A collection of Arts & Humanities Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations.
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
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
Northerners' Perspectives on American Emancipation and the End of Russian Serfdom, Mariana S. Kellis
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
Resurrecting an American Archive: A Mid-20th-Century Case Study of Louise Amory (1892-1979), Barbara A. Marquis
Incongruous Surrealism within Narrative Animated Film, Daniel McCabe
The Spanish Inquisitorial Process in Latin America and Racial Profiling Today: A Comparative Legal Study, Samantha M. Miller
Emotional Availability: A Practice-as-Research Exploration on Acting in Film and Theatre, Janice Munk
The Hidden Secrets of Historical Artistry, Jennifer B. Musser
Inheritance, Kenneth Noguera
Rule-Following, Enculturation, and Normative Identity, Nicholas Odom
"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
Memoria: Re(member)ing How to Heal, Vilma E. Portocarrero
Documenting the Undocumented: Understanding Identity and Displacement Through U.S. Latinx Experiences, Thelma B. Quintanilla
Rules for Living and How I Began to Break Them: The Influence of Creative Practice and Cognitive Dissonance on Personal Growth, Timothy Reid
"There Was Also the Music": A Literary Analysis of Puerto Rican Identity in the Works of Sandra Maria Esteves and Judith Ortiz Cofer, Keyla A. Robles
La Desintegración Moral y la Protección Pasiva de los Patriarcas en Tiempo Muerto y El Tragaluz, Ibis Enid Rodriguez
The Fall of Sir Thomas Wolsey: The Contingent Circumstances and Events That Led to His Demise, Jeremy M. 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
Crime/Mystery: Reinventing Tropes, Gabrielle Santiago
Corrective Feedback in L2 Pronunciation: The Learner Lens, Elif Saribas
Vergissmeinnicht: An Inderdisciplinary Study of Holocaust Trauma Literature, Medical Experimentation Discourse, and Narratives of Denial, Tiffany Sidders
The Lived Experience of Chronic Pain: On the Contributions of Phenomenology in Understanding Chronic Pain Disorders, Riley C. Smith
The Death of Beowulf: Exploring the Conception, Process, and Lessons of an Original Solo Performance Based on a Classic, Jeffrey Sneed
The "Information Pandemic": Technical Communication and False Information on Social Media in the Age of COVID-19, Mia M. Stephens
Hemingway Drunk: A Study of Prohibition, Medico-Legal Rhetoric, and The Autonomy of Masculinity, Graham P. Studdard
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
Maritime Lacunae, Miriam S. Taveras
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
The Role of Placemaking in Universities and Their Surrounding Communities: A Literature Review, Natalie R. Verdiguel
I'll See You in the Morning: Stories, William Walker
Performing Belvile: Developing a Transformative Method, Brian Wiegand
A Third Culture Kid's Quest for Belonging: Ephemeral, Eternal, and the Space in Between, Simona Darshani Wiig
A Literary Analysis of Magic: A Dissection of Medieval Icelandic Literature, Jordan T. Williams
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
Combat Music, Usability, and Presence in Video Games, Jedidah Wong
Towards a Postdramatic Jazz Aesthetic: Per(form)ance and Its Discontents, Johann Robert Wood
The Sound of Identity: Audios and Hashtags as Nexuses of Practice on TikTok, Lindsey Wright
Analyzing the Self-reported Experiences of Japanese English as a Foreign Language Pre-service Teachers with Listening Comprehension Skills, Akira Yamamoto
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Who Am I, and Why Does it Matter? Reflections of Identity and the Need for Culturally Sustaining Theatre, Bianca Alamo
Just A Number: A Cabaret Exploring the Roles My Age Prevents Me From Playing, Monica Andrews
The Process of Composing FROM HERE: A Contemporary Musical, Jason Bailey
502 - Dr. Isiah Lavender on Afrofuturism and Science Fictional Blackness, Holly Baker
Episode 16: Overcoming Injustice: Why Women's Constitutional Citizenship Still Matters., Holly Baker
Episode 17: A Crisis of Peace: George Washington, the Newburgh Conspiracy, and the Fate of the American Revolution, Holly Baker
501- Dr. Julian Chambliss on Afrofuturism and the Zora Neale Hurston Festival, Holly Baker and Julian Chambliss
503 - Dr. Kinitra Brooks on Afrofuturism and Recovering the Past, Holly Baker and Julian Chambliss
504: Dr. Reynaldo Anderson on Afrofuturism and the Rise of the Black Speculative Tradition, Holly Baker and Julian Chambliss
505 - Dr. Michelle Berger on Afrofuturism and the Afrofuturist Aesthetic, Holly Baker and Julian Chambliss
Evita: A Practical Approach to Creating and Implementing Choreography for Professional Theater, Kimberly Ball
Some Southern Waters, Julian Baner
Tethered, Audi Barnes
Afrofuturism in Animation: Self Identity of African Americans in Cinematic Storytelling, Dana Barnes
Introduction to World Literature Anthology, Christian Beck
Death in the Land of Flowers: Environment as Enemy in the Second Seminole War, Nicholas Brown
Rites of Renewal: Stories, Adam Byko
The Field of TYA on the Soccer Field: Using Drama Strategies to Enhance Youth Soccer Coaching Practices, Brittany Caine
Examining the Design and Usability of Telemedicine Communications: A Mixed-methods Study, Jessica Campbell
Visual Rhetorics and Rally Signs: A Study of Feminist Theory and Progression, Rachel Casey
Open Anthology of American Literature, Farrah Cato
Production Development: A Practical Approach to Directing for Educational Theatre, Jill Cicciarelli
Reading Between the Lines: Language Ideologies and Tutor Education Readings, Michele Cintron Toney
Metatheatre and Critical Race Theory: A Combination for Compelling Storytelling and Effective Changemaking, Andrew Coleburn
Naming More of What We Know: Critical Memoirs & the Ecological Metaphor as a Threshold Concept in Writing, Loren Cooper
Anti-Semitism, Richard C. Crepeau
College Sports in the Covid19 World (Part I), Richard C. Crepeau
Covid-19 Covers Against the NFL, Richard C. Crepeau
Covid-19 is Number One, Richard C. Crepeau
Intercollegiate Athletics Part II, Richard C. Crepeau
Kobe Bryant, Richard C. Crepeau
Michael Jordan In Orlando for Baseball, Richard C. Crepeau
Negro Leagues and College Football Playoff, Richard C. Crepeau
Sport in the Middle of Crisis, Richard C. Crepeau
Thanksgiving, Richard C. Crepeau
The Astros et.al., Richard C. Crepeau
The NFL and Volleyball, Richard C. Crepeau
The Sports Tsunami, Richard C. Crepeau
What We Miss, Richard C. Crepeau
Phantoms of Fantasy: Materiality, Enjoyment, and the Minstrel Legacy of Sentimentalism, Zafirios Daglaris
A Tale of the Terminally Fey: A Modern Take on Collaborative Folklore, Olivia Damm
The Uniqueness of a Kingdom: The Frontier Kingdom of Norman Sicily in Comparative Perspective, Onyx De La Osa