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Author/Title	Research Type	Related Fields
Robertson, Carol. “Let Them Read”— The Protestant Invitation for New Communities of Readers and Hearers to Engage with Hard Ancient Texts in the English Reformation/Renaissance Era. 2023. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	16th Century, Culture, Ideology, Renaissance, Translation and Interpretation
Romero, Yasmine. Intersectionality in the Language and Writing Classroom. 2016. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Applied Linguistics, Critical Race Theory, Critical Theory, Discourse Analysis, Education, Narrative Analysis, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity, TESOL/Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
Rompogren, Justina. Identity Positioning in Mainstream and Multilingual First-Year Composition Courses. 2017. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Education, Language Pedagogy, Multilingualism, Rhetoric and Composition
Rose, Andrew M. Towards a Postnatural Environmental Politics: Distributed Agency and Political Subjectivity in U.S. Literature and Culture. 2013. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	American, Culture, Ecocriticism, Environment, Literature, Political Science
Rounsaville, Angela R. Figuring Transnational Literacies: Rhetorical Negotiations in a Global Paradigm. 2010. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	21st Century, Language, Language Pedagogy, Linguistics, Literacy, Pedagogy, Rhetoric and Composition, Transnational
Russell, Lindsay Rose. Women in the English Language Dictionary. 2012. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Culture, Gender, History, History of the English Language, Rhetorical Theory
Rygh, Todd A. Revels End: A Conceptual History of the Late Medieval and Early Modern English University Stage. 2014. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Education, Medieval, Performance Studies, Theater History
Sackschewsky, Leisl. Orientations in Time: Music and the Construction of Historical Narrative in 20th and 21st Century African-American Literature. 2016. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	20th Century, 21st Century, African American, American, Literature, Music
Savage, Phillip. 19th Century American Literary Naturalism and the Grotesque. 2020. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	19th Century, Aesthetics, American, Literature, Philosophy, Science and Technology
Sayers, Jentery. How Text Lost Its Source: Magnetic Recording Culture. 2011. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Culture, Digital Humanities, History, Media Studies, Science and Technology
Schaeffer, Tesla. Legible Grief : Discursive Liminality in Twentieth Century Literatures of Trauma. 2017. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Affect, Psychology
Schaumberg, Ned. Waterlogged: Narrating Hydroecologies in the Anthropocene. 2018. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Ecocriticism, Environment, Literature
Schenold, Terrence E. The Poetics of Reflection in Digital Games. 2019. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Digital Humanities, Literature, Poetry and Poetics
Schmidt, Suzanne. "Crafting" the Race House of the Domestic Individual: Political Subjectivities, Hierarchy, and Value in the Crafting and Do-It-Yourself Labors of Domestic Fiction, 1850 - Present. 2014. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	19th Century, 20th Century, 21st Century, American, Culture, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Gender, Race and Ethnicity, Women Writers
Shajirat, Anna. The Gothic Fantasy of History: Fear and Loss in the British Long Eighteenth Century. 2017. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	British, Gender, History, Women Writers
Shapiro, Shawna. From Isolated Remediation to Collaborative Mediation: Confronting Institutional Isolation in University ESL Programs. 2009. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Education, Language Pedagogy, Language Policy, Multilingualism, Second Language Acquisition, TESOL/Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
Shelton, Holly. Transliteracy Sponsorscapes: Potential for Attunement and Diffraction in Literacy Learning. 2021. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Genre Theory, Language, Linguistics, Literacy, Pedagogy
Shivers-McNair, Ann. Making, Marking, Mattering : What We Can Learn about Writing, Rhetoric, and Technology from a Makerspace. 2017. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Culture, Language, Rhetorical Theory
Shivers-McNair, Ann. Rhetoric and Makers in the Making: Genealogies of Mattering in a Makerspace. Doctoral dissertation, University of Washington. In progress.	Graduate, Dissertations	Digital Humanities, Research Methods, Rhetoric and Composition, Rhetorical Theory, Writing Pedagogy
Shon, Sue. Making Sense: Race and Modern Vision. 2015. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	American, Literature, Philosophy, Race and Ethnicity, Science and Technology, Visual Culture
Simon, Samantha. Black Nationalist Speculations: Empire, Gender, and Genre in 19th- and 20th-Century African American Literature. 2019. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	African American, Culture, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Gender, Nationalism, Race and Ethnicity
Simons, Barbara. Tracing Hybrid Collectives of Illness, War, and Medicine in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Narratives of Illness. 2016. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	20th Century, 21st Century, Anthropology, Comparative Literature, Culture, Linguistics, Modernism
Singh, Balbir. Militant Bodies: Policing Race, Religion, and Violence in the U.S. Sikh Diaspora. 2016. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Culture, Decolonial, Diaspora Studies, History, Race and Ethnicity
Smith, Alexandra V. Writing the Street: Discourses of Choice, Agency, and Mobility in Twentieth Century Street Lit. 2019. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	20th Century, African American, American, Jewish Studies, Literature, Race and Ethnicity, Space/Place, Urban Studies
Sobers, Janine H. Enchanted Modernisms: Global Literary Afterlives of the Spirit, 1922–1949. 2023. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	20th Century, Culture, Literature, Modernism, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Sexuality, Transnational