Research

A Sample of Student Theses Completed

  • Matthew Kelbaugh (2023) Crippling Defeat or New Opportunities? Evaluating the US Withdrawal from Afghanistan through American and Russian Print Media
  • James Angle (2022) ¿Me hace sonar gay esta voz? Does this voice make me sound gay? An intercultural study on the perception of speaker sexuality in English and Spanish
  • Kevin Nguyen (2021) An Analysis of Directive Speech Acts of Korean Women: Mother and Daughter-in-law Interactions
  • Tasneem Mansour (2020) Bilateral Perceptions Between Muslims and Koreans Maintaining Religious Identity and Inclusion in Korea
  • Maria Lee (2019) Twitch Talk: Constructing Gender and Navigating Power in the Video Game Rust
  • Rebecca Haddaway (2018) Pathologizing Carthage: Illness in the Orientalist Imaginary in Gustave Flaubert’s Salammbô
  • Caleb Metcalf (2017) Boy Meets Girl, Boy, Girl: Subverting Master Narratives in the Web Series MANN/FRAU
  • Jessica Willis (2017) Sticks and Stones: A Linguistic Analysis of the Pragmatic Tools Used in Emotionally Abusive Language
  • Kelly Dunn (2017) Narrative Constructions of Collective Memory: Representing the Armed Conflict in Colombia
  • Caitlin Ostrowski (2017) There’s Nothin’ to It: the ING variable, Hitchcock, James Stewart and the American Postwar Crisis of Masculinity Language
  • Sierra Francis (2015) Mohawk and Cherokee Language Revitalization: Overview, Assessment, and Challenges
  • Kelitah Armstrong (2014) Dialect Attitudes and Prestige Values among Korean Dialects
  • Ryan Kotowski (2014) Reanalysis of Modern Colloquial French Subjects Clitics as Agreement Features