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

Compiled by Leslie Kay Swigart

Latest List Update:  23 September 2004
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Year Author Title Institution Country [& State if US] Degree [B, M, D] Dept. DAI & MAI









Ea





1993 Edeburn, Andrew G. Stylistic Analysis of Robert Anson Heinlein's The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, A So Dak SU US-SD M

1975 Edelheit, Steven J. Dark Prophecies: Essays on Orwell and Technology Brandeis U US-MA D
DAI 36: 308
1986 Edmunds, Catherine J. Pushkin and Gogol' as Sources for the Librettos of the Fantastic Fairy Tale Operas of Rimskij-Korsakov Harvard U US-MA D
DAI 46: 2314a
1979 Edmunds, Lindsay Ellen Emily Dickinso's Wonderland: The Uses of Fantasy in Her Poetry Penn SU US-PA Ph.D

1960 Edrich, Emmanuel Literary Technique and Social Temper in the Fiction of George Orwell U Wisc US-WI D
DA 21:  620
1981 Edwards, Bruce Lee Rhetoric of Reading, A: A Study of C. S. Lewis's Approach to the Written Text U Tx, Austin US-TX Ph.D

1998 Edwards, Christopher Gordon Two Forms of the Via Creativa: A Neo-Reichian Study of Updike and Le Guin Boston U US-MA Ph.D

1984 Edwards, Emily D[ian] Relationship Between Sensation-Seeking and Horror Movie Inte… U Tenn, Knoxville US-TN Ph.D

1979 Egbert, Nelson Norris Problem of Form and Content in Six Utopian Responses to Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward SUNY Albany US-NY D
DAI 40: 3298a
1986 Ege, Sema Comparative Study of the Works of Edward Bellamy and H. G. Wells… U Strathclyde UK Ph.D

1971 Eger, Barbara F. Supernatural and Apparently Supernatural Elements in the Works of Arthur Scnitzler Indiana U US-IN BMD
DAI 32: 2682a
1913 Ehrke, Konrad Geistermotiv in den schottisch-englischen Volksballanden: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Volksdichtung Koniglichen Universitat Marburg; pub'd: Marburg: Noske, 1914 Germany D

1973 Ehrlich, Carol Evolutionism and the Female in Selected American Novels, 1885-1900 U Iowa US-IA Ph.D American Civilization









Ei





1999 Eilers, Michelle L. Hard Fantasy: Speculations on a Genre Hofstra U US-NY M

1995 Eisenhauer, Karen A. Reflections from the Future, Echoes from the Past: Feminist Science Fiction CSUDH US-CA M
MAI 34:1761
1996 Eisenhour, Susan J. Subversive in Hyperspace, A: C. J. Cherryh's Feminist Transformation of Space Opera Eastern Illinois U US-IL M

1983 Eister, Garry Martin Frankenstein: A Lecture/Demonstration for the Musical Theater UCSB US-CA Ph.D

1947 Ekstrom, William F. Social Idealism of William Morris and William Dean Howells, The: A Study of Four Utopian Novels U Illinois US-IL D

1997 El Ghannami, Rachida Contes fantastique aabes (recueillis dans la region d'Oujda) Universite de Paris V, Rene Descartes France D

1975 Eldridge, Shaila Van Sickle Life by Value in the Novels of E. M. Forster, The U Denver US-CO D
DAI 36: 2842a
1991 Elfstrom, Ellen Irene Debate, Social Criticism and Rhetoric in The Left Hand of Darkness: An Analysis of Strategy CSUSB US-CA MA

1967 Elgin, Don D. Romantic Imagination: A Study of Romantic Thought in the Critical Writing of J. R. R. Tolkien Tx Tech U US-TX M

1990 Ellis, Mark Philosophical Romance: Theories of Time and Their Relationship to Genre in the Fiction of John Crowley U Manitoba CA-MB MA English MAI 31:566
1979 Ellis, Reed Journey into Darkness, A: The Art of James Whales's Horror Films U Fla US-FL Ph.D

1987 Elsholz, Carol F. Content Analysis of Reading Incidents in Selected Award-Winning Children's Books E Tx St U US-TX Ed.D
DAI 48: 616a
1983 Elster, Patrice Content Analysis of Sexuality in the Media: The Horror Film Genre 1973 to Present UCLA US-CA Ph.D Education
1990 Emery, Michael James U. S. Horror: Gothicism in the Work of William Faulkner, Thomas Pynchon, and Stanley Kubrick SUNY Binghamton US-NY D
DAI 50: 3227a
1990 Ennis, Mary Louise Voyage to Cythera, The: From Courtly Allegory to Erotic Utopia in French Literature, 170-1750 Yale U US-CT D
DAI 51: 2035a
1956 Enroth, Clyde Adolph Movement Toward Mysticism in the Novels of Aldous Huxley, The U Minn US-MN D
DA 16:  1905
1971 Epstein, Lynne [later, Lynne E. Heller] Ann Radcliffe's Gothic Landscape of Fiction and the Various Infl… NYU US-NY BMD Arno rpt
2001 Erbes, Annette S. Effective Teaching Strategies to Promote Reading Among Homeless Children [Harry Potter] Pacific Lutheran U US-WA MA Education
2001 Ericson, Gwen R. Contemporary Cognition: Computers, consciousness, and Self-Definition in Cognitive Science and Late 20th Century Fiction St. Louis U US-MO Ph.D
DAI 62: 1828a
1980 Ernes, Albert Francois Content Assessment of Science Fiction from 1947-1979, A;  with Implications for the Elementary Social Studies Curriculum U Akron US-OH Ph.D
DAI 41: 933a
1981 Erwin, Barbara Jean Burns Tolkien's The Hobbit and Le Guin's The Earthsea Trilogy: The Heroism of Growing Up U Tx, Dallas US-TX MS










Es





1999 Esch, Kevin John Cyborg City: Los Angeles and the Body in Contemporary Science Fiction Film SFSU US-CA MA Film
1979 Escomel, Gloria Mythes et inquietude metaphysique dans le fantastique et la science fiction U Montreal CA-PQ Ph.D
DAI Add X1979
1978 Estren, Mark James Horrors Within and Without: A Psychoanalytic Study of Edgar Allan Poe and Howard Phillips Lovecraft SUNY, U @ Buffalo US-NY D
DAI 39: 1565a
1959 Eurich, Nell P. Science in Utopia, a Mighty Design: A Study of Scientific Utopias in the Seventeenth Century Columbia U US-NY D
DA 20:  4098
1985 Evans, Arthur Bruce Jules Verne and the Scientific Novel Columbia U US-NY Ph.D
DAI 47: 174a
1942 Evans, Richard Bertrand Dramatic Participation in the Gothic Revival UC Berkeley US-CA Ph.D English
1993 Evans-Karastamatis, Joyce A. Celluloid Mushroom Clouds: Hollywood and the Atomic Bomb UCSD US-CA Ph.D
DAI 54: 1986a
1968 Ewbank, David Robert Role of Woman in Victorian Society, The: A Controversy Explored in Six Utopias, 1871-1895 U Illinois US-IL D
DAI 30: 318a
1991 Eygun, Francois-Xavier Barbey d'Aurevilly et le fantastique U Manitoba CA-MB D
DAI 42: 1351a

















Fa





1953 Fabbricante, Lorrie Victor J. H. Rosne Aine and His Novels: Social, Analytical and Prehistorical Columbia U US-NY D
DA 14: 124
1978 Faben, Aline Sidney Folklore in the Fantasies and Romances of George MacDonald SUNY, U @ Buffalo US-NY Ph.D
DAI 39: 294
1989 Fahim, Shadia S. Doris Lessing: The Theme of Equilibrium and the form of the Novel U Exeter UK Ph.D

1992 Fairchild, James Clifford Perennial Human Problems in the Novels of Kingsley Amis U Iowa US-IA Ph.D
DAI 54: 513a
1985 Falardeau, Louise Development and Evaluation of a Module on Comparative Analysis of Contemporary Social Issues Using Science Fiction Concordia U CA-PQ MA
MAI 40:___
1997 Falc, Emilie Oline Analysis and Critique of the Venacular Discourse in Selected Feminist Science Fiction Novels, An Ohio U US-OH Ph.D
DAI 58: 4258a
1986 Faldet, David Steven Visual Art and the Poetics of Rossetti, Morris, and Yeats U Iowa US-IA Ph.D NOS
1985 Falkenthal, Anthony B. Science Fiction and Fantasy Female Heroes: A New Tool to Help Educate the Adolescent Female About Psychological Growth U Wisc, Oshkosh US-WI M

1965 Fanzo, D. A. Inquiry into the Literature of Science Fiction: Its Development, Maturation, and Significance as a Literary Genre Tx Tech U US-TX M

2001 Farrell, Jennifer Kelso Two Way Memories and Virtual Realities: How Science Fiction Works and Lewis Carroll's Alice Books Let the Reader In Montana SU, Bozeman US-MT M

1988 Fausett, David [Writing the New World: Imaginary Voyages and Utopias of the Great Southern Land; bk title] Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales, Paris France Ph.D

1989 Fedorchuk, Peter W. V. Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End and George Orwell's Animal Farm SUNY Geneseo US-NY M

1980 Feijoo, Gladys Fantastic in Carlos Fuentes' Short Stories, The Columbia U US-NY Ph.D
DAI 41: 688a
1974 Felsen, Hans Eugene Function of Heresy in Modern Literature, The: Studies in the Major Fiction of Thomas Hardy, E. M. Forster, and D. H. Lawrence U Md US-MD D
DAI 36: 1524a
1996 Felsenthal, Daniel Sonnel Keepers of the Flame: Individualism in the Films of the 1950s Stephen F. Austin SU US-TX MA History MAI 35:1215
1970? Fenerle, Lois Marie Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre: A Document in the History of Utopian Thought U Ks US-KS D
DAI 30: 5443a
1986 Fernandez, Magali Elementos liricos, sicologicos y fantasticos en la obra de Maria Luisa Bombal NYU US-NY D
DAI 46: 161a
1974/75 Ferrari, A. M. Jack Williamson Universita Degli Studi de Torino Italy Ph.D? MA?

1991 Ferreras, Daniel Francois Typologie des contes fantastiques de Maupassant: Etudes concretes pour une theorie Mich St U US-MI D
DAI 52: 175a
1999 Feuer, William S. Producing Los Angeles: Contesting Cultures, Contesting Genres USC US-CA Ph.D
DAI 60: 4422a
1984 Fey, Catharine Lynnann Reader and Fantastic Literature, The: A Study of Selected Hispanic Texts U Chi US-IL D
DAI 44: 2158a









Fi





1967 Fiderer, Gerald Lionel Psychoanalytic Study of the Novels of George Orwell, A U Ok US-OK D
DA 28: 1074a
1966 Fiester, Ben F. Function of the Supernatural in Malory's Morte Darthur, The Penn SU US-PA Ph.D
DA 28:4124-5a
1968 Fink, H. R. George Orwell's Novels in Relation to His Social and Literary Theory London-University UK D

1969 Finkelstein, David N. Generative Principle of the Literary Art of J. R. R. Tolkien McGill U CA-PQ M

1964 Firchow, Peter Edgerly Aldous Hulxley and the Art of Satire: A Study of His Prose Fiction to Brave New World U Wisc US-WI D
DA 26:5433
1974 Fischer, Adam Jacob Formula for Utopia: The American Proletarian Novel, 1930-1939 U Mass US-MA D
DAI 35:  447a
1990 Fischer, Catherine Thomas Burnett Swann's Fantastic Forests and J. M. Barrie's Imaginary Islands Fl Atlantic U US-FL M

1979 Fischer, William Baldwin Between Fantastic Fabulation and Didactic Disquisition: Kurd Lasswitz, Hans Dominik, and the Development of German Science Fiction, 1871-1945 Yale U US-CT Ph.D
DAI 40: 5882a
1965 Fish, Robert Stevens Oral Interpretation of the Horror Stories of H. P. Lovecraft U Ok US-OK M

1969 Fisher, Nancy McWhorter Fantasy and Reality in the Poetry of Randall Jarrell U Tenn US-TN Ph.D
DAI 31: 755-6a
1973 Fisher, Vivian Boyd Search for Reality Through Dreams, The: A Study of the Work of William Morris from 1856-1872 Emory U US-GA D
DAI 34: 767a
2003 Fiskio-Lasseter, Janet Elizabeth Descending into the Flesh: Exploring Embodied Knowledge, Nonhuman Agency, and Ecocritical Theory  [Merleau-Ponty, Solds, O Butler, UKLeGuin] U Oregon US-OR MA

1997 Fitzgerald, Vincent B. Ideas and Literature: Degeneration and Recapitulation in Late Nineteenth Century American Fiction USC US-CA Ph.D

1987 Flagg, La Donna Marie Effect of Walker Percy's World-View on His Fictional Techniques CSULB US-CA MA English
1978 Flagstad, Karen Lynne Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On: Shakespeare's The Tempest and the Utopian Imagination UCLA US-CA Ph.D English DAI 39: 6774a
1995 Flanagin, David E. Self-Reflexive Enterprise, The: Metafiction in the Star Trek Series Tx Tech U US-TX M

1967 Fledderjohann, Constance C. Comparative Study of the Differential Treatment by American and British Authors of Fantasy in Children's Literature UCLA US-CA MA Education
1976 Fleming, Linda A. Science Fiction Subculture, The: Bridge Between Two Cultures U NC, Chapel Hill US-NC Ph.D
DAI 38: 1033a
1990 Fleming, Susan A. Mary Shelley and Samuel Johnson: Social and Ethical Implications of the Individual's Pursuit of Perfection Auburn U US-AL M

1996 Fletcher, Steven Q. Future of Friendship in Literature, The U Va US-VA Ph.D
DAI 57: 4378a
1992 Fleury, Anthony Gregory Dineen Aliens and Just-War Ideology: A Rhetorical Analysis Penn SU US-PA MA
MAi 31:506
1977 Flieger, Verlyn Brown Medieval Epic and Romance Motifs in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings Catholic U of America US-DC Ph.D
DAI 38: 4157a









Fo





1988 Fogelberg, Heidi Gender, Power, and Identity in the Chanur Series [Cherryh] Az St U US-AZ M

1988 Foil, Sylvia Lynne Examination of the Conceptual Approach to Film Genre with a Specific Application to the Definition of the Apocalyptic Northwestern U US-IL Ph.D
DAI 50: 812a
1974 Foldeak, Hans Nuere Tendenzen der sowjetischen Science Fiction Munich Germany D? M?

1987 Fondse, Christtine Heather Writings of Monica Hughes, The: Implications for the Middle School [Canada; sf] Ohio SU US-OH Ph.D
DAI 48: 2263a
1974 ? Forclaz, Roger Monde d'Edgar Poe, L' Lausanne Switzerland BMD

1991 Ford, Alan R. Use of Religion in Some Recent Science Fiction, The No Car SU US-NC M

2003 Fornabai, Nanette Lynne (In)humanizing Norms: Machines, Fantoms and Detectives in Modern French Popular Culture [Guy de Maupassant, George Melies, Auguste comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Pierre Souvestre] Brown U US-RI Ph.D
DAI 64: 1274a
1976