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Welcome

Welcome to the home page for the PhD in English at Old Dominion University. I invite you to explore the opportunities offered by our innovative program, which integrates writing, rhetoric, discourse, technology, and textual studies. Our courses offer creative reinterpretations of these fields within the discipline of English.

We emphasize research on texts and media as they are affected by form, purpose, technology of composition, audience, cultural location, social practices, and communities of discourse. The program provides coursework and research opportunities that appeal to professionals with careers outside the classroom as well as to those who are pursuing an academic career. Students may elect full- or part-time study, on campus or from a distance. Residency requirements may be met through Summer Doctoral Institutes which offer hybrid on-line and on-site courses. Fellowships and assistantships are available.

Please contact me for additional information or to schedule a phone or campus interview. I would be happy to discuss the program with you.

Dr. Kevin DePew, Graduate Program Director

Program News

Faculty Selected for NEH Sponsored Program

Dr. Kathie Gossett, assistant professor and co-director of the CeME Lab, was selected as one of twleve participants for the NEH funded One Week | One Tool Institute at George Mason's Center for History and New Media to begin this summer and continue through the 2010-11 academic year.

PhD Student Wins Travel Award

Dave Jones, a PhD Student in Professional Writing and New Media, had his proposal to participate in the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing's Research Methodology Workshop on March 18, 2010. Mr. Jones was also awarded a travel stipend by ATTW to attend the workshop.

PhD Candidate Accepts Tenure-Track Position

Heather Lettner-Rust accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Professional Writing and Composition at Longwood University to start fall 2010.

Ms. Lettner-Rust also recently presented her idea for brainstorming and critical revision in a poster session entitled "Speed Dating in the Research/Writing Classroom," at Virginia Tech's Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy on February 17, 2010.

RSA Presentation

Daniel Cutshaw, a PhD Candidate in Rhetoric and Textual Studies, has had his paper "Stumbling over a Topic: Conflating the Roles of the Dialectical Problem" accepted for the Rhetoric Society of America conference. Daniel will present his paper during the conference May 28-31, 2010 in Minneapolis, MN.

Pegasus Award Winners Announced

Elif Guler and Katie Retzinger were this year's Pegasus Award winners. The Pegasus Award funds conference travel for graduate students.

SIGDOC Presentations

Dr. Liza Potts, Katie Retzinger and Dave Jones presented papers at ACM's Special Interest Group in the Design of Communication conference in Bloomington, IN, in October, 2009.

New Faculty

Dr. David Roh (PhD, University of California at Santa Barbara), assistant professor of digital humanities. Dr. Roh brings a variety of technological and theoretical skills with him as well as expertise in late twentieth–century and current American literature and popular culture. As a Fulbright Scholar, David studied literature at Wasada University in Tokyo.

Delores Phillips (PhD, University of Maryland ), assistant professor of literature, with a specialty in the New Literatures in English/postcolonial studies. She will be teaching the New Literatures course in the fall. Her work focuses on biographical cookbooks written by members of the postcolonial Diaspora and compares the writer’s experiences to food images in postcolonial literature.

Kevin Moberly (PhD, University of Louisianna at Lafayette), assistant professor of rhetoric and gaming. He will be teaching modern rhetoric and game theory and design.