Congratulations Spring ’25 graduates
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Author: lskramer
Congratulations to the following graduate students in the Department of English who will receive their MA, MFA, or PhD degrees this semester.
| NAME | TITLE OF MA THESIS (T), MA CREATIVE COMPONENT (CC), MFA THESIS (T), OR PHD DISSERTATION (D) | MAJOR PROFESSOR(S) |
|---|---|---|
| Jorge Eduardo Ambacher | Embodying a Frontera consciousness through Benjamin Alire Saenz’s “Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club” (T) | Linda Shenk |
| Fatimah Aseeri | Judging a book by its cover: Investigating the influence of test takers’ physical attractiveness in synchronous oral communication assessment (D) | Gary Ockey |
| Jeanne Beck | Program evaluation for online English teacher professional development: A utilization-focused evaluation of a global online course (D) | Carol Chapelle |
| Zhi Chen | Logical connectors in Chinese university students’ English essays (D) | Bethany Gray |
| Seemi Choudry | Akeela is trying (T) | Debra Marquart |
| Ellis Wren Deputy | Nonnormative embodiment and systems of control: Transgender bodies and punitive societal structures in literature and the real world (T) | Linda Shenk |
| Ali Ebrahimpourlighvani | Speaking assessment and critical thinking test: An innovation in assessing oral communication ability of international university-level students (T) | Gary Ockey |
| Thomas Elliott | Extended lexical frames in academic journal writing (D) | Bethany Gray |
| Connor Ferguson | Travelers (T) | K. L. Cook |
| Droste Hennings | Comparing human and generative AI annotation performance: Understanding linguistic features of teacher talk in classroom discussions (D) | Evgeny Chukharev |
| Rachel Holmes | Collaborative persona bots: Generative AI-powered experiences for content creation (CC) | Abram Anders |
| Claire Jussel | Through the field (T) | Debra Marquart |
| Danilo Calle Londono | Adverbial stance development in ESL learners through Reddit interactions (T) | Carol Chapelle |
| Caitlin Moran | Trans impressions: Brushes with trans rhetorical energy and affect in popular media (T) | Craig Rood |
| Seyyed Ali Mousavi | The experimental cinema of Abbas Kiarostami (T) | Justin Remes |
| Jacob Oliver | Echoes of laughter and sorrow: Black humor’s revelation of trauma in Vietnam and Gulf War experiences (T) | Linda Shenk |
| Katie Painter | Redefining freedom: Adopting and adapting the slave narrative in Frances E. W. Harper’s Iola Leroy and Toni Morrison’s Beloved (T) | Rochelle Zuck |
| Tony Quick | Presidential plots: The commander-in-chief as national narrator (D) | Charles Kostelnick |
| Aubrey Simons | An exploration of environmental themes in literature (CC) | Brandon Sams |
| Shalini Singh | Lullaby into the microphone (CC) | K. L. Cook |
| Zoe Stonetree | To get there from here (T) | Deb Marquart |
| April Tan | Simulating academic discourse socialization: A virtual reality – artificial intelligence environment for developing socio-rhetorical knowledge (D) | Elena Cotos |
| Eleanore Tisch | Salt circle (T) | Debra Marquart |
| Makenzie Van Maanen | Reeling in connection: Community, agency, and recovery in later-life veterans with service-connected disabilities (T) | Craig Rood |
| Elizabeth Wenger | Places we don’t belong essays (T) | K. L. Cook |