A collection of Arts & Humanities Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations.
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
If Found: Exploring Death Through Animated Media, Hannah Huffman
Un-Portalable! An Animated Exploration in Boundaries and Relational Design, Ira Klages
Workers, Mothers, and Françaises: The French Communist Party and Women in the Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), Elizabeth Klements
Studies of Pain in a Multitude of Forms, Charles Klenk
Online Engagement in Graduate Technical Communication Education, Tabatha Kless
Bridging a Need: Audience Participatory Theatre for Non-Profit Fundraising, Ralph Krumins
Sensory Overload: Creating Autism-Friendly Areas In Theme Parks Through Universal Design Principles, Lindsey Leffel
The Dust and Other Stories, Evan Lindeman
A Theoretical Prototype for Narrative and Interactive Development within a Theme Park Parade, Carson Luter
Family Portrait: The Experience of Space and Place Through Painting, Anthony Mancuso
Integration of Video Game Play and Storytelling in Theme Park Environmental Design, Alexandria Marcello
Journey To The Dragon's Gate: A Study Of Hybrid Ride Systems And How They Enhance Attraction Storytelling, Matthew Moore
The Hollow Bones, Ashley Neumeister
Try Again, Peyton Newell
Utilizing Dramaturgy to Activate Creativity in Young Audiences, Joni Newman
Musicals, Murders, and Motivation: A View on the Audience and Their Support Towards Musical Murderers through Maslow, Lesly Nuñez
'Read All About It': Journalism and War in Britain, France, and the United States during the Allied Invasion of France (June-August 1944), Jessica Oldham
Seeing the Unseen: Interactive Narrative as a Tool for Understanding Invisible Disabilities, Jesslyn Parrish
Endless Curiosity, Ryan Price
The Emotions, Emotional Labor, and Identities of Korean Teachers of English, Emily Puckett
In The Attic of A Barn, Hunter Pylant
Bodies of Clay, Noor Ur Rahman
Inclusive Writing, Kairos, and Technical Communication: Defining our Modern Age., Ramara Reisch
Exploring Best Practices of Teaching Theatre for Social Change to Youth, Samantha Reser
The Obsidian Trials, Carissa Richetti
Common Law, Megan Riddell
Negative Space: The Transference of Trauma, Jeremy Robinson
Creating a Reverberating Beat: Digital Curation of the Women Writers of the Beat Generation, Elena Maria Rogalle
Methodology of Augmented Reality Chinese Language Articulatory Pronunciation Practice: Game and Study Design, Daria Sinyagovskaya
To the Moon and Back: The Impact of Moon Rocks on the Historical Legacy of NASA's Apollo Program, Emily Strickland
The Hands that Hold You: Negotiating Relationships Between the Self and the Conjured Landscape, Sheherazade Thenard
Castle of Unknowing: An Immersive Virtual Reality Experience, Damian Thorn-Hauswirth
Digital Humanities & Community College Libraries: Opportunities and Challenges, Mia Tignor
Eco-TYA: An Exploration of Youth Agency and the Role of Environment in Creating Balanced Theatrical Collaborations, Sage Tokach
In the Light of What They Suffer, Grayson Treat
Crossed: Strength in Unity and Connection, Dillon Williams
Eden Enflamed: An Examination of the Self through Fantastical Figures, Forrest Wilson
Blue Heat Burning, Mary Wolff
Creating Themed Accessible Spaces Through Hospitality Design, Sidney Wolf
Theme Park Queues as Diegetic Worlds: Using Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance as a Case Study for Core Design Elements, Jordan Zauha
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Pixelated Domes: Cinematic Code Changes through a Frank Lloyd Wright Lens, William Allen
Beautiful, Terrible Things, Nicole Balsamo
Ruinous Wings, Madison Brake
Rubicon: The Dialectic, Marcos Carrasco Yanez
Their Bodies Flamboyant: An Exploration of Self Through Figuration and Flower, Gabriel Cortese
The Actor and the Iceberg, Christopher Creane
Liminality of Culture in Studio Art: A Biographical Investigation of a Second Generation Filipino American Experience, Danielle Culibao Powell
Moneyboys, Joshua Deshaies
Artistic Science: An Exploration of Dramaturgy through Inquiry-Based Learning for Youth Artists, Sam DiRosa
Immersion's Relationship to Enjoyment in Gaming, Ronald Ray Eddy
Sunseekers, Rebecca Fox
Combating Performance Anxiety: Reflections of A Personal Anti-anxiety Plan for Onstage and Filmed Media, Megan Friend
The Ogaden War: An Intersection of Local and Global Powers in the Horn of Africa, Luis Garcia
Paradigmatic Change and Its Effect on the Collection and Cataloging of LGBTQAI+ Literature in the Elementary School Library, Linda Garrison
In the Call Center at the Navel of the World, David Gibson
The Ethos of Vaccine-Related Discussions in Online Public Spaces, Carolyn Glasshoff
The Technical World of Warcraft, Derek Hampton
Storm: An Exploration of Home Through Painterly Animation, Kirstin Hardin
Captivating Bubbles: Creating Lasting Children's Stories Using Animation, Rhythm and Life Experience, Ronald Hargrove
How Twitter Exposes Daily Whiteness Practices in Mexico and Argentina, Erika Maribel Heredia
Critical Modding: A Design Framework for Exploring Representation in Games, Kenton Howard
Braving the Discomfort: An Examination of Hate Speech and Racially-Motivated Violence Onstage, and How We Should Approach It, Sarah Hubert
An Actor Auditions, Jessica T. Johnson
Bringing Instagram Posts into Being: A Study of FYC Students' Self-Sponsored Posting Practices and Transfer Opportunities, Jessica Kester
Past, Present, and How to Proceed: Creating My Actor Tool Kit, Joshua Kimball
Canvas Course Design and the Effects on Faculty Workload and Stress During COVID-19, Christine Kugelmann
Sympathy for the Devil: A Compassionate Approach to Morally Reprehensible Characters in Drama, Amy Livingston
Incongruous Surrealism within Narrative Animated Film, Daniel McCabe
Emotional Availability: A Practice-as-Research Exploration on Acting in Film and Theatre, Janice Munk
Inheritance, Kenneth Noguera
"Clothes Make Men": Clothing and the Embodiment of Gender in Virginia, 1750-1775, Rhiannon O'Neil
Hermeneutics of Hate: How Martin Luther's Rhetorical Manipulation of the Greek Bible Led to His Anti-Judaic Treatise On The Jews and Their Lies, Michael Parrish
The Intersection Between Multi-voiced Narratives and First-person Narratives of War Fiction: Epistemology and the Meaning of War, Prashant Patel
Rules for Living and How I Began to Break Them: The Influence of Creative Practice and Cognitive Dissonance on Personal Growth, Timothy Reid
La Desintegración Moral y la Protección Pasiva de los Patriarcas en Tiempo Muerto y El Tragaluz, Ibis Enid Rodriguez
Chrysalis, Marelize Roets
Perceived Impacts of Collaborative Technology on Grant Writing Teams: Collaboration, Productivity, and Quality of Writing, Joshua Roney
Water Damage, Rebecca Rowell
Authoring Health Literacy in the Everyday, Sarah Rumsey
Effectiveness of Digital Interactive Experiment in Learning Outcomes and Engagement, Matin Salemirad
Corrective Feedback in L2 Pronunciation: The Learner Lens, Elif Saribas
The Death of Beowulf: Exploring the Conception, Process, and Lessons of an Original Solo Performance Based on a Classic, Jeffrey Sneed
Toward an Arabic Modernism: Politics, Poetics, and the Postcolonial, Alaa Taha
From Screen to Shining Screen: Representations of YouTube as a Democratic Platform for a Community of Authentic Creators, Emily Tarvin
Mutilated Masculinity: Intersections of Disability, Gender, and Mental Health in Modernist Fiction, Sara Thames
For Consumption: Observations of Paint, Food, & Culture, Annette Tojar
Signals as Symbols: Applying Normalization of Deviance to Improve User-Centered Design, Amy Vanschaik
I'll See You in the Morning: Stories, William Walker
Performing Belvile: Developing a Transformative Method, Brian Wiegand
Deportation, Genocide, and Memorial Politics: Remembrance and Memory in Postwar France, 1943-2015, Rachel Williams
Political Fandom and Social Media: A Case Study of the Texas 2018 Senate Race, Rachel Winter