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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:

Download AndersRFBO.PDF

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:

Gatzke, Andrea F.

Title:

The Role of Philhellenism in the Political Invective of the Late Roman Republic

Graduate Program:

History

Keywords:

Roman Republic
politics
rhetoric
philhellenism
luxury
tyranny

File:

Download Final_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Garrett Fagan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Garrett Fagan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

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:

Kuperavage, Jessica Lauren

Title:

Becoming Rational: Rhetoric, Agency, and Mental Illness

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

mental illness
agency
rhetoric

File:

Download Bargar_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeremy Engels, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeremy Engels, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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:

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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:

Thomas, Robert Roy

Title:

FROM RENEWABLE TO ALTERNATIVE: WASTE COAL AND THE PENNSYLVANIA ALTERNATIVE ENERGY PORTFOLIO STANDARD

Graduate Program:

Rural Sociology

Keywords:

classifications
categories
naming
rhetoric
renewable portfolio standard
metaphor
ecological modernization
clean energy
waste coal
coal
alternative energy
renewable energy
discourse analysis
boundaries

File:

Download final_to_penn_state_july_18th.pdf

Committee Members:

Leland Luther Glenna, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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

Author:

Clater, Mary Elizabeth

Title:

Without Mincing Words: Presidential Rhetoric in the Late Cold War Era, 1977-1992

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

Carter
Reagan
Bush
Cold War
Berlin Wall
Communism
Inaugural
presidential speeches
rhetoric

File:

Download Dissertation_in_Progress_-_Final_FINAL_Draft.pdf

Committee Members:

Charles David Kupfer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Rogers Haddad, Committee Member
Anne Ayer Verplanck, Committee Member
David Scott Witwer, Committee Member
Harold Bundick Shill Iii, Committee Member

Author:

Faris, Michael James

Title:

Rhetoric, Social Media, and Privacy

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

rhetoric
social media
privacy
technology
digital media
literacies
digital literacy
writing studies

File:

Download Faris_Dissertation_Submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Stuart Selber, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Debra Hawhee, Committee Member
John L Selzer, Committee Member
Robert Lawrence Caserio Jr., Committee Member
Lynette Marie Yarger, Committee Member

Author:

Tzelgov, Eitan

Title:

Words as weapons: opposition rhetoric and partisan strategy

Graduate Program:

Political Science

Keywords:

parties
rhetoric
legislative
opposition

File:

Download ETthesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Burt Monroe Iii, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Jon Zorn, Committee Member
Sona Nadenichek Golder, Committee Member
James Dillard, Special Member

Author:

Coletta, Kristin Summer-mathe

Title:

Envisioning Democratic Citizenship: Rhetorical Constructions in the Public Sector Labor Movement

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

labor movement
democracy
citizenship
rhetoric
public sector

File:

Download revision_Mathe_Coletta_dissertation_sep_26.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephen Howard Browne, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Hogan, Committee Member
Paul Clark, Committee Member
Jeremy Engels, Committee Member

Author:

Kuperavage, Jessica Lauren

Title:

From Private Tragedy to Public Health: Public Health and the Rhetorics of Responsibility

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

rhetoric
communication
public health
health campaigns
health policy
infant mortality
maternal mortality

File:

Download Kuperavage_dissertation_grad_school_version-1.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeremy Engels, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Hogan, Committee Member
Rachel Annette Smith, Committee Member
Susan Merrill Squier, Committee Member

Author:

Rudewalker, Sarah Ann

Title:

The rhetoric and poetics of the Black Arts Movement

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

rhetoric
poetics
Black Arts Movement
epidectic
vernacular theory
Students Rights
Hip Hop
women writers
Black Power
Black English

File:

Download Sarah_RudeWalker_Rhetoric_and_Poetics_of_the_Black_Arts_Movement_v3.pdf

Committee Members:

Keith Gilyard, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bernard W Bell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cheryl Jean Glenn, Committee Member
Deborah Frances Atwater, Special Member

Author:

Rudewalker, Mathew Craig

Title:

Where Our Dead Lie Buried: Articulating American Indian Sovereignty

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Sovereignty
American Indian
Native American
rhetoric
politics
literature

File:

Download MRW_Where_Our_Dead_Lie_Buried_Final_version.pdf

Committee Members:

Carla Mulford Conklin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Keith Gilyard, Committee Member
Toni Jensen, Committee Member
Stephen Howard Browne, Special Member

Author:

Geraths, Cory Paul

Title:

Digital Missionaries: The Neoliberal Sponsorship Rhetoric of Compassion International

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

Christianity
mission
technology
neoliberalism
rhetoric
feminism

File:

Download Geraths_Thesis_-_Final_for_Graduate_School.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeremy Engels, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Camacci, Lauren Rose

Title:

Presidential Imaginaries: Narrative, Phantasia, and the Historical U.s. President in Fictional Film

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

U.S. presidents
film
popular culture
narrative
phantasia
rhetoric

File:

Download Camacci_MA_Thesis__CAS_.pdf

Committee Members:

Kirtley Hasketh Wilson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Johnson, Jeremy David

Title:

Convergence Rhetorics: Negotiating Digital and Offline Identities

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

rhetoric
communication
digital
online
identity
video games
politics
reality
publics
private
privacy
rhizome

File:

Download Thesis_-_Jeremy_David_Johnson_-_Convergence_Rhetorics_-_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Rosa A Eberly, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Stec, Frank Joseph

Title:

What's in a Number?: The Rhetoric of Numbers During Wartime

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

rhetoric
war rhetoric
biopower
counting
numbers

File:

Download Disseration_-_Stec_1.0_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeremy Engels, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Hogan, Committee Member
Stephen Howard Browne, Committee Member
Matt Jordan, Committee Member

Author:

Maxwell, Jason Christopher

Title:

Agonistic Discourses: Exploring the Relationship Between Literary Theory and Composition in the Contemporary University

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

rhetoric
composition
literary theory

File:

Download Maxwell_Dissertation_121214.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey Nealon, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Debra Hawhee, Committee Member
Richard Doyle, Committee Member
Claire Mary Colebrook, Committee Member
Jonathan Paul Eburne, Special Member

Author:

Minbiole, John Francis

Title:

Interrupting Cinematic Narratives of the First World War

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

rhetoric
narrative
cinema
film
war
first world war
ethics
Heidegger
Gadamer
interruption

File:

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Committee Members:

Jeremy Engels, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Walter Benson, Committee Member
Stephen Howard Browne, Committee Member
Dennis Schmidt, Committee Member

Author:

Rood, Craig James

Title:

Deliberating in the Aftermath of Mass Shootings

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

rhetoric
deliberation
blame
mass shootings
mentally illness
guns

File:

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Committee Members:

Rosa A Eberly, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Hogan, Committee Member
Kirtley Hasketh Wilson, Committee Member
Cheryl Jean Glenn, Committee Member

Author:

Brown, Laura Michael

Title:

Region and Remembrance: Public Memories of Civil Rights in Greensboro, North Carolina

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

rhetoric
public memory
regionalism
civil rights movement
greensboro
north carolina

File:

Download Laura_Michael_Brown_dissertation_formatted_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Cheryl Glenn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cheryl Glenn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Debra Hawhee, Committee Member
Jack Selzer, Committee Member
Kirt Wilson, Outside Member
Stuart Selber, Committee Member

Author:

King, Kyle R

Title:

Sports Spectacle, Athletic Activism, and the Rhetorical Analysis of Mediated Sport

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

rhetoric
rhetoric and sport
sport media
rhetorical genre
athlete activism
Billie Jean King
coming out narratives
sport documentary
Black Lives Matter
spectacle

File:

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Committee Members:

Debra Hawhee, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Debra Hawhee, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Cheryl Jean Glenn, Committee Member
Rosa A Eberly, Committee Member
Kirtley Hasketh Wilson, Outside Member
Jessica Lynn Schultz, Outside Member

Author:

Good, Tiara Kay

Title:

Saccharin Civic Engagement, Rhetoric, and Popular War Movies

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

saccharin citizenship
war
war movies
war films
PTSD
soldier representation
rhetoric

File:

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Committee Members:

Jeremy Engels, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeremy Engels, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michele Jean Kennerly, Committee Member
Bradford James Vivian, Committee Member
Matthew Frank Jordan, Outside Member

Author:

Bergmaier, Michael J

Title:

"I WELCOME THIS DEBATE": THE LIMITS OF DEMOCRATIC DELIBERATION OVER NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY IN THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

rhetoric
deliberation
democracy
war
foreign policy
national security

File:

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Committee Members:

J. Michael Hogan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
J. Michael Hogan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rosa A. Eberly, Committee Member
Jeremy David Engels, Committee Member
John Selzer, Outside Member

Author:

Brooks, Earl Holmes

Title:

On Rhetoric and Black Music

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

rhetoric
black music
jazz
ragtime
public sphere
discourse
Scott Joplin
Duke Ellington
John Coltrane
Mary Lou Williams

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Committee Members:

Keith Gilyard, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Keith Gilyard, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John "Jack" Selzer, Committee Member
Cheryl Glenn, Committee Member
Paul C Taylor, Outside Member

Author:

Camacci, Lauren Rose

Title:

The Blueprint and the Mirror: Richard Nixon's Presidential Rhetoric and American Masculinity

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

rhetoric
Richard Nixon
masculinity
masculinities
Cold War
Vietnam
Kent State
Apollo 13
Watergate

File:

Download Camacci_PSU_CAS_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephen H. Browne, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen H. Browne, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michele J. Kennerly, Committee Member
Kirt H. Wilson, Committee Member
Michelle Rodino-Colocino, Outside Member

Author:

Wang, Keren

Title:

ATLAS OF SACRIFICE: Three Studies of Ritual Sacrifice in Late Capitalism

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

globalization
neoliberalism
ritual
sacrifice
rhetoric
political philosophy
political theory
transnationalism
political communication

File:

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Committee Members:

Stephen Howard Browne, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Howard Browne, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kirtley Hasketh Wilson, Committee Member
Jeremy Engels, Committee Member
Larry Cata Backer, Outside Member

Author:

Lehman, Marguerite Nguyen

Title:

The Things I Won't Tell You: Privycy, A Rhetorical Strategy

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

privy
privacy
publicity
transgender
MeToo
disclosure
rhetoric
queer theory

File:

Download Thesis_final_draft_after_format_review.pdf

Committee Members:

Anne T Demo, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michele Jean Kennerly, Committee Member
Pamela Ruth Vanhaitsma, Committee Member

Author:

Pettus, Mudiwa Mpho

Title:

African-American Rhetorical Education in the Age of Booker T. Washington

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Booker T. Washington
African-American rhetorical education
African-American rhetorical theory
post-Reconstruction
interracial communication
W.E.B. Du Bois
Pauline Hopkins
Sutton Griggs
democratic deliberation
rhetoric
rhetorical education
compromise
nineteenth-century rhetoric

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Committee Members:

Raymond Keith Gilyard, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cheryl Jean Glenn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shirley Moody, Committee Member
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Member
Esther Susana Prins, Outside Member

Author:

Tellmann, Bryce

Title:

The Great Plains and the Available Means of Regionalism

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences (PHD)

Keywords:

rhetoric
regionalism
Great Plains
place
region

File:

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Committee Members:

Michele Kennerly, Major Field Member
Jeremy Engels, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Laszlo Kulcsar, Outside Unit & Field Member
Stephen Browne, Major Field Member
Andrew High, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Smith, Emily

Title:

Performing Histories: Archival Embodiment as Rhetorical Historiography

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

historiography
public memory
performance
rhetoric

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Committee Members:

Cheryl Jean Glenn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cheryl Jean Glenn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Debra Hawhee, Committee Member
Stuart Selber, Committee Member
Pamela Ruth Vanhaitsma, Outside Member
David Loewenstein, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Johnson, Morgan

Title:

Discursive Death and Eternal Vigilance: A Rhetorical Study of Necropower

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences (PHD)

Keywords:

rhetoric
race
necropower
police
resistance

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Committee Members:

Cynthia Young, Outside Unit & Field Member
Rosa Eberly, Major Field Member
Jeremy Engels, Major Field Member
Kirtley Wilson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Andrew High, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Nagel, Jeffrey

Title:

Queering Absence: The Rhetoric of the Homophile Movement

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences (PHD)

Keywords:

homophile movement
rhetoric
queer theory
absence
social movements
memory
silence
passing
invisibility
forgetting

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Committee Members:

Cheryl Glenn, Outside Unit & Field Member
Bradford Vivian, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Stephen Browne, Major Field Member
Andrew High, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Pamela Vanhaitsma, Major Field Member
Member Committee, Special Member