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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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Teaching English as a Second Language Masters Thesis Collection
Theses/dissertations from 2020 2020.
Teaching in hagwons in South Korea: a novice English teacher’s autoethnography , Brittany Courser
Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019
“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
Stylistic imitation as an English-teaching technique : pre-service teachers’ responses to training and practice , Min Yi Liang
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014
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
WRITTEN CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK IN THE L2 WRITING CLASSROOM , Daniel Ducken
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
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
Social pressure to speak English and the effect of English language learning for ESL composition students in higher education , Trevor Duston
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
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
Teaching English in the Philippines: a diary study of a novice ESL teacher , Jeffrey Lee Svoboda
ARABIC RHETORIC: MAIN IDEA, DEVELOPMENT, PARALLELISM, AND WORD REPETITION , Melissa Van De Wege
Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012
Video games and interactive technology in the ESL classroom , Melody Anderson
English as a second language learners and spelling performance in university multilingual writers , Nada Yousef Asiri
The communal diary, "... " (Naljeogi), transformative education, and writing through migrations: a Korean novice ESL teacher's diary and autoethnography , S. (Sangho) Lee
The benefits of intercultural interactions: a position paper on the effects of study abroad and intercultural competence on pre-service and active teachers of ESL , Bergen Lorraine McCurdy
The development and analysis of the Global Citizen Award as a component of Asia University America Program at Eastern Washington University , Matthew Ged Miner
The benefits of art analysis in English 101: multilingual and American writers respond to artwork of their choice , Jennifer M. Ochs
A novice ESL teacher's experience of language learning in France: an autoethnographic study of anomie and the "Vulnerable Self" , Christopher Ryan
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The subjects of MA theses have included studies of individual poets or dramatists, novelists or autobiographers, as well as explorations of literary movements, themes or periods. View our more recent titles below.
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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
Illustrating adolescent awareness: Teaching historical injustices and promoting agency through picture books in secondary classrooms , Melissa Hoak
Phonemic inventory of the Shor language , Uliana Kazagasheva
Cannibalism in contact narratives and the evolution of the wendigo , Michelle Lietz
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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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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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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The English Department Dissertations and Theses Series is comprised of dissertations and thesis authored by Marquette University's English Department doctoral and master's students.
Theses/Dissertations from 2024 2024
Muslim Cultural Resistance , Ibtisam M. Abujad
Speculative Escapism in Contemporary Fantasy: Labor, Utility, Affect , Liamog Seamus Drislane
AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN’S WRITING: A CRITICAL EDITION OF A NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE AND TRAVELS OF MRS. NANCY PRINCE (1856) , Susan E. Landwer
Disillusionment and Domesticity in Mid-20th-Century British Catholic Literature , Catherine Simmerer
A LIBERATED WEST?: FEMALE AUTHORS’ REPRESENTATIONS OF THE "REAL AND THE FANTASIZED" ON THE AMERICAN FRONTIER , Amanda Diane Zastrow
Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023
Lifting the Postmodern Veil: Cosmopolitanism, Humanism, and Decolonization in Global Fictions of the 21st Century , Matthew Burchanoski
Gothic Transformations and Remediations in Cheap Nineteenth-Century Fiction , Wendy Fall
Milton’s Learning: Complementarity and Difference in Paradise Lost , Peter Spaulding
“The Development of the Conceptive Plot Through Early 19th-Century English Novels” , Jannea R. Thomason
Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022
Gonzo Eternal , John Francis Brick
Intertextuality and Sociopolitical Engagement in Contemporary Anglophone Women’s Writing , Jackielee Derks
Innovation, Genre, and Authenticity in the Nineteenth-Century Irish Novel , David Aiden Kenney II
Reluctant Sons: The Irish Matrilineal Tradition of Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, and Flann O’Brien , Jessie Wirkus Haynes
Britain's Extraterrestrial Empire: Colonial Ambition, Anxiety, and Ambivalence in Early Modern Literature , Mark Edward Wisniewski
Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021
Re-Reading the “Culture Clash”: Alternative Ways of Reading in Indian Horse , Hailey Whetten
Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020
When the Foreign Became Familiar: Modernism, Expatriation, and Spatial Identities in the Twentieth Century , Danielle Kristene Clapham
Reforming Victorian Sense/Abilities: Disabilities in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Social Problem Novels , Hunter Nicole Duncan
Genre and Loss: The Impossibility of Restoration in 20th Century Detective Fiction , Kathryn Hendrickson
A Productive Failure: Existentialism in Fin de Siècle England , Maxwell Patchet
Inquiry and Provocation: The Use of Ambiguity in Sixteenth-Century English Political Satire , Jason James Zirbel
Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019
No Home but the World: Forced Migration and Transnational Identity , Justice Hagan
The City As a Trap: 20th and 21st Century American Literature and the American Myth of Mobility , Andrew Joseph Hoffmann
The Fantastic and the First World War , Brian Kenna
Insane in the Brain, Blood, and Lungs: Gender-Specific Manifestations of Hysteria, Chlorosis, & Consumption in 19th-Century Literature , Anna P. Scanlon
Reading Multicultural Novels Melancholically: Racial Grief and Grievance in the Joy Luck Club, Beloved, and Anil's Ghost , Jennifer Arias Sweeney
Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018
The Ethos of Dissent: Epideictic Rhetoric and the Democratic Function of American Protest and Countercultural Literature , Jeffrey Lorino Jr
Literary Cosmopolitanisms of Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, and Arundhati Roy , Sunil Samuel Macwan
The View from Here: Toward a Sissy Critique , Tyler Monson
The Forbidden Zone Writers: Femininity and Anglophone Women War Writers of the Great War , Sareene Proodian
Theatrical Weddings and Pious Frauds: Performance and Law in Victorian Marriage Plots , Adrianne A. Wojcik
Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016
Changing the Victorian Habit Loop: The Body in the Poetry and Painting of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris , Bryan Gast
Gendering Scientific Discourse from 1790-1830: Erasmus Darwin, Thomas Beddoes, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Marcet , Bridget E. Kapler
Discarding Dreams and Legends: The Short Fiction of Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Flannery O’Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, and Eudora Welty , Katy L. Leedy
Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015
Saving the Grotesque: The Grotesque System of Liberation in British Modernism (1922-1932) , Matthew Henningsen
The Pulpit's Muse: Conversive Poetics in the American Renaissance , Michael William Keller
A Single Man of Good Fortune: Postmodern Identities and Consumerism in the New Novel of Manners , Bonnie McLean
Julian of Norwich: Voicing the Vernacular , Therese Elaine Novotny
Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014
Homecomings: Victorian British Women Travel Writers And Revisions Of Domesticity , Emily Paige Blaser
From Pastorals to Paterson: Ecology in the Poetry and Poetics of William Carlos WIlliams , Daniel Edmund Burke
Argument in Poetry: (Re)Defining the Middle English Debate in Academic, Popular, and Physical Contexts , Kathleen R. Burt
Apocalyptic Mentalities in Late-Medieval England , Steven A. Hackbarth
The Creation of Heaven in the Middle Ages , William Storm
(re)making The Gentleman: Genteel Masculinities And The Country Estate In The Novels Of Charlotte Smith, Jane Austen, And Elizabeth Gaskell , Shaunna Kay Wilkinson
Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013
Brides, Department Stores, Westerns, and Scrapbooks--The Everyday Lives of Teenage Girls in the 1940s , Carly Anger
Placed People: Rootedness in G. K. Chesterton, C. S. Lewis, and Wendell Berry , David Harden
Rhetorics Of Girlhood Trauma In Writing By Holly Goddard Jones, Joyce Carol Oates, Sandra Cisneros, And Jamaica Kincaid , Stephanie Marie Stella
Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012
A Victorian Christmas in Hell: Yuletide Ghosts and Necessary Pleasures in the Age of Capital , Brandon Chitwood
"Be-Holde the First Acte of this Tragedy" : Generic Symbiosis and Cross-Pollination in Jacobean Drama and the Early Modern Prose Novella , Karen Ann Zyck Galbraith
Pamela: Or, Virtue Reworded: The Texts, Paratexts, and Revisions that Redefine Samuel Richardson's Pamela , Jarrod Hurlbert
Violence and Masculinity in American Fiction, 1950-1975 , Magdalen McKinley
Gender Politics in the Novels of Eliza Haywood , Susan Muse
Destabilizing Tradition: Gender, Sexuality, and Postnational Identity in Four Novels by Irish Women, 1960-2000 , Sarah Nestor
Truth Telling: Testimony and Evidence in the Novels of Elizabeth Gaskell , Rebecca Parker Fedewa
Spirit of the Psyche: Carl Jung's and Victor White's Influence on Flannery O'Connor's Fiction , Paul Wakeman
Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011
Performing the Audience: Constructing Playgoing in Early Modern Drama , Eric Dunnum
Paule Marshall's Critique of Contemporary Neo-Imperialisms Through the Trope of Travel , Michelle Miesen Felix
Hermeneutics, Poetry, and Spenser: Augustinian Exegesis and the Renaissance Epic , Denna Iammarino-Falhamer
Encompassing the Intolerable: Laughter, Memory, and Inscription in the Fiction of John McGahern , John Keegan Malloy
Regional Consciousness in American Literature, 1860-1930 , Kelsey Louise Squire
The Ethics of Ekphrasis: The Turn to Responsible Rhetoric in Mid-Twentieth Century American Poetry , Joshua Scott Steffey
Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010
Cognitive Architectures: Structures of Passion in Joanna Baillie's Dramas , Daniel James Bergen
On Trial: Restorative Justice in the Godwin-Wollstonecraft-Shelley Family Fictions , Colleen M. Fenno
Theses/Dissertations from 2009 2009
What's the point to eschatology : multiple religions and terminality in James Joyce's Finnegans wake , Martin R. Brick
Economizing Characters: Harriet Martineau and the Problems of Poverty in Victorian Literature, Culture and Law , Mary Colleen Willenbring
Submissions from 2008 2008
"An improbable fiction": The marriage of history and romance in Shakespeare's Henriad , Marcia Eppich-Harris
Bearing the Mark of the Social: Notes Towards a Cosmopolitan Bildungsroman , Megan M. Muthupandiyan
The Gothic Novel and the Invention of the Middle-Class Reader: Northanger Abbey As Case Study , Tenille Nowak
Not Just a Novel of Epic Proportions: Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man As Modern American Epic , Dana Edwards Prodoehl
Recovering the Radicals: Women Writers, Reform, and Nationalist Modes of Revolutionary Discourse , Mark J. Zunac
Theses/Dissertations from 2007 2007
"The Sweet and the Bitter": Death and Dying in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings , Amy M. Amendt-Raduege
The Games Men Play: Madness and Masculinity in Post-World War II American Fiction, 1946-1964 , Thomas P. Durkin
Denise Levertov: Through An Ecofeminist Lens , Katherine A. Hanson
The Wit of Wrestling: Devotional-Aesthetic Tradition in Christina Rossetti's Poetry , Maria M.E. Keaton
Genderless Bodies: Stigma and the Myth of Womanhood , Ellen M. Letizia
Envy and Jealousy in the Novels of the Brontës: A Synoptic Discernment , Margaret Ann McCann
Technologies of the Late Medieval Self: Ineffability, Distance, and Subjectivity in the Book of Margery Kempe , Crystal L. Mueller
"Finding-- a Map-- to That Place Called Home": The Journey from Silence to Recovery in Patrick McCabe's Carn and Breakfast on Pluto , Valerie A. Murrenus Pilmaier
Emily Dickinson's Ecocentric Pastoralism , Moon-ju Shin
The American Jeremiad in Civil War Literature , Jacob Hadley Stratman
Theses/Dissertations from 2006 2006
Literary Art in Times of Crisis: The Proto-Totalitarian Anxiety of Melville, James, and Twain , Matthew J. Darling
(Re) Writing Genre: Narrative Conventions and Race in the Novels of Toni Morrison , Jennifer Lee Jordan Heinert
"Amsolookly Kersse": Clothing in Finnegan's Wake , Catherine Simpson Kalish
"Do Your Will": Shakespeare's Use of the Rhetoric of Seduction in Four Plays , Jason James Nado
Woman in Emblem: Locating Authority in the Work and Identity of Katherine Philips (1632-1664) , Susan L. Stafinbil
When the Bough Breaks: Poetry on Abortion , Wendy A. Weaver
Theses/Dissertations from 2005 2005
Heroic Destruction: Shame and Guilt Cultures in Medieval Heroic Poetry , Karl E. Boehler
Poe and Early (Un)American Drama , Amy C. Branam
Grammars of Assent: Constructing Poetic Authority in An Age of Science , William Myles Carroll III
This Place is Not a Place: The Constructed Scene in the Works of Sir Walter Scott , Colin J. Marlaire
Cognitive Narratology: A Practical Approach to the Reader-Writer Relationship , Debra Ann Ripley
Theses/Dissertations from 2004 2004
Defoe and the Pirates: Function of Genre Conventions in Raiding Narratives , William J. Dezoma
Creative Discourse in the Eighteenth-Century Courtship Novel , Michelle Ruggaber Dougherty
Exclusionary Politics: Mourning and Modernism in the Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Amy Levy, and Charlotte Mew , Donna Decker Schuster
Theses/Dissertations from 2003 2003
Toward a Re-Formed Confession: Johann Gerhard's Sacred Meditations and "Repining Restlessnesse" in the Poetry of George Herbert , Erik P. Ankerberg
Idiographic Spaces: Representation, Ideology and Realism in the Postmodern British Novel , Gordon B. McConnell
Theses/Dissertations from 2002 2002
Reading into It: Wallace Stegner's Novelistic Sense of Time and Place , Colin C. Irvine
Brisbane and Beyond: Revising Social Capitalism in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America , Michael C. Mattek
Theses/Dissertations from 2001 2001
Christians and Mimics in W. B. Yeats' Collected Poems , Patrick Mulrooney
Renaissance Roles and the Process of Social Change , John Wieland
'Straunge Disguize': Allegory and Its Discontents in Spenser's Faerie Queene , Galina Ivanovna Yermolenko
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Theses/dissertations from 2024 2024.
Prosodic Analysis of Wh -indeterminate Questions in L2 Korean , Jung In Lee
Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023
Critical Analysis of Anti-Asian Hate in the News , Benardo Douglas Relampagos
A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of NASA's Instagram Account , Danica Lynn Tomber
Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020
A Computer Science Academic Vocabulary List , David Roesler
Variation in Female and Male Dialogue in Buffy the Vampire Slayer : A Multi-dimensional Analysis , Amber Morgan Sanchez
Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019
Differences in Syntactic Complexity in the Writing of EL1 and ELL Civil Engineering Students , Santiago Gustin
A Mixed Methods Analysis of Corpus Data from Reddit Discussions of "Gay Voice" , Sara Elizabeth Mulliner
Relationship Between Empathy and Language Proficiency in Adult Language Learners , Mika Sakai
Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018
College Student Rankings of Multiple Speakers in a Public Speaking Context: a Language Attitudes Study on Japanese-accented English with a World Englishes Perspective , John James Ahlbrecht
Grammatical Errors by Arabic ESL Students: an Investigation of L1 Transfer through Error Analysis , Aisha Saud Alasfour
Foreign Language Anxiety, Sexuality, and Gender: Lived Experiences of Four LGBTQ+ Students , James Donald Mitchell
Verb Stem Alternation in Vaiphei , Jesse Prichard
Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017
Teacher and Student Perceptions of World Englishes (WE) Pronunciations in two US Settings , Marie Arrieta
Escalating Language at Traffic Stops: Two Case Studies , Jamalieh Haley
Lexical Bundles in Applied Linguistics and Literature Writing: a Comparison of Intermediate English Learners and Professionals , Kathryn Marie Johnston
Multilingualism and Multiculturalism: Opinions from Spanish-Speaking English Learners from Mexico, Central America, and South America , Cailey Catherine Moe
An Analytical System for Determining Disciplinary Vocabulary for Data-Driven Learning: an Example from Civil Engineering , Philippa Jean Otto
Loanwords in Context: Lexical Borrowing from English to Japanese and its Effects on Second-Language Vocabulary Acquisition , Andrew Michael Sowers
Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016
The Effect of Extended Instruction on Passive Voice, Reduced Relative Clauses, and Modal Would in the Academic Writing of Advanced English Language Learners , Audrey Bailey
Identity Construction and Language Use by Immigrant Women in a Microenterprise Development Program , Linda Eve Bonder
"That's the test?" Washback Effects of an Alternative Assessment in a Culturally Heterogeneous EAP University Class , Abigail Bennett Carrigan
Wiki-based Collaborative Creative Writing in the ESL Classroom , Rima Elabdali
A Study of the Intelligibility, Comprehensibility and Interpretability of Standard Marine Communication Phrases as Perceived by Chinese Mariners , Lillian Christine Holland
Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015
Empowering All Who Teach: A Portrait of Two Non-Native English Speaking Teachers in a Globalized 21st Century , Rosa Dene David
A Corpus Based Analysis of Noun Modification in Empirical Research Articles in Applied Linguistics , Jo-Anne Hutter
Sound Effects: Age, Gender, and Sound Symbolism in American English , Timothy Allen Krause
Perspectives on the College Readiness and Outcome Achievement of Former Intensive English Language Program (IELP) Students , Meghan Oswalt
The Cognitive Development of Expertise in an ESL Teacher: A Case Study , Lyndsey Roos
Identity and Investment in the Community ESL Classroom , Jennifer Marie Sacklin
Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014
Code Switching Between Tamazight and Arabic in the First Libyan Berber News Broadcast: An Application of Myers-Scotton's MLF and 4M Models , Ashour S. Abdulaziz
Self-Efficacy in Low-Level English Language Learners , Laura F. Blumenthal
The Impact of Wiki-based Collaborative Writing on English L2 Learners' Individual Writing Development , Gina Christina Caruso
Latino Men Managing HIV: An Appraisal Analysis of Intersubjective Relations in the Discourse of Five Research Interviews , Will Caston
Opportunities for Incidental Acquisition of Academic Vocabulary from Teacher Speech in an English for Academic Purposes Classroom , Eric Dean Dodson
Emerging Lexical Organization from Intentional Vocabulary Learning , Adam Jones
Effects of the First Language on Japanese ESL Learners' Answers to Negative Questions , Kosuke Kanda
"Had sh'er haute gamme, high technology": An Application of the MLF and 4-M Models to French-Arabic Codeswitching in Algerian Hip Hop , Samuel Nickilaus McLain-Jespersen
Is Self-Sufficiency Really Sufficient? A Critical Analysis of Federal Refugee Resettlement Policy and Local Attendant English Language Training in Portland, Oregon , Domminick McParland
Explorations into the Psycholinguistic Validity of Extended Collocations , J. Arianna Morgan
A Comparison of Linguistic Features in the Academic Writing of Advanced English Language Learner and English First Language University Students , Margo K. Russell
Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013
The First Year: Development of Preservice Teacher Beliefs About Teaching and Learning During Year One of an MA TESOL Program , Emily Spady Addiego
L1 Influence on L2 Intonation in Russian Speakers of English , Christiane Fleur Crosby
English Loan Words in Japanese: Exploring Comprehension and Register , Naoko Horikawa
The Role of Expectations on Nonnative English Speaking Students' Wrtiting , Sara Marie Van Dan Acker
Hypothetical Would-Clauses in Korean EFL Textbooks: An Analysis Based on a Corpus Study and Focus on Form Approach , Soyung Yoo
Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012
Negative Transfer in the Writing of Proficient Students of Russian: A Comparison of Heritage Language Learners and Second Language Learners , Daria Aleeva
Informal Learning Choices of Japanese ESL Students in the United States , Brent Harrison Amburgey
Iktomi: A Character Traits Analysis of a Dakota Culture Myth , Marianne Sue Kastner
Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011
Motivation in Late Learners of Japanese: Self-Determination Theory, Attitudes and Pronunciation , Shannon Guinn-Collins
Foreign Language Students' Beliefs about Homestays , Sara Racheal Juveland
Teaching Intonation Patterns through Reading Aloud , Micah William Park
Disordered Thought, Disordered Language: A corpus-based description of the speech of individuals undergoing treatment for schizophrenia , Lucas Carl Steuber
Emotion Language and Emotion Narratives of Turkish-English Late Bilinguals , Melike Yücel Koç
Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010
A Library and its Community: Exploring Perceptions of Collaboration , Phoebe Vincenza Daurio
A Structural and Functional Analysis of Codeswitching in Mi Vida Gitana 'My Gypsy Life,' a Bilingual Play , Gustavo Javier Fernandez
Writing Chinuk Wawa: A Materials Development Case Study , Sarah A. Braun Hamilton
Teacher Evaluation of Item Formats for an English Language Proficiency Assessment , Jose Luis Perea-Hernandez
Theses/Dissertations from 2009 2009
Building Community and Bridging Cultures: the Role of Volunteer Tutors in Oregon’s Latino Serving Community-Based Organizations , Troy Vaughn Hickman
Theses/Dissertations from 2007 2007
Beyond the Classroom Walls: a Study of Out-Of-Class English Use by Adult Community College ESL Students , Tracey Louise Knight
Theses/Dissertations from 2004 2004
A Dialect Study of Oregon NORMs , Lisa Wittenberg Hillyard
Theses/Dissertations from 2003 2003
The Acquisition of a Stage Dialect , Nathaniel George Halloran
Self-perceptions of non-native English speaking teachers of English as a second language , Kathryn Ann Long
The Development of Language Choice in a German Immersion School , Miranda Kussmaul Novash
Theses/Dissertations from 2002 2002
Writing in the Contact Zone: Three Portraits of Reflexivity and Transformation , Laurene L. Christensen
A Linguistic Evaluation of the Somali Women's Self Sufficiency Project , Ann Marie Kasper
Theses/Dissertations from 2001 2001
Attitudes at the Bank : A Survey of Reactions to Different Varieties of English , Sean Wilcox
Theses/Dissertations from 2000 2000
A Comparison of the Child Directed Speech of Traditional Dads With That of Stay-At-Home Dads , Judith Nancarrow Barr
Error Correction Preferences of Latino ESL Students , John Burrell
The Relationship Between Chinese Character Recognition Strategies and the Success of Character Memorization for Students of Mandarin Chinese , Hui-yen Emmy Chen
Portland dialect study: the story of /æ/ in Portland , Jeffrey C. Conn
On Communicative Competence : Its Nature and Origin , Mary Lou Emerson
The Influence of Cultural Backgrounds on the Interpretations of Literature Texts Used in the ESL Classroom , Barbara Jostrom Gates
Chinese Numeratives and the Mass/Count Distinction , David Goodman
Learning, Motivation, and Self : A Diary Study of an ESL Teacher’s Year in a Japanese Language Classroom , Laura Ruth Hawks
Portland Dialect Study - High Rising Terminal Contours (HRTs) in Portland Speech , Rebecca A. Wolff
Theses/Dissertations from 1998 1998
The Bolinger Principle and Teaching the Gerunds and Infinitives , Anna Maria Baratta-Zborowski
Training for Volunteer Teachers in Church-Affiliated English Language Mission Programs , Janet Noreen Blackwood
Šawaš ılıˀ--šawaš wawa: A Participant Observation Case Study of Language Planning by the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon , Gregry Michael Davis
Phonological Processing of Japanese Kanji Characters , Randy L. Evans
Academic ESL Reading : Semantic Mapping and Lexical Acquisition , Jeffrey Darin Maggard
The Representation of Gender in Current ESL Reading Materials , Kyunghee Ma
Perception of English Passives by Japanese ESL Learners : Do Adversity Passives in L1 Transfer? , Koichi Sawasaki
Theses/Dissertations from 1997 1997
Non-Literate Students in Adult Beginning English as a Second Language Classrooms - A Case Study , Sandra Lynn Banke
A Case Study of Twelve Japanese ESL Students' Use of Interaction Modifications , Darin Dooley
The Home-School Connection: Parental Influences on a Child's ESL Acquisition , Catharine Jauhiainen
A Comparison of Two Second Language Acquisition Models for Culturally and Linguistically Different Students , Karen Dorothy Kuhn
ESL CD-ROM Principles and their Application: A Software Evaluation , Stephanie Burgi LaMonica
Developing a Language in Education Policy for Post-apartheid South Africa: A Case Study , Nancy Murray
Video Self-Monitoring as an Alternative to Traditional Methods of Pronunciation Instruction , P. C. Noble
Analysis of Rhetorical Organization and Style Patterns in Korean and American Business Fax Letters of Complaint in English , Mi Young Park
The Importance of Time for Processing in Second Language Comprehension and Acquisition , Jennifer Lee Watson
Theses/Dissertations from 1996 1996
The Constraints of a Typological Implicational Universal for Interrogatives on Second Language Acquisition , Dee Anne Bess
An Assessment of the Needs of International Students for Student Services at Southern Oregon State College , Molly K. Emmons
The relationship between a pre-departure training program and its participants' intercultural communication competence , Daniel Timothy Ferguson
An Exploratory Evaluation of Language and Culture Contact by Japanese Sojourners in a Short-term US Academic Program , Elizabeth Anna Hartley
Correction of Classroom Oral Errors: Preferences among University Students of English in Japan , Akemi Katayama
An Analysis of Japanese Learners' Comprehension of Intonation in English , Misako Okubo
An Evaluation of English Spoken Fluency of Thai Graduate Students in the United States , Sugunya Ruangjaroon
A Cross-cultural Study of the Speech Act of Refusing in English and German , Charla Margaret Teufel
Theses/Dissertations from 1995 1995
An Examination of the English Vocabulary Knowledge of Adult English-for-Academic-Purposes Students: Correlation with English Second-Language Proficiency and the Validity of Yes/No Vocabulary Tests , Robert Scott Fetter
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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
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- 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
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- 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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Thesis Title: Examples and Suggestions from a PhD Grad
When you’re faced with writing up a thesis, choosing a title can often fall to the bottom of the priority list. After all, it’s only a few words. How hard can it be?!
In the grand scheme of things I agree that picking your thesis title shouldn’t warrant that much thought, however my own choice is one of the few regrets I have from my PhD . I therefore think there is value in spending some time considering the options available.
In this post I’ll guide you through how to write your own thesis title and share real-world examples. Although my focus is on the PhD thesis, I’ve also included plenty of thesis title examples for bachelor’s and master’s research projects too.
Hopefully by the end of the post you’ll feel ready to start crafting your own!
Why your thesis title is at least somewhat important
It sounds obvious but your thesis title is the first, and often only, interaction people will have with your thesis. For instance, hiring managers for jobs that you may wish to apply for in the future. Therefore you want to give a good sense of what your research involved from the title.
Many people will list the title of their thesis on their CV, at least for a while after graduating. All of the example titles I’ve shared below came from my repository of academic CVs . I’d say roughly 30% of all the academics on that page list their thesis title, which includes academics all the way up to full professor.
Your thesis title could therefore feature on your CV for your whole career, so it is probably worth a bit of thought!
My suggestions for choosing a good thesis title
- Make it descriptive of the research so it’s immediately obvious what it is about! Most universities will publish student theses online ( here’s mine! ) and they’re indexed so can be found via Google Scholar etc. Therefore give your thesis a descriptive title so that interested researchers can find it in the future.
- Don’t get lost in the detail . You want a descriptive title but avoid overly lengthy descriptions of experiments. Unless a certain analytical technique etc was central to your research, I’d suggest by default* to avoid having it in your title. Including certain techniques will make your title, and therefore research, look overly dated, which isn’t ideal for potential job applications after you graduate.
- The title should tie together the chapters of your thesis. A well-phrased title can do a good job of summarising the overall story of your thesis. Think about each of your research chapters and ensure that the title makes sense for each of them.
- Be strategic . Certain parts of your work you want to emphasise? Consider making them more prominent in your title. For instance, if you know you want to pivot to a slightly different research area or career path after your PhD, there may be alternative phrasings which describe your work just as well but could be better understood by those in the field you’re moving into. I utilised this a bit in my own title which we’ll come onto shortly.
- Do your own thing. Having just laid out some suggestions, do make sure you’re personally happy with the title. You get a lot of freedom to choose your title, so use it however you fancy. For example, I’ve known people to use puns in their title, so if that’s what you’re into don’t feel overly constrained.
*This doesn’t always hold true and certainly don’t take my advice if 1) listing something in your title could be a strategic move 2) you love the technique so much that you’re desperate to include it!
Thesis title examples
To help give you some ideas, here are some example thesis titles from Bachelors, Masters and PhD graduates. These all came from the academic CVs listed in my repository here .
Bachelor’s thesis title examples
Hysteresis and Avalanches Paul Jager , 2014 – Medical Imaging – DKFZ Head of ML Research Group – direct link to Paul’s machine learning academic CV
The bioenergetics of a marine ciliate, Mesodinium rubrum Holly Moeller , 2008 – Ecology & Marine Biology – UC Santa Barbara Assistant Professor – direct link to Holly’s marine biology academic CV
Functional syntactic analysis of prepositional and causal constructions for a grammatical parser of Russian Ekaterina Kochmar , 2008 – Computer Science – University of Bath Lecturer Assistant Prof – direct link to Ekaterina’s computer science academic CV
Master’s thesis title examples
Creation of an autonomous impulse response measurement system for rooms and transducers with different methods Guy-Bart Stan , 2000 – Bioengineering – Imperial Professor – direct link to Guy-Bart’s bioengineering academic CV
Segmentation of Nerve Bundles and Ganglia in Spine MRI using Particle Filters Adrian Vasile Dalca , 2012 – Machine Learning for healthcare – Harvard Assistant Professor & MIT Research Scientist – direct link to Adrian’s machine learning academic CV
The detection of oil under ice by remote mode conversion of ultrasound Eric Yeatman , 1986 – Electronics – Imperial Professor and Head of Department – direct link to Eric’s electronics academic CV
Ensemble-Based Learning for Morphological Analysis of German Ekaterina Kochmar , 2010 – Computer Science – University of Bath Lecturer Assistant Prof – direct link to Ekaterina’s computer science academic CV
VARiD: A Variation Detection Framework for Color-Space and Letter-Space Platforms Adrian Vasile Dalca , 2010 – Machine Learning for healthcare – Harvard Assistant Professor & MIT Research Scientist – direct link to Adrian’s machine learning academic CV
Identification of a Writer’s Native Language by Error Analysis Ekaterina Kochmar , 2011 – Computer Science – University of Bath Lecturer Assistant Prof – direct link to Ekaterina’s computer science academic CV
On the economic optimality of marine reserves when fishing damages habitat Holly Moeller , 2010 – Ecology & Marine Biology – UC Santa Barbara Assistant Professor – direct link to Holly’s marine biology academic CV
Sensitivity Studies for the Time-Dependent CP Violation Measurement in B 0 → K S K S K S at the Belle II-Experiment Paul Jager , 2016 – Medical Imaging – DKFZ Head of ML Research Group – direct link to Paul’s machine learning academic CV
PhD thesis title examples
Spatio-temporal analysis of three-dimensional real-time ultrasound for quantification of ventricular function Esla Angelini – Medicine – Imperial Senior Data Scientist – direct link to Elsa’s medicine academic CV
The role and maintenance of diversity in a multi-partner mutualism: Trees and Ectomycorrhizal Fungi Holly Moeller , 2015 – Ecology & Marine Biology – UC Santa Barbara Assistant Professor – direct link to Holly’s marine biology academic CV
Bayesian Gaussian processes for sequential prediction, optimisation and quadrature Michael Osborne , 2010 – Machine Learning – Oxford Full Professor – direct link to Michael’s machine learning academic CV
Global analysis and synthesis of oscillations: a dissipativity approach Guy-Bart Stan , 2005 – Bioengineering – Imperial Professor – direct link to Guy-Bart’s bioengineering academic CV
Coarse-grained modelling of DNA and DNA self-assembly Thomas Ouldridge , 2011– Bioengineering – Imperial College London Senior Lecturer / Associate Prof – direct link to Thomas’ bioengineering academic CV
4D tomographic image reconstruction and parametric maps estimation: a model-based strategy for algorithm design using Bayesian inference in Probabilistic Graphical Models (PGM) Michele Scipioni , 2018– Biomedical Engineer – Harvard Postdoctoral Research Fellow – direct link to Michele’s biomedical engineer academic CV
Error Detection in Content Word Combinations Ekaterina Kochmar , 2016 – Computer Science – University of Bath Lecturer Assistant Prof – direct link to Ekaterina’s computer science academic CV
Genetic, Clinical and Population Priors for Brain Images Adrian Vasile Dalca , 2016 – Machine Learning for healthcare – Harvard Assistant Professor & MIT Research Scientist – direct link to Adrian’s machine learning academic CV
Challenges and Opportunities of End-to-End Learning in Medical Image Classification Paul Jager , 2020 – Medical Imaging – DKFZ Head of ML Research Group – direct link to Paul’s machine learning academic CV
K 2 NiF 4 materials as cathodes for intermediate temperature solid oxide fuel cells Ainara Aguadero , 2006 – Materials Science – Imperial Reader – direct link to Ainara’s materials science academic CV
Applications of surface plasmons – microscopy and spatial light modulation Eric Yeatman , 1989 – Electronics – Imperial Professor and Head of Department – direct link to Eric’s electronics academic CV
Geometric Algorithms for Objects in Motion Sorelle Friedler , 2010 – Computer science – Haverford College Associate Professor – direct link to Sorelle’s computer science academic CV .
Geometrical models, constraints design, information extraction for pathological and healthy medical image Esla Angelini – Medicine – Imperial Senior Data Scientist – direct link to Elsa’s medicine academic CV
Why I regret my own choice of PhD thesis title
I should say from the outset that I assembled my thesis in quite a short space of time compared to most people. So I didn’t really spend particularly long on any one section, including the title.
However, my main supervisor even spelled out for me that once the title was submitted to the university it would be permanent. In other words: think wisely about your title.
What I started with
Initially I drafted the title as something like: Three dimensional correlative imaging for cartilage regeneration . Which I thought was nice, catchy and descriptive.
I decided to go for “correlative imaging” because, not only did it describe the experiments well, but it also sounded kind of technical and fitting of a potential pivot into AI. I’m pleased with that bit of the title.
What I ended up with
Before submitting the title to the university (required ahead of the viva), I asked my supervisors for their thoughts.
One of my well intentioned supervisors suggested that, given that my project didn’t involve verifying regenerative quality, I probably shouldn’t state cartilage regeneration . Instead, they suggested, I should state what I was experimenting on (the materials) rather than the overall goal of the research (aid cartilage regeneration efforts).
With this advice I dialled back my choice of wording and the thesis title I went with was:
Three dimensional correlative imaging for measurement of strain in cartilage and cartilage replacement materials
Reading it back now I’m reminder about how less I like it than my initial idea!
I put up basically no resistance to the supervisor’s choice, even though the title sounds so much more boring in my opinion. I just didn’t think much of it at the time. Furthermore, most of my PhD was actually in a technique which is four dimensional (looking at a series of 3D scans over time, hence 4D) which would have sounded way more sciency and fitting of a PhD.
What I wish I’d gone with
If I had the choice again, I’d have gone with:
Four-dimensional correlative imaging for cartilage regeneration
Which, would you believe it, is exactly what it states on my CV…
Does the thesis title really matter?
In all honesty, your choice of thesis title isn’t that important. If you come to regret it, as I do, it’s not the end of the world. There are much more important things in life to worry about.
If you decide at a later stage that you don’t like it you can always describe it in a way that you prefer. For instance, in my CV I describe my PhD as I’d have liked the title to be. I make no claim that it’s actually the title so consider it a bit of creative license.
Given that as your career progresses you may not even refer back to your thesis much, it’s really not worth stressing over. However, if you’re yet to finalise your thesis title I do still think it is worth a bit of thought and hopefully this article has provided some insights into how to choose a good thesis title.
My advice for developing a thesis title
- Draft the title early. Drafting it early can help give clarity for the overall message of your research. For instance, while you’re assembling the rest of your thesis you can check that the title encompasses the research chapters you’re included, and likewise that the research experiments you’re including fall within what the title describes. Drafting it early also gives more time you to think it over. As with everything: having a first draft is really important to iterate on.
- Look at some example titles . Such as those featured above!
- If you’re not sure about your title, ask a few other people what they think . But remember that you have the final say!
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Mental Contrasting with Implementation Intentions as Applied to Motivation in L2 Vocabulary Acquisition , Lindsay Michelle Stephenson
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Portuguese and Chinese ESL Reading Behaviors Compared: An Eye-Tracking Study , Logan Kyle Blackwell
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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
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Evidentiality, Epistemic Modality and Mirativity: The Case of Cantonese Utterance Particles Ge3, Laak3, and Lo1 , Ka Fai Law
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Parsing an American Sign Language Corpus with Combinatory Categorial Grammar , Michael Albert Nix
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Developing Listening Comprehension in ESL Students at the Intermediate Level by Reading Transcripts While Listening: A Cognitive Load Perspective , Sydney Sohler
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Identifying Language Needs in Community-Based Adult ELLs: Findings from an Ethnography of Four Salvadoran Immigrants in the Western United States , Kathryn Anne Watkins
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Self-Regulation in Transition: A Case Study of Three English Language Learners at an IEP , Allison Wallace Baker
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Comparing Academic Vocabulary List (AVL) Frequency Bands to Leveled Biology and History Texts , Lynne Crandall
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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
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Pun Strategies Across Joke Schemata: A Corpus-Based Study , Robert Nishan Crapo
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Backward Transfer of Apology Strategies from Japanese to English: Do English L1 Speakers Use Japanese-Style Apologies When Speaking English? , Candice April Flowers
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An Analysis of Rehearsed Speech Characteristics on the Oral Proficiency Interview—Computer (OPIc) , Gwyneth Elaine Gates
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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
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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
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Rubric Rating with MFRM vs. Randomly Distributed Comparative Judgment: A Comparison of Two Approaches to Second-Language Writing Assessment , Maureen Estelle Sims
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A Framework for Evaluating Recommender Systems , Michael Gabriel Bean
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The Onomatopoeic Ideophone-Gesture Relationship in Pastaza Quichua , Sarah Ann Hatton
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Lexical Trends in Young Adult Literature: A Corpus-Based Approach , Kyra McKinzie Nelson
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Vocabulary is extremely important for language learners. They will face difficulties learning a foreign language if their vocabulary knowledge is insufficient. The goal of this study is to find out which vocabulary learning strategies were used the most by third-year English majors and whether gender influenced their choice of vocabulary learning strategies. The participants are sixty-one English major students from Ho Chi Minh City University of Food Industry, fifty-three of whom are female and eight of whom are male. The questionnaire is the testing tool, and it is divided into five categories: determination strategies, cognitive strategies, memory strategies, metacognitive strategies and social strategies. The findings indicate that participants favoured guessing the meaning from context and making a list of words and memorizing the most, while social tactics were the least common. Furthermore, gender has little impact on the preference of vocabulary learning techniques.
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This digital file provides a sample answer to a GCSE English Language 9-1 creative writing task using the title “Alone.” The story delves into the emotions of solitude, showcasing a protagonist’s journey through feelings of isolation and the solace they find in the quiet of a night-time park. This well-crafted narrative captures the reader’s attention with vivid descriptions and relatable emotions, making it a perfect study tool for students aiming to excel in their English language exams.
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