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2024
Variations on Leitmotif: Firebird Rises, Virginia Beikmann
The Last Days of Elder Mitchell, Jack Bylund
Teleios, Sandra Edwards
Exploring the Connection Between Self-Efficacy and Preparedness Among First-year College Students, Marianne Hale
Legend Trips and Vernacular Film Theory: Spooky Encounters in TikTok Mediated Legend Trips, Drew Holley
The Function of Humility in St. Teresa of Avila's Autobiography: A Literature Review, Jennifer Sanchez
Dismantling Barriers to Publishing: Identifying Types of Negative Review Experiences and Strategies for Mitigating Them, Hannah L. Stevens
Special Study: Vulnerability, Jacob Taylor
Place-Based Fiction: Tourist Town Stories, Keegan Waller
Radical Antiracism and Anti-Queerphobia in Politicised Education Environments Through Critical Race Theory and Queer Theory, Mina Aubrey Weeks
2023
The Right Mind: Rhetorics of Mental Health Disability and Accommodation in Higher Education, Rachel Welton Bryson
Technical Communication Inclusionary Interventions Into Academic Spaces, Sam Clem
"Cry, Bitch, Cry": Thematic Explorations of the Weeping Woman of Logan Cemetery, Gillian Coldesina-Schroeder
House of Grief, Megan Eralie
The Body Seeking Magnificence, Taylor Franson Thiel
Becoming “Living Matter”: Alive Things in Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis Series, Zackary Gregory
Desert Body, Lauren McKinnon
"The Observation of Trifles": Culinary Knowledge in Detective Fiction, Emily Powell
The Intermountain West LGBTQ+ Oral History Project: The Folklorization of Queer Theory, John Priegnitz
Mormon Women's Peepstones: Divination, Revelation, Gender and Power in Utah, Millie Tullis
Falling Into the Rhetorical Black Hole: Navigating Language, Terms, and Rhetoricity in Madness and Disability, Taylor Wyatt
2022
Enhancing Sense of Belonging: Exploring How Multicultural Centers Communicate and Document Retention Initiatives, Jamal-Jared Alexander
Diversifying Knowledge: Presenting and Applying a Framework for Inclusive Graduate Program Websites, Jamal-Jared Alexander, Hannah L. Stevens, and Rebecca Walton; Proceedings of the 40th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication
The Tinker Bell Jar, Kayla Berryman
Cultivating Ethics in the Peer Review Process, Rachel Welton Bryson and Sam Clem; SIGDOC '22: Proceedings of the 40th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication
A Rhetorical Phenomenology of Political, Apocalyptic, and Qubit Technical Communication, Ryan K. Cheek
Sacred Earth: The Role of the Natural Divine within Wendell Berry's "Manifesto", T. Greyson Gurley MA
Authorial Agency: Investigating Composition Pedagogies Under A New Lens, Tyler Hurst
Sporkling, Mia Jensen
The Monster Theory of Relativity: Triggering Supernatural Monsters, Maggie Mercil
Belief, Unbelief, and Rebelief in Santa Claus: A Theory of Cyclical Belief or a Belief Cycle an Introduction, Steven G. Merrell
The Underappreciated Intersection of Science Fiction and Satire, Christopher Nicholson
Paranormal Investigators: Exploring a Positive Social Construct Through Paranormal Belief and Investigations, Meagan E. Oltman
The Moth Effect, Kylie Smith
Defending Difference: Translingualism in the Composition Classroom, R. Elle Smith
The End of the Known World, Madeline Thomas
Making the Old New: The Recontextualization and Traditionalization of Tree Spirits in Video Games, Alexandria Ziegler
2021
The Sea Calls: A Selkie's Liminal Existence, Frances Avery
A Marvelous Work and a Trauma: An Examination of Narratives Among Latter-Day Saint Sister Missionaries, Maygan Barker
Iluqata: All of Us, Cana Uluak Itchuaqiyaq
In the Presence of Evil: Demonic Perception Narratives, Victoria Jaye
Allyship Training Programs in Higher Education: Creating a Critical Curriculum of Change, Macy Marin Keith
Representations of Masculinity and the Influence of Bruce Lee in Film, Zhenxia Meng
Personal Identity and the Influence of Outlaw Folklore, William "Bacon" Nivison
Where Light Greets Night: A Modern Retelling of "The Sea-Hare", Kelsie Peterson
Becoming Bare: A Memoir, Andrew James Romriell
A Collection for a Better Misunderstanding, Mark Smeltzer
Portrait of Rich County, Adrian Thomson
From Governess to Wife: How Women on the Fringe of Society Upset and Restore Victorian Homes, Elsa C. Torgersen
MaRey Sue: Perpetuating Mary Sue Stereotype in the Star Wars Trilogy, Samantha Wiser
Becoming a Flexible Teacher Through Critical Reflective Journaling, Marianne Young
2020
When Ice Isn’t Slippery, Alyssa Witbeck Alexander
Harvest: Poems, Brittney Allen
A Mormon Missionary's Guide to Conversion Therapy Addiction Recovery, Shaun Anderson
The Union of Opposites: Carl Jung, Folklore, and the Caduceus and Ouroboros in Alchemy, Jack Daly
Diversity and Inclusion in Technical and Professional Communication Academic Programs, Chris Dayley
Eclipsed by Culture, Andrea Diamond
The Sacred Circle: Ostension in Native American Hoop Dancing, Emma George
Extending Ethos in Digital Rhetorics, Andrew J. Hillen
“Racist, Sexist, Profane, and Violent”: Reinterpreting WWE’s Portrayals of Samoans Across Generations, John Honey
Artisan: On Bread and a Meaningful Life, Emerson James
“It’s a hoax!” A Practical Guide for Understanding and Surviving Weird Internet Phenomena, Camille S. Price
Straight Men Come Out: Queer Eye and the Path to a More Mindful Masculinity, Eli M. Roush
Pretendians, Settler Collectors, and #NativeTwitter: Indigenous Rhetorical Sovereignty, Carly Schaelling
Rewriting the Unwritten: Decorum as a Tool for Social Justice in Technical Communication, Jennifer L. Scucchi
2019
Thylacine Dreams: The Vernacular Resurrection of an Extinct Marsupial, Daisy M. Ahlstone
Shall I Sing You a Ghost Story: The Nature and Purpose of Ghost Songs in Maritime Communities of Northern New England and Atlantic Canada, Richard A. Blake
Friends or Foes? Composition and Creative Writing, Christopher N. Davis
Redefining Ceremony and the Sacred: Short Stories From the Dinétah, Stacie S. Denetsosie
"I wanted her dead more than Voldemort": Examining People's Hatred of Dolores Umbridge, Jessica Griffeth
Licentious Legends: A Folklore Podcast, Alexandra L. Haynes
Secondson, Jonathan Blake Heaton
Fragmentary Memories: The Cultural Significance of Famine Echoes in Dracula, Moira Hegarty
Changing Access: Building a Culture of Accessibility Within Normalized Technical Communication Practices, Sherena Huntsman
"There Should be No Tolerance for Intolerance": Internal Antagonism in Online Fan Communities, Michelle W. Jones
Work of Heart: Myself as Both Teacher and Learner, Chaille M. Kitchen
Death Ends a Life Not a Relationship: The Embodied Mourning and Memorializing of Pets Through Material Culture, Gemma N. Koontz
Modern Uses of Assistance Animals in the USA: Definitions, Access, and the Laws that Protect Them, Tina Reisner
The Red Front Door, A Memoir, Camila B. Sanabria
Adapting Environmental Ethics and Behaviors: Toward a Posthuman Rhetoric of Community Engagement, Beth J. Shirley
The Long Horizon, Tiffany Smith
Metal Storytellers: Reflections of War Culture in Silverplate B-29 Nose Art from the 509th Composite Group, Terri Wesemann
Teaching Issues of Identity Through Multicultural Young Adult Literature, Emily M. Withers
2018
In Search of America: One Barbershop at a Time, Keith M. Buswell
Hellhounds and Helpful Ghost Dogs: Conflicting Perceptions of “Man’s Best Friend” Encoded in Supernatural Narrative, Kiersten Carr
Confluence: A Braided Essay, Kathryn Christian
Home to Harlan: African American Miners' Children Celebration of Homecoming, Jessica L. Cushenberry
Self-Reliance, Social Welfare, and Sacred Landscapes: Mormon Agricultural Spaces and Their Paradoxical Sense of Place, Anthony Ross Garner
Values, Mushfaking, and Literacy in Disability: Applying James Paul Gee’s Discourse Theory to the Deaf and Mental Health Communities, Adrienne Griffiths
An Analysis of Murals Painted by Students at Intermountain Indian School in Brigham City, Utah, Carlos Junior Guadarrama
Reading Female Identity Creation: Self-realization in Colonial and Postcolonial African Literature, Katie Johnson Jorgensen
They Have No Ears to Hear My Pleas: Short Stories of the Post-Apocalypse, Keoki W. Kemp
Suspense Radio Series, Gothic Literature, and the American Family, Kelly Kirkham
“[Taking] Responsibility for the Community”: Women Claiming Power and Legitimacy in Technical and Professional Communication in India, 1999-2016, Breeanne Matheson
"Full on Toy Story": Exploring the Belief in Object Sentience in Western Culture, Amelia Mathews-Pett