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Works in American Studies

2023

U.S.-China Trade War: Phase One Agreement and Self-Enforcing Contracts, Hameedullah Hassani
Graduate Program in International Studies Theses & Dissertations

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International Intrigue in the American Colonies, Arianna Vicinanza
Graduate Research Conference (GSIS)

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2022

A Critical Companion to Sofia Coppola, Naaman Wood, Christopher Booth
Music Faculty Books & Recordings

Love and Abolition: The Social Life of Black Queer Performance, Alison R. Reed
English Faculty Bookshelf

2021

Being Dragonborn: Critical Essays on The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Mike Piero (Editor), Marc A. Ouellette (Editor)
English Faculty Bookshelf

Book Review: How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi, Shuntay Tarver
Counseling & Human Services Faculty Publications

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The (Mis) Representation of Racialized Minorities: Barbie Dolls as Social Problems in India, Namrata Ashvinbhai Bhadania
English Faculty Publications

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Introduction to Game Design, Development, and Criticism (GAME 201T), Kevin Moberly, Richard E. Ferdig (Ed.), Emily Baumgartner (Ed.), Enrico Gandolfi (Ed.)
English Faculty Publications

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Standardizing America: Why it Should Be a Method of the Past, Samantha N. Jackson
OUR Journal: ODU Undergraduate Research Journal

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2020

The Routledge Introduction to Native American Literature, Drew Lopenzina
English Faculty Bookshelf

The Revolutionary Gardens of Imagism, Margaret Konkol
English Faculty Publications

Modernism in the Green: Public Greens in Modern Literature and Culture, Julia E. Daniel (Editor), Margaret Konkol (Editor)
English Faculty Bookshelf

Terrorists, Zombies, and Robots: The Political Unconscious, Thematics, and Affectual Structures of the Post-9/11 American Fear Narrative, Nathanael J. Cloyd
English Theses & Dissertations

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Wait ‘Til You See it From the Back: Twerking as an Expression of Sexual Agency, Mariah M. Johnson
OUR Journal: ODU Undergraduate Research Journal

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Park Blues Langston Hughes, Racial Exclusion, and the Park Ballad, Margaret Konkol
English Faculty Publications

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The Golden Ratio of Algorithms to Artists? Streaming Services and the Platformization of Creativity in American Television Production, Annemarie Navar-Gill
Communication & Theatre Arts Faculty Publications

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2019

"And Nothing She Needs": Victoria's Secret and the Gaze of "Post-Feminism", Marc Ouellette
English Faculty Publications

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Violence in Popular Culture: American and Global Perspectives, Rob Tench
Libraries Faculty & Staff Publications

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Ideological Analysis of Colorblindness in Get Out, Danielle Goldstein
OUR Journal: ODU Undergraduate Research Journal

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2018

"Saying 'I Do' All Over Again": The Throwaway Ornamentalism of Promises Weddings Vow to Break, Marc A. Ouellette
English Faculty Publications

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2017

Fallen Forests: Emotion, Embodiment, and Ethics in American Women’s Environmental Writing, 1781–1924 and The Ecology of Modernism: American Environments and Avant-Garde Poetics [Book Review], Margaret Konkol
English Faculty Publications

Narratives of Miami in Dexter and Burn Notice, Myles McNutt
Communication & Theatre Arts Faculty Publications

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The Disuniting of America: The Rise and Fall of the Melting Pot as a Primary Metaphor for America, Kendra Bachelor
Virginias Collegiate Honors Council Conference

Sound is Existence, Enunciation is Intelligence: A Look into “The Great Silence” by Ted Chiang, Abrar Majidi Idrissi
Virginias Collegiate Honors Council Conference

You Are not the Woman I Want, Aaron Farmbry
Virginias Collegiate Honors Council Conference

"If You Want To Be The Man, You've Got To Beat The Man": Masculinity and the Rise of Professional Wrestling in the 1990's, Marc Ouellette
English Faculty Publications

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2016

Apportioned Commodity Fetishism and the Transformative Power of Game Studies, Ken S. McAllister, Chris Hanson, Judd Ethan Ruggill, Carly A. Kocurek, Tobias Conradi, Kevin A. Moberly, Steven Conway, Randy Nichols, Jennifer deWinter, Marc A. Oullette
English Faculty Publications

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Farmville, Eternal Recurrence, and the Will-To-Power-Ups, D. E. Wittkower
Philosophy Faculty Publications

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2015

Of Sonnets and Archives: Robert Graves, Laura Riding, and the Erasure of Modern Poetry, Margaret Konkol
English Faculty Publications

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Showtime: Pop Culture's Impact on Society's View of the LGBTQ Population, Hope Comer, Jaime D. Bower, Narketta Sparkman
Counseling & Human Services Faculty Publications

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2014

Las Vegas: Utopia of Escape for Everyman, Alison Cowand Napier
Institute for the Humanities Theses

The Oxford Handbook of American Drama, Jeffrey H. Richards (Editor), Heather S. Nathans (Editor)
English Faculty Bookshelf

2013

The Right to Bear Space Arms: U.S. Resistance to Arms Control in Space, Alessandro Shimabukuro
Graduate Program in International Studies Theses & Dissertations

Nobody Here Does Anything For Nothing: Reciprocity and Gender in The Wings of the Dove, Marc A. Ouellette
English Faculty Publications

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Married, With Children and an Xbox: Compromise in Video Games Play, Marc A. Ouellette
English Faculty Publications

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There is No Word for Work in the Dragon Tongue, Kevin Moberly, Brent Moberly
English Faculty Publications

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2012

Woman at the Top: Rhetoric, Politics, and Feminism in the Texts and Life of Annie Smith Peck, Hannah Scialdone-Kimberly
English Theses & Dissertations

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"We Should Have Brought The Tank": Hypermediated Interactivity in Red vs. Blue, Marc A. Ouellette
English Faculty Publications

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The Golems Take New York: The Resurgence of the Golem in the Work of Cynthia Ozick and Thane Rosenbaum, Peter Schulman
World Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications

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2011

Mad Men: Dream Come True TV, Gary R. Edgerton (Editor)
Communication & Theatre Arts Faculty Books

Hairspray, Dana Heller
English Faculty Bookshelf

Waiting to Exhale, KaaVonia Hinton
Teaching & Learning Faculty Publications

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How Stella Got Her Groove Back, KaaVonia Hinton
Teaching & Learning Faculty Publications

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Choosing My Best Thing: Black Motherhood and Academia, KaaVonia Hinton-Johnson
Teaching & Learning Faculty Publications

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2010

Return to Unfinished Business: Re-Energizing U.S. Nuclear Arms Policy, William T. Eliason
Graduate Program in International Studies Theses & Dissertations

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Genre, Database, and the Anatomy of the Digital Archive, Elizabeth J. Vincelette
English Theses & Dissertations

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Commodifying Scarcity: Society, Struggle, and Spectacle in World of Warcraft, Kevin Moberly
English Faculty Publications

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El Diálogo Cultural y la Transformación Genérica en El Mariachi de Robert Rodríguez, Andrew M. Gordus
World Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications

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2009

Sharon M. Draper: Embracing Literacy, KaaVonia Hinton
Teaching & Learning Faculty Books

Correlation of Music Charts and Search Engine Rankings, Martin Klein, Olena Hunsicker, Michael Nelson
Computer Science Faculty Publications

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Mary Heilmann: To Be Someone, by Elizabeth Armstrong, Johanna Burton, and Dave Hickey. Prestel: New York 2007; Mary Heilmann: Save the Last Dance for Me, by Terry R. Myers. Afterall: London, 2007 (Book Reviews), Vittorio Colaizzi
Art Faculty Publications

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2008

Little House, Long Shadow Laura Ingalls Wilder's Impact on American Culture, Anita Clair Fellman
Women's Studies Faculty Books

Following Tradition: Young Adult Literature as Neo-Slave Narrative, KaaVonia Hinton
Teaching & Learning Faculty Publications

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Sati in Philadelphia: The Widow(s) of Malabar, Jeffrey H. Richards
English Faculty Publications

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2007

Makeover Television: Realities Remodelled, Dana Heller (Editor)
English Faculty Bookshelf

Guillermo Gómez-Peña's "Tekno Poética" Web Verse, Lost and Found in a Webspora, Angélica Huízar
World Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications

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2006

The Great American Makeover: Television, History, Nation, Dana Heller (Editor)
English Faculty Bookshelf

Making Easy Listening: Material Culture and Postwar American Recording, Tim J. Anderson
Communication & Theatre Arts Faculty Books

"It'll Pass": NYPD: Blue's Sipowicz and Mundane Masculinity, Marc Ouellette
English Faculty Publications

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"When a Killer Body Isn't Enough": Cross-Gender Identification in Action-Adventure Video Games, Marc Ouellette
English Faculty Publications

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De la Mujer Invisible al Feminismo Ineludible: Política y Antropología en la Historiografía de la Mujer, Robert H. Holden
History Faculty Publications

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2005

Thinking Outside the Box: A Contemporary Television Genre, Gary R. Edgerton (Editor), Brian G. Rose (Editor)
Communication & Theatre Arts Faculty Books

The Selling of 9/11: How a National Tragedy Became a Commodity, Dana Heller (Editor)
English Faculty Bookshelf

2004

Contesting Identities: Sports in American Film [Book Review], Marc Ouellette
English Faculty Publications

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Reel Baseball: Essays and Interviews on the National Pastime, Hollywood and American Culture, Marc Ouellette
English Faculty Publications

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2003

Walter Mosley: A Critical Companion, Charles E. Wilson
English Faculty Bookshelf

Holy Fools, Secular Saints, and Illiterate Saviors in American Literature and Popular Culture, Dana Heller
English Faculty Publications

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2001

Television Histories: Shaping Collective Memory in the Media, Gary R. Edgerton (Editor), Peter C. Rollins
Communication & Theatre Arts Faculty Books

Gloria Naylor: A Critical Companion, Charles E. Wilson
English Faculty Bookshelf

2000

Why Are Those Women So Angry? (Alienating People of Good Will), Janet Bing
English Faculty Publications

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1998

Planning the Twentieth-Century American City, by Mary Corbin Sies and Christopher Silver. Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore and London, 1996, and Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis, by Greg Hise. Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore and London, 1997 (Book Reviews), Robert Wojtowicz
Art Faculty Publications

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1996

Eldorado: The Poes in Norfolk, Myreen Moore Nicholson
Institute for the Humanities Theses

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Economic Interdependence Along a Colonial Frontier: Capitalism and the New River Valley, 1745-1789, B. Scott Crawford
History Theses & Dissertations

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Annie Wood: A Portrait, Jo Ann Mervis Hofheimer
Institute for the Humanities Theses

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1995

Family Plots: The De-Oedipalization of Popular Culture, Dana Heller
English Faculty Bookshelf

1994

A Literary Evaluation of Black Female Interaction in Toni Morrison's "Beloved", "Sula," "Jazz", Carol Ann Davenport
English Theses & Dissertations

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In Search of the Corn Queen, Greta Pratt
Art Faculty Books

1993

Yellow Ribbons, D. Scott Drake
English Theses & Dissertations

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1991

The Parties Quarrae, Michael E. Malone
Institute for the Humanities Theses

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Marge Piercy's Small Changes: Welcome to the Sexual Revolution, Nancy Topping Bazin
English Faculty Publications

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1990

The Feminization of Quest-Romance: Radical Departures, Dana Heller
English Faculty Bookshelf

1981

Thomas Sully (1783-1872): Beginning Portraitist in Norfolk, Beth N. Rossheim
Institute for the Humanities Theses

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