Culminating Projects from 2024
Towards a Comprehensive Understanding: An Inquiry on Generative AI, Learning Inequalities and Civic Responsibility., Greici Alles
English: M.A. Thesis
Sacred and Perishable Country of Want: Poems, Carissa Natalia Baconguis
English: M.A. Thesis
An Impressionistic Rendering of the Poetics of Maya Deren, Agnès Varda and Julia Ducournau: The Power of the Female Gaze in Poetic and Transgressive Cinema, Olivia Fredrickson
English: M.A. Creative Work
The Speculative Nonfiction Memoir, Michelle Gay Taylor
English: M.A. Creative Work
Auden In-Between, Sidney White
English: M.A. Thesis
Culminating Projects from 2023
Building Terministic Screens: An Investigation of the NCAA’s Communication on Title IX, Lauren Kirchberg
English: M.A. Thesis
Two Beer Fridays, Leanne Loy
English: M.A. Creative Work
Through the Mansion: A Poetry Collection, Zaya Jane Moreno
English: M.A. Creative Work
Writing in a Secondary English Classroom Using Online Tools to Enhance Engagement and Creativity, Ashley Pingree
English: M.A. Thesis
Inclusive For All! How civic engagement can encourage LGBTQ literature in the classroom, Alan Toussaint
English: M.A. Thesis
Culminating Projects from 2022
Pandemic, Political, and Protest Yard Signs in Sartell, Minnesota, Spring 2020 to mid-November 2020: Personal Narrative, Rhetorical Analysis, and Oral Histories from Community Members, Polly Chappell
English: M.A. Thesis
An Excerpt From: Virtues, Jylian Charles
English: M.A. Creative Work
"Motivating Generation Z: A Study of the unique learning styles of a generation", Nate Doimer
English: M.A. Thesis
Wordsworthian Prospect Revolution and the Disciples of Secular Romanticism/Some of My Own, Ian M. Flaherty
English: M.A. Starred Paper
Culminating Projects from 2021
Cancel Culture and Cancel Discourse: Cultural Attacks on Academic Ideals, Mary Gondringer
English: Rhetoric and Writing: M.A. Thesis
Side by Side: Allyship's Rhetorical Construction in University LGBT Resource Center "Safe Space" Training Manuals, Chad Kuehn
English: Writing Studies and Rhetoric: M.A. Thesis
The Use of Social Media in the Classroom: Practice of Implementing Online Activities in Writing Classes, Kseniia Maksimova
English: Rhetoric and Writing: M.A. Thesis
Culminating Projects from 2020
Dominating Soccer on the Pitch - Transforming Culture off the Pitch: A Rhetorical Analysis of How Megan Rapinoe Is Leveling the Playing Field for Women’s Anger, Amy Barber
English: Rhetoric and Writing: M.A. Thesis
Factors Affecting Dual Language Development: A Case Study of Somali Immigrants in the United States., Ali Bulhan
English: Teaching English as a Second Language: M.A. Thesis
Picasso Baby: Hearing JAY-Z through the Ears of Gramsci or How Language has the Power to Effect Change, Jon Cotner
English: Rhetoric and Writing: M.A. Thesis
The Alt-Right: A Discourse Analysis/Deplatforming and the Role of Social Media in the Regulation of Speech, Michael Fry
English: Rhetoric and Writing: M.A. Starred Paper
A Plot Against the Perfect Revenge, Casey Fuller
English: English Studies: M.A. Creative Work
Increasing Engagement and Retention: Teaching Classic Literature through the use of Geoinquiry, Amy A. Gagne
English - Teacher Education: M.S. Thesis
“Where have we come and where shall we end?”: An Examination of Patrick McHale’s Over the Garden Wall as a Contemporary Otherworld Journey, Kayla Justice
English: English Studies: M.A. Thesis
Goodness in Toni Morrison’s Black Female Characters, Ayan Omar
English: English Studies: M.A. Thesis
Let’s Talk: A Study of Dialogic Feedback in a First-Year Composition Classroom, Jenna Saunders
English: Rhetoric and Writing: M.A. Thesis
Breadcrumbs and the Children Who Left Them, Sarah Jasmine Steinfeldt
English: English Studies: M.A. Creative Work
Poe's Challenge to Sentimental Literature through Themes of Obsession, Paranoia, and Alienation, Michelle Winters
English: English Studies: M.A. Thesis
Culminating Projects from 2019
Using Literature to Teach about Technology and Social Manipulation in Society, Ashley Croteau
English: English Studies: M.A. Thesis
Boys Will Be Boys, Girls Will Be Not Like Other Girls: A Symbolic Convergence Theory Examination of “Other Girls”, Brilynn Janckila
English: Rhetoric and Writing: M.A. Thesis
The Girl Next Door; Strings, Dana Kuntz
English: English Studies: M.A. Creative Work
An Excerpt From: New Blood, Jared Larson
English: English Studies: M.A. Creative Work
rhetsec_ | rhetorical security, Jennifer Mead
English: Rhetoric and Writing: M.A. Plan C Paper
Culminating Projects from 2018
Situating the Voice of Rhetoric for College Writing: A Paulo Freire’s Reading of Adichie’s Speech on “The Danger of a Single Story”, John Chang
English: Rhetoric and Writing: M.A. Thesis
US Researched Writing as the Other Culture for ESL Student Writers, Seiko Hayashi
English: Rhetoric and Writing: M.A. Thesis
Spitting in the Faces of Gods and Dancing Upon Their Carrion: Zen and the Joy-Fueled Fury of Henry Miller and Friedrich Nietzsche, Kristin Henderson
English: English Studies: M.A. Thesis
“Root of All Social Ill”: A Marxist Analysis of Poverty and the Labor of Writing in George Gissing’s New Grub Street, Hye Hyon Kim
English: English Studies: M.A. Thesis
On Twisted Sovereignty: White Queer as Master and Slave and Other Poststructural Perversions, Stephanie Lemmer
English: English Studies: M.A. Creative Work
Media Cognizatti: Critical Frames for Free Speech and New Interpretations, Brian T. Lynch
English: English Studies: M.A. Thesis
British Mercantile Mysticism: The Shipwreck by William Falconer (1762), James Ansbury Powers
English: English Studies: M.A. Thesis
Avali, Taylor Simon
English: English Studies: M.A. Creative Work
“... It does seem to be a fact”: Audience Knowledge and a Sociohistorical Approach to the Horrific Grotesque in Night of the Living Dead, Nathaniel Stoll
English: Rhetoric and Writing: M.A. Thesis
In Between: A Memoir, Naomi Weyaus
English: English Studies: M.A. Creative Work
Culminating Projects from 2017
Monsters and Medicine: The Evolution of a Warning in Gothic Literature / Parolles' Word Problem in All's Well That Ends Well, Lisa Joy Bertrand
English: English Studies: M.A. Starred Paper
She Can Do It: Messages of Female Empowerment in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and Roald Dahl’s Matilda, Megan Dickinson
English: English Studies: M.A. Thesis
Little Stars, Janice T. Lefebvre
English: English Studies: M.A. Creative Work
Blogging in Publishing: Best Practices for Establishing and Marketing Brands, Mara K. Martinson
English: Rhetoric and Writing: M.A. Thesis
Ideological Interpretation and the Aesthetic Nature of Literature, Brian J. McCooley
English: English Studies: M.A. Thesis
Teachers’ Perspectives on the State of Writing in High School English Classrooms, Jennifer Meagher
English: English Studies: M.A. Thesis
Writing to Be: Mindful Composition to Promote Writing Transfer, Mohammad A. Rahman
English: Rhetoric and Writing: M.A. Thesis
The Long Road North, Quentin Super
English: English Studies: M.A. Creative Work
Inkle and Yarico / Sunday, Joanne Walen
English: English Studies: M.A. Starred Paper
Monomaniacal Monstrosity in Hawthorne and Poe, Johnathan S. Woelfel
English: English Studies: M.A. Thesis
Culminating Projects from 2016
Queer(y)ing Consumerism: Butch Identity Expression and Consumer Culture, Kathleen M. Bradbury
English: English Studies: M.A. Thesis
Fighting off the Virus: Cut-Ups, Composition, and the Inoculation of Student Writers, Joshua Chase
English: Rhetoric and Writing: M.A. Thesis
Haunted By Gender: Teaching Gender Performance through Monstrosity in the Beowulf Manuscript/The New F Words: The Importance of Failure and Frustration in AP English Classrooms, Allison Harmer
English: Teacher Education: M.S. Starred Paper
A Rhetorical Journey into Advocacy, Samuel T. Harvey
English: Rhetoric and Writing: M.A. Thesis
Collective of Heroes: Arrow’s Move Toward a Posthuman Superhero Fantasy, Alyssa G. Kilbourn
English: Rhetoric and Writing: M.A. Thesis
Spectacular Violence: The Affective Registers of Black Bodies’ Matter, Stephanie M. Lemmer
English: Rhetoric and Writing: M.A. Thesis
Doug Murray’s The ‘Nam: A Literary examination of the Traumatic Effects of War Told through Visual Literature, Andrew S. McNeil
English: English Studies: M.A. Thesis
Dislocation, Fredrick Miller
English: English Studies: M.A. Creative Work
A Medievalist Point of View on George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire: Power and Women: An Examination of Daenerys Targaryen, Jay A. Schroeder Jr.
English: English Studies: M.A. Thesis
Culminating Projects from 2015
Middle School Girls and the Gender Stereotypes We Teach Them: Can Girls be Saved by Proper Pedagogy and The Hunger Games?, Jacqueline J. Alderman
English: Teacher Education: M.S. Thesis
Women Love Horror, Too: Film Adaptation of Pet Sematary Suggests Why More Women Should Get a Chance to Scare Us, Emily Forsberg Bouts
English: English Studies: M.A. Thesis
Navigating the Food Blogosphere: Finding a Place for Feminism in a Highly Feminized Blogosphere, Jenna N. Hanson
English: Rhetoric and Writing: M.A. Thesis
Signal Boost!: Hashtags as Performative Writing and Social Action, Leah Louise Heilig
English: Rhetoric and Writing: M.A. Thesis
The Rhetoric and Style of Rights of Nature Advocates, Paul Samuel Lawrence
English: Rhetoric and Writing: M.A. Thesis
American Exceptionalism and The No-Stakes Apocalypse in American Comic Books / Growing Perspectives: A Close Reading of Provincialism in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Seth D. Naslund
English: English Studies: M.A. Starred Paper
Finding Courage in Unlikely Places: Processing War in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, Christopher David Reigstad
English: English Studies: M.A. Thesis
Shades of True Womanhood for Slave Women in Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Sarah Esther Stewart
English: English Studies: M.A. Thesis
The Fall: The First Act of a Screenplay, Jason Terres
English: English Studies: M.A. Starred Paper
Victim to Perpetrator: Reading Trauma in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus / Change, Tamara Kimberly Wudinich
English: English Studies: M.A. Starred Paper
Culminating Projects from 2014
Benefits of Multi-Modal Pedagogies in First-Year Composition Classrooms, J. Corey Fitzgerald
English: Rhetoric and Writing: M.A. Thesis
Walt Whitman And The New American Bible, Kristina K. George
English: M.A. Thesis
Agency in the Age of Machines: Empowering Students as Agents Through a Technorealist Approach to the Machine Scoring Debate / Astute Intelligence: Human and Nonhuman Textual Engagement in Digital Networks, Jack A. Hennes
English: M.A. Starred Paper
Royal Resistance: The Hegemony of Disney Princess Culture And The Agency Of Language, Rachel Leonard
English: M.A. Thesis
Fruitful Futility: Land, Body, and Fate in Ellen Glasgow's Barren Ground, Katelin R. Moquin
English: English Studies: M.A. Thesis
Writers Finding Agency Through Mindfulness and Brain Literacy, Erin Elizabeth Schaefer
English: M.A. Thesis
Transfer and Production of the English System of Articles: Replicating Crompton, Lyle A. Shumate
English: M.A. Thesis
Power and the Platform: A Phenomenological Approach to Understanding Rhetoric and Politics in Composition Massive Open Online Courses, Jason Chew Kit Tham
English: Rhetoric and Writing: M.A. Thesis
Culminating Projects from 2013
I Think I Can, I Think I Can: Positive Education in the Writing Classroom, Olivia Marie Hoff
English: M.A. Thesis
From Concrete to Abstract : A Structural Analysis of the Pencil and Paper Role-Playing Game, Tom H. Thayer
English: M.A. Thesis
Writer's Attitude and Writing Confidence: What Writing Instructors Need to Know, Audrey L. Thornborrow
English - Teacher Education: M.S. Thesis
Culminating Projects from 2011
Linguistic Variation in the Affrication of /t/ and /d/, Megan E. Tedder
English: M.A. Thesis
Culminating Projects from 2010
Pluralism in Higher Education: The Ethical Revolution, Sarah Elizabeth M. S. Kath
English: M.A. Thesis
Generic Transformation and the Superhero, Rafiel D. York
English: M.A. Thesis
Culminating Projects from 2009
Dying Fish Have Poor Grammar, Ryan A. Hanson
English: M.A. Starred Paper
The Horse and Chivalry in Arthurian Literature, Ryan A. Hanson
English: M.A. Starred Paper
Culminating Projects from 2008
Technical Communication: Working Towards Defining the Field and Ourselves, Brittany Jansen
English: M.A. Thesis
Culminating Projects from 2007
Student Choice in the Selection of Literature in Secondary Classrooms, Jeremy D. Hoffman
English: M.A. Thesis
Culminating Projects from 2004
Exploring Four Modes of Responding to Undergraduate Writing, Mary Gruis
English: M.A. Thesis
Beneath the Tip of the Iceberg: A Semiotic and Rhetorical Examination of Textual Gaps, Emil B. Towner
English: M.A. Thesis
Culminating Projects from 1999
Interdisciplinary Applications of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", Christine Jeanne Grossman
English: M.A. Thesis
Culminating Projects from 1996
Quest for Authority: An Analysis of the Intrusive Author in Uncle Tom's Cabin and The Scarlet Letter, Irene Voth
English: M.A. Thesis
Culminating Projects from 1995
A Linguistic Study of the Third Person Generic Pronoun: Singular They, Philip Roger Anderson
English: M.A. Thesis
The Emergence of Voice and Identity in the Context of the Neocolonial Experience: The Writings of Jamaica Kincaid, Kirstin Ruth Bratt
English: English Studies: M.A. Thesis
Culminating Projects from 1994
Mother in the Garden: A Collection of Poems, Heidi L. Everett
English: M.A. Creative Work
Culminating Projects from 1992
An Exploration of Voice and Verse: The Poetry of Mary Barnard, Molly O'Hara Ewing
English: English Studies: M.A. Thesis
Culminating Projects from 1986
Sentence Combining and its Effects on Writing and Reading Skills, Rebecca M. Graham
Thesis
Culminating Projects from 1981
The Back Wall of the Cave Poems, Jeanne (Betty) McLellan
English: M.A. Creative Work
