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Author:

Anders, Abram Daniel

Title:

Rhetoric for Becoming Otherwise: Life, Literature, Genealogy, Flight

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

genealogy
ethics
health
rhetoric

File:

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Committee Members:

Richard Doyle, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard Matthew Doyle, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jeffrey Nealon, Committee Member
Xiaoye You, Committee Member
Robert Anderson Yarber Jr., Committee Member

Author:

Johnson, Amber Lauren

Title:

“WE DON’T WRITE JUST TO WRITE; WE WRITE TO BE FREE”: A RHETORICAL ETHNOGRAPHY OF SPOKEN WORD IN LOS ANGELES

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

rhetoric
poetry
performance
counterpublic
collective identity
ethnography
spoken word

File:

Download Dissertation_Amber_L_Johnson.pdf

Committee Members:

Ronald L Jackson Ii, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rosa A Eberly, Committee Member
Ian E Baptiste, Committee Member
Raymond Keith Gilyard, Committee Member

Author:

Pilsch, Andrew

Title:

Transhumanism: Evolutionary Logic, Rhetoric, and the Future

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

rhetoric
science studies
transhumanism
cybernetics

File:

Download Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard Doyle, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard Doyle, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jeffrey Nealon, Committee Member
Mark Stewart Morrisson, Committee Member
Robert Anderson Yarber Jr., Committee Member

Author:

Ceraso, Antonio

Title:

Crowd Technologies: Rhetoric and Power in Peer Production Discourse

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

composition
copyright
rhetoric
writing
kairos

File:

Download CERASO_DISS_2.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard Doyle, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard Doyle, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jeffrey Nealon, Committee Member
Ryan Andrew Stark, Committee Member
Stephen Howard Browne, Committee Member

Author:

Boes, Cynthia Dawn

Title:

DEFENDING DARFUR: THE PROBLEMS AND POTENTIAL OF SPEAKING FOR OTHERS

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

rhetoric
intercultural communication
speaking for others

File:

Download Boes_Final_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Walter Benson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Walter Benson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Hogan, Committee Member
Jeremy Engels, Committee Member
Linda Furgerson Selzer, Committee Member

Author:

Maugh, Casey Malone

Title:

Peace Corps in the 21st Century: A Rhetorical Analysis

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

Peace Corps
rhetoric
visual rhetoric

File:

Download C.Maugh_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephen Howard Browne, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Hogan, Committee Member
Rosa A Eberly, Committee Member
Jeanne Lynn Hall, Committee Member

Author:

Dzikowski, David

Title:

The Ironic Voice and Subjunctive Mood of Public Radio Programming

Graduate Program:

Speech Communication

Keywords:

rhetoric
public radio
irony

File:

Download Dzikowski_Dissertation_2009.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Walter Benson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Walter Benson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Hogan, Committee Member
Jeremy Engels, Committee Member
Matthew Jackson, Committee Member

Author:

Ore, Ersula J

Title:

Rhetoric and Civic Belonging: Lynching and the Making of National Community

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Without Sanctuary
rhetoric
lynching
identification
african american

File:

Download Ersula_Ore_Dissertation_and_Vita.pdf

Committee Members:

Raymond Keith Gilyard, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Keith Gilyard, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Linda Furgerson Selzer, Committee Member
Xiaoye You, Committee Member
Jeremy Engels, Committee Member

Author:

Saunders, John Hanson

Title:

The Evolution of Snow White: A Close Textual Analysis of Three Versions of the Snow White Fairy Tale

Graduate Program:

Speech Communication

Keywords:

Snow White
fairy tales
rhetoric
Literary studies

File:

Download JohnSaunders-FinalDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephen Howard Browne, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Walter Benson, Committee Member
Tony Lentz, Committee Member
Steven Herb, Committee Member

Author:

Sheffield, Jessica Lee

Title:

Weblogs and Activism: A Social Movement Perspective on the Blogosphere

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

democratic deliberation
blogosphere
blogs
weblogs
social movements
rhetoric
rhetorical analysis

File:

Download Sheffield_Final_Draft.pdf

Committee Members:

James Hogan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Hogan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stuart Selber, Committee Member
Rosa A Eberly, Committee Member
Thomas Walter Benson, Committee Member

Author:

Weber, Jill Mary

Title:

For the Good of "The Family": The Rhetoric of Family Values in U.S. National Policymaking

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

policymaking
rhetoric
family
family values

File:

Download Weber_diss_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Walter Benson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Deborah Frances Atwater, Committee Member
Thomas Walter Benson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jeremy Engels, Committee Member
Michael Paul Johnson, Committee Member

Author:

Biedendorf, Jennifer

Title:

Memory Beyond Borders? Cosmopolitanism and the International Criminal Court

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

rhetoric
memory
transnationalism
cosmopolitanism
International Criminal Court
human rights
nation-state
conservative
women’s rights
U.S. foreign policy
Darfur
genocide

File:

Download Biedendorf_Jennifer_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephen Howard Browne, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Howard Browne, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Walter Benson, Committee Member
James Hogan, Committee Member
John Philip Christman, Committee Member
Janet Wynne Lyon, Committee Member

Author:

Smith, Michelle C

Title:

AT THE INTERSECTION OF UTOPIA AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE: THE SPATIAL-RHETORICAL NEGOTIATIONS OF 19TH-CENTURY WOMEN

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

intentional communities
gender
space
rhetoric
public

File:

Download Dissertation_7-20.pdf

Committee Members:

Cheryl Jean Glenn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cheryl Jean Glenn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John L Selzer, Committee Member
Hester Maureen Blum, Committee Member
Melissa Wright, Committee Member

Author:

Newcomb, Matthew J

Title:

World Bank Rhetoric: Consuming the Suffering of Others

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

composition
msf
oxfam
suffering
humanitarian aid
critical feeling
rhetoric
world bank
consumption
rwanda
korea
AIDS
affect
compassion

File:

Download 1masterdocS-finaldissversion.pdf

Committee Members:

John L Selzer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jeffrey Nealon, Committee Member
Rosa A Eberly, Committee Member
Stephen Howard Browne, Committee Member

Author:

Tumolo, Michael Warren

Title:

Just Remembering: The Experience of Rhetoric and Public Memory

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

National Holocaust Memorial Museum
Committee on Conscience
Hannah Arendt
public memory
rhetoric

File:

Download Tumolo_Just_Remembering_The_Experience_of_Rhetoric_and_Public_Memory___ETD.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephen Howard Browne, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Walter Benson, Committee Member
Rosa A Eberly, Committee Member
James Hogan, Committee Member
Christopher P Long, Committee Member

Author:

Thomas, Nicholas A.

Title:

THE JOY OF RHETORIC: TURNS IN RHETORIC AND ONTOLOGY THAT ORIENT BEING IN AESTHETIC HABITUATION

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

habit
aesthetics
ontology
rhetoric
tropos

File:

Download Dissertation--Dec_08.pdf

Committee Members:

Rosa A Eberly, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen Howard Browne, Committee Member
Thomas Walter Benson, Committee Member
Christopher P Long, Committee Member

Author:

Lundin, Rebecca Wilson

Title:

Language, Rhetorical Education, and the Development of National Identity in Sixteenth-Century England

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Thomas Wilson
English language
nationalism
Renaissance
rhetoric
Angel Day

File:

Download Lundin_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Cheryl Jean Glenn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cheryl Jean Glenn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stuart Selber, Committee Member
Linda Woodbridge, Committee Member
Dan Beaver, Committee Member

Author:

Stone Watt, Sarah E.

Title:

Women of Watts: Picturing the STRONGBLACKWOMAN in the 1965 Watts Uprising

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

African American Women
Watts
riot
rhetoric

File:

Download Dissertation_ETD_Revision.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephen Howard Browne, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Deborah Frances Atwater, Committee Member
Thomas Walter Benson, Committee Member
Cheryl Jean Glenn, Committee Member

Author:

Sheriff, Stacey Ellen

Title:

RHETORIC AND REVISION: WOMEN’S ARGUMENTS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE IN THE PROGRESSIVE ERA

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

progressive era
rhetoric

File:

Download Sheriff_Final_Dissertation_for_Submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Cheryl Jean Glenn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cheryl Jean Glenn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr Jack Selzer, Committee Member
Keith Gilyard, Committee Member
Linda Furgerson Selzer, Committee Member
James Hogan, Committee Member

Author:

Kale, Verna

Title:

Women Writing War: The Evolution of the Girl Reporter 1845-1945

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

rhetoric
captivity narrative
affect
sentimental
Martha Gellhorn
Nellie Bly
Fanny Fern
Margaret Fuller
stunt reporting
journalism
women war correspondents
New Woman
feminism
public sphere
modernism
His Girl Friday
Brenda Starr

File:

Download Kale_dissertation_final_copy.pdf

Committee Members:

Robin G Schulze And Sandra Spanier, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robin Schulze, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sandra Spanier, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark Stewart Morrisson, Committee Member
James L W West Iii, Committee Member
William Leonard Joyce, Committee Member