English & Writing Studies - Concentration in Professional Writing

This presentation will explore how Roland Barthes’ analysis of the practice of French striptease as a semiotic performance can be used in corporate women’s portfolios...

The opioid crisis has had a major effect on our society. This overall public health emergency has led to addiction, overdose, and misuse in our...

This project examines the reconfiguration of myth, legend, and folklore to subvert cultural expectations of gendered performance in Carmen Maria Machado’s “The Husband Stitch.” Spivak’s...

This oral history project offers analysis into the work and embodiment of women in the southern Appalachian region. Using a regional-focus, the project centers on...

In professional writing, meaning is not something that can be made in isolation - it is inherited by the interpretive communities that engage with it...

The recent proliferation of AI-generated writing raises questions for many sectors of academia, especially writing centers and their student clientele. This presentation will explore the...

This paper discusses the author’s work in an Honors Independent Study through which she helped plan and develop the curriculum for a proposed minor in...

As a writer and a feminine-presenting person, I have always been drawn to horror fiction as a way to explore personal experiences and the cultural...

The South is unique, but more special is its stories. The project’s purpose is to explore how the unique Southern voice can inform and shape...