The William Van O'Connor Library
Doctoral Dissertations
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Marit Johann MacArthur, Ph.D. 2005
Dissertation: Abandoning the House: Landscape Meditation in 20th Century American Poetry (not currently shelved in O'Connor Library)
Dissertation Committee: Alan Williamson (dir), Sandra Gilbert, David Simpson
Tiffany Aldrich MacBain, Ph.D. 2004
Dissertation: Impurely White: Representations of Racial Contact in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (not currently shelved in O'Connor Library)
Dissertation Committee: Linda Morris (dir), Elizabeth Freeman, Turner, Owens
David William Madden, Ph.D. 1980
Dissertation: Versions of the Thing: The Extended Parody in the Contemporary American Novel
Dissertation Committee: Jack Hicks (dir), Michael Hoffman, Peter Hays
Anthony Rudolph Magagna, Ph.D. 2008
Dissertation: Placing The West: Landscape, Literature, and Identity in the American West
Disseration Committee: Jack Hicks (dir), Alan Williamson, Louis Warren
Andrew J. Majeske, Ph.D. 2003
Dissertation: Equity in English Renaissance Literature: Thomas More's Utopia and Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene
Dissertation Committee: Margaret Ferguson (dir), Winfried Schleiner, Peterman
Constance Wootten Malloy, Ph.D. 1988
Dissertation: Becoming a Heroine Quietly: The Life and Work of Barbara Pym
Dissertation Committee: Diane Johnson (dir), Carolyn Burke, Robert Hopkins
James Elliott Marlow, Ph.D. 1972
Dissertation: A Rhetorical and Thematic Analysis of Charles Dickens's Our Mutual Friend
Disseration Committee: Gwendolyn Needham (dir), Elliot Gilbert, Elizabeth Homann
Max Henry Massey, Ph.D. 1972
Dissertation: Charles Stuart Calverley, Poet and Parodist
Dissertation Committee: Diane Johnson Murray (dir), William Baker, Robert Wiggins
Reid Norris Maynard, Ph.D. 1970
Dissertation: The Writer and Experience: Ernest Hemingway's Views on the Craft of Fiction
Dissertation Committee: Brom Weber (dir), Robert Wiggins, Peter Hays
Sean Joseph McDonnell, Ph.D. 2003
Dissertation: I with No Voice: Absence, Presence, and Intersubjectivity in the Poetry of W. S. Merwin
Dissertation Committee: Alan Williamson (dir), Joanne Feit Diehl, Michael Hoffman
Nora Mahoney McGuinness, Ph.D. 1984
Dissertation: The Creative Universe of Jack B. Yeats
Dissertation Committee: Ruby Cohn (dir), Peter Hays, David Robertson
Alice Lee McLean, Ph.D. 2003
Dissertation: Eat and Be Eaten: The Aesthetic Pleasure of M. F. K. Fisher and Elizabeth David
Dissertation Committee: Patricia Moran (dir), Joanne Feit Diehl, Caston
Dale Metcalfe, Ph.D. 1995
Dissertation: White Women and Indians: Lydia Maria Child Through Mary Austin
Dissertation Committee: David Robertson (dir), Michael Kramer, Linda Morris
Robert Holt Meyer, Ph.D. 1966
Dissertation: Seventeenth-century Contemplative Poetry: An Imitation of Mystical Experience
Dissertation Committee:
Seymour Migdal, Ph.D. 1966
Dissertation: The Social Novel in Victorian England
Disseration Committee:
Greg Miller, Ph.D. 2004
Dissertation: Aspects of the Minor Deleuzian Approaches to Carolyn Chute, Peter Greenaway and Suzan-Lori Parks
Dissertation Committee: Michael Hoffman (dir), Gail Finney, Blake Stimson
John Douglas Miller, Ph.D. 1981
Dissertation: Wordsworth and the Concept of Simplicity
Dissertation Committee: John Hayden (dir), William Baker, Robert Hopkins
Joseph Robert Mills, Ph.D. 1998
Dissertation: Laughter in a Wasteland: The Satire of James Thurber, George S. Schuyler and Dawn Powell
Dissertation Committee: Michael Hoffman (dir), Linda Morris, Gail Finney
Caitriona Moloney, Ph.D. 1994
Dissertation: Hags, Queens, and Harlots: Women from Ancient Irish Myth in Yeats and Joyce (not currently shelved in O'Connor Library)
Dissertation Committee: Michael Hoffman (dir), Sandra Gilbert, Tracy
Judson Taylor Monroe , Ph.D. 1971
Dissertation: Tragedy in the Novels of the Reverend Charles Robert Maturin
Disseration Committee: Gwendolyn Needham (dir), Elliot Gilbert, Robert Hopkins
Mary B. Moore, Ph.D. 1994
Dissertation: "That She Might Laurel Grow": Women Sonneteers and Petrarchism--Labe, Wroth, and Millay
Dissertation Committee: Sandra Gilbert (dir), Raymond Waddington, Dennis Dutschke
Genevieve Sanchis Morgan, Ph.D. 1996
Dissertation: Domestic Landscapes and the Creation of the Female Artist
Dissertation Committee: Michael Hoffman (dir), Dianne Sachko MacLeod, Patricia Moran
Mariel Karen Osborn Morison, Ph.D. 1992
Dissertation: Chaucer's Chaste Brides: Narrative Treatment in The Canterbury Tales of Emelye, Constance, and Cecilia
Dissertation Committee: James Murphy (dir), Naomi Janowitz, Winfried Schleiner
Linda Moser, Ph.D. 1997
Dissertation: Chinese Prostitutes, Japanese Geishas and Working Women: Images of Race, Class and Gender in the Work of Edith Eaton/Sui Sin Far and Winnifred Eaton/Onoto Watanna (not currently shelved in O'Connor Library)
Dissertation Committee: David Van Leer (dir), Ho, Newton
Ibrahim M. Muhawi, Ph.D. 1969
Dissertation: A Study of Self and Other in the Novels of Aldous Huxley
Dissertation Committee: Thomas Hanzo (dir), Peter Hays, Robert Wiggins
Patrick Dennis Murphy, Ph.D. 1986
Dissertation: The Verse Novel: Dialogic Studies of a Modern Poetic Genre
Dissertation Committee: Michael Hoffman (dir), Alan Williamson, Robert Torrance
Elaine Kathleen Musgrave , Ph.D. 2006
Dissertation: Shadows of Mutiny: Englishness, Masculinity, and the 1857 Indian Uprising in the Victorian Imagination
Disseration Committee: Catherine Robson (dir), Bishnu Ghosh, Peter Dale
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