M.A. in English and Communication Completed Theses
Completed Theses
(with links to full text where available)
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"
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