Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses:
Allen, Mary Inez. The Necessary Blankness: Women in Major American Fiction of the Sixties. Doctoral Dissertation, 1973. U of Maryland. DAI 34(June 1974): 7736A.
Arrowood, Gayle F. Execution, Obsession, and Extinction: The Short Fiction of Joyce Carol Oates. Doctoral Dissertation, 1981. U of Maryland. DAI 43(July 1982): 172A-173A.
Atkins, Christine Elizabeth. "Don't Walk Alone": Twentieth-Century American Women Writers and Narratives of Violence. Doctoral Diissertation, 2001. DAI 61(Apr. 2001): 3992.
Bambrick, Gail. Trying the Borders of Realism: Selected Fiction by Flannery O'Connor, Joyce Carol Oates, and Toni Morrison. Doctoral Dissertation, 1991. DAI 51(May 1991): 3740A-3741A.
Bender, Eileen Teper. The Artistic Vision: Theory and Practice of Joyce Carol Oates. Doctoral Dissertation, 1977. U of Notre Dame. DAI 38(Sep. 1977): 1384A.
Bliss, Corinne Demas. The Short Story: Writer's Control/Reader's Response. Doctoral Dissertation, 1980. Columbia U. DAI 41(Aug. 1980): 660A.
Bloom, Kathleen Burke. The Grotesque in the Fiction of Joyce Carol Oates. Doctoral Dissertation, 1979. Loyola U of Chicago. DAI 40(Oct. 1979): 2059A.
Brett, Mary A. The Autonomous Narratives of Joyce Carol Oates: Dissociation and the Mapping of the Mind. Doctoral Dissertation, 2001. DAI 62(Oct. 2001): 1409A.
Chi, Yuan Wen. Images of Women in Selected Works of Joyce Carol Oates. Doctoral Dissertation, 1994. DAI 54(Mar. 1994): 3433A-3434A.
Childers, Molly. Female Adolescence in the American Novel: James, Nabokov, and Oates. Doctoral Dissertation, 1998. DAI 59(Dec. 1998): 2021A.
Coker, Judith Briggs. Sexuality in Discourse: Feminine Models in Recent Fiction by American Women. Doctoral Dissertation, 1986. DAI 47(Oct. 1986): 1321A.
Daly, Brenda Ira Oland. Narrator Hermaphrodite: Voices in the Visionary Art of Joyce Carol Oates. Doctoral Dissertation, 1985. DAI 46(Aug. 1985): 423A.
Ducas, Philomene C. Determinism in Joyce Carol Oates's Novels, 1964-1975. Doctoral Dissertation, 1979. U of Wisconsin--Madison. DAI 40(Feb. 1980): 4589A.
Easterly, Joan. "The Shadow of a Satyr in Oates's 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'" Studies in Short Fiction 27(Fall 1990): 537A.
Fonseca, Anthony Joseph. Horrifying Women, Terrifying Men: A Gender-Based Study of Sexual Horror in the Fiction of Robert Aickman, John Hawkes, Angela Carter, and Joyce Carol Oates, 1965-1980. Doctoral Disertation, 1994. DAI 54(May 1994): 4092A.
Friedman, Ellen. "Dreaming America": The Fiction of Joyce Carol Oates. Doctoral Dissertation, 1978. New York U. DAI 39(Dec. 1978): 3578A.
Grant, Mary Kathryn. The Tragic Vision of Joyce Carol Oates. Doctoral Dissertation, 1974. Indiana U. DAI 35(Jan. 1975): 4520A-4521A.
Haneline, Douglas Latham. The Swing of the Pendulum: Naturalism in Contemporary American Literature. Doctoral Dissertation, 1978. Ohio State U. DAI 39(Oct. 1978): 2272A-2273A.
Henkins, Kathryn Marie. Joyce Carol Oates's America. Doctoral Dissertation, 1986. DAI 47(Dec. 1986): 2157A.
Hodge, Marion Cecil, Jr. What Moment Is Not Terrible?: An Introduction to the Work of Joyce Carol Oates. Doctoral Dissertation, 1974. U of Tennessee. DAI 35(Feb. 1975): 5407A.
Jordan, Lillian C. A Thematic and Structural Analysis of Selected Works of Joyce Carol Oates. Masters Thesis, 1976. Cleveland State U.
Maney, Margaret Schaeffer. The Urban Apocalypse in Contemporary American Novels. Doctoral Dissertation, 1980. U of Miami. DAI 41(Nov. 1980): 2111A.
Martin, Alice Conkright. Toward a Higher Consciousness: A Study of the Novels of Joyce Carol Oates. Doctoral Dissertation, 1974. Northern Illinois U. DAI 35(Feb. 1975): 5415A-5416A.
McKay, Kim Lauren. Narrative Voices in the Bildungsroman. Doctoral Dissertation, 1991. DAI 51(May 1991): 3733A-3734A.
McLaughlin, Marilou Briggs. The Love Dialectic. Doctoral Dissertation, 1976. SUNY Binghampton. DAI 36(June 1976): 8035A.
McPhillips, Robert Thomas. "Gender and the Emergence of Voice in Joyce Carol Oates's Naturalistic Fiction." Doctoral Dissertation, 1988. DAI 49(Sep. 1988): 505A.
Mesinger, Bonnie Martha. Dissonance and Indeterminacy in the Critical Writings and Fiction of Joyce Carol Oates: Implications for the Interpreter. Doctoral Dissertation, 1977. Wayne State U. DAI 38(May 1978): 6716A-6717A.
Mistri, Zenobia. Joyce Carol Oates: Transformation of "Being" toward a Center. Doctoral Dissertation, 1977. Purdue U. DAI 38(Apr. 1978): 6122A.
Norman, Torborg. Isolation and Contact: A Study of Character Relationships in Joyce Carol Oates's Short Stories 1963-1980. Doctoral Dissertation, 1984. Goteborg U.
Orenstein, Susan Beth. Angel of Fire: Violence, Self, and Grace in the Novels of Joyce Carol Oates. Doctoral Dissertation, 1978. New York U. DAI 39(Dec. 1978): 3586A.
Parrott, Mary Lou Morrison. Subversive Conformity: Feminism and Motherhood in Joyce Carol Oates. Doctoral Dissertation, 1983. U of Maryland. DAI 45(Nov. 1984): 1399A.
Pent, John David. Beyond the Yellow Wallpaper. [Includes a discussion of Oates's Accomplished Desires.] M.A. Thesis, 1997. Emerson College.
Persellin, Ketura. City Subjects: Shoplifters, Bag Ladies, and Other Figures of Urban Transgression in Contemporary Literature and Film. Doctoral Dissertation, 1999. DAI 60(Dec. 1999): 2022.
Petite, Joseph Michael. The Interrelatedness of Marriage, Passion, and Female Identity in the Fiction of Joyce Carol Oates. Doctoral Dissertation, 1976. Kansas State U. DAI 37(Mar. 1977): 5831A.
Rocco, Claire Joyce. Flannery O'Connor and Joyce Carol Oates: Violence as Art. Doctoral Dissertation, 1975. U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. DAI 36(Mar. 1976): 6090A.
Rozga, Margaret Groppi. Development in the Short Stories of Joyce Carol Oates. Doctoral Dissertation, 1977. U of Wisconsin--Milwaukee. DAI 38(Apr. 1978): 6124A.
Sanders, Faye. Feminine Consciousness in the Short Fiction of D.H. Lawrence and Joyce Carol Oates. Masters Thesis, 1983. Ohio U.
Sanders, Nancy Dalton. Joyce Carol Oates, Storyteller: Rewriting the Self. Doctoral Dissertation, 1994. DAI 55(Sep. 1994): 568A-569A.
Schneider, Lisa R. The Gothic in the Fiction of Joyce Carol Oates. Masters Thesis, 1982. Ohio State U.
Scott, Phyllis Eva. An Interpreter's Approach to the Language Behavior of Literary Speakers: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Joyce Carol Oates' Poetry. Doctoral Dissertation, 1977. Southern Illinois U. DAI 38(Aug. 1977): 549A.
Sonser, Anna M. Subversion, Seduction, and the Culture of Consumption: The American Gothic Revisited in the Work of Toni Morrison, Joyce carol Oates, and Anne Rice. Doctoral Dissertation, 2000. DAI 61(July 2000): 186.
Specht, Linda Ossman. Reimagining as a Process in the Fiction of Joyce Carol Oates. Masters Thesis, 1988. U of Akron.
Stevens, Cynthia Charlotte. The Imprisoned Imagination: The Family in the Fiction of Joyce Carol Oates, 1960-1970. Doctoral Dissertation, 1974. U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. DAI 35(July 1974): 479A.
Sumner, Rebecca Louise. The Spectacle of Femininity: Allegory and the Denial of Representation in The Book of Margery Kempe, Jane Eyre, and Wonderland. Doctoral Dissertation, 1991. DAI 52(Oct. 1991): 1320A.
Wegs, Joyce Markert. The Grotesque in Some American Novels of the Nineteen-Sixties: Ken Kesey, Joyce Carol Oates, Sylvia Plath. Doctoral Dissertation, 1973. U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. DAI 34(June 1974): 7791A-7792A.
Wesley, Marilyn Clark. Transgression and Refusal: The Dynamic of Power in the Domestic Fiction of Joyce Carol Oates. Doctoral Dissertation, 1989. DAI 49(May 1989): 3365A.
Wilson, Mary Ann. The Image of Self in Selected Works of Joyce Carol Oates. Doctoral Dissertation, 1977. Louisiana State U and Agricultural and Mechanical C. DAI 38(June 1978): 7340A.
Wright, Andrea Rohlfs. Imagining a Past: Memory and History in the Fiction of Grace Paley, Alice Walker, Achy Obejas, and Joyce Carol Oates. Doctoral Dissertation, 1999. DAI 60(July 1999): 134.