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Graduate English Doctoral Alumni

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1929
Alumnus Director(s) Title of Dissertation

Rose Ebey Glaymen

Cornelius Weygandt Recent Judith Drama and Its Analogues

Alfred Bennett Harbage

Felix Emanuel Schelling Thomas Killigrew, Cavalier Dramatist, 1612-83

Thomas Philip Haviland

John Cooper Mendenhall The 'Roman de Longue Haleine' on English Soil

Nellie Elizabeth Monroe

Felix Emanuel Schelling Nicholas Breton as a Pamphleteer

Sister M. Rose Anita Morton

Cornelius Weygandt An Appreciation of Robert Southwell

Matthias Adam Shaaber

Felix Emanuel Schelling Some Forerunners of the Newspaper in England, 1476-1622
1928
Alumnus Director(s) Title of Dissertation

Olive Ely Hart

Cornelius Weygandt The Drama in Modern Wales. A Brief History of Welsh Playwriting from 1900 to the Present Day

Paul Howard Musser

Arthur Hobson Quinn James Nelson Barker, 1784-1858
1927
Alumnus Director(s) Title of Dissertation

Matthew Wilson Black

Felix Emanuel Schelling Richard Brathwait, His Life and Works

Paul Alonzo Brown

Clarence Griffin Child The Development of the Legend of Thomas Becket

Ruth S. Capers McKay

Cornelius Weygandt George Gissing and His Critic, Frank Swinnerton
1925
Alumnus Director(s) Title of Dissertation

Edward Sculley Bradley

Arthur Hobson Quinn The Life of George Henry Boker: With a Text of Nydia

Norman Egbert McClure

Felix Emanuel Schelling The Epigrams of Sir John Harrington
1924
Alumnus Director(s) Title of Dissertation

John Mark Longaker

John Cooper Mendenhall Della Cruscans and William Gifford: The History of a Minor Movement in an Age of Literary Transition

Charles William Meadowcroft

Cornelius Weygandt The Place of Eden Phillpotts in English Peasant Drama

Harold William Schoenberger

Arthur Hobson Quinn American Adaptations of French Plays on the New York and Philadelphia Stages from 1790-1833

Robert Earnest Spiller

Arthur Hobson Quinn The American in England During the First Half Century of Independence
1923
Alumnus Director(s) Title of Dissertation

Randolph Faries II

John Cooper Mendenhall Ancient Rome in the English Novel: A Study in English Historical Fiction

Phillip Marshall Hicks

Arthur Hobson Quinn The Development of the Natural History Essay in American Literature

Karl Julius Holzknecht

Clarence Griffin Child Literary Patronage in the Middle Ages

Frank Alan Laurie, Jr.

The Manchester School of Dramatists
1922
Alumnus Director(s) Title of Dissertation

Ernest Jackson Hall

Arthur Hobson Quinn The Satirical Element in the American Novel
1921
Alumnus Director(s) Title of Dissertation

Mabel Dodge Holmes

Felix Emanuel Schelling The Poet as Philosopher: A Study of Three Philosophical Poems
1920
Alumnus Director(s) Title of Dissertation

William Page Harbeson

Felix Emanuel Schelling The Elizabethan Influence on the Tragedy of the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries