Compiled by Leslie Kay Swigart
Latest List Update: 23 September 2004
©2002-2004 by Leslie Kay Swigart
Authors: L through R
| 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 | ||
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | ||