Full Title Lists of Ph.D. Literature & Criticism Students' Dissertations, 1972-2001


Abou-Youssef, Mayssa.  1997.  Transformance: Dialogic Translation Theory and Cultural Performance.  Director: Dr. Patrick D. Murphy  

Alexander, Jonathan M. 2001. Composing the Self, Communing in Silence: Voice and Identity in Poetry of the Holocaust. Director: Maurice Kilwein-Guevara

Al-Mandwee, Kahtan M.  1983.  The Role of the Psychohistorical Heritage in the Life and Fate of the Individual in Faulkner's Writings.  Director: Dr. James L. Gray

Al-Shalabi, Nazmi. 1993.  A Critical introduction to and a Translation into Arabic of Eudora Welty's Delta Wedding.  Director: Dr. Ronald Emerick.

Anwar, Waseem. 2001. A Psychosemiotic Study of Silence in Selected Plays by African American Women Dramatisis. Director: Dr. Martha Bower   

Baek, Seung-Jin. 2000. Existential/Psychoanalytic Perspectives of Eugene O'Neill As a Social Critic
in Selected Plays.  Director: Dr. Martha Bower.

Baker, Charles R.  1997.  William Faulkner’s Postcolonial South.  Director: Dr. Ronald Emerick

Balitas, Vincent.  1973.  Sylvia Plath, Poet.  Director: Dr. John McManmon  

Barlow, Laurel L. 2000. Terry Tempest Williams: Ecofeminist, Storyteller Activist.  
Director: Dr. Patrick D. Murphy

Basheer, Tahseen.  1995.  The Feminine in H. D.  Director: Dr. Patrick D. Murphy

Bates, Geraline Washington.  1997.  Womanist Aesthetic Theory: Building a Black Feminist Literary Critical Tradition: 1892-1994.  Director: Dr. Cecilia Rodriguez Milanes

Bayne, B. S.  1983.  The Role and Rhetoric of Female Characters in James Baldwin's Fiction.  Director: Dr. John McManmon

Benigni, Helen.  1989.  Portraits from the Bluegrass: The Main Characters in the Short Fiction of Elizabeth Madox Roberts.  Director: Dr. James L. Gray

Bonifer, Susan M.  1995.  "Like a Motherless Child": The Female Orphan in Novels by American Women, 1850 - 1899.  Director: Dr. Karen Dandurand

Bonser, Dennis.  1987.  Romance Genres and Realistic Techniques in the Major Fiction of John Fowles.  Director: Dr. T. Kenneth Wilson  

Bowden, Denny R. 2001. Sermons, Debates, and the Environmental Essay: Conflicting Discourses in Nineteenth-Century America and the Emergence of Print Culture in Ezra Ripley, Alexander Campbell, and Henry David Thoreau. Director: Michael W. Vella

Brayshaw, Gary S.  1984.  Ahab's Rebellion Against Orthodoxy.  Director: Dr. James L. Gray

Broome, Paul A.  1997.  Gendered Communities in Selected Novels of Anthony Trollope.  Director: Dr. Karen Dandurand

Bruster, Reginald V.  1999.   Rooted in the Body:  Architectonics in Black Women’s Literature.  Director:  Dr. Karen Dandurand

Bucho, Louella M.  1990.  The Literary Criticism of Lionel Trilling: Trilling and the Novel.  Director: Dr. Malcolm Hayward

Burda, Sister Helen Elizabeth.  1987.  Redemption in the Novels of John Barth, John Hawkes, and Thomas Pynchon: "By Indirection Find Directions Out" (Hamlet II. i.66).  Director: Dr. James L. Gray

Camp, Carolyn Turner.  1997.  A Pattern of Female Literary Evolution: From Gothic to Realism, From Hope to Despair: A Study of Six Female Texts 1791-1899.  Co-Directors: Dr. Karen Dandurand and Dr. Janet Goebel  

Carr, Mary Ellen T. 2001.  Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelly: A Study of Intertextual Voicing. 
Director: Dr. Patrick D. Murphy 

Caruso, Teresa C. 2001. Feminism and Flannery O'Connor: A Study of the Feminine Grotesque.
Director: Dr. Ronald Emerick

Che, Gumhee.  1998.  The Cordelia Complex in Paranarrative: The Basic Instinct of Postmodern Textuality.  Director: Dr. Patrick D. Murphy

Cheng-Levine, Jia-Yi.  1997.  Colonial Legacy, Ecological Devastation, and Ecofeminism in the Time of Neo-Colonialism.  Director: Dr. Patrick D. Murphy

Chi, Hsin Ying.  1994.  Artist and Attic:  A Study of Poetic Space in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing.  Director:  Dr. Karen Dandurand

Chiou, Yuan-Guey.  1996.  Ideology and Re(-)presentation in Paradise Lost.  Director: Dr. Ronald Shafer

Choi, Dong Oh.  1998.  Ecological Vision in Selected Poems of William Wordsworth, 1797-1800.  Director: Dr. Patrick Murphy

Cleary-Langley, Suzanne.  1996.  Mabel Dodge Luhan’s Intimate Memories: A Life Suffused with Language.  Director: Dr. Karen Dandurand

Conoglio, Corine.  1999.  Transforming Identity and Performing Ecofeminist Ethics in Novels by Marge Piercy, Joanna Russ, and Janet Kauffman. Director: Dr. Patrick D. Murphy

Coots, Philip Kevin.  1998.  The Portrait of the Artist in the Late Plays of Tennessee Williams.  Director: Dr. Martha Bower

Crilly, Mark.  1995.  The Writings of John Synge.  Director: Dr. James M. Cahalan

Daniels, Patsy.  1998.  Inventing Culture: The Voice of the Oppressed in the Language of the Oppressor.  Director: Dr. James M. Cahalan

Davis, Julie A.  1981.  The Word Nothing: Its Infinite Variety in Shakespeare's Plays.  Director: Dr. Raymond Thomas

Davy, T. Claudia.  1990.  Benediction of Bone: The Poetry of Vassar Miller, A Psychological Study of the Evolution of Poetic Voice and Self.  Director: Dr. Patrick D. Murphy

DeBacco, Ronald E.  1980.  Dickens and the Mercantile Hero.  Director: Dr. Bob Curey

Deena, Seodial.  1996.  Canonization, Colonization, Decolonization: A Comparative Study of Political and Critical Works by Minority Writers.  Director:  Dr. Patrick D. Murphy

Delos Santos, Teri.  1997.  Nineteenth Century Women’s Writings in the Visual Arts: Letters, Fiction, and Autobiography.  Director: Dr. Karen Dandurand

Dillon, Dallas E.  1996.  Reading Differently in Introduction to Literature Courses: A Study of Contemporary Critical Reading Strategies as They Apply to Classroom Practice.  Director: Dr. James M. Cahalan

Downing, Michael J.  1997.  Restoring the Myths: Converting Stereotype to Archetype in Five Plays of August Wilson.  Director: Dr. Martha Bower

Dowdle, Stephanie. 1999.  Tourists, Settlers, and Pioneers: Women and the Westward Movement.  Director: Dr. James L. Gray

Dreese, Donelle. 1999.  Mapping the Terrains: Mythic, Psychic, and Environmental Reterritorializations of Self and Place in Contemporary American Poetry and Prose.  Director: Dr. Patrick Murphy

Dyer, James J.  1983.  An Instructor's Handbook to Six Major Plays of Arthur Miller.  Director: Dr. Richard Ray

Elbanna, Etaf Ali.  1989.  The `Mean Streets': A Study of Arthur Morrison's Slum Fiction.  Director: Dr. Malcolm Hayward  

El-Nahal, Mohammed S. 2001. The Impact of Place on Women Characters in Edna O'Brien's Fiction.
Director: Dr. James M. Cahalan.  

Essick, Kathy M.  1994.  The Poetry of Maya Angelou: A Study of the Blues Matrix as Force and Code.  Director: Dr. David B. Downing  

Fakhoury, Arwa. 2000. Transgression in Samuel Johnson's Rasselas
Director: Dr. Malcolm Hayward

Fakir, Abubakr.  1987.  Upton Sinclair: Social Critic.  Director: Dr. Harry Craig

Farooqui, Khalida S.  1982.  Thomas Hardy: Dimensions of Joy and Optimism in the Works of Hardy.  Director: Dr. James M. DeGeorge

Ferguson, Faith.  1988.  A Review and Re-evaluation of the Themes of Deceit, Fate, and Isolation in Paradise Lost.  Director: Dr. Raymond Thomas

Fisher, Marilyn.  1986.  "If He is Wicked and Cruel, As This Theology Makes Him, We Do Not Want His Heaven!": Women and Their Perception of Calvinism and Salvation in Selected Novels, 1850-1900.  Director: Dr. James L. Gray

Flory, Joseph Weldon.  1972.  The Rhetoric of the Heart: A Study of the Later Novels of William Faulkner.  Director: Dr. David Young

French, Laura.  1994.  Measuring Others by Themselves: Images of Native Americans in American Literature 1607-1887.  Director: Dr. Patrick D. Murphy

Friesen, Edward H.  1979.  Tennyson's Use of the Arthurian Myth: A Study of the Characters in Tennyson's Idylls of the King.  Director: Dr. Bob Curey  

Fritz, David M. Representations of Women in Selected American Novels from 1789-1799.
Director: Michael W. Vella

Fugman, Mildred M.  1986.  Regional Authenticity in Stephen Vincent Benet's John Brown's Body. Director: Dr. William Betts

Garrett, Peggy L.  1975.  Flannery O'Connor's Artistry: Techniques of Characterization.  Director: Ford Swigart

Gehrman, Jennifer A.  1996.  “Where Lies Her Margin, Where Her Text?”: Configurations of Womanhood in the Works of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.  Director:  Dr. Karen Dandurand

Gohar, Saddeek Mohammad.  1991.  The Complex Panorama of Spoon River Anthology: A Study of Edgar Lee Masters' Achievement and Influence.  Director: Dr. Patrick D. Murphy

Gooch, Michael.  1997.  Medieval Theory, Modernist Text: “Auctoritas” in Pound, Eliot, Yeats, and Joyce.  Director: Dr. James M. Cahalan

Guarino, Marsula.  1999.  The Archetype of the Great Goddess and Palimpsestic Protest in Selected Fiction and Poetry of Nineteenth-Century British and American Women Writers.  Director: Dr. Karen Dandurand

Hanchin, John M.  1979.  The Sermons of the British Museum Royal MS 18 B.xxiii and the Seven Deadly Sins in the Medieval Morality Plays The Castle of Perseverance, Digby Mary Magdalene and Henry Medwell's Nature.  Director: Dr. Frank Como

Hand, Jerome M.  1980.  Fashioners of Reality: The Courtier in Sixteenth-Century English Literature.  Director: Dr. Raymond Thomas

Hankinson, Stacie L.  1997.  Politics, Pacifism, and Feminist Liberation in the Works of Katherine Anne Porter.  Director: Dr. Ronald Emerick

Hayes, Raymond C.  1982.  A Study of Hero-Building and Mythmaking in Three of Kermit Hunter's Outdoor Historical Epic-Dramas.  Director: Dr. James L. Gray

Heilman, Patricia.  1987.  The Journalism-Fiction Connection in American Literature as Seen in Selected Works of Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway, and Tom Wolfe.  Director: Dr. James L. Gray

Holliday, Shawn Patrick.  1999.  “A Passionate and Obscure Hunger for Voyages”: Thomas Wolfe and the Milieu of American Travel Writing.  Director: Dr. James M. Cahalan

Hosey, Heidi K.  1996.  Differential Feminisms: A Synergic Introduction to Feminist Literary Theories.  Director: Dr. Patrick D. Murphy

Hsu, Li-Ying.  1990.  The School of Woman Ethic in Selected Novels by Henry James.  Director: Dr. Ronald Emerick.

Ide, Raymond.  1998.  Jeremiadic Voices in Herman Melville’s Typee, Omoo, Mardi, and Moby-Dick.  Director: Dr. James L. Gray

Johnson, Beverly Ann.  1997.  Never in Vain: Family Stability and Sacrifice in the Fiction of Paule Marshall and Rosa Guy.  Director: Dr. Karen Dandurand

Johnson, Gloria D.  1989.  Three Major Influences on John Stuart Mill's Thought which Led to his Writing The Subjections of Women.  Director: Dr. Bob Curey

Kang, Yong-ki.  1996.  Poststructuralist Environmentalism and Beyond: Ecoconsciousness in Snyder, Kingsolver, and Momaday.  Director: Dr. Michael Vella

Kassebaum, L. Harvey.  1979.  To Survive Our Century:  the Narrative Voice of Loren Eisley.  Director: Dr. William Betts

Keating, William P. 1985.  Fulfilled Visions: The Life and Work of Bess Streeter Aldrich.  Director: Dr. John McManmon

Kim, Hwa Soon.  1992.  Dance of Hope and Obsession with Death: A Study of Samuel Beckett's Plays.  Director: Dr. James M. Cahalan

Konitsky, Erma Y.  1980.  Work: Out of the Dark.  Director: Dr. James DeGeorge

Krueger, Kurt John.  1996.  The Search for Meaning: A Logotherapeutic Approach to Ernest Hemingway’s Life and Work.  Director: Dr. James M. Cahalan  

Kuo, Michael F. 2000. Crossing the Line: Political Poetry in 20th-Century America. 
Director: Malcolm Hayward

Lang, Nancy H.  1991.  Through Landscape Toward Story / Through Story Toward Landscape: A Study of Four Native American Women Poets.  Director: Dr. Patrick D. Murphy

Larik, Asadullah.  1980.  Definition of the Comedy of Manners.  Director: Dr. Malcolm Day

Larsen, Lyle.  1983.  Dr. Johnson's Household.  Director: Dr. John McManmon

Lecouras, Peter Charles.  1996.  The Romantic Image and the Ideology of the Self in Wordsworth, 1798-1804.  Director: Dr. Malcolm Hayward

Lee, Han-Mook.  1988.  The Interrelationship of Reality and Imagination in Wallace Stevens's Search for a Supreme Fiction.  Director: Mr. Richard Hazley

Lewitt, Fil.  1985.  Opening the Map: Essays in Modern Poetry.  Director: Mr. Richard Hazley

Long, Thomas L.  1997.  AIDS and American Apocalypticism: Discourse, Performance, and the Cultural Production of Meaning in New York City, 1981-1996

Love, Karen.  1999.  Falstaff and the Role of the Transcendgenderist Mucosa in Western Canonical Narratives: “My Womb Undoes Me.”  Director: Dr. Malcolm Hayward

MacLean, Kenneth D. 1984. Faces of the Alien: The Ideology of the Wild Man in Some English and American Writers.  Director: Dr. John McManmon  

Mahdi, Maher A. 2001. The Rediscovery of Chicano Culture and Self in Selected Poetry of Alurista and Tino Villanueva. Director: Dr. Maurice Kilwein-Guevara

Majkut, Paul T.  1987.  From Daydream to Nightmare: Utopian Fiction in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries.  Director: Dr. James L. Gray

McElwain, Patric B.  1985.  A Study of Appearance and Reality in Mark Twain's Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts.  Director: Dr. James L. Gray

McFadden, Denis.  1999.  A House Divided:  Strains in the Modern Irish Big House Novel.  Director: James Cahalan

McLaughlin, Patrick.  1994.  Narrative Structure and Narrative Sense: Women's Writing and Identity in the Works of Zora Neale Hurston, Margaret Drabble, and Isabel Allende.  Director: Dr. David B. Downing

Mechling, Kelly Anne.  1996.  Creative Dimensions in Autobiographies of Selected Twentieth-Century American Women Writers.  Director: Dr. Cecilia Rodriguez Milanes

Meyers, Michael R.  1998.  Champions of Virtue: The English Gothic, Nationalism and Religious Colonialism.  Director: Dr. Malcolm Hayward

Mock, Michele L.  1996.  “Led by a Woman’s Hand”: Rebecca Harding Davis’s Gendered Economies as a Countervoice to Philosophies of Culture and Art.  Director: Dr. Karen Dandurand

Mohr, Eric.  1993.  Mystery and the Fate of Grace: Flannery O'Connor's Ironic Use of the Naturalistic Tradition.  Director: Dr. Ronald Emerick  

Muzaffar, Hanan A. 2000.  Feminist Postmodern Disruption of the Patriarchal System of Binary Oppositions:  Praxis in Four Phases.  Director:  Dr. Patrick Murphy.

Myslewski, David L.  1979.  A Study of Washington Irving's "Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon."   Director: Dr. William Grayburn

Nakjavani, Erik.  1985.  The Aesthetic of Meiosis: Hemingway's "Theory of Omission."  Director: Dr. James L. Gray

Narusewicz, Peter.  1999.  Rooted in the Land: Environmental Literature and Panoptic Discipline.  Director: Dr. Malcolm Hayward

Noon, Mark A.  1998.  “Nothing to Arbitrate”: The Strike in the American Novel, 1888-1915.  Director: Dr. Ronald Emerick  

Newman, Russell T. 2001. The Gentleman in The Garden: The Influential Landscape in The Works of  James Fenimore Cooper. Director: Dr. James L. Gray 

Olson, Gary A.  1980.  The Subjective Statement, Part 1 & Part 2.  Director: Dr. James DeGeorge

Osterholm, Kathryn Kress.  1989.  Eliza Lynn Linton's Female Characters and the Double Bind of the Feminine Novelist.  Director: Dr. Bob Curey

Quigley, Peter S.  1990.  The Ground of Resistance: Nature and Power in Emerson, Melville, Jeffers, and Snyder.  Director: Dr. Patrick D. Murphy

Ramirez, Anne West.  1999.  Sisters in Search:  Emily Dickinson's Affinities with the Tradition of Christlike Women in Literature.  Director:  Karen Dandurand

Reynolds, Peresephone. 1993.  The Trickster as Facilitator: Contemporary American Women's Poetry.   Director: Dr. Patrick D. Murphy

Rhea, Gabriela.  1984.  George Meredith: A Study of his Late Novels.  Director: Dr. James DeGeorge

Rowe, Stephen D.  1978.  Tamburlaine the Great: Providential Tragedy in Two Parts.  Director: Dr. Malcolm Day

Sabol, Regis.  1993.  The Private vs. The General: The Conflict Between the Individual and the Machine in Four American Novels of World War II.  Director: Dr. Ronald Emerick

Scher, Amy. 1994.  The Nature of the Beast: Reflected in 30 Years of Gentlemen's Magazine.  Director: Dr. John McManmon

Shin, Doo-ho.  1993.  The Aesthetics of Indeterminacy: A Meeting Ground Between Eastern Mysticism and Postmodernism and Selected Novels by Tom Robbins, Richard Brautigan and Robert Pirsig.  Director: Dr. Michael W. Vella.

Sillett, Liane. 1994.  Discordant Voices/Harmonious Community: Sisters in Nineteenth-Century British and American Women's Fiction.  Director: Dr. Karen Dandurand

Simmons, Brenda.  1987.  Humanistic Influences in Two Novels and One Book of Folklore by Zora Neale Hurston.  Director: Dr. James L. Gray

Skery, Philip J.  1975.  Theme, Image, and Tragic Vision in Byron's Historical Tragedies.  Director: Dr. Dorothy Lucker

Sligh, Gary Lee.  1998.  Activism, Accommodation and Autobiography:  The Novels of Sophia Alice Callahan, Mourning Dove, and Ella Cara Deloria.  Director: Dr. Maurice Kilwein-Guevara  

Steinberger, Rebecca. 2000. Shakespearean Reinscriptions of National Identity in Twentieth-Century Irish Drama. Director: Dr. Christopher Orchard

Strait, Daniel H.  1998.  The Work of Community: Sincerity, Art, and Experience in Selected Poetry and Prose of George Herbert and Emily Dickinson.  Director:  Dr. Ronald Shafer

Stratton, Kathryn.  1982.  Woman as B: Woman as A.  Director: Dr. Harry Craig

Symonds, Terri L.  1997. The Other Side of Oppression and Conformity: Diversity in Small Towns in the Literature of the Midwestern United States and Canada.  Director: Dr. Karen Dandurand

Szatek, Karoline.  1995.  The Discourse of Space and Perception in the English Renaissance Pastoral Dramas.  Director: Dr. Malcolm Hayward

Tadych, Renita.  1992.  The Franciscan Perspective in the Nature Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins Augmented by the Writings of John Duns Scotus.  Director: Dr. Malcolm Hayward

Tayko, Delores Gail.  1994.  (Re)Calling History: The Presentation of Histories in the Fiction of Doris Lessing and Isabel Allende.  Director: Dr. James M. Cahalan

Taylor, James K.  1978.  Patterns of Destruction in Several Women Characters in American Fiction since 1950.  Director: Dr. Harry Craig

Thomas, Jackie.  1990.  Black Male Character Types in Selected Works of Alice Walker and Toni Morrison.  Director: Dr. Ousseynou Traoré 

Thompson,  Alicia.  1999.  The Frankenstein Paradigm:  Marginalized Literatures as Monster and the Literary Imagination.  Director:  Dr. Patrick D. Murphy

Tonic, Lidija.  1996.  Her Roles on the Stage: Toward Feminist Psychosemiotics of Drama.  Director: Dr. Martha Bower

Toohey, Michelle Campbell.  1996.  Dialogic Abundance: Hildegard of Bingen, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and Paula Gunn Allen.  Director: Dr. Patrick D. Murphy

Vormwald, Fr. Vianney.  1983.  The Tradition of Meditative Poetry as Identified by Louis L. Martz from the Seventeenth Century to the Twentieth.  Director: Dr. Raymond Thomas

Vrana, Sandra.  1995.  Mothers and Daughters in Women’s Writings of the Nineteenth and Twentieth  Centuries.  Director:  Dr. Karen Dandurand

Waddell, Marc.  1992.  The Depiction of Anabaptist Religious Sects in Select Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Literature: Nashe, Marston, and Dryden.  Director: Dr. John McManmon

Wang, Qingxiang.  1991.  Who Troubled the Waters: A Study of the Motif of Intrusion in Five Modern Dramatists — John Millington Synge, Eugene O'Neill, Edward Albee, Tennessee Williams, and Harold Pinter.  Director: Dr. James M. Cahalan

Wasley, Patrick.  Invitations to an Icy Land:  Textual Constructions for Nature Tourism in John Burroughs' and John Muir's Narratives of Alaska and the Far North.  Director:  Patrick D. Murphy.

Watson, Reginald.  1998.  Literary Images of the Mulatto in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century American Literature.  Director: Dr. Karen Dandurand

Whitelock, Edward J.  1997.  The Instability of Temporal Locality in Wordsworth’s Poetic Project.  Director: Dr. Malcolm Hayward

Wieland, Dennis P.  1989.  The Transformation of the Cooper Mythos in the Writings of Thomas McGuane.  Director: Dr. T. Kenneth Wilson

Williams, William F.  1984.  The Possibility of Existence of Literature from a Poststructuralist Perspective: A Metacritical Examination of Textuality through Categorical Deconstruction.  Director: Dr. John McManmon

Williams, Andrew.  1993.  Men of Mode: Social Comedy and the Restoration Fop.  Director: Dr. John McManmon

Williams, Bettye.  1993.  Nella Larsen: Shaping African American Female Representation in Quicksand and Passing.  Director:  Dr. Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés

Wilt, Lloyd P.  1973.  An Edition of the Characters of Thomas Adams.  Director: Dr. Malcolm Day

Winkler, Victoria M.  1975.  Sufic Images in the Poetry of Robert Graves: The Emergence of the Black Goddess of Wisdom.  Director: Dr. Jackson Heimer

Wodajo, Tsegaye. 1997.  Healing Strategies in Selected Novels of Ayi Kwei Armah.  Director: Dr. Malcolm Hayward

Wongchanta, Tipchan.  1998.  The Value of Open-endedness and Undecidability of Meaning in the Plays of Sam Shepard.  Director: Dr. Martha Bower

Woznak, John.  1988.  James Arbuckle's Dublin Weekly Journal: A Reflection of Neo-Classical Literary, Philosophical, and Cultural Concerns and Values.  Director: Dr. John McManmon

Wu, Dingbo.  1991.  Utopias by American Women.  Director: Dr. Patrick D. Murphy

Xu, Dong Liang.  1993.  A Trek in the Twilight Zone: Defining Chinese Postmodern Fiction.  Director: Dr. Patrick D. Murphy

Yasin, Jon A.  1983.  Bibliotherapy: The Use of the Decision Tree Model and the Teacher of English.  Director: Dr. John McManmon

Young, Debra Bailey.  1997.  “A Woman’s Pen Presents You With a Play”: The Influence of Drama and the Theater on the Life and Writings of Louisa May Alcott.  Director: Dr. Karen Dandurand

Zalazar, Geraldine K.  1981.  Character and Fate in John Dryden's Don Sebastian.  Director: Dr. John McManmon

Zhang, Dingquan.  1995.  The Ideological Polyphony in the Fictional World of Charles Brockden Brown.  Director: Dr. Michael Vella

Zughoul, Mohammed.  1991.  A Comparative Study of Islamic Allusions in Byron's Poetry and Prose.  Director: Dr. Malcolm Hayward