Department of English
Graduate English Doctoral Alumni
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| Alumnus | Director(s) | Title of Dissertation |
|---|---|---|
Mary Angela Bennett |
Arthur Hobson Quinn | Elizabeth Stuart Phelps |
Robert E. Blanc |
Edward Sculley Bradley | James McHenry (1785-1845) Playwright and Novelist |
Marion Bodwell Smith |
Matthew Wilson Black | Marlowe's Imagery and the Marlowe Canon |
| Alumnus | Director(s) | Title of Dissertation |
|---|---|---|
Ermo Joseph Gergely |
Arthur Hobson Quinn | American Adaptations of Hungarian Drama on the New York Stage |
Constance Magee Griffin |
Arthur Hobson Quinn | Henry Blake Fuller |
Martin Ignatius Joseph Griffin |
Arthur Hobson Quinn | Frank R. Stockton |
Kenneth Chester Slagle |
John Cooper Mendenhall | The English Squire as Depicted in English Prose Fiction from 1740 to 1800 |
Eugene Hulse Sloane |
John Cooper Mendenhall | Robert Gould, Seventeenth Century Satirist |
Ann Matlack Weygandt |
John Cooper Mendenhall | Kipling's Reading and Its Influence on His Poetry |
Louise Merwin Young |
Percy Van Dyke Shelly | Thomas Carlyle and the Art of History |
| Alumnus | Director(s) | Title of Dissertation |
|---|---|---|
Mary Elizabeth Clark |
Percy Van Dyke Shelly | Peter Porcupine in America. The Career of William Cobbett, 1792-1800 |
Kathryn Gilbert Dapp Cook |
John Cooper Mendenhall | George Keate, Esq., Eighteenth Century English Gentleman |
Adelaide Duncan Estill |
Cornelius Weygandt | The Sources of Synge |
Bertha Brossman Faust |
Paul Howard Musser | Hawthorne's Contemporaneous Reputation |
Winthrop Nelson Francis |
Albert Croll Baugh | A Book of Vices and Virtues: A Translation of 'Somme le Roi' by Loreus d'Orleans, Edited from Three Manuscripts |
Earl Harlan |
John Cooper Mendenhall | Elijah Fenton, 1683-1730 |
John Geoffrey Hartman |
Arthur Hobson Quinn | The Development of American Social Comedy from 1787 to 1936 |
Joseph Howard Meconnahey |
Arthur Hobson Quinn | The History of the Philadelphia Theater from 1900-1910 |
| Alumnus | Director(s) | Title of Dissertation |
|---|---|---|
William Dickey Coder |
Arthur Hobson Quinn | A History of the Philadelphia Theatre, 1856-1878 |
Florence May Anna Hilbish |
John Cooper Mendenhall | Charlotte Smith, Poet and Novelist (1748-1806) |
Margaret Esther Schofield Hinton |
Albert Croll Baugh | The Dicts and Sayings of the Philosophers: A Middle English Version by Stephen Scrope |
Claude Searcy McIver |
Frank Alan Laurie, Jr. | William Somerset Maugham: A Study of Technique and Literary Sources |
John Arthur Mitchell |
Felix Emanuel Schelling | The Warde by Thomas Neale. Edited with Introduction and Glossary |
Constance Lowengrund Rosenthal |
Albert Croll Baugh | The Vitae Patrum in Old and Middle English Literature |
| Alumnus | Director(s) | Title of Dissertation |
|---|---|---|
Claude Reherd Flory |
Arthur Hobson Quinn | Economic Criticism in American Fiction, 1792-1900 |
Myrtle Catherine Henry |
Cornelius Weygandt | John Trevena. A Study with Special Reference to the Romantic Elements in his Works |
Edward Martin Hinton |
Felix Emanuel Schelling | Ireland Through Tudor Eyes |
William Robert North |
Arthur Hobson Quinn | Chinese Themes in American Verse |
George L. White, Jr. |
Arthur Hobson Quinn | Scandinavian Themes in American Fiction |
Calvin Daniel Yost |
John Cooper Mendenhall | The Poetry of the Gentleman's Magazine: A Study in Eighteenth Century Literary Taste |
| Alumnus | Director(s) | Title of Dissertation |
|---|---|---|
William Charvat |
Arthur Hobson Quinn | The Origins of American Critical Thought, 1810-1815 |
William Hafner Cornog |
John Cooper Mendenhall | The Anticlaudian of Alain de Lille. Prologue, Argument, and Nine Books Translated, with an Intro and Notes |
George Arthur Dunlap |
Arthur Hobson Quinn | The City in the American Novel, 1789-1900. A Study of American Novels Portraying Contemporary Conditions in New York, Philadelphia and Boston |
Samuel Vogt Gapp |
Cornelius Weygandt | George Gissing, Classicist |
Elizabeth Kobus Halbeisen |
Arthur Hobson Quinn | Harriet Prescott Spofford |
John Campbell Major |
John Cooper Mendenhall | The Role of Personal Memoirs in English Biography and Novel |
Sister Marie Eugenie McIlvaine |
Felix Emanuel Schelling | Dabornes' The Poor Man's Comfort |
Harry W. Mountjoy |
Frank Alan Laurie, Jr. | The Comic Fantasy in English Fiction of the Victorian Period |
Howard Garrett Rhoads |
Felix Emanuel Schelling | William Hawkins 'Apollo Shroving.' An Edition with Noes and an Introduction |
William Andrews Thomas |
Arthur Hobson Quinn | Henry James: A Study in Realism from the Beginnings in the First Quarter of the Nineteenth Century to 1870 |
| Alumnus | Director(s) | Title of Dissertation |
|---|---|---|
Clara Lillian Gebert |
Felix Emanuel Schelling | An Anthology of Elizabethan Dedications and Prefaces |
George Washburne Howgate |
Arthur Hobson Quinn | George Santayana |
John Dwight Kern |
Arthur Hobson Quinn | Constance Fenimore Woolson, Literary Pioneer |
William Hayes Fogg Lamont |
Cornelius Weygandt | A Study in Isolation in the Life and Work of Joseph Conrad |
Sister Mary Donatus MacNickle |
Cornelius Weygandt | Beasts and Birds in the Lives of the Early Irish Saints |
Elisabeth Wintersteen Schneider |
Percy Van Dyke Shelly | The Aesthetics of William Hazlitt. A Study of the Philosophical Basis of His Criticism |
| Alumnus | Director(s) | Title of Dissertation |
|---|---|---|
Gen. Russell K. Alspach |
Cornelius Weygandt | A Consideration of the Poets of the Literary Revival in Ireland 1889-1929 |
Morrison Comegys Boyd |
Felix Emanuel Schelling | Elizabethan Music and Musical Criticism |
Beaumont Schrader Bruestle |
Cornelius Weygandt | The 'Fool of Nature' in the English Drama of Our Day |
Cornell March Dowlin |
Felix Emanuel Schelling | Sir William Davenant's 'Gondibert,' Its Preface, and Hobbe's Answer. A Study in English Neo-Classicism |
Albert Pettigrew Elliott |
Cornelius Weygandt | Fatalism in the Works of Thomas Hardy |
Walter Dewey Ferguson |
Cornelius Weygandt | The Influence of Flaubert on George Moore |
William Bryan Gates |
Felix Emanuel Schelling | The Dramatic Works and Translations of Sir William Lower |
Charles Irving Glicksberg |
Edward Sculley Bradley | Walt Whitman and the Civil War |
Marie Hamilton Law |
Percy Van Dyke Shelly | The English Familiar Essay in the Early Nineteenth Century |
Edgar Leroy Potts |
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Daniel S. Rankin |
Arthur Hobson Quinn | Kate Chopin and Her Creole Stories |
George Brandon Saul |
Cornelius Weygandt | A. E. Coppard: His Life and His Poetry to the Publication of the Bibliography |
Godfrey Frank Singer |
John Cooper Mendenhall | The Epistolary Novel |
Andrew James Stewart |
Cornelius Weygandt | Irish Plays and Players in America |
| Alumnus | Director(s) | Title of Dissertation |
|---|---|---|
Ralph Bergen Allen |
Harold Saegar Stine | Old Icelandic Sources in the English Novel |
Horace Tippin Boileau |
Cornelius Weygandt | Italy in the Post-Victorian Novel |
Edwin Courtlandt Bolles |
Cornelius Weygandt | Sea Traveling from Fielding to Today |
Anna June W. Chester |
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Walter Marion Crittenden |
John Cooper Mendenhall | The Life and Writings of Mrs. Sarah Scott, Novelist (1723-1795) |
Arthur Deering |
Cornelius Weygandt | Sir Samuel Ferguson, Poet and Antiquarian |
Dorothy Leeds Werner Hensey |
Arthur Hobson Quinn | The Idea of Union in American Verse (1776-1876) |
Elizabeth Cathcart Hickson |
Edward Sculley Bradley | The Versification of Thomas Hardy |
Kathryn Huganir |
Clarence Griffin Child | The Owl and Nightingale. Sources, Date, Author |
Sister Maria Kostka Logue |
Cornelius Weygandt | The Old Woman: One Phase of the Character Poem in Contemporary British Verse |
Felice Elkin Lowenberg |
Percy Van Dyke Shelly | Walter Savage Landor's Studies of Italian Life and Literature |
Belle Seddon Matheson |
Felix Emanuel Schelling | The Invented Personages in Shakespeare's Plays |
Margaret McHenry |
Cornelius Weygandt | The Ulster Theatre in Iceland |
Aaron Michael Myers |
Felix Emanuel Schelling | Representation and Misrepresentation of the Puritan in Elizabethan Drama |
Louis B. Salomon |
Cornelius Weygandt | The Rebellious Lover in English Poetry |
Robert Porter Sechler |
Cornelius Weygandt | George Moore: A Disciple of Walter Pater |
Edward Warren Sine |
Arthur Hobson Quinn | The Northern Poetry of the Civil War |
George Robert Stephens |
Albert Croll Baugh | The Knowledge of Greek in England in the Middle Ages |
Laura Adelina Ward |
Cornelius Weygandt | The Sea in English Fiction from 1918-1930 |
Leota Geraldine Snider Willis |
Felix Emanuel Schelling | Francis Lenton, Queen's Poet |
Arthur Herman Wilson |
Arthur Hobson Quinn | A History of the Philadelphia Theatre, 1835-1855 |
| Alumnus | Director(s) | Title of Dissertation |
|---|---|---|
Augustus Henry Able III |
Cornelius Weygandt | George Meredith and Thomas Love Peacock: A Study in Literary Influence |
Theophilus Ernest Martin Boll |
Cornelius Weygandt | The Works of Edwin Pugh (1874-1930). A Chapter in the Novel of Humble London Life |
Allan Griffith Chester |
Felix Emanuel Schelling | Thomas May: Man of Letters, 1595-1650 |
Harold James Christ |
Cornelius Weygandt | Richard Doddridge Blackmore: A Biography |
Doris Fenton |
Felix Emanuel Schelling | The Extra-Dramatic Moment in Elizabethan Plays before 1616 |
Ruth Anita Firor |
Cornelius Weygandt | Folkways in Thomas Hardy |
Reese Davis James |
Arthur Hobson Quinn | Old Drury of Philadelphia |
MacEdward Leach |
Amis and Amilaun | |
John Edward Mason |
Felix Emanuel Schelling | Gentlefolk in the Making. Studies in the History of English Courtesy Literature and Related Topics from 1531-1774 |
William John Phillips |
Cornelius Weygandt | France on Byron |
Thomas Clark Pollock |
Arthur Hobson Quinn | The Philadelphia Theatre in the Eighteenth Century |
Newell Zheller Sawyer |
Cornelius Weygandt | The Comedy of Manners from Sheridan to Maugham |
Lewis George Sterner |
Arthur Hobson Quinn | The Sonnet in American Literature |
Harold Saegar Stine |
Clarence Griffin Child | The Poetic Diction of Francis Thompson |
Ralph Hartman Ware |
Arthur Hobson Quinn | American Adaptations of French Plays on the New York and Philadelphia Stages from 1834 to the Civil War |