
Graduate Dissertations
Summer 2025
June 26, 2025
"Hollywood/Holivut: Transnational American Cinema and the Making of Turkish Modernity"
Ozgun Basmaz (American Studies)
Spring 2025
May 09, 2025
Who has the Mic: Power, Twitter, and the NBA
Michelle Tran (American Studies)
April 18, 2025
"German Indianthusiasm and Settler Colonialism: Pernicious Continuities"
Judy Fisher (American Studies)
April 15, 2025
"Envisioning Inclusion in the Heartland: Chinese Laborers, Merchants, and Students in the Midwest United States, 1880s-1910s"
Yu Dou (American Studies)
April 09, 2025
"Africatown English: Early History and Developments"
Leah Nodar (Linguistics)
Fall 2024
December 13, 2024:
Exploding the Frame: Feminism, Art, and Authenticity in Arab America.
Jehan Mullin (American Studies)
December 06, 2024
"Plausibility and the Aural Processing of Mandarin Garden-path Sentences by L1, L2, and Heritage Speakers"
Vanessa Sheu (Linguistics)
November 15, 2024
"The Morphology of Location in American Sign Language (ASL)"
Margaret Crabtree (Linguistics)
November 11, 2024:
"Don't Let Them Bury Us": Lesbian Activism in the Genealogy of the Prison Abolition Movement
Cait Parker (American Studies)
October 09, 2024
"The Use of Authentic Matericals to Train L2 Suprasegmental Features: Evidence from L2 Lexical Tone in Mandarin and L2 Lexical Pitch Accent in Japanese"
Alexis Zhou (Linguistics)
Summer 2024
June 13, 2024
"Conjure, Care, Calls, and Cauls: Histories of Black Folk Health Beliefs in Black Women's Literature"
Kaylah Morgan (American Studies)
Spring 2024
April 10, 2024
"Literary Kinship: An Examination of Black Women's Networks of Literary Activity, Community, Activism, and Healing in the 20th and 21st Century"
Veronica Ahmed (American Studies)
March 06, 2024
"Cross-Linguistic Influence in L1 Phonetic Categories in Korean Heritage Speakers and Long-Term Immigrants"
Yuhyean Seo (Linguistics)
Fall 2023
November 20, 2023
"Negation in Khuzestani Arabic and an Emerging Sign Language"
Seyyed Tamimi Sa'd (Linguistics)
September 27, 2023
"Production and Perception of Korean and Korean-Accented English Clear Speech"
Ye-Jee Jung (Linguistics)
Summer 2023
July 17, 2023
"Where There's Smoke: Fire Narratives from the Long American Century"
Ryan Schnurr (American Studies)
July 13, 2023
"Harmonic Resurgence: Reclaiming the Godino Twins' Journey Through Hip Hop"
Melvin Villaver (American Studies)
June 05, 2023
Mrs. Goldleana's Ledger: Louisiana Learning in Shreveport's Hollywood Neighborhood on Ledbetter Street 1945-1975"
Jolivette Anderson-Douoning (American Studies - Ph.D.)
Spring 2023
May 03, 2023
"The Acquisition of Subjunctive Mood by Child Heritage Speakers of Spanish"
Laura Solano Escobar (Linguistics)
March 27, 2023
"Second Language Discourse Marker Development: A Concept-based Approach to Instruction"
Syndey Dickerson (Linguistics)
Fall 2022
December 12, 2022
"Drag Cuisines: The Queer Ontology of Veganism"
Allison Frazier (American Studies)
December 05, 2022
"A Formal Syntatic Analysis of Motion Predicates in Limonese Creole"
Esteban Zuniga Arguello (Linguistics)
October 24, 2022
"Black Food Trucks Matter: A Qualitative Study Examining the (Mis)Representation, Underestimation, and Contribution of Black Enterpreneurs in the Food Truck Industry"
Ariel Smith (American Studies)
September 26, 2022
"On the Causative Verb Forms of Arabic: Form I and Form II and Their Associations with (In)Directness of Causation"
Khadeejah Alaslani (Linguistics)
Summer 2022
July 21, 2022
"Mascots, Monuments, and Memorialization: The Collective Memory of Chief Illiniwek"
Maria Mears (American Studies)
July 20, 2022
"Sharing Bob Dylan's Euphantasiostos Role in Francoist Spain"
Alejandro Rodriguez (Comparative Literature)
July 19, 2922
"Quantifying Phonological Feature Co-occurrence"
April Grotberg (Linguistics)
July 18, 2022
"Vibrational Reprieves: Black Women’s Soul Food Narratives as Aesthetic Sites of Erotic and Sexual Agency"
Megan Williams (American Studies)
July 18, 2022
"Modal Signs and Cooccurring Nonmanual Markers in Turkish Sign Language (TID)"
Serpil Karabuklu (Linguistics)
July 14, 2022
"Reverence, Variance, Deviance, and Convergence in Black Women's Eco-Spiritualities"
Malik Raymond (American Studies)
Spring 2022
May 09, 2022
"Agnostic Responses to Reports and Assessments"
Mai Yamamoto (Linguistics)
March 23, 2022
"Imagineered Imperial Tourism: Disney & U.S. Empire in Hawaii"
Rachel Bonini (American Studies)