The William Van O'Connor Library
Doctoral Dissertations
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Shellie Banga, Ph.D. 2008
Dissertation: A Banquet of Silhouettes: William Least Heat-Moon's Travel Trilogy in Context
Dissertation Committee: Michael Ziser (dir), Linda Morris, Dean MacCannell
Wendy Bean Barker, Ph.D. 1981
Dissertation: Lunacy of Light: Emily Dickinson and the Female Tradition
Dissertation Committee: Sandra Gilbert (dir), James Woodress, Joanne Feit Diehl
Linda Kay Bates, Ph.D. 1981
Dissertation: Toward the Heart of Darkness: Benjamin Franklin's Satires
Dissertation Committee: James Woodress (dir), Max Byrd, Brom Weber
Francis Joseph Battaglia, Ph.D. 1966
Dissertation: The Problem of Reliability in Joyce Cary's Political Trilogy
Dissertation Committee: William Van O'Connor (dir), Solomon Nickman, Thomas Hanzo
Mark Allen Bauer, Ph.D. 2000
Dissertation: This Composite Voice: The Role of W. B. Yeats in James Merrill's Poetry
Dissertation Committee: Alan Williamson (dir), Joanne Feit Diehl, Kari Lokke
Jane Ellen Louise Beal, Ph.D. 2002
Dissertation: John Trevisa and the English Polychronicon: Authority and Vernacular Translation in Late-Medieval England
Dissertation Committee: Marijane Osborne (dir), James Murphy, Emily Albu
Marta Kaye Beckman, Ph.D. 2002
Dissertation: The Remains of the Victorian Gentleman in James, Conrad, and Wharton
Dissertation Committee: Michael Hoffman (dir), Peter Hays, Karl Zender
John Beckman, Ph.D. 2000
Dissertation: American Fun (not currently shelved in O'Connor Library)
Dissertation Committee: Sandra Gilbert (dir), Linda Morris, Georges Van den Abbeele
Margaret Bedrosian, Ph.D. 1981
Dissertation: The Other Modernists: Tradition and the Individual Talent in Armenian-American Literature
Dissertation Committee: Brom Weber (dir), Jack Hicks, Robert Wiggins
Kirk Hans Beetz, Ph.D. 1979
Dissertation: The Collected Letters of Wilkie Collins: Volume One
Disseration Committee: Elliot Gilbert (dir), Robert Hopkins, Diane Johnson Murray
Ronald John Bell, Ph.D. 1999
Dissertation: My Selves Dissolving: An Exploration of the Narcissistic Personality in the Work of Two American Poets, Weldon Kees and Sylvia
Plath
Dissertation Committee: Alan Williamson (dir), Patricia Moran, David Robertson
Charles James Bense, Ph.D. 1989
Dissertation: Emerson and Hawthorne as Cultural Reporters: A Revaluation of English Traits and Our Old Home
Dissertation Committee: Michael Hoffman (dir), Dean MacCannell, Brom Weber
Gregory Wayne Bentley, Ph.D. 1985
Dissertation: Shakespeare and the New Disease: The Dramatic Function of Syphilis in Troilus and Cressida, Measure for Measure, and Timon of Athens
Dissertation Committee: Winfried Schleiner (dir), Richard Levin, Raymond Waddington
Melvin Ralph Bertolozzi, Ph.D. 1972
Dissertation: Joseph Addison: Mr. Spectator and the Man of Taste
Disseration Committee: Gwedolyn Needham (dir), Joseph Baird, James Woodress
Emily Blair, Ph.D. 2002
Dissertation: Virginia Woolf and the Nineteenth-Century Domestic Aesthetic: Poetry the Wrong Side Out
Dissertation Committee: Patricia Moran (dir), Catherine Robson, Elizabeth Langland
Elyse Marie Blankley, Ph.D. 1984
Dissertation: Daughters' Exile: Renée Vivien, Gertrude Stein, and Djuna Barnes in Paris
Dissertation Committee: Sandra Gilbert (dir), Michael Hoffman, Joanne Feit Diehl
Steven Ryan Blevins, Ph.D. 2008
Dissertation: History Unhoused: Imagining Redress in Post-Imperial Britain (not currently shelved in O'Connor Library)
Dissertation Committee: Bishnu Ghosh (dir), David Simpson, Greg Dobbins
Ann Bliss, Ph.D. 2006
Dissertation: "Fixing" The Family: The Function of the Family Photograph in Albums and Literature
Dissertation Committee: Elizabeth Freeman (dir), Bishnu Ghosh, Hertha D. Sweet Wong
Harriet Horowitz Blodgett, Ph.D. 1968
Dissertation: Circles of Reality: A Reading of the Novels of Elizabeth Bowen
Dissertation Committee: Thomas Hanzo (dir), Gwendolyn Needham, Elliot Gilbert
Rebecca Pautz Bocchicchio, Ph.D. 1996
Dissertation: Literary Treatments: Hysteria in Fiction by Women in Augustan and Victorian England
Dissertation Committee: Sandra Gilbert (dir), Kari Lokke, Patricia Moran
Carol Ann Bodeau, Ph.D. 1996
Dissertation: Faces on the Frontier: Indian Images from Colonial Virginia
Dissertation Committee: Michael Kramer (dir), Steven Crum, David Jacobsen
Michael Kenneth Borgstrom, Ph.D. 2002
Dissertation: Passing Fictions: Reading Identity in Nineteenth-Century America
Dissertation Committee: David Van Leer (dir), Joanne Feit Diehl, Linda Morris
John Patrick Brennan, Ph.D. 1967
Dissertation: The Chaucerian Text of Jerome Adversus Jovinianum: An Edition Based on Pembroke College, Cambridge, MS 234
Dissertation Committee: Elizabeth Homann (dir), Lindsay Mann, Daniel Silvia
Glenn J. Broadhead, Ph.D. 1973
Dissertation: The Rhetoric of Conversation: Essays on Eighteenth-Century English Criticism of "Familiar Discourse"
Disseration Committee: Robert Hopkins (dir), Arthur McGuinness, Richard Schwab
Arthur Andrew Brown, Ph.D. 1994
Dissertation: "A Man Who Dies . . .": Poe, James, Faulkner and the Narrative Function of Death
Dissertation Committee: Michael Hoffman (dir), David Van Leer, Peter Dale
Carolyn Elizabeth Brown, Ph.D. 1986
Dissertation: The Hollow Saints: A Study of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure
Dissertation Committee: Richard Levin (dir), Winfried Schleiner, Alan Stambusky
Jennifer Anne Bullis, Ph.D. 1995
Dissertation: Wisely Armed: The Psychology of Self and Satire in the Novels of Dawn Powell, Mary McCarthy, andMuriel Spark
Dissertation Committee: Sandra Gilbert (dir), Michael Hoffman, Patricia Moran
Daniel Harry Bultman, Ph.D. 1975
Dissertation: The Evolution of the Epic Novel in America
Dissertation Committee: Peter Hays (dir), Michael Hoffman, David Robertson
Susan Burdett, Ph.D. 1985
Dissertation: From Memory to Imagination: From a Poetics of Memory to a Poetics of the Imagination
Dissertation Committee: Diane Murray Johnson (dir), Elliot Gilbert, Robert Hopkins
Mark Bradshaw Busbee, Ph. D. 2006
Dissertation: N.F.S. Grundtvig's Interpretation of Beowulf as a Living Heroic Poem for the People
Dissertation Committee: Marijane Osborne (dir), John Lindow, Robert Bjork
Frank E. Buske, Ph.D. 1976
Dissertation: The Wilderness, the Frontier and the Literature of Alaska to 1914: John Muir, Jack London and Rex Beach
Dissertation Committee: Brom Weber (dir), James Woodress, Everett Carter
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