The William Van O'Connor Library
Doctoral Dissertations
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Alfred Christopher Wagstaff, Ph.D. 1973
Dissertation: Make It New: A Study of the American Aspects of Ezra Pound's Cantos
Disseration Committee: Brom Weber (dir), Robert Wiggins, Karl Shapiro
Karma Waltonen, Ph.D. 2006
Dissertation: Reading Margaret Atwood in Theory and Practice: Active Reading, Witnessing, and Community
Dissertation Committee: Lynette Hunter (dir), Gail Finney, Elizabeth Freeman
Mary Waters, Ph.D. 2001
Dissertation: Professional Literary Criticism by British Women Writers, 1789-1832 : The Nation’s Literature and the Culture of Criticism (not currently shelved in O'Connor Library)
Dissertation Committee: Kari Lokke (dir), Catherine Robson, David Simpson
Thomas Anthony Weaver, Ph.D. 1974
Dissertation: Worlds Enough and Time: A Study of the Novels of John Hawkes
Disseration Committee: James Woodress (dir), David Wilson, Peter Hays
John David Weaver, Ph.D. 1985
Dissertation: Franz Daniel Pastorius (1651-c. 1720): Early Life in Germany with Glimpses of his Removal to Pennsylvania
Dissertation Committee: Brom Weber (dir), James Woodress, Clifford Bernd
Mary Frances Rey Weddle, Ph.D. 1971
Dissertation: Garden and the Wilderness: Traditional Moral Landscape in Hawthorne's Fiction
Dissertation Committee: James Woodress (dir), Michael Hoffman, Brom Weber
Seymour Leonard Weingart , Ph.D. 1964
Dissertation:The Form and Meaning of the Impressionist Novel
Dissertation Committee: William Van O'Connor (dir), Thomas Hanzo, Robert Wiggins
Stephanie Elizabeth Wells, Ph.D. 2000
Dissertation: Expatriate Fictions: Sexual Identity, National Identity, and the Imaginary World in 20th-Century American Expatriate Literature
Dissertation Committee: Alan Williamson (dir), Michael Hoffman, Sandra Gilbert
Brett Westbrook, Ph.D. 1991
Dissertation: Lillian Hellman: Dramatist in Society (not currently shelved in O'Connor Library)
Dissertation Committee: Ruby Cohn (dir), Peter Hays, David Silvia
J. Chris Westgate, Ph.D. 2005
Dissertation: Staging the Metropolis: Theater, Politics & the American City
Dissertation Committee: Scott Shershow (dir), Lynette Hunter, Bill Worthen
Benjamin Goddman Whitten, Jr., Ph.D. 1971
Dissertation: Jane Austen's "Comedy of Feeling": A Critical Analysis of Persuasion
Disseration Committee: Gwedolyn Needham (dir), Arthur McGuinness, Diane Johnson Murray
Anjali Jolene Williams, Ph.D. 2005
Dissertation: Strange Contrasts: Intersubjectivity and the Cohesion of Romance in the Novels of Charlotte Bronte and Jean Rhys
Dissertation Committee: Patricia Moran (dir), Catherin Robson, Elizabeth Constable
Harry B. Wilson, Ph.D. 1976
Dissertation: Psychological Projection in Six Romantic Poems, English and American
Dissertation Committee: Michael Hoffman (dir), David Robertson, James Woodress
Karen Ross Wilson, Ph.D. 2007
Dissertation: Marriage and the Problem of Evil in Works by John Milton and Margaret Cavendish
Dissertation Committee: Margaret Ferguson (dir), Frances Dolan, Richard Levin
Lynn Marie Wollstadt, Ph.D. 2002
Dissertation: Women and Ballads and Ballad Women: Gender and the History of Scottish Balladry (not currently shelved in O'Connor Library)
Dissertation Committee: Marijane Osborne (dir), Armistead, Winfried Schleiner
Sonya Elaine Wozniak, Ph.D. 1997
Dissertation: It's a Wise Child: Illegitimacy in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel
Dissertation Committee: Patricia Moran (dir), Kari Lokke, Margit Stange
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