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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1974 Sadler, Frank Orin Science and Fiction in the Science-Fiction Novel U Fla US-FL Ph.D English DAI 36: 883a
1967 Sadler, Glenn E. Poetry of George MacDonald, The Aberdeen UK D

1973 Sadler, Jeffrey Allen Politics of the Margin, The: Aldous Huxley's Quest for Peace U Wisc US-WI D
DAI 35: 415a
1983 Safford, Barbara Ripp High Fantasy: An Archetypal Analysis of Children's Literature Columbia U US-NY DLS Lib Sci DAI 44: 2289-81a
n.d. Sagiv, Inbal Science Fiction in Israel Tel-Aviv U Israel M
www.sf-f.org.il/static/sagiv1.htm
1971 Saine, Ute Muller Bernardin De Saint-Pierre's Paul et Virginie: From Social Utopia to Escape Novel Yale U US-CT D
DAI 32: 7003a
1974/1975 Sala, Mariangela Fantascienza Tedesca di Herbert W. Franke: un modo per riflettere Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano Italy Ph.D

1972 Saltzer, Gerald Louis Social Themes and Human Values Cotained in the Science Fiction Television Program Series Star Trek Boston U US-MA MS [Broadcasting]
1963 Samaan, Angele Botrose Novels of Utopianism and Prophecy, From Lytton, 1871, to Orwell, 1949, With Special Reference to Its Reception, The London-Birkbeck UK D

1998 Samara, Donya A. Questionable Ends: Reflections on the Sublime in contemporary Culture Indiana U US-IN Ph.D
DAI 60: 435a
1960 Sampson, Louise Ruth Matthew Gregory Lewis's Use of the Supernatural and the Sensational SDSU [was: SDSC] US-CA MA English
1982 Samuel, Scott Randall Soviet Science Fiction: New Critical Approaches Stanford U US-CA Ph.D
DAI 43: 1167a
1962 Samuelson, David N. Science Fiction and the Two Cultures: A Study in the Theory and Criticism of Contemporary Science Fiction with Reference to the Cultural Division Between the Sciences and the Humanities Drew U US-NJ B Language & Literature
1969 Samuelson, David Norman Studies in the Contemporary American and British Science Fiction Novel USC US-CA Ph.D Comparative Literature DAI 30: 1181a
1968 Sandeman, Gillian A. Figure of Merlin in English Literature From the Beginnings to 1740, The Memorial U of Newfoundland CA-NF M

1972 Sanders, Joseph Lee Fantasy in the Twentieth Century British Novel Indiana U US-IN D
DAI 33: 7640a / 764a
1995 Sandner, David M. Fantastic Sublime, The: Romanticism and Transcendence in Nineteenth-century Children's Fantasy Literature SFSU US-CA MA English: Literature
1999 Sandwick, Shari Lost in Space: Where Are All the Real Women? Jamestown Col US-ND B

1981 Sarett, Carla Joan Socialization Patterns and Preschool Children's television and Film-related Play Behavior U Penn US-PA Ph.D
DAI 42: 2348a
1984 Sarti, R. C. Man in a Mortal World: J. R. R. Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings Indiana U US-IN Ph.D
DAI 45: 1410a
1974 Sasaki, Miyoko Sense of Horror in Edith Wharton, The Yale U US-CT BMD
DAI 34: 7244a
1989 Sass, Jan Magische Moment, Der: Phantasiestrukturen im Werk Dieter Wellershoffs Universitat Hamburg Germany D

2002 Sat, Ayse From Free Will to AI: The Visual and Narrative codes in the Work of Anthony Burgess, Arthur C. Clarke, and Stanley Kubrick Eastern Mediterranean U, Cyprus Cyprus M

2001 Sauble-Otto, Lorie Gwen Writing in Subversive Space: Language and the Body in Feminist Science Fiction in French and English U Az US-AZ Ph.D
DAI 62: 2107a
1994 Saunders, Matthew F. Star Trek as Modern Myth Colo St U US-CO M

1982 Saunders, Vanessa Dakers Gentle Spirits: Female Writers of the Supernatural Princeton U US-NJ Ph.D
DAI 42: 4462a









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1917 Scarborough, Dorothy Supernatural in Modern English Fiction, The [diss title?] Columbia U US-NY D

1990 Schaafsma, Karen Beyond the Between: The Paradoxical Journey of Fantasy Literature UC Davis US-CA Ph.D
DAI 51: 3739-40a
1982 Schaefermeyer, M. J. Rhetoric of Film: A Semiotic Approach to Criticism with a Case Study of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey Ohio SU US-OH Ph.D
DAI 43: 2496a
1977? Schafer, Martin Science Fiction als Ideologiekritik?: Utop. Spuren in d. amerikan. Science Fiction-Literatur 1940-1955 Basel Switzerland D? M?

1970 Schatt, Stanley World Picture of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., The USC US-CA D
DAI 31: 767a
1966 Schatzberg, Walter Scientific Themes in the Popular Literature and Poetry of the German Enlightenment, 1720-1760 Johns Hopkins U US-MD D
DAI 27: 1837a
1987 Schelling, Joyce E. Toward a Poetics of Selected Space Fiction Novels of Doris Lessing [Canopus in Argos] NYU US-NY Ph.D
DAI 48: 1453a
1961 Schenda, Rudolf Franzosische Prodigienliteratur in der zweiten Halfte des 16. Jahrhunderts, Die Munich Germany D

1973 Schepelmann, Wolfgang Englische Utopie im Ubergang, Die: von Bulwer-Lytton bis H. G. Wells; Struktranalysen an ausgeahlten Beispielen der ersten evolutionistischen eriode Universitat Wien; pub'd: Wien: VWGO, 1975 Austria D

1960 Schmerl, Rudolph Benjamin Reason's Dream: Anti-totalitarian Themes and Techniques of Fatnasy U Mich US-MI Ph.D
DA 21:  2298
1993 Schmid, Hans Fenster zum tod: der Raum im Horrorfilm Ludwig-M…; pub'd: Munchen: Belleville Germany D

1933 Schmid, Josef Englischen Utopisten des 16. und 17 Jahrhunderts und die religiose Frage, Die; Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der religiosen Aufklarung in England Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat zu Freiburg i. Br. Germany D

1989 Schmitt, Ronald Mythology and Technology: The Novels of William Gibson U Rhode Island US-RI M

1995 Schmitt, Ronald Emil Reclamation of the Future Dream, The: Dreams in British Science Fiction [Mary Shelley, H. G. Wells, George Orwell, Michael Moorcock] U Rhode Island US-RI Ph.D
DAI 56: 3598a
1981 Schneider, Jean-Daniel Utopies et pedagogie dans la litterature du dix-septieme siecle McGill U CA-PQ D
DAI 41: 3606a
1973 Schneiderman, Beth Kline From Fantasy to Prophecy: A Study of the Fiction of E. M. Forster Purdue U US-IN D
DAI 35: 475a
1991 Schnur, Linda June Annotated Bibliography of German Critical Essays on Science Fiction, An Miami U US-OH M

1979 Schoenecke, Michael Keith Science Fiction of Jack London, The: Scientific Theories and Three Fictional Extrapolations, The Sea Wolf (1904), Before Adam (1906), and The Iron Heel (1908) Ok St U US-OK Ph.D [English?] DAI 40: 6295a
1977 Scholer, William Charles Bulwer-Lytton and the Supernatural U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign US-IL D
DAI 37:  6512A
1933 Scholten, Willem Charles Robert Maturin: The Terror-Novelist Universiteit van Amsterdam Netherlands D

1911 Schomann, Emilie Franzosische Utopisten des 18. Jahrhunderts und ihr Frauenideal… Koniglichen Universitat, Greifswald Germany Ph.D

1983 Schreiber, John F. Shape of the Hero in Modern Epic Fantasy, The: A Comparative Analysis of the Dune Series, the Lord of the Rings, and the Covenant Trilogy [Herbert; Tolkien; Donaldson] Mankato SU US-MN MA

1975 Schroder, Horst Science Fiction Literatur in den USA: Vorstudien fur e. materialist. Paraliteraturwiss Frankfurt am Main Germany D? M?

1986 Schroeder, Michael Leroy Rhetoric in New Fiction [Vonnegut; Brautigan' Barthelme; Coover] Kent St U US-OH Ph.D
DAI 47: 3430a
1960 Schulte Herbruggen, Hubertus Utopie und Anti-Utopie: von der Strukturanalyse zur Strukturtyp… Munster [pub'd: Bochum-Langendreer: H. Popinghaus] Germany BMD

1963 Schulz, Joan Evelyn Study of H. G. Wells' In the Days of the Comet U Illinois US-IL D
DA 24:  4200
1933 Schulze, Gerhard Verwendung der Aktionsarten in den neuesten Romanen von H. G. Wells, Die: Ein Beitrag zur modernen englischen Syntax und Stilistik Philipos-Universitat [Marburg: Buch und Kunstdrucherei] Germany Ph.D

1999 Schuster, Michael Other Worlds of Earth, The: A Philosophical Approach to the Novels of Philip K. Dick SFSU US-CA MA Humanities
1962 Schwalbe, Doris Jeanne H. G. Wells and the Superfluous Woman U Colo US-CO D
DA 23: 2120
1980 Schweickart, Patrocinio Pagaduan Theory for Feminist Criticism, A Ohio SU US-OH Ph.D
DAI 41: 3093a
1988 Sciolino, Martina M. Desire in Postmodern Fiction: Gender and Creation Fantasy in the Work of Robert Coover SUNY Buffalo US-NY D
DAI 48: 2630a
1994 Scotson, Tim Examination of Crime and Criminal Justice in the Literary Utopias of 1880 to 1914, An U Leicester UK Ph.D

1997 Scruggs, Jacob B. Science and Science Fiction of 2001, The: An Inquiry for High School Physics [Clarke?] U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign US-IL M

1973 Scura, Dorothy Ellen Glasgow and James Branch Cabell: The Record of a Literary Friendship U NC US-NC D










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1980 ? Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky Coherence of Gothic Conventions, The Yale US-CT D

1970 ? Seeber, Hans Ulrich [Wandlungen der Form in der literarischen Utopie; Studien z. Entfaltung d. utop. Romans in England; bk title] Tubingen Germany BMD

1973 Segal, Phillip D. Imaginative Literature and the Atomic Bomb: An Analysis of Representative Novels, Plays, and Films from 1945 to 1972 Yeshiva U US-NY D
DAI 34: 5993a
2001 Segura Fernandez, Eduardo Narratological Study of 'The Lord of the Rings': An Introduction to J. R. R. Tolkien's Poetics Universidad de Navarra Spain Ph.D
DAI 64: 288C
1988 Seibt, Betty K. Analysis of Some Literary Devices in Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time, An Tx Women's U US-TX M

1996 Seligo, Carlos Rezende Origin of Science Fiction in the Monsters of Botany: Carolus Linnaeus, Erasmus Darwin, Mary Shelley U Wash US-WA Ph.D
DAI 57: 3951a
1984 Selinger, Bernard G. Ursula K. Le Guin and the Paradox of Identity in Contemporary Fiction York U [Canada] CA-ON Ph.D
DAI 46: 3721a
1977 Sellman, Jane A. Use of Myth in the Fiction of Walter M. Miller, The Morgan SU US-MD M

1979 Semark, Douglas Lee C. S. Lewis' Space Trilogy: Metaphysical Theology in Science Fiction/Fantasy Western Mich U US-MI MA
MAI 18:38
1971 Semon, Kenneth J. Fantasy and Wonder: Shakespeare's Last Plays U Wash US-WA BMD
DAI 32: 2653a
1998 Senecal, Lynn Idea Structure of Students' Written Stories in Grades 3, 4, and 5, The McGill U CA-PQ Ph.D
DAI 60: 4352a
1977 Senescu, Betty Cobey Utopia Within, The: Some Psychological Aspects of Edward Bellamy's Early Writing U New Mexico US-NM D
DAI 38:  3504-5a
1979 Senf, Carol Ann Daughters of Lilith: An Analysis of the Vampire Motif in Nineteenth-Century English Literature SUNY, U @ Buffalo US-NY D
DAI 39: 7363a
1950 Senseman, Wilfred Minnich Demi-science and Fiction: The Utilization of the Pseudo-Scienti… U Mich US-MI Ph.D

1979 Sevastakis, Michael George Death's Love Songs: The American Horror Film (1931-1936) and Its Embodiment of Romantic Gothic Conventions NYU US-NY Ph.D Cinema Studies DAI 40: 2308-9a









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1999 Shaff, Jennifer Reproducation [sic] of Three Feminist Science-Fiction Utopias, The Trinity Col US-CT M

1987 Shafi, Monika Maria Helene Utopian Visions in the Literature of German Women Authors U Md, College Park US-MD D
DAI 47: 3054-5a
1967 Shah, Syed A. Empire in the Writings of Kipling, Forster and Orwell, The U Edinburgh UK D

1958 Shahane, V. A. Study of the Works of E. M. Forster, A: With Special Reference to His Place in the Tradition of the English Novel Leeds U UK D

1973 Shapiro, Barbara Linda Autobiography and the Fiction of H. G. Wells Harvard U US-MA D
DAI 35: 5363a
1999 Sharp, Patrick Berton White Man's Bomb, The: Race and Nuclear Apocalypse Narrative in American Culture UCSB US-CA Ph.D English DAI 61: 3175a
1983 Sharrett, Christopher B. Apocalypticism in the Contemporary Horror Film: A Typological Survey of a Theme in the Fantastic Cinema, Its Relationship to Cultural Tradition and Current Filmic Expression NYU US-NY Ph.D
DAI 44: 3523-4a
1992 Shaw, Deborah Ann Marriage Quest in Canopus, The: A Study of Dorris Lessing's The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five U Victoria (CA) CA-BC M
MAI 32:61
1994 Shaw, Debra Benita Feminist Perspective, The: Women Writing Science Fiction U East Anglia UK Ph.D

1975 Shaw, William Gary Comic Absurdity and the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Ok St U US-OK D
DAI 36: 7427a
1994 Sheffield, Roy Scott Tragic Science of Leo Szilard [nuclear science] U Fla US-FL BMD
DAI 56: 4536a
1982 Shelton, Robert Frederick Forms of Things Unknown: The Alien and Utopian Visions of Wells, Stapledon, and Clarke UC Berkeley US-CA Ph.D English DAI 4: 178a
1974 Sheridan, Daniel P. Later Victorian Ghosts: Supernatural Fiction and Social Attitudes, 1870-1900 Northwestern U US-IL BMD
DAI 35: 3770a
1990 Sheridan, Diana Brown Ecofeminist Strategies of Peacemaking U Oregon US-OR Ph.D

1956 Sherman, Shirley Postwar Soviet Science Fiction Columbia U US-NY MA

1999 Shippens-Steinwachs, Eve Captain Planet: Scientific Education or Science Fiction? D'Youville Col US-NY MS
MAI 37:1075
1955 Shively, James Ross Fantasy in the Fiction of H. G. Wells U Nebraska, Lincoln US-NB D
DA15:1402
1979 Shoemaker, Steven Robert Beyond the Walls of the World: Practical Theology in the Fantasy Novels of C. S. Lewis Duke U US-NC Ph.D
DAI 40: 2138a
1971 Shor, Ira Neil Vonnegut's Art of Inquiry U Wisc US-WI D
DAI 32: 3331a
1941 Short, Clarice Evelyn Poetic Relationship of Keats and William Morris, The Cornell U US-NY D

1992 Shugar, Dana R. We May Not Be Together: Creating Community in Feminist-Separatist Discourse U Iowa US-IA D