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 1989
Thesis: Spatiality in Ulysses and Cubism, Lingchei Chen
Thesis: Pet Rock, July A. Jolly
Thesis: Virginia Woolf's Keen Sensitivity to War: Its Roots and its Impact on Her Fiction, Jane Hamovit Lauter
Theses/Dissertations from 1988
Thesis: Discovery and Denial: Exploring Reality and Possibility in Original Prose, Deborah Porter Bryson
Thesis: Gesture Studies, Andrea Virginia Collins
Theses/Dissertations from 1987
Thesis: Stress Assignment in English, Said Abdessamad
Theses/Dissertations from 1986
Thesis: Walk Naked in The Garden, Gale Coffin Arnoux
Theses/Dissertations from 1985
Thesis: "Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end." The Significance of Conscious Choice: Four Original Stories, Ellen C. Barclay
Thesis: Skinned, Mary Ann Campbell
Thesis: Belief and Betrayal in Fiction: Four Original Stories, Betty Ann Lanigan
Theses/Dissertations from 1984
Thesis: "A Terror and a Dream": Domestic Imagery in the Poetry of Anne Sexton, Frances S. Waters
Theses/Dissertations from 1977
Thesis: Unifying Principles in the English Renaissance Sonnet Sequence, Deborah Fairfield Heatwole
Thesis: The Priest in Gulliver's Travels, Mary Virginia Green Mathews
Theses/Dissertations from 1976
Thesis: Vitruvian Influence in the Design of the Fortune Theatre, 1600-1621, James Boyd Crawford
Theses/Dissertations from 1975
Thesis: Fresh-Robed/ In Flesh: The Incarnation Theme in the Poetry of C. S. Lewis, Margaret P. Anderson
Thesis: The Use of Analogy in the Learning Process in Piers the Plowman, Carol Eason Jones
Theses/Dissertations from 1974
Thesis: Animal Imagery in the Comedies of Ben Jonson and William Congreve, Carl Raymond Ludwigson
Theses/Dissertations from 1973
Thesis: The Expression of Despair in Three Hardy Novels, Brenda J. Casey
Thesis: Poe's Humor in Theory and Practice, Celinda V. Claxton
Thesis: A Study of Nonstandard English in Reading in the Junior High Schools of Portsmouth, Virginia, Gail Biery Kettlewell
Theses/Dissertations from 1972
Thesis: Durability of Addison's Criticism of Milton, Vivian Marguerite Duke
Thesis: The Stage History of John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi, Kathy Lynn Emerson
Thesis: Political Concepts in the Novels of Carson McCullers, Ronald Flowe
Theses/Dissertations from 1971
Thesis: Non-Standard English in Norfolk City Schools, Louise A. DeVere
Thesis: Saint Joan as Tragedy in Terms of Tragic Rhythm and Ritual, Terry A. French
Thesis: An Analysis of Byron's Attempt to Reform the English Stage Through His Venetian Plays, Linda J. Fuller
Thesis: Hemingway's Key West Women: A Study of the Female Characterizations of To Have and Have Not, Nancy Glover Lobaugh
Thesis: Hemingway's Key West Women: A Study of the Female Characterizations of To Have and Have Not, Nancy Glover Lobaugh
Theses/Dissertations from 1970
Thesis: Defoe's Theory of Evil, Jeanette Martin Bass
Thesis: Emily Dickinson's Poetics, Edith Lodge
Theses/Dissertations from 1969
Thesis: William Blake and Isaac Watts, Lois Ballard
Thesis: The Poetry of Hart Crane: An Analysis of the Concept of Regeneration, Shirley S. Hafezi
Thesis: The Fragmented Individual in the Poetry of John Crowe Ransom, Jahaila Morris Harper
Thesis: The Stage Yankee in the Plays of Eugene O'Neill, Sue Farquharson Law
Theses/Dissertations from 1968
Thesis: Eros Philia and Agape in Herman Melville, Mary Barnes
Thesis: The Crystal Prison of Elinor Wylie: The Conflicts of Her Life in Her Poetry, Frances F. Carney
Thesis: Universality Through Particularity: Theme and Technique in the Short Poems of William Carlos Williams, Barbara J. Finfrock
Theses/Dissertations from 1967
Thesis: The Bloomsbury Group: Agent of Evolution, Rashelle Altschul
Thesis: Falstaff, a Product of Historical and Moral Traditions, Emily Stacy Apelt
Thesis: Pope as a Maker of Ballads, Mary M. Dossin
Thesis: Robert Browning's Treatment of Nature in His Poetry, 1841-1855, Mary B. Gard
Thesis: Sandburg's Ambivalence Toward the City, Gloria Grant
Thesis: The Family Tree of Fanny Burney's Evelina, Frances McEntee Martin
Theses/Dissertations from 1966
Thesis: Thomas Shadwell: The Sentimental Characteristics of His Comedies, Ramona Hartley Hamby