Directory of ETDs Currently in Progress
All of the works listed below exist solely, or at least primarily, in digital form and seek to use their electronic environment to support scholarship that could not be undertaken in print. Detailed project descriptions and contact information are available by clicking on each ETD's title.

Electronic post-prints of paper-based theses and dissertations -- increasingly commonplace -- are not listed here.

If you are the author of a humanities ETD, whether completed or in progress, you may add your project to these listings via this online form.

"Dissertations must not violate stylistic norms because that might jeopardize our young scholar's future. `Let them be radical in what they say but not in how they say it.' - Such is the pragmatic, and characteristically self-fulfilling, argument that is made. The point here, as in most initiation rites, is to be hazed into submission, to break the spirit, and to justify the past practice of the initiators. Professionalization is the criteria of professional standing but not necessary professional values; nor are our professional writing standards at or near the limits of coherence, perception, edification, scholarship, communication, or meaning. Underneath the mask of career-minded concessions to normalcy is an often repressed epistemological positivism about the representation of ideas. While the philosophical and linguistic justifications for such ideational mimesis - for example the idea that a writing style can be transparent or neutral - have been largely undermined, the practice of ideational mimesis is largely unacknowledged and, as a result, persists unabated."

-- Charles Bernstein, "Frame Lock"

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"Instead of bloating the electronic book, I think it possible to structure it in layers arranged like a pyramid. The top layer could be a concise account of the subject, available perhaps in paperback. The next layer could contain expanded versions of different aspects of the argument, not arranged sequentially as in a narrative, but rather as self-contained units that feed into the topmost story. The third layer could be composed of documentation, possibly of different kinds, each set off by interpretative essays. A fourth layer might be theoretical or historiographical, with selections from previous scholarship and discussions of them. A fifth layer could be pedagogic, consisting of suggestions for classroom discussion and a model syllabus. And a sixth layer could contain readers' reports, exchanges between the author and the editor, and letters from readers, who could provide a growing corpus of commentary as the book made its way through different groups of readers."

-- Robert Darnton, "The New Age of Books"
New York Review of Books, 18 March 1999

American Studies:

Kohrs, Dean. Ethnographic Study of Joseph Campbell's Influance on Popular Culture. Bowling Green State University (Ph.D. dissertation).

Rose, Julie K. The World's Columbian Exposition: Idea, Experience, Aftermath University of Virginia (M.A. thesis).

Archaeology:

Holtorf, Cornelius J. Monumental Past. Interpreting the Meanings of Ancient Monuments in Later Prehistoric Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Germany). University of Wales (Ph.D. dissertation).

Architecture:

Traganou, Jilly. Modern Landscapes in Japan - Tokaido: Revisited. University of Westminster (Ph.D. dissertation).

Art History:

Witt, Contstanze. Barbarians on the Greek Periphery? Origins of Celtic Art. University of Virginia (Ph.D. dissertation).

English Literature:

Boese, Christine. The Ballad of the Internet Nutball: Chaining Rhetorical Visions from the Margins of the Margins to the Mainstream in the Xenaverse. Renssellaer Polytechnic Institute (Ph.D. dissertation).

Branham, Craig. CON^2 : The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles (924-983) as Hypertext. Saint Louis University (M.A. thesis).

Butler, Priscilla. Across a Day: An Interactive Memoir. Emerson College (M.F.A. thesis).

Cockram, Patricia. Hypertextuality in Ezra Pound's Italian and Pisan Cantos. CUNY Graduate Center (Ph.D. dissertation).

Cowen, Amy. alt_women@pomo.lit: Women's Literature and/in the Postmodern. University of Maryland (Ph.D. dissertation).

Gills, Stacey J. Atonement and Resolution in British Detective Fiction (1918-1939) University of Exeter (Ph.D. dissertation).

Kirschenbaum, Matthew G. Lines for a Virtual T/y/o/pography University of Virginia (Ph.D. dissertation).

Lukas, Tom. Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass: "Calamus" Revisions: A Hypermedia Critical Edition. University of Virginia (undergraduate thesis). *

McNeill, John Dylan. Social Constructivism and the Hypertextual Portfolio. Eastern Illinois University (M.A. thesis).

Rae, Leila. 101: One Zero One. California State University, Hayward (M.A. thesis).

Shauf, Michele S. Memory Media and the Rhetoric of Invention University of Delaware (Ph.D. dissertation).

Silverman, Rachel. HyperLiterature. Amherst College (undergraduate thesis). *

Stahmer, Carl. Romanticism and Hypertextuality. University of California at Santa Barbara (Ph.D. dissertation).

Yordy, Jonathan. Walt Whitman: Materialism, Emotional Expression, and the Body in Leaves of Grass. SUNY at Buffalo (Ph.D. dissertation).

Fine Arts:

Partridge, Allen. Culture Shock;The Impact of Hypermedia Technology on Theatre. Texas Tech University (Ph.D. dissertation).

History:

Grizzard, Frank E., Jr. The Construction of the Buildings at the University of Virginia, 1817-1828 University of Virginia (Ph.D. dissertation).

Interdisciplinary Studies:

Fry, Warwick. Some Effects on Popular Discourse of Media Convergence on the Internet. Southern Cross University (Ph.D. dissertation).

Krug, Kersti. Hypermedia View into Organizational Culture, Ambiguity, and Change: Conversations and Learning with the Museum of Anthropology. University of British Columbia (Ph.D. dissertation).

Radney, J. Randolph. Evaluating Philosophical Bases of Linguistic Theories University of Texas at Arlingtion (Ph.D. dissertation).

Shumate, Michael. Writing Lives: Technology, Creativity, and Hypertext Fiction. Duke University (M.A. thesis).

Modern Languages:

Abraham, James T. Los espaoles en Chile: A Distributed Multimedia Edition. University of Arizona (Ph.D dissertation).

Music:

Bodley, Derrill. Computer-Assisted-Instruction in Support of Music Appreciation. University of the Pacific (degree unknown).

McCartney, Andra. Sounding Places: Situated Conversations Through the Work of Hildegard Westerkamp. York University (Ph.D. dissertation).

Schlesinger, Scott. An Organ Transcription of Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf" and Discussion of the Metholodology and the Transcription and Registration Process of "Peter and the Wolf" for the Pipe Organ. UCLA (Ph.D. dissertation).

Religious Studies:

Blayone, Todd J. B. Beyond the Book: A Paradigm for the (Re)Composition and Reception of Early Christian Tradition in Computer Media. McGill University (Ph.D. dissertation).

Boes, Henrik L. Ontological Spheres: Religion, Scholarship and Play in the Media Age. University of Colorado at Boulder (M.A. thesis).

Other (Humanities-related):

Engel, Eric Paul. Re-Searching Online: Linear Textuality vs. Hypertextuality. Indiana University/Purdue University-Fort Wayne (M.A. thesis).

Naughton, Russell J. G. Adventures in CyberSound. RMIT, Melbourne (Ph.D. dissertation).

Nideffer, Robert F. Bodies, No-Bodies, and Anti-Bodies at War: Operation Desert Storm and the Politics of the "Real". University of California at Santa Barbara (Ph.D. dissertation).

Pockley, Simon. The Flight of Ducks. RMIT, Melbourne (Ph.D. dissertation).

Robinson, Paulette. Computer Spaces: Graduate Students Experience of Web-Based Computer Conferencing. University of Maryland at College Park (Ph.D. dissertation).

Salo, Merja. Signs of Pleasure, Danger and Warning. A Comparative study of printed pictures used in cigarette advertising and antismoking propaganda in Finland between 1870 and 1996. University of Art and Design, Finnland (Ph.D. dissertation).