M.A. in English and Communication Completed Theses

Completed Theses

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2009

  • Bulizak, Adam 
    "Milan Kundera, "litost" and Czech Literature"
  • Curtis, Jordan 
    "Use of Uncertainty Reduction Theory to Examine Emoticons and Other Chat Room Tools' Facilitation of Affiliative Nonverbal Communication"
  • Flamini, Alex 
    "Semiotics and Male Body Image"
  • Salem, Abdel-Rahman
    "Samuel Johnson and Augustanism"
  • Wisniewski, Marzena 
    "The Power of Discourse and Analysis of Holocaust Survivors in Buffalo, NY"


2008

  • Ferro, Darcie 
    "Gendered Genre Conventions in Sophia Lee's The Recess"
  • Jones, Kirk
    "Self, Society, and Surveillance in the Literature of 19th-Century America"
  • Neer, Christine 
    "Charlotte Brooke and Lady Gregory: Irish Literary Nationalist Writers"
  • Polidori, Mary 
    "Women's Culture in Potsdam Rescue"
  • West, Heather 
    "Environmental Risk Communication: A Case Study of a State Agency's Communication with the Public"

2007


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2004

  • Von Hoffman, Amanda 
    "Margaret Atwood's Exploration of Formal Cues that Dictate the Readers' Expectations in The Blind Assassin"

2003

  • Flanders-Gunderson, Aimi 
    ""Anything but a Woman": Willa Cather's Rejection of Labels and Search for Power"
  • Tyo, Louise 
    "Unleashing the Power -- Moving from Oppressed Silence to Empowered Voice: A Rhetorical Analysis of Kate Clinton's Stand-up Comedy Routine"

2002

  • Kang, Moon-Seok 
    "On Peter Shaffer's The Royal Hunt of the Sun"
  • Wilson, Karen 
    "Rape in Rural America: A Pentadic Anaylsis of the Casablanca Rape Case"

2001

  • Ross, Cindy 
    "The Rhetoric and Politics of Profiles in American Literature: Anna Julia Cooper and A Voice From the South