Theses
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
List of academic works related to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, including : Conan Doyle's own thesis, written during his medical studies ; theses about Conan Doyle, focusing on his life, writings, and historical context ; theses about Sherlock Holmes, exploring the literary, cultural, and critical legacy of his most famous creation.
Thesis by Arthur Conan Doyle
| Year | Title | Author | University | C. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1885 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Edinburgh University | UK |
Theses about Arthur Conan Doyle
| Year | Title | Author | University | C. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1906 | The Work of Conan Doyle and the scientific police in the 20th century |
Dr. J. Bercher | Université de Lausanne | FR |
| 1958 | Benjamin Charles Harlow | Wichita State University | USA | |
| 1989 | Le thème du monde perdu dans la littérature de langue anglaise (1864-1933) The theme of the lost world in English-language literature (1864-1933) |
Lauric Guillaud | Université Nantes | FR |
| 1993 | Rebecca Ann Durrer | University of North Texas | USA | |
| 1995 | Lesli J. Favor | University of North Texas | USA | |
| 1997 | Types and archetypes in the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle |
Nathalie Jaëck | Université Bordeaux III | FR |
| 1997 | De Sherlock Holmes au professeur Challenger : inquiétant, fantastique et fiction spéculative dans l'oeuvre de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) From Sherlock Holmes to professor challenger : uncanny, fantastic and speculative fiction in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's work (1859-1930) |
Hélène Machinal | Université Paris X | FR |
| 2001 | L'amateur d'indices ou la méthode clinique du détective dans les romans de Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie et Georges Simenon The sleuth who loves clues, or the detective's clinical method, in the novels of Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, and Georges Simenon |
Dominique Bolzinger-Meyer | Université Mulhouse | FR |
| 2003 | Pattern and Variation in the Sherlock Holmes Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle |
Constanze Gehrke | RWTH Aachen University | DE |
| 2006 | Stories in stretched text: three experiments in stretched text with the short story "The Speckled Band" by Arthur Conan Doyle |
Tor Brekke Skjøtskift | University of Oslo | NO |
| 2007 | The relationship between rationalism and the supernatural in the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: "The Hound of the Baskervilles" and "The Sussex Vampire" |
Ana Diogo | Universidade Aberta | PT |
| 2009 | Anurag Jain | Queen Mary University of London | UK | |
| 2010 | The European Adventure Novel and the Construction of the Other: An Analysis of The Lost World (1912), by Arthur Conan Doyle |
Marcia Miyuki Iwai | Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo | BR |
| 2012 | David Michael Beck | University of Hull | UK | |
| 2014 | Arthur Conan Doyle and British Cosmopolitan Identity: Knights, Detectives, and Mediums | Angela A. Fowler | Auburn University | USA |
| 2015 | Professionals as narrators in Victorian and Edwardian short fiction : discourse and empowerment : doctors, clergymen and lawyers in the short fiction of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Wilkie Collins and Arthur Conan Doyle |
Romain Girard | Université Michel de Montaigne – Bordeaux III | FR |
| 2015 | Mary Forbes | University of Houston | USA | |
| 2017 | Helen Cauley | Georgia State University | USA | |
| 2018 | Katharine Grace Brombley | University of Portsmouth | UK | |
| 2018 | Conan Doyle's detective story in English class |
Luís Ferdinando da Silva Patriota | Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte | BR |
| 2019 | Robert William Jones | Aberystwyth University | UK | |
| 2021 | Obsession With the Supernatural: The Perspectives of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) on Gender, Science, and Religion in British Spiritualism | Christopher Dean Robbins | California State University – Fullerton | USA |
| 2022 | Ming Panha | University of Sheffield | UK | |
| 2023 | Tradução comentada e anotada de Hilda Wade, de Grant Allen | João Alfredo Ramos Bezerra | Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina | BR |
| 2024 | Photographing Spirits: Ghosts and Visions in the Works of Arthur Conan Doyle and Luigi Capuana |
Laura Mascarello | Università degli Studi di Padova | IT |
| 2024 | Anna Gustafsson | Karlstad University | SE |
Theses about Sherlock Holmes
| Year | Title | Author | University | C. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1936 | Robert B. Wentworth | Boston University | USA | |
| 1973 | Charles Bernard LaBorde | Texas Tech University | USA | |
| 1986 | Kevin James Slattum | College of William and Mary | USA | |
| 1992 | La méthode médico-légale et criminalistique de Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes' forensic and criminal investigation methods |
Anne Coupaye | Bordeaux 2 | FR |
| 1994 | Les Adventures of Sherlock Holmes : étude narratologique et adaptations audiovisuelles Narrative technique in and audiovisual adaptations of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
Robert Dickason | Rennes 2 | FR |
| 1995 | Gary Kennedy | Carleton University | CA | |
| 1995 | Michael Plakotaris | Lancaster University | UK | |
| 1997 | Types and archetypes in the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle |
Nathalie Jaëck | Bordeaux 3 | FR |
| 1997 | De Sherlock Holmes au professeur Challenger : inquiétant, fantastique et fiction spéculative dans l'oeuvre de sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) From Sherlock Holmes to professor challenger : uncanny, fantastic and speculative fiction in sir Arthur Conan Doyle's work (1859-1930) |
Hélène Machinal | Université Paris 10 | FR |
| 1998 | Normes et deviances dans les histoires de Sherlock Holmes Norms and deviancy in the Sherlock Holmes stories |
Agnès Botz | Paris 3 | FR |
| 1999 | Sita Annette Schutt | King's College London | UK | |
| 1999 | Todd S. Gillam | University of Manitoba | CA | |
| 2001 | L'amateur d'indices ou la méthode clinique du détective dans les romans de Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie et Georges Simenon | Dominique Bolzinger-Meyer | Université Mulhouse | FR |
| 2002 | The detective and the method |
Monica Bernardo Schettini | Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo | BR |
| 2003 | Structure and variation in the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle |
Constanze Gehrke | RWTH Aachen University | DE |
| 2004 | Michael Ross (Hg.): Sherlock Holmes in Film und Fernsehen: Ein Handbuch Michael Ross (ed.): Sherlock Holmes in Film and Television: A Handbook |
Uli Jung | Philipps-Universität Marburg | DE |
| 2005 | Sherlock Holmes, The Secret Agent, and Ideas of Justice | Lit-chung Chan | University of Hong Kong | HK |
| 2005 | Pinaki Roy | University of North Bengal | IN | |
| 2006 | Ulf Stenberg | Luleå University of Technology | SE | |
| 2006 | Thaddeus William Fortney | The Ohio State University | USA | |
| 2006 | Fortellinger i strekktekst: tre eksperimenter i strekktekst med novellen "The Speckled Band" av Arthur Conan Doyle Narratives in flowing text: three experiments with flowing text using the short story "The Speckled Band" by Arthur Conan Doyle |
Tor Brekke Skjøtskift | University of Oslo | NO |
| 2007 | Andrew B. Schultz | Brigham Young University | USA | |
| 2007 | From Sherlock Holmes to Shakespeare: a path to be discovered |
Daniela Bortolon | Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul | BR |
| 2008 | Thomas Glynn Bragg | University of Florida | USA | |
| 2008 | K. Sangeetha | Periyar University | IN | |
| 2008 | Mari Isokoski | Tampere University | FI | |
| 2008 | Benjamin Daniel O'Dell | Miami University | USA | |
| 2009 | Lu Shengli Mark | National University of Singapore | SG | |
| 2009 | Ashley Polasek | Clemson University | USA | |
| 2010 | Mae Leigh Cooke | Grand Valley State University | USA | |
| 2010 | Jonathan L. Cranfield | University of Kent | UK | |
| 2011 | Sofie Lundberg | Linnaeus University (School of Language and Literature) | SE | |
| 2011 | Kimberlee S. Cook | Wichita State University | USA | |
| 2011 | Samantha Coelho | AUT University | NZ | |
| 2012 | Ruijuan Hao | University of California – Riverside | USA | |
| 2013 | Eleni Laven | University of Waikato | NZ | |
| 2013 | Sampo Rassi | University of Helsinki | FI | |
| 2013 | Sherlock Holmes as an Artist | Rita Szekeresné Bereczki | University of Debrecen | HU |
| 2013 | Arundhati Ghosh | Bowling Green State University | USA | |
| 2014 | Claire Ellul | University of Malta | MT | |
| 2014 | Ashley D. Polasek | De Montfort University | UK | |
| 2014 | Holmes and Watson – A Queer Reading Adventure: An exploration of masculinity and sexuality in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes |
Josephine Åström | Södertörn University | SE |
| 2014 | Jennifer Lackey | Brock University | CA | |
| 2014 | Jordan Cormier | Louisiana State University | USA | |
| 2014 | A viktoriánus köd felszállása: Sherlock Holmes modernizálása a Sherlock című sorozatban The Victorian Mist Lifts: Modernizing Sherlock Holmes in the Sherlock Series |
Ágnes Dancsi | University of Debrecen | HU |
| 2014 | An analysis of the women in the BBC's reinterpretation of the series "Sherlock", based on the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
Nathalie Kapetangiorgi | University of Gävle | SE |
| 2014 | From Holmes to Poirot: Relationships between Literature and History in British Detective Fiction |
Pollyanna Souza Menegheti | Universidade Estadual Paulista | BR |
| 2015 | Emily Michelle Baumgart | Michigan State University | USA | |
| 2015 | The Detective Who Misled in His Own Method |
Marie Knorková | Charles University of Prague | CZ |
| 2015 | Introverts on Baker Street: A narrative analysis of introverted characters in the BBC television series Sherlock |
Åsa Stubbfält | Luleå University of Technology | SE |
| 2015 | Cheng Xiaoqing (1893-1976) et son rôle dans l'histoire du roman policier en Chine Cheng Xiaoqing (1893-1976) and his role in the history of the detective story in China |
Adan Cheng | Université Michel de Montaigne – Bordeaux III | FR |
| 2015 | Jorge Nuno Ribeiro Gonçalves Sequeira | Instituto Politécnico do Porto | PT | |
| 2015 | Mary Forbes | University of Houston | USA | |
| 2015 | Agnieszka Jasnowska | University of Leeds | UK | |
| 2015 | Camilla Del Grazia | Pisa University | IT | |
| 2016 | Andrew Cessna Jones | Louisiana State University | USA | |
| 2016 | Sherlock (2010) and the contemporary revival of the Holmesian myth |
Sarah Grenier-Millette | Université du Québec à Montréal | CA |
| 2016 | Thomas Vranken | University of Melbourne | AU | |
| 2016 | Reconsideration of Fans as a Critical Force Through the Sherlock fandom | Réka Jakus | University of Debrecen | HU |
| 2016 | Britney Broyles | University of Louisville | USA | |
| 2016 | "Elemental chemistry, dear Watson": A didactic proposal for the use of literature as a tool for teaching chemistry |
Lara Saiz Presmanes | Universidad de Cantabria | ES |
| 2016 | Larissa Pena Ribeiro de Carvalho | Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina | BR | |
| 2016 | Two Master Detectives, One Case: An Analysis of Sherlock Holmes and Judge Dee's First Joint Case |
Andrea Ejelöv | Umeå University | SE |
| 2016 | Corey Hayes | Liberty University | USA | |
| 2016 | Maria Alberto | Cleveland State University | USA | |
| 2017 | Henna Saarnisalo | University of Oulu | FI | |
| 2017 | Samantha Naidu | Rhodes University | ZA | |
| 2017 | The postmodern Sherlock Holmes: A classic detective in a conspiracy thriller |
Helle Schunnesson | Södertörn University | SE |
| 2017 | Simon Workman | University of Cincinnati | USA | |
| 2017 | Denise Gardner | University of Nottingham | UK | |
| 2017 | Eduarda de Carli | Universidade do Rio Grande do Sul | BR | |
| 2017 | Sherlock Holmes and France: Marginality, Imagination and Paradoxical National Identities |
Marise Chartrand | University of Ottawa | CA |
| 2017 | Yuri Takahashi | University of Sydney | AU | |
| 2017 | Samantha Naidu | Rhodes University | ZA | |
| 2017 | Caroline Morris | University of the West of England, Bristol | UK | |
| 2017 | Shannon K. Farley | University of Massachusetts Amherst | USA | |
| 2017 | Who are the fans of the BBC Sherlock series? |
Amal El Bournová | Charles University of Prague | CZ |
| 2017 | Christina M. Miranda | DePaul University | USA | |
| 2017 | Helen Cauley | Georgia State University | USA | |
| 2018 | La figure mythique de Sherlock Holmes dans les adaptations contemporaines pour la jeunesse (1981-2017) The mythical figure of Sherlock Holmes in contemporary adaptations for youth (1981-2017) |
Éléonore Nessmann | Le Mans | FR |
| 2018 | Nathan Camp | University of North Texas | USA | |
| 2018 | Műfordítás: Michael Dibdin - The Last Sherlock Holmes Story | Adrienn Gódor | University of Debrecen | HU |
| 2018 | Johan Oxenhall | Linnaeus University | SE | |
| 2018 | The characterisation of Sherlock Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle's short story collection The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and its two Finnish translations | Taika Ismälä | University of Helsinki | FI |
| 2018 | Elizabeth Fisher | Liberty University | USA | |
| 2018 | Christopher Surprenant | Northeastern University | USA | |
| 2018 | Beverly Marchand | University of Ottawa | CA | |
| 2018 | Abby Nichols | Appalachian State University | USA | |
| 2018 | Aristotle in the Labyrinth of Memory: Experiences of Tragic in Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose |
Lilian Monteiro de Castro | Universidade de Brasília | BR |
| 2018 | Allison E. Sardinas | Florida International University | USA | |
| 2018 | Reader development through Sherlock Holmes' detective stories: a literary literacy proposal |
Anacyara Celly da Silva Lima | Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte | BR |
| 2018 | Assistantship, Guessing Game, and Multiple Persona in Detective Fiction | Tyng-Yih Yeh | NSYSU | TR |
| 2018 | The detective novel and the reading diary in the classroom: literary literacy constructed from an immersion in the world of Sherlock Holmes |
Maria dos Milagres Zeferino Uyanik | Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte | BR |
| 2018 | Mary Katherine Evans | Seton Hall University | USA | |
| 2018 | Axelle Gougeon | Université de Montréal | CA | |
| 2018 | Christopher J. Surprenant | Northeastern University | USA | |
| 2018 | A study in Sherlock: A comparative study based on three Swedish translations of A study in scarlet from a didactic perspective |
Hanna Josefsson | Linnaeus University | SE |
| 2018 | David Paul McLaughlin | University of Cambridge | UK | |
| 2019 | Marriage & scandal : Sherlock Holmes's treatment of women in the Doyle Canon | Jeremy Strahan | State University of New York at New Paltz | USA |
| 2019 | Katie Louise Chavez | California State University – San Bernardino | USA | |
| 2019 | Sherlock/Watson: Slash Fiction as Queer Translation |
Juliana Dias Bastos | Universidade Federal da Bahia | BR |
| 2019 | Michael Brandon Harris-Peyton | University of Delaware | USA | |
| 2019 | Amra Hodzic | University of Vienna | AT | |
| 2019 | Annette Eileen Wren | Texas Christian University | USA | |
| 2019 | Frida Junker | Mälardalen University | SE | |
| 2019 | Amanda Fransson | Linnaeus University | SE | |
| 2019 | From Invincible to Unrecognizable: A Comparative Gender Study of How Irene Adler is Portrayed in Arthur Conan Doyle's "A Scandal in Bohemia" and the BBC's Adaptation "A Scandal in Belgravia" |
Marlene Lindberg | Karlstad University | SE |
| 2019 | Nathan Murray | University of Toronto | CA | |
| 2020 | Sherlock Holmes and the Option for Mediation: Insights for Law Teaching Based on the Brazilian Experience |
Aline Vieira Malanovicz | Universidad de Buenos Aires | AR |
| 2020 | Elisa Silva Ramos | Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina | BR | |
| 2020 | Megan Van der Nest | Rhodes University | ZA | |
| 2020 | Patrícia Maria Figueredo | Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina | BR | |
| 2020 | Riku Parviainen | University of Oulu | FI | |
| 2020 | Detective fiction: from the 19th to the 21st century: Old and new narratives. The Sherlock Holmes case |
María Fernanda Di Benedetto | Universidad Nacional de La Plata | AR |
| 2020 | Cristina Quintana Blanco | University of Nottingham | UK | |
| 2020 | Daniel Jalilpoor | University of Kansas | USA | |
| 2020 | Adaptáció és textualitás a BBC Sherlock című sorozatában Adaptation and textuality in the BBC series Sherlock |
Szabolcs Nagy | University of Debrecen | HU |
| 2020 | Saad Khan | California State University – Northridge | USA | |
| 2020 | Andrea Diana Vilariño | Universidad de Buenos Aires | AR | |
| 2020 | Isabell Ewers | Universität Freiburg | DE | |
| 2020 | Sherlock Holmes in Brasil: Elysio de Carvalho and the scientific police (Rio de Janeiro 1907-1915) |
Marilia Rodrigues de Oliveira | Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro | BR |
| 2020 | What is elementary about the character of Sherlock Holmes? |
Ida Renner | Örebro University | SE |
| 2020 | Frida Winterkvist | University of Gävle | SE | |
| 2021 | The hermeneutic detective in serial fiction : origins and evolutions of a mythical figure, from text to screen |
Sophie Le Hiress | Brest | FR |
| 2021 | Shiyu Zheng | University of Warwick | UK | |
| 2021 | Mark Camenzuli | University of Malta | MT | |
| 2021 | Benjamin Rafael Katzeff Silberstein | University of Pennsylvania | USA | |
| 2021 | Amanda Silfver | Linnaeus University | SE | |
| 2021 | Edward E. Vermeulen-Wise | Baylor University | USA | |
| 2022 | Les mondes transmédiaux et le jeu vidéo - Les adaptations vidéoludiques des aventures de Sherlock Holmes Transmedia Worlds and video games - Sherlock Holmes' adventures adapted into video games |
Alexis Hassler | Université Côte d'Azur | FR |
| 2022 | Andrea Vilariño | Universidad de Buenos Aires | AR | |
| 2022 | Nghi Chuong Van | Macquarie University | AU | |
| 2022 | Queerbaiting and TV series: the Sherlock case |
Irene Raia | Università degli Studi di Padova | IT |
| 2022 | Jennifer Evans | California State University – Northridge | USA | |
| 2022 | Ming Panha | University of Sheffield | UK | |
| 2022 | Linda Bonafè | Università degli Studi di Padova | IT | |
| 2022 | Ingrid Olsson | Karlstad University | SE | |
| 2022 | Marija Suvejkic | Linnaeus University | SE | |
| 2022 | Silvia Piera Pavin | Università degli Studi di Padova | IT | |
| 2023 | Lorenzo Ranzani | Università degli Studi di Padova | IT | |
| 2023 | Discovering Diversity: The Subversive Detective in Late Victorian and Edwardian Detective Fiction | Buchanan Watson | Auburn University | USA |
| 2023 | Naomi Michalowicz | Columbia University | USA | |
| 2023 | Olivia Lucy Rutigliano | Columbia University | USA | |
| 2023 | Sofia Lucca | Università degli Studi di Padova | IT | |
| 2024 | Lizette Lopez | California State University – Northridge | USA | |
| 2024 | The Construction of the Detective: A Discursive Analysis of the Film Enola Holmes |
Bruna Laisa Ferreira | Universidade Federal de São Carlos | BR |
| 2024 | Dana Joy Gavin | Old Dominion University | USA | |
| 2024 | The admissibility of the evidence of the modern Sherlock Holmes: On the applicability of Article 359a of the Code of Criminal Procedure to evidence obtained from citizen investigations |
Anoniem | Open Universiteit Nederland | NT |
| 2025 | Alexandra Elizabeth Thiele | University of Dayton | USA | |
| 2025 | The visualization of Sherlock's thoughts |
Povel Hedberg | Malmö University | SE |
| 2025 | Faith Janaye Artis | University of Louisville | USA |
