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2023
Creative Play Pedagogy, Leah Hedrick
Gender and Colonialism: An Intergenerational Conversation in African Literature, Khadizatul Kubra
You Never Really Leave, John Kuligowski
Three Thingness: A Critical Introduction to the Collection, Kasey Peters
Defining and Transferring Digital Literacies: What Does this Mean for High School and College Educators?, Jocelyn Spoor
2022
The Evans Family: Familial Relationships in George Eliot's Life and Fiction, Hailey S. Fischer
College Slasher Novel, Jeff Hill
135th Street Branch: Librarianship and the Passing Fictions of Regina Anderson Andrews and Nella Larsen, Caitlin Matheis
Migration and Trauma: Memory and the Myths of El Otro Lado, Elva Moreno Del Rio
Dewey in the Digital Age: Experiential Composition and Reflection as Transformation, Danielle Page
Fifteen Poems, Caleb Petersen
2021
Position: A Fiction Collection, Joelle Byars
Getting Our Act(ivism) Together: Understanding and Fostering Secondary and University Teacher Advocacy Collaborations, Nicole Green
From Starter to Finish: Learning the Literacy of Sourdough, Molly McConnell
GHOSTS IN THE WOOD PILE, Susannah Rand
Englishness Within: Navigating the Colonial and Patriarchal Motives in Prospero's Daughter and Wide Sargasso Sea , Zainab Saleh
Be More Than Human, Carson Schaefer
A Damn Good Time, Gabrielle Schenkelberg
Almost Speechless: Representations of Womanhood and Female Voices in Turn-of-the-Century American Novels, Carmen Sylvia Smith
Critical Introduction to No Easy Way Out: A Memoir of Interruption, Cameron S. Steele
The Ungovernable Novel: Towards a New Political Imaginary, Joseph Turner
2020
What She Became?, SARWA ABDULGHAFOOR
Thresholds of Curating: Literary Space and Material Culture in the Works of Harriet Prescott Spofford, Edith Wharton, Isabella Stewart Gardner, and Willa Cather 1870-1920, Lindsay N. Andrews
The Art of the Game: Issues in Adapting Video Games, Sydney Baty
I Know These Things & Other Lies, Jordan Elliott Charlton
Aspects of Character: Quantitative Evidence and Fictional People, Jonathan Cheng
Woven, Adrienne Christian
The Meaning of Peace: William Faulkner, Modernism, and Perpetual Civil War, Jason Luke Folk
From Erotic Conquest to the Ravishing Other: Imperial Intercourse in Shakespeare's Drama and Anglo-Spanish Rivalry, Eder Jaramillo
"You Have Witchcraft in Your Lips": Sensory Witchcraft in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and Macbeth, Hannah Kanninen
The Motions of Burying, Jessica Poli
Inscribing the South for Harper's Weekly in 1866, Ashlyn Stewart
2019
Jerusalem’s Song: William Blake as Forerunner to Jung’s Feminist Psychology, Trudy D. Eblen
A PINT OF DIRT, Kristen Friesen
Non/Human: (Re)Seeing the “ANIMAL” in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Matthew Guzman
Deforming Normalcy: Deformity and Disability in William Blake's Art, Seolha Lee
Is This What You Wanted?: Expectations, Choice, and Rhetorical Agency in Composition, Caitlin Leibman
“Thanks to ‘X’ For Beta-ing!”: Fan Fiction Beta Readers in the Writing Center, Regan Levitte
Motherhood and the Periodical Press: The Myth and the Medium, Susan A. Malcom
Critical Introduction: Responsibility and Representation & Introduction to All My Mother’s Lovers, Ilana Masad
Becoming a Fan: Reinventing, Repurposing, and Resisting in First-Year Composition, Keshia Mcclantoc
Post- '98: The Normal Gay, Christian Rush
High School Scholastic Journalism: An Empowering Force in Our Polarized Democracy AND Democratic Empowerment - Scholastic Journalism Curriculum, Shelby Schmidt
Science, Poetry, and Defining Life in the Romantic Era: “Life! What is Life?”, Michelle E. Trantham
"My Dear Boy": Roscoe Cather's Role within Willa Cather's Kingdom of Art, Laurie Ann Weber
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
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