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Congratulations Spring ’26 graduates

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)
Bolatito Ifeoluwa Abolade Beyond language barriers: A qualitative exploration of organizational socialization experiences and entry challenges among international employees in U.S. workplaces (T)Stacy Tye-Williams
Ebetehal AsiriVirtual reality and technology-enhanced project-based language learning: A synergistic approach to teaching second language pragmatics to Saudi female students (D)Gulbahar Beckett
Haley BelsherPedagogical considerations for using tactical technical communication networks in coding (T)Jessica Jorgenson Borchert and Stacy Tye-Williams
Agustus BensingerSome kind of weird happiness: Transcendent trash in John Waters’ Pink Flamingos (T)Justin Remes
TJ BensonAre you not Nigerian? (T) K. L. Cook
Zack BukovichAlpenglow: Stories (T)K. L. Cook
Atlas CahillBlood that has a little bite: Reading cultural fears in the queer vampiric body (T)Justin Remes
Micaela EdelsonSearching for kami: Encountering environmental legacy in Japanese Shinto (T)Debra Marquart
Marisol KarcsThe heretic’s finger & other curses (T)K. L. Cook
Emma KrabThe Women of Covenant Ranch: A novel (T)K. L. Cook
Alexa LivingstonFrom readiness to agency: An exploration of language to prepare and empower the critical voice. (CC)Brandon Sams
Saime Esma MascaAddressing teachers’ needs for integrating generative AI into a pedagogical feedback model (T)Carol Chapelle
Quang Xuan NguyenThe effects of ASR-based practice on learners’ perception of L2 sounds (T)Sinem Sonsaat- Hegelheimer
Aubrey Ann RoemmichFrog or lion, but never a man: Weird fiction, consciousness raising, and magical realism in Rachel Ingalls’ novellas Mrs. Caliban and Binstead’s Safari (T)Rochelle Zuck
Elizabeth ShortReimagining resilience through literature in Macbeth, Housekeeping, and The Seed Keeper (CC)Brandon Sams
Liberato Silva-Dos-SantosPronunciation assessment in a paired discussion task: A mixed methods study of rater judgements (D)Gary Ockey
Kenzie TrowbridgeTThe hauntingly real in Ozarks women’s folktales: Unsettled domesticity and contested motherhood (T)Linda Shenk
Nathan Vinehout KaneAll Our Beautiful Things (T)Debra Marquart
Gabby VinkemeierMerging culturally responsive teaching and composition studies in adult education: Exploring different audiences (T)Lesley Bartlett