The William Van O'Connor Library
Doctoral Dissertations
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William David Haggerty, Jr., Ph.D. 1977
Dissertation: Entangled Absalom: A Critical Study of Wyndham Lewis as Modernist and Satirist
Disseration Committee: Brom Weber (dir), Robert Hopkins, Michael Hoffman
Cecelia Halbert, Ph.D. 1968
Dissertation: The Art of the Lords Remembrancers: A Study of New England Puritan Histories
Dissertation Committee: James Woodress (dir), Brom Weber, Robert Wiggins
Andrea Gale Hammer, Ph.D. 1981
Dissertation: Recitations of the Past: Identity in Novels by Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow, and Carson McCullers
Dissertation Committee: John Hayden (dir), William Baker, Sandra Gilbert
Quentin Webster Hancock, Ph.D. 2003
Dissertation: From Conviction to Recreation: Earth First!, Friends of the Los Angeles River and the Culture of American Environmentalism
Dissertation Committee: David Robertson (dir), Robert Thayer, Alessa Johns, Michael Hoffman
William Stanley Haney, II, Ph.D. 1984
Dissertation: The Theory Of The Referent
Dissertation Committee: Thomas Hanzo (dir), Michael Hoffman, David Robertson
Kerry Hanlon, Ph.D. 2004
Dissertation: Antigone’s wake: The Legacy of Live Burial in Victorian Literature (not currently shelved in O'Connor Library)
Dissertation Committee: Catherine Robson (dir), Seth Schein, Sandra Gilbert, Margaret Ferguson
Richard Trent Hansen, Ph.D. 1994
Dissertation: Common Sense and The American Way: A Study in the Rhetoric of Consensus Ideology
Dissertation Committee: Michael Hoffman (dir), Peter Hays, Jack Hicks
Carolyn Hares-Stryker, Ph.D. 1990
Dissertation: Sleeping in the Midst of the Sea: The Motif of the Heroine Adrift in Medieval Romance
Dissertation Committee: Daniel Silvia (dir), James Murphy, Winfried Schleiner
Lisa Catherine Harper, Ph.D. 1998
Dissertation: Embodying Gender: The Politics of Form in American Literature, 1850-1900 (missing)
Dissertation Committee:
Paula Claire Harrington, Ph.D. 2002
Dissertation: American Dog: Figuring the Canine in American Literature
Dissertation Committee: Sandra Gilbert (dir), Joanne Feit Diehl, Linda Morris
Walter Lee Harrison, Ph.D. 1980
Dissertation: Out of Play: Baseball Fiction from Pulp to Art
Dissertation Committee: Jack Hicks (dir), James Woodress, Michael Hoffman
Mary Elizabeth Hart , Ph.D. 1969
Dissertation: The Peers and Prelates Among Jonathan Swift's "Distinguished Friends Living and Dead
Dissertation Committee: Robert Hopkins (dir), Arthur McGuinness, Thomas Hanzo
Sally Elizabeth Peltier Harvey, Ph.D. 1992
Dissertation: Willa Cather: Redefining the American Dream
Dissertation Committee: Karl Zender (dir), James Woodress, Peter Hays
Burton Norval Hatlen, Ph.D. 1971
Dissertation: The Snake in the Garden: Milton's Comus as Pastoral
Dissertation Committee: Linda Van Norden (dir), Lindsay Mann, Thomas Hanzo
Janice Hawes, Ph.D. 2004
Dissertation: Monsters, Heroes and Social Identity in Medieval Icelandic and English Literature
Dissertation Committee: Marijane Osborne (dir), Michael Hoffman, Emily Albu
Kathleen Ann Heininge, Ph.D. 2002
Dissertation: "The Broth of a Boy": Manifestations of the Stage Irish Figure
Dissertation Committee: Bill Worthen (dir), James McElroy, Nora McGuinness
Eileen Hermann-Miller, Ph.D. 1998
Dissertation: Eugene O'Neill: The Misprized Modernist
Dissertation Committee: Peter Hays (dir), Seth Schein, Gail Finney
Onnaca Heron, Ph.D. 2005
Dissertation: The Design of Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (not currently shelved in O'Connor Library)
Dissertation Committee: Margaret Ferguson (dir), Traill, Raymond Waddington
Scott Robert Herring, Ph.D. 2001
Dissertation: Painted Deserts: The Literature and Art of America's National Parks
Dissertation Committee: David Robertson (dir), Gary Snyder, Marijane Osborne
Kathleen Maida Hewitt, Ph.D. 1986
Dissertation: Chaucer's Literary Dreams: Allegories of Origin
Dissertation Committee: Marijane Osborn (dir), Thomas Hanzo, Winfried Schleiner
John Harger Hillis, Ph.D. 1977
Dissertation: Conrad's Exoticism
Dissertation Committee: Elliot Gilbert (dir), Diane Johnson Murray, Michael Hoffman
John Roger Holdstock, Ph.D. 1972
Dissertation: The Origins of Subversive Literature in English
Dissertation Committee: Daniel Silvia (dir), Linda Van Norden
Carlton Thomas Holte, Ph.D. 1977
Dissertation: Taming the Rock: Myth, Model, and Metaphor in the Novels of Anthony Burgess
Disseration Committee: Brom Weber (dir), Jack Hicks, Michael Hoffman
Jane Honeycutt, Ph.D. 1986
Dissertation: Letters of H. M. and H. H. Brackenridge in the Pittsburgh Archives, 1796-1868
Dissertation Committee: Brom Weber (dir), Robert Wiggins, Wayne Harsh
Jennifer Michelle Hoofard, Ph.D. 2006
Dissertation: Flesh Wounds: Reading the Scar as Text in the Work of Sylvia Plath, Margaret Atwood and Toni Morrison
Disseration Committee: Joanne Feit Diehl (dir), Sandra Gilbert, Elizabeth Freeman
Barbara Jane Hotchkiss, Ph.D. 1997
Dissertation: Nature's Nurture: Imagining the Wild Child in the Nineteenth Century
Dissertation Committee: Alan Williamson (dir), Catherin Robson, Gail Finney
Jessica May Howell , Ph.D. 2007
Dissertation: Under the Weather: Disease, Race and Climate in Victorian Tales of Travel
Dissertation Committee: Catherine Robson (dir), Bishnu Ghosh, Michael Ziser, Faith Fitzgerald
Mark Thomas Hoyer, Ph.D. 1995
Dissertation: Dancing Ghosts: Mary Austin's Synthesis of Native American and Biblical Mythologies
Dissertation Committee: David Robertson (dir), Michael Kramer, Steven Crum
Kathleen Hulley, Ph.D. 1973
Dissertation: Disintegration as Symbol of Community: A Study of The Rainbow, Women in Love, Light in August, Prisoner of Grace, Except the Lord, Not Honor More, and Herzog
Disseration Committee: Thomas Hanzo (dir), Michael Hoffman, Elliot Gilbert
Hoon-Sung Hwang, Ph.D. 1991
Dissertation: One Mirror Is "Not Enough": A Study of Reflexivity in Beckett's Drama
Dissertation Committee: Ruby Cohn (dir), William Kleb, Michael Hoffman
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