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


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









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1956 La Croix, J. F. Lord Dunsany Trinity-Dublin Ireland D

1978 Lacombe, Michelle [sp?] Apocalyptic Elements of Science Fiction, The York U [Canada] CA-ON MA
MAI 40:___
1987 Ladden, Arlene Merlin's Mind: A Study of Merlin in Literature NYU US-NY Ph.D

1974 Lagerwey, Wallace Peter Hans Henry Jahnn's Ugrino und Ingrabanien: Utopia and Its Failure Northwestern U US-IL D
DAI 35: 3749a
1998 Lagoguey, Herve Monde incertain de Philip K. Dick, ecrivain visionnaire, Le [These de doctorat en anglais] Universite de Reims (Champagne-Ardenne) France D English
2000 Lalonde, Lucie Examination of Science Fiction with a View Toward Improving Scientific Literacy, An Concordia U CA-PQ MA
MAI 38:1156
1951 Lamb, Jean Darling Gothic Novel and Roman Noir UC [B?] US-CA MA

1954 Lambasa, Frank Slavko Mythological and Supernatural Elements in Four Early Plays of Franz Werfel U Iowa US-IA Ph.D German
1999 Lancaster, Kurt W. Performing Bablylon 5: Immersion into an Imaginary Entertainment Environment NYU US-NY Ph.D

1974 Lancaster, Robert Vaughan Letters of John Cowper Powys to Louis Wilkinson, 1957-1963 U Syracuse US-NY D
DAI 36: 320a
1990 Landis, Catherine News of the Land: A Course in Nature Writing in America SUNY Syracuse US-NY MS Environmental Sci & Forestry
1992 Lang, John Thomas Fife Art and Life in Nineteenth Century England: The Theory and Practice of William Morris York U [Canada] CA-ON D
DAI 52: 3939a
1978 Lang, Leonard Alan Impact of Classical Science on American Literature, The: The Creation of an Epic American Hero in Science Fiction U Minn US-MN Ph.D
DAI 39: 3665a
2001 Lanzoni, Remi Fournier Dino Buzzati: An Analysis of His Short Stories U NC, Chapel Hill US-NC Ph.D
DAI 62: 3780a
1994 Laperriere, Maureen C. Evolution of Mothering, The: Images and Impact of the Mother-Figure in Feminist Utopian Science Fiction McGill U CA-PQ M
MA 33:1976
1996 Larbalestier, Justine Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction, The: From the Pulps to the James Tiptree, Jr. Memorial Award U Sydney AU-NSW Ph.D English
2001 Large, Gerald [Scott] Werewolves,Vampires, Robots, and Extraterrestrials: Problems of Representation in the Performance of Non-Human Characters in Science Fiction and Horror Stage and Screen U Wisc, Madison US-WI Ph.D Theatre and Drama DAI 62: 1273a
1997 Larsen, Lynn Curtis Writing the Science Fiction Screenplay U Denver US-CO M

1996 Larson, Barbara [Jean] Odilon Redon: Science and Fantasy in the NOIRS NYU US-NY Ph.D Fine Arts DAI 57: 3300a
1973 Larson, Ross Frank Fantasy and Imagination in the Mexican Narrative U Toronto CA-ON D
DAI 35: 1108a
1990 Lasser, Karen E. Looking Forward to the End of the World?: The Theme of Apocalypse in the Science Fiction of Rene Barjaval Harvard U US-MA AB

1961 Latif, Eva Leoni Ghosts on the English Renaissance Stage U Iowa US-IA Ph.D English
1985 Latner, Alexis G. Revelation in a World of Science: A Comparison of Revelation in … Graduate Theological Union US-CA BMD

2003 Latour, Luis M. Constructing Tomorrow on the Kitchen Table: Cultural Imperatives in Computer Hobbyist Publications (1975-1980) Concordia U CA-PQ MA
MAI 41:1624
1990 LaTourette, Debra Jane Doctor Who Meets Vladimir Propp: A Comparative Narrative Analysis of Myth/Folktale and the Television Science Fiction Genre Northwestern U US-IL Ph.D
DAI 51: 1817a
1951 Laverty, Carroll D. Science and Pseudo-Science in the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe Duke U US-NC D

1994 Layton, David A. Approaching the Limits: Science in Postmodernist Fiction UCSB US-CA Ph.D










Le





1972 Lea, Sydney, L. W., Jr. Gothic to Fantastic: Readings in Supernatural Fiction Yale U US-CT D
DAI 34: 323a
1971 LeBourgeois, John Young Youth of William Morris, 1834-76, The: An Interpretation Tulane U US-LA D
DAI 32: 2035a
1972 Leclair, Tom [Thomas Edmund] Final Words: Death and Comedy in the Fiction of Donleavy, Hawkes, Barth, Vonnegut, and Percy Duke U US-NC D

1986 Leddy, Annette Cecile Swift, Carroll, Borges: A History of the Subject in Dystopia UCLA US-CA Ph.D Comparative Literature DAI 48: 644-5a
1959 Lee, Lawrence Lynn Moral Themes of E. M. Forster, The U Utah US-UT D
DA 20: 1790
1967 Lee, Robert Alan Spanish Experience, The: George Orwell and the Politics of Language U Oregon US-OR D
DA 27:3053a
1987 Leeds, Marc What Goes Around Comes Around: The Naïve - Schizophrenic - Resurrected Cycle in the Novels of Kurt Vonegut [social darwinism] SUNY, U @ Buffalo US-NY Ph.D
DA 48:1204a
2002 Lefevre, Jocelyn Caught in the Mirror: Fictional Representations of 'Cyborgs' and 'Serials' in Postmodern American Technoculture [Donna J. Haraway, James Tiptree, Jr., Vonda McIntyre, Octavia E. Butler, Gordon Lish] U Ottawa CA-PQ MA
MAI 41:1274
1992 Legas, Claire A. Women's View from Beyond: A Study of Critical Utopian/Dystopian… UCSD US-CA MA

1974 LeGates, Charlotte Jane Aldous Huxley and Visual Art Mich St U US-MI D
DAI 35: 6144a
2002 Lehmann, Vivian V. Contemporary French Science Fiction (1950-1980): A Literature of Crisis Stanford U US-CA Ph.D
DAI 63: 1370a
1999 Lehrhofer, Klaus Blade Runner, Total Recall and Scremers [sic???]: Philip K. Dick in Film U of Graz Austria


1982 Leibacher-Ouvrard, Lise Helene [SFFRDb says Heibacher-Ouvard] Utopian Imaginary Journeys in the Reign of Louis XIV [French text] Stanford U US-CA Ph.D
DAI 43: 178a
1987 Leiby, David Allen Tooth That Gnaws, The: A Poetics of Time Travel Narratives UCLA US-CA Ph.D English DAI 48: 3111a
1990 Leighton, Hera Tzortzopoulou Modern Fantastic in GDR Short Prose, The U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign US-IL D
DAI 51: 1245a
1975 Leitenberg, Barbara New Utopias, The Indiana U US-IN D
DAI 36: 5282a
1953 LeKernec, William J. Science Fiction for Adults: A Selected Annotated Bibliography for Use in the Public Schools Drexel Institute of Technology US-PA M

1976 LeMehaute, Pierrette Aline Theme de la survivance dans la litterature conjectural francaise du vingtieme siecle, Le UCLA US-CA Ph.D French
1962 LeMire, Eugene Dennis Unpublished Lectures of William Morris, The: A Critical Edition, Including and Introductory Survey and a Calendar and Bibliography of Morris's Public Speeches Wayne St U US-MI D
DA 24: 3325
1980 Leo, W. T. Order in the Fictional Works of J. R. R. Tolkien U Edinburgh UK Ph.D

2003 Leong, Hang-Tat Ideology and Utopa in Science Fiction [Karl Mannheim; Paul Ricoeur] Chinese U of Hong Kong PRC Ph.D
DAI 64: 2479a
1999 Leong, Hang-Tat Visions of the Future in the Science Fiction of H. G. Wells [Chinese] U Hong Kong Hong Kong M

1991 Lepawsky, Josh(ua Jonah) Cyberspace in Literary, Popular, and Geographical Discourse: Building a Meaningful Definition for Geographical Research Queen's U @ Kingston [was, Queen's Col] CA-ON M
MAI 38:352
1999 Leperlier, Henry Daniel Canadian Science Fiction: A Reluctant Genre U de Sherbrooke CA-PQ Ph.D
DAI 62: 3039a
1981 Lerner, Frederick Andrew Modern Science Fiction and Its Reception by the American Literary and Educational Communities, 1926-1970 Columbia U US-NY DLS
DAI 44: 3069a
1992 Leslie, Marina Ann Patterns for Perfecting: Utopian Method in Thomas More and Francis Bacon Yale U US-CT D
DAI 533: 505a
1992 Letcher, Bettina Havens In the Belly of This Story: The Role of Fantasy in Four American Women's Novels of the 1980s [L Gould; M Atwood; T Morrison; LM Silko] U Rhode Island US-RI D
DAI 52: 3602a
1975 Letson, Russell Francis Approaches to Mystery, The: The Fantasies of Arthur Machen and Algernon Blackwood So Illinois U US-IL D
DAI 36: 8047a
1960 Lettau, Reinhard Adolf Utopie und Roman: Untersuchungen zur Form des deutschen utopishe… Harvard U US-MA BMD

1964 Levitin, Alexis J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings Columbia U US-NY MA

1987 Levkovich, Rivi Cara Harlan Ellison and the Technological Grotesque McGill U CA-PQ MA English Y
1969 Levy, Maurice Lovecraft, ou,Du fantastique [Lovecraft, a study in the fantastic -- English book title] Sorbonne France BMD

1974 Levy, Michael M. Apocalypse and Apotheosis in the Fiction of Arthur C. Clarke Ohio SU US-OH M

1982 Levy, Michael M[arc] Transformations of Oberon, The: The Use of Fairies in Seventeenth-Century Literature U Minn US-MN Ph.D

1991 Lewes, Darby Gynotopia: Gender and Genre in Women's Utopian Fiction, 1870-19… U Chi US-IL Ph.D

1997 Lewis, Barbara Jo Human Machines: The Treatment of the Cyborg in American Popular Fiction and Film NYU US-NY Ph.D
DAI 58: 3524
2003 Lewis, Jonathan Peter Transformations of Content: Race, Power, andTechnology in "Mason & Dixon,' 'V.,' 'Graviy's Rainbow,' 'Mumbo Jumbo,' and 'Cryptonomicon' [Tpynchon, Ireed, Nstephenson] UC Riverside US-CA Ph.D
DAI 64: 2492a
2002 Lewis, Stephen Bouchelle; Postel, Robin Lynn Experiments in Conversation: Postmodern Presentational Knowing of Self, Intersubjectivity and Persiflage; Featuring 'The Poker Game,' a Social Science Fiction [with original writing] Calif Institute of Integral Studies US-CA Ph.D
DAI 63: 3587a









Li





1988 Li, Wai-yee Rhetoric of Fantasy and Rhetoric of Irony: Studies in Liao-chai chih-I and Hung-lou meng Princeton U US-NJ D
DAI 49: 249a
1971 Liberman, Michael Raymond William Morris's News From Nowhere: A Critical and Annotated Edition U Nebraska, Lincoln US-NB D
DAI 32: 3956a
1983 Liem, Ronco Yaobing Chris Marker and 'La jetee' Columbia U Teacher's College US-NY Ed.D
DAI 44: 3188a
1986 Lightsey, Kathleen E. Allegorical Relationships of Self and Other in Three Novels by Ursula K. Le Guin Georgetown U US-DC MA

1986 Like, Rosilyn R. Myth and a Memory, A: A Study of Mary Stewart's Arthuriad New Mexico SU US-NM M

1949 Lind, Sidney Edmund Supernatural Tales of Henry James, The: Conflict and Fantasy NYU US-NY Ph.D

1965 Lindaman, Robert E. Literary Criticism of C. S. Lewis Mankato SU US-MN M

1998 Lindauer, Paul K. Science Fiction: Myth-Making for a New Millennium Midwestern SU US-TX M

1998 Lippert, David Science in the Late Victorian Popular Novel: The Enlightenment Debasement of the Story Auburn U US-AL Ph.D

1947 Lipscomb, Winifred Lawrence Status and Structure of the Family in Idealistic Communities: A … U NC US-NC Ph.D

1974 Litte, Bruce Rudolph John Cowper Powys: The Reputation of the Novelist in England and America U Ks US-KS D
DAI 35: 6146a
1990 Little, Arthur Lee Gaze of Horror, The: The Primal Configuration of the Body in English Renaissance Revenge Tragedy Harvard U US-MA D
DAI 50: 2499a
1962 Little, Doris Pettigrew Historical Survey and Analysis of a Selected Number of Science Fiction Title[s], An Atlanta U US-GA MS

1984 Littlefield, [Ralph] Emerson Character and Language in Eight Novels by Ursula K. Le Guin and Samuel R. Delany Fla St U US-FL Ph.D
DAI 45: 3131a
1933 Litzenberg, Karl Contributions of the Old Norse Language and Literature to the Style and Substance of the Writings of William Morris, 1858-1876 U Mich US-MI D

1990 Livermore, Kathryn Vale Border Spirits in Eudora Welty's Short Fiction and Essays Yale U US-CT D
DAI 51: 164a









Lo





1964 Lockridge, Ernest Hugh Aldous Huxley and the Novel of Diversity Yale U US-CT D
DA 25: 4703
1985 Lockwood, Stephen P. New Wave in Science Fiction, The: A Primer Indiana U US-IN Ph.D
DAI 46: 2689a
1979 Loder, Reed Elizabeth Personal Identity Concepts in the Context of Children's Fantasy Literature Boston U US-MA Ph.D
DAI 40: 2734a
1974 Loe, Thomas Benjamin Gothic Strain in the Victorian Novel: Four Studies U Iowa US-IA Ph.D English
1997 Loffreda, Beth A. Pulp Science: Race, Gender, and Prediction in Contemporary American Culture Rutgers U US-MD Ph.D
DAI 58: 2655a
1960 Lofland, Robert D. Andre Norton: A Contemporary Author of Books for Young People Kent St U US-OH M

1980 Loing, Bernard H. G. Wells a l'oeuvre: Le debuts d'un ecrivain (1894-1900): Essai d'analyse des mecanismes de la creation litteraire par l'etude genitique et l'intrepretation de trois oeuvres initiales: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, and Mr. Lewisham Sorbonne ; pubd by: Paris: Didier Erudition, 1984 France M

1980 Lokke, Kari Elise Magic of Imagination: The Romantic Supernatural, a Study of Tieck, Coleridge, Arnim, and Nerval Washington U US-MO D
DAI 40: 4021a
1941 Lokke, Virgil Llewellyn Formal Aspects of the American Utopian Novel U Iowa US-IA MA English
1983 Loney, J. D. Reality, Truth, and Perspective in the Fiction of C. S. Lewis McMaster U CA-ON Ph.D
DAI 44: 3072-73a
1995 Long, Bryan A. Ethic of Exploitation, The: The Use of Reification in the Work of Ursula K. Le Guin Stetson U US-FL MA

1974 Lonie, Charles Anthony Accumulations of Silence: Survivor Psychology in Vonnegut, Twain and Hemingway U Minn US-MN D
DAI 35: 7871a
1974 Losano, Wayne A. Horror Film and the Gothic Narrative Tradition,The Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst US-NY BMD
DAI 34: 5221a
1970 Lott, Hershel Woodley Social and Political Ideals in the Major Writings of T. H. White, The U So Miss US-MS D
DAI 31: 4126a
1895 Louis, Gustav Thomas Morus und seine Utopia Elfte Realschule, Berlin (Ostern); pub'd: Berlin: R. Gaertners Germany BMD