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 Asiri | Virtual reality and technology-enhanced project-based language learning: A synergistic approach to teaching second language pragmatics to Saudi female students (D) | Gulbahar Beckett |
| Haley Belsher | Pedagogical considerations for using tactical technical communication networks in coding (T) | Jessica Jorgenson Borchert and Stacy Tye-Williams |
| Agustus Bensinger | Some kind of weird happiness: Transcendent trash in John Waters’ Pink Flamingos (T) | Justin Remes |
| TJ Benson | Are you not Nigerian? (T) | K. L. Cook |
| Zack Bukovich | Alpenglow: Stories (T) | K. L. Cook |
| Atlas Cahill | Blood that has a little bite: Reading cultural fears in the queer vampiric body (T) | Justin Remes |
| Micaela Edelson | Searching for kami: Encountering environmental legacy in Japanese Shinto (T) | Debra Marquart |
| Marisol Karcs | The heretic’s finger & other curses (T) | K. L. Cook |
| Emma Krab | The Women of Covenant Ranch: A novel (T) | K. L. Cook |
| Alexa Livingston | From readiness to agency: An exploration of language to prepare and empower the critical voice. (CC) | Brandon Sams |
| Saime Esma Masca | Addressing teachers’ needs for integrating generative AI into a pedagogical feedback model (T) | Carol Chapelle |
| Quang Xuan Nguyen | The effects of ASR-based practice on learners’ perception of L2 sounds (T) | Sinem Sonsaat- Hegelheimer |
| Aubrey Ann Roemmich | Frog 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 Short | Reimagining resilience through literature in Macbeth, Housekeeping, and The Seed Keeper (CC) | Brandon Sams |
| Liberato Silva-Dos-Santos | Pronunciation assessment in a paired discussion task: A mixed methods study of rater judgements (D) | Gary Ockey |
| Kenzie Trowbridge | TThe hauntingly real in Ozarks women’s folktales: Unsettled domesticity and contested motherhood (T) | Linda Shenk |
| Nathan Vinehout Kane | All Our Beautiful Things (T) | Debra Marquart |
| Gabby Vinkemeier | Merging culturally responsive teaching and composition studies in adult education: Exploring different audiences (T) | Lesley Bartlett |