Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Utopian, and Dystopian
Theses and Dissertations

Compiled by Leslie Kay Swigart

Latest List Update:  23 September 2004

©2002-2004 by Leslie Kay Swigart

Authors:  A through D




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Year Author Title Institution Country [& State if US] Degree [B, M, D] Dept. DAI & MAI









Aa





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









Ag





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

















Ba





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.