Graduate Student Resources

Thesis Archive

Kennedy Kelley, "Protracting the Immediate: Time as Form in Contemporary Horror" (2025)

Charlie Butt, "Awful, Yet Awe-Full: The Sublime Dystopia of Blade Runner 2049" (2025)

Danielle Booth, "The Prideful Ass: Using Augustine's Neoplatonic Theory of Sin to Investigate Curiosity in Apuleius' 'Golden Ass'" (2025)

Hilda Sheridan-Hewlett, "The Manosphere's Reception to the Women Auteurs Behind Man-Eating Jennifer's Body (2009) and Man-Hating Barbie (2023)" (2025)

Thomas Goodchild, "From Displacement to Intersubjectivity: A Phenomenology of Sound in Classic Film Noir" (2024)

Michael B. Raines, "The Rust Belt Gothic: Charting the Affective Politics of Deindustrialization and the Emergence of a Great Lakes Horror Genre in Film" (2024)

Melanie C. Falconer, "Slot Machine Addiction: The Untold Story of Contradictions Between Self and America's Neoliberal Risk Society" (2024)

Everett Barnett, "Zeros and Ones: Digital Video Aesthetics and Geopolitical Economy in Blackhat" (2024)

Vahid Valikhani, "Unveiling Estrangement: The Ambivalence of Iranian Cultural Identity in Documentary Films" (2024)

Meredith Donovan, "The Boundaries of Melodramatic Film Music: Redefining Home through the Score of Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows" (2024)

Aditya Sudhakaran, "Motherhood in the Mutiverse: Melodrama and Asian American Identity in Everything, Everywhere, All at Once" (2023)

Blythe Broecker Creelan, "The 'Charm and Distinction' of Proverbs: The Duality of the Gem Analogy in Erasmus's Adagia" (2023)

Breanna Lee Hansen, "Selective Framing and Narrative as Anthropocentric Agents in Yellowstone: America's Eden" (2023)

Annabelle G. Naudin, "Losing the Streaming Wars: What Netflix loses in Television Narrative and Participatory Fan Cultures" (2023)

Susanna A. Perez-Field, "Reading Rent: Interracial Relationships and Racial Hierarchies" (2023)

Enya C. Silva, "From Counter-Strike to Counterterrorism: How the Cheater Reconfigures Our Understanding of Asymmetric Warfare" (2023)

Mark Fredricks, "Harmony of Difference: Theorizing Rashid Johnson's New Universalism in the Grids of Antoine's Organ" (2022)

Emily M. Gregoire, "Pronk Poppenhuis: Establishing and Destabilizing Agency Among Seventeenth-Century Burgher Wives in the Dutch Republic" (2022)

Brooke M. Weltch, "The Hybridization of Home: Establishing Place Between the Garrison and the Wilderness in Mary Rowlandson's (1682) Captivity Narrative" (2022)

Thomas G. Chaplin, "Ambient Athleticism: Politicizing Akira's Accelerationist Olympiad" (2022)

Jacqueline D. Merveille, "Queering the Weeki Wachee Mermaid and Its Renewed Aesthetic Value" (2022)

William S. Beaman, "Digital Realness: Queer Identity in ContraPoints," (2022)

Catherine Brown, "Complex Identities: Putting Casey Platt's Fiction in a Trans and Religious Studies Context" (2022)

Michael Lee Taber, "Visions of Entanglement and Escape: In-Visible Voice in the Films of Terrence Malick and George Lucas" (2022)

Christopher Costabile, 鈥淭he Value of Sleep: Aura and Aesthetics of Cohabitation in Juha Lilja鈥檚 Digital Revision of Warhol鈥� (2021)

Richard Dyer, 鈥淭hreatened by the Outback: Landscape and Ecology in the Australian New Wave鈥� (2021)

Haiyu Wang, 鈥淔our Hollywood Adaptations of Little Women: Identifying Female Subjectivity in Characters, Plots, and Authorship鈥� (2021)

Dairine Hoban, "Bad Bunny's Purplewashing as Gender Violence in Reggaeton: A Feminist Analysis of SOLO DE MI and YO PERRO SOLA" (2021)

Huadong Fan, "Restarting Plural Modernity: The Lyrical Tradition of the Hometown in Kaili Blues" (2021)

Alan E. Blanchard, "Montage Music Videos: Racial Utopianism vs. Abstract Cowboys and the Question of Cultural Montage" (2021)

Eric Bruce, 鈥淟ost Without a Connection: Analyzing Netflix鈥檚 Maniac in the Digital Streaming Age鈥� (2020)

Mariana Delgado, 鈥淩edefining Representations of Trauma & Modes of Witnessing in Damon Lindelof鈥檚 The Leftovers鈥� (2020)

Ben Muntananuchat, 鈥淩ecurring Scream: Trauma in Wes Craven鈥檚 Slasher鈥� (2020)

Justin Nguyen, 鈥淚鈥檓 Going Digital: Potentials for Online Communities through Internet Remix鈥� (2020)

Mykhailo Pylynskyi, 鈥淭he Concept of Freedom in American Literature at the Dawn of the Nation鈥� (2020)

Chandler Reeder, 鈥淗ow Audiovisual Composition Reveals Gendered Limitations and Possibilities in Lady Bird in the Wake of #MeToo鈥� (2020)

Ashley Steinbach, 鈥淗orror鈥檚 Aesthetic Exchange: Immersion, Abstraction and Annihilation鈥� (2020)

Joshua Zintel, 鈥淩oots of Coded Metaphor in John Dee鈥檚 Monas Hieroglyphica鈥� (2020)

Mary Cook, 鈥淏laxploitation鈥檚 Revolutionary Sexuality: Rethinking Images of Male Hypersexuality in Sweetback & Shaft鈥� (2019)

Rachel Cox, 鈥淧lasticity in Animated Children鈥檚 Cartoons: The Neoliberal Transforming Bodies and Static Worlds of OK KO and Gumball鈥� (2019)

Richard Farrell, 鈥淏altimore Mobility, The Wire, Local Documentary, and the Politics of Distance鈥� (2019)

Aryn Kelly, 鈥淢obilizing Images of Black Pain and Death through Digital Media: Visual Claims to Collective Identity after 鈥業 Can鈥檛 Breathe鈥欌�� (2019)

Morgan Macey, 鈥淎daptations of Ovid鈥檚 Metamorphoses in Late Medieval France: Material and Moral Recontextualization in the Tapestry of Narcissus at the Fountain鈥� (2019)

Elizabeth Rossbach, 鈥淎n Ecology of Care: Training in Dependence and Caretaking in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt鈥� (2019)

Max Seijo, 鈥淎nti-Fascist Aesthetics from Weimar to MoMA: Siegfried Kracauer & the Promise of Abstraction for Critical Theory鈥� (2019)

Sarah Conner, 鈥淧oetics of Sixteenth-Century Widowhood: Vittoria Colonna鈥檚 Use of Gender and Grief as a Means of Social and Spirtual Transcendence鈥� (2018)

Adam Davidson, "Performing 'Hurt' : Aging, Disability, and Popular Music as Mediated Product and Lived-Experience in Johnny Cash's Final Recordings" (2018)

Jennifer Dolan, 鈥淭he Promised Body: Diet Culture, the Fat Subject, and Ambivalence as Resistance鈥� (2018)

Kevin McKenna,