Graduate English Doctoral Alumni
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Alumnus | Director(s) | Title of Dissertation |
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Robert Harold Byington |
MacEdward Leach | The "Gentleman Killer;" An American Folk Hero |
Nathan Robert Carb Jr. |
Edwin Courtlandt Bolles | The Social Plays of Sir Arthur Wing Pinero: An Old Answer to a New Question |
Ralph Schultz Graber |
Thomas Philip Haviland | The Fugitive Poems of Richard Henry Wilde, with an Introduction |
Lawrence Edward Guinn |
Harold Saegar Stine | English Runes and Runic Writing: The Development of the Runes and their Employment |
Kenneth William Keuffel |
Maurice O. Johnson | The "Great Man" in English Satire, 1710-1743 |
Doris Ross McCrosson |
Edwin Courtlandt Bolles | The Novels of Walter de la Mare |
Nixon Mumper |
Matthew Wilson Black | A Critical Edition of Love Tricks, or The School of Compliment, by James Shirley |
James Joseph Napier |
Edgar Leroy Potts | Joseph Hergesheimer: A Critical Study |
Weldon Norman Niva |
Matthew Wilson Black | Significant Character Names in English Drama to 1603 |
Philip Louis Rizzo |
Edwin Courtlandt Bolles | Rose Macaulay: A Critical Survey |
Ruthe Turner Sheffey |
Maurice O. Johnson | The Literary Reputation of Aphra Behn |
Janet Bell Stamm |
Matthias Adam Shaaber | A Study of Shakespeare's Comedies |
Howard Hoover Thompson |
Matthias Adam Shaaber | An Edition of Two Seventeenth Century Manuscript Poetical Miscellanies |
Francis Wayland Warlow |
Robert Earnest Spiller | Marianne Moore |
Robert Finis White Jr |
Edwin Courtlandt Bolles | The Literary Reputation of Virginia Woolf: A History of British Attitudes toward her Work, 1915-1955 |
Alumnus | Director(s) | Title of Dissertation |
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Gerald Martin Bordman |
MacEdward Leach | The Folklore Motifs in the Matter of England Romances |
Homer Theodore Cox |
Theophilus Ernest Martin Boll | Henry Seton Marriman: A Critical Survey |
Headley Morris Cox Jr |
Edward Sculley Bradley | The Charleston Poetic Renascence, 1920-1930 |
James Joseph Devlin |
Arthur Hawley (Joe) Scouten | John Banks' "The Albion Queens." A Critical Edition |
Cecil Degrote Eby |
Thomas Philip Haviland | A Critical Biograpy of David Hunter Strother |
Edward Lawrence Galligan |
Robert Earnest Spiller | Within Limits: The Novels of James Gould Cozzens |
Stephen Hogue Goode |
John Mark Longaker | British War Poetry of the Second World War |
Jack William Herring |
Paul Cliff Kitchen | Critical Attitudes Toward Browning since His Death |
Joseph Aloysius Lauritis |
Albert Croll Baugh | A Critical Edition of Lydgate's Life of Our Lady, Book V and VI |
Hunter Pell McCartney |
Ann Rosalind Jones | The Letters of Leigh Hunt int he Luther A. Brewer Collection: 1816-1825 |
Thomas Edwin McCrory |
Paul Cliff Kitchen | Browning and Dante |
Hubert Ray Pellman |
Thomas Philip Haviland | Thomas Hooker, A Study in Puritan Ideals |
Charles Augustus Rahter |
Allan G. Chester | A Critical Edition of Churchyard's Challenge (1593) by Thomas Churchyard, with some Notes on the Author's Life and Works |
Dale Bertrand Jonas Randall |
Matthias Adam Shaaber | Renaisasnce English Translations of Non-chivalric Spanish Fiction |
Alumnus | Director(s) | Title of Dissertation |
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Verne Henry Bovie |
Robert Earnest Spiller | The Evolution of a Myth: A Study of the Major Symbols in the Works of Ernest Hemingway |
Earle Talbot Crooker |
Edgar Leroy Potts | The American Musical Play |
Thomas Jay Garbaty |
John Mark Longaker | The Savoy, 1896; A Re-edition of Representative Prose and Verse, with a Critical Introduction and Biographical and Critical Notes |
Sister St. Agnes Heeney |
Robert Earnest Spiller | The Cathedral in Four Major New England Authors: A Study in Symbolic Inspiration |
James Gordon Hepburn |
Theophilus Ernest Martin Boll | The Mind and Art of Arnold Bennett |
Eleanor Newman Hutchness |
Maurice O. Johnson | Verbal Irony in "Tom Jones" |
Catharine Topper Iannarelli |
Albert Croll Baugh | Marian Lyrics in Middle English |
Walter Butler Kelly |
Maurice O. Johnson | Samuel Boyse |
William Edward Miller |
Allan G. Chester | Abraham Fleming, Elizabethan Man of Letters: A Biographical and Critical Study |
David Mitsugi Ohara |
Arthur Hawley (Joe) Scouten | The Comic Perspective in Restoration Drama |
Clyde DeLoache Ryals |
John Mark Longaker | Decadence, in British Literature before the fin de siècle |
Daniel Webster Smyths |
Thomas Philip Haviland | Robert Frost's Poetry as Self-Clarification |
Abby Ann Sutherland |
Frank Alan Laurie, Jr. | Robert Burns and James Hogg: A Comparison |
Eloise Wilson |
MacEdward Leach | Lynn Riggs: Oklahoma Dramatist |
William Hood Wishmeyer |
Morse Peckham | The Myth in "The Ring and the Book" |
Ernest Charles York |
Albert Croll Baugh | The Mirror of the Periods of Man's Life |
Alumnus | Director(s) | Title of Dissertation |
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J. Gysbert Bouma |
Edward Sculley Bradley | A Study of the Prose Style of William Carlos Williams |
Thomas Dean Clareson |
Robert Earnest Spiller | The Emergence of American Science Fiction, 1880-1915: A Study of the Impact of Science on American Romanticism |
Ralph Leighton Curry |
Edward Sculley Bradley | Stephen Leacock, Humorist and Humanist |
Samuel Ridgeway Levin |
Harold Saegar Stine | Negative Contractions with Old English Verbs |
William Harvey Marshall |
Frederick Lafayette Jones | The Liberal: 1822-1823 |
Joel Conrad Mickelson |
Robert Earnest Spiller | Attitudes of Americans in France Toward Contemporary French Political Life, 1860-1914 |
Sven Eric Molin |
Arthur Hawley (Joe) Scouten | John Wesley's Techniques in Revising Literary Masterpieces for His Methodist Audience |
Gordon Marshall Pitts |
Morse Peckham | The Poetry of John Byrne Leicester Warren, Lord DeTabley, Exclusive of the Dramas |
Howard Hugh Schless |
Albert Croll Baugh | Chaucer and Dante: A Revaluation |
George Arthur Small |
Robert Earnest Spiller | American Dramatic Comedy: 1900-1950 |
Harry Dyer Sprowles Jr |
Thomas Philip Haviland | The Search for Thomas Wolfe with Particular Stress Upon the Meaning of the Amatory Theme |
Robert Brenner Thornburg |
Matthias Adam Shaaber | A Survey of Sixteenth-Century English Religious Verse |
Alumnus | Director(s) | Title of Dissertation |
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Carl Lennart Anderson |
Robert Earnest Spiller | The Swedish Reception of Sinclair Lewis and his Contemporaries |
William Robert Bittner |
Robert Earnest Spiller | The Novels of Waldo Frank |
Carl Sietz Criswell |
Edward Sculley Bradley | Lloyd Mifflin: His Art and Poetry |
Mary Dickson De Piza |
Edward Sculley Bradley | Celia Thaxter: Poet of the Isles of Shoals |
Peter Dechert |
Edward Sculley Bradley | Edwin Arlington Robinson and Alanson Tucker Schumann: A Study in Influences |
Ephraim Bryson Everitt |
Matthias Adam Shaaber | Edmund Ironside: A Modern Edition with a Descriptive Analysis |
Charles Lee |
Edward Sculley Bradley | The Book-of-the-Month Club: The Story of a Publishing Institution |
Richard Kilburn Meeker |
Maurice O. Johnson | Experiments in Point of View: Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral Narrators in the Eighteenth Century, English Novel |
John Thomas Queenan |
Robert Earnest Spiller | The Port Folio: A Study of an Early American Magazine |
Thomas Rogers |
Maurice O. Johnson | Robert Blair and "The Grave" |
Walter Francis Staton Jr |
Matthias Adam Shaaber | The Significance of the Literary Career of Thomas Nashe |
Alumnus | Director(s) | Title of Dissertation |
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Edith T. Aney Davidson |
John Mark Longaker | British Poetry of Social Protest in the 1930's |
Robert M. Davies |
Robert Earnest Spiller | The Religious Humanism of Paul Elmer More |
Vincent C. Flanagan |
Matthias Adam Shaaber | A Survey of the Life and Works of Thomas Adams |
Frederic E. Haun |
Arthur Hawley (Joe) Scouten | The Libretti of the Restoration Opera in English: A Study in Theatrical Genres |
Joseph F. Hosey |
Morse Peckham | Physical Science in Newman's Thought |
Sarah D. Jones |
Arthur Hawley (Joe) Scouten | The Treatment of Religious and National Types in Late Eighteenth Century Drama |
Hugh Pendexter III |
Thomas Philip Haviland | A Critical Study of the Poetry of Robert Pater Tristram Coffin |
James E. Ruoff |
Matthew Wilson Black | A Critical Edition of "Arviragus and Philicia" (1639) by Lodowick Carlell |
Sister Marie Emily Smith |
John Mark Longaker | A Biographical and Critical Study of Dora Sigerson Shorter (1866-1918) |
Harold L. Stenger |
Matthias Adam Shaaber | "The Second Maiden's Tragedy": A Modernized Edition with an Introduction |
Richard J. Stonesifer |
John Mark Longaker | W. H. Davies: A Critical Biography |
Maurice W. Wasserman |
Thomas Philip Haviland | The American Indian as Seen by the 17th Century Chroniclers |
John C. Wentz |
Edward Sculley Bradley | The Hedgerow Theater: An Historical Study |
Alumnus | Director(s) | Title of Dissertation |
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George L Anderson |
Arthur Hawley (Joe) Scouten | Charles Gildon's "The New Rehearsal, or Bays the Younger |
Robert G. Collmer |
Allan G. Chester | The Concept of Death in the Poetry of Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, and Vaughan |
Claude E. Dierolf |
Edgar Leroy Potts | The Pageant Drama and American Pageantry |
James R. Frakes |
Edward Sculley Bradley | Ring Lardner, A Critical Survey |
Harold E. Hall |
Robert Earnest Spiller | James Kirke Paulding |
Ihab H. Hassan |
John Mark Longaker | French Symbolism and Modern British Poetry |
C. Fenno Hoffman |
Allan G. Chester | Roger Ascham and Humanist Education in Sixteenth-Century England |
Richard E. Hunter (Rev.) |
Allan G. Chester | William Whittingham |
Marcus Konick |
Albert Croll Baugh | The Authorship of "Sir Ferumbras": Ashmole MS. 33 of the Bodleian Library, Oxford |
Edith Smith Krappe |
MacEdward Leach | King Ponthus and the Fair Sidone: A Critical Edition |
William T. Reich |
Matthew Wilson Black | "Claricilla," by Thomas Killigrew: A Critical Edition |
Marianne G. Riely |
Matthew Wilson Black | A Critical Edition of "The Whore of Babylon", by Thomas Dekker |
Edward H. Rosenberry |
Robert Earnest Spiller | The Comic Spirit in the Art of Herman Melville |
M. George Thomas |
Edwin Courtlandt Bolles | The Poetry of Sarojini Naidu |
Alumnus | Director(s) | Title of Dissertation |
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Horace Palmer Beck |
MacEdward Leach | Ballads and Songs from Down East |
Paul Esmond Bennett |
Matthias Adam Shaaber | A Critical Edition of "A Knack to Know a Knave" |
Gordon Ward Couchman |
Maurice O. Johnson | William Falconer: Seaman Poet; A Study of "The Shipwreck" |
Vernon Francis Gallagher |
Albert Croll Baugh | Lydgate's "Life of Our Lady": A Critical Edition of Books III and IV |
Helmut Emil Gerber |
Theophilus Ernest Martin Boll | J. D. Beresford: A Study of His Works and Philosophy |
Ammon George Kershner Jr |
Frank Alan Laurie, Jr. | Ralph Hodgson: A Biographical and Critical Study |
James Roy King |
Matthias Adam Shaaber | A Study of the Relationship of Stylistic and Thematic Variation in Jeremy Taylor's Prose |
Sister Francis Ines Moloney |
John Mark Longaker | Katherine Tynan Hinkson: A Study of Her Poetry |
Nancy Rafetto Leach |
MacEdward Leach | Edith Wharton: Critic of American Life and Literature |
Ruth Robinson Ross |
Thomas Philip Haviland | Four Community Subscription Libraries in Colonial Pennsylvania: Darby, Hatboro, Lancaster and Newton (1743-1790) |
Igor Alexander Shavelenko |
Allan G. Chester | English Metrical Propaganda and Other Partisan Verse: 1525-1600 |
Archie Mervin Tyson |
Matthew Wilson Black | Every Woman in Her Humor: A Critical Edition |
Alumnus | Director(s) | Title of Dissertation |
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Raymond A Biswanger Jr |
Arthur Hawley (Joe) Scouten | Thomas D'Urfey's "The Richmond Heiress: Or, A Woman Once in the Right" |
George E Blair |
Arthur Hawley (Joe) Scouten | The Plays of the Romantic Poets |
Joseph Leo Blotner |
Robert Earnest Spiller | Thorne Smith: A Study in Popular Fiction |
Amy Marie Charles |
Matthew Wilson Black | The Poetry of Ralph Knevet (1601-v 1671) |
Stanley Arnold Clayes |
Arthur Hawley (Joe) Scouten | Richard Duke's Satires on the Popish Plot |
William Little Edgerton |
Matthew Wilson Black | Nicholar Udall: Humanist |
John Greenway |
MacEdward Leach | American Folksongs of Social and Economic Protest |
Toselli Del Guercio |
Paul Cliff Kitchen | Ethics in George Eliot's Letters, Essays, and Fiction |
Albert George Hofammann Jr |
Robert Earnest Spiller | Faulkner's Conflicting Galaxies: A Study in Literary Polarity |
Ralph Albert Klinefelter |
Albert Croll Baugh | Lydgate's Life of Our Lady: A Critical Edition of Books I and II |
Mervin Ray Lowe |
Robert Earnest Spiller | Stephen Crane's "The Red Badge of Courage": A Study of a Novel |
Charles Carroll Mish |
Matthias Adam Shaaber | English Prose Fiction, 1600-1642: A Survey |
Ralph Christian Most |
Arthur Hobson Quinn | Civil War Fiction, 1890-1920 |
Joseph Carman Reino |
Harold Saegar Stine | Significant Repetition and Echo in the "Beowulf" |
Edna Vorhees Stover Pullinger |
Albert Croll Baugh | An Edition of the Middle English Treatise "A Myrour to Lewde Men and Women" |
John Hale Sutherland |
Arthur Hawley (Joe) Scouten | Robert Bage: A Study in the Novel of Ideas |
Julius H Tolson |
Arthur Hobson Quinn | Dion Boucicault |
Alumnus | Director(s) | Title of Dissertation |
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Abraham Bronson Feldman |
Matthew Wilson Black | Dutch Influence in the Tudor Theater |
John Henry Freehafer |
Arthur Hawley (Joe) Scouten | The Emergence of Sentimental Comedy, 1660-1707 |
Marcia Kelley Miller |
MacEdward Leach | "The Dierdre Legend" in English Literature |
Powell Burwell Rogers |
Albert Croll Baugh | A Father's Instructions to his Son, MS. Cotton Vespasian D.XIII |
Donald Walker Sanville |
Arthur Hawley (Joe) Scouten | Thomas D'Urfey's Love for Money, or the Boarding School: an Edition, with Introduction and Notes |