to you?
- Examine three pieces of literature on language translation and its role in multilingual accessibility
- Identify the science involved in language reception
- Interrogate with the context of language disorders
- Examine how psychotherapy applies to victims of language disorders
- Study the growth of Hindi despite colonialism
- Critically appraise the term, language erasure
- Examine how colonialism and war is responsible for the loss of language
- Give an overview of the difference between sounds and letters and how they apply to the German language
- Explain why the placement of verb and preposition is different in German and English languages
- Choose two languages of your choice and examine their historical relationship
- Discuss the strategies employed by people while learning new languages
- Discuss the role of all the figures of speech in the advancement of language
- Analyze the complexities of autism and its victims
- Offer a linguist approach to language uniqueness between a Down Syndrome child and an autist
- Express dance as a language
- Express music as a language
- Express language as a form of language
- Evaluate the role of cultural diversity in the decline of languages in South Africa
- Discuss the development of the Greek language
- Critically review two literary texts, one from the medieval era and another published a decade ago, and examine the language shifts
Linguistics Essay Topics
You may also need Linguistics research topics for your Linguistics essays. As a linguist in the making, these can help you consider controversies in Linguistics as a discipline and address them through your study. You can consider:
- The connection of sociolinguistics in comprehending interests in multilingualism
- Write on your belief of how language encourages sexism
- What do you understand about the differences between British and American English?
- Discuss how slangs grew and how they started
- Consider how age leads to loss of language
- Review how language is used in formal and informal conversation
- Discuss what you understand by polite language
- Discuss what you know by hate language
- Evaluate how language has remained flexible throughout history
- Mimicking a teacher is a form of exercising hate Language: discuss
- Body Language and verbal speech are different things: discuss
- Language can be exploitative: discuss
- Do you think language is responsible for inciting aggression against the state?
- Can you justify the structural representation of any symbol of your choice?
- Religious symbols are not ordinary Language: what are your perspective on day-to-day languages and sacred ones?
- Consider the usage of language by an English man and someone of another culture
- Discuss the essence of code-mixing and code-switching
- Attempt a psychological assessment on the role of language in academic development
- How does language pose a challenge to studying?
- Choose a multicultural society of your choice and explain the problem they face
- What forms does Language use in expression?
- Identify the reasons behind unspoken words and actions
- Why do universal languages exist as a means of easy communication?
- Examine the role of the English language in the world
- Examine the role of Arabic in the world
- Examine the role of romantic languages in the world
- Evaluate the significance of each teaching Resources in a language classroom
- Consider an assessment of language analysis
- Why do people comprehend beyond what is written or expressed?
- What is the impact of hate speech on a woman?
- Do you believe that grammatical errors are how everyone’s comprehension of language is determined?
- Observe the Influence of technology in language learning and development
- Which parts of the body are responsible for understanding new languages
- How has language informed development?
- Would you say language has improved human relations or worsened it considering it as a tool for violence?
- Would you say language in a black populous state is different from its social culture in white populous states?
- Give an overview of the English language in Nigeria
- Give an overview of the English language in Uganda
- Give an overview of the English language in India
- Give an overview of Russian in Europe
- Give a conceptual analysis on stress and how it works
- Consider the means of vocabulary development and its role in cultural relationships
- Examine the effects of Linguistics in language
- Present your understanding of sign language
- What do you understand about descriptive language and prescriptive Language?
List of Research Topics in English Language
You may need English research topics for your next research. These are topics that are socially crafted for you as a student of language in any institution. You can consider the following for in-depth analysis:
- Examine the travail of women in any feminist text of your choice
- Examine the movement of feminist literature in the Industrial period
- Give an overview of five Gothic literature and what you understand from them
- Examine rock music and how it emerged as a genre
- Evaluate the cultural association with Nina Simone’s music
- What is the relevance of Shakespeare in English literature?
- How has literature promoted the English language?
- Identify the effect of spelling errors in the academic performance of students in an institution of your choice
- Critically survey a university and give rationalize the literary texts offered as Significant
- Examine the use of feminist literature in advancing the course against patriarchy
- Give an overview of the themes in William Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar”
- Express the significance of Ernest Hemingway’s diction in contemporary literature
- Examine the predominant devices in the works of William Shakespeare
- Explain the predominant devices in the works of Christopher Marlowe
- Charles Dickens and his works: express the dominating themes in his Literature
- Why is Literature described as the mirror of society?
- Examine the issues of feminism in Sefi Atta’s “Everything Good Will Come” and Bernadine Evaristos’s “Girl, Woman, Other”
- Give an overview of the stylistics employed in the writing of “Girl, Woman, Other” by Bernadine Evaristo
- Describe the language of advertisement in social media and newspapers
- Describe what poetic Language means
- Examine the use of code-switching and code-mixing on Mexican Americans
- Examine the use of code-switching and code-mixing in Indian Americans
- Discuss the influence of George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” on satirical literature
- Examine the Linguistics features of “Native Son” by Richard Wright
- What is the role of indigenous literature in promoting cultural identities
- How has literature informed cultural consciousness?
- Analyze five literature on semantics and their Influence on the study
- Assess the role of grammar in day to day communications
- Observe the role of multidisciplinary approaches in understanding the English language
- What does stylistics mean while analyzing medieval literary texts?
- Analyze the views of philosophers on language, society, and culture
English Research Paper Topics for College Students
For your college work, you may need to undergo a study of any phenomenon in the world. Note that they could be Linguistics essay topics or mainly a research study of an idea of your choice. Thus, you can choose your research ideas from any of the following:
- The concept of fairness in a democratic Government
- The capacity of a leader isn’t in his or her academic degrees
- The concept of discrimination in education
- The theory of discrimination in Islamic states
- The idea of school policing
- A study on grade inflation and its consequences
- A study of taxation and Its importance to the economy from a citizen’s perspectives
- A study on how eloquence lead to discrimination amongst high school students
- A study of the influence of the music industry in teens
- An Evaluation of pornography and its impacts on College students
- A descriptive study of how the FBI works according to Hollywood
- A critical consideration of the cons and pros of vaccination
- The health effect of sleep disorders
- An overview of three literary texts across three genres of Literature and how they connect to you
- A critical overview of “King Oedipus”: the role of the supernatural in day to day life
- Examine the novel “12 Years a Slave” as a reflection of servitude and brutality exerted by white slave owners
- Rationalize the emergence of racist Literature with concrete examples
- A study of the limits of literature in accessing rural readers
- Analyze the perspectives of modern authors on the Influence of medieval Literature on their craft
- What do you understand by the mortality of a literary text?
- A study of controversial Literature and its role in shaping the discussion
- A critical overview of three literary texts that dealt with domestic abuse and their role in changing the narratives about domestic violence
- Choose three contemporary poets and analyze the themes of their works
- Do you believe that contemporary American literature is the repetition of unnecessary themes already treated in the past?
- A study of the evolution of Literature and its styles
- The use of sexual innuendos in literature
- The use of sexist languages in literature and its effect on the public
- The disaster associated with media reports of fake news
- Conduct a study on how language is used as a tool for manipulation
- Attempt a criticism of a controversial Literary text and why it shouldn’t be studied or sold in the first place
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While Sandel argues that pursuing perfection through genetic engineering would decrease our sense of humility, he claims that the sense of solidarity we would lose is also important.
This thesis summarizes several points in Sandel’s argument, but it does not make a claim about how we should understand his argument. A reader who read Sandel’s argument would not also need to read an essay based on this descriptive thesis.
Broad thesis (arguable, but difficult to support with evidence)
Michael Sandel’s arguments about genetic engineering do not take into consideration all the relevant issues.
This is an arguable claim because it would be possible to argue against it by saying that Michael Sandel’s arguments do take all of the relevant issues into consideration. But the claim is too broad. Because the thesis does not specify which “issues” it is focused on—or why it matters if they are considered—readers won’t know what the rest of the essay will argue, and the writer won’t know what to focus on. If there is a particular issue that Sandel does not address, then a more specific version of the thesis would include that issue—hand an explanation of why it is important.
Arguable thesis with analytical claim
While Sandel argues persuasively that our instinct to “remake” (54) ourselves into something ever more perfect is a problem, his belief that we can always draw a line between what is medically necessary and what makes us simply “better than well” (51) is less convincing.
This is an arguable analytical claim. To argue for this claim, the essay writer will need to show how evidence from the article itself points to this interpretation. It’s also a reasonable scope for a thesis because it can be supported with evidence available in the text and is neither too broad nor too narrow.
Arguable thesis with normative claim
Given Sandel’s argument against genetic enhancement, we should not allow parents to decide on using Human Growth Hormone for their children.
This thesis tells us what we should do about a particular issue discussed in Sandel’s article, but it does not tell us how we should understand Sandel’s argument.
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- Is the thesis truly arguable? Does it speak to a genuine dilemma in the source, or would most readers automatically agree with it?
- Is the thesis too obvious? Again, would most or all readers agree with it without needing to see your argument?
- Is the thesis complex enough to require a whole essay's worth of argument?
- Is the thesis supportable with evidence from the text rather than with generalizations or outside research?
- Would anyone want to read a paper in which this thesis was developed? That is, can you explain what this paper is adding to our understanding of a problem, question, or topic?
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A thesis statement is a sentence that sums up the central point of your paper or essay . It usually comes near the end of your introduction .
Your thesis will look a bit different depending on the type of essay you’re writing. But the thesis statement should always clearly state the main idea you want to get across. Everything else in your essay should relate back to this idea.
You can write your thesis statement by following four simple steps:
- Start with a question
- Write your initial answer
- Develop your answer
- Refine your thesis statement
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What is a thesis statement, placement of the thesis statement, step 1: start with a question, step 2: write your initial answer, step 3: develop your answer, step 4: refine your thesis statement, types of thesis statements, other interesting articles, frequently asked questions about thesis statements.
A thesis statement summarizes the central points of your essay. It is a signpost telling the reader what the essay will argue and why.
The best thesis statements are:
- Concise: A good thesis statement is short and sweet—don’t use more words than necessary. State your point clearly and directly in one or two sentences.
- Contentious: Your thesis shouldn’t be a simple statement of fact that everyone already knows. A good thesis statement is a claim that requires further evidence or analysis to back it up.
- Coherent: Everything mentioned in your thesis statement must be supported and explained in the rest of your paper.
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The thesis statement generally appears at the end of your essay introduction or research paper introduction .
The spread of the internet has had a world-changing effect, not least on the world of education. The use of the internet in academic contexts and among young people more generally is hotly debated. For many who did not grow up with this technology, its effects seem alarming and potentially harmful. This concern, while understandable, is misguided. The negatives of internet use are outweighed by its many benefits for education: the internet facilitates easier access to information, exposure to different perspectives, and a flexible learning environment for both students and teachers.
You should come up with an initial thesis, sometimes called a working thesis , early in the writing process . As soon as you’ve decided on your essay topic , you need to work out what you want to say about it—a clear thesis will give your essay direction and structure.
You might already have a question in your assignment, but if not, try to come up with your own. What would you like to find out or decide about your topic?
For example, you might ask:
After some initial research, you can formulate a tentative answer to this question. At this stage it can be simple, and it should guide the research process and writing process .
Now you need to consider why this is your answer and how you will convince your reader to agree with you. As you read more about your topic and begin writing, your answer should get more detailed.
In your essay about the internet and education, the thesis states your position and sketches out the key arguments you’ll use to support it.
The negatives of internet use are outweighed by its many benefits for education because it facilitates easier access to information.
In your essay about braille, the thesis statement summarizes the key historical development that you’ll explain.
The invention of braille in the 19th century transformed the lives of blind people, allowing them to participate more actively in public life.
A strong thesis statement should tell the reader:
- Why you hold this position
- What they’ll learn from your essay
- The key points of your argument or narrative
The final thesis statement doesn’t just state your position, but summarizes your overall argument or the entire topic you’re going to explain. To strengthen a weak thesis statement, it can help to consider the broader context of your topic.
These examples are more specific and show that you’ll explore your topic in depth.
Your thesis statement should match the goals of your essay, which vary depending on the type of essay you’re writing:
- In an argumentative essay , your thesis statement should take a strong position. Your aim in the essay is to convince your reader of this thesis based on evidence and logical reasoning.
- In an expository essay , you’ll aim to explain the facts of a topic or process. Your thesis statement doesn’t have to include a strong opinion in this case, but it should clearly state the central point you want to make, and mention the key elements you’ll explain.
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A thesis statement is a sentence that sums up the central point of your paper or essay . Everything else you write should relate to this key idea.
The thesis statement is essential in any academic essay or research paper for two main reasons:
- It gives your writing direction and focus.
- It gives the reader a concise summary of your main point.
Without a clear thesis statement, an essay can end up rambling and unfocused, leaving your reader unsure of exactly what you want to say.
Follow these four steps to come up with a thesis statement :
- Ask a question about your topic .
- Write your initial answer.
- Develop your answer by including reasons.
- Refine your answer, adding more detail and nuance.
The thesis statement should be placed at the end of your essay introduction .
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English Language Dissertation Topics
English students are bright and highly creative. This means they tend to come up with brilliant ideas!
So, coming up with a dissertation topic should be easy, right?
Well, not necessarily.
Coming up with a topic can be stressful so you might try to avoid it. Alternatively, you might have hundreds of great ideas, but not know which one to settle on.
If that’s the case, then don’t worry. This article is here to help you move forward with choosing a topic for your dissertation – so let’s get started!
Sociolinguistics Dissertation Topics
Coming up with a topic, applied linguistics dissertation topics.
- Critical Perspectives for Language Students
Sociolinguistics is one of the most interesting aspects of English studies, especially in our modern, globalised world. Put simply, sociolinguistics is concerned with how social/cultural norms shape language. Since we are becoming increasingly globalised, there is a debate as to whether our culture and language systems are converging or diverging. Of course, there is no straightforward answer to this debate, and there is still much to learn about the link between society, culture, and language. Here are a few dissertation topics in sociolinguistics to get you started.
- Mapping the diachronic development of Disney Princesses: How is language used to portray femininity?
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If you are an overseas student, you might find it interesting to compare language between the UK and your own country, for example.
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Research from Kaplan (1966) shows that native English speakers prefer to use deductive forms of discourse, whereas Chinese EFL speakers prefer inductive forms of discourse.
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