published dissertations since 1991
Annette Federico
Masculine Identity in Hardy and Gissing
Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1991
Marie Connelly
Martin Scorsese: An Analysis of His Feature Films, with a Filmography of His Entire Directorial Career
Mcfarland, 1993
Marilyn Sanders Mobley
Folks, Roots, and Mythic Wings in Sara Orne Jewett and Toni Morrison: The Cultural Function of Narrative
LSU Press, 1994
Jacquelyn McLendon
The Politics of Color in the Fiction of Jessie Fauset and Nella Larsen.
University Press of Virginia, 1995
Terri Mester
Movement and Modernism: Yeats, Eliot, Lawrence, Williams, and Early Twentieth-Century Dance
University of Arkansas Press, 1997
Jack Ryan
John Sayles, Filmmaker. A Critical Study of the Independent Writer-Director;With a Filmography and a Bibliography
McFarland, 1998
Jeff Morgan
Sara Orne Jewett's Feminine Pastoral Vision
Edwin Mellen Press, 2002
Bonnie Shaker
Coloring Locals: Racial Formation in Kate Chopin's Youth's Companion Stories.
University of Iowa, 2003
Rick Van Noy
Surveying the Interior: Literary Cartographers and the Sense of Place.
University of Nebraska Press, 2003
Christina Hebebrand
Indigenous Peoples and Politics
Routledge, 2006
Carla T. Kungl
Creating the Fictional Female Detective. The Sleuth Heroines of British Women Writers, 1890-1940.
London: McFarland & Company 2006.
Katharine Kickel
Novel Notions: Medical Discourse and the Mapping of
the Imagination in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction
Routledge, 2007
Gabriel A. Rieger
Sex and Satiric Tragedy in Early Modern England
Ashgate, 2009
Heather Kichner
Cemetery Plots from Victoria to Verdun: Literary Representations of Epitaph and Burial from the 19th Century through the Great War (Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature)
Peter Lang, 2012
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