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