Theses and dissertations published by graduate students in the Department of English, College of Arts & Letters, Old Dominion University, since Fall 2016 are available in this collection. Backfiles of all dissertations (and some theses) have also been added.
In late Fall 2025, all theses will be digitized and available here. In the meantime, consult the Library Catalog to find older items in print.
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Thesis: Open House, Tarah Gibbs
Thesis: Ahead a Wildfire, Eric Michael Ryan Heald-Webb
Thesis: Waiting for a Category Five, Meghan Hoyer
Dissertation: The User Experience of Participation: Tracing the Intersection of Sociotechnical Design and Cultural Practice in Digital Ecosystems, David L. Jones
Thesis: Plight of the Gameur : Inhibitors to Empathic Connection with Representation of Suffering in Outreach Games, Kristopher John Purzycki
Thesis: Lowrider, Phil Quam
Thesis: Analyzing Students' Perceptions of Their Examination of Writing Competency (EWC) Readiness in Online First-Year Composition Courses, Harry Pendleton Styles II
Thesis: An Idea of Liberation in the Suburbs, Jeffrey Allan Turner
Thesis: Hush, Valerie Wilkinson
Thesis: The Residual Resistance of the Individual Within the Rhizomatic Hegemony of the Internet, Emma Katherine Wolfe
Thesis: American Exceptionalism and the Historical Fiction of Chabon and DeLillo: Media Identity Commodification and the Truth of Lies, Samm Yeakel
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Thesis: The Stories Teeth Can Tell, Emily Lindsey Bonner
Thesis: There's a Reason One Thing Always Leads to Something More, Tara Shea Burke
Thesis: Hungry Heart, Valarie Clark
Dissertation: Sifting the Commonplace: Topoi and the Grounds for Argument in Classical and Modern Rhetoric, Daniel Verlo Cutshaw
Thesis: V/R, John-Henry Doucette
Thesis: My Friend Glenn, Travis A. Everett
Thesis: Yearn, Jennifer Lynn Graham
Dissertation: Textualizing the Nation: The Sociopolitical Negotiation of Atatürk's Nutuk, and Visions of National Identity in Contemporary Turkey, Elif Guler
Dissertation: The Effects of Digital Technology on Basic Writing, Leslie Denise Norris
Thesis: A World for Wanters, Andrew Leask Ortiz
Thesis: Investigating the Prevalence of Use by Japanese Speakers of an Acceptable Alternative Articulation of the Phoneme /s/ to That Commonly Taught in ESL and EFL Classrooms, Greg Raver-Lampman
Dissertation: Facebook and Its Users: Using Grounded Theory to Understand Perceived Interactivity as a Constraint in the Rhetorical Situation, Katie Lee Retzinger Pruitt
Dissertation: Woman at the Top: Rhetoric, Politics, and Feminism in the Texts and Life of Annie Smith Peck, Hannah Scialdone-Kimberly
Thesis: Benefit Road: Short Stories, Kathleen J. Stowe
Thesis: Unheard, Marion Charlene Thomas
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Dissertation: Memory, Identity, and the Rhetoric of Quilts, J. Jane Amelon
Dissertation: Namaste: Pedagogical Methods for Designing Yoga & Art Experiences for/with Teen Participants, Tiffani Olivia Bryant
Thesis: Children of the Sun, Anton DeLateur
Thesis: Writing Program Design for ESL Writers, Kacie M. Kiser
Thesis: Nine Stories, Minus One, Claudia Anne Mazur
Thesis: The Book of Memes, Michael Ray Owens
Thesis: The Dust Grows Hard, Eric Ramseier
Thesis: Viscosity, Noah Renn
Thesis: A Year and a Day, Peter Surran
Thesis: A Collection of Reportage, Lynn Marie Waltz
Thesis: The Disappearing Disease, Heather M. Weddington
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Thesis: Bonfire Night and Other Stories, Leslie Clements
Thesis: I Have to Tell You Something, Edmund E. Dowe
Thesis: What Ties Me to Blue Mountains, Deborah Lynne Downs
Dissertation: Questions of Transfer: Writers' Perspective on Familiar/Unfamiliar Writing tasks in a Capstone Writing Course, Heather G. Lettner-Rust
Thesis: Shelter: Stories of the Tragic and Joyful Young Men of a South African Shelter, Jesse Scaccia
Thesis: Bad Girls of the Bible, Dana Staves
Thesis: Missing Our Own Audience: The Perceptions of Audience in the Composition Classroom, Chelsea R. Swick
Dissertation: Genre, Database, and the Anatomy of the Digital Archive, Elizabeth J. Vincelette
Thesis: The Way of Sinners, Mary Westbrook
Thesis: Other People's Houses, David Williamson
Thesis: What Did I Do to Susan Orlean and Other Stories, Brian C. Wilson
Thesis: Flowers of Purgatory, Emily Louise Zimbrick
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Thesis: Aftertaste, Matilda W. Cox
Thesis: Shark Diving and Other Poor Decisions, Robert G. Currin
Thesis: Oppressed, Empowered, Compatriot Woman: RAWA's Online Construction of Gendered Ideographs, Heather L. Floyd
Thesis: A Tin of Shoe Polish Mostly Used Up, Christian Anton Gerard
Thesis: Jamesonian Analysis of Contemporary American Rape Autobiographies, Michele Laaksonen
Thesis: Absence Makes the Heart, Paula L. McMahon
Thesis: The Stories We Tell the Stars, Andrea Nolan
Thesis: Like as An Exemplifier: A Description of its Construction and the Relations It Can Mark, Helena L. Osborne
Thesis: Sisyphus Uphill, April K. Phillips
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Thesis: A Night in Neverland, Elizabeth Rebecca Beal
Thesis: Border Ache, Joanna Eleftheriou
Thesis: The Mechanical Hour, Ryan Thomas Fulcher
Thesis: Morning Has Broken: Uncommon Grace in an Ordinary Family, Charlotte Gail Kent
Thesis: A River Entrenched in Rock, Myrna Amelia Mesa
Thesis: Document Design and Emergency Management Plans, Emily Elizabeth Price
Thesis: Searching for Clooney, Roopa Swaminathan
Thesis: Crossroads Confessions & Other Configurations, Rebecca Recce Winsor
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Thesis: Lynching The White Imagination: Changing the Dynamics of Lynching and Rewriting the Cult of True Womanhood in Grimke, Johnson, and Terrell, Melissa L. Antonucci
Thesis: Ideological Transference in the Barbary Captivity Literature of Post-Revolutionary America, Jason Scott Cooke
Thesis: Fin De Siecle 3.0: Cybernetic Anxieties in Posthuman Science Fiction, Jessica L. Dambruch
Thesis: The Clouds are Buffalo Stampeding Toward Jesus, Natalie G. Diaz
Thesis: The People Who Live on Lambert Lane, Natalie G. Diaz
Thesis: Standing Before the Stranger, Jonathan G. Dillion
Thesis: Eve's Side, Rebecca Lauren Gidjunis
Thesis: No One's Devil Dog, Matthew C. Hillery
Thesis: The Time it Snowed in Puerto Rico, Sarah Marie McCoy
Thesis: Through the Dark Woods, Letitia A. Montgomery-Rodgers
Thesis: Art Therapy, Valli Jo Porter
Thesis: Peddling a Distinguishable Female Form: Late Nineteenth-Century Advertising of Cosmetics Hair Products and Corsets in British Women's Magazines, Cathleen A. Rhodes
Thesis: Genre Language and Community in Cycling Feature Articles, Liz Schleeper
Thesis: Mormon Girl, Angela A. Trefethen
Thesis: Topics in Action Sources of Definiteness of Topic Noun Phrases in Thai Interactive Discourse, Prakaiwan Vajrabhaya
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Thesis: Five Wayward Children, Scott Alan Anderson
Thesis: The Progression of Literary Representation of Female Friendships in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, Debby Bangert
Thesis: Found in Transition: Orality-Literacy Cues Discovered in a Rhetorical Examination of Platonic Dialogues, Barbara Jane Clopton-Blackwell
Thesis: Black Salt, Lakenhia M. Gould
Thesis: Green Waves, Manoli Kouremetis
Thesis: In Cowboy America, Michelle Mizal-Archer
Thesis: Mary Stuart and the English Sonnet Tradition: A Reassessment, Megan K. Mize
Thesis: Understanding PowerPoint Through Rhetoric, Andrea K. Murphy
Thesis: Breathing Space: Memories and Stories, Kathleen E. Schuck
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Thesis: Inside the Fairy Ring: Jane Eyre and the Victorian Fairy Tale, Kimberly Alford
Thesis: Escape Velocity, Mark Gatlin
Thesis: Here and There, Warren D. M. Reed
Thesis: Young White Male, Seth Sawyers
Thesis: A Collection of Famous Last Letters, Gregory A. Schneider
Thesis: Strange Embedded Fellows: The Socio-Narrative Radicalism of Ann Radcliffe's Gothic Romance, E. Jordan Sellers Jr.
Thesis: Still Life with Sierra: A Family Memoir, Margaret J. Sijswerda
Thesis: Bridegroom, Joseph K. Stertz Jr.
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Thesis: White Dogs and Angels, Dianne Alford
Thesis: The F-Word, Paula B. Bishton