Graduate Student Projects
An Architectural Reading of Kristeva, Woolf, and Shakespeare, Bailey M. Graham
A Project to Produce an Engineering Text for Publication: From Concept to Print, Mary J. Miller
Borrowing Avid Inquiry: Getting to the Essential Question in the English Classroom, Kaidi R. Stroud
Creating a Community of Composers: A Wiki as a Collaborative Writing Space, Samantha Archibald Mora
Document Production for Technical Writers, Becky Ann Beus
Implementing Audio Consultations in the Writing Center, Zachery W. Koppelmann
Theses
A Case Study of Perceived Self-Efficacy in Writing Center Peer Tutor Training, Shaun T. White
A Culture Of Divisions: Cultural Representations of La Bruja and La Curandera in Nuevo Mexicano Folklore and Literature, Annemarie Lynette García
Additional Ways of Listening to All the Wrong Impulses, Dylan J. Lambert
All The King's Horses, Christopher Caruso
A Modern Case of Feral Children, April Wolfe
Among the Stars, Bradley Cook
“A Moral Wilderness”: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Lehtie Chalise Thomson
A Snake in Eden, Susan Bruns Rowe
Auto/Aura, Michael Wanzenried
Beyond Sugar and Spice: Femmachismo and Relational Aggression in the Personal Narratives of Adolescent Females, Amy Beth Gardner
Bleach, Cream, and Other Dolls, Elizabeth Diane Mackness
Bound Toward Them Are the Course, Zachary John Vesper
Burning Down the Trailer Park, Timothy Owen Davis
Calling Through the Hollow, Mollie J. Ficek
Child Mothers in Children’s Literature: Victorian Gender Negotiations in Burnett’s Girlhood Fiction, Hailey Siobhan Grist
Comedown, Lacey Daley
Comments and the Classroom Context: Investigating Students’ Rhetorical Relationships to Instructor Response, Jeremy C. Branstad
Conan and Other Stories, Michael Andrew McGranaghan
Conflation Or When I Say You, I Mean I, Julie Ann Strand
Constructive Engagement: Second Life in the Composition Classroom, Richard Nathan Samuelson
Daniel Deronda Steps Out of the Closet: Examining the Queer/Jewish Strategies of Identity-Formation, David Scott
Discourse Analysis: An Alternative Approach to the Evaluation of Student Writing, Melanie Purcell Hale
Electric General, Amber Nelson
Encounters of the Arabian Kind: Cultural Exchange and Identity the Tristans of Medieval France, England, and Spain, Annie Knowles
Extending Transfer in Composition: Exploring a Model for Conceptualizing Rhetorical Problems, Janet Roser
Golden Flower of Prosperity, Katelyn Elizabeth Holland
How Many Headless Telamons, Torin Jensen
In Search of Lingua Franca: The Myths of English Only, Michael K. Peterson
I Want to Steal Your Stop Sign, Amanda Bennett
Kania, Indrani Sengupta
King of the World & Other Stories, Matthew Lukes
Land of Entrapment, Scott M. Anderson
Le Spleen D’Ash: Poems, Ashley Gould
Limitless and Free, David Nicholas
Memory Line: Poems, Steffen A. Brown III
Merciless: A Crude Hagiography, Lindsey Ann Klessens Appell
Misremember Me, Alex Kiesig
Naming What Bothers Us: Measuring Moral Rhetoric in the 2016 Presidential Debates, Skyler James Meeks
Necropolitical Resistance in Early Modern Drama: Violence and Death as Agentive Acts in Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, Madison Jansen
Notes on a Downer Peninsula, Jacob Patrick Powers
"Not Everyone Was Asleep": Anti-Colonial Personifications of Antiquity and Progress in José Rizal's Touch Me Not and El Filibusterismo, Lyn K. Uratani
O in Mouth, Genevieve Neuville Kohlhardt
Once a Queen in Narnia: Susan and the Divine in C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, Amanda Kathleen Patchin
Opium Use in Victorian England: The Works of Gaskell, Eliot, and Dickens, Jessica Rae Henderson
Pois'ned Ale: Gertrude's Power Position in Hamlet, Erin Elizabeth Lehmann
Rhetoric and Composition Constructs “The Veteran”: An Examination of the Student Veteran Identity as Found in CCC And TETYC Since September 11, 2001, Linda Gail Smith
Saying 'I' and Meaning It: The Transformative Process of Producing the Audio Essay, Andrea Renea Oyarzabal
Shimmer, Daniel Lau
Singles Going Steady: Poems, Jason Richard Walsh
Static and Accent, Naomi Beth Tarle
Technology-Assisted Independent Study of English as a Second Language, J. Raphael Holmes
The Apprenticeship of Laurell K. Hamilton: How Aspiring Writers Learn to Write, Chelsea Ann Pierce
The Body Experience, Jacqueline Sizemore
"The Country of Nine-Fingered People": The Southern Mountain Tradition and the Gothic in Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust and Dickey's Deliverance, Kathleen Peterson
The Effects of Service-Learning on Student Writing and Research, Kimberly Anne Pierce
The Gothic Other: A Critique of Race, Gender, Slavery, and Systemic Oppression Found in Nathaniel Hawthorne, Toni Morrison, and Hannah Crafts, Kelly Franklin
The Grotesque Menagerie, Merin Leigh Tigert
The King’s Table: A Semiotic Analysis of a Medieval Noble Banquet, Robert Raymond Shaffer
The Law of Marine Constancy, Breonna Vinikas Krafft
The Neglected Canon: The Use of Speech in Composition Courses, Rebecca Rae Jolley
The Next Steps Are Only Breathing, Reggie Douglas Townley
The Plaster Forest, Charles Gabel
There Is No Such Word As Can, Kyle Crawford
“The Skunk at the Garden Party of the Language Arts”: Students Weigh in on What Grammar Means to Them, Sarah Caroline Olson
The Sweet Air, Ann Braley Smith
The Transcendentalist’s Mind and Body: The Role of Illness in Margaret Fuller’s Writing, Elizabeth Anne Slabaugh
The Write Class: Student Self-Efficacy in a Pilot Placement Program at Boise State University, Samantha Sturman
This is a Love Story, Fredrick Richard Coonrod
"This Is Just, Like, a Random Article?": The Reading Resources of Six First-Year College Composition Students, Alex Goochey
Towards a Hibernian Hybridity: Joycean Appropriations of Celtic Mythology and the Realization of a Modern Irish Identity, Robert C. Ware
Trigger Men: Novel Excerpt and Stories, Matt Crosby
Uncovering Multimodality in Composition, Kevin Jacob Kelley
Use(ful In(form)ation, Dustin Lapray
Visions/Versions of the Medieval in C.S. Lewis’s the Chronicles of Narnia, Heather Herrick Jennings
"Who Only Cricket Know": Sport, Ideology and Emancipatory Politics, George Evans
Window Dressing: Isolation in Cornell Woolrich's Short Fiction, Annika R. P. Deutsch
Theses - Boise State University Access Only
All This is on the Side, Peter Tiernan
Conquest and Cannibalism in Anglo-Saxon Literature, Katie Garland
Doll Songs, Katie Fuller
Feed, Ashley Barr
Kindred, Denise Bickford
Me & Other Species of Meat, Laura Mei Roghaar
Paper Work, Michael Joseph Capel
Postintake, Colin-Uriah Johnson
Seeking Autonomy Through Self-Depreciation, Gina-Monica Tomulescu
So Surely We Live and Other Stories, Matthew H. Nagel
South Coasters, Timothy Griffith
The Creeping Terror: An Ecogothic Examination of the Haunted Houses, Women, and Plants of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Shirley Jackson, Summer M. DuPree
“The Greenery of a Nightmare”: Paradise Sought, Found and Lost in the Essays of Joan Didion, Christy Claymore Vance
The Nonhuman Write Back: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Short Stories, Chaney Elizabeth Hill
The “Other” and “I”: Patriarchal and Racial Violence via Postcolonial Theory in Toni Morrison’s Jazz and Paradise, Heather McBride
The Travelogues, Zeke Hudson
To a Landscape Unknown: The Mythology and Ecology of Land in John Steinbeck’s To A God Unknown, Danielle Packard