Compiled by Leslie Kay Swigart
Latest List Update: 23 September 2004
©2002-2004 by Leslie Kay Swigart
Authors: A through D
| Year | Author | Title | Institution | Country [& State if US] | Degree [B, M, D] | Dept. | DAI & MAI |
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| 1996 | Aaronson, Russell S. | Would Lord Running Clam Wear Wubfur Slippers?: The Ethical Imperative of Empathy in the Alternate Ecologies of Philip K. Dick | Fl Atlantic U | US-FL | MA | MAI 35:409 | |
| 1985 | Abbate, Janet E. | Science Fiction as Social Criticism: Three Case Studies | Harvard U | US-MA | B | ||
| 2001 | Abbott, William Thomas | White Knowledge and the Cauldron of Story: The Use of Allusion in Terry Pratchett's Discworld | E Tenn SU | US-TN | MA | English | |
| 2001 | Abdallah, Ayana Rehema | Africentric Transgressive Creativity: A Reader's Meditation on Octavia Butler | U Iowa | US-IA | Ph.D | English | DAI 62: 4161a |
| 2003 | Abele, Elizabeth Joan | Go Home Young Man: The Domestication of the American Hero in Post-Reagan Novels and Films [Rregan, Tmorrison, ELDoctorow, DDeLillo, Jdidion] | Temple U | US-PA | BMD | DAI 64: 2488a | |
| 2002 | Acosta Bustamante, Leonor | Structure and Ideology in the Works of Angela Carter and Rikki Ducornet: Writing from Postmodernity [Spanish text] | Universidad de Cadiz | Spain | Dr | DAI 64: 889a | |
| 1983 | Adair, Susan Anderson | Science Fiction in Elementary Education: A Content Analysis of the Quantity and Validity of Scientific References in, and the Readability of, Selected Science Fiction for Children Published between 1940-1959 and 1960-1980 | Temple U | US-PA | Ed.D | DAI 44: 68a | |
| 1975 | Adam, Eugene Alfred | Structural Study of the Major Novels of John Cowper Powys, The | UC Davis | US-CA | D | English | DAI 36: 2211a |
| 1998 | Adamo, Laura | Imaginary Girlfriend, The: A Study of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaids' Tale, Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, and Alias Grace | U Calgary | CA-AL | MA | English | |
| 2002 | Adamo, Nicole | Clause of Congruency, The: A Possible Worlds Reading of Three Novels by Ray Bradbury | Fl Atlantic U | US-FL | MA | English | |
| 1992 | Adams, Alice Elaine | One Divided: The Literature of Birth and Human Engineering [SF] | U Iowa | US-IA | Ph.D | English | DAI 54: 518a |
| 1951 | Adams, Frank Davis | Literary Tradition of Scientific Romance, The | U New Mex | US-NM | Ph.D | English & American Lang & Lit | |
| 1982 | Adams, Frank S. | Psychological and Theological Analysis of the Earthsea Trilogy, A: An Ethical Fantasy | Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley | US-CA | MST | ||
| 1992 | Adams, John Randall | Good, Evil, and Alien: Outer Space and the New World in the European Enlightenment | U Tx, Austin | US-TX | Ph.D | DAI 53: 4436a | |
| 1977 | Adams, Marueen B. | Feminine Mythic Patterns in Doris Lessing's The Summer Before the Dark and The Memoirs of a Survivor | Lehigh U | US-PA | M | ||
| 1976 | Adkins, Curtis Peter | Supernatural in T'ang Ch'uan-ch'i Tales, The: An Archetypal View | Ohio SU | US-OH | D | DAI 37: 975a | |
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| 1991 | Agopsowicz, Willia Joseph | In Praise of Fantasy: A Study of the Nineteenth Century American Short Story | Az SU | US-AZ | D | DAI 52: 160-1a | |
| 1998 | Aguilar, Alma Rosa | Referenciation dans la construction du recit fantastique, La: An… | Universite de Paris X | France | Ph.D | ||
| 1988 | Aguirre, Manuel | Closed Space, The: Being an Inquiry into the Roots, Origin and Evolution of the Literature of Terror | Universitaire Inselling Antwerpen | Belgium | D | DAI 49: 508a | |
| 2003 | Akgiray, Meva Ayse | From Science Fiction to Postmodernism in three novels of American writer Philip K. Dick's: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, The Man in the High Castle, Valis <http://www.philipkdickfans.com/articles/meva-thesis.htm> | Bogazici University | Turkey | MA | American Studies | |
| 1970 | Albrecht, Wilbur T. | William Morris' The Well at the World's End: An Explanation and a Study | U Penn | US-PA | D | DAI 31: 5347a | |
| 1971 | Alcorn, Noeline Elizabeth | Vision and Nightmare: A Study of Doris Lessing's Novels | UC Irvine | US-CA | Ph.D | English | |
| 1978 | Aldridge, Alexandra Bertash | Scientising Society: The Dystopian Novel and the Scientific World View | U Mich | US-MI | D | DAI 39: 3560a | |
| 1999 | Alexander, Lisa Doris | Sci-fi Television, the Undiscovered Country: Race and Race Relations in the 20th, 21st, 24th Centuries | UCLA | US-CA | MA | Afro-American St | |
| 1978 | Allen, E. M. | Fellowship of Merlin: The Role of the Sorcerer in The Once and Future King and The Lord of the Rings [White; Tolkien] | Baylor U | US-TX | M | ||
| 1975 | Allen, Elizabeth Estelle | Prose Romances of William Morris, The | Tulane U | US-LA | D | DAI 36: 2211a | |
| 1996 | Allen, Marlene Denise | Integration and Interracial Relationships in Two Novels by Octavia Butler | U Ga | US-GA | MA | ||
| 1978 | Allgood, D. E. | Truth in Faerie: J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion | U Idaho | US-ID | M | ||
| 1974 | Alterman, Peter Steven | Study of Four Science Fiction Themes and Their Function in Two Contemporary Novels, A | U Denver | US-CO | Ph.D | DAI 35: 2976a | |
| Am | |||||||
| 2002 | Ambrosiano, Jason Benjamin | Glasses Brilliant: Religion in the American Postmodern Novel [PKDick; Catholic authors; Jewish Postmodern novelists; Tmorrison] | UC Riverside | US-CA | Ph.D | ||
| 1949 | Ames, Russell Abbot | Citizen Thomas More and His Utopia | Columbia U | US-NY | D | ||
| 1998 | Amtower, Richard | Posthuman: Identity at the Close of the Mechanical Age | CSUSM | US-CA | MA | Literature & Writing Studies | |
| 1977 | Andersen, Richard [Arnold] | Fiction of Reality and Fantasy in William Goldman | NYU | US-NY | Ph.D | DAI 38: 2116a | |
| 1972 | Anderson, J. P. | Ray Bradbury's Theory of Writing: Principles and Practices | Ball St U | US-IN | M | ||
| 1987 | Anderson, James | Illustrated Bradbury, The: A Structuralist Reading of Bradbury's The Illustrated Man | RI Col | US-RI | M | ||
| 1992 | Anderson, James Arthur | Out of the Shadows: A Structuralist Approach to Understanding the Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft | U Rhode Island | US-RI | Ph.D | DAI 53: 2811a | |
| 1942 | Anderson, Karl Oscar Emanuel | Scandinavian Elements in the Works of William Morris | Harvard U | US-MA | D | ||
| 1981 | Anderson, Katherine Ann Thomen | Christian Concepts and Doctrine in Selected Works of Science Fiction | U Denver | US-CO | Ph.D | DAI 42: 4829a | |
| 1968 | Anderson, Ray Lynn | Persuasive Functions of Science-Fiction: A Study in the Rhetoric of Science | U Minn | US-MN | Ph.D | ||
| 1993 | Angulo, Michael M. | Random Access Memories: Mechanism and Metaphor in the Fiction of William Gibson | U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | US-IL | Ph.D | DAI 54: 4086a | |
| 1968 | Aninger, Thomas | Essay Element in the Fiction of Aldous Huxley, The | UCLA | US-CA | Ph.D | English | DAI 29: 892a |
| 1904 | Ankenbrand, Hans | Figur des Geistes im Drama der englishche Renaissance, Die | Kgl. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Munich; pub'd: Maumburg: Lippert, 1905 | Germany | D | ||
| 1988 | Ankiel, Janet Margaret [Wcat says: Janer] | Fairy Tales and Science Fiction: A Study of Age Old Motifs as Framework for Contemporary Works | Drew U | US-NJ | M.Letters | ||
| 1998 | Annandale, Daivd Eric | Beast with a Million Eyes: Unleashing Horror Through Deleuze and Guattari | U Alberta | CA-AL | Ph.D | English | |
| 1992 | Annis, Ethan | Utility of Information in William Gibson's Futuristic Science Fiction, The | U NC, Chapel Hill | US-NC | M | ||
| 1979 | Antczak, Janice | Mythos of a New Romance, The: A Critical Analysis of Science Fiction for Children as Informed by the Literary Theory of Northrop Frye | Columbia U | US-NY | DLS | Lib Sci | DAI 42: 209-9a |
| 1968 | Antippas, Andy Peter | Burden of Poetic Tradition, The, A Study in the Works of Keats, Tennyson, Arnold and Morris | U Wisc | US-WI | D | DAI 28: 4591a | |
| Ar | |||||||
| 1984 | Arbour, Kathryn Mary | French Feminist Re-Visions: Wittig, Rochefort, Bersianik and D'Eaubonne Re-write Utopia | U Mich | US-MI | Ph.D | DAI 45: 53a | |
| 2000 | Arndt, Holger | Stanislaw Lems Prognose des Epochenendes: die Bedrohungder menschlichen Kulture durch Wissenschaft, Technologie und Dogmatismus | Universitat Mannheim | Germany | D | ||
| 1995 | Arnold, Charles Douglas | Hermit of Visions in the Desert of the Self: Shepperton's J. G. Ballard | MS St U | US-MS | MA | MAI 34:978 | |
| 1973 | Arnold, Joseph H., Jr. | Narrative Structure in The Collected Tales of E. M. Forster | U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | US-IL | D | DAI 34: 7908a | |
| 1964 | Arons, Peter Lederman | Romanticism of James Branch Cabell, The | Yale U | US-CT | D | ||
| 1928 | Arscott, Christine M. | Study of The Life and Death of Jason, The Early Paradise and Sigurd the Volsung, with Special Reference to Morris's Treatment of His Sources | U London--External | UK | D | ||
| 1982 | Asaba, Sayako | Voices of Longing, The: A Study of Messages in Fantasy | Warwick U | UK | M | ||
| 1987 | Ashby, Heather | Media Novels of Philip K. Dick, The: Cautionary Fables for an Electronic Age | U Guelph | CA-ON | M | ||
| 1981 | Ashton, James Russell | Esthetics of Uncertainty in the Fictions of Borges, 1933-1953, The | U Tx, Austin | US-TX | D | DAI 41: 4728a | |
| 1999 | Astacio Sanchez, Edwin | Night-Sea Crossing: Teaching the Macabre in the ESL Classroom | U Puerto Rico, Mayaguez | Puerto Rico | MA | MAI 37:1614 | |
| 1977 | Astle, Richard Sharp | Structures of Ideology in the English Gothic Novel | UCSD | US-CA | BMD | ||
| 1991 | Atencio, Sonia Darlene | Burkean Cluster Analysis of Racism, Equality, and Drug Abuse in 'Alien Nation', A | U New Mex | US-NM | MA | MAI 30:946 | |
| 1979 | Attebery, Brian | America and the Materials of Fantasy | Brown U | US-RI | Ph.D | American Civilization | DAI 40: 5862a |
| 1978 | Austin, Karen Odell | Supernatural in the Novels of Benito Perez Galdos, The | U Ky | US-KY | D | DAI 39: 1542a | |
| 1975 | Austin, Marvin Fraley | Novels of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., The: A Confrontation with the Modern World | U Tenn | US-TN | D | DAI 36: 3797a | |
| 1998 | Avramovic, Gordana | Quest for Unity in William Gibson's Novel, The: Neuromancer | Universite (FE Paris III, Sorbonne Nouvelle) | France | M | ||
| 1997 | Axsom, Margo | Border Crossings: The Emergence of Feminist Science Fiction as a Genre | U Notre Dame | US-IN | Ph.D | DAI 58: 1701a | |
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| 2003 | Babcock, Jaime L. N. | Oiling the Doors and Widening the Bridge to "Club Canon": Placing Magical Realism, Fantasy and Science Fiction in a Postmodern Context | Sw Tx St U | US-TX | MA | ||
| 1975 | Babener, Liahna Klenman | Predators of the Spirit: The Vampire Theme in Nineteenth-Century Literature | UCLA | US-CA | Ph.D | English | |
| 2002 | Baca, Maria E. | Science Fiction of the Fifties: A Reflection of Cold War Manipulation | CSUDH | US-CA | MA | MAI 40:1367 | |
| 1994 | Bachman, Debbie | Outsider in '50's Science Fiction, The | SUNY Brockport | US-NY | M | ||
| 1916 | Bachmann, Hans | Das englische sprachgut in den romanen Jules Verne's ... [bk based on thesis???] | Greifswald: Abel [bk] | Germany | M | ||
| 1989 | Bacon-Smith, Camille M. | Enterprising Women: Television, Folkore, and Community | U Penn | US-PA | Ph.D | DAI 50: 2194a | |
| 1972 | Baehr, Stephen Lessing | Utopian Mode in Eighteenth-Century Russian Panegyric Poetry, The | Columbia U | US-NY | D | DAI 36: 2887a | |
| 1977 | Bahn, Linda B. | Comparative Study Between The Lord of the Rings and Das Nibelungenlied, A [Tolkien] | Penn SU | US-PA | M | ||
| 1934 | Bailey, James Osler | Scientific Fiction in English, 1817-1914: A Study of Trends and Forms | U NC, Chapel Hill | US-NC | Ph.D | English | |
| 1927 | Bailey, James Osler | Scientific Novel of H. G. Wells, The | U NC, Chapel Hill | US-NC | MA | English | |
| 1993 | Bailey, Michelle Anne | Utopian Visions: An Inquiry into the Social and Artistic Theori… | UCR | US-CA | MA | ||
| 1990 | Baker, Daria | Misfits in Fantasy Literature: Alternate Worlds and Alternate Values | Hamline U | US-MN | M | ||
| 1990 | Baker, Gary Lee | German Jeremiad, The: Notion of History, the Outsider, and Utopian Elements in Uwe Johnson's Jahrestage | U Minn | US-MN | D | DAI 50: 2505-6a | |
| 1987 | Bakes, Roger Francis | Brian Aldiss and His Approaches to the Science Fiction Tradition | U Calgary | CA-AL | MA | English | |
| 1977 | Ball, James | Exotic, Historial, Escapist Sword and Sorcery Motion Pictures Produced in America | USC | US-CA | Ph.D | Communication--Cinema | |
| 1979 | Ball, Martha Charlene | Menippean Satire in More's Utopia and Erasmus's Praise of Folly | U Ga | US-GA | D | DAI 40: 235-6a | |
| 1993 | Ballesteros Gonzalez, Antonio | [Narciso y el doble en la literatura fantastica victoriana; bk title] | Universidat de Castilla--La Mancha | Spain | Ph.D | ||
| 2002 | Bamdas, Jo Ann Tucker | Imagination at Work: Imroving Adult Literacy with the Harry Potter Novels | Fl Atlantic U | US-FL | MA | ||
| 1982 | Bammer, Angelika | Visions and Revisions: The Utopian Impulse in Feminist Fictions | U Wisc, Madison | US-WI | Ph.D | Comparative Literature | DAI 43: 2656-7a |
| 2000 | Banerjee, Anindita | Genesis and Evolution of Science Fiction in Fin de Siecle Russia, 1880-1921 | UCLA | US-CA | Ph.D | Slavic Langs & Lits | DAI 61: 3198a |
| 1970 | Bangs, Gordon L. | Production of R. U. R. [Capek] | Ok City U | US-OK | M | ||
| 1964 | Banta, Martha | Two Worlds of Henry James, The: A Study in the Fiction of the Supernatural | Indiana U | US-IN | D? | DAI 26: 1035-6 | |
| 1998 | Barbeito, Patricia F. | Captivity as Consciousness: The Literary and Cultural Imagination of the American Self | Harvard U | US-MA | Ph.D | DAI 59: 1568a | |
| 1965 | Barber, Dorothy Elizabeth Klein | Structure of The Lord of the Rings, The | U Mich | US-MI | Ph.D | [English] | DA 27:470a |
| 1988 | Barbo, Anita Gail | Development of Psi Films as a Sub-Genre in Selected American Films | U West Fla | US-FL | MA | MA 28:2 | |
| 1976 | Barbour, Douglas | Patterns of Meaning in the SF Novels of Ursula K. Le Guin, Joanna Russ, & Samuel R. Delany, 1962-1972 | Queen's U @ Kingston [was, Queen's Col] | CA-ON | Ph.D | ||
| 1990 | Barclay, Michael W. | Utopia/Dystopia/Atopia: A Dissertation on Psychopathology and Utopian Thinking | Saybrook Grad Sch & Research Ctr (SF, CA) | US-CA | D | DAI 51: 3111B | |
| 1993 | Barillier, Etienne | Troubles de reel dan trois romans contemporains, Les: Ukik [sic] de Philip K. Dick, Le nomme Jeudi de Gilbert K. Chesterton et Futur interieur de Christopher Priest | Universite de Limoges | France | Maitrse | ||
| 1988 | Barlow, Aaron John | Reality, Religion, and Politics in Philip K. Dick's Fiction | U Iowa | US-IA | Ph.D | DAI 49: 2216a | |
| 1966 | Barnes, Myra Edwards | Survey of British and American Utopian Fiction, 1924-1965 | E Tx St U | US-TX | M | ||
| 1971 | Barnes, Myra Jean Edwards | Linguistics and Languages in Science Fiction-Fantasy | E Tx St U | US-TX | D | DAI 32: 5210a | |
| 1993 | Barnett, Tina Redd | Female Identity in Le Guin, Fornes and Winterson: Parameters of an Elusive Definition | So Ill U, Carbondale | US-IL | MA | English Language and Literature | |
| 1991 | Barr, Lukas P. | Borders of the Subject, The: Cybernetics, Science Fiction, and Feminist Critique | Harvard U | US-MA | B | ||
| 1976 | Barraford, Nora Mary MacDonald | Secular Supernatural, The | U Mass | US-MA | D | DAI 37: 5841a | |
| 1972 | Barrell, Eleanor L. |