• Jacques Lacan and Mary Shelley: Repressed Abandonment in Frankenstein 

  Garey 111, Kyle Rasmussen (North Dakota State University, 2010)

  Mary Shelley's early life was fraught with developmental problems. Like Victor Frankenstein's Creation, she lacked a genuine chance to experience what Jacques Lacan calls the Real with her mother. While some readings ...

• "Putting on My Feminist Pants": How Academic Feminists Use Clothing to Construct Professional Identity 

  Gunter, Katie Marie (North Dakota State University, 2010)

  Feminism has traditionally been concerned with issues of women's bodies; however, an examination of women's bodies in clothing has been largely overlooked, especially in relation to feminists themselves. Constructing ...

• Off The Beaten Warpath: Native Representation and Themes in Chris Claremont’s X-Men 

  Bittner, Michael James (North Dakota State University, 2023)

  “Off the Beaten Warpath”: Native Representation and Themes in Chris Claremont’s X-Men Chris Claremont, the long-time writer on several X-Men titles, used the opportunity to develop his own cast of original and highly diverse ...

• Lord of the Living Souls: Dominion and the Spiritual Lives of Animals in Milton's Paradise Lost 

  Russow, Kurt William (North Dakota State University, 2010)

  This paper examines Milton's views of the spiritual status of animals as presented in Paradise lost. It discusses how Milton enters into discussion with the discourses of 111 theology, philosophy, and both antique and ...

• Mottling the conversation: an evolving debate 

  Comeau, Paula (North Dakota State University, 2009)

  Online forums have often been considered a medium of equality. However, after studying Amazon.com communities taking part in the evolution/intelligent design debate, it became clear that these communities were substituting ...

• Enculturating Gender: Examining Bestselling Children's Picture Books 

  Smith, Kara Michele (North Dakota State University, 2010)

  This research examines gender depictions in 20 current bestselling children's picture books. I argue that children's picture books, specifically those aimed at children 0-5 years of age, portray gender in a way that ...

• The Feminist Cure: Feminist Identity As a Shield from Hyper-Sexualized l'vledia Induced Self-Objectification in College Women 

  Carlson, Natalie Smith (North Dakota State University, 2010)

  This paper explores the impact of hyper-sexualized media on college women in terms of inducing self-objectification and/or inhibiting feminist identity. The survey and resulting analysis showed participants' feminist ...

• The Power to (Re )Produce: Biological Determinism in McTeague. 

  Tobias, Stacey Jo (North Dakota State University, 2010)

  In McTeague: A Story of San Francisco, Frank Norris explores life among the working class of Polk Street. Through his unflattering portrayal of all the immigrant characters in the novel, Norris demonstrates his well-documented ...

• Time to Play the Religion Card: Messiah Complexes in Battlestar Galactica 

  Wolf, Carissa Noel (North Dakota State University, 2010)

  In 2003, Battlestar Galactica (BSG) was re-invented from its 1978 roots and updated to a post-apocalyptic narrative that reflects numerous issues in current American culture, including the influence of religious rhetoric ...

• Analysis of a Facebook Freakout: Rhetoric of Agency in the Places Privacy Debate 

  Bakke, Abigail Rose (North Dakota State University, 2011)

  New technologies often generate fear regarding privacy threats, and social networking sites like Face book have lately experienced the brunt of the criticism. Face book users, even as they post greater amounts of information ...

• A Zoomable Assessment: Navigating the Ecologies of Writing Program Assessment 

  Warner, Matthew (North Dakota State University, 2022)

  This dissertation project explores the potential for using an inferential statistics test (t-tests) within an existing writing program assessment design. The purpose of using inferential statistics is to provide several ...

• Classical Rhetoric for Modem Problems: Accommodating Stasis for the W AC/WID Curriculum 

  Archer, Seth Andrew (North Dakota State University, 2011)

  This paper performs a case study of scientific information as it moves between media, in this case, from the journal Science to the New York Times. In order to monitor the rhetorical shifts between texts, both are analyzed ...

• "Building a Class Library": Emphasizing Summary in Teaching Source Use 

  Haich, Niles Andrew (North Dakota State University, 2011)

  The study presented here is a qualitative study evaluating four objectives for teaching source use, ones I emphasized in my Spring 2011 classes with an assignment called the "Building a Class Library Assignment." I relied ...

• Rematerializing the Contact Zone : Discovery and Exploration in the First Year Writing Classroom 

  Kornkven, Erik Kermeth (North Dakota State University, 2011)

  This study investigates Mary Louise Pratt's "contact zone" theory and argues that the contact zone has undergone a dematerializing process from a place with clear geographical and material connections to an imagined ...

• Taking Persephone: The Rhetoric of Consent in Rachel Smythe's Webtoon Lore Olympus (2018) 

  Toay, Kaitlynn (North Dakota State University, 2023)

  Lore Olympus is a webtoon that reimagines the taking of Persephone in an animated, comic style. In this paper, I discuss the rhetoric of consent through a visual analysis using the intersecting fields of classical reception, ...

• The Monster-as-Slayer in Blade (1998): Blade and Posthuman Identity 

  Pennings, Cassandra (North Dakota State University, 2023)

  Blade (1998) features an African American half-vampire whose goals seem contradictory: save the humans that would fear and hate him. A new character trope, the monster-as-slayer, is introduced in the movie’s eponymous hero, ...

• A Reader Response Approach to Storytelling and Tabletop Games: The Player's Experience of Dungeons and Dragons and Its Pedagogical Applications 

  Hansen, Noah (North Dakota State University, 2023)

  Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) is a role-playing game (RPG) that has exploded in popularity since its conception in the 1970s. This paper aims to examine how D&D, and other RPGs like it, can be utilized within an academic ...

• Writing Fires: Writing Instruction, Student Learning Perceptions, and the Importance of Connection in the Age of COVID-19 

  Sullivan, Isaac (North Dakota State University, 2022)

  The COVID-19 pandemic has brought with it devastating and potentially long-lasting impacts to the world. From economic upheavals, political ramifications, and educational disruptions, COVID-19 has changed the face of many ...

• Nostalgia for the 24th Century: How Nerd Billionaires Use Star Trek for Self-Promotion 

  Eggers, Kurt (North Dakota State University, 2022)

  This paper examines how tech industry leaders, who I dub “nerd billionaires,” use references to Star Trek (ST) as a way to connect with the positive impression fans have of its utopian world. I show how they use ST to imply ...

• The Not-So-Universal Experience: A Content Analysis of Regional and National Secondary and Postsecondary Standards for Writing 

  Rickertsen, Vanessa Anne (North Dakota State University, 2022)

  In this paper, I analyze six sets of high school and college standards and outcome statements on students writing to identify how expectations of students writing vary in their respective educational levels. I include local ...

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