Thesis

Aguilar Vazquez, Antonio (2020) “Are You Suffering?”: Reading David Foster Wallace’s democratic literature through the vocabularies of Richard Rorty. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Armstrong, John Patrick (2008) 'Lyric realism' to 'Epic consciousness' : poetic subjectivity in the work of Edward Dorn. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Bird, Darlene L. (2003) (Extra)Ordinary evenings in New H(e)aven: the religious element in the poetics of Wallace Stevens. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Brauer, Kristen D. (2007) The religious roots of postmodernism in American culture: an analysis of the postmodern theory of Bernard Iddings Bell and its continued relevance to contemporary postmodern theory and literary criticism. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Collignon, Fabienne (2009) Rocket states - an analysis of US missile culture. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Cowe, Jennifer (2016) Killing the Buddha: Henry Miller's long journey to Satori. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Davidson, Ryan J. (2014) Affinities of influence: exploring the relationship between Walt Whitman and William Blake. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

El-Haddad, Mohamed I. (1999) An analytical study of some aspects of literary translation: two Arabic translations of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

El-Komy, Amir (2004) Irony and distance in John Crowe Ransom's poetry : a computer-assisted study. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Elliott, Clare Frances (2009) William Blake's American legacy: transcendentalism and visionary poetics in Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Finnigan, Johnny (2008) The New York hieroglyphs: Urban ekphrases in New York novels of Edith Wharton. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Hawthorn, Ruth (2012) 'Then came a departure': writing loss in the Middle Generation. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Howe, Chiara (2024) Walt Whitman’s post-transcendentalist poetics of New York. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Jackson, Lucia Kate (2020) Finding the fangirl in DC’s New 52 Batgirl and Harley Quinn. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Kamran, Shezra (2014) Fantastic languages: C.S. Lewis and Ursula K. Le Guin. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Kerper, Allison Pauline (2021) Pale hairs reach between us. MFA thesis, University of Glasgow.

Klotz, Kurt (2011) 'This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine': Edgar Allan Poe, Native Americans and property. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Lander, Joshua (2019) Philip Roth and the "Jewish Body". PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Lawrence, Heidi A. (2022) Continuums of fantasy, reality, and kinship: an ecopsychological reading of Madeleine L’Engle’s children’s and adolescent fiction. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

MacDonald, Deneka C. (2003) Locating resistance/resisting location : a feminist literary analysis of supernatural women in contemporary fantastic fiction. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

MacKenzie, John (2021) “Nature’s social union”: Robert Burns, John Steinbeck and early twentieth-Century America. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

MacKenzie, Valerie Hawthorn (2023) To see myself reflected: reader response to Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City series. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Mai, Chih-Yuan (2008) Sacrificial form: the libretti in English 1940-2000. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

McAra, Catriona Fay (2012) 'Some parallels in words and pictures': Dorothea Tanning and visual intertextuality. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

McGinley, Rory Mackay (2016) Richard Yates: re-writing postwar American culture. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

McGregor, Roy (2018) A Funny Thing/Gordon Burn and 'New British Journalism'. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

McLennan, Rachael (2006) 'Something dark': Metaphor and first-person narratives of female adolescence in American literature, post-1950. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Muscolino, Stephen J. (2017) Writing in real-time, fictions of digitization: the novels of Don DeLillo and Dave Eggers. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Naito, Hiroaki (2014) Vietnam fought and imagined: the images of the mythic frontier in American Vietnam War literature. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Najemy, Phil (2014) "Sully": a sequence of poems exploring the Eastern New England accent, and an essay examining them in context. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Napier, Kathryn Frances (1999) Family ties and generic transgression in Louise Erdrich's fiction. MPhil(R) thesis, University of Glasgow.

Napier, Will (2008) The haunted house of memory in the fiction of Stephen King. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Nixon, James Alexander (2018) American political stand-up comedy as a subversive and conservative cultural form in the Obama era. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Percak, Eric Charles (2015) Dealing with the devil: a critical and creative look at the diabolical pact. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Petersen, Daniel Otto Jack (2020) ‘You Are the Old Entrapped Dreams of the Coyote’s Brains Oozing Liquid Through the Broken Eye Socket’: Ecomonstrous poetics and weird bioregionalism in the fiction of R. A. Lafferty (with a comparative reading of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian). PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Power, Mairi Rachel (2023) Technology and embodiment in Jennifer Egan’s fiction: the digitisation of bodies, brains, and books. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Rauls, Ashley (2019) Saving Sam Seymour. MFA thesis, University of Glasgow.

Redgate, Jamie Peter (2017) Wallace and I: cognition, consciousness, and dualism in David Foster Wallace’s fiction. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Shea, Amy (2021) Not all deaths are created equal: essays on the intersection of death, homelessness, and inequality. DFA thesis, University of Glasgow.

Stewart, Katie Jennifer (2007) 'A kind of singing in me' : a critical account of women writers of the Beat generation. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

São Bento Cadima, Margarida (2021) “The world is a welter”: Gardens, mountains and ruins in Edith Wharton’s fiction. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Taylor, Stuart J. (2019) Encyclopedic architectures: mathematical structures in the works of Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, & David Foster Wallace. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Thomas, Florence (2021) The American classic: classical influence in contemporary epic. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Thomas, Sara Ann (2009) Subjectivity In American popular metal: contemporary gothic, the body, the grotesque, and the child. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Vogel, Molly (2016) Florilegium. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Wallace, Brendan (1998) The origins of British modernism: A study of literary theory and practice from Walter Pater and Ezra Pound. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

West, Mark Peter (2014) Between times: 21st century American fiction and the long sixties. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.