Recent Graduates and Dissertation Titles,
Composition and Rhetoric

Mike Edwards, Writing Class and Value in the Information Economy: Toward a New Understanding of Students' Economic Activity in the Composition Classroom. 2006.

Susan Johnson, Old Worlds in New Orders: Multigenre Essays in the Composition Classroom. 2006.

Lauren Rosenberg, Rewriting Ideologies of Literacy: A Study of Writing by Newly Literate Adults. 2006.

Mya Poe, Representation, and Writing Assessment: Racial Stereotypes and the Construction of identity in Writing Assessments. 2005.

Heidi McKee, Deliberative Dialogue and Online Communication across Differences. 2005.

Alan Girelli, Teachers' Perceptions of a Hybrid Inservice Delivery Model: A Qualitative Study. 2004.

Margaret Price, Critical Resistance: Disability Studies in the Writing Classroom. 2004.

Winifred Wood, Electronic Deliberation and the Formation of a Public Sphere: A Situated Rhetorical Study. 2004. Winner of the Hugh Burns award for Best Dissertation in Computers and Composition.

Michael Mattison, Between Two Classrooms: Graduate Students of Literature as Teachers of Writing. 2003.

Warren Longmire, Using Learning Objects in Critical Thinking Pedagogy and To Facilitate Entry into Discourse Communities. 2003. Winner of the Hugh Burns award for Best Dissertation in Computers and Composition.

Kimberly Costino, Articulating Literacy: Narrative and Cultural Representations of Literacy throughout 20th Century America. 2002.

Kimberly Marcello DeVries, Teaching To Their Strengths: Multiple Interface Theory in the College Writing Class. 2002.

Susan Kirtley, Students' Views on Writing and Technology: Gender, Race, and Class. 2002.

Mary Reda, Listening to the Silences in Our Classrooms: A Study of "Quiet" Students. 2002.

Julia Wagner, The Letter that Gives Life: Magic, Writing, and the Teaching of Writing. 2002.

Donald Unger, The Evolution of Gender-Neutral Language: Can Fathers Mother? 2001.

Zan M. Goncalves, Speaking Our Truths: Literacy, Sexuality, and Social Action. 2000. Revised dissertation published as Sexuality and the Politics of Ethos in the Writing Classroom. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2005.

Andrea Stover, Resisting Privacy: Problems in Self-Representation in Journals and Diaries. 1999.

Tom Deans, Community-Based and Service Learning College Writing Initiatives in Relation to Composition Studies and Critical Theory. 1998. Revised dissertation published as Writing Partnerships: Service-Learning in Composition. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 2000.

Martha Trudeau Tucker, Academic Women and Writer's Block: Mapping the Terrain. 1997.

Elizabeth A. Caldwell, A Bilateral Study of the Roles of Writing in a Baccalaureate Nursing Program. 1996

Timothy Doherty, College Writing and the Resources of Theatre. 1996

Emily Isaacs, Constructing Pedagogies: A Feminist Study of Three College Writing Teachers. 1996

Elizabeth A. Klem, Making a Given Curriculum Your Own: Three Models of Adaptation and Negotiation. 1995.

Amy M. Lee, Visions and Revisions of Teaching Writing as a Critical Process. 1995. Winner of the 1996 Conference on College Composition and Communication Outstanding Dissertation Award. Revised dissertation published: Composing Critical Pedagogies. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 2000.

Erika Scheurer, A Vice for Voices: Emily Dickinson's Dialogic Voice from the Borders. 1993.

Ann Mullin, See What We're Saying: An Interpretive Approach to Teaching Writing. 1991.

Paul LeBlanc, Reconceptualizing Text: Computers and Writing. 1990. Revised dissertation published as Writing Teachers Writing Software. Urbana IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 1995.

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