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2018
Vistor Parking Only, Jeremy Caldwell
Reading Charlotte Bronte Reading, Madhumita Gupta
Review of John James Audubon: The Nature of the American Woodsman, by Gregory Nobles, Matthew Guzman
DRAWING THEM IN: PHLEBOTOMIC PEDAGOGY, Anne K. Johnson
Civil Discourse in the Classroom: Preparing Students for Academic and Civic Participation, Melissa Legate
Burnt Lavender & Other Remnants, Danielle Airen Pringle
The Only Way Forward, MICHAEL REED
"Maybe He's the Green Lantern": Low Socioeconomic Status in the University Writing Center, Wyn Richards
Representations of Women in the Literature of the U.S.-Mexico War, Janel M. Simons
Letters from Olive Fremstad to Willa Cather: A View Beyond The Song of the Lark, Jessica Tebo
2017
Apologies for Cross-Posting: Composing Disciplinary Affects and Conflicts on the WPA Listserv, Zachary Beare
A Matter of the Soul: Our Human Relationship to Trees in Nebraska, Ariana Brocious
The Creation of a Novelist, David Henson
TILTING AT WINDMILLS: REFIGURING GRADUATE EDUCATION IN ENGLISH TO PREPARE FUTURE TWO-YEAR COLLEGE PROFESSIONALS, Darin L. Jensen
Life in Two Worlds: Autobiography Tradition in Native Women Writers' Literature, Ekaterina Kupidonova
Living Lore: B. A. Botkin, Folklore, and the State, Kirby Little
Silence Emerging from Birds, Rebecca Macijeski
Dance, Er, Ethan Alexander Munson
A City Room of One's Own: Elizabeth Jordan, Henry James, and the New Woman Journalist, James Hunter Plummer
The Terror of the Political: Community, Identity, and Apocalypse in Don DeLillo's Falling Man, Dillon Rockrohr
Ethics of Care on the Narrative Margins of Willa Cather’s The Professor’s House and Death Comes for the Archbishop, Jeannette E. Schollaert
A Critical Analysis of History’s Best Wishes, Jeffery Keene Short
2016
“The World Broke in Two”: The Gendered Experience of Trauma and Fractured Civilian Identity in Post-World War I Literature, Erin Cheatham
Didactic Children's Literature and the Emergence of Animal Rights, Daniel Froid
Urgent News From The Front, Jennifer J. Gray
Birth Family Search, Trauma, and Mel-han-cholia in Korean Adoptee Memoirs, Katelyn J. Hemmeke
Jazz Epidemics and Deep Set Diseases: The De-Pathologization of the Black Body in the Work of Three Harlem Renaissance Writers, Shane C. Hunter
Teaching Place: Heritage, Home and Community, the Heart of Education, Judy Kay Lorenzen
Supporting First-Generation Writers in the Composition Classroom: Exploring the Practices of the Boise State University McNair Scholars Program, Bernice M. Olivas
"In the Land of Tomorrow": Representations of the New Woman in the Pre-Suffrage Era, Natalie B. O'Neal
I Dreamed in Terms of Novels: Dorothy Day and the Ethics of Nineteenth-Century Literature, Katherine Thomsen Pierson
Dreaming Free From the Chains: Teaching the Rhetorical Sovereignty of Gerald Vizenor Through Bearheart , Lydia R. Presley
Cultivating a Learner’s Stance for Engagement in Teacher-Inquiry: An Aim for Writing Pedagogy Education, Jessica Rivera-Mueller
Rhetoric as Inquiry: Personal Writing and Academic Success in the English Classroom, Erica E. Rogers
The Girl With The Fur Coat, Cameron S. Steele
Things I Haven't Told You, Kimberly A. Tedrow
A New Kind of Social Dreaming: Diversifying Contemporary Dystopian Fiction, Brita M. Thielen
2015
Using Embedded Institutes as Professional Development to Create a Culture of Writing Excellence, Melanie K. Farber
Dog's Best Friend?: Vivisecting the "Animal" in Mark Twain's "A Dog's Tale", Matthew Guzman
EXPLORING COLONIAL IDENTITY AND A GROWING ECOCONSCIOUSNESS ON THE GREAT PLAINS, Charles Hiebner
Redwoods, John Joseph Hill
‘I am not your justification for existence:’ Mourning, Fascism, Feminism and the Amputation of Mothers and Daughters in Atwood, Ziervogel, and Ozick, Mitchell C. Hobza
From England's Bridewell to America's Brides: Imprisoned Women, Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, and Empire, Alicia Meyer
Scenes From the Gaijin Life, Ian Rogers
The Writing Process: Using Peer Review to Develop Student Writing, Jennifer M. Troester
Beyond Constructing and Capturing: An Aesthetic Analysis of 1968 Film, Chandler Warren
2014
Pedagogy in Action: Teaching and Writing as Rhetorical Performance, Lesley E. Bartlett
The Page Turner, Angela Berry, Emily Burns, Kirsten Clawson, Jaime DeTour, Daley ElDorado, Eric Holt, Nathan Sindelar, Erin Thomas, and Caitlin Wilson
Advertising "In These Times:" How Historical Context Influenced Advertisements for Willa Cather's Fiction, Erika K. Hamilton
The Gallimaufry, Kaitlin Hildreth, Andrew Saunders, Annie Stokely, Francesca Torquati, Bailey Pons, Nick Robinson, Morgan Condello, Aliana Keplinger, and Layla Younis
Student Engagement and Action in Classroom and Community: Place-Based Education and Social Action for the High-Achieving Student, Rachel M. Jank
Adding to Blake Set to Music: A Bibliography, Ashanka Kumari
Leaving Myself Behind, Shea Montgomery
Shelterbelt: Land that Speaks, Ryan Oberhelman
Poets Don't Ride Motorcycles, Andrew G. Tully
2013
“IN COUNTERFEIT PASSION”: CROSS-DRESSING, TRANSGRESSION, AND FRAUD IN SHAKESPEARE AND MIDDLETON, Anastasia S. Bierman
Illuminating the Darkness: The Naturalistic Evolution of Gothicism in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel and Visual Art, Cameron Dodworth
Teaching Self: The Ambiguity of Lived Experience in Classroom Discourse, Scott V. Gealy
Midwestern Mythologies, Adam Lee Hubrig
Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice & the 'Productions' of National Identity in the Face of the Other, Eder Jaramillo
"This World Must Touch the Other": Crossing the U.S.-Mexico Border in American Novels and Television, Guadalupe V. Linares
Intersections in Immanence: Spinoza, Deleuze, Negri, Abigail Lowe
Beyond the Looking-Glass: The Intensity of the Gothic Dream in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, Anne N. Nagel
Hardy, Darwin, and the Art of Moral Husbandry, Owen Roberts-Day
MONSTROSITY, Karen N. Wohlgemuth
2012
Intermodality in Teaching Writing, Margarette Christensen
Cumberland [abstract], Megan Gannon
Using Place Conscious Education and Social Action to Plug The "Rural Brain Drain", Danielle M. Helzer
Trans-spatiality as the Horizon of the Coming Community: Ethico-ontology and Aesthetics in Asian Immigrant Literature, Dae-Joong Kim
"To Bend Without Breaking": American Women's Authorship and the New Woman, 1900-1935, Amber Harris Leichner
Traumatized Voices: The Transformation of Personal Trauma into Public Writing During the Romantic Era, Karalyne S. Lowery
Thirdspace Professional Development as Effective Response to the Contested Spaces of Computers and Writing, Jason L. McIntosh
WHAT I MEAN WHEN I SAY AUTISM: RE-THINKING THE ROLES OF LANGUAGE AND LITERACY IN AUTISM DISCOURSE, Bernice M. Olivas
Leeched Stories, Layered Selves: Appropriating Narratives and Finding Voice in El Salvador, Kaitlyn E. Palacios
Disciplinary Permeations: Complicating the "Public" and the "Private" Dualism in Composition and Rhetoric, Erica E. Rogers
Imaginary You, Joshua A. Ware
URBAN PLACE-CONSCIOUS EDUCATION: PRIDE IN THE INNER CITY, Tamara A. Zwick
2011
IBN ARABSHAH: THE UNACKNOWLEDGED DEBT OF CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE’S TAMBURLAINE, Ahlam M. Alruwaili
Women on the Ground: Bringing Theory and Activism Together Through Domestic Violence Narratives, Kacey J. Barrow
Up Too Late: A Novel Excerpt, Peter Bayless
Towards a Theory of Comic Book Adaptation, Colin Beineke
City of Slow Dissolve, John M. Chavez
Gentility and the Canon Under Seige: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Violence, and Contemporary Adaptations of Jane Austen, Elisabeth Chretien
“The grin of the skull beneath the skin:” Reassessing the Power of Comic Characters in Gothic Literature, Amanda D. Drake
Mobilizing Sentiment: Popular American Women's Fiction of the Great War; 1914-1922, Sabrina Ehmke Sergeant
Living Well: The Value of Teaching Place, Catherine M. English
My Secret Life in Film: A Memoir, Kelly Grey Carlisle
After the Rainbow, Rachel Hruza
Skunk Hammock, Britton Cody Lumpkin
I Don't: A Study of Marriage, Ethnicity, and Citizenship in Ethnic Women's Writing, Shannon McMahon
Using Textual Features to Predict Popular Content on Digg, Paul H. Miller
Piracy, Slavery, and Assimilation: Women in Early Modern Captivity Literature, David C. Moberly
The Dutch Smuggler's Story [abstract only], Devin Murphy
"What's A Goin' On?" People and Place in the Fiction of Edythe Squier Draper, 1924-1941, Aubrey R. Streit Krug
Queen of the Platform: Inventions on the Life of Matilda Fletcher, Laura Madeline Wiseman
2010
"Good English": Literacy and Institutional Systems at a Community Literacy Organization, Charise G. Alexander
Women Gathered on Flat Rooftops and Thumprints in Black Coffee, Sana M. Amoura-Patterson