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Student Research Projects: M.A.

Current Students

NameThesisGraduation Year
Rose FuherAgitprop: A deep dive into leftist affinity spaces2024
Fortunato JExploring colorism in children’s literature: Sulwe and Black is Brown is Tan2024
Natalie Raquel AcuñaCountering dominant narratives in community: The many voices in spoken word poetry2024

Past Students

NameThesisGraduation Year
Mary LipiecNothing about us: three models of disability in three works of literary fiction2023
Anthony LoweMake a foreigner of yourself: An analysis of the dueling critical utopias of The Dispossessed and Trouble on Triton2023
Ken RaineyA black Prometheus among the gods: illuminating African American literary tradition in Sam Greenlee's The Spook Who Sat by the Door2023
Cole ShepardProblematizing progress: Building a postcapitalist present2023
Kim SisuThe revolution will be memed: Digital memes as sites for hegemonic and counter-hegemonic practices2023
Allison IafrateOur Place in Research: Understanding Social Productions of Knowledge Using Digital Spaces2022
Karen ZuritaWords Made from Flesh and Bones: How Xicanx Queer Authors are Decolonizing Writing to Reclaim Their Indigeneity2022
Jonathan AbidariMultimodality in Focus2021
Alysia HeggWrite Yourself Awake: The Double Pursuit of Mindfulness Meditation and Writing Theory2021
Aaron LaughlinHózhó, "To Walk in Beauty and Balance": Indigenous Writers Decolonize Theories of Myth2021
Kelley EllionUnderstanding Reading in the English Program: An Inquiry of How Students are Guided with Advanced Reading Materials2020
Grace HartYou Have a Voice Here: Implementing Armenian Feminist Literature within Feminist Discourse2020
Hallie Lepphaille(In)Equities in the Publishing Industry: The Politics of Representation2020
Chris RamponiReflections of an Impossible Ideal: Passion as the Will to Downfall in Madame Bovary2020
Morgan ThornburgThe Ginger, The Pin-up, or the Stepchild? Redheadedness as an Embodied Trope2020
Felix BoersToward a Working Theory of Queer Hypermedia: An Analysis of Queer Textual Structures in Gone Home and What Remains of Edith Finch2019
Justin EganTowards a Critical Game Based Pedagogy in Composition2019
Marcos HernandezPublishing for Transfer: Notes Toward an Editorial Pedagogy for the Transfer-Oriented Writing Program2019
Natalie RayOn the Edge of Inclusion: A Look at the Shifting of Representation in Museum Display and Archival Cataloging2019
Dakota RohlinEthos in Climate Change Communication: Analyzing Digital and Broadcast News Coverage of the Fourth National Climate Assessment2019
Melissa WiseServing in the Kingdom: A Volunteer Experience in the Development of EFL Literacy in Tonga2019
Cassandra (Curatolo) JohnsonHistorical Consciousness, The Cultural Imaginary and Postcolonial Subjectivity in Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being2018
Emily BushtaPlaying and Learning Through Text and Images: Examining Features of Adolescent Literacy and the Potential of Graphic Novels as a Supportive Tool2018
Thomas KingWriting Center Tutor Training: An Examination of Emphasis on Critical Pedagogy in Tutor Training Handbooks2018
Corrina WellsTracing Writer/Reader Identity in, and in Response to, Queer Latinx Autohistoria-Teorìa2018
Christopher Gordon27 Months of Solitude: A Peace Corps Story2017
Laura GormanConsidering “Disparate” Genealogies Analogously: A Survey into the Histories of Peer Response and their Impact on Current Peer Response Practices2017
Robin ImholteAbjection in Late Nineteenth Century British Literature2017
Deva RichardsEFL Teaching and Teacher Training in Nicaragua: A Master's International Experience2017
Jason StibiMotivation, Imagination, and the Future Self in Second Language Acquisition2017
Samuel GabrielsThe Effects of Literature as a Guidebook: Reimagining Landscapes through Barry Lopez’s Desert Notes2015
Amanda Alexander“In Our Veins Flows the Blood of Many Brave Races”: The Influence of the German Literary Vampire on Constructions of Race and Nation in Nineteenth-Century British Vampire Fiction2014
Stephanie G. Cowherd, San Carlos Apache"Spirals of (Re)knowing: An Analysis of the Construction of Place/Space in Women’s Communities through Ceremony in Joy Harjo's Poetry2014
Lauren MacDonald ReaganCraft and the Corporeal in Composition: Embodied Metaphors in Writing Practice2014
Amanda AlexanderStudents' Right and the First Year Composition Classroom: A Critical Reflection of One First-Time Teacher's Experience2013
Laura ExlineRevolutionizing Higher Education: An Analysis of Massive Open Online Courses in Popular Media2013
Adrienne JonesArchiving Trauma: Navigating Shame and Trauma in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves and Cherríe Moraga’s Loving in the War Years2013
Kae Dennert-Frederick
Ernesto Iñiguez

M.A. Program Contact

Janet Winston
Graduate Coordinator
707.826.3913
winston@humboldt.edu
Location: FH 213

English Department
707.826.3758
ma-english@humboldt.edu

Megan Mefford
Coordinator of International Admissions & Immigration
mefford@humboldt.edu & international@humboldt.edu 

Cal Poly Humboldt admissions requirements for International students 

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