Francis Kei-hong So (Comparative Literature), Ph.D., 1979, "The Romantic Structure: a Rhetorical Approach to Ch'uan Ch'i and Middle English Tales," (Co-Director, with Ching Hsien Wang).
Helen Mundy Hudson (Comparative Literature), Ph.D., Winter 1983, "The Narrative Art of Grettis Saga" (Co- Director, with Patricia Conroy).
Linda Marie Zaerr, Ph.D., Spring 1986, "The Dynamics of Sloth: Fin Amour and Divine Mercy in John Gower's Confessio Amantis."
Nola Jean Bamberry, Ph.D., Autumn 1987, "An 'Ambiguous Mirror: Reflections and Deflections of Social Discontent in Middle English Popular Romance."
Gerald Barnett, Ph.D., Summer 1988, "The Representation of Medieval English Texts."
Elizabeth Simmons-O'Neill, Ph.D., Summer 1988, "'Sires, by youre leve, that am nat I': Romance and Pilgrimage in Chaucer and the Gawain/Morgne-Poet."
Linda Clifton, Ph.D., Winter l989,"Piers Plowman B in its Contemplative Context."
Julie Chappell, Ph.D., Summer l989,"The Prose Alexander of Robert Thornton: The Middle English Text with a Modern English Translation."
Jean McAllister, Ph.D., Spring 1991, "The End of Self: Struggles Toward Transendence in the Fiction of Charles Williams, Flannery O'Connor and Graham Greene."
Joan Baker, Ph.D., Spring 1993, "History, Contexts and Texts: Toward a Critical Edition of Robert of Sicily."
Eleanor M. Sumpter, Autumn 1993, "The Fantastic versus the Merely Extraordinary in Medieval English Literature."
Robert Costomiris, Ph.D., Spring 1995, "Editorial Authority: William Thynne and the Construction of the Chaucer Canon in the Henrician Age."
Amy Michaels, Ph.D., Spring 1996, "Rhetoric and the Rise of a National Literature in Late-Medieval England."
Charles MacQuarrie, Ph.D., Spring 1997, "The Waves of Mannanan."
Clinton Atchley, Ph.D., Spring 1998, "The 'Wose' of Jacob's Well: Text and Context."
Sarah Kathryn Moore, Ph.D. Summer 2015, "'Beste of bon and blod': Embodiment in Middle English Lyric."
Jonathan Seal, "Kings and Fated Folk: A Study of La3amon's Brut" (dir. David Fowler), 1977.
Will R. Knedlik, "Chaucer's Book of the Duchess: A Bibliographical Compendium of the First 600 Years" (dir. David Fowler) 1977.
Sharon L. Jansen Jaech, "A Late Middle English Literary Anthology: Rawlinson MS. C.813" (dir. David Fowler), 1980.
Douglas Thorpe, "Metaphor as Building in Pearl, Herbert's Temple, and Blake's Jerusalem (dir. Hazard Adams), 1983.
Douglas Robinson, "American Apocalypses: The Image of the End of the World in American Literature" (dir. Leroy Searle), May 1983.
Marcus Allan Hudson, "Beowulf: a Translation and Commentary" (dir. Robert D. Stevick), 1983.
Colleen Elaine Donnelly, "The Semiotics of Romance" (dir. Leroy Searle), 1986.
Eric Dahl, "Uncertainty and the Study of Medieval English Texts" (dir. Robert D. Stevick), 1987.
Karen Q. Jones, "Graphic and Numerical Analogues for Old English Poetry: a Consideration of the Historical and Literary Evidence Supporting their Existence" (dir. Robert D. Stevick), 1987.
Brian Erling Richardson, "Unlikely Stories: Causality and Interpretation in Modern Narrative" (dir. Hazard Adams), 1988.
Brian Macaskill, "Framing Value in Literature: Style and Ideology" (dir. Evan Watkins), 1988.
David Summers. "The Development of King Arthur as a Cultural Icon from the Early British Tradition to The Faerie Queene" (dir. John Webster), 1989.
Ruth L. Harris, "The Meanings of 'Waste' in Old and Middle English" (dir. Robert D. Stevick), 1989.
Ronald Gallagher, "The Uses of the Supernatural in the Works of Lord Dunsany and James Stephens" (dir. Hazard Adams), 1990.
Barbara Kline, "A Descriptive Catalog of British Library MS Harley 7333" (dir. W. R. Streitberger), 1990.
Kerry Wilke, "Spenser's Learned Loom: The Tapestry Metaphor for the Faerie Queene" (dir. W. R. Streitberger), 1990.
Laurel Amtower, "Reading Selves, Writiing Selves: Literacy and Representation of Subjectivity 1100-1650" (dir. Charles Altieri), 1993.
Leslie Donovan, "Old English Lives of Saints Eugenia and Eufrosina: A Critical Edition" (dir. Paul Remley), 1993.
Ji-Soo Kang, "Medieval Sense of an Ending: The Case of the Gawain Poet," (dir. S. Mussetter), 1993.
Sean Taylor, "The R Manuscript of Piers Plowman B: A Critical Facsimile," (dir. Paul Remley), Dec. 1994.
Gregg Smith (Comparative Literature), "Death and Desire: The Thematic Function of the Dead in medieval Icelandic and Irish Literature" (chair, Supervisory Committee; dissertation supervisor, Paul Remley), January, 1995.
Margaret Hostetler, "Dwelling on Women: Reading the Spatial Discourses of Medieval Texts" (dir. S. Mussetter), Spring 1996.
James McNelis, "The Uncollated Manuscripts of The Master of Game: Towards a New Edition" (dir. P. Remley), Spring 1996.
Russell Black, "Breta sogur; AM 544 4to: an Edition and Translation" (dir P. Remley), Summer 2014.
Christopher J-F Martin, "Un-Editing Alfred: Rethinking Modern Editions of Pre-modern Texts from a Post-modern Sensibility: (dir. P. Remley), summer 2016.