"J" Dissertations

Doctoral Dissertations

Martin Michael Japtok, Ph.D. 1995

Dissertation: Growing Up Ethnic: African American and Jewish American Literary Perspectives Compared

Dissertation Committee: Michael Kramer (dir), Linda Morris, Patricia Turner

Allan James Johnston, Ph.D. 1988

Dissertation: Reinventing the Metaphors: Towards an Ecological Aesthetics in the Writings of Robinson Jeffers, Kenneth Rexroth, and Gary Snyder

Dissertation Committee: Jack Hicks (dir), David Robertson, Alan Williamson

Jennifer Diann Jones, Ph.D. 2008

Dissertation: Noteworthy Fiction: The Function of Voice, Music, and Silence in the Novels of George Eliot

Dissertation Committee: Peter Dale (dir), Catherine Robson, Christopher Reynolds

Marilyn Crawford Jones, Ph.D. 1990

Dissertation: On Her Own Premises: The Life, Politics, and Art of Meridel Le Sueur

Dissertation Committee: Jack Hicks (dir), Diane Johnson Murray

Steven Swann Jones, Ph.D. 1979

Dissertation: The Construction of the Folktale

Disseration Committee: Peter Hays (dir), Alan Dundes, David Robertson, Daniel Crowley

Jessica Jordan, Ph.D. 2008

Dissertation: Sex and the Goddess: Hyper-Femininity in American Film

Disseration Committee: Scott Simmon (dir), Marijane Osborne, Kari Lokke

Alice Eileen Jurish, Ph.D. 1985

Dissertation: And What is Fate But Love? A Study of Marriage and Passion in the Works of Henry James

Dissertation Committee: James Woodress (dir), Everett Carter, Robert Wiggins