Dissertation Information for CWS Graduates
Elizabeth Baldridge
Medicalized Illiteracies: Learning Disabilities, Contentious Histories, and Writing Studies
(Peter Mortensen, Chair; Gail Hawisher, Spencer Schaffner, Cathy Prendergast),
May, 2007.
Marcia Buell
The Interplay of Voice, Identity, and Response Among Five EAL University Writers
(Paul Prior, Chair; Gail Hawisher, Sarah McCarthey, Peter Mortensen)
May, 2008.
Kory Ching
Out of the Shadows: Rethinking Response Through the Instructor-Led Peer Conference
(Paul Prior, Chair; Gail Hawisher, Peter Mortensen, Sarah McCarthey)
May, 2008.
Caroline Cole
Woman, Feminist, Lesbian: Negotiated Identities in Working With Man Made Academic Discourse Conventions
(Cheris Kramarae, chair; Gail Hawisher, Ann Blakeslee)
May, 1997.
Philip Eubanks
A War of Words in the Discourse of Trade: A Case Study of Metaphor
(Greg Colomb, Chair; Nina Baym, Dennis Baron, Paul Prior)
October, 1996.
Kathy Evans
Teacher Response to Student Writing: Communication, Context & Pedagogy
(Greg Colomb, Chair; Gail Hawisher, Paul Prior)
October, 1997.
Katherine Gossett
From Manuscript to Multimedia: Illuminating Memory and Re[image]ning Composition
(Gail Hawisher & Martin Camargo, Co-Chairs, Anne Hedeman, Joseph Squier, Joyce Walker)
August, 2007.
Sibylle Gruber
Contextualizing Nontraditional Students' Appropriation of Virtuality and Reality
(Gail Hawisher, Chair; Alice Deck; George Hendrick)
October, 1996.
Kimberly K. Gunter
Queering Composition and Identity: Moving Beyond Inclusion in Composition Classrooms and the Field
(Paul Prior, Chair; Amanda Anderson, Ann Blakeslee, Gail Hawisher, Peter Mortensen),
May, 2001.
Mary Hocks
Technotropes of Liberation: Reading Hypertext in the Age of Theory
(Robert Parker & Gail Hawisher, Co-Chairs; Greg Colomb, S. Star)
October, 1994.
Maureen Hogan
What is C.A.R.E.? The Birth and Identity Formation of an Alternative Public Middle School
(Chip Bruce, Chair; Cameron McCarthy, Paul Prior)
December, 1999.
John Hudson
Silent Readers, Silenced Readers: LGBT Student Perceptions of LGBT Representation in Composition Readers
(Peter Mortensen, Chair; Gail Hawisher, Cathy Prendergast, Cheryl Cole),
May, 2007.
Steven J. Lamos
Sponsoring Educational Opportunity: Race, Racism, and Writing Instruction at the University of Illinois
(Cathy Prendergast, Chair; Paul Prior, Robert Jimenez, Laurence Parker),
May, 2004.
Kevin Leander
Classroom Discourse, Identity, and the Production of Social Space
(Chip Bruce, Chair; Jim Wertsch, Peggy Miller, Paul Prior)
May, 1999.
Tom Lugo
Working-Class Black Male First-Year Writers and Their Composition Teaching Assistants: Negotiating Power and Authority in the Basic Writing Classroom
(Gail Hawisher, Chair; Emily Watts, Jim Hurt, Chester Fontenot, Jr.)
May, 2003.
Karen J. Lunsford
Distributed Argumentative Activity: Redefining Arguments and Their Re-Mediation from a Sociohistoric Perspective
(Paul Prior, Chair; Peter Mortensen, Gail Hawisher, Chip Bruce)
May, 2003.
Lance M. Massey
Using Complexity Theory to Investigate Disciplinarity: A Historical, Theoretical, and Ethical Inquiry into Composition’s Ethical Turn
(Peter Mortensen, Chair; Debbie Hawhee, Cathy Prendergast, Gail Hawisher)
May, 2005.
Guy Moyer
The Practical Application of Bakhtin & Related Theory to Language Education
(Clifford Christians, Chair; Bertram Bruce, Bonnie Armbruster)
May, 1997.
Kerry Ose
The Educational Experiences of Evangelical College Students: An Ethnographic of Pedagogy, Literacy and Learning
(Dennis Baron, Chair; Greg Colomb, Chip Bruce)
May, 1998.
Kim Hensley Owens
Rhetorical Labor: Writing, Childbirth and the Internet
(Debbie Hawhee & Peter Mortensen, Co-Chairs; Gail Hawisher, Cathy Prendergast, Leslie Reagan),
May, 2007
Jim Purdy
Digital Archives and the Turn to Design
(Gail E. Hawisher, Chair; Cara Finnegan, Debra Hawhee, Peter Mortensen)
May, 2006.
Kevin Roozen
Mapping Critical Connections: Tracing Undergraduates’ Literate Lives
(Gail Hawisher, Chair; Paul Prior, Peter Mortensen, Catherine Prendergast)
May, 2005.
Jody Shipka
Remediating Rhetoric and Composition: An Activity-Based Multimodal Framework for Composing
(Paul Prior, Chair; Gail Hawisher, Peter Mortensen, Geoffrey Sirc)
May, 2005.
Mary P. Sheridan-Rabideau
Discourse and Subjectivity in the GirlZone: How Literate Activities Construct a Community Organization
(Paul Prior, Chair; Gail E. Hawisher, Cathy Prendergast, Amanda Anderson),
August, 2000.
Joyce Simutis
Toward a Writing Theory of Transition
(Gail Hawisher & Greg Colomb, Co-Chairs; Paul Prior, Ann Blakeslee)
October, 1997.
Janine Solberg
Pretty Typewriters: Gender, Technology, and Literacy in Career Advice Literature for Women
(Peter Mortensen & Gail Hawisher, Co-Chairs; Paul Prior, Debbie Hawhee),
May, 2007.
Derek Van Ittersum
Reassembling Writing Technologies: Historical and Situated Studies of Rhetorical Activity
(Gail Hawisher, Chair; Paul Prior, Chip Bruce, Peter Mortensen),
August 2008.
Gregory Waddoups
Deploying Identities in E-Worlds: K-12 Teachers Extending, Adopting, and Defending Their Practitioner Identities
(Jim Levin, Chair; Gail Hawisher, Jacquetta Hill, Sandra Levin),
May 2000.
Joyce R. Walker
Standing at the End of a Road: Death and the Construction of Cyborg Relationships
(Gail Hawisher, Chair; Joseph Squier, Andrea Press, Catherine Prendergast)
May, 2003.
Amy Wan
Producing Good Citizens: Literacy and Citizenship Training in Anxious
(Peter Mortensen, Chair; Gail Hawisher, Paul Prior, Debbie Hawhee),
May, 2007.
Patricia Webb
Computing Cultures: Information Technologies and Narratives of Self
(Gail Hawisher, Chair; Paul Prior, Amanda Anderson)
May, 1998.