Composition and Applied Linguistics (CAL) Dissertations for Which I Served as a Reader (150)
Alshehri, Arwa. (2025). Exploring the development of Middle Eastern Women’s translingual digital identity. (Director: Gloria Park; Readers: Matt Vetter.)
Black, Willa. (2025). Customize player character: The effects of a digital language learning role-playing game on language learner identity. (Director: David Hanauer; Reader: Curt Porter.)
Elfana, Riza. (2025). (Re)Envisioning writing centers as multiliteracy centers: The state of multiliteracy in writing center practice. (Director: Dana Driscoll; Reader: Gloria Park.)
Sasala, Gary (2025). Comparing unfocused error-coded indirect written feedback to unfocused error-coded direct written feedback using a finer table of error codes with metalinguistic information and written languaging. (Director: Brian Carpenter; Reader: Gloria Park.)
Sateriale, Brian (2025). Androgynism: Recognition of The Influence of the Internal Hieros Gamos – The Sacred Masculine-Feminine Union – Upon Literary Critical Discourse, Literature, and Film of the 20th and 21st Centuries. (Director: Chris Orchard; Reader: Reena Dube.)
Agama, Forster. (2024). Let the love for students’ language practices guide our pedagogies: Promoting linguistic justice in the U.S. composition classrooms.
Curcio, Mark A. LitFit: A motivated literacy program to develop rural self-disciplined male high school readers. (Director: Emily Wender; Reader: Brian Carpenter)
Lamkins, Kevin. (2024). White first year composition teachers’ identities and perceptions of racially and linguistically diverse students.
Navarro, Joseph Mark. (2024). Toward the development of an anti-racist academic identity for black, indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) learners in first year writing at two universities in the state of California.
Nulton, Corinne. The double-edged sword of shame: The impacts of school induced literacy shaming in first-year writers. (Director: Bryna Siegel Finer; Reader: Dana Driscoll)
Abdullah Alshehri, Hind. (2023). An exploratory case study of the writing centers in Saudi Arabia.
Cu, Wenqi. (2023). Transfer Across Media: Learning Transfer in Digital-Mediated Multimodal Writing in First-Year Composition.
Hillyer, Audrey A. (2023). The implementation of high impact practices at community colleges: Insider perspectives of how HIPs work.
Akiyoshi, Jun. (2022). Composition teacher identity and practice: Exploring composition teachers from international contexts in rural Pennsylvania College Composition Courses.
Doyle, Brianna. (2022). Access is not enough: Helping students with learning disabilities succeed in college writing and beyond.
Narang, Pooja Bhatia. (2022). Navigating the complexities of Ph.D.: academic literacy and discourse socialization of L2 doctoral students in the U.S.*
Sondari, Parawati Siti. (2022). Situating Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) in undergraduate thesis advising context to promote Indonesian pre-service Language Teacher-Researcher Identity (LTRI) construction.
Stephenson, Loren R. (2022). When reading was food for the soul: The nourishment trope for the concept of literary value, antiquity to the thirteenth century. (Passed with distinction.)
Ylonfoun, Awouignandji (Ebenezer; 2022). Benin high school English teachers’ prior English writing experiences and how these experiences affect teachers’ perceptions of teaching writing in English*
Florian, Stephen. (2021). Understanding the effect of labeling developmental writing students as probationary: A critical qualitative inquiry.*
Sanchez, Ana C. (2021). Genre-based approach within systemic functional linguistics: Developing heritage Spanish students’ persuasive writing skills with a focus on the subjunctive mood and modality.*
Zhang, Jing. (2021). Talking about writing in China: How do writing centers serve Chinese students’ needs?*
Anokye, Janet. (2020). HBCU Composition faculty members’ perceptions about their composition students’ use of African American English.
Dunning, Leigh Ann. (2020). Peer tutors as writing center researchers: Case studies of tutors learning and employing interviewing skills.*
Hull, Brittany S. (2020). When you use ya white voice ta git da job: Linguistic identity negotiation and the black woman English teacher-scholar.*
Silvia Vaccino-Salvadore. (2020). Kuwaiti women’s identity construction and negotiations as English language teachers: A narrative inquiry.
Webb, Marie (2020). Negotiating professional identities of English language, rhetoric, composition, and writing studies instructors: Implications for teacher education across the disciplines.
Beasley, Aaron L. (2019). Using sitcoms to measure humor comprehension between L1, L2, and bilingual users of English: Implications for pragmatic research.
O’Brien, Jonathan David. (2019). Constructs of stylistic production and reception: Vetting and extending the sociocultural theory of style.
Katsiadas, Nicholas P. (2019). Transforming literary history into romantic myths in comics: Neil Gaiman’s Sandman, Alan Moore and J.H. Williams III’s Promethea, and Mike Carey and Peter Gross’s The Unwritten.
Abdullah Sleman Darwish. (2018). Exploring academic and disciplinary literacy socialization and enactment of seven international undergraduate business students
Alluhaydan, Khulud. (2018). Writing to learn in an online community of practice: An exploratory study of Arab ESL learners’ texts and the corrective and commentary feedback they received (linguistic, pedagogical, and sociolinguistic analysis).
Morales, Jack Neal. (2018). Literacy sponsorship at Staten Island Community College of the City University of New York, 1968-1976.
Adam Colton. (2017). Redesigning the LMS: Game design, collaborative learning, and the Literary Guild.
Cobb, Gretchen T. (2017). Habitus of deafhood: Compiling a corpus-based academic ASL dictionary using the socioliguistic practices of Deaf individuals.*
Hopkins, Justin B. (2017). The story of them: Outcomes of practicing autoethnography in undergraduate writing courses.
Sheridan, Cheryl L. (2017). English medium “national” journals in globalized academia: A qualitative study of fourteen authors’ publishing experiences in the semiperipheral context of Taiwan.*
Simpson, Shelah Y. (2017). Student perceptions of online writing center designs for fully online programs.*
Follett, Jennifer. (2016). “How do you feel about this paper?” A mixed-methods study of how writing center tutors address emotion.*
Jeter, Andrew L. (2016). High school peer tutor alumni research project.
Jones, Kirk (2016). E-dentity: Exploring the author-audience dynamic through blogging in the composition classroom. (Passed with distinction.)*
McKee, Ravyn L. (2016). Arriving at this place: A teacher’s journey to fostering sustainable international service-learning in the writing classroom.
Tarkan-Blanco, Bashak (2016). ESL students’ perceptions of non-native English language teachers in English-speaking countries: The effect on teacher self-image and implications for U.S. teacher training programs. (Passed with distinction.)*
Zimmerly, Stephen M. (2016). The sidekick comes of age: Tracing the growth of secondary characters in young adult literature.
Collie, Gillian Mary. (2015). A Bakhtinian approach to (re)visioning heroic rhetoric in medical discourse.*
Ahmed, Mohamed A. M. (2015). Androgynous content. Gender-inclusive language in Qur’anic Arabic and Egyptian Arabic.
Salako, Olubukola Yetunde (Bukky). (2015). Sociolinguistic analysis of Nigerian Pidgin English in Nigerian film.
Virgil, Sharon M. (2015). A year of change: students writing hope.
Begley, Joshua Grant. (2014). Playful texts: Play theory and the adaptation and reception of fantasy games.
Fotinakes, Brian. (2014). Belief and an act of will: Hope in the composition class.
Herb, Margaret. (2014). Reimagining the dominant narratives of peer tutoring: A study of tutors’ and writers’ stories
Sorensen-Lang, Karen. (2014). Talking voice in women’s advocacy sites and composition.
Boyd, John Larkin. (2013). Writing centers and the problem of expertise: Knowing and doing in peer tutoring.
Helvie, Forrest C. (2013). Capes and the canon: Comic book superheroes and canonical American literature.
Garcia, Christopher B. (2013). Profiling writing knowledge: Exploring peer review feedback beyond revising and editing.*
Johnson, Jennifer Kathleen. (2013). What are we doing here, anyway?” An exploration of the attitudes and responses of teaching assistants from composition and from literature regarding their TA preparation.
Pant, Deepak K. (2013). Reconstructing myself: The story of a second language teacher of writing.
Park, Soon Bak. (2013). Exploring five Korean English language teachers’ identities in the Korean teaching contexts.*
Sikorski-Julier, April Zosia. (2013). Listening to students and answering the call: One woman’s writing, responding, and reflecting.
Verbout, Mary. (2013). Predictive validity of a multiple-choice test for placement in a community college
Wise, Melody Anne. (2013). Writing placement and proficiency assessment practices in two rural two-year colleges.
Ye, Weier. (2013). Achieving coherence in persuasive discourse: A study of Chinese ESL undergraduates in the United States.*
Gatto, Roseanne. (2012). Letters, lectures, memos, and minutes: An archival study of George Pierce Baker’s role in the history of theater and performance studies.
Klompien, Kathleen J. (2012). “Speaking truth to power”: A history of the California State University English Council.
Rudd, LeeAnn (Mysti) Marie. (2012). Reasons to leave, reasons to believe: Students’ stories of withdrawing from first year composition.
Sukasem, Ngarmnij Intachakra (Jeab). (2012). Digital literacy practice: Blogs and authorship in developing multilingual TESOL professionals in a graduate program in the United States.
Chambers, Leah Michelle. (2011). Composition, retention, race, remediation, and the first year: A descriptive study of the “at-risk” student experience on a regional campus.
Duncan, Elizabeth Rafferty. (2011). International mail order brides: A narrative inquiry investigating the lives of six female second language learners, their literacies and their acquisition of the English language.
Littleton, Chad Eric. (2011). The role of feedback in two fanfiction writing groups.
Lucas, Janet M. (2011). Not just a feeling anymore: Empathy and the teaching of writing.
Paull, Joanna. (2011). A new direction for composition pedagogy: Implementing perspective pedagogy in the first-year research composition classroom.
Wells, Jennifer M. (2011). Millennials strike back: Students’ reports of knowledge transfer from high school to college.
Wetzl, Ana Maria. (2011). L2 writing in the L1 composition course: A model for promoting linguistic tolerance. (2012 Conference on College Composition and Communication James Berlin Outstanding Dissertation Award winner.)
Amer, Mahmoud Atiah. (2010). Idiomobile for learners of English: A study of learners’ usage of a mobile learning application for learning idioms and collocations.
Fallon, Brian J. (2010). The perceived, conceived, and lived experiences of 21st century peer writing tutors.
Fels, Dawn. (2010). The vernacular architecture of composition instruction: What the voices of writing center tutors reveal about the influence of standardized instruction and assessment. (2011 Conference on College Composition and Communication James Berlin Outstanding Dissertation Award Honorable Mention.)
Lapidus, Alexander. (2010). L2 culture negotiation and visual literacy: A multilingual perspective.
Stevenson, Heidi Ann. (2010). Finding our places, defining our places: Service learning and ecocomposition in the first-year composition classroom.
Worajittipol, Kandanai (2010). Online interaction between Thai EFL learners and English speaking chat partners: An exploration of negotiation for meaning and developing relationships.
Huang, Yi-Wen. (2009). Listening to Their Voices: An In-depth Study of Language Anxiety and Cultural Adjustment Among Taiwanese Graduate Students in the United States.
Lynch-Biniek, Amy. (2009). Refiguring composition through theory.
McCaffrey, Kelly J. (2009). The role and representation of technology in composition handbooks.
Peterson, Heather Walker. (2009). Religious literacy practices and identity in a Slavic immigrant congregation.
Romanelli, Marie. (2009). Exploring the culture and cognition of outsider literacy practices in adult readers of graphic novels.
Buripakdi, Adcharawan (Cobb). (2008). Thai English as discourse of exclusion and resistance: Perspectives of Thai professional writers on the notion of Thai English. (2008 IUP Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award winner. Passed with distinction.)
Han, Eunhee (2008). Challenges of the intercultural classroom: A qualitative study of the perceptions of international teaching associates and their American students.
Hudspath-Niemi, Holly Sue. (2008). Historical case analysis of ESL staff development for mainstream content area teachers in a Pennsylvania school district.
Johnson, Peggy L. (2008). A Pedagogy of Love: Exploring Emotions, Spirit, and Intellect in the Basic Writing Classroom.
Jones, Glenda. (2008). Is there a teacher in this class? The story of my teacher identity. (Doctoral student at University of Illinois at Chicago.)
Kelly, Elaine M. (2008). In search of one’s pack: A narrative study of a working-class woman in the academy.
Ninacs, Michele. (2008). Crossing over to the Multimodal side. A study of the consensus building strategies employed by Miami University of Ohio in support of a multimodal first-year writing curriculum.
Bahk-Halberg, Jon Henry. (2007). In their own words: Korean perspectives on becoming English interpreter/translators.
Fitzpatrick, Caroline M. (2007). Women’s voices, women’s quilts: A study of discourse practices in a Pennsylvania quilting circle.
Halsey, Richard E. (2007). Through students’ and teachers’ eyes: What writing teachers need to know.
Nora, Krystia. (2007). “A new lease on life”: Three narrative case studies from a subsidized senior high rise, participant design writing group. (2008 IUP Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award winner.)
Bailey, Lillie E. Smith. (2006). Tell it like it is: African American students’ written narratives and oral stories in the composition classroom.
Bickford, Crystal. (2006). Examining writing center training texts: Towards a tutor training pedagogy.
Briam, Carole S. (2006). The organization of data graphics: A heuristic for writing instructors.
Caulfield, Thomas J. (2006). A cultural analysis of masculine identities in racial situations and conflict during the 1980s in New York City: The Bonfire of the Vanities, Do the Right Thing, The Cosby Show, and Public Enemy.
Chung, Liang-Yi (Vicky). (2006). Learning to write American academic English: Case studies of Asian college exchange students’ transitional experiences in the United States.
Cook, Carrie Lynn. (2006). The questions we ask: A study of tutor questions and their effect on writing center tutorials.
Elgeddawy, Mohamed Abdel Rahim Mohamed. (2006). The post-process movement in rhetoric and composition: A philosophical hermeneutic reading of being-in-the-world with others.
Ghandoura, Waleed A. (2006). College ESL students’ attitudes and beliefs about computer-assisted writing classes.
Houp, George Wesley (2006). Public labels, personal literacies: Language and learning in the lives of nine adult education students.
Jan, Ilham. (2006). Conversations with Arab graduate students of English about literacy: The construction of identity.
Kanter, Susan Beth. (2006). Embodying research: A study of student engagement in research writing.
Listro, Stephen A. (2006). What curios of signs: The pedagogical implications of writing as metacognition. (Passed with distinction.)
McBride, Kristina Holland. (2006). Roots and wings: Language attitudes of professional women native to the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.
Nye, Jamey Allan (2006). The hidden transcripts of ESL writers: Four longitudinal case studies on the experiences and perceptions of ESL and Generation 1.5 students acquiring academic literacy at the community college.
Al-Ghonaim, Ali S. (2005). ESL College Students’ Beliefs and Attitudes about Reading-to-Write in an Introductory Composition Course: A Qualitative Study.
Al-Shehri, Ali M. (2005). The Impact of Islam on Using Computers and the Internet to Support Language Learning in Saudi Arabia.
Alshwairkh, Sami A. N. (2005). Learning Vocabulary Through Online Reading: Approaches and Attitudes of ESL Business Students.
Al-Zahrani, Meteab. (2005). Arab EFL Reaction to Computer Supported Collaborative Writing.
Hammill, Bobbi A. (2005). The Making of Models, Maxims, and Mother Metaphors: Deconstructing Perceptions of Four Women Regarding Teaching and Scholarship in the Field of Composition.
Kobashigawa, Suzan Reiko (2005). Native Hawaiian Literacies: A Case Study of Three Genereations of One Native Hawaiian Family.
Milner, Laura Alicia. (2005). The Language of Loss: Transformation in the Telling, In and Beyond the Writing Classroom.
Pittman, Brenda. (2005). Expressive Writing: A Language of Self-Care.
Santa, Tracy. (2005). Dead Letters: Error in Composition, 1873-2004.
Williams, Denise Sporleder Sneed. (2005). The Belief Systems of Cultural Brokers in Three Minority Communities in America.
Al-Shehri, Ali Mohammad Ali (2004). Attitudes Toward Technology in Saudi Arabia: An Analysis of Quríanic, Other Islamic, and Saudi Sources.
Davis, Cheryl K. (2004). Motivated to Serve, Motivated to Learn: Theorizing Care in the Composition Service-Learning Classroom.
Klass-Soffian, Ronni. (2004). Competition vs. Cooperation: A Descriptive Study of Collaboration Among Mainly Bilingual Cuban American Students in Freshman Composition.
Koch Jr., Robert T. (2004). Articulating a MOO-Integrated Writing Pedagogy.
Alshamrani, Hassan M. (2003). The Attitudes and Beliefs of ESL Students About Extensive Reading of Authentic Texts.
Beatty, Jametha A. (2003). Composition and Recovery: Women Writing Sobriety and Spirituality into Their Lives.
Diken, Bahar. (2003). Breaking Through Illusions: Collaboration in One College Writing Classroom.
Fageeh, Abdulaziz (Aziz). (2003). Saudi College Students’ Beliefs Regarding Their English Writing Difficulties
Gutwein, Geraldine Mendoza (Gerri). (2003). Native American Women and Literacy: Looking Through and Beyond a Thematic View of the Landscape of Literacy in Six Lakota Women’s Lives.
Santiago-Veilez, Mildred (2003). Pleasure Reading in the Spanish and English Biliteracy of Successful Puerto Rican College First Year Students.
Thatcher, Patricia. (2003). Historical Perspectives and Analysis of the Resolutions Process of the National Council of Teachers of English.
Burford, Edith Sue. (2002). The Impact of Race and Culture on Teacher and Students Views of First-Year Composition at a University in Deep South Texas
Graber, F. Elizabeth. (2002). Old Believer Women in a Postmodern World: Changing Literacy, Changing Lives. (2003 Conference on College Composition and Communication James Berlin Outstanding Dissertation Award winner.)
Higgason, E. Richard (2002) Hypertext Performances/Hypertext Communities
Huber, Lois Elaine. (2002). Unexplored Territory: Writing Instruction in Pennsylvania Homeschool Settings, Grades 9-12.
Thongrin, Saneh. (2002). E-mail Peer Responses in Collectivist Thai Culture: Task, Social and Cultural Dimensions.
Conley, Flora W. (2001). Negotiation, Resistance, and Self-Presentation: Four Women Managers Using Email to Gain a Voice.
Eckard, Sandra J. (2001, October). The Ties That Bind: Storytelling in Composition Classrooms and Writing Centers.
Huggins, Jacqueline R. (2001). A Qualitative Investigation into the Metacognitive Processes of Adult Learners in an Online Distance Learning Program .
Reagles, Steven L. (2001). Rhetorical Redolence: Socio-Semiotic Explorations of the Multimodal Effects of Odor on Verbal/Visual Rhetoric.
Schakel, Sharon Kreun. (2001). Reflective Paragraphs as Metacognitive Opportunities for Writing Improvement.
Smith, Delver B. (2001). Decades of Experience: Portraits of Good High School English Teachers.
Goggin, Peter N. (2000). A New Literacy Map of Research and Scholarship in Computers and Writing.
James, Annie Deloris (2000). Attitudes of Technical Communication Faculty at Selected Historically Black Colleges and Universities Toward Teaching with Instructional Technology.
Norton, Daniel P. (2000). Electronic Mentoring: A Qualitative Study on Mentoring Preservice English Language Teachers Through Asynchronous Computer-Mediated Communication.
Thompson, Stella S. (2000). Composing Journeys from Home to Here: Seven Women’s Literacy Experiences.
Waren-Austin, Wendy. (2000). The Research Paper in Cyberspace: Source-Based Writing in the Modern Composition Classroom.
Werner-Burke, Nancy. (2000). Opening a Door: Older Students and Computer Literacy.
Sohn, Kathy K. (1999). Whistlin’ and Crowin’ Women of Appalachia: Literacy Development Since College. (2001 Conference on College Composition and Communication James Berlin Outstanding Dissertation Award winner.)
Winner, Tammy S. (1999). Teaching First-Year Composition Employing Web-Based Pedagogies: A Qualitative Study.
Mackall, Joe. (1996). Porch Stories: A Narrative Look at the Stories and the Storytelling Traditions of the Places My Students and I Call Home.