Theses and Dissertations About Barbara Kingsolver's Writing

  • Meillon, Bénédicte et Andrée-Marie Harmat (Supervisor). La Nouvelle-oxymore de Barbara Kingsolver : La Révélation des écritures et l’écriture des révélations. PhD thesis defended at the University of Toulouse, France. Atelier National de Reproduction des Thèses: Lille, 2005. Ref. ANRT: 52010.

  • Magee, Richard Michael. “Sentimental Ecology: Susan Fenimore Cooper and a New Model of Ecocriticism.” Diss. Fordham U, 2002. Dissertation Abstracts International. Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences. 63 (8). Feb. 2003: 2873.

  • Martìnez Alonso, Marìa Luisa. “The Racial Problem in the Literary Work of Barbara Kingsolver.” Diss. U. de Valladolid, 2002. Dissertation Abstracts International. Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences. 63 (8). Feb. 2003: 2873-74.

  • Schaub, Joseph Henry, Jr. “Regional Borderlands: Contemporary Southern Authors Go West.” Diss. U. of South Carolina, 2001. Dissertation Abstracts International. Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences. 62 (12). June 2002.

  • Meillon, Bénédicte. “Feminine Voices and Characters in The Bean Trees, by Barbara Kingsolver.” Masters Diss. Université de Toulouse-le-Mirail, 1999.

  • Moser, Teri. “Silence of the Dispossessed: Restoring ‘Voice’ to the ‘Other’ in Selected Twentieth Century Novels.” Diss. Arizona State University, 1999. Dissertation Abstracts International. Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences. Vol. 60 n°11. May, 2000: 4013.

  • Godfrey, Kathleen. “Visions and Re/Visions of the Native Americans. Diss. Arizona State U., 1998. Dissertation Abstracts International. Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences. Vol. 59 n°3. Sept. 1998: 821-22.

  • Phillips, Rebecca S. “The Emerging Female Hero in the Fiction of Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange, Ursula Le Guin, and Barbara Kingsolver.” Diss. West Virginia U., 1998. Dissertation Abstracts International. Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences. Vol. 60 n°6. Dec. 1999: 2029-30.

  • Bruyand, Lucille. “Gender, Origins and Culture in Barbara Kingsolver’s Vision of America.” Diss. Université de Paris 10-Nanterre, 1997.

  • Casciato, Nancy Anne. “The Best of All Impossible Worlds: Towards a Feminist Poetics of Utopia.” Diss. U. of Oregon, 1996. Dissertation Abstracts International. Vol; 57, n°4. Oct. 1996: 1615A-16A.

  • Fales, Valerie R. “How Do Stories Speak to Us about Who We Are? Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees, and Pigs in Heaven.” Diss. John Carroll University, 1996.

  • Kang, Yong-Ki. “Poststructuralist Environmentalism and Beyond: Eco-Consciousness in Snyder, Kingsolver and Momaday.” Diss. Indiana U, Pennsylvania, 1996. Dissertation Abstracts International. Vol. 57 n°4. Oct. 1996: 1618A-19A.

  • Watts, Connie Sue. “Ecofeminist Themes in the Fiction of Barbara Kingsolver.” Diss. Arizona State University, 1994.

  • McDowell, Elizabeth. “Power and Environmentalism in Recent Writings by Barbara Kingsolver, Ursula K. Le Guin, Alice Walker, and Terry Tempest Williams.” Diss. University of Oregon, 1992.

  • Phares, Karen Griffee. “Relationships in the Fiction of Barbara Kingsolver.” Diss. Arizona State University, 1991.