Joseph J. Duggan

Bernie H. Williams Professor of Comparative Literature
Professor of French

Ph.D. Dissertations Directed

Makeieff, Jean-Pierre Serge.  "La Fille du comte de Ponthieu: Edition and Study." French, Fall 2007

Mary Elizabeth Brown.  “The Encyclopedia of Love in Thirteenth-Century France.” Comparative Literature, Spring 2006

Kimberly A. Starr-Reid.  “An Anxious Embrace: Anxiety and Assimilation in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia regum Britannie.” Comparative Literature, Spring 2006

Selby Wynn Schwartz. "Female Poetic Personae in Italian Poesia Giocosa and Old Occitan Fictive Tensos." Comparative Literature, Spring 2005

John Fligelman Levy. "Le Livre de Meliadus: the Arthurian Compilation of B. N. F. f. fr. 340 Attributed to Rusticien de Pise." Romance Philology, Fall 2000.

Margit Hazarabedian, "Functional Transformation in Traditional Oral Narrative: A Personal Interdisciplinary Approach to Codification in the Armenian Epic David of Sassoun." Interdisciplinary Ph.D., Fall 1998.

Keith Alexander Nickolaus, "Marriage Fictions in Old French Secular Narratives (1150-1250)." Department of Comparative Literature, Spring 1998

Jacques Merceron, "La Représentation de l'écrit et de l'oral dans les genres narratifs aux douzième et treizième siècles," Department of French, 1993; revised and published as Le Message et sa fiction: La communication par messager dans la littérature française des XIIe et XIIIe siècles (University of California Publications in Modern Philology, 128; Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998).

Samba Diop, "The Oral History and Literature of the Wolof People of Waalo, Northern Senegal: The Master of the Word (Griot) in the Wolof Tradition. Performance of The Epic Tale of the Waalo Kingdom and the Transmission of Knowledge," Department of Comparative Literature, 1993; published as The Oral History and Literature of the Wolof People of Waalo, Northern Senegal: The Master of the Word (Griot) in the Wolof Tradition. Performance of The Epic Tale of the Waalo Kingdom and the Transmission of Knowledge, African Studies, 36 (Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1995)

Olga Grlic, "Medieval Latin and Vernacular Readings of Ovid's Metamorphoses," Department of Comparative Literature, 1991

Kathleen Theresa Harris, "Fantastic Geography and Anthropology in the Poems of the William Cycle," Department of Comparative Literature, 1991

James Alan Wilson, "Ritual and Perception: Ezra Pound's Translations of Troubadour and Chinese Lyrics," Department of Comparative Literature, 1987

Pamela Gehrke, "Saints and Scribes: Medieval Hagiography in its Manuscript Context," Department of Comparative Literature, 1986; published: Saints and Scribes: Medieval Hagiography in its Manuscript Context (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992)

Juan Ramón Resina, "La búsqueda del Grial," Department of Comparative Literature, 1986; published as La búsqueda del Grial (Barcelona: Editorial Anthropos, 1988)

Carole Jane Lambert, "Anti-Rationalism in Symbolist Drama: Medieval Themes, Circumstances, and Symbols in the Plays of Maurice Maeterlinck, Paul Claudel, August Strindberg, and Georg Kaiser," Department of Comparative Literature, 1986; published as The Empty Cross: Medieval Hopes, Modern Futility in the Theater of Maurice Maeterlinck, Paul Claudel, August Strindberg, and Georg Kaiser (Garland Studies in Comparative Literature; New York: Garland Publishing, 1990)

Andrée Teperman, "Genres littéraires et contexte culturel: L'évolution des structures du mariage dans l'épopée et le roman de la France médiévale," Department of French, 1985

Vincent Dunn, "Narrative Modes and Genres in Medieval English, Celtic, and French Literature," Department of Comparative Literature, 1984; published as Cattle-Raids and Courtships: Medieval Narrative Genres in a Traditional Context (Garland Monographs in Medieval Literature, 2; New York: Garland Publishing, 1989)

Jean Blacker-Knight, "From Historia to Estoire: Literary Form and Social Function of the Twelfth-century Old French Verse and Latin Prose Chronicle of the Anglo-Norman Regnum," Department of Comparative Literature, 1984; revised and published as The Faces of Time: Portrayal of the Past in Old French and Latin Historical Narrative of the Anglo-Norman Regnum (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994)

Amelia E. Van Vleck, "Style and Stability in Troubadour Lyric of the Classic Period (1160-1180)," Department of Comparative Literature, 1983; revised and published as Memory and Re-Creation in Troubadour Lyric (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991)

Sharon Myers-Ivey, "A Thematic and Formulaic Study of the Manuscript Tradition of the Prise d'Orange," Department of Comparative Literature, 1982

Nancy Zak, "The Portrayal of the Heroine in Chrétien de Troyes's Erec et Enide, Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan, and Flamenca," Department of Comparative Literature, 1980; published as The Portrayal of the Heroine in Chrétien de Troyes's "Erec et Enide," Gottfried von Strassburg's "Tristan," and "Flamenca" (Göppingen: Kümmerle Verlag, 1983)

Theodore Schuker, "Madness in French Mystery Plays," Department of Comparative Literature, 1979

Annalee C. Rejhon, "Rolandiana Cambriana: An Edition of the Middle Welsh Version of the Chanson de Roland," Department of French, 1979; published as Cân Rolant: The Medieval Welsh Version of the "Song of Roland" (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984). Winner of the Vernham Hull Prize, University of Wales.

Alison Goddard Elliott, "Saints and Heroes: Latin and Old French Hagiographic Poetry," Department of Comparative Literature, 1977

Richard Lock, "Aspects of Time in Medieval Literature," Department of Comparative Literature, 1977; published as Aspects of Time in Medieval Literature, Garland Publications in Comparative Literature (New York: Garland Publishing, 1983)

E. Jane Burns, "Prison and Veil: The Structure of Image Patterns in the Arthurian Romances of the Vulgate Cycle," Department of French, 1977; revised and published as Arthurian Fictions: Rereading the Vulgate Cycle (Columbus: Published for Miami University by the Ohio State University Press, 1985)

Sandra Tyrer, "Antithesis in the Poetry of Arnaut Daniel," Department of French, 1975

Willard Bohn, "Apollinaire and the Faceless Man: The Origins of his Surrealism," Department of French, 1973; revised, translated, and published as Apollinaire et l'homme sans visage: Création et évolution d'un motif moderne (Rome: Bulzoni Editore, 1984)

Susan Tanaka, "Chrétien de Troyes: The Structure of Twelfth-century Romance," Department of French, 1972

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