A selection of faculty publications from the Department of English, College of Arts & Letters, Old Dominion University.

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Submissions from 2023

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Bouncing Back: Resilience and Its Limits in Late-Age Composing, Louise Wetherbee Phelps

Submissions from 2022

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Artists as Assets: Labor and Capital in the Unity Asset Store, D'An Knowles Ball

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"Dear Spoonie Mom:" Digital Open Letters as Counter Narratives for Chronically Ill Mothers, Cristina De León-Menjivar

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Generation(al) Matters: Story, Lens, and Tone, Louise Weatherbee Phelps

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Place-Based Podcasting: From Orality to Electracy in Norfolk, Virginia, Daniel P. Richards, Michael J. Faris (Ed.), Courtney S. Danforth (Ed.), and Kyle D. Stedman (Ed.)

Submissions from 2021

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The (Mis) Representation of Racialized Minorities: Barbie Dolls as Social Problems in India, Namrata Ashvinbhai Bhadania

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Dear America (American Dream), Luisa Igloria

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Review Essay: "America's Hometown" Revisited, Drew Lopenzina

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Introduction to Game Design, Development, and Criticism (GAME 201T), Kevin Moberly, Richard E. Ferdig (Ed.), Emily Baumgartner (Ed.), and Enrico Gandolfi (Ed.)

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The Digital Gaze: Anthropomorphic Reflections of Future Posthuman Reality, Joshua Nieubuurt

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Internet Memes: Leaflet Propaganda of the Digital Age, Joshua Troy Nieubuurt

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Society Doesn’t Owe You Anything: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas & Video Games as Speculative Fiction, Marc A. Ouellette

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User Experience Design as a Framework for Environmental and Political Negotiation in Decision Making About Wind Energy, Daniel P. Richards, Jennifer L. Whytlaw, Thomas R. Allen, Jonathan J. Miles, George Mcleod, and Jeremiah J.A. Cronin

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Engaging Residents in Policy and Planning for Sea Level Rise: Application of the Action-Oriented Stakeholder Engagement for a Resilient Tomorrow (ASERT) Framework, Juita-Elena (Wie) Yusuf, J. Gail Nicula, Daniel P. Richards, Ogechukwu Agim, Michelle Covi, and Khairul A. Anuar

Submissions from 2020

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Bless Your Heart: Constructing the ‘Southern Belle’ in the Modern South’, Staci Defibaugh and Karen Taylor

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New Possibilities for Field Experiences: Learning in Practice in a University Writing Center, Michelle Fowler-Amato

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Animus, Luisa Igloria

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Drift, Luisa Igloria

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Park Blues Langston Hughes, Racial Exclusion, and the Park Ballad, Margaret Konkol

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The Revolutionary Gardens of Imagism, Margaret Konkol

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Afterlives of Indigenous Archives: Essays in Honor of "The Occom Circle" [Book Review], Drew Lopenzina

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The House and the Infected Body: The Metonomy of Resident Evil 7, Alan McGreevy, Christina Fawcett, and Marc A. Ouellette

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"The Most Glorious War Recorded in the British Annals”: Portugal in British Figurations of the Peninsular War, Manuela Mourão

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I Am #ActuallyAutistic, Hear Me Tweet: The Autist-Topoi of Autistic Activists on Twitter, Ruth Osorio

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I Told You That to Tell You This: Metagaming and Metacognition in the Hybrid Classroom, Marc A. Ouellette

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A Feel for the Game: AI, Computer Games and Perceiving Perception, Marc A. Ouellette and Steven Conway

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The Game Studies Crisis: What Are the Rules of Play?, Marc A. Ouellette and Steven Conway

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Full Disclosure / Now What?, Daniel P. Richards

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Introduction: The Politics, Praxis, and Performativity of Teacher Neutrality, Daniel P. Richards

Submissions from 2019

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Twisting Facts to Suit Theories: In Defense of Sherlock, Alicia DeFonzo

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Outside a Binary System, The Brighter Object Is a Dream, Luisa A. Igloria

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Psychoanalysis, Dignity, and Life: An Introduction, David Metzger

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"And Nothing She Needs": Victoria's Secret and the Gaze of "Post-Feminism", Marc Ouellette

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"I'm Controlling and Composing": The Role of Metacognition in The Incredible Machine, Marc A. Ouellette

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Lexical Complexity of Academic Presentations: Similarities Despite Situational Differences, Alla Zareva

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Providing Feedback on the Lexical Use of ESP Students’ Academic Presentations: Teacher Training Considerations, Alla Zareva

Submissions from 2018

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The Letters, Alicia DeFonzo

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The Sky of our Manufacture: The London Fog in British Fiction from Dickens to Woolf, Margaret Konkol

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Spectators, Sponsors, or World Travelers? Engaging with Personal Narratives of Others through the Afghan Women's Writing Project, Bethany Mannon

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"Can a Poem Stop a Jail from Being Built?" On Fugitive Counter-Ethics as Prison Pedagogy, Meghan McDowell and Alison Reed

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Run Hugs, Squeeze Hugs, and Jump Hugs: Playfully Professing Parenthood and the Self-in-Relation, Marc Ouellette

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"Saying 'I Do' All Over Again": The Throwaway Ornamentalism of Promises Weddings Vow to Break, Marc A. Ouellette

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He Scores Through a Screen: Mediating Masculinities Through Hockey Video Games, Marc A. Ouellette and Steven Conway

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Afterword: Horizons of Transformation: When Age, Literacy and Scholarship Meet, Louise Wetherbee Phelps

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Dialogical Numbers: Counting Humanimal Pain in J.M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello, Mike Piero

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Graves, R. & Hyland, T. (Eds.). (2017) Writing Assignments Across University Disciplines. Bloomington, IN: Trafford., Daniel P. Richards

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Subjectivity and Methodology in the Arch'I've, Elizabeth J. Vincelette

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Evaluation in Moderation: Evaluative Adjectives in Student Academic Presentations, Alla Zareva

Submissions from 2017

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France in June, Alicia DeFonzo

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Developing a Faculty Learning Community to Support Writing Across Different STEM Disciplines, Vukica M. Jovanovic, Denise Tombolato-Terzic, Daniel P. Richards, Pilar Pazos, Megan McKittrick, Julia Romberger, and Otilia Popescu

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Fallen Forests: Emotion, Embodiment, and Ethics in American Women’s Environmental Writing, 1781–1924 and The Ecology of Modernism: American Environments and Avant-Garde Poetics [Book Review], Margaret Konkol

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Poetry and Anarchism, Margaret Konkol

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Prototyping Mina Loy's Alphabet, Margaret Konkol

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"That Irate Pornographist": Gender and Nature in Mina Loy's "Songs to Joannes", Margaret Konkol

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"If You Want To Be The Man, You've Got To Beat The Man": Masculinity and the Rise of Professional Wrestling in the 1990's, Marc Ouellette

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The Public Fallout of the Humanities Crisis: Critiquing the Public Turn in Rhetoric and Composition Studies, Mary Beth Pennington, Tonya Ritola, and Belinda Walzer

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Between Smoke and Crystal: Accomplishing In(ter)dependent Writing Programs, Louise Wetherbee Phelps

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Caption This: Police in Pussyhats, White Ladies, and Carceral Psychology Under Trump, Alison R. Reed

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Dwelling in the Ruins: Recovering Student Use of Metaphor in the Posthistorical University, Daniel P. Richards

Problems of Agency In Visual Risk Communication, Daniel P. Richards

Submissions from 2016

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Inspection, Alicia DeFonzo

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Map Key and Documentary Sources, Imtiaz Habib

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Apportioned Commodity Fetishism and the Transformative Power of Game Studies, Ken S. McAllister, Chris Hanson, Judd Ethan Ruggill, Carly A. Kocurek, Tobias Conradi, Kevin A. Moberly, Steven Conway, Randy Nichols, Jennifer deWinter, and Marc A. Oullette

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Gay Habits Set Strait: Fan Culture and Authoritative Praxis in Ready Player One, Kevin Moberly and Brent Moberly

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“The Finest Production of the Finest Country upon Earth”: Gender and Nationality in the Writings of Nineteenth-Century British Women Travelers to Portugal, Manuela Mourão

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Powerlessness Repurposed: The Feminist Ethos of Judy Bonds, Mary Beth Pennington

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The 1979 Ottawa Conference and It's Inscriptions: Recovering a Canadian Moment in American Rhetoric and Composition, Louise Wetherbee Phelps

Submissions from 2015

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Overcoming Gender: The Impact of the Persian Language on Iranian Women’s Confessional Literature, Farideh Dayanim Goldin

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Comparatively Mapping Genres in Academic and Workplace Engineering Environments, Vukica M. Jovanovic, Megan McKittrick, Pilar Pazos, Daniel Richards, and Julia Romberger

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Of Sonnets and Archives: Robert Graves, Laura Riding, and the Erasure of Modern Poetry, Margaret Konkol

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Le Jeune Dreams of Moose: Altered States Among the Montagnais in the Jesuit Relations of 1634, Drew Lopenzina

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Robert Southey on Portugal: Travel Narrative and the Writing of History, Manuela Mourão

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Queer Provisionality: Mapping the Generative Failures of the Transborder Immigrant Tool, Alison R. Reed

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Testing the Waters: Local Users, Sea Level Rise, and the Productive Usability of Interactive Geovisualizations, Daniel Richards

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The (Re)Naturalization of Margaret Cavendish: Making Active the Relationship between Nature and Female Subjectivity in Blazing World, Daniel P. Richards, Julie Chappell (Ed.), and Kamille Stone Stanton (Ed.)

Submissions from 2014

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Appalachian Migrant Stances, Bridget L. Anderson

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Needed Research on the Englishes of Appalachia, Bridget L. Anderson, Jennifer Cramer, Bethany K. Dumas, Beverly O. Flanigan, and Michael Montgomery

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Illustrations and Text: Storyworld Space and the Multimodality of Serialized Narrative, Laura Daniel Buchholz

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The Camps [Nonfiction Narrative], Alicia DeFonzo

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Out of Reach [Short Story], Kathleen Fowler

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Eat It: Sex, Food and Women's Writing [Book Review], Marc Ouellette

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Samuel Beckett and Testimony [Book Review], Marc A. Ouellette

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The Rhetoric of Appalachian Identity (Book Review), Mary Beth Pennington

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The Historical Formation of Academic Identities: Rhetoric and Composition, Discourse and Writing, Louise Wetherbee Phelps

Submissions from 2013

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Contemporary English in the USA, Melissa Axelrod and Joanne Scheibman

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Gotcha: What Social Activists Can Learn from Pranksters, Janet M. Bing

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Othello's "Malignant Turk" and George Manwaring's "A True Discourse": The Cultural Politics of a Textual Derivation, Imtiaz Habib

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There is No Word for Work in the Dragon Tongue, Kevin Moberly and Brent Moberly

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Agewise: Fighting the New Ageism in America [Book Review], Marc A. Ouellette

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Editor's Introduction: "Making Sense of the Senseless: A Case for the Insufficiency of Theory and Hermeneutics", Marc A. Ouellette

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Gay for Play: Theorizing LGBTQ Characters in Game Studies, Marc A. Ouellette

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“I Know It When I See It”: Style, Simulation and the ‘Short-Circuit Sign’, Marc A. Ouellette

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Married, With Children and an Xbox: Compromise in Video Games Play, Marc A. Ouellette

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Nobody Here Does Anything For Nothing: Reciprocity and Gender in The Wings of the Dove, Marc A. Ouellette

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Introduction: A Game's Study Manifesto, Jason C. Thompson and Marc A. Ouellette

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Strategy Use of Russian Pre-service TEFL University Students: Using a Strategy Inventory for Program Effectiveness Evaluation, Alla Zareva and Anna Fomina

Submissions from 2012

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What is Talmud? The Art of Disagreement, David Metzger

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Low-Stakes, Reflective Writing: Moving Students into Their Professional Fields, Joyce Neff, Garrett J. McAuliffe, Carl Whithaus, and Nial P. Quinlan

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Gaming Matters: Art, Science Magic and the Computer Game Medium [Book Review], Marc Ouellette

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"We Should Have Brought The Tank": Hypermediated Interactivity in Red vs. Blue, Marc A. Ouellette