December 12, 2025
Lisa Parzefall
Dissertation: Afghan College Women Refugees’ Resettlement Experiences and the Impact on Their Identities
Dissertation Chair: Gloria Park
May 8, 2026
Myssan Al Laysy Stouhi
Dissertation: “We Are Educational Survivors”: EAL Teachers’ Identities, Vulnerabilities, Tensions, and Agency in Lebanon as a Crisis Context
Dissertation Chair: Gloria Park
Shahla Asadolahi
Dissertation: Unveiling the Voices of Iranian Women Writers in Academia: A Narrative Literary Inquiry Using a Creative Writing approach
Dissertation Chair: David Hanauer
Zhigang Bai
Dissertation: A Study on the Value of Professor-Doctoral Student Collaborative Writing for Scholarly Publication
Dissertation Chair: David Hanauer
Elizabeth Ann DeChellis
Dissertation: Circulating Imperialism: Jacksonian Readers and the Fictional American Frontiersman in Print Culture, 1820-1840
Dissertation Chair: Todd Thompson
Islam Medhat Farag
Dissertation: Developing Expertise in Writing for Publication Purposes Among Scholars of English as an Additional Language: A Longitudinal and Natural Language Processing Analysis
Dissertation Chair: Dana Driscoll
Marcela Hebbard
Dissertation: Investigating Professional Teacher Identity Construction in Multiracial and Interracial Writing and Language Instructors
Dissertation Chair: Curtis Porter
Jacklyn Tennessee Heslop
Dissertation: Memetic Storytelling: Digital Rhetoric, Internet Folklore, and Collaborative Narrative in the Case of the Immortal Snail Assassin TikTok Trend
Dissertation Chair: Gian Pagnucci
Claudia Louis
Dissertation: Investigation of Language Ideology and Responses to Language Variation of Teachers of Spanish: A Case for Socially Responsive Pedagogy
Dissertation Chair: Gloria Park
Bradley Allen Markle
Dissertation: Interactivity and Interruption: Metalepsis as a Pivotal Narrative Device in Gaming
Dissertation Chair: Michael Sell
Patricia Carmichael Miller
Dissertation: Leveraging Professors’ Creative Identity in the First-Year Composition Classroom: A Qualitative Study
Dissertation Chair: Bryna Siegel Finer
Marta V. Shcherbakova
Dissertation: Exploring the Impact of Teacher Dispositions on Flexibility and Adaptability in College Writing Instruction
Dissertation Chair: Gloria Park
Zeeshan Faiez Siddique
Dissertation: Anthropocene Literature: Reimagining Forms, Communication, and Education of Climate Change Fiction
Dissertation Chair: Michael Sell
Jimalee Sowell
Dissertation: An Exploration of Writing Instruction in Secondary School English Language Classes in Côte d’Ivoire
Dissertation Chair: Dana Driscoll
Nathaniel Ross Valle
Dissertation: Playing at Home Plate: Play and the Stadium in Postwar Baseball Literature, 1945-1999
Dissertation Chair: Todd Thompson
August 7, 2026
Xiaoyu Gao
Dissertation: Intersectionalist Feminist Collage: Exploring Gender, Cultural Identities, and Power Dynamics in Contemporary Global Women’s Literature
Dissertation Chair: Lingyan Yan
Nada Ibrahim Tayem
Dissertation: Transnational Ecofeminism, Place, and Belonging in Women’s Writing of the Caribbean & the Middle East
Dissertation Chair: Susan Comfort
Eric Mark Wentz
Dissertation: An Epidemic Constitution: Individual and Communal Health in American Yellow Fever Literature, 1793 to 1900
Dissertation Chair: Todd Thompson