Theses and Dissertations

R. M. Brough

• Naked Lunch:  Burroughs's Romantic Apocalypse. Williamsburg:  College of William and Mary, 1979.

William Brown

• Lonesome Cowboy Bill:  The Western in Later Fiction of William S. Burroughs.  Denver:  University of Denver, 1990.

Art Culpepper

• Religious Allusion in William Burroughs's Naked Lunch.  Hattiesburg:  University of Southern Mississippi, 1994.

Sven Davisson

• The Western Lands:  Homosexual Askesis in the Writing of William S. Burroughs.  Amhert:  Hampshire College, 1992.

Gilbert Higinio Esparza

• Burroughs and Benjamin at the Movies:  A Study of The Wild Boys.  Tempe:  Arizona State University, 1998.

James Robert Goeman

• Happiness is a By-Product of Function:  William Burroughs and the American Pragmatist Tradition.  Denton:  University of North Texas, 2000.

William Hummel

• Narrative Matters:  Sexuality, Technology, and Narcotics in the Work of William S. Burroughs.  Tempe:  Arizona State University, 1999.

Kevin Kehrwald

• Releasing a Captive Audience:  The Evolving Role of the Reader in the Writing of William S. Burroughs.  Tempe:  Arizona State University, 1995.

Karl Kopitske

• Seeking the Value of Transgression:  William S. Burroughs and Kristevan Abjection.  Kirksville:  Truman State P, 2000.

Rodrigo García Lopes

• A Literary "High":  Language and Intertextuality in the Work of William S. Burroughs. Tempe:  Arizona State University, 1992.

Carol Schaechterle Loranger

• The Transcendent Postmodern:  Noise and Free Agency in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon and William Burroughs. Boulder:  University of Colorado, 1992.

William Mooney

•  Investigation of Consciousness in the Fiction of Beckett, Hawkes, and Burroughs.  Bakersfield:  California State University, 1984.

Lee Moore

• Bataille/Ballard/Burroughs:  Transgression, Technology, and the Landscape of Inner Space.  Nashville, Vanderbilt University, 1989.

Hugh Edward Lee Rozelle

• Mayan Control Systems in William S. Burroughs's Cut-Up Trilogy.  Hattiesburg:  University of Southern Mississippi, 1996.

Sheila Layton Scoville

• Junk Priests and Bullet Brushes:  The Influence of William S. Burroughs's Artistic Vision on the Contemporary Underground Music Scene.  Winter Park: Rollins College, 1997.

Jonathan Sedberry

• "Evicting the Ugly Spirit":  The Representation of Gnosticism in William S. Burroughs's The Nova Trilogy.    DeKalb:  Northern Illinois University, 2003.

Michael Siegel

• The Literature of Exhaustion:  Jorge Luis Borges and William S. Burroughs.  Waltham:  Brandeis, 1999.  

Theodore Baker Turner

• Mind Forged Manacles:  Images of the University in American Fiction of the Nineteen Sixties: A Study in Kesey, Mailer, Barth, Bellow, Nabokov, and Burroughs.  Iowa City:  U of Iowa P, 1974.

Mark Wallace

• The End of Time:  The Gothic Universe in the Fiction of Paul Bowles and William Burroughs. Columbus:  Ohio State University, 1994.

William Weiss

• Riding the Nova Express:  A Paracritical Assemblage.  San Francisco:  San Francisco University, 1988.

Robert Menzies Whitelaw

• Themes in the Work of William Burroughs.  New York:  Amherst, 1971.

Nicholas Zurbrugg

• The Limits of Intertextuality:  Barthes, Burroughs, Gysin, Culler. Ohio City:  Ohio State University, 1983.