Department of English
Graduate English Doctoral Alumni
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| Alumnus | Director(s) | Title of Dissertation |
|---|---|---|
Blake Allmendinger |
Elaine Scarry | Cowboy Literature |
Gregory W. Bredbeck |
Stuart Curran Phyllis Rackin |
The Uses of Ganymede from Marlowe to Milton: Homoeroticism in Renaissance Thought and Literature |
Douglas Buchholz |
Peter Conn | Allegory and the Modern American Fiction Canon |
Deborah Burnham |
Daniel Hoffman | Lovely in its Bones: Form in Theodore Roethke's Poetry |
Alison Byerly |
Elaine Scarry | The Magic Web: Representations of Art in 19th Century Fiction |
Graham Drake |
David Anderson | Mythography in the Tradition of Commentaries on Boethius' De Consolatione Philosophiae |
Gwynne Kennedy |
Maureen Quilligan | The Nature of Sexual Difference in the English Renaissance |
Thomas Edward Kinsella |
Paul Korshin | The Art of Conversation in Eighteenth-Century Society and Literature |
James Krasner |
Elaine Scarry | The Entangled Eye: Perception and Illusion in Post-Darwinian Nature Writing |
Barbara Lamos |
Barbara Herrnstein Smith | Dissertation Proposal: On Error |
Celeste Gerard Langan |
Stuart Curran | Waling, Working, Revolution: The Romantic Task |
Hiroko Sano |
Roland Mushat Frye | 'Conversation' and 'Softness': John Milton on Marriage and Women |
Laura Tanner |
Wendy Steiner | Speaking in Forms: The Discourse of Violence in 20th Century Fiction |
Wendy Wall |
Maureen Quilligan | The Shapes of Desire: Printing, Publication, and Renaissance Cultural Forms |
Susan Zlotnick |
Elaine Scarry | Past and Present: History, Class and Gender in Victorian Factory Novels |
| Alumnus | Director(s) | Title of Dissertation |
|---|---|---|
Charles A.S. Ernst |
Craig R. Thompson | A Study of the Seventeenth Century "Character": Its Structure and Style |
Christopher Flint |
Ellen Pollak | Depedence and Discord: Kinship in the Eighteenth-Century Novel |
David Heddendorf |
Wendy Steiner | William James and the Rhetoric of Popular Philosophy |
Maribel Molyneaux |
Elaine Scarry | Women and Work: On the Margins of the Marketplace |
Philip Edward Pedley |
Maureen Quilligan | The Place of Hierarchy in Milton's Thought |
Henriette Lazaridis Power |
Vicki Mahaffey | Shahrazade's Wake: The Arabian Nights and the Narrative Dynamics of Charles Dickens and James Joyce |
Athena Vrettos |
Nina Auerbach Elaine Scarry |
In Sickness and in Health: Victorian Discourse on Disease |
Thomas E. Yingling |
Wendy Steiner | Hart Crane and the Homosexual Text |
| Alumnus | Director(s) | Title of Dissertation |
|---|---|---|
Maureen Corrigan |
David DeLaura | Medievalism and the Myth of Revival in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Thought |
Scott S. Derrick |
Peter Conn | Anxiety, Gender, and Realism: James, Dreiser, and the Dilemmas of American Masculinity |
Peter Dorsey |
Peter Conn | The Rhetoric of Conversion in Early Twentieth-Century American Autobiography |
Constance Harsh |
Nina Auerbach | Feminist Solutions to Social Crisis in the Condition of England Novels |
MaryBeth Inverso |
Elaine Scarry | A Coffin Square of Limelight: The "New Gothic" Drama |
Jo Ellen Parker |
Nina Auerbach | Madonnas, Magdalens, and Madwomen: Biblical Typology in the Early Works of George Eliot |
Marsha Robinson |
Roland Mushat Frye | Shakespeare and the Rhetoric of History |
Jacquelyn Savani |
Robert Yongue Turner | King Lear from the perspective of Ben Jonson's Satire |
Julie Solomon |
Maureen Quilligan | Magicians and Travellers: The Representation of Human Knowing in the English Drama and Prose of the late 16th and early 17th centuries |
Emily Sullivan |
Gerald Clifford Weales | The Forged Iron: A Study in Modal Counterpoints |
Gregory Wegner |
Daniel Hoffman | The Sketch Book of Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Literary Sketch in the Development of Nineteenth Century Prose Fiction |
| Alumnus | Director(s) | Title of Dissertation |
|---|---|---|
Michael Awkward |
Houston A. Baker, Jr. | An Intertextual Reading of Black Women's Novels |
Susan Blair |
Robert Yongue Turner | The Comedies of George Chapman: Saturnalian Progress to Self Knowledge |
Bruce Boehrer |
Robert Yongue Turner | "The Promiscuous Crowd": Representations of Incest in the Literature of the English Renaissance |
Victoria Carchidi |
Elaine Scarry | Creation Out of the Void: The Making of a Hero, and Epic, a World: T.E. Lawrence |
Elizabeth Cox Juckett |
David DeLaura | Thackeray and Carlyle |
Frank P. Fox |
Robert Lucid | "I'm a city boy myself" A Study of Saul Bellow's Urban Fictions |
John R. Gaggin |
Robert Lucid | Hemingway and Aestheticism |
Steven Goldsmith |
Stuart Curran | Unbuilding Jerusalem: The Romantics against the Apocalypse |
Benjamin L. Goluboff |
Robert Regan | The Confident Dream: American Travel Writing on Britain |
Louis S. Gross |
Nina Auerbach Peter Conn |
The American Gothic Novel and the Challenge of Generic Convention |
Sister Marie Hubert Kealy |
Cary Mazer | Spirit of Place in Irish Drama: The Plays of John B. Keane |
Richard Newhauser |
Siegfried Wenzel | The Image of Avarice in Late Medieval English Literature |
Lee Joseph Passarella |
Craig R. Thompson | A Critical Edition of The Workes of Robert Harris, 1635 |
Karin Lindblad Yanoff |
Peter Conn | The Rhetoric of Medical Discourse: An Analysis of the Major Genres |
| Alumnus | Director(s) | Title of Dissertation |
|---|---|---|
Gail Berlin |
James Rosier | A Study of Old English Narrative |
Ann M. Bohara |
James Rosier | "More Than Words Can Reckon": the Lexicon and Rhetoric of Afterlife Description in Anglo-Saxon Literature |
Norman Carey |
Hennig Cohen | Hawthorne's Allegorical Method in the Tales and Major Romances |
James Cruise |
Paul Korshin | Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained: The Genesis of Fictional Worlds |
Terence Freeman |
Arthur Hawley (Joe) Scouten | The Resurgence of Satiric Laughing Comedy in 18th Century Afterpiece Drama |
Sayre N. Greenfield |
Maureen Quilligan | Backwards Glances at Faerieland: Spencer's Settings in The Faerie Queene |
John C. Hawley, S.J. |
David DeLaura | Charles Kingsley: The Polemics of Art |
Diane Lichtenstein |
Nina Auerbach | Jewish Women Writers and the Myths of American Womanhood |
Thomas Makin |
Joel Osborne Conarroe | 'Reaching into Silence':The Poetry of Basil Bunting |
Robin Roberts |
Nina Auerbach | Doris Lessing and Feminist Science Fiction |
Linda Veronika Troost |
Arthur Hawley (Joe) Scouten | The Rise of English Comic Opera: 1762-1800 |
Joyce Zonana |
David DeLaura | The Muses in Modern Poetry: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Transformations of the Classical Tradition |
| Alumnus | Director(s) | Title of Dissertation |
|---|---|---|
Jeanee Campbell |
Peter Conn | 'Interest' and 'Design': Problems of Narrative Epistemology in the Late Novels of Henry James and William Faulkner |
Sister Nuala Cotter |
Robert Yongue Turner | Thomas Dekker's Professional Skills of Characterization |
Joyce Jonas |
Houston A. Baker, Jr. | Anancy in the Great House: A Study of Boundaries in the novels of Wilson Harris and George Lamming |
Carol Kuniholm |
Peter Conn | Multiplied Visions: Henry James's 'The Better Sort' |
Helena Michie |
Nina Auerbach | The Flesh Made Word: Representations of Women's Bodies from the Victorian Era to the Present |
John Robert Shea |
Robert Lucid | 'The Imagination of Alternatives': (New) American Review and Contemporary American Writing |
Mary V. Yates |
Paul Korshin | The Dancing Socrates: The Aestheticization of Moral Philosophy in Enlightenment England and America |
Yoshihiro Yoshino |
James Rosier | Poetic Syntax in the Old English Meters of Boethius: A Comparative Study of Verse and Prose |
| Alumnus | Director(s) | Title of Dissertation |
|---|---|---|
Shefali Balsari |
Phyllis Rackin | A Study of The Taming of the Shrew |
Paul Eugene Kallich |
David Anderson | Chaucer's Translation Technique |
Edward F. Palm |
Peter Conn | American Heart of Darkness:The Vietnam War in Fact, Fiction, and Film |
| Alumnus | Director(s) | Title of Dissertation |
|---|---|---|
Charlotte Bonica |
David DeLaura | 'Modern' Love in the Novels of Thomas Hardy |
Nigel Brooks |
Humphrey Tonkin | The Triumph of Orpheus: Monarchy and Culture in Tudor and Stuart Entries and Entertainments |
Anne Dalke |
Larzer Ziff | Had I know Her to be My Sister, My Love Would Have Been More Regular: Incest in Nineteenth Century America |
Richard Dowgun |
David DeLaura | Tragic Theory from Coleridge to T.S. Eliot |
Helene Elting Blumenthal |
Alice van Buren Kelley | Collaboration and Contact: City Life in Ulysses and Mrs. Dalloway |
Anne Merrill Greenhalgh |
Daniel Hoffman | A Lexical Analysis of Elizabeth Bishop's Poetry |
Carol S. Shookhoff |
Arthur Hawley (Joe) Scouten | Rewards and Punishments in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel |
Joshua H. Silverman |
Nina Auerbach | World of Thackeray's Novels |
John V. Smyth |
Barbara Herrnstein Smith | Erotic Aesthetics: A Study in the Theory and Practice of Irony |
Constance Walker |
Stuart Curran | Bards of Passion: Facultative Psychology in English Romantic Poetry |
| Alumnus | Director(s) | Title of Dissertation |
|---|---|---|
Jo Ann Bomze |
Robert Lucid | The Structure of William Faulkner's Collected Stories |
Suzanne Hunter Brown |
Barbara Herrnstein Smith | Dimension and Genre: Towards a Theory of the Short Story |
Debra Doyle |
James Rosier | Some Aspects of the Interplay of Syntax and Style in Selected Old English Poetic Texts |
James C. Hess |
Peter Conn | Literary Production and Consumption |
Beverly Narod Hindin |
Robert Lucid | Death and the Imaginative Vision in Modern and Post-Modern Fiction |
Susan Jeffords |
Gerald Prince Robert Regan |
Notes of Discord: Languages and power in English and American Novel |
Mark A. Kipperman |
Stuart Curran | British Romantic Poetry and Post-Kantean Philosophy of Psychology |
Timothy Martin |
Alice van Buren Kelley | The influence of the Music-Dramas of Richard Wagner on the Works of James Joyce |
Joanna Shaw Myers |
David DeLaura | Mrs. Humphrey Ward's Literary and Historical Importance: An Analysis of Helbeck of Bannisdale |
Charles Eric Reeves |
Barbara Herrnstein Smith | The Presumptous Text: A Theory of Literary Reading Competence |
Catherine Robert |
Robert Regan | Mark Twain's Traveling Companions |
Katherine Anne Smith Collett |
James Rosier | The Gospel of Nicodemus in Anglo-Saxon England |
| Alumnus | Director(s) | Title of Dissertation |
|---|---|---|
Jane Brown |
Humphrey Tonkin | The "Sabaoths Sight" of Spenser's Faerie Queene |
Susan Hagen Cavanaugh |
Robert Armstrong Pratt | A Study of Recorded Books Privately Owned in Great Britain Between 1300 and 1450 |
Rose Ann Cleveland Fraistat |
Arthur Hawley (Joe) Scouten | Caroline Gordon as a Women of Letters |
Irene Delpino |
Jeanne Krochalis | A Study of Some Welsh Saints' Lives |
Martha W. Driver |
Jeanne Krochalis | Early Printed Editions of Chaucer's Troilus & Criseyde |
Laurie A Finke |
Edward B. (Ted) Irving | Dramatic Technique in Piers Plowman |
Leonard S. Goldberg |
Stuart Curran | Dialectical Patterns of Byron's Poetry |
Sharon Hiltz |
Siegfried Wenzel | De Amore et Dilectione Dei Et Proximi Et Aliarum Rerum Et De Forma Vitae |
Robert M. Markley |
Arthur Hawley (Joe) Scouten | Etherage, Wycherley, and Congreve and the Language of Restoration Comedy |
Patrick P. O’Neill |
James L. Rosier | The Old-English Prose Psalms of the Paris Psalter |
Eileen H. Warburton |
Deirdre Bair | John Fowles and the Aesthetics of Didactic Fiction |
Grace Geoghegan Wilson |
Siegfried Wenzel | Malory and English Romance |