PhD & MFA Dissertations by Year
| Author | Title | Chair | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
Rebecca Elizabeth Hooker | Righteous Anger and the Power of Positive Thinking: Early Nineteenth-century African-American and Native-American Racial Uplift Texts | Scharnhorst | 2009 |
Rachael Harmon | Daugheters of Eve: Childbirth in Faulkner, Hemingway, and the Real World | Scharnhorst | 2009 |
Katyna Johnson | Reframing Narratives and Reevaluating Bodies: Incorporating Disability into Narratives | Harrison | 2009 |
Felicia Karas | Twine Ball: Stories | Mueller | 2009 |
Michaelann Nelson | Voices of Glen Canyon: The Influence of Place on Imagination and Activism | Kells | 2009 |
Danizete Ortega Martinez | The Chicana/o Grotesque: National Origins, Subversive Tradtions, and Bodies of Resistance in U.S. Southwestern Literature | Alemán | 2009 |
Kelvin Ray Beliele | Beloved Savages and Other Outsiders: Genre and Gender Transgressions in the Travel Writings of Herman Melville, Bayard Taylor, and Charles Warren Stoddard | Scharnhorst | 2009 |
Robin Runia | Hearkening to Whores: Reviving Eighteenth-century Models of Sensible Writing | Woodward | 2009 |
Valerie Santillanes | Nothing Free | Mueller | 2009 |
Birgit Schmidt-Rosemann | Pox'd Whores and Virginal Fannies: Shifting Representation of Women's Bodies and their Effects on Female Satire in the Eighteenth Centnury | Woodward | 2009 |
Rudolfo Serna | Story of the Tierra Psycho | Shigekuni | 2009 |
Kristi Stewart | Desert Eroticism: Ellen Meloy's Intimate Geography and Deep Map of Place | Sanders | 2009 |
Candice Welhausen | Toward a Visual Paideia: Visual Rhetoric in Undergraduate Writing Programs | Romano | 2009 |
Cynthia D. Fillmore | Satan, Saints, and Heretics: A History of Political Demonology in the Middle Ages | Graham | 2008 |
John D. Miles | Rhetoric and Sovereignty: Refiguring Rhetorical Agency in the Works by Native Authors | Romano | 2008 |
Stephanie Marie Gustafson | Dialogic Voice in Contemporary Women's Memoir: Daughter's Narrative Strategies for Negotiating Cultural and Generational Differences in the Mother/Daughter Relationship | Jussawalla | 2007 |
Dennis Michael Lensing | Utopian Myopia: American Consumerism, the Cold War, and Popular Fiction of the Long 1950s | Alemán | 2007 |
Maria Szasz | Philadelphia, Here He Came: Brian Friel and America | Jones | 2007 |
Johanna Mari Cummings | Staging science: The Invisible Forces in the Plays of Elizabeth Inchbald | Woodward | 2006 |
| AnitaLee Daniels | The Circumscribing Coyote: Native American Use of Signifying to Cast their Message in Palatable Tropes | Beene | 2006 |
| Virgil Mathes | Pistols at High Noon: The Code Duello in Western Literature | Scharnhorst | 2006 |
| Lawrence E. Morgan | Where Science Writing and Nature Writing Converge: The Writing of John Gierach | Sanders | 2006 |
| Shari Michelle Evans | Navigating Exile: Contemporary Women Writers Discover an Ethics of Home | Woodward | 2005 |
| Sibylle M. Schlesier | Stahot'sewo'oms: I'll see you again. A Study in the Working of Collaboration: The Narratives of Bill Red Hat, Cheyenne Keeper of the Arrows | Torres | 2005 |
| Patricia Stone | Chronotopes in the Cross-cultural Novel: Time, Space and Meaning in Novels by Toni Morrison, Louis Owens, and Leslie Marmon Silko | Archuleta | 2005 |
| Matthew Niven Teorey | Brer Rabbit and Nho Lobo: Connections between the Literatures of Cape Verdean-Americans and African-Americans | Scharnhorst | 2005 |
| Mary Terese Blum | The Comitatus in the Trenches: Reading the Poetry of World War I through the Lens of Anglo-Saxon Heroism | Witemeyer | 2004 |
| Carin Bigrigg | Women (W)ri(gh)ting Wrongs: Contemporary Female Playwrights Manipulate the Past | Jones | 2004 |
| Logan Dale Greene | The Discourse of Hysteria: The Topoi of Humility, Physicality, and Authority in Women's Rhetoric | Martin | 2004 |
| Karmen Lenz | Images of Psychic Landscape in the Meters of King Alfred's "Froferboc" | Damico | 2004 |
| Karen Janet McKinney | "Mountaineers guard well the past": Ethnologists, Adventurers, Storytellers, and the Representation of Twentieth Century Appalachia | Power | 2004 |
| Arlene Cinelli Odenwald | A Stylistic Analysis of the Ethos of Characters in Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible | Beene | 2004 |
| Scott Rode | Reading and Mapping Hardy's Roads | Houston | 2004 |
| Mary Ann Rooks | "Clarissa"'s Lessons: Space, Class and Other Moral Matters in Richardson's Eighteenth Century | Woodward | 2004 |
| Cynthia Anne Segura | Perls of Wisdom: Computer Language and Perl Poetry | Beene | 2004 |
| Kevin Robert Dye | "Barbaric Splendor:" The Colville Reservation Writings of 1887--1889 Indian Agent Rickard D. Gwydir | Scharnhorst | 2003 |
| Andrew Flood Mara | The Rhetoric of Evasion and Silence of Surveillance: Hypertext Origin Narratives from Vannevar Bush to Richard Lanham | Johnson-Sheehan | 2003 |
| Virginia Lovliere Hampton | "A song worth singin": From Rituals of Resistance to Radical Black Subjectivity in African American Theater and Performance | Jussawalla | 2003 |
| Michael Mark Moghtader | Lives on the Disciplinary Boundary: Toward a Hybrid English Studies Graduate Teacher | Paine | 2003 |
| Miriam O'Kane Mara | A famine of preference: Images of Anorexia in Contemporary Irish Literature | Power | 2003 |
| Andrew Michael Smith | Regeneration through Photography: Invention and Identity in Pre-twentieth-century United States Literature | Scharnhorst | 2003 |
| Jason David Fichtel | Writing "in the thrall of the impossible real": William Faulkner's Rhetoric of Disaster | Marquez | 2002 |
| Heather Eileen O'Shea | Suitable poets in Brooks Brothers suits: Allen Tate, the New Critics, and the American Poets Laureate | Beene | 2002 |
| Julianne White | "We have come to give you metaphors for poetry": Dance, Music and the Visual Arts as Metaphors in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats | Power | 2002 |
| Susan Cantana | Slippery Bastards: Explorations of Illegitimacy etc. | Alan | 1999 |
| Lisa Craig | Magnitude and Direction: An Examination of Rhetorical Features of Minimal Manuals Past and Present | Unknown | 1999 |
| Anne Foltz | Architectonics in the Zone: Construction and Implications in Three Contemporary Novels | Unknown | 1999 |
| Earlene Hammock | Madness, Myth, and Misogyny: A Study Of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth | McPherson | 1999 |
| Edwina Romero | Strange Bedfellows: Melding Form and Content in Freshman Composition | Shea | 1999 |
| Serena Roybal Huffman | A Victorian Don Quixote: Cervantes in England | Power | 1999 |
| SueAnn Schatz | “I Would Not Be A Woman Like The Rest” : Aurora Leigh and British Women’s Domestic- Professional Fiction of the 1890’s | Woodward | 1999 |
| Iris Barkman | Not Fit For Much: Mothers and Widows in the Comedies of Etherege, Wycherley and Congreve | Thorson | 1998 |
| William Forman | Finding a Way That Can Be Spoken : Myth Poetic Activity of Metaphor Twisting in the Rhetoric of Politics | Thorson | 1998 |
| Carolyn D. Holbert | Mad Sex and Sexual Madness: Female Characters in Tragic Drama | Jones | 1998 |
| Patrick Edward Houlihan | Rhetorical Instruments: Bakhtinian Dialogism as Composition Pedagogy | Beene | 1998 |
| Elizabeth Moorehead | “Separate Spheres” in the Republic Adice Writing in Sarah J. Hale Catherine Beecher Margaret Fuller, and Edith Wharton | Smith | 1998 |
| Jeanette Riley | Locating in the Actual: The Poetry of Eavan Boland and Adrienne Rich | Power | 1998 |
| Michael Oren Smedshammer | Modern Writers in New Mexico: Charles Lummis, Oliver La Farge, D.H. Lawrence, Willa Cather, and the Quest for Purpose and Place in the Southwest | Jones | 1998 |
| Sheila Gilmartin | How We Begin to Remember | Smith | 1997 |
| Jami L. Huntsinger Hacker | Building a Cathedral of Alienation: A Study in Despair in Willa Cather’s Fiction | Fleming | 1997 |
| Andrew Stuart McClure | “Survivance” in Native American Literature: Form and Representations | M. Szasz | 1997 |
| Sheri Metzger | Reflections of Eve: Condemnations Be Men, Defenses by Women in Tudor-Stuart England | McPherson | 1997 |
| Tamara Kay Thurston | Boundary Breaking: Mestiza Writers and Innovations in Form | Gavin | 1997 |
| Jan Wellington | The Poems and Prose of Elizabeth Moody | Woodward | 1997 |
| Jennie Dear | The Rhetoric of Reality in Eitheenth – Century British Fiction | Unknown | 1996 |
| Megan O’Neill | Claiming Coleridge: Poet as Rhetor | Unknown | 1996 |
| Richard Randolph | Marginalized Thoreau: A Sociological Study of Henry David Thoreau’s Sympathy with the Economic and Ethnic Underclass | Unknown | 1996 |
| Rebecca Rowley | The Politics of Dreaming: The Relationship Between Dreams and Politics in the Work of Keats, Shelley, De Quiney, and Tennyson | Unknown | 1996 |
| David Bendetti | Postmodern Poetics Ron Sillimans Languge Poetry and Professional Reading ` | Illegiable | 1995 |
| Karen Bickel Sunde | More than Fancy’s Image: A New Rhetorical Analysis of Argument Structures in The Man Of Mode and The Rover I | J. Thorson | 1995 |
| Alan Blackstock | The Rhetoric of Redemption: The Literary Criticism of G.K Chesterton | Unknown | 1995 |
| David Gillette | Gutenberg Going, Going, Gone? | Price | 1995 |
| David J. Martinson | The Ideological Development of Shakespeare Culminating in King Lear: Shakespeare’s Mirror for Magistrates for King James I | McPherson | 1995 |
| Anna Carew-Miller | Telling The Truth About Herself: Mary Austin and the Autobiographical Voice of Feminist Theory | Fischer | 1994 |
| Rosemary Day | George Elliot : A Woman Writer Problems of Distance, Etc. | Woodward | 1994 |
| Isabella Devere | Male Power and Female Response in the Novels of Samuel Richardson: A Psychological Study | Power | 1994 |
| Susan Field | The Romance of Desire: Emerson’s Commitment to Incompletion | Smith | 1994 |
| Robin Ganz | The Terrible Ambiguity of the “I”: Textualized of the Self in Philip Roth’s Fiction and Autobiographies | Unknown | 1994 |
| Ann Marie Grigsby | The Victorian Craze: The Appeal of Madness in Charles Reade, Wilkie Collins, and Charles Dickins | Unknown | 1994 |
| David E. Hailey, Jr. | The Objective Metaphor: An Examination of Objects as Metaphors to Ceremony, Sometimes a Great Nation and The Natural | Beene | 1994 |
| Michael J. Mages | The Dark Stain: The Role of Innate Depravity in American Literature 1620-1940 | Majory | 1994 |
| Marilyn Wilton | “In Duty Bound, A Life Hemmed In”: The Portrayal of the Female Artist as Outcast in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction | Scharnhorst | 1994 |
| Catherine F. Marsters | Narrative Strategies and Discourse Communities in Late Eighteenth-Century Exploration Narratives | Fischer | 1993 |
| Seth Bovey | The Indian Hater as American (anti) Hero | Unknown | 1992 |
| Edward N. S. Lorusso | The Importance of Truth: Nonfictive Bases for the Novels and Short Stories of Robert Mcalmon | Unknown | 1992 |
| Jose Morales-Serrano | Spanish Civil War Fiction | Kern | 1992 |
| Henry Sikorski | The Influence of Joseph Conrad’s Polish Background on Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness | Davis | 1992 |
| Susan Brill | Limiting investigations: Ludwig Wittgenstein and Critical Theory | Ficher | 1991 |
| Juliette Cunico | Audience Attitudes Toward Suicide in Shakespeare’s Tragedies | Mcpherson | 1991 |
| Dixie Lee Larson | The Motif of the Drowned Woman in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Art | Witemeyer | 1991 |
| Michelle Dean Le Beau | Institutional Dimensions of Writing Anxiety: Case Study of a Community College Composition Course | Beene | 1991 |
| Arthur Henry McMahon | Chaucer’s Use of Game and Play in The Canterbury Tales: The Game of Rhetoric; The Play of Irony | Gallacher | 1991 |
| Cynthia Buono Lewiecki-Wilson | Writing Against the Family: Family Relations in Lawrence and Joyce and in Recent Literary Theory | Frischer | 1990 |
| Paul Martin Hadella | Feminism, Misogyny and Realism in Mid-Victorian American Literature | Fleming | 1990 |
| Stephen Benz | Graham Greene on Latin America: Nonfiction and Narrative Art | Warner | 1989 |
| Charles Campbell | Technical Communication as Discourse | Fischer | 1989 |
| Charlotte Cook Hadella | Women in Gardens in American Short Fiction | Fisher | 1989 |
| James David Harrell | From the Mesa Verde to The Professor’s House | Burbank | 1989 |
| Evelina Lucero | Fancy Dancer | P. Smith | 1989 |
| Stephen Lucas Mathewson | The Canonical Whale: Moby Dick and American Literary History | Barbow | 1989 |
| Chapel Schmitt | Patterns in Willa Cather’s Fiction | Arms | 1989 |
| Jon Wilson Tuttle | Arthur Miller’s Revision of America | Jones | 1989 |
| Mohammad Ali Ataee | Iran, Islam and James Morier: An Analysis of the Hajji Baba Novels | Fischer | 1988 |
| Marie Elaine McCullough | Epistemic Rhetoric: A New Trend in Academic Discourse | Beene | 1988 |
| John Michael Tritica | Kenneth Rexroth and the Poetics of Commitment and Mysticism | Unknown | 1988 |
| Maijan Al-Ruwaili | Deconstruction and Drama | Gaines | 1986 |
| Erika Sollish Smilowitz | Expatriate Women Writers from Former British Colonies: A Bio-Critical Study of Katherine Mansfield, Jean Rhys, and Una Marson | Unknown | 1986 |
| William Balassi | How it Probably was: A Reconstruction of the Day-By-Day Writing of the Manuscript of the Sun Also Rises | Fleming | 1985 |
| Sharon Lynn Hileman | Narrative Structure in the Novels of George Eliot | Unknown | 1985 |
| Longino Luis Lopez | The Rhetoric in Middle English Alliterative Dream Poetry | Pollock | 1985 |
| Ira Lanelle Witt | Images of Women in Selected Short Fiction of Joyce Carol Oates | Unknown | 1985 |
| Mark Facnitz | Henry Green and the Craft of Fiction | Warner | 1983 |
| Ellen Ehrlich | The Focusing Function of the Narrative Frame: Its Effects on Our Understanding of a Lyric and Chaucers Three Early Dream Visions | Damico | 1982 |
| Wayne Erickson | Mapping the Faerie Queene: West Structures and the World of the Poem | Buchanan | 1982 |
| Bernadette Flynn Low | Character as Person and Fiction: A Study of the Ways Character Contributes to the Meaning and Artifice in Three Plays by Shakespeare | Unknown | 1982 |
| Stephanie Hingston Kauffman | Relations Between the Sexes in Thomas Hardy’s Novels: Structural Patterns of Characterization and Plotting | Davis | 1982 |
| Kris L. Lackey | “Dark Sentences”: Melville’s Use of the Bible in the Early Novels | Barbom | 1982 |
| Bonnie Jean McConnell | The Writing Lab: Programs and Students | Unknown | 1982 |
| Mike Shearer | Dorothy Parker and Her Poetry | Smith | 1982 |
| James C. Wilson | Vietnam in Prose: Cultural Conflict and Literary Confusion | Fischer | 1982 |
| Robert Ferebee | Virginia Woolf as an Essayist | Whitmeyer | 1981 |
| James Ruppert | Literary Tanslators of Native American Literatures: Henry Rowe Schoolcraft and Mary Hunter Austin | Unknown | 1981 |
| Timothy Francis Weiss | From Fairy Tales to Edwardian Romance: A Study of Ford Madox Ford | Warner | 1981 |
| Linda Brodkey | Toward a Theory of College Composition and Academic Prose : The Role of Deixs | Unknown | 1980 |
| Jeffrey Buckles | I am Not Ill At All: The Comedy of Frank O’Hara | Jones | 1980 |
| Mary Moran | Exsiting Within Structures: Margaret Drabble’s View of the Individual | Power | 1980 |
| Edward P. Walkiewicz | “A Song to Make Death Tolerable”: “Mystic Method” and “Objectivist” Philosophy in The Cantos, Finnegans Wake, and Paterson | Witemeyer | 1980 |
| Bradley S. Hayden | Early Strains of American Romanticism: Crevecoeur, Barlow and Odiorne | Him | 1979 |
| Meredith R. Machen | Home as Motivation and Metaphor in the Works of Willa Cather | Hiu | 1979 |
| Linda Post Van Buskirk | George Herbert’s Anglican Theology | Buchanan | 1979 |
| Michael Moran | Character and Value in the Novels of Robert Bage | Davis | 1978 |
| Richard Morgan | Kenneth Patchen: An Annotated, Descriptive Bibliography | Fleming | 1978 |
| Lawrence Morris | Charles Williams’ Novels and the Possibilities of Spiritual Transformation in the Twentieth Century | Smith | 1978 |
| David Kelland Till | The Work of Robert Bly: “The Great Mother and the New Father” | Franklin | 1978 |
| Ellen Dowling | Ben Jonson and the Traditions of the Clever Servant | Unknown | 1977 |
| Lawrence O. Holmberg, Jr. | Autobiography and Art: Aesthetic Uses of the Creative Process in the Autobiographies of Henry Adams, Mark Twain, and Henry James | Arms | 1977 |
| Thomas Quirk | The Confidence Man: Melville’s Problem of Faith | Arms | 1977 |
| Donna Rix | The Function of Biblical Sourced in the Structure and Meaning of Blake Milton | Buchanan | 1977 |
| Betty Senescu | The Utopia Within: Some Psychologgical Aspects of Edward Bellamy’s Early Writing | Arms | 1977 |
| Carole Zonis Yee | Feminism and the Later Heroines of George Eliot | Witemeyer | 1977 |
| Gary Barricklow | Kenneth Burke’s Structuralism: A structural Description of Narrative and Technique in Faulkner’s Fiction | Pickett | 1976 |
| Helen-Jane Bergen Taichert | A Re-evaluation of Pope’s Imitations of Horace and The Epilogue to the Satires | Unknown | 1976 |
| Nancy Conrad Martinez | Little Epics: More Lively and Choleric | Buchanan | 1976 |
| Leonard Edgar Held | The Reader in Northanger Abbey | Unknown | 1976 |
| Jan Douglas Hodge | The Gospel Influences on Dickens’ Art | P. Powers | 1976 |
| William G. McPheron, Jr. | Charles Olson: Toward Another Humanism | Unknown | 1976 |
| Theresa Pearson | The Sound and the Fury and Archetypal Reading | Barba | 1976 |
| Geri Rhodes | Shared Fire: Reciprocity in Contemporary American Indian and Related Literature | Smith | 1976 |
| George Harold Soule, Jr. | Poe, Byron, and The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym | Howard | 1976 |
| Ellen Stewart Spangler | The Book as Image: Medieval Form in the Modern Spatialized Novel of Marcel Proust and His Contemporaries | Witemeyer | 1976 |
| Rita L. Strum | The Dialectic Imagery in Emerson’s The Conduct Of Life | Arms | 1976 |
| Patricia Campbell | Seemly and Due Order: The Significance of Ceremony in Poetry of Robert Herrick | Mcpherson | 1975 |
| Chanda Clary | Byronic Heroes and Heroines: The Theme of Love and Recurrent Imagery | Power | 1975 |
| Howard Everret | Love and Alienation: The Sad Dark Vision of Carson McCullers | Whidden | 1975 |
| Richard Friedberg | A Shared Way of Thinking: Johnson, Burke, Reynolds, and Gibbon on Ethics, Politics, Aesthetics | Thorson | 1975 |
| Lillie P. Howard | Zora Neale Hurston: A Non-Revolutionary Black Artist | Fleming | 1975 |
| Mary M. Lay | The Sibling-Protector in Henry James | Arms | 1975 |
| Charles Olson | The Dragon by the Road: An Archetypal Approach to the Fiction of Flannery O’Connor | Warner | 1975 |
| Robert Sattelmeyer | Away From Concord: The Travel Writings of Henry Thoreau | Howard | 1975 |
| Ann Margaret Slanina | The Development of Charles Brokeden Brown’s Literary Ideas: A Study of His Major Novels | Howard | 1975 |
| David T. Slater | The Hero-Traitor Relationship in the English Metrical Romances | Zavadil | 1975 |
| Arlo D. Sletto | Emily Dickinson’s Poetry: The Fascicles | Arms | 1975 |
| Emiline Beisman | The Prospector and the Pioneer: a Key to the Selected Short Stories of Bret Harte | Pickett | 1974 |
| Paul Coggins | Browing’s Uses of Humor | Melada | 1974 |
| William Cotton | Ignoble Captivity: A Plot Convention of Romance-Epic | Zavadil | 1974 |
| Arthur Elser | The Two Phases of Swifts Satiric Art | Unknown | 1974 |
| Marlene Hall | Consciousness and the Unconsciousness: Henry James and Jungian Psychology | Arms | 1974 |
| Clifton Mark Snider | The Struggle for the Self: A Jungian Interpretation of Swinburne’s Tristram of Lyonesse | Witemeyer | 1974 |
| John Joseph Stege | Communication Therapy, Paradox, and Change in The Merchant of Venice, Measure For Measure, and The Tempest | Dickey | 1974 |
| Lois Viscoli | The Promethean Archetype | Davis | 1974 |
| Sharon Barba | Willa Cather: A Feminist Study | Smith | 1973 |
| Carol Cochran | Flyting in Pre-Elizabethan Drama in Shakespeare and in Jonson | Simons | 1973 |
| Joanne Cockelreas | Much Deciev’d, Much Failing: Hapless Eve Iconography and Eve in Milton’s Paradise Lost | Zavadil | 1973 |
| Ann Dunlap | Blake’s The Mental Traveller and The Critics | Davis | 1973 |
| Mimi Gladstein | The Indestructible Woman in the Works of Faulkner, Hemingway, and Steinback | Fleming | 1973 |
| Eliot Glassheim | The Movement Towards Freedom in Paul Goodman’s The Empire City | Davis | 1973 |
| Kenneth Johnson | The Lost Eden: The New World in American Nature Writing | Renclef | 1973 |
| Muriel Latham | The Narrative of Sir Thopas and Melibeus: Parallels in the Vices and the Virtues | Zavadil | 1973 |
| William Edwards McCarron | Safest Eloquence: The Faith-Reason Distinction as Operative Idea in Donne’s Anniversaries and Browne’s Hydriotaphia and The Garden Of Cyrus | Buchanan | 1973 |
| Dennis J. McKevlin | A Lecture in Love’s Philosophy: Donne’s Vision of the World of Human Love in the Songs and Sonnets | Buchanan | 1973 |
| Raymond Nagel | Romantic Reality in the Edwardian- Georgian | Unknown | 1973 |
| Marc Nigliazzo | Faulkners Indians | Howard | 1973 |
| Carol Stanley McHenry | Rhetorical Directives to Faulknerian Reality: Myth and Frieze as Ethical Mediators | Martins | 1973 |
| Charlotte Swain McClure | The American Eve: A Tragedy of Innocence | Bougheron | 1973 |
| Dal S. Symes | The Heroine’s Search for Salvation in Later Nineteenth Century British Popular Fiction | Melada | 1973 |
| James C. Work | A Study of the Hero in Spasmodic Dramas | Melada | 1973 |
| David Beer | The Countries Sweet Simplicity : Devonshire Life in The Poetry of Robert Herrick | Buchana | 1972 |
| Claus-p Buechmann | Shakespeare’s Coriolanus: The Icon of Mars | Dickey | 1972 |
| Earl Cash | The Evolution of a Black Writer: John A. Williams | Fleming | 1972 |
| Hans-peter Eller | Light After Light Well Us’d | Buchanan | 1972 |
| Joan Foster | Daniel Defoe and the Position of Women in the Eighteenth Century England: A Study Of Moll Flanders and Roxana | Malada | 1972 |
| Robert Gish | Literary Allusion and the Homiletic Style of E.M. Forster: A Study in the Relationship Between the Tales and the Novels | Warner | 1972 |
| June Haig Simons | Recognition and Reversal in Samson Agonistes | Trowbridge | 1972 |
| Bruce Henderson Tracy | Walden as a Novel: A Psychoanalytical Reading | Arms | 1972 |
| Yukihito Hijiya | Byron and the New Promethean Man | Tillotson | 1972 |
| Daryl F. Lane, Jr. | An Historical Study of the Giant in the Middle English Metrical Romances | Zavadil | 1972 |
| Lois A. Marchino | The Search for Self in the Novels of Doris Lessing | Power | 1972 |
| Bonnie Neumann | Mary Shelley | Melada | 1972 |
| Phillip Parott | The Female Warrior in the Renaissance Epic | Simons | 1972 |
| Peter Petersen | The Fiction of Kate Chopin | Arms | 1972 |
| Bert Almon | The Imagination of Gary Snyder | Tedlock | 1971 |
| Richard Angell | Sir Thomas Browne in the Twentieth Century | Bucharan | 1971 |
| Melanie Bandy | The Idea of Eil in the Poetry of Blake and Shelley a Comparative Study | Melada | 1971 |
| Eric Berryman | The Holographs Ballads of John Payne Collier From The Hall Commonplace Book Folger MS. V. A. 339 | Dickey | 1971 |
| Myrna Bouchey | The Shifting Voice: A Study of Robert Lowell’s Poetry | Frumkin | 1971 |
| Elaine Bush Kalmar | Misery of Birth and State Essays on the Tragedies of James Shirley | Dickey | 1971 |
| Nancy Cotton | Paradise: The Faliure of an Idea | Thorson | 1971 |
| Richard Doxtator | Louis Untemyer and Modern American Poetry | Dickey | 1971 |
| James Goshorn | The Quesy World of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Satire in Noels | Fleming | 1971 |
| Joseph Anthony Hunt | Interaction Process Analysis of Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming: Toward a Phenomenological Criticism of Drama | Dickey | 1971 |
| Carl A. Kremer | The Hard-Boiled American Detective Hero | Pickett | 1971 |
| Ingrid Parker | Landscape Imagery in Shelley’s Major Poetry: The Forest and Related Settings | Ruff | 1971 |
| Harold Stanwood McAllister | Apology for Bad Dreams: A Study of Characterization and the Use of Fantasy in Clarissa, Justine, and The Monk | Thorson | 1971 |
| Gail Baker | The Organic Unity of Henry David Thoreau’s a week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers | Zavadil | 1970 |
| Isidore Becker | The Ironic Dimension in Hawthorne’s short Fiction | Bucharan | 1970 |
| Connie Capers | From Drama to Novel: A Study of Fielding’s Development | Thorson | 1970 |
| John Caroll | Masking and Disguise in the Plays of Etherege, Wycherley, and Congreve | Whidden | 1970 |
| Elmer Cole, Jr. | The Consistency of John Drayden’s Literary Criticism in Theory and in Practice | Thorson | 1970 |
| Richard fleck | Henry David Thoreau’s Interest in Myth Fable and Legend | Arms | 1970 |
| Ronald Gower | The Creative Conflict: Struggle and Escape in Jack London’s Fiction | Melada | 1970 |
| Patrick Lesley | Philip Freneau and the Sublime | Martins | 1970 |
| Taylor Alderman | Ernest Hemingway: Four Studies in the Competitive Motif | Warner | 1969 |
| William Cogswell | A Contrast to Defoe’s Moll Flanders and Colonel Jack, Etc. | Thorson | 1969 |
| Mary Demourol | Thomas Hardy’s Novels of the 1870’s | Davis | 1969 |
| Rosalie Eggleston | A Study of Some Relationships Between Late Renaissance Music and the Temple of George Herbert | Dickey | 1969 |
| Joyce Emert | Pearl and the Incarnate Word: A Study in the Sacramental Nature of Symbolism | Unknown | 1969 |
| Donald Eulert | Winfield Townley Scott: Conversations On Poets and the Art of Poetry | Unknown | 1969 |
| Cole Foster | Smitten with Pride: The Persona in Jonathan Swift’s A Tale of a Tub | Catlett | 1969 |
| Ezzat Abulmajeed Khattab | The Critical Reception of Browning’s The Ring and the Book: 1868-1889 and 1951-1968 | Crowell | 1969 |
| Donald Richard King | “Nature’s Primitive Gifts”: A Study of Wordsworth’s Visual Perception | Unknown | 1969 |
| Philip Mead | A Consideration of Some Archetypes in Malory’s Le Morte Darthur | Fleming | 1969 |
| James Mortensen | American Reviews and Criticism of the Poetry of Robert Graves During the Period 1916-1965 | Crowell | 1969 |
| Nancy Nairn Warr | The Body-Soul Debate in Seventeenth-Century Poetry | Buchanan | 1969 |
| Phil Phelps | Politics, Government, and Man in Swift’s 1710-1714 Writing and Gulliver’s Travels | Thorson Buchanan | 1969 |
| Michael Joseph Wenzl | The Ritual Foundations of Arnold’s Criticism | Davis | 1969 |
| Clarence James Wolfshohl | Thomas Carlyle: Comedy and the Comic Vision | Melada | 1969 |
| William Bingham | The Journal as Literary Form | Warner | 1968 |
| James Dean | Howells’ Travel Writing Theory and Practices | Unknown | 1968 |
| Viva Fisk | Court Satire in the Dreams of John Webster, Thomas Middleton, and John Marston | Buchanan | 1968 |
| David Frazier | Love and Self-Realization in the Fiction of William Dean Howells | Unknown | 1968 |
| Frances Hoag Kuliasha | Form and Patterning in Modern Chivalry by Hugh Henry Brackenridge | Arms | 1968 |
| Shirley Ann Johnson | Samuel Johnson’s Critical Principles: A Chronological Study | Greene | 1968 |
| Jae Num Lee | Swift and the Tradition of Scatological Satire | Buchanan | 1968 |
| Vonceil McLendon | American Criticism of Rudyard Kipling’s Prose | Crowell | 1968 |
| Jessie Morris | Thomas Hardy’s Style: A Syntactic Approach to the Poetry | Unknown | 1968 |
| Jordan Richman | Samuel Johnson’s Part in the Swiftian Tradition: A Study of Johnson as Swift’s Biographies, Critic and Associate Moralist | Unknown | 1968 |
| Lalit Sethi | Kipling’s Attitude Toward India: A Thematic Study of His Indian Tales | Kuntz | 1968 |
| Howard James Spark | Catch-22: The Anatomy of a Novel | Thornson | 1968 |
| Thomas J. Steele, S.J. | Literate and Illiterate Space: The Moral Geography of Cooper’s Major American Fiction | Martin | 1968 |
| Alan Watson | William Blake’s Illustrated Writings: The Early Period | Ridcuous | 1968 |
| Martha Park | Julian Hawthorne, Novelist of the Real and the Supernatural: A Study of Bressant, Idolatry, Archibald Malmaison and a Fool of Nature | Arms | 1967 |
| Donald Boone Smith | The Decline in John Steinbeck’s Critical Reputation Since World War II: An Analysis and Evaluation of Recent Critical Practices with a Suggested Revision | Tedlock Jr. | 1967 |
| Ken M. Symes | The Narrative Techniques of Chaucer’s Fabliaux | Zavadil | 1967 |
| Edith Wylder | The Voice of the Poet: Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson with an Introduction to the Rhetorical Punctuation of the Manuscripts | Arms | 1967 |
| Anne Bail Howard | Hawthorne’s Magnetic Chain: The Achievement of Humanity | Arms | 1966 |
| Samuel Bluefarb | The Escape Motif in Modern American Novel: Mark Twain to Carson Mccullers | Newman | 1966 |
| William Evans | Influences on and Development of John Passos’ Collectivist Technique | Unknown | 1966 |
| Richard D. Spiese | Robins Jeffers Aesthetic Theory and Practice | Tedlock Jr. | 1966 |
| Henry Chapin | Poetry of Conrad Aiken | Breedman | 1965 |
| Mildred Greene | Love and Duty: The Character of the Princesses de Cleves as Reflected in Certain Later English and American Novels | Brooke | 1965 |
| Mary Frances Baker Hernández | Gabriela Mistral and the Standards of American Criticism | Parish | 1963 |
| Myron Ochshorn | Hopkins the Critic: The Literary Judgment and Taste of Gerard Manley Hopkins, with an Appendix on His Verse Theory | Wicker | 1963 |
| Ben Collins | The Created Conscious: A Study of Technique and Symbol in James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. | Dickey | 1962 |
| Robert Bickham | The Origins and Importance of the Initiation Story in Twentieth Century British US Fiction | Newman | 1961 |
| Clinton F. Hurley, Jr. | A Method of Structural Analysis of the Novel | Wicker | 1961 |
| William J. McMurray | Intention and Actuality in the Fiction of William Dean Howells | Arms | 1961 |
| Andrew Segura | Promitism in the Faerie Queene | Dickey | 1961 |
| Tom Erhard | The Dramatic Technique of Luigi Pirandello | Smith | 1960 |
| Helen Carlson | Nevada Place Names: Origins and Meanings | Pearce | 1959 |
| David Franklin Hiatt | An Edition of William Dean Howells’ Literary Friends And Acquaintance with an Introduction Treating Literary Reminiscence as a Genre | Arms | 1959 |
| Gilbert Neiman | Henry Miller: A Semi- Critical Approach | Wicker | 1959 |
| Charles Parish | Twentieth-Century Criticism of Form in Tristram Shandy | Crowell | 1959 |
| Paul Reigstad | The Art and Mind of O.E. Rolvagg | Crowell | 1958 |
| Juanita Smith Kytle | Brad Whitlock: His Life and His Fiction | Boughemon | 1958 |
| Clarence Edward Long | Shapeshifting and Associated Phenomena as Conventions of the Middle English Metrical Romances | Pearce | 1957 |
| J. Franklin Murray | Hilton’s Conception of Original Justice and of Original Sin | Wicker | 1957 |
| Edith Peterson | Symmetric History: A Study of Thought Patterns in the Prose Works of Thomas Hardy | Pearce | 1957 |
| Gary L. Tate | Gabriel Harvey: Catalyst in the English Literary Renaissance | Pearce | 1957 |
| Charles G. Wiley | A Study of the American Woman as She is Presented in the American Drama of the Nineteen-Twenties | D. Smith | 1957 |
| Norman Gregor | The Luxury of Doubt: A Study of the Relationship Between Imagery and Theme in Emily Dickinson’s Poetry | Smith | 1955 |
| Richard Darbee | Henry Brooke: A Study of His Ideas and of His Positions in the Pre-Romantic Movement | Wicker | 1953 |
| Marie Sommerville | The Writings of Rabindranath Tagore as a Bridge Between East and West | Pearce | 1953 |
| Frank Adams | The Literary Tradition of the Scientific Romance | Alberlos | 1951 |
| Mary Fisk | Spatial Metaphors: Narrative Form and the Autobiographical Self in British Women’s Autobiographies 1600-1899 | Davis | 1933 |
