Canadian Studies: Dissertations

American & Canadian Studies, International Studies, Canada, Canada Studies

Dissertations: Electronic Resources

The following databases either index or provide full text to dissertations. If full text is not available, check the UW Libraries Catalog for library holdings. Those not listed in the catalog or available online may be requested through Interlibrary Loan.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global
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Full Text includes 2.4 million dissertation and theses citations from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with 1 million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works.

Theses Canada Portal
Indexes approximately 300,000 theses and dissertations on microform in Library and Archives Canada's collection. Of these, approximately 50,000 are also available in fulltext.

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Electronic theses and dissertations are harvested monthly from Canadian universities. There is a four-year embargo for adding fulltext theses & dissertations that have been digitized by ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.
UW Libraries Catalog
Search the catalog to find UW dissertations by department. Search by Genre/Form with the following combination of terms: "theses english" or "theses comparative literature."

Dissertations: Print Resources

The following sources are all located in Suzzallo First Floor Reference:

Index to Theses Accepted for Higher Degrees by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland (1950-1985)
Retrospective Index to Theses of Great Britain and Ireland, 1716-1950
Theses in English literature, 1894-1970
Theses in American literature, 1896-1971
Dissertations on Anglo-Irish Drama: a Bibliography of Studies, 1870-1970
Dissertations in English and American Literature: Theses Accepted by Austrian, French and Swiss Universities, 1875-1970
Critical Writings on Commonwealth Literatures: a Selective Bibliography to 1970, with a List of Theses and Dissertations
Canadian Literature: an Index to Theses Accepted by Canadian Universities, 1925-1980
Theses on English-Canadian Literature: a Bibliography of Research Produced in Canada & Elsewhere from 1903 Forward
Southern Literary Culture: a Bibliography of Masters' and Doctors' Theses
An Annotated Bibliography of North American Doctoral Dissertations on Old English Language and Literature
Master's Theses in the Arts and Social Sciences (1976-1990)