A collection of Arts & Humanities Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations.
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
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
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