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 1968
Thesis: Anatomy of a Failure: Structure Theme and Point of View in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and Damned, Felice Abram Stern
Thesis: Whitman's View of the Nature and Function of His Poetry, Claudia M. Storminger
Thesis: The Function of Some Comic Elements in the Wakefield Plays in the Towneley Cycle, Frances E. Whitehall
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
Thesis: The Eighteenth Century Background of Canto IV Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Dorothy Cox Moore
Thesis: The Ironies in Billy Budd and Melville's Evaluation of Man, Lon Dean Vance
Theses/Dissertations from 1966
Thesis: Thomas Shadwell: The Sentimental Characteristics of His Comedies, Ramona Hartley Hamby
Thesis: The Hobbesian Villain in Dryden's Heroic Plays, Margaret Norman Simmons
Theses/Dissertations from 1965
Thesis: 1 Tamburlaine: A Comedy, Caroline Heath Tunstall
Thesis: The Renaissance Epyllion: A Study of a Comic Genre, Juanita Josephine Whitaker