A collection of Arts & Humanities Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations.
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Towards a Postdramatic Jazz Aesthetic: Per(form)ance and Its Discontents, Johann Robert Wood
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
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
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
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
Phantoms of Fantasy: Materiality, Enjoyment, and the Minstrel Legacy of Sentimentalism, Zafirios Daglaris
The Uniqueness of a Kingdom: The Frontier Kingdom of Norman Sicily in Comparative Perspective, Onyx De La Osa
Pre-service Teacher Perceptions of Pronunciation Teaching: A Qualitative Investigation, Madelyn Diller
Adaptation of the Novel "Silas Marner" into a One-Act Play and Performance, Melaney Douglass
Run Like A Girl, Alicia Ezekiel-Pipkin
Be Your Own Charlatan!, Melanie Farmer
Compulsory: Art, Memory, and the Stigma of Mass Incarceration, Jason Fronczek
Episodes of Bar Eugenia, Lauren Gagnon
Alexander: A Dive into Identity, Inspiration, and Release of the Creative Self, Alyssa Garoogian
2030: Utilizing Animation in Political Messaging, Angela Hernandez-Carlson
Seeds of Doubt, Amber Hilson
Life Narratives as Technologies of Self: Explorations of Agency in A Son of the Forest and The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Tiffanie Kelley
Charcoal Boys and Dreams of Igniting, Malcolm Kelly
Song of the Subcontinent, Dylan Kiely
The Art of Reflection: A Personal Account of Reflexive Teaching Artistry and Personal Praxis, Kate Kilpatrick
Ouroboros: The Evolution From Industrialized Mass Production to Auteurism in American Animation, Heather Knott
The Morpheum Principle, Kyle Kubik
Director Methods for High School and Amateur Theatre Implementation, Tyler Leeps
Mistress of the Maze, Caitlin Lochner
Skin Baby, Erica Macalintal
"I Like Men and I Like Women:" Sara Lance as a Representation of Bisexuality in the "Arrowverse", Rachel Marks
This Might Get Heavy, Tara Mayer
His Voice: The Portrayals of LGBTQ+ Issues in Musical Theatre seen through Terrence McNally's A Man of No Importance, Alex Mendez
Even the Fish Fly Away, Lance Milham
The Memory Remains: Why the Migration Period and the Fall of Rome Continue to be Mischaracterized as a Barbarian Invasion, Walter Napier
Everybody Says Don't: An Examination of Works by Stephen Sondheim in High School Theatre Programs, Matthew Nash-Brown
Stages of Color: An Exploration of Drama Through a Chromatic Lens, John Norton
Fruit on the Peninsula, Samuel Oatley
First Blood, Laura Ohlmann
The Girls, Heather Orlando
Taking Inventory, Constance Owens
Initiating Change, Connection, and Community, Janine Papin
Stage Fright: An Examination of Horror-based Theatre Through Theory and Practice, Ramon Paradoa
The Troupes Coloniales: A Comparative Analysis of African American and French Colonial Soldiers in the First World War, Matthew Patsis
Unexplored Conceptions: What Writing Center Tutors Think about Writing, Andrew Petrykowski
Two's Accompany: Understanding Acceptance Through Animation, Brian Phinn
How Artists Can Capture Us: Educating About the Works of Stephen Sondheim Through Parody, Jarrett Poore
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Echoes: Digital Political Discourse and Vectors of Ideological Propagation, Devon Razey
Considering Multiracial Student Identity and Literacy Practices in Higher Education, Anjelica Rechsteiner
Transcendence, William Rincon
Playing Disability, Daniel Romano
Casting as a Pedagogical Practice in Educational Theatre Spaces, Scott Savage
Dutiful Daughter, Robin Schulte
Nincompoop: Stories, David Smithson
Mau Mau Blasters: The Homemade Guns of the Mau Mau Uprising, James Stoddard
Discursive Trick Effects: How Raced and Gendered Semiotics in Industry Media Undermine Equal Representation in the Cybersecurity Workforce, Patricia Thomas
Party for One: A Monologue of The Importance of Oneself Through Book Arts, Jacob Zhefu Wan
Mirrors For Monsters: A Journey Towards Self-Acknowledgement and Nuanced Representation in Film, Alejandro Watson
A Legacy of Community and Mourning: AIDS & HIV in Central Florida, 1983-1993, Andrew Weeks
Dolly'll Never Go Away Again: Producing the Classic Musical at the High School Level, Jason Whitehead
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
The Feminine Margin: The Re-Imagining of One Professor's Rhetorical Pedagogy--A Curriculum Project, Camila Alvarez
Mapping Addiction: A Digital Psychogeographic Approach to America's Addiction Epidemic, Clayton Benjamin
The Redeemed, the Condemned, and the Forgotten: Narratives of Dissenting Aristocratic Identity in Medieval Bavaria, Luke Bohmer
Group Therapy for Adventure Boys: An Assembly of Stories, Justin Brozanski
Acoustic Ecology and Sound Mapping the University of Central Florida Main Campus, Robert Clarke
From the Temple to the Synagogue: Exploring Changes in Judaism After the Fall of the Second Temple, Adam Cohen
Building Unity Through State Narratives: The Evolving British Media Discourse During World War II, 1939-1941, Colin Cook
The Living Hashtag Play: A Modernized Living Newspaper with Theatre of the Oppressed Approaches to Play Development, Elizabeth Corsi
How Change Started to Come: Examining Rhythm and Blues and Southern Identity, Jennifer Davis
Performing Feminism: Boy Gets Girl During the #MeToo Movement, Amanda Dayton
The Storm, Kara Delemeester
The Knitting Witch, Katherine Ervin
Local Community Influences on Interpretation at Historical Sites and Museums, Jason FitzGerald
Latinx Student Success in Higher Education: Genres, Racialization, and Generic-Racial Interactions., Delia Garcia
Standing Up Comedy: Analyzing Rhetorical Approaches to Identity in Stand-up Comedy, Christopher Grabert
Waking Up White: The Search For Black Happiness, Jason Gregory
Central Florida School Districts' Responses to Hispanic Growth, 1980-2010, Kendra Hazen
Power to the People: Responsible Facilitation in Co-Creative Story-Making, Amanda Hill
Changing the Channel: A Study of Agenda, Immersion and Social Commentary in Art, Nicholas Kalemba
Measuring Player Perceptions of Freedom and Control in Modded and Unmodded Versions of Bethesda's Skyrim: A Qualitative Play Study, Mark Kretzschmar
The Rhetoric of Camp: Adam Lambert's Identification and Division Strategies in His American Idol Performances, Isabelle Lanthier
Gender Performance in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Amanda Lee
Mindful Acting, Terence Lee
Expanding and Shedding the Self: Processing Selfdom Through Painting, Theresa Lucey
Performing Bernarda: Activating Power and Identity, Ana Martinez Medina
Moving Towards a Dialogic Pedagogy: Using Video Feedback as a Teaching Tool to Respond to Writing across Disciplines, Paul Martin
I Have Questions, Lorena Matejowsky