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Doctoral Dissertations Chaired

1982

Nigel Brooks "The Triumph of Orpheus: Monarchy and Culture in Tudor and Stuart Entries and Entertainments"

1980

Jane Brown "The "Sabaoths Sight" of Spenser's Faerie Queene"

1979

Carol Stillman "Spenser's Elect England: A Study of Religious and Historical Allegory in The Faerie Queene"
Robert Stillman "Sidney's Arcadian Eclogues and Renaissance Pastoral Traditions"

1975

Maureen A. Sabine "The Social and Literary Significance of Childhood in Selected 17th Century Poetry"

1974

Jeanne M. Walker "Renaissance Aesthetics in The Faerie Queene "

1973

Michael Roman "If We could Spell: the aesthetic of George Herbert as found in the poems themselves and as compared to the aesthetic of his followers"

1972

Jay A. Gertzman "Innovation and Tradition in Herrick's Pastoral Lyrics: A Study of the Continuity of a Renaissance Poetic Form"

1969

William Lockwood "The Philosophical Element in the Lyrical Writings of Sir Walter Ralegh"