Alumni List

The following alphabetical list includes Comparative Literature alumni that have responded back to us. If you would like to be included or your information is incorrect, please fill out our information form.

PhDs

Name: Evelyne Accad
Dissertation Title: Veil of Shame: Role of Women in The Modern Fiction of North Africa and the Arab World
Year of Graduation: 1973
E-mail: --

Name: Hannadi Al-Samman
Dissertation Title: Diasporic Na(rra)tions: Arab Women Rewriting Exile
Year of Graduation: 2000
E-mail: --

Name: Branimir Anzulovic
Dissertation Title: Mannerism in Literature: The Adventures of a Concept
Year of Graduation: 1972
E-mail: branzul@worldnet.att.net

Name: Aaron Baker
Dissertation Title: Contested Identities: Sports in American Film and Television
Year of Graduation: 1994
E-mail: --

Name: Michael Beard
Dissertation Title: Sadeo Hedayat's Blind Owl and the West: A Study in the Transmission of Genre
Year of Graduation: 1974
E-mail: beard@badlands.nodak.edu

Name: Bonnie A. Beckett
Dissertation Title: The Reception of Pablo Neruda's Works in The German Democratic Republic
Year of Graduation: 1977
E-mail: bonnie_beckett@hotmail.com

Name: Yifen Tsau Beus
Dissertation Title: Towards a Paradoxical Theatre: Schlegelian Irony in German & French Romantic Drama, 1797-1843
Year of Graduation: 2000
E-mail: --

Name: Peter Bixby
Dissertation Title: Over a Character's Shoulder: Reading Embedded Texts in Fictional Worlds
Year of Graduation: 1999
E-mail: --

Name: John Boening
Dissertation Title: William Taylor of Norwich (1765-1836) and The Reputation of German Literature in England
Year of Graduation: 1971
E-mail: jboenin@uoft02.utoledo.edu

Name: Christine Bolus-Reichert
Dissertation Title: In the Wilderness of Styles: The Eclectic Turn in Victorian Art and Literature
Year of Graduation: 2000
E-mail: bolus@scar.utoronto.ca

Name: Katrina Boyd
Dissertation Title: Imagined Spaces: Entertainment and Utopia in Science Fiction Films and TV Series of the 1980s and 1990s
Year of Graduation: 2001
E-mail: kgboyd@indiana.edu

Name: Barbara Korpan Bundy
Dissertation Title: Juri Tynjanov and Cleanth Brooks: A Comparative Study in Russian Formalism and Anglo-American New Criticism
Year of Graduation: 1970
E-mail: bundy@usfca.edu

Name: Nancy Otis Chamness
Dissertation Title: In a Different Voice: The Libretto as Literature Doktor Faust by Ferruccio Busoni
Year of Graduation: 1993
E-mail: dwchamness@aol.com

Name: Darnell H. Clevenger
Dissertation Title: A Comparative Study of The Frontier in The Literatures of Spanish America and The U.S.
Year of Graduation: 1974
E-mail: --

Name: Rodger Cunningham
Dissertation Title: Cabala to Entropy: Existentialist Attitudes and The Gnostic Vision in William Gaddis's The Recognitions and Julio Cortazar's Rayuela
Year of Graduation: 1980
E-mail: --

Name: Lynne Dahmen
Dissertation Title: The Roman de Silence and the Narrative Traditions of the Thirteenth Century
Year of Graduation: 2001
E-mail: ldahmen@indiana.edu

Name: Judith (Moldavsky) Davidoff
Dissertation Title: (English Dept.)
Year of Graduation: 1964
E-mail: --

Name: Ibrahim Abdallah S. Dawood
Dissertation Title: The Panchatantra, Kalilah Wa Dimnah, and The Moral Philosophie of Doni: A Comparative Study
Year of Graduation: 1983
E-mail: --

Name: Patricia Deduck-Evans
Dissertation Title: ?
Year of Graduation: 1978
E-mail: --

Name: Jeffrey DiLeo
Dissertation Title:
Year of Graduation: 2000
E-mail: --

Name: Mary Dezember
Dissertation Title: Supreme Fictions and Loaded Guns: American Vision Quest in Whitman, Dickinson, Stevens and Plath
Year of Graduation: 2000
E-mail: --

Name: Mary L. Fahnestock-Thomas
Dissertation Title: The Reception of Jane Austen in Germany: A Miniaturist in the Land of Poets and Philosophers
Year of Graduation: 1982
E-mail: thomasjr@muohio.edu

Name: Sarah L. Fogg
Dissertation Title: Structure and Meaning: A Critical Study of Four Medieval Romances
Year of Graduation: 1975
E-mail: roberth418@aol.com

Name: Krin Gabbard
Dissertation Title: From Hubris to Virtu: Centaurs in The Art and Literature of 5th Century Greece and Renaissance Florence
Year of Graduation: 1979
E-mail: --

Name: Zivile Gimbutas
Dissertation Title: The Riddle in the Poem
Year of Graduation: 1991
E-mail: --

Name: John Glad
Dissertation Title: ?
Year of Graduation: 1970
E-mail: --

Name: Robert Glick
Dissertation Title: Imagery of Light and Darkness in Three Romantic Poets: Novalis, Keats and Wordsworth
Year of Graduation: 1973
E-mail: rglick@mail.sjcsf.edu

Name: Carol E. Harding
Dissertation Title: The Figure of Merlin in Legendary Romance
Year of Graduation: 1985
E-mail: hardinc@wou.edu

Name: Marlene Heinemann
Dissertation Title: Women Prose Writers of the Nazi Holocaust
Year of Graduation: 1981
E-mail: --

Name: Lucia Valencia Hosillos
Dissertation Title: Philippine-American Literary Relations
Year of Graduation: 1964
Email: --

Name: Charles Jernigan
Dissertation Title: The Sestina in Provence, Italy, France and England (1180-1600)
Year of Graduation: 1970
Email: jernigan@csulb.edu

Name: Beth Kamhi
Dissertation Title: ?
Year of Graduation: 1980
Email: bethkamhi@aol.com

Name: Cimberli Carpenter Kearns
Dissertation Title: Making Violence Matter: The Crime Thrillers and Westerns of Anthony Mann
Year of Graduation: 1999
E-mail: --

Name: Karen R. Keim
Dissertation Title: Trickery and Social Values in the Oral and Written Literature of Cameroon
Year of Graduation: 1986
Email: mekrk@moravian.edu

Name: Chuck Kleinhans
Dissertation Title: Toward a Generic Definition of Late Nineteenth century Farce: Courteline, Feydeau, Pinero, Wilde, Shaw, and Jarry
Year of Graduation: 1973
Email: chuckle@nwu.edu

Name: Turn Koonti
Dissertation Title: ?
Year of Graduation: 1970
Email: --

Name: Monique LaRocque
Dissertation Title: Decadent Desire: The Dream of Disembodiment in A Rebours, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and L'Eve Future
Year of Graduation: 2001
Email: --

Name: Ann Willison Lemke
Dissertation Title: Bettine's Song: The Musical Voice of Bettine Von Arnim, Nee Brentano (1785-1859)
Year of Graduation: 1998
Email: ARLemke@compuserve.com

Name: Greta LeSeur
Dissertation Title: ?
Year of Graduation: 1982
Email: leseurg@missouri.edu

Name: Scott Levin
Dissertation Title: Medea on The 18th Stage: A Study in Assimilation of Classical Tragedy
Year of Graduation: 1979
Email: --

Name: Anne Lippert
Dissertation Title: The Changing Role of Women as Viewed in the Literature of English and French Speaking West Africa
Year of Graduation: 1972
Email: a-lippert@onv.edu

Name: Keith E. Locke
Dissertation Title: Wallace Stevens: The Art of Impermanence
Year of Graduation: 1993
Email: kllc@aol.com

Name: Yosefa Loshitzky
Dissertation Title: The Radical Aspect of Self-Reflexive Cinema
Year of Graduation: 1987
Email: --

Name: Sheldon Lu
Dissertation Title: ?
Year of Graduation: 1990
Email: shlu+@pitt.edu

Name: Kathleen A. McHugh
Dissertation Title: Keeping the House: Discourse of Domestic Economy
Year of Graduation: 1991
Email: kathleen.mchugh@ucr.edu

Name: Neepa Majumdar
Dissertation Title: Female Stardom and Cinema in India, 1930s to 1950s
Year of Graduation: 2001
Email: --

Name: Elaine A. Martin
Dissertation Title: Uncommon Women and the Common Experience: Fiction of Four Contemporary French and German Writers
Year of Graduation: 1982
Email: emartin@bama.ua.edu

Name: Maria-Ester Martinez
Dissertation Title: A Study of American and Spanish-American Reception of Five of Manuel Puig's Novels
Year of Graduation: 1988
Email: memart@rdc.cl

Name: Jean-Pierre Metereau
Dissertation Title: Urbanization in the West African Novel
Year of Graduation: 1984
Email: jmetereau@txlutheran.edu

Name: Eric Metzler
Dissertation Title: The Miracle of the Pregnant Abbess: Popular Text of the Middle Ages and Its Contexts of History, Culture and Gender
Year of Graduation: 2001
Email: --

Name: David J. Mickelsen
Dissertation Title: Anti-Realist Direction in the Novel, 1885-1901
Year of Graduation: 1971
Email: dmickelsen@mail.hum.utah.edu

Name: Friedrick Mielke
Dissertation Title: Images of Dehumanization in Novels about the First World War
Year of Graduation: 1978
Email: frmielke@aol.com

Name: Michael E. Moriarty
Dissertation Title: The Uses of Analogy: An Essay in the Methodology of Comparative Literature
Year of Graduation: 1971
Email: mmoriar2@bellsouth.net

Name: Leonard Moss
Dissertation Title: The Dialectic of Tragedy: Heroic Integrity in Shakespeare, Sophocles and Corneille
Year of Graduation: 1959
Email: smoss@wheatonma.edu

Name: Sarah Mote
Dissertation Title:
Year of Graduation: 2001
Email: mote@smab.net

Name: Ignacio Navarrete
Dissertation Title: Orphans of Petrarch: Theory of Lyric in the French and Spanish Renaissance
Year of Graduation: 1985
Email: --

Name: Hilda van Neck-Yoder
Dissertation Title: Dramatization of Social Change: Herman Heijerman's Plays as Compared with Selected Dramas by Ibsen, Hauptmann, and Checkov
Year of Graduation: 1974
Email: hneck-yoder@fac.howard.edu

Name: Suha Oguzertem
Dissertation Title: The Dead of Compassion: Existence, Imagination, Love, and Narcissism in Tanpinar's Mahur Beste
Year of Graduation: 1994
Email: suha@bilkent.edu.tr

Name: Aiko Okamoto-MacPhail
Dissertation Title: Imagining Modernity: European Japonism and Japanese Westernism
Year of Graduation: 2000
E-mail: --

Name: Leslie Ortquist-Ahrens
Dissertation Title: Opening Pandora's Box: America and the American Woman in Films from the Weimar Republic
Year of Graduation: 1999
Email: --

Name: Hee Jin Park
Dissertation Title: The Search beneath Appearances: The Novels of Virginia Woolf and Nathalie Sarraute
Year of Graduation: 1979
Email: --

Name: Peter Parshall
Dissertation Title: Physiognomy of Farce: Four Essays
Year of Graduation: 1975
E-mail: --

Name: Michael J. Phillips
Dissertation Title: Edwin Muir: Poet, Critic, and Translator
Year of Graduation: 1971
Email: --

Name: Liedeke Plate
Dissertation Title: Visions and Re-Visions: Female Authorship and the Act of Rewriting
Year of Graduation: 1995
Email: l.plate@let.ru.nl

Name: Veronica Pravadelli
Dissertation Title: Performance, Rewriting, Identity: Chantal Akerman's Postmodern Cinema
Year of Graduation: 1999
Email: --

Name: Elliott Rabin
Dissertation Title: Idolatrous Fiction: Art and Religion in Modern Hebrew Literature
Year of Graduation: 1997
Email: elliott.rabin@makor.org

Name: Robert A. Ray
Dissertation Title: In Dreams Begin Responsibilities: The Evolution of the American Popular Cinema
Year of Graduation: 1978
Email: rbr@ufl.edu

Name: Patricia Reitemeier
Dissertation Title: Emerson and Sartre: Parallel Views, Divergent Attitudes
Year of Graduation: 1978
Email: --

Name: William Riggan
Dissertation Title: Picaros, Madmen, Naifs, and Clowns: The Unreliable First-Person Narrator
Year of Graduation: 1978
Email: wriggan@ou.edu

Name: Bernhard F. Scholz
Dissertation Title: A Phenomenological Interpretations of the Organic Metaphor in Literary Theory and Criticism
Year of Graduation: 1971
Email: bernhardfscholz@cs.com

Name: Rolin Sidwell
Dissertation Title: Conrad and Faulkner: Influence and Similarity
Year of Graduation: 1968
Email: --

Name: Daniel Simon
Dissertation Title: Proust in "Translation": Translating the Interior Book in A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu
Year of Graduation: 2000
Email: --

Name: William Slaymaker
Dissertation Title: A comparison of the Concepts of Freedom in Aeschylus' Oresteia
Year of Graduation: 1975
Email: wislaym1@wsc.edu

Name: Esther Y. Smith
Dissertation Title: Crisis in the Novel: Max Frisch and Michel Butor
Year of Graduation: 1976
Email: esthersmith@hotmail.com

Name: Mark Spilka
Dissertation Title: ?
Year of Graduation: 1986
Email: --

Name: Ron Swigger
Dissertation Title: The Life of the World: A Comparison of Stevens and Rilke
Year of Graduation: 1967
Email: rswiggen@tvi.cc.nm.us

Name: Jon Thiem
Dissertation Title: The Artist in the Ideal State: A Study of the Troubled Relations Between the Arts and Society in Utopian Fiction
Year of Graduation: 1975
Email: --

Name: Naoko Fuwa Thornton
Dissertation Title: The Birth of the Essay: A Comparative Study of Michel Montaigne and Yoshida Kenko
Year of Graduation: 1973
Email: --

Name: Joan Parsons Wang
Dissertation Title: Joseph Conrad, Proto-Existentialist: A Comparative Study of Conrad, Camus and Sartre
Year of Graduation: 1964
Email: wang@indiana.edu

Name: Nancy Ann Watanabe
Dissertation Title: Creative Destruction the Irony of Self-Betrayal in the Psychosymbolic Monologue: Browning, Poe, Eliot, Kafka and Camus
Year of Graduation: 1975
Email: nancywatanabe@hotmail.com

Name: Ulrich Weisstein
Dissertation Title: Studies in the Libretto Othello-Der Rosenkavalier Prologomena to a Poetics of Opera
Year of Graduation: 1954
Email: --

Name: Paula Willoqunt-Maricondi
Dissertation Title: Peter Greenaway's Post-Cinematic Art-World: Toward a Postmodern Ecological Critical Theory
Year of Graduation: 1999
Email: --

Name: Stephen Wright
Dissertation Title: The Vengeance of Our Lord: The Destruction of Jerusalem and the Conversion of Rome in Medieval Drama
Year of Graduation: 1984
Email: wright@cua.edu

Masters

Name: Karen Krider Ashley
Year of Graduation: 1970
Email: --

Name: Mark Axelrod
Year of Graduation: 1977
Email: --

Name: Burcu Bakioglu
Year of Graduation: 1999
Email: --

Name: Sofia Biller
Year of Graduation: 1999
Email: --

Name: Austin Busch
Year of Graduation: 2000
Email: --

Name: David Allen Calhoun
Year of Graduation: 1991
Email: acalhoun@belz-jones.com

Name: Martha Carreras
Year of Graduation: 1971
Email: marcyk@ct1.nai.net

Name: Leland H. Chamber
Year of Graduation: 1957
Email: --

Name: Norman R. Chaney
Year of Graduation: 1963
Email: nchaney@ottorbein.edu

Name: Susan Chyn
Year of Graduation: 1977
Email: schyn@chauncey.com

Name: Janina A. Ciezadlo
Year of Graduation: 1990 (?)
Email: --

Name: Daniel H. Clark
Year of Graduation: 1986
Email: --

Name: James W. Clay
Year of Graduation: 1977
Email: --

Name: William Patrick Connors
Year of Graduation: 1985
Email: wilconnors@aol.com

Name: Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook
Year of Graduation: 1982
Email: --

Name: Mildred Rodgers Crary
Year of Graduation: 1966
Email: --

Name: David M. Cratty
Year of Graduation: 1971
Email: david.cratty@tri-c.cc.oh.us

Name: Stephanie DeBoer
Year of Graduation: 2000
Email: --

Name: Steven DiMattei
Year of Graduation: 2000
Email: --

Name: Suzanne C. Downie
Year of Graduation: 1967
Email: --

Name: Marilyn Sue Dye
Year of Graduation: 1968
Email: enana@azstarnet.com

Name: Lara Gose
Year of Graduation: 1999
Email: --

Name: Elizabeth Ayn Evans
Year of Graduation: 1995
Email: laevans@ucla.edu

Name: Christina Faulhaber
Year of Graduation: 1992
Email: --

Name: Naney Hill Gaines
Year of Graduation: 1960
Email: --

Name: Karen Hagler Gansner
Year of Graduation: 1978
Email: --

Name: David Lee Garrison
Year of Graduation: 1978
Email: david.garrison@wright.edu

Name: Lary Goldberg
Year of Graduation: 1965
Email: --

Name: Richard G. Green
Year of Graduation: 1967
Email: rgreen@purduenc.edu

Name: Stephen Greenfeld
Year of Graduation: 1981
Email: --

Name: Georgia Greist
Year of Graduation: 1964
Email: --

Name: Mary A. Hatch
Year of Graduation: 1996
Email: mary_hatch3@yahoo.com

Name: David M. Hertz
Year of Graduation: 1979
Email: hertzd@indiana.edu

Name: Chia-Yin Huang
Year of Graduation: 1997
Email: dafhuang@cml.hinet.net

Name: Anna Marie Johnson
Year of Graduation: 1996
Email: annamarie@louisville.edu

Name: Denis Kelly
Year of Graduation: ? Email: --

Name: Jewel A. Kern
Year of Graduation: 1972
Email: --

Name: Pamela Kirk
Year of Graduation: 1971
Email: --

Name: Christopher Kleinhenz
Year of Graduation: 1966
Email: ckleinhe@facstaff.wisc.edu

Name: Jens Kruse
Year of Graduation: 1971
Email: jkruse@wellesley.edu

Name: Barny Lesch
Year of Graduation: 1971
Email: blesch@lflm.com

Name: Vicky Lettmann
Year of Graduation: 1969
Email: vlettmann@worldnet.att.net

Name: Arlene Lighthall
Year of Graduation: 1954
E-mail: alight@mc.miracosta.cc.ca.us

Name: Cynthia Israel Mot
Year of Graduation: 1996
E-mail: --

Name: Aiko Motoyoshi
Year of Graduation: 1999
Email: --

Name: Joseph O'Neil
Year of Graduation: 2000
Email: --

Name: Nancy Mitchell Poehlmann
Year of Graduation: 1982
E-mail: nancy.m.poehlmann.2@nd.edu

Name: Judith (Ahrens) Powell
Year of Graduation: 1956
E-mail: --

Name: Joanne Quimby
Year of Graduation: 2000
Email: --

Name: Francis J. Preston
Year of Graduation: 1983
E-mail: --

Name: Heath Raper
Year of Graduation: 1964
E-mail: --

Name: Gregg Richardson
Year of Graduation: 1982
E-mail: --

Name: Mario Ritter Jr.
Year of Graduation: 1999
Email: --

Name: Barry Rosen
Year of Graduation: 1983
E-mail: --

Name: Robert Schildgen
Year of Graduation: 1970
Email: robert.schildgen@sierraclub.org

Name: jeeyoung Shin
Year of Graduation: 1999
Email: --

Name: Rev. Marilyn J. Butler Schneider
Year of Graduation: 1962
E-mail: --

Name: Tassilo Schneider
Year of Graduation: 1990
Email: drtassilo@aol.com

Name: Sarah Legg Schoon
Year of Graduation: 1956
E-mail: --

Name: Judith Schroeder
Year of Graduation: 1966
E-mail: --

Name: William M. Stein
Year of Graduation: 1989
E-mail: william_stein@hotmail.com

Name: John Strong
Year of Graduation: 1993
E-mail: strong.john@worldnet.att.net

Name: Helen Sword
Year of Graduation: 1986
E-mail: hsword@indiana.edu

Name: Mark Wheeler
Year of Graduation: 1977
E-mail: --

Name: Linda Pui-ling Wong
Year of Graduation: 1990
E-mail: lwong@hkbu.edu.hk

Name: Sara Emma Zimmerman
Year of Graduation: 1968
E-mail: saragtu@juno.com