# List of academic publishing works on Madonna

Madonna's life and work has generated various academics works, which includes scholarly articles and other published works, mostly covered by literary and academic journals as well as by others educational publishers like those from university pressess. The list is limited to only those that appeared first by a peer-reviewed outlet, or published in compendiums. Also, these works have been published in different languages other than English.
First scholarly articles about her is believed to be dated on 1985. Scholar Suzanna Danuta Walters commented that academic writings about her, "has produced at least one major academic text devoted to Madonna", while for professor Jane Desmond, "the relevant bibliography is vast". Australian historian Robert Aldrich once commented she is a "performer of inimitable ubiquity" in the academia as she "has saturated the pages of academic journals". To Alina Simone, in her academic studies "there is no dearth of material about Madonna, but an overwhelming excess". Associate professor José F. Blanco, wrote in The Journal of Popular Culture that "it can be argued that Madonna is overexposed in academic research".
Thesis such as Like a thesis: postmodern readings of Madonna music videos (1991) by Madonna scholar, Charles W Wells are included because they received academic and press coverage. In 1998, French academic Georges-Claude Guilbert wrote his thesis Madonna: un mythe postmoderne. Others of these publications received citations from other scholars and observers appearing in citation indexes, or were preserved by university libraries. In addition, others thesis were published as books. Music professor Antoni Pizà noted that during the late 20th century, it became a fad in the United States to write doctoral dissertations on Madonna. American journalist Hank Stuever said that Madonna's dissertations piled up and some were collected into a tome called The Madonna Connection (1993). She has been part of multiple lectures around the world.

## Academic and critical journal articles
### In English

| Title | Year | Author(s) | Journal | Pages | Identifiers | Notes |
| Madonna | 1987 | Harold Jaffe | Performing Arts Journal | 17–20 | ISSN 0735-8393 OCLC 5547996728 Vol. 10 issue 3 | An essay about Madonna. |
| Living to Tell: Madonna’s Resurrection of the Fleshly | 1990 | Susan McClary | Genders | 148–166 | ISSN 0894-9832 OCLC 8162179881 issue 7 | A study on Madonna and her music. |
| The Effects of Race, Gender, and Fandom on Audience Interpretations of Madonna's Music Videos | 1990 | Jane D. Brown Laurie Schulze | Journal of Communication | 88–102 | ISSN 0021-9916 OCLC 4636223012 Vol. 40 issue 2 | An audience reception using Madonna's videos "Papa Don't Preach" and "Open Your Heart". |
| Like a critique: A postmodern essay on Madonna's postmodern video like a prayer | 1991 | Stephen E. Young | Popular Music and Society | 59–68 | ISSN 0300-7766 OCLC 4804765831 Vol. 15 issue 1 | A study on video of "Like a Prayer". |
| Madonna | 1991/92 | Jane Miller | Ploughshares | 221–230 | ISSN 0048-4474 OCLC 5542946647 Vol. 17 issue 4 | Literary studies on Madonna. |
| The Laugh of Madonna: Censorship and Oppositional Discourse | 1992 | Greta Gaard | The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association | 41–46 | ISSN 0742-5562 OCLC 5552824344 Vol. 25 issue 1 | A study on Madonna and her music. |
| Our Lady of MTV: Madonna's "Like a Prayer" | 1992 | Carla Freccero | Boundary 2 | 163–183 | ISSN 0190-3659 OCLC 5552668908 Vol. 19 issue 2 | Commentaries about Madonna and her video "Like a Prayer" as well, the Madonna scholars. |
| Madonna's postmodern feminism: Bringing the margins to the center | 1992 | Cathy Schwichtenberg | Southern Communication Journal | 120–131 | ISSN 1041-794X OCLC 4804864726 Vol. 57 issue 2 | Essay about how Madonna used postmodernism to challenge accepted norms of sex and gender. |
| Justify My Ideology: Madonna and traditional values | 1992 | Janelle L. Wilson Gerald E. Markle | Popular Music and Society | 75–84 | ISSN 0300-7766 OCLC 936733513 Vol. 16 issue 2 | A criticism and analysis of the music video for Madonna's song, "Justify My Love" (1990). |
| Like a virgin-mother?: materialism and maternalism in the songs of Madonna | 1992 | Barbara Bradby | Cultural Studies | 73–96 | ISSN 0950-2386 OCLC 936734005 Vol. 6 issue 1 | A criticism and analysis of the music video for Madonna's song, "Material Girl" (1984). |
| Sex, Madonna, & Mia: Press Reflections | 1993 | Daniel Harris | The Antioch Review | 503–518 | ISSN 0003-5769 OCLC 5544132373 Vol. 51 issue 4 | Talks about press reaction towards Madonna's book Sex. |
| Madonna's Sex: Constitutional Stewardship or Administrative Fantasies? | 1993 | Douglas F. Morgan | Administrative Theory & Praxis | 37–51 | ISSN 1084-1806 OCLC 5790952095 Vol. 15 issue 2 | Examines reaction towards Madonna's book Sex. |
| Madonna | 1993 | Steve Allen | The Journal of Popular Culture | 1–12 | ISSN 0022-3840 OCLC 439255149 Vol. 27 issue 1 | A criticism and analysis of Madonna as a public figure. |
| Feminist assessment of emancipatory potential and Madonna's contradictory gender practices | 1996 | D. Lynn O'Brien Hallstein | Quarterly Journal of Speech | 125–141 | ISSN 0033-5630 OCLC 4659170142 Vol. 82 issue 2 | A feminist‐schizoanally piece noted that the hallmark of Madonna's career was her contradictory play with gender roles and images. |
| Electrifying Fragments: Madonna and Postmodern Performance | 1996 | Mark Watts | New Theatre Quarterly | 99–107 | ISSN 1474-0613 Vol. 12 issue 46 | Studied Madonna's image in terms of the concept of "punctum" a concept defined by Roland Barthes. |
| Like a Prophet - On Christian Interpretations of a Madonna Video | 1996 | Andreas Häger | Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis | 151–174 | ISSN 0582-3226 OCLC 8081124376 Vol. 16 | An analysis on "Like a Prayer" since Christian and art perspectives. |
| Madonna — mother of mirrors | 1997 | John Castles | Cultural Studies | 138–187 | ISSN 0950-2386 OCLC 196712006 Vol. 11 issue 1 | — |
| The Aesthetics of Music Video: An Analysis of Madonna's 'Cherish' | 1998 | Carol Vernallis | Popular Music | 153–185 | ISSN 0261-1430 OCLC 206572402 Vol. 17 issue 2 | Focused in her video "Cherish". |
| Not an Immaculate Reception: ideology, The Madonna Connection, and academic wannabes | 1999 | Laurie Schulze | Velvet Light Trap | 37 (pages) | ISSN 1542-4251 OCLC 358970432 Vol. 22 issue 5 | Examines the criticism towards Madonna scholars by her own experience. |
| Madonna and Hypertext: Liberatory Learning in Art Education | 2000 | Pamela G. Taylor | Studies in Art Education | 376–389 | ISSN 0039-3541 OCLC 5544294596 Vol. 41 issue 4 | Examines the use of computer hypertext as a base for art education in high school and used Madonna's videos as example. |
| The Madonna Experience: A U.S. Icon Awakens a Puerto Rican Adolescent's Feminist Consciousness | 2001 | Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo | Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies | 118–130 | ISSN 0160-9009 OCLC 936906159 Vol. 22 issue 2 | Talks about Madonna's Puerto Rican performance from her Girlie Show in 1993, and the impact she had in the country. |
| Trollope's Material Girl | 2002 | Christoph Lindner | The Yearbook of English Studies | 36–51 | ISSN 0306-2473 Vol. 32 | Essay takes the 'Madonna phenomenon' as its point of departure to propose that, far from being unique to postmodernity, the representational project that emerges from Madonna's "Material Girl" song already motivated cultural production in the nineteenth century. |
| Material Girl or Managerial Girl? Charting Madonna's brand ambition | 2003 | Stephen Brown | Business Horizons | 2–10 | ISSN 0007-6813 OCLC 4636197942 Vol. 46 issue 4 | Talks about Madonna's brand in the perspective of business and marketing. |
| All You Need Is LAV: Madonna and Postmodern Kabbalah | 2005 | Boaz Huss | The Jewish Quarterly Review | 611–624 | ISSN 0021-6682 OCLC 5792119843 Vol. 95 issue 4 | Madonna's study of Kabbalah and integrating Kabbalistic themes in her cultural productions. |
| "Sigmund Freud, Analyze This": How Madonna Situates "Die Another Day" Beyond the Pleasure Principle | 2006 | David Sigler | Studies in Popular Culture | 77–97 | ISSN 0888-5753 OCLC 5543266231 Vol. 29 issue 1 | — |
| The Semiotics of Performance and Success in Madonna | 2012 | José I. Prieto‐Arranz | The Journal of Popular Culture | 173–196 | ISSN 0022-3840 OCLC 4824619896 Vol. 45 issue 1 | Talks about Madonna's long -standing success. |
| Madonna as a symbol of reflexive modernisation | 2013 | Marguerite van den Berg Claartje L ter Hoeven | Celebrity Studies | 144–154 | ISSN 1939-2397 OCLC 5140465648 Vol. 4 issue 2 | Discuss the communication of social and cultural tensions embodied in Madonna. |
| From Old Media Whore to New Media Troll: The online negotiation of Madonna's ageing body | 2013 | Kristyn Gorton Joanne Garde-Hansen | Feminist Media Studies | 288–302 | ISSN 1468-0777 OCLC 4824619896 Vol. 13 issue 2 | Commentaries about Madonna's age and body since a feminist perspective. |
| How to Fashion an Archetype: Madonna as Anima Figure | 2014 | José Blanco F. | The Journal of Popular Culture | 1153–1166 | ISSN 0022-3840 OCLC 5730312405 Vol. 47 issue 6 | Talks about Madonna's image, such as her reinvention, identities and her cultural impact. |
| The Icon and the Text: American Book History and the Construction of the World's Largest-Grossing Illustrated Book, Madonna's Sex (1992) | 2020 | Manav Ratti | Journal of American Studies | 184–211 | ISSN 0021-8758 OCLC 8515369715 | Examines Madonna's success of her first book Sex. |

### Non-English

| Title | Year | Author(s) | Journal | Language | Pages | Identifiers | Notes | Ref(s). |
| Watching Madonna: Anmerkungen zu einer feministischen Medien-/Geschlechterforschung | 1996 | Ute Bechdolf | Essen: Die blaue Eule | German | 23–44 | OCLC 936805311 | An essay on Madonna and her cultural impact. | |
| L'autobiographie post-moderne, "post-mortem": Madonna auto(bio)graphe | 2002 | Olivier Sécardin | L'Esprit Créateur | French | 66–75 | ISSN 0014-0767 OCLC 203572273 Vol. 42 issue 4 | Socio-cultural study on Madonna. | |
| Die Another Day: Madonna and the Post-Modern Kabbalah (למות ביום אחר: מדונה והקבלה הפוסט-מודרנית) | 2002 | Boaz Huss (בועז הוס) | Zmanim: A Historical Quarterly (זמנים: רבעון להיסטוריה) | Hebrew | 4–11 | ISSN 1565-5261 OCLC 5559592424 issue 91 | A study of Madonna's song "Die Another Day". | |
| Madonna'nın Feminizmi: Postmodern Bir Kimlik Sorunsalı (The Feminism of Madonna: A Postmodern Identity Dilemma) | 2008 | Çağlar Özbek | Toplum ve Demokrasi Dergisi | Turkish | 91–106 | ISSN 1307-4687 OCLC 8254476820 Vol. 4 issue 2 | The study analysis through Madonna, as an important representation of postmodern identity the feminism, postmodernism and identity. | [45] [46] |
| Construção de persona midiática: um estudo de caso da pop star Madonna | 2011 | Samuel dos Santos Pereira Lenise Lantelme | Revista científica da faminas | Portuguese | 1–38 | ISSN 1807-6912 Vol. 7 issue 1 | A post-structuralism analysis on Madonna's work. | |
| «Um rosto tão conhecido quanto o nosso próprio»: a construção da imagem pública e da idolatria a Madonna | 2011 | Patricia Coralis | Comunicação & cultura | Portuguese | 99–115 | ISSN 1646-4877 issue 12 | As part of the "Fãs e celebridades" commentaries. | |
| Mujeres, violencia y posfeminismo en los vídeos de Madonna | 2014 | Iolanda Tortajada Núria Araüna | Área Abierta | Spanish | 23–41 | ISSN 2530-7592 OCLC 5698925424 Vol. 14 issue 3 | A study based on Madonna's videos analyzing post-feminism theory. | |
| Nem todas querem ser Madonna: representações sociais da mulher carioca, de 50 anos ou mais | 2014 | Cláudia da Silva Pereira Afiliación | Estudos Feministas | Portuguese | 173–193 | ISSN 1806-9584 OCLC 5584893330 Vol. 22 issue 1 | It focuses on Madonna and her age and modern media's reflection of what it means to be over 50 for a woman. | |
| Madonna, 'sex' e o fetichismo pós-moderno | 2019 | Roney Gusmão | Sociologia: Revista da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto | Portuguese | 71–87 | ISSN 0872-3419 OCLC 8562112102 Vol. 38 | A postdoctoral research. | |
| Los vídeos musicales de Madonna como performances audiovisuales | 2022 | Massimiliano Stramaglia | Cuadernos De Investigación Musical | Spanish & English | 151–162 | ISSN 2530-6847 OCLC 9524424982 issue 15 | Studies of Madonna's performances. | |

### Partial and secondary

| Title | Year | Author(s) | Journal | Pages | Identifiers | Notes |
| Musicologists, Sociologists and Madonna | 1993 | John Street | Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research | 277–289 | ISSN 1351-1610 OCLC 4814972514 Vol. 6 issue 3 | Studies how the popular music has been dominated largely by sociology, rather than musicology with a particular focus on Madonna. |
| Strike a pose: the framing of Madonna and Frida Kahlo | 1993 | Janis Bergman-Carton | Texas Studies in Literature and Language | 440–452 | ISSN 0040-4691 OCLC 936740050 Vol. 35 issue 4 | Explores Frida Kahlo-Madonna relation and how her art proliferated throughout the world since the singer confessed to being her fan. |
| Legal Radicals in Madonna's Closet: The Influence of Identity Politics, Popular Culture, and a New Generation on Critical Legal Studies | 1994 | Duncan Kennedy | Stanford Law Review | 1835–1861 | ISSN 0038-9765 OCLC 201509703 Vol. 46 issue 6 | Piece was reviewed by legal scholar Naomi Mezey. |
| Shakespeare's Cleopatra, the Male Gaze, and Madonna: Performance Dilemmas | 1995 | Elizabeth Schafer | Contemporary Theatre Review | 7–16 | ISSN 1477-2264 OCLC 264473208 Vol. 2 issue 3 | Cross-reference male gaze analysis on Cleopatra and Madonna. |
| The making of matriarchy: A comparison of Madonna and Margaret Thatcher | 1997 | Linda Leung | Journal of Gender Studies | 33–42 | ISSN 0958-9236 OCLC 838734562 Vol. 6 issue 1 | The article reviews a selection of the plethora of academic literature available on Madonna and the limited amount on Thatcher. Explores subjects such as matriarchy. |
| Angelina and Madonna: Why All the Fuss?: an Exploration of the Rights of the Child and Intercountry Adoption within African Nations | 2007 | Veronica S Root | Chicago Journal of International Law | 323–354 | ISSN 1529-0816 OCLC 779241243 Vol. 8 issue 1 art. 1 | Explore the issues of the international adoptions by celebrities, focused in the cases of Angelina Jolie and Madonna. |
| Madonna or Don McLean? The effect of order of exposure on relative liking | 2010 | Mario Pandelaere Kobe Millet Bram Van den Bergh | Journal of Consumer Psychology | 442–451 | ISSN 1057-7408 OCLC 8086884823 Vol. 20 issue 4 | Talks about the effects of order; for example listening to one version of a song before another. They used as an example Don McLean's "American Pie" and Madonna's cover of that song. |
| Toward a Concept of Post-Postmodernism or Lady Gaga’s Reconfigurations of Madonna | 2013 | Danuta Fjellestad Maria Engberg | Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture | 1–2 | ISSN 1547-4348 OCLC 924306621 Vol. 12 issue 4 | An essay that talks about post-postmodernism with the Gaga-Madonna relation. |
| Hating Madonna and loving Tom Ford: gender, affect and the ‘extra-curricular’ celebrity | 2014 | Misha Kavka | Celebrity Studies | 59–74 | ISSN 1939-2397 OCLC 5575739865 Vol. 5 issue 1–2 | Explore criticisms towards Madonna's film W.E., and commentaries from Naomi Wolf on the case, comparing how Tom Ford received "rapturous" reviews with A Single Man to further suggests a gender bias to Madonna as artist. |
| Celebrity as Celebration of Privatization in Global Development: A Critical Feminist Analysis of Oprah, Madonna, and Angelina | 2015 | Karin G. Wilkins | Communication, Culture & Critique | 163–181 | ISSN 1753-9129 OCLC 6895822158 Vol. 8 issue 2 | Explore the global philanthropy by media figures through the case of Oprah Winfrey, Angelina Jolie and Madonna. |

## Conferences, congresses, seminar and courses

Madonna has been part of multiple lectures around the world. Following, a few examples:
| Title | Year | Author(s) | Institution | Language | Pages | Identifiers | Notes | Ref(s). |
| Madonna: Feminist Icon or Material Girl? | 1993 | Women's Center | University of California, Santa Barbara | English | — | — | Held in January 1993, Santa Barbara, University of California, and organized by the Women's Center. | |
| Studies In Gender & Performance: Madonna Undressed | 1993 | Polly McLean | University of Colorado | English | — | — | According to Polly McLean, an assistant journalist professor, the point of the class was "to get students to apply critical means of analysis to areas that are contemporary in society". She played Madonna songs and videos as part of the class, emphasizing issues raised in their images. | |
| Issues In Gender & Media Performance: The Madonna Phenomenon | 1994 | Various | University of Colorado | English | — | — | The objective of the course was to formulate new ways to look at performance, via the performer. Using Madonna's videos and films explore the presentation of gender in costuming, makeup, gesturing and movement. | |
| Madonna: The Music and the Phenomenon | 1997 | Andrew Japless et alii | University of Amsterdam | Dutch | — | — | A 40-hours class examining just what makes Madonna tick. More than 200 students signed to the course and their knowledge was tested in a final examination. They used resources such as the book The Madonna Connection (1993) or a Dutch book about Madonna's lyrics of more than 200 songs recorded by the singer. | [66] [67] [68] |
| 20 Years of Madonna: New Approaches to Madonna's Cultural Transformations' | 2001 | Call for papers | Cambridge University Press | English | 293–294 | ISSN 0261-1430 OCLC 206572402 Vol. 20 issue 2 | Talks about Madonna's 20 years of career covering topics such as multiculturalism, all-American culture and motherhood among others. According to academic journal Music Theory Online, it was also presented to the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM). It was published in the academic journal Popular Music. | [69] [70] |
| La traducción de Madonna | 2005 | Lydia Brugué | Comillas Pontifical University | Spanish | 703–712 | ISBN 84-8468-151-3 OCLC 758227582 | Translation studies based on Madonna's music presented in the international congress at the Asociación de Investigación y Especialización sobre Temas Iberoamericanos (AIETI). | |
| Case one: Madonna | 2008 | Robert M. Grant | Wiley-Blackwell | English | 1–4 | — | A case study of Madonna's enduring success and applied in the marketing discourse. | |
| Madonna On the Couch': A psychoanalytic view on Madonna's music videos | 2008 | Matthias Groß | University of Leipzig | English | 22 (pages) | ISBN 978-3640104598 | Seminar paper from the year 2007 and published in 2008. Discuss psychoanalysis with Sigmund Freud theories using Madonna and her music videos in particular. | |
| A influência das artes no videoclipe Vogue (1990) da cantora Madonna | 2012 | Bruna Fernandes Barros Rafael Jose Bona | Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Comunicação (Intercom) | Portuguese | 14 (pages) | Congress n. XIII | Held at the XIII congress of Congresso de Ciências da Comunicação na Região Sul – Chapecó as part of the Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Comunicação (Intercom). | |
| MDNA forever | 2012 | Salvatore Bartolotta | Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Universitaria de Estudios de las Mujeres (AUDEM) | Spanish | 65–76 | — | Presented by Salvatore Bartolotta from National University of Distance Education at the Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Universitaria de Estudios de las Mujeres (AUDEM). | [75] [76] |
| "Who's that girl? Madonna y la cultura pop contemporánea" | 2015 | Various | University of Oviedo | Spanish | — | — | A series of classes started in September and finished in December 2015 by a varied of academic experts in different areas. It marked the first time Oviedo devoted a course to a female singer. | [77] [78] |
| Uma análise da carreira da cantora Madonna através de plataformas de divulgação de música | 2016 | Mateus Silomar Alan Mangabeira Mascarenhas Emerson da Cunha de Sousa Maurício de Nassau | Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Comunicação (Intercom) | Portuguese | 15 (pages) | Congress n. XVIII | Held at the XVIII congress of Congresso de Ciências da Comunicação na Região Nordeste – Caruaru as part of the Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Comunicação (Intercom) in which, was explored Madonna's career since the digital music era. | |
| Bitch I'm Madonna: As rupturas no roteiro perfomático de uma diva pop | 2018 | Tatyane Larrubia Leonam Casagrande Dalla | Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Comunicação (Intercom) | Portuguese | 15 (pages) | Congress n. 41 | Held at the 41st congress of Congresso Brasileiro de Ciências da Comunicação – Joinville as part of the Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Comunicação (Intercom). | |
| China Studies Academic Seminar: Madonna goes East | 2019 | Chang Liu | Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University | Chinese | — | — | Focuses on the construction of Madonna's star image in China and explores how Madonna's music was introduced to China. | |

## Theses and dissertations
### In English

| Title | Year | Author(s) | Institution | Pages (total) | Identifiers | Notes | Ref(s). |
| Like a thesis: postmodern readings of Madonna music videos | 1991 | Charles W Wells | Florida State University | 230 | OCLC 25334230 | It received academic attention and press coverage by outlets such as Orlando Sentinel and Tampa Bay Times. | [82] [83] |
| Madonna, the material girl revealed through dramatistic inquiry | 1992 | Margaret A Peverill | San Diego State University | 68 | OCLC 26435720 | M.A. thesis. | |
| The Madonna phenomenon: a sociological perspective | 1992 | Carlos Iglesias | University of Houston | 135 | OCLC 27450076 | Archived at University of Houston Libraries. | |
| Raunch or resistance: Making meanings of Madonna, a cultural studies approach to the rock video | 1992 | Elaine Marion Grodaes | University of Windsor | 234 | OCLC 30974548 ISBN 0315830352 | Preserved also at the National Library of Canada and Leddy Library. | |
| Madonna: playing in the heart of darkness | 1993 | Charlotte Siobhan Antonia O'Sullivan | University of California, Berkeley | 134 | OCLC 31175003 | M.A. in English. | |
| Reading images of Madonna music videos | 1997 | Megan J Distler | Cedar Crest College | 35 | OCLC 39841810 | A senior honors thesis. | |
| Re-(e)valu(ate/ing) Madonna : understanding the success of post-modernity's greatest diva | 1999 | Wesley Chinn | Harvard University | 42 | OCLC 41121575 | It was featured in the guide of thesis at the university. | [89] [90] |
| Madonna, an American pop icon of feminism and counter-hegemony | 2000 | Audra Gaugler | Lehigh University | 60 | OCLC 46542029 | As part of the department of history. | |
| Marketing Madonna: celebrity agency across the cultural industry | 2006 | Melissa West | York University | 349 | OCLC 231656076 ISBN 978-0494295373 | Also preserved at Université du Québec à Rimouski. | [92] [93] |
| Madonna & Black Culture Appropriation in the MTV Generation | 2007 | Shawna J Strayhorn | Harvard University | 70 | OCLC 406696891 | It was featured in the guide of thesis at the university. | [89] [90] |
| The commodification of religion within celebrity culture with special focus on Madonna and Kabbalah | 2008 | Courtney C Langille | Memorial University of Newfoundland | 85 | OCLC 456151487 | Honours dissertation of B.A. Preserved at the Centre for Newfoundland Studies. | |
| Madonna's confession: sound, self, and survival in a love song | 2008 | Ross Joseph Fenimore | University of California, Los Angeles | 218 | OCLC 811147445 | Ph.D dissertation. | |
| "Who's that girl?"-reconstructing gender: a cultural study of Madonna's music video | 2014 | Yingzi Zhao | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 117 | OCLC 900239717 | M.A. thesis. | |

### Non-English

| Title | Year | Author(s) | Institution | Language | Pages (total) | Identifiers | Notes | Ref(s). |
| Madonna: un mythe postmoderne | 1998 | Georges-Claude Guilbert | Paris Nanterre University | French | 2 (vol.) | OCLC 249286928 | Thesis for English studies. | |
| "Express yourself - Madonna be with you": Madonna-Fans und ihre Lebenswelt | 1998 | Carina Schmiedke-Rindt | Augsburg University | German | 347 | OCLC 1071011779 ISBN 978-3926794338 | A thesis that was later published as a book. It is preserved at the Harvard Library. | |
| Madonna: where's that girl? Starimage und Erotik im medialen Raum | 2002 | Jan-Oliver Decker | Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel | German | 559 | OCLC 181435915 | To apply a doctorate in music videos. | |
| Madonna revidiert: Rekursivität im Videoclip | 2004 | Matthias Weiß | Free University of Berlin | German | 301 | OCLC 723656039 OCLC 884475351 ISBN 3496013621 | It was later published as a book. | |
| Madonna: uma vida de marketing e mídia | 2006 | Natalia Vieira De Melo | Universidade Santa Cecília | Portuguese | 94 | — | — | |
| La representació de cançons en gèneres audiovisuals musicals: Anàlisi de dos documentals musicals subtitulats i d'onze videoclips de Madonna | 2008 | Lydia Brugué | University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia | Catalan | 222 | OCLC 747615250 | Explored the usage of subtitles through Madonna's music. | |
| Madonna as a cultural icon and a children's author: diplomsko delo | 2009 | Anže Perne | University of Ljubljana | Slovene | 100 | OCLC 781160704 | — | |
| A fabricação do ídolo pop: a análise textual de videoclipes e a construção da imagem de Madonna | 2011 | Rodrigo Ribeiro Barreto | Federal University of Bahia | Portuguese | 200 | — | Based on Madonna's videography and image. | |
| Das Spiel mit dem Ich: die Dekonstruktion postmoderner Medienikonen am Beispiel Madonna | 2012 | Henrike Wielk | University of Tübingen | German | 193 | OCLC 913200268 ISBN 978-3868215731 | It was later published as a book in 2014. | |
| Like a Queen; Madonna und ihr Hof auf der Bühne in Zeiten des Social Media (Like a Queen - Madonna & the stage as court in the era of social media) | 2013 | Adam Louis Troldahl | University of Vienna | German | 75 | OCLC 7378245230 | Published both in English and German. | |
| “You must be my Lucky Star”: Crítica, agendamento e valor sobre a obra da cantora Madonna na Revista Rolling Stone | 2015 | Maria Helena Guerra Monteiro | Federal University of Paraíba | Portuguese | 150 | — | It was cited in A revista Tropos: Comunicação, Sociedade e Cultura of Universidade Federal do Acre. | [106] [107] |