The William Van O'Connor Library
Doctoral Dissertations
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Anne Dannenberg, Ph.D. 1995
Dissertation: Discourse and Difference in Native American Autobiography (not currently shelved in O'Connor Library)
Dissertation Committee: Michael Kramer (dir), David Van Leer, Norma Alarcon, Louis Owens
Gail Pliam David, Ph.D. 1988
Dissertation: Diverse (In)Versions: Female Heroics in the Renaissance Pastoral Romance and in Women's Pastoral Fiction From Fanny Burney to George Eliot
Dissertation Committee: Diane Johnson (dir), Richard Levin
Margaret Davidson, Ph.D. 1997
Dissertation: Public Identity on the Border: Negotiating Culture and Ethnicity in Autobiography Miguel Antonio Otero II and Nina Otero-Warren (not currently shelved in O'Connor Library)
Dissertation Committee: Michael Kramer (dir), David Van Leer, Margit Stange
Robert Con Davis, Ph.D. 1979
Dissertation: Revenge Against Time: The Father in Fiction
Dissertation Committee: Thomas Hanzo (dir), James Woodress, Elliot Gilbert
Kitty Chen Dean, Ph.D. 1979
Dissertation: "Maritalis affectus": Attitudes towards Marriage in English and French Medieval Literature
Disseration Committee: Daniel Silvia (dir), James Spamer, Gerald Aeruiad
Elizabeth Anne Deitchman, Ph.D. 2004
Dissertation: Shakespeare's American Dreams: Movies and Millennial Culture
Dissertation Committee: Bill Worthen (dir), Barbara Hodgdon, Karen Shimakawa
Pamela Hope Demory, Ph.D. 1990
Dissertation: "A Wilderness of Words": Referentiality in the Works of Joseph Conrad
Dissertation Committee: Michael Hoffman (dir), Alan Williamson, Robert Torrance
Elin Frances Diamond, Ph.D. 1980
Dissertation: Harold Pinter, Comic Traditionalist
Dissertation Committee: Ruby Cohn (dir), Sandra Gilbert, Peter Hays
Aaron Kirk DiFranco, Ph.D. 2005
Dissertation: Available Ground: Shaping American Nature Poetry
Dissertation Committee: Michael Hoffman (dir), Alan Williamson, David Robertson
Bruce T. Donehower, Ph.D. 2000
Dissertation: Strange Prisoners: New Mythology and the Crisis of Endarkment in the Literature of England and Germany During the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
Dissertation Committee: Karl Menges (dir), Max Byrd, Gail Finney
Laurie Duesing, Ph.D. 1998
Dissertation: Restraint and Rapture: The Confessional Legacy in Late 20th Century American Poetry
Dissertation Committee: Clarence Major (dir), Alan Williamson, Joanne Feit Diehl
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