Department of English
Graduate English Doctoral Alumni
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| Alumnus | Director(s) | Title of Dissertation |
|---|---|---|
John Cadwalader |
Arthur Hawley (Joe) Scouten | King Edward the Third, with the Fall of Mortimer, Earl of March, 1691 [by William Mountfort]. An Edition, with Introduction and Notes. A Dissertation |
Tristram Potter Coffin |
MacEdward Leach | A Handbook of the Traditional Ballad in North America |
George Malcolm Laws |
MacEdward Leach | Native American Balladry. A Descriptive Study and a Bibliographical Syllabus of the Ballads Sung in the United States |
Nicholas Newlin |
Harold Saegar Stine | The Language of Synge's Plays: The Irish Element |
Harry William Pedicord |
Arthur Hawley (Joe) Scouten | Garrick's Audiences |
Elias Hiester Phillips |
Allan G. Chester | Humanities in Tudor Literature (1475-1575) |
Hubert Wayne Smith |
Edward Sculley Bradley | Some American Fiction Writers and their Reviewers: A Study of the Reviews and Reviewers in Connection with Eight Representative Fiction Writers, 1918-1941 |
Charlotte Ruth Wright Hayre |
John Cooper Mendenhall | Samuel Jackson Pratt, Novelist and Poet (1747-1814) |
| Alumnus | Director(s) | Title of Dissertation |
|---|---|---|
Alfred W. Hesse |
John Cooper Mendenhall | Nicholes Rowe's Translation of Lucans's Pharsalia 1719. A Study in Literary History |
Caspar H. Nannes |
Edward Sculley Bradley | Politics in the American Drama, As Revealed by Plays Produced on the New York Stage, 1890-1945 |
Helen W. Sheaffer |
Arthur Hobson Quinn | Rebecca Harding Davis, Pioneer Realist |
Samuel B. Shirk |
Arthur Hobson Quinn | The Characterization of George Washington in American Plays Since 1875 |
Warren D. Smith |
Matthew Wilson Black | Shakespeare's Stagecraft as Denoted by the Dialoge in the Original Printings of His Texts |
| Alumnus | Director(s) | Title of Dissertation |
|---|---|---|
Robert Hicks Bates |
Edwin Courtlandt Bolles | A Study of the Literature of the Mountains and of Mountain Climbing Written in English |
William Spencer Child |
Edwin Courtlandt Bolles | The contribution of Cunningham Graham to the Literature of Travel |
Anna J. DeArmond |
Arthur Hobson Quinn | Andrew Bradford |
Lois Galbraith Dickie |
John Cooper Mendenhall | The Established Clergy as Depicted in English Prose Fiction from 1740-1800 |
Dorothy Hughes Eshlem |
John Cooper Mendenhall | Elizabeth Griffith, A Biographical and Critical Study |
Robert Dunn Faner |
Robert Earnest Spiller | Operatic Music and the Poetry of Walt Whitman |
Daniel Abuhone Fineman |
John Cooper Mendenhall | Leonard Welsted, Gentleman Poet of the Augustan Age |
Perry Fridy Kendig |
John Cooper Mendenhall | The Poems of Saint Columban. Translated into English Verse with an Introduction and Bibliography |
Mary Cathryne Park |
Frank Alan Laurie, Jr. | Joseph Priestley and the Problem of Pantisocracy |
Man Mohan Singh |
Arthur Hobson Quinn | Emerson and India |
| Alumnus | Director(s) | Title of Dissertation |
|---|---|---|
George S. Stokes |
Arthur Hobson Quinn | Agnes Repplier: A Critical Biography |
Me-Tsung Kaung Tang |
Arthur Hobson Quinn | William Crazy Brownell, LIterary Adviser |
| Alumnus | Director(s) | Title of Dissertation |
|---|---|---|
John H. Fisher |
Albert Croll Baugh | The Tretyse of Love |
Leah Elizabeth Jordan |
Arthur Hobson Quinn | The Fundamentals of Emerson's Literary Criticism |
Ilse Dusoir Lind Polskin |
John Cooper Mendenhall | The Biography of Richard Jago: A Study in Eighteenth Century Localism |
Sister Joseph Marie McCrossan |
Arthur Hobson Quinn | The Role of the Church and the Folk in the Development of the Early Drama in New Mexico |
| Alumnus | Director(s) | Title of Dissertation |
|---|---|---|
Frederick William Connor |
Edward Sculley Bradley | Cosmic Optimism: A Study of ther Interpretation of the idea of Evolution by American Poets from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Edwin Arlingont Robinson |
Margaret Adlum Gist |
Albert Croll Baugh | Some Social Problems in the Middle English Romances |
Charles Theodore Houpt |
John Cooper Mendenhall | Mark Akenside: A biographical and Critical Study |
Robert Charles LeClair |
Arthur Hobson Quinn | Three American Travellers in England: James Russell Lowell, Henry Adams, Henry James |
Homer Nearing |
Matthew Wilson Black | English Historical Poetry, 1599-1641 |
Sonia Raiziss |
Edward Sculley Bradley | The Relation of Certain Modern Poets to the Metaphysical Poets of the Seventeenth Century |
Eliza Pearl Shippen |
John Cooper Mendenhall | Eugenia de Acton (1749-1827) |
| Alumnus | Director(s) | Title of Dissertation |
|---|---|---|
Sister M. Vincentia Burns |
Arthur Hobson Quinn | The Function of Wagner's Theory of the Union of the Arts in the Dramaturgy of Eugene O'Neill |
Isabelle Webb Entrikin |
Edward Sculley Bradley | Sara Josepha Hale and Godey's Lady's Book |
Laura Ruth ’Patsy’ Murray Klein |
Edward Sculley Bradley | Lizette Woodworth Reese, A Critical Biography |
Alice Jones Nearing |
Matthew Wilson Black | Cupid and Psyche, by Shakerley Marmion. A Critical Edition with an Account of Marmion's Life and Works |
| Alumnus | Director(s) | Title of Dissertation |
|---|---|---|
Gellert Spencer Alleman |
Alfred Bennett Harbage | Matrimonial law and the Materials of Restoration Comedy |
Donald Nelson Koster |
Arthur Hobson Quinn | The Theme of Divorce in American Drama, 1871-1939 |
Eugene Hudson Long |
Edward Sculley Bradley | O. Henry: A Biographical Study |
William Charles Powell |
John Cooper Mendenhall | Christopher Anstey: Bath Laureate |
Nelle Kroger Smither |
Arthur Hobson Quinn | A History of the English Theatre at New Orleans, 1806-1842 |
Ivan Earle Taylor |
Alfred Bennett Harbage | An Edition of Sir William Killigrew's Seige of Urbin |
| Alumnus | Director(s) | Title of Dissertation |
|---|---|---|
Richard Daniel Altick |
John Cooper Mendenhall | Richard Owen Cambridge: Belated Augustan |
Thomas Fredrick Marshall |
Arthur Hobson Quinn | A History of the Philadelphia Theatre, 1878-1890 |
Grace Edna Moore |
Albert Croll Baugh | The Middle English Verse Life of Edward the Confessor |
Herbert Willmarth Starr |
Earl Leslie Griggs | Gray as a Literary Critic |
| Alumnus | Director(s) | Title of Dissertation |
|---|---|---|
Albert F. Gegenheimer |
Arthur Hobson Quinn | Provost William Smith and His Group |
James Daniel Gordon |
Albert Croll Baugh | The Epistle of Othea to Hector |
Alan Fager Herr |
Matthias Adam Shaaber | The Elizabeth Sermon |
Arthur Bruce Sutherland |
Cornelius Weygandt | Maurice Hewlett |