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 2010
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
Dissertation: Genre, Database, and the Anatomy of the Digital Archive, Elizabeth J. Vincelette
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: Like as An Exemplifier: A Description of its Construction and the Relations It Can Mark, Helena L. Osborne
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
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: Through the Dark Woods, Letitia A. Montgomery-Rodgers
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
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Thesis: Inside the Fairy Ring: Jane Eyre and the Victorian Fairy Tale, Kimberly Alford
Thesis: Escape Velocity, Mark Gatlin
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Thesis: White Dogs and Angels, Dianne Alford
Thesis: The F-Word, Paula B. Bishton
Thesis: Fire and Ice, Anne Wilson M. Gregory
Thesis: A Boy in His Shadow, Francis Rutledge Hammes
Thesis: Letters to John Lennon: A Play in Two Acts, Stacey Isom
Thesis: Fly, Bob Kunzinger
Thesis: Things That Pass Away, James J. Lidington
Thesis: "Fictual" Reportage and (Virtual) Reality: Truman Capote's In Cold Blood and Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song, Rania M. Mahmoud
Thesis: Institutionalizing Gender and Sexuality in a Call-In Radio Advice Program: A Characterization of Loveline, Meagan P. Storey
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
Thesis: Outside Chicago, John S. Castellarin
Thesis: Cheap Talk and Other Blasphemies, Kathleen M. Fowler
Thesis: Breathe In, Breathe Out, Patti Eldridge Holt
Thesis: A Man's Home is His Castle: A Look at the Relationship Between Fathers and Children in the Novels of Jane Austen, Miranda M. Johnson-Parries
Thesis: Clermont, Iowa: The Moon, Kyle Kuhn
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
Thesis: Retracing the Novel: Amatory Fiction and the Novel's Rise, Sarah Elizabeth Alderfer
Thesis: This Island's History, Rachel Blue Ankney
Thesis: Snapped Into the Sun, Marissa R. Bailey
Thesis: A Wedding Song, Farideh Dayanam Goldin
Thesis: The Use of Free Indirect Discourse in Burney, Austen, and Eliot, Elizabeth H. Harlan
Thesis: Conspiracy Rhetoric in Cyberspace: Jim Condit and the 9/11 Attacks on America, an Analysis of the Voice and Appeals Used in Condit's Rhetoric, Kreg Allan Kinney
Thesis: Losing Cameron, Kerry D. Kisa
Thesis: Bakhtin and the Rhetoric of the Modern Western Novel, Douglas J. Massey
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
Thesis: Western Psalm, Josh Allen
Thesis: Human Research Participant Protections: A Rhetorical Analysis of Two Key Documents, Lisa R. Ballance
Thesis: She Stories: Navy Wives in the Twentieth Century, Susan Boland
Thesis: The Cowboy's Dirty Laundry, Kurt Bolotin
Thesis: Caste, Desire, and the Representation of the Gendered Other in U. R. Ananthamurthy's “Samskara,” “Ghatashraddha,” and “Akkayya”, Krishna Manavalli
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
Thesis: Flower and Bone, Jamii R. Claiborne
Thesis: False Starts, Evelyn Jill Coley
Thesis: Lester Dowdy's Carnival, Gillian M. Devereux
Thesis: A World Across its Surface: The Story of the Fiddle, Julie L. Hale
Thesis: Waterwoman, Lenore Hart
Thesis: Three Inches of Night, Rebecca Eldridge Hurst
Thesis: False Cape, Katherine Jackson
Thesis: The Book of Changes, Nancy H. Jolemore
Thesis: An Investigation Into the Relationship Between Language Attitudes and Academic Performance in Northampton County, Virginia, Public Schools, Glenda L. Rose
Theses/Dissertations from 1999
Thesis: Losing Ground: A Barrier Island Comes of Age, Lorraine M. Eaton
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
Thesis: Brecht's Influence on the Modern British Theater with a Special Focus on Edward Bond's The War Plays, Amal Abdelrazek
Thesis: The Land, Mark H. W. Hiebert
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
Thesis: Out of the Familiar Graces: A Book of Poems, Ronald Clark Brooks Jr.
Thesis: Begging the Earth's Forgiveness: Russian Folklore in the Novels of F. M. Dostoevsky, Wendy Kristine Chia-Klesch
Thesis: The Father Machine, Anthony Winslow Enns
Thesis: Galaxie, Sarah Ann Livingston
Thesis: Classical Montessori: A Study of the Classical Rhetorical Canons in Early Montessori Writing Instruction, Deborah E. O'Neil
Thesis: Hoarfrost, Mae Lynn Wallker
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
Thesis: Expressions of Oppression or Power? Reconsidering the Texts of Hannah Webster Foster and Tabitha Gilman Tenney, Debra Anne Akgun
Thesis: An "Earthly Paradise": William Morris's Later Prose Romances, Carolyn Adele Gardner
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
Thesis: The Transference of Traditional American Indian Oral Narratives into Contemporary Literature, Barbara A. Baisley
Thesis: Hold as a Monosemic Verb, Amy D. Camp
Thesis: Names as Insults Among Middle School Students, Susan M. de Veer
Thesis: Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop: Narrative and Historical Inspiration, Melissa L. Hamilton
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
Thesis: Threats, Carol DĹynn West Bleyle
Thesis: Against a Politics of Desire: Lesbians Romance and Film, Angela Anelalani Cantrell
Thesis: An Ounce of Truth, Matilda Wyche Cox
Thesis: A Literary Evaluation of Black Female Interaction in Toni Morrison's "Beloved", "Sula," "Jazz", Carol Ann Davenport
Thesis: The Laissez Faire Political Vision of John Milton in Paradise Lost, Gerald Keith Delles
Thesis: Come Rain or Come Shine, Teresa E. (Terry) Perrel
Thesis: Computer Networks and the Teaching of English as a Second Language: How Networks Affect Second Language Acquisition, Kirstin J. Reed-Perez
Theses/Dissertations from 1993
Thesis: The Complexities of Learning Prepositions: Spanish to English, Denise J. Simon Chiavarini
Thesis: Yellow Ribbons, D. Scott Drake
Thesis: Contemporary Applications of Classical Ethos, Sheri L. Helsley
Thesis: American Christianity and its Role in the Denigration of the African-American Identity as Found in African-American Literature, Zelda Lockhart
Thesis: Katharine's Dream, Karen Maceira
Theses/Dissertations from 1992
Thesis: Five Stories and a Novella for Young Adults, Ronald Vincent Hughes
Thesis: Making Salt, Lynn Dean Hunter
Thesis: Gender, Reason, and Argument in Composition, Lee Ellen Knight
Theses/Dissertations from 1991
Thesis: Touch Her, Carol Jensen Bliefernich
Thesis: Lessons From Home, Leslie T. Clark
Thesis: A Record of the Present Moment: A Comparison of the Early and Later Narrative Work of Gertrude Stein, Elisa Stuber Cohen