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Read PhD Recipients, 1980s
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
| Name | Dissertation title and adviser |
|---|---|
| Alexander, James 1984 jalexan@uwc.edu |
"Aphesis in English." Adviser - Mitchell. Professor of English, University of Wisconsin - Marshfield/Wood County |
| Allen, Dennis 1981 dallen@wvu.edu |
"The Unsteady Uses
of Words: Semiotics and the Novel." Adviser - Roth. Professor of English, West Virginia University Denis Allen's Home Page |
| Anderson, Linda 1984 |
"A Kind of Wild Justice: Revenge as Theme and Device in Shakespeare's Comedies." Adviser - Clayton |
| Augustine, John 1989 |
"'Sole Fountain of Truth': Elizabethan Poetics and the Reformed Theology of Scripture." Adviser - Clayton |
| Baldwin, Elizabeth 1988 |
"Linguistics and Ideology in the "English-Only" Movement. Adviser - R. Brown |
| Bell, Alice 1986 |
"Through the Professor's Window: Reading Willa Cather's Novel Demeuble." Adviser - Bales |
| Birdsall, Michael 1980 |
"Art, Beauty and Morality in the Novels of Iris Murdoch." Adviser - Reed |
| Blackburn, Timothy 1981 |
"Thomas Carew and the Occasional Mode." Adviser - Unger |
| Bodziock, Joseph 1988 bodziock@clarion.edu |
"What I am About:
Creating the Self in the Ante-bellum Slave Narratives." Adviser - Bales. Associate Professor of English, Clarion University |
| Brady, Laura 1988 lbrady@wvnvm.wvnet.edu |
"Collaborative
Literary Writing." Adviser - Ross. Associate Professor and Director, Center for Writing Excellence, West Virginia University Laura Brady's Home Page |
| Brennan, Matthew 1984 mbrennan@indstate.edu |
"Wordsworth, Turner, and Romantic Landscape Traditions: a Study in the Picturesque
and the Sublime." Adviser - Bales. Professor of English, University of Indiana, Terre Haute |
| Brooke, Robert 1984 rbrooke@unlserve.unl.edu |
"Writing and
Commitment: Some Psychosocial Functions of College Writing." Adviser -
R. Brown. Professor of English, University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
| Carlson, Joanne 1987 |
"Women and Men in John Fowles's Fiction." Adviser - Hurrell |
| Carlton-Ford, Cynthia 1987 |
"Conversation, Gender, and Power: Dialogue in the Nineteenth-Century Novel." Adviser - Madden |
| Carson, Ada 1985 |
"Thomas Pickman Tyler's 'Memoirs of Royall Tyler': An Annotated Edition." Adviser - Griffin |
| Castle, Terry 1980 castle@leland.stanford.edu |
"Fiction and
Experience in the Novels of Samuel Richardson." Adviser - Alkon. Walter Hass, Jr., Professor in the Humanities, Department of English, Stanford University |
| Christianson, Scott 1986 schristi@radford.edu |
"Through the
Corridors of Time: Critical perspectives on T. S. Eliot and W. H. Auden." Adviser - Unger. Professor of English, Radford University, Virginia |
| Cochrane, Mick 1985 cochrane@canisius.edu |
"Roger North's
Lives of the Norths: A Critical Study." Adviser - R. Moore. Professor, Department of English, Canisius College, Buffalo, NY |
| Collins, Robert 1984 |
"American Realism and the Plays of Sam Shepard: A Study of Theme and Form." Adviser - Hurrell |
| Cooper, Marilyn 1980 mmcooper@mtu.edu |
"Implicatures in
Dramatic Conversations." Adviser - Steinmann. Associate Professor of Humanities, Michigan Technological University; editor, College Composition and Communication |
| Corbett, Marian 1981 |
"A Manuscript Study and edition of Selections from the Northern Homilies." Adviser - Mitchell |
| Daly, Brenda 1985 |
"Narrator Hermaphrodite: Voices in the Visionary Art of Joyce Carol Oates." Adviser - Anderson |
| DeNuccio, Jerome 1986 denuccio@graceland.edu |
"'A Testimony of My Innocency': The Literary Dimension of Robert Keayne's
Last Will and Testament, 1653." Adviser - Griffin. Professor of English and Chair of the Humanities Division, Graceland University |
| Dojka, Stefanie 1984 |
"Jane Austen's Novels: Patterns of Desire." Adviser - Madden |
| Dorsey, Virgil 1986 |
"The Sacred Center and the Wilderness: A Critical Study of Tennyson's Idylls of the King." Adviser - Madden |
| Eaton, Sara 1985 saeaton@noctrl.edu |
"The Rhetoric of
Sexual Revenge in Jacobean Drama." Adviser - Sprengnether. Professor and Chair of English, North Central College, Naperville, Ill. |
| Egan, Sr. Madonna 1983 |
"'Telling "The Blessing History': Charles Dickens' The Life of Our Lord." Adviser - Madden |
| Faulkner, Mara 1988 |
"Blight, Fruit, and Possibility in the Writing of Tillie Olsen." Adviser - McNaron |
| Fruen, Jeffrey 1985 |
"Veiled in Shadows' Light: Gloriana as the Focus of The Faerie Queene." Adviser - O'Brien |
| Furniss, David 1988 david.w.furniss@uwrf.edu |
"Making Sense of
the War: Vietnam and American Prose." Advisers - Solotaroff & Geffen. Professor of English, University of Wisconsin, River Falls |
| Gaard, Greta 1989 gaard@cc.wwu.edu |
"Anger Expressed/Repressed:
Novels by White, Middle-class, American Women Writers, 1850-Present." Adviser - McNaron. Associate Professor, Fairhaven College, Western Washington University |
| Gardner, Frieda 1983 |
"H. D.'s Palimpsests." Adviser - G. T. Wright |
| Garrison, David 1987 |
"The Theory of a "Poetic Life" in the Practice of Coleridge and Keats." Adviser - Fruman |
| Gaskill, Gayle 1986 |
"The Temple and the Liturgy: The Poetry of George Herbert and the Book of Common Prayer." Adviser - Clayton. Professor of English, College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, Minnesota |
| Gergits, Julia 1987 jmgergit@cc.ysu.edu |
"Women Can Paint
-- Sometimes: Women Painters in Nineteenth-Century Novels." Adviser -
Ross. Professor of English, Youngstown State University, Ohio |
| Gerster, Carole 1987 carole.j.gerster@uwrf.edu |
"Women of Authority:
Feminist Re-Vision in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel." Adviser -
Hirsch. Professor of English and Film, University of Wisconsin, River Falls |
| Gonzales, Dave 1989 |
"Because of the Blood in the Water: A Novel." Adviser - Griffin |
| Greenfield, Thomas 1980 tag@geneseo.edu |
"Standing Before
Kings: Work and the Work Ethic in American Drama, 1920-1970." Adviser -
Hurrell. Professor of English, State University of New York at Geneseo Thomas Greenfield's Home Page |
| Hagge, John 1983 |
"The Logic of Business Writing." Adviser - R. Brown |
| Harris, Sally 1988 |
"An Edition of Selections from the Northern Homily Collection." Adviser - Mitchell |
| Henkel, Jacqueline 1985 |
"Linguistic Metaphor and the Language of Criticism." Adviser - R. Brown |
| Herndl, Carl 1986 cgh@iastate.edu |
"Maid/Made in the
Image: Solitary Women in Wordsworth's Early Poetry." Adviser - Fruman. Associate Professor of English, Iowa State University |
| Hodgell, Patricia 1987 |
"The Nonsense of Ancient Days: Sources of Scott's Ivanhoe." Adviser - Madden |
| Hooley, Daniel 1985 hooleyd@missouri.edu |
"'The Classics in
Paraphrase': Ezra Pound and Modern Translators of Classical poetry." Adviser
- Firchow. Associate Professor of Classics, University of Missouri |
| Johnson, Linda K. 1982 |
"Apocalyptic Recycling in Cotton Mather and Edward Taylor." Adviser - Griffin |
| Johnson, Parker 1985 |
"George Herbert, Edward Taylor, and the Poetry of Sacramental Praise." Adviser - Clayton. Attorney, Ancel, Gluick, Diamond, Bush, DiCianoni, & Rolek, Chicago, Ill. |
| Johnson, Patricia 1985 pej1@psu.edu |
"The Role of the
Middle-class Woman in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century British
Industrial Novel." Advisers - Madden & M. Durham. Associate Professor of Humanities and Literature, Penn State-Capital College at Harrisburg |
| Johnston, Mary 1984 mary.johnston@mnsu.edu |
"In Quest of Highest
Truth: Journeys in Romantic Poetry." Adviser - Fruman. Professor of English, Minnesota State University, Mankato |
| Jordan, Mary 1988 |
"Absent Fathers and the Sons' Search for Identity in Four Victorian Prose Texts." Adviser - Hirsch |
| Kaufmann, James 1988 JKaufmann@cdrg.org |
"The Rhetoric of Medical
Writing: Cases Studies of Physicians Writing for Journal Publication." Adviser - Brown. Publications Director, Chronic Disease Research Group, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation |
| Kleine, W. Michael 1983 mwkleine@ualr.edu |
"Syntactic Choice
and a Theory of Discourse: Rethinking Sentence-Combining." Adviser - Ross. Professor of Rhetoric and Writing, University of Arkansas at Little Rock |
| Krogfus, Miles 1982 |
"Knowledge and Sweeter Ignorance: The Strategies of Yeats' Poetic Structures." Adviser - G.T. Wright |
| Lee, Jongsook 1985 |
"Ben Jonson's Poesis: A Literary Dialectic of Ideal and History." Adviser - Clayton |
| Levy, Michael 1982 levym@uwstout.edu |
"The Transformations
of Oberon: The Uses of Fairies in Seventeenth-Century Literature." Adviser
- Clayton. Professor and Chair, Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie |
| Liebman Matson, JoAnne 1984 jlmatson@ualr.edu |
"Reading, Writing, and Thinking: Toward Developing a Problem-Solving Theory of Reading Literary
Narrative." Adviser - Ross. Professor of Rhetoric and Writing, University of Arkansas at Little Rock |
| Ludwig, Mark 1987 pitzlud@bitstream.net |
The Loss of Love in
the Works of George Eliot." Adviser - Madden. Senior Technical Writer, Lawson Software |
| Lull, Janis 1983 ffjl@pond.net |
"Language Behavior
and Renaissance Poetry: Studies in Shakespeare, Herbert, and Donne." Adviser
- Clayton. Professor Emerita of English, University of Alaska, Fairbanks |
| Malloy, Sr. Kristin 1988 |
"The Short Stories of Brian MacMahon: Theme and Craft." Adviser - Anderson |
| McPhillips, Robert 1987 |
Gender and the Emergence of Voice in Joyce Carol Oates's Naturalistic Fiction." Adviser - G. T. Wright |
| Moore, Patrick 1984 Epmoore@AOL.COM |
"The Broken Pentameter:
William Carlos Williams and the Conventions of Poetry." Adviser - G. T.
Wright. Associate Professor of English, University of Arkansas, Little Rock |
| Munn, Paul 1987 ptmunn@svsu.edu |
"The Determinate
Lyric from John Donne to John Ashbery." Adviser - G. T. Wright. Professor of English, Saginaw Valley State University, University Center, Michigan |
| Murray, Karen 1980 kmurray@adv.cla.umn.edu |
"Speakers in Lyric
Poetry" Advisers - Hancher & Steinmann. Coordinator of Individualized Degree Programs and the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota |
| Nancarrow, Paula Reed 1987 prnancarrow@gmail.com |
"Remythologizing
the Bible: Fantasy and the Revelatory Hermeneutic of George MacDonald.
Advisers - Madden & Hancher. Senior Development Associate, Minnesota AIDS Project |
| Nelson, Nathan 1989 nelsonn@evangel.edu |
"The Dissidence
of Suffering: Disaster Narratives and the Novelization of England's Maritime
Epic." Adviser - Weinsheimer. Professor of English, Department of Humanities, Evangel University, Springfield Missouri |
| O'Meara, Anne 1989 anne.omeara@mnsu.edu |
"Representing Emily
Dickinson: A Study of Literary Practice." Adviser - Ross. Professor and Chair, Department of English, Mankato State University, Mankato MN |
| O'Neill, William 1989 |
"James Joyce and the Celtic Revival." Adviser - Reed |
| Opitz, Michael 1985 mnopitz@csbsju.edu |
"Poetry as Appropriate
Epistemology: Gregory Bateson and W. B. Yeats." Adviser - Anderson. Professor of English, College of Saint Benedict |
| Orten, Jon 1989 |
"Elizabethan Puritanism and the Plain Style." Adviser - O'Brien |
| Paulson, Suzanne 1984 |
"Flannery O'Connor's Divided Vision Apocalypse of Self, Resurrection of the Double." Adviser - Anderson |
| Powers, Margaret 1981 |
"'The Unstrung Balloon': A Study of the Use of Narrative Devices in the Nineteenth-Century American Tale." Adviser - Roth |
| Quinn, Laura 1981 |
"Parallel Narratives and Multiple Narratives in the Novels of Anthony Trollope." Adviser - Madden |
| Reddy, Maureen 1985 mreddy@ric.edu |
"Elizabeth Gaskell's
Short Fiction." Adviser - Madden. Professor of English and Women's Studies, Rhode Island College, Providence |
| Relihan, Constance 1989 relihco@auburn.edu |
"Constructing Authority:
The Writers and Readers of Elizabethan Novelistic Discourse." Adviser
- Garner. Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Hargis Professor of English, Auburn University |
| Rossen, Janice 1982 |
"The Early Novels of Elizabeth Bowen: An Existential Reading." Adviser - Firchow |
| Rossi, William 1986 rossiw@ oregon.uoregon.edu |
"'Laboratory of the Artist': Henry Thoreau's Literary and Scientific
Use of the Journal, 1848-1853." Advisers - Ross & Glick. Associate Professor, English and Environmental Studies, University of Oregon |
| Sandell, Sandra 1981 |
"'A Very Poetic Circumstance': Incest and the English Literary Imagination 1770-1830." Adviser - Hancher |
| Santelmann, Patricia 1981 |
"Fantasy Themes in Nineteenth-Century Women's Diaries and Women's Fiction: Women's Voice in nineteenth-century America." Adviser - Griffin |
| Schmidt, Paul 1985 engphs@panther.gsu.edu |
"Newman and Postmodernism:
A Study of Newman's Prose Nonfiction and Its Relation to Poststructuralist
Literary Theory." Advisers - Madden & M. Durham. Associate Professor of English, Georgia State University, Atlanta |
| Schramer, James 1987 jjschram@cc.ysu.edu |
"The Myth of Cincinnatus: The Citizen-Soldier in Early American
Literature." Adviser - Griffin. Professor, English and Professional Writing, Youngstown State University |
| Schuler, Robert 1989 schulerr@uwstout.edu |
"Journeys Toward
the Original Mind: The Longer Poems of Gary Snyder." Adviser -G. T. Wright. Department of English and Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, Stout |
| Schwiebert, John 1989 jschwiebert@weber.edu |
"Walt Whitman's
Poetic Technique and Style in the Short Poem." Adviser - G. T. Wright. Professor of English, Weber State University, Utah |
| Schwind, Jean 1983 schwind@elon.edu |
"Pictorial Art in
Willa Cather's Fiction." Adviser - Bales. Associate Professor of English, Elon University, North Carolina Jean Schwind's Home Page |
| Shin, Kyungwon 1988 |
"The English Origins of Wordsworth's Organicism." Adviser - Fruman |
| Sirc, Geoffrey 1985 |
"Composing Processes in Writing: A Critical Review of Paradigms in Theory and Research." Adviser - Bridwell-Bowles |
| Snyder, Philip 1980 |
"Stories and Storytellers in Dickens." Adviser - Madden |
| Spitzmiller, Betty
Lou 1980 |
"Ben Jonson's Nondramatic Poetry: A Study of Matter and Manner." Adviser - Unger |
| Stave, Shirley (Holly) 1986 |
"Between Two Worlds: Heroines in Hardy's Fiction." Adviser - Madden |
| Stenberg, Richard 1980 |
"The Novels of Anne Bronte." Adviser - McNaron |
| Sullivan, John 1981 jsullivan@ learningpartnersinc.com |
"Women, Wine and
Song: Three Minor Genres of Seventeenth-Century British Poetry." Adviser
- Clayton. Principal, Learning Partners, Inc. |
| Sweet, Timothy 1988 tsweet@wvu.edu |
"Traces of War:
Poetry, Photography, and the Question of Representation in the American
Civil War." Adviser - Hancher. Professor, Associate Chair, Department of English, West Virginia University Timothy Sweet's Home Page |
| Thomas, Dene Kay 1984 dkthomas@lcsc.edu |
"A Transition From
Speaking to Writing: Small-Group Writing Conferences." Adviser - R. Brown. President, Lewis-Clark State College, Lewiston, Idaho Lewis-Clark State College, Office of the President |
| Thomas, Gordon 1985 thomas@uidaho.edu |
"Reading, Writing, and Mutual Knowledge" Adviser - R. Brown. Associate Professor of English and Director of Writing, University of Idaho, Moscow Gordon P. Thomas' Home Page |
| Thorson, Mark 1987 |
"The Kernel or the Mist: Story Against Discourse in Joseph Conrad." Adviser - Anderson |
| Tidwell, John 1981 tidwelje@ku.edu |
"Cultural Collaboration
and Iconoclasm: The Literary and Cultural Criticism of Alain Locke and
Sterling Brown." Advisers - Clayton & Anderson. Associate Professor of English, University of Kansas John Edgar Tidwell's Home Page |
| Vanouse, Evelyn 1982 |
"Roger Mais: The Romantic Voice and the Nationalist Image." Adviser - Roth |
| Westrum, Dexter 1985 dwestrum@msn.com |
"The Art of Survival in the Contemporary West: The Fictions of Thomas McGuane, James Welch, and Edward Abbey." Adviser - Solotaroff |
| Wilcox, Lance 1989 lancew@elmhurst.edu |
"Interwoven Lives:
The Letters of Samuel Johnson." Adviser - Weinsheimer. Professor of English, Elmhurst College, Illinois. Dr. Lance Wilcox's Home Page |
| Young, Michael 1988 |
"The Structure and Ideology of Romance Fiction." |
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