Thanks to Frank Bertrand for contibuting this index.

Theses/Dissertations on Philip K. Dick

compiled by Frank C. Bertrand

The following list has been culled primarily from Dissertation

Abstracts and is probably incomplete. If you should know of any corrections or additions to this compilation, please forward all relevant information via email to philipkdickfans[at]gmail[dot]com. If you want to obtain a copy of one or more of them, most American dissertations are available in one of the following formats: microfilm /fiche, softcover paper, hardcover paper, and dissertation express unbound paper. You can visit the UMI web site for pricing and additional info about getting a copy.

Note: the Barlow, Benjamin(main body of thesis), Benjamin(appendix and bibliography), Boyd, De Meester and Akgiray theses are available in online versions.

Last updated: 1/31/2012

Brad Congdon

Prophet of the postmodern: the problem of authenticity in the works of Philip K. Dick

David Benjamin

The Black Iron Prison of Philip K. Dick

Gregory MacKenzie Humphrey

The Evolution of the Robotic Other in Science Fiction Film and Literature: from the Age of the Human to the Era of the Post-human

Jason Michael Embry

“Nam-Shub versus the Big Other: Revising the Language that Binds Us in Philip K. Dick, Neal Stephenson, Samuel R. Delany, and Chuck Palahniuk

Karl Luther Shaddox

Accommodating the Posthuman in Twentieth Century Dystopian Literature

Eugenia Barthelmess

Politics and Metaphysics in Three Novels of Philip K. Dick

Valerie Rose Holliday

Conspiracy Culture In America After World War II

Meva Ayse Akgiray

From Science Fiction To Postmodernism In Three Novels Of American Writer Philip K. Dick’s: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, The Man In The High Castle, Valis

2003

MA Thesis in American Studies

Bogazici University (Istanbul/Turkiye)

Advisor: Proff. Aslý Tekinay

Sinead Boyd

Does anyone have the right time, please? A new perspective on time travel narratives in the 1950s & 1960s

2003

MA in Literary and Cultural Studies

University of Lancaster (England)

Advisor: Dr. Lee Horsley

Joshua Benjamin Lukin

A literature of suspicion: Critiques of nineteen fifties ideals in American roman noir (Patricia Highsmith, Jim Thompson, Philip K. Dick), 200 pp., 2003

PhD Dissertation

State University Of New York at Buffalo (Buffalo, New York)

Advisor: Professor Stefan Fleischer

Kai Sormunen

What If Our World Is Their Heaven? Utopias in Philip K. Dick’s Eye In The Sky, ? pp., 2003

MA Thesis

University of Joensuu (Joensuu, Finland)

Advisor: ?

Jason Benjamin Ambrosiano

Glasses brilliant: Religion in the American Postmodern novel (Philip K. Dick, Catholic authors, Jewish postmodern novelists, Toni Morrison), 213 pp., 2002

PhD Dissertation

University of California, Riverside (Riverside, California)

Advisor: Emory Elliott

Jean-Thomas Nicole

L’oeuvre du phenix: Entre recit traditionnel et contact extraterrestre: La conversion gnostique de Philip K. Dick (French text), 187 pp., 2002

MA Thesis

Universite Laval (Canada)

Advisor: Louis Painchaud

Giuliano Bettanin

Philip K. Dick’s Postmodern Adventure: A Thematic Overview and Selective Close Reading of the Short Stories, ? pp., 2002

Tesi di Laurea

Universita’ di Padova (Padua, Italy)

Advisor: Professor William Boelhower

Alexander Kossey

Reality, Entropy and Schizophrenia in the Three Novels of Philip K. Dick, ? pp., 2002

Senior Thesis

Boston University (Boston, Mass.)

Advisor: Professor Paul Blanchard

David Benjamin

The Black Iron Prison of Philip K. Dick, 111 pp., 1996

BA Honors Thesis

Portland State University (Portland, Oregon)

Advisor: Tony Wolk

LeeAnn Cooper Garrick

Exploring Humanness in Nonhumans: The Cyborg in Contemporary Fiction (R. Powers, Philip

K. Dick, R. Scott, L. Wachowski), 108 pp., 2001

MA Thesis

University of Alaska at Anchorage (Anchorage, Alaska)

Advisor: ?

Selene Verri

Politiche parallele: Potere e scrittura nella fantascienza di lingua inglese 1945-2000 (long discussion of High Castle), 139 pp., 2001

Tesi di Laurea (Graduation Thesis)

Università degli Studi di Milano (Milan, Italy)

Advisors: Caroline Patey, Carlo Pagetti

Helen Lisa Howard

Hidden in perfect day: paranoia and schizophrenia in the speculative

fiction of Philip K. Dick,

144 pp., 2000

MA Thesis

Trent University (Peterborough, Ontario, Canada)

Advisor: John A. Fekete

Jasna Koteska

Post-Gender Identities as a Metaphor (Philip K. Dick, William

Gibson), 60pp., 2000

MA Thesis

Central European University (Budapest, Hungary)

Advisor: Peter Krasztev

Irene Panzeri

Il modello dell’ucronia in Philip K. Dick, ? pgs., 2000

Tesi di laurea

Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione (Milan, Italy)

Advisor: ?

Philippe Rouby

Philip K. Dick, Nommer la psychose pour s’en défendre. Essai sur l’utilisation des concepts psychiatriques et psychologiques dans l’oeuvre littéraire d’un écrivain de science-fiction, 81 pp., 2000

Thése de doctorat en médecine (psychiatrie)

Université Claude Bernard, Lyon I (France)

Advisor: Gilles Burloux

Pamela Renee Jackson

The World Philip K. Dick Made, 194 pp., 1999

PhD Thesis

University of California, Berkeley

Advisor: Marianne Constable

Klaus Lehrhofer

Blade Runner, Total Recall and Scremers: Philip K. Dick in Film, ? pp., 1999

MA Thesis

University of Graz (Austria)

Advisor: ?

Frans Ilkka Mäyrä

Demonic Texts and Textual Demons: The Demonic Tradition, the Self, and Popular Fiction (Levin, Blatty, Rice, Barker, P.K. Dick, Gibson), 344 pgs., 1999

PhD Thesis

University of Tampere (Tampere, Finland)

Advisor: Professor Pekka Tami

Yuji Oniki

Haunted Communities: Literature and the Sixties (France, Japan, Georges

Perec, Shuji

Terayama, Philip K. Dick), 224 pp., 1999

PhD Thesis

University of California, Berkeley

Advisor: Ann Smock

Franck Benedic

“We can split you!”: le bal des faux-semblants ou le concept du double dans l’oeuvre de Philip K. Dick, 123 pp., 1998

Mémoire de Sciences Politiques

I.E.P. Grenoble (France)

Advisor: Jean-Pierre Bernard

David Michael Brown

Welcome Bedfellows: Science Fiction texts and their cinematic

adaptations

(Frank Herbert,

Philip K. Dick, David Lynch, Ridley Scott), 100 pp., 1998

MA Thesis

Utah State University (Logan, Utah)

Advisor: Bishnu Ghosh

Nathalie Cauvet

La critique de la société américaine dans l’oeuvre de Philip K. Dick, 56 pp., 1998

Mémoire de Droit Public

Perpignan: Faculté pluridisciplinaire des sciences humaines, juridiques, économiques et sociales

Advisor: ?

F. Khourshid

A Brief Introduction To The Moral Vision Of Philip K. Dick, ? pp., 1998

MA Thesis

American University Of Beirut (Lebanon)

Advisor: ?

Hervé Lagoguey

Le monde incertain de Philip K. Dick, écrivain visionnaire, 490 pp., 1998

Thése de doctorat en anglais

Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (France)

Advisor: Claude Fierobe

Salvatore Proietti

The Cyborg, Cyberspace, and North American Science Fiction (section on PKD’s Polyphonic Interfaces), 363 pp., 1998

PhD Thesis

McGill University (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)

Advisor: Darko Suvin

Laurent Queyssi

Pour une typologie relationnelle du personnage de science-fiction:

l’exemple de Philip K. Dick, ?pp., 1998

Maîtrise de Littérature Comparée

Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux III

Advisor: Didier Coste

David Jacquet

Philip K. Dick, fiction spéculative, illusion romanesque, ?pp.,

1997

Ce mémoire d’une Maîtrise de Littérature Moderne

Where: ?

Advisor: ?

Eric Hale

Human and Divine Redemption in Philip K. Dick’s VALIS, ?pp.,

1997

Honors Thesis (Religion Dept.)

Haverford College (Haverford, PA)

Advisor: ?

Stefano Papaleo

Un’analisi multimediale della figura del doppio in letteratura americana Philip K. Dick, Ridley Scott e Stephen King, 512 pgs., 1997

Tesi di laurea

Università degli Studi di Triete (Trieste, Italy)

Advisor: William Boelhower

Russell S. Aaronson

Would Lord Running Clam wear wubfur slippers? The ethical imperative of

empathy in the

alternate ecologies of Philip K. Dick, 97 pp., 1996

MA Thesis

Florida Atlantic University (Boca Raton, Florida)

Advisor: Robert A. Collins

Alexander C. Irvine

The Human Use Of Philip K. Dick: Information Theory And Entropy in

Martian Time-Slip, 110 pp., 1996

MA Thesis

University of Maine (Orono, Maine)

Advisor: Naomi Jacobs

Andrew M. Butler

Ontology and Ethics in the Writings of Philip K. Dick, ?pp., 1996?

PhD Thesis

University of Hull (Hull, England)

Advisor: Rowland Wymer

José Manuel Cardoso Alves da Mota

O Efeito de Irreal: A fantasia cientifica de Philip K. Dick, 368

pp., 1995

PhD Thesis

University of Coimbra (Conimbriga, Portugal)

Advisor: ?

Gerard I. Wood

Storming the Black Iron Prison: the liberation of consciousness from the

constraint of scene in and through the work of Philip K. Dick, 188

pp., 1995

PhD Thesis

La Trobe University (Melbourne, Australia)

Advisor: Chris Palmer

Brigitte Lecomte Rigoni

Amphétaminomanie, psychose et création littéraire: à

propos de deux romans de Philip Kindred Dick, ?pp., 1995

Thèse de médecine

Paris VII Bichat

Advisor: ?

Hrafnhildur Blöndal

Empathy Will Save Us…Eventually: A Reading of Nine Novels by Philip K.

Dick, 77 pp., 1994

MA Thesis

University of Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland)

Advisor: Jon Skaptason

Edward Mooney

From Pulp to Poetry: Philip K. Dick and the Literature of Science

Fiction, ?pp., 1994

MA Thesis

University College Dublin (Dublin, Ireland)

Advisor: G. Meaney

Étienne Barillier

Les troubles de réel dans trois romans contemporains: Ukik de

Philip K. Dick, Le nommé Jeudi de Gilbert K. Chesterton et Futur

intérieur de Christopher Priest, ?pp., 1993

Maîtrise

Université de Limoges

Advisor: ?

Stéphane Manfredo

Le protocole du vraisemblable dans l’oeuvre de Philip K. Dick, 154 pp., 1993

D.E.A. Lettres Modernes

Université Aix-Marseille I (France)

Advisor: ?

Ritch Calvin

The Divine Corpus of Philip K. Dick, ?pp., 1992

Senior Thesis

Bowling Green State University (Bowling Green, Ohio)

Advisor: Thomas Wymer

Martin E. Gleoge

The American origins of the postmodern self (Toni Morrison, Thomas

Pynchon, Philip K.

Dick), 336 pp., 1992

PhD Thesis

Rutgers the state university of New Jersey- New Brunswick

Advisor: Bruce Robbins

Ronald J. Zajac

The dystopian city in british and united states science fiction,

1960-1975: urban chronotopes

as models of historical closure (Thomas M. Disch, John Brunner, Philip K.

Dick, J.G. Ballard,

Samuel R. Delany), 104 pp., 1992

MA Thesis

McGill University (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)

Advisor: Darko Suvin

Aaron John Barlow

Reality, Religion

and Politics in Philip K. Dick’s Fiction, 326pp.,

1988

PhD Dissertation

University of Iowa (Iowa City, Iowa)

Advisor: R. Brooks Landon

Georges Kokkinos

Contre-utopie et réalités chez E. Zamiatine, A. Huxley, G.

Orwell, R. Bradbury, A. Burgess, H. Harrison, P. Dick, et R.

Sheckley, ?pp., 1989

Thèse de Littérature Comparée

Université de Poitiers

Advisor: ?

Umberto Rossi

Philip K. Dick e la messa in scena della storia, 222 pp., 1989

Tesi di Laurea (graduation thesis)

Università La Sapienza (Rome, Italy)

Advisor: Biancamaria Pisapia, Alessandro Portelli

Erik Davis

Philip K. Dick’s Postmodern Gnosis, 64 pgs., 1988

BA Honors Thesis

Yale University (New Haven, CT)

Advisor: Richard Halpern

Jeffrey W. Peacock

The Unreconstructed Man: The Fiction of Philip K. Dick, 324 pp.,

1988

PhD Thesis

University of Liverpool (Liverpool, England)

Advisor: ?

Salvatore Proietti

L’entropia e il dio blindato: Fisica e metafisica nella fantascienza di Philip K. Dick, 296 pp., 1988

Tesi di Laurea (graduation thesis)

Università La Sapeinza (Rome, Italy)

Advisors: Alessandro Portelli, Bianca Maria Pisapia

Heather Ashby

The Media Novels of Philip K. Dick: Cautionary Fables for an Electronic Age, ? pp., 1987

MA Thesis

Univeristy of Guelph (Ontario, Canada)

Advisor: ?

Bruno Vaccari

Più credibile del vero: La realtà sintetica dei mondi di P.K. Dick, ?pp., 1987

Tesi di Laurea (graduation thesis)

Università di Bologna (Bologna, Italy)

Advisor: Guido Fink

Piergiorgio Nicolazzini

Vettori di mutamento nella science fiction americana degli anni 50 (P.K. Dick, Vonnegut, Pohl, Kornbluth), 346 pgs., 1986

Tesi di laurea

Università degli Studi di Pavia (Pavia, Italy)

Advisors: Giuseppina Restivo, Carlo Pagetti

Stephen P. Grant

A Text Analysis Tool for the Analysis of Thematic Structure in Philip

K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, ?pp., 1985

Honors Thesis

Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, Louisiana)

Advisor: ?

Elisabeth Giudicelli

Approche du temps vécu du schizophrène à travers

l’étude de trois romans de Philip K. Dick, ?pp., 1983

Thèse de doctorat en médecine

Université Paris VI

Advisor: ?

Gilbert De Meester – Available online in English

The Universe Of Philip K. Dick – Systemic Analysis, 48 pp., 1982

Graad Van Licentiaat In De Germaanse Filologie

Universiteit Antwerpen (Antwerp, Belgium)

Advisor: Luk De Vos

Kim Stanley Robinson

The Novels of Philip K. Dick, 251 pp., 1982

PhD Thesis

University of California, San Diego

Advisor: Donald Wesling

Marcel Thaon

Essai psychanalytique sur la création littéraire, processus

et fonction de l’écriture chez un auteur de science-fiction: le cas

de Philip K. Dick, ?pp., 1981

Thèse de psychologie

Université Aix Marseille 1

Advisor: ?

Claudia Krenz Bush

The Splintered Shards: Reality and Illusion in the Novels of Philip K.

Dick, 116 pp., 1975

MA Thesis

Idaho State University (Pocatello, Idaho)

Advisor: Dendell Smith

Bernard d’Ivernois

Approche psychopathologique de l’oeuvre de Philip K. Dick, ?pp.,

1975

Thèse pour le grade de docteur en médecine

Université de Montpellier

Advisor: ?

Marcel Thaon

Le Simulacre dans l’oeuvre de Philip K. Dick: construction et extension

du clivage, ?pp., 1972

Thèse

Universitè de Provence