Recent Works by English Faculty
Our English department faculty members are award-winning teachers and scholars who have garnered some of the top accolades at ODU and in their fields, including the University Distinguished Teaching Award, the SCHEV Outstanding Faculty Award, the Teaching with Technology Award, the International Student Advisory Board Outstanding Faculty Member Award and many more. Our students are taught by National Book Award Finalists, PEN Award winners, and New York Times Bestsellers. Even the Poet Laureate of Virginia is on our faculty!
Unexpressed Subjects in English: An Empirical Analysis of Narrative and Conversational Discourse
Speech Accommodation in Student Presentations
The Routledge Introduction to Native American Literature
Nurse Practitioners and the Performance of Professional Competency: Accomplishing Patient-Centered Care
Antiracism Inc.: Why the Way We Talk About Racial Justice Matters
Smith
A Third Place: Notes in Nature
Headhunting and other Sports Poems
The Exact Nature of Our Wrongs
Maps for Migrants and Ghosts
The Buddha Wonders if She is Having a Mid-Life Crisis
On Teacher Neutrality
The Post 9/11 Video Game
Through an Indian's Looking-Glass
Bright as Mirrors Left in the Grass
Selected Works by Recent Alumni
Among our alumni are published novelists, two Pulitzer-Prize nominees for journalism, a Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Award winner, and a Yaddo Fellowship recipient. Our alumni and students have had their stories, poetry, and reviews accepted for publication in journals and papers such as The Atlanta Constitution, Kalliope, African American Review, The Virginian Pilot, North American Review, Glimmer Train and American Literary Review. They have presented papers at a number of national conferences, including the Conference on College Composition and Communication, the Popular Culture Association of the South, and American Culture Association.
Wedding Song
Farideh Goldin, '02, was born in 1953 in Shiraz, Iran, to a family of dayanim, the judges and leaders of the Jewish community. Later, attending an American-style university, she was torn between her loyalty to her family, who obeyed strict social, cultural and religious mores, and her western education that promoted individualism and self-reliance. Wedding Song reveals Farideh's struggle in balancing her two worlds.
This Heavy Silence
Nicole Mazzarella, '01, is the author of This Heavy Silence. The Chicago Sun-Times said of her first novel, "Simply put, This Heavy Silence is a great read...this is a complex and layered novel about the choices we make and the relationships we build. In [Mazzarella's] writing, she traverses universal ideas and builds characters that will be familiar to a broad cross-section of people, no matter who they are and what they believe."
Water Woman
enore Hart, 2000, has published poetry, short stories, nonfiction, reviews, and illustrations in The Apalachee Quarterly, Blackwater Review, Brutarian Magazine, Chesapeake Life, Delmarva Quarterly, The Flagler Review and others. Her work has been included in the anthologies In Good Company and Turnings: Writing on Women's Transformations, and her novel Waterwoman was a Barnes and Noble "Discover" title, and an alternate selection of the Literary Guild.