The William Van O'Connor Library
Doctoral Dissertations
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Ronald Levitt Lanyi, Ph.D. 1977
Dissertation: Comic Book Creativity as Displaced Aggression
Disseration Committee: William Baker (dir), Arthur Amos Jr., David Wilson
Carl Judson Launius, Ph.D. 1988
Dissertation: It Was A Flood: The Life And Poetry Of Frank Sanford
Dissertation Committee: Diane Johnson (dir), Jack Hicks, David Robertson
Andrea Caroline Lawson, Ph.D. 2008
Dissertation: Reading Farewell Gifts in Early Modern Drama and Poetry
Dissertation Committee: Frances Dolan (dir), Claire Waters, Margaret Ferguson
Richard Vincent Leahy, Ph.D. 1971
Dissertation: The Divine Plan for Salvation in the Medieval Saints' Legends
Disseration Committee: Elizabeth Homann (dir), Wayne Harsh, Valerie Tumins
Catherine Carr Lee, Ph.D. 1993
Dissertation: Hawthorne's Witches: Representations of Gender and Deviance
Dissertation Committee: David Van Leer (dir), Michael Kramer, Sandra Gilbert
John Leonard, Ph.D. 1996
Dissertation: A Redaction of the Manuscript Copy of Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway
Dissertation Committee: Peter Hays (dir), Karl Zender, David Robertson
Susan Jo Leonardi, Ph.D. 1986
Dissertation: A Dangerous Thing: Somerville College and the Somerville Novelists, 1912-1922
Dissertation Committee: Sandra Gilbert (dir), Diane Johnson, Thomas Hanzo
David Linebarger, Ph.D. 1995
Dissertation: Wallace Stevens and Modern Music : from Stravinsky to John Cage (not currently shelved in O'Connor Library)
Dissertation Committee: David Robertson (dir), Sandra Gilbert, Alan Williamson
Jennifer Samaine Lockwood, Ph.D. 2006
Dissertation: Recollecting a Region: Gender, Tourism, and the Literature of New England, 1870-1900
Dissertation Committee: Elizabeth Freeman (dir), Linda Morris, Karen Halttunen
Sharon Ann Locy, Ph.D. 1975
Dissertation: Of Two Minds: Arthur Symons and the Symbolist Dilemma
Dissertation Committee: Elliot Gilbert (dir), Diane Johnson Murray, Thomas Hanzo
Thomas Earl Logan, Ph.D. 1999
Dissertation: Cutting Across Time: Film Techniques in Pre-Cinematic Works (not currently shelved in O'Connor Library)
Dissertation Committee: Michael Hoffman (dir), Marijane Osborn, David Van Leer
Susan Ruth Lonac, Ph.D. 1995
Dissertation: Myth and the Maternal: The Novels of Charlotte Brontë
Dissertation Committee: Kari Lokke (dir), Sandra Gilbert, Patricia Moran
Robert Edward Lougy, Ph.D. 1966
Dissertation: Thematic Imagery and Symbolic Action in the Poetry of Algernon Charles Swinburne
Dissertation Committee:
George William Ludington, Ph.D. 1973
Dissertation: Tristram Shandy's Conversations with his Readers
Disseration Committee: Gwendolyn Needham (dir), Elliot Gilbert, Thomas Hanzo
Timothy James Lulofs, Ph.D. 1984
Dissertation: Fathers and Sons in Mark Twain's Fiction
Dissertation Committee: Brom Weber (dir), Wayne Harsh, Robert Wiggins
Roland Hazen Lyford, Ph.D. 1968
Dissertation: Grammatical Categories in Robert Frost's Blank Verse: A Quantitative Analysis
Dissertation Committee: Brom Weber (dir), Robert Wiggins, Wayne Harsh
James Joseph Lynch, Ph.D. 1972
Dissertation: The Mediating Figure in Shakespeare
Disseration Committee: Elizabeth Homann (dir), Linda Van Norden, Peter Hays
Eve Mary Lynch, Ph.D. 1996
Dissertation: Domestic Empires: The Victorian Servant and the British Literary Imagination
Dissertation Committee: Sandra Gilbert (dir), Patrica Moran, Catherine Robson
Joy Margaret Lynch, Ph.D. 1997
Dissertation: Mastering the Wilderness Within: The Sexual Body in Contemporary Ethnic American Literature
Dissertation Committee: David Van Leer (dir), Margit Stange
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