My research destabilizes imaginings of dissertations—conventional and otherwise—by highlighting a range of doctoral dissertations that, seemingly against all odds, manage to diverge from well-worn epistemic and textual paths. Whether it’s a dissertation from South Africa whose author brings auto-ethnography and illness narratives into a discipline known for its skepticism of anything qualitative (Richards, 2012), a dissertation from Canada whose author purposely eschews standard edited academic English in order to privilege traditional Indigenous knowledges (Stewart, 2015), or a dissertation from the United States whose author coded and designed a digital scholarly edition of Ulysses without writing a single chapter in the process (Visconti, 2015), my research questioned what brings these dissertations together while also considering what sets them apart.

• Brittany Amell
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• Database of Unconventional Dissertation [CSV] -- Companion to Amell 2023 v.1.0 - published 06 Feb 2023 in Dataset
• Not all who want to, can--Not all who can, will: Extending notions of unconventional dissertations v.2.0 - published 06 Feb 2023 in Dissertation
• Database of unconventional dissertations--Companion to Amell (2023) v.1.0 - published 30 Jan 2023 in Dataset