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 2004
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: Suffer the Skin, Leona Ripley
Thesis: Institutionalizing Gender and Sexuality in a Call-In Radio Advice Program: A Characterization of Loveline, Meagan P. Storey
Thesis: Before Things Get Rough, John T. Williams Jr.
Thesis: Reparations, Grover Cleveland Winfield III
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
Thesis: Three Days: Memories of a Death Life and Redemption, Matthew J. Oliver
Thesis: What's Yours? What's Mine?, Robert D. Woodcock
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
Thesis: Beyond the Sea of Cortes: A Memoir, Rick Skwiot
Thesis: Defining and Customizing Tagmemic Interaction for Historic House Museum Websites: A Study of Effective Learning Design for Museum Educators, Julie Jenkins Strohkorb
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
Thesis: Taking Care of One's Own, Nicole M. Mazzarella
Thesis: Life Study: A Collection of Persona Poetry, Denise Louise McNelly
Thesis: Good Grief: Representations of the Death of Children in Early American Writings, Lisa M. Murray
Thesis: American Indian-White Miscegenation in Early Nineteenth Century American Literature, Elisabeth Michaelis Simmons
Thesis: Seeing the One-to-One Writing Conference Through Owl Eyes: Reimagining the Voice of Tutor, Madeline Yonker
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: I Won't Say Heaven: Notes on an Outer Banks Village, Judith DePietro Mercier
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
Thesis: All That Becomes a Man, Eugene M. McAvoy
Thesis: Beyond This Point There Be Dragons, Temple D. West
Thesis: Journey Without Landmarks, Connie Young
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
Thesis: Chick's Beach, Teresa E. Perrel
Thesis: From a Far High Place, Princess J. Perry
Thesis: Chaff, Melissa H. Range
Thesis: Evening Assurances, Paul Sznewajs
Thesis: A View of Melville's Piazza Tales from The Piazza, Amy Nadine Vanek
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: The Map the Body Makes, Timothy Carl Richardson
Thesis: Nabokov and Bergson: An Influence of Independence, Susan LeAnne Shaevitz
Thesis: Hoarfrost, Mae Lynn Wallker
Thesis: The Nautical Quest, Bradford S. Warner
Thesis: Taking Up Slack, Thomas Andrew Yuill
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
Thesis: The Creation and Destruction of Surrogate Worlds in Montana Literature, Julie Lyn McMurray
Thesis: Lord Byron's Heroines, Cathy Douglas Rodreguez
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
Thesis: No Other Track: Russell Hoban and the Literary Pilgrim, Eric G. Waggoner
Thesis: Stephen Crane and "The Subtle Brotherhood of Men", Christian Robert Weisser
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
Thesis: Ironic Discourse in Film Noir, D. Kirk Richardson
Thesis: The Igloo, Michael George Treanor
Thesis: The Vital Life: D.H. Lawrence's Response to a Dehumanized World, Rebecca Recce White
Thesis: It's a Family Affair: Choices in Kinship Configurations as Represented in Fried Green Tomatoes and Bastard Out of Carolina, Mary Elizabeth Wright
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
Thesis: Bleek: A Dramatic Poem, Gwendolyn Gail Nixon
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
Thesis: Teaching Rhetorical Delivery in Freshman Composition, Clayann Gilliam Panetta
Thesis: Wising up the Marks: The Later Works of William S. Burroughs, Stephen L. Starck