Graduate Student Resources
Thesis Archive
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, âThe Value of Sleep: Aura and Aesthetics of Cohabitation in Juha Liljaâs Digital Revision of Warholâ (2021)
Richard Dyer, âThreatened by the Outback: Landscape and Ecology in the Australian New Waveâ (2021)
Haiyu Wang, âFour Hollywood Adaptations of Little Women: Identifying Female Subjectivity in Characters, Plots, and Authorshipâ (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, âLost Without a Connection: Analyzing Netflixâs Maniac in the Digital Streaming Ageâ (2020)
Mariana Delgado, âRedefining Representations of Trauma & Modes of Witnessing in Damon Lindelofâs The Leftoversâ (2020)
Ben Muntananuchat, âRecurring Scream: Trauma in Wes Cravenâs Slasherâ (2020)
Justin Nguyen, âIâm Going Digital: Potentials for Online Communities through Internet Remixâ (2020)
Mykhailo Pylynskyi, âThe Concept of Freedom in American Literature at the Dawn of the Nationâ (2020)
Chandler Reeder, âHow Audiovisual Composition Reveals Gendered Limitations and Possibilities in Lady Bird in the Wake of #MeTooâ (2020)
Ashley Steinbach, âHorrorâs Aesthetic Exchange: Immersion, Abstraction and Annihilationâ (2020)
Joshua Zintel, âRoots of Coded Metaphor in John Deeâs Monas Hieroglyphicaâ (2020)
Mary Cook, âBlaxploitationâs Revolutionary Sexuality: Rethinking Images of Male Hypersexuality in Sweetback & Shaftâ (2019)
Rachel Cox, âPlasticity in Animated Childrenâs Cartoons: The Neoliberal Transforming Bodies and Static Worlds of OK KO and Gumballâ (2019)
Richard Farrell, âBaltimore Mobility, The Wire, Local Documentary, and the Politics of Distanceâ (2019)
Aryn Kelly, âMobilizing Images of Black Pain and Death through Digital Media: Visual Claims to Collective Identity after âI Canât Breatheââ (2019)
Morgan Macey, âAdaptations of Ovidâs Metamorphoses in Late Medieval France: Material and Moral Recontextualization in the Tapestry of Narcissus at the Fountainâ (2019)
Elizabeth Rossbach, âAn Ecology of Care: Training in Dependence and Caretaking in The Witcher 3: Wild Huntâ (2019)
Max Seijo, âAnti-Fascist Aesthetics from Weimar to MoMA: Siegfried Kracauer & the Promise of Abstraction for Critical Theoryâ (2019)
Sarah Conner, âPoetics of Sixteenth-Century Widowhood: Vittoria Colonnaâs Use of Gender and Grief as a Means of Social and Spirtual Transcendenceâ (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, âThe Promised Body: Diet Culture, the Fat Subject, and Ambivalence as Resistanceâ (2018)
Kevin McKenna, "The Revival Western and Dead Man: Challenging Neoliberal Violences" (2018)
Matthew Morales, âConcerning Virtual Reality and Corporealized Media: Exploring Video Game Aesthetics and Phenomenologyâ (2018)
Kelley OâBrien, "'He Didn't Mean It': What Kubrick's The Shining Can Teach Us About Domestic Violence" (2018)
Nicholas Orlando, "Failing to Move Forward: Journalism, Media, and Affect in David Fincher's Zodiac" (2018)
Zhanwen Peng, "Eliminating the Uncertainty of Hong Kong in 1990s: Tsui Harkâs Once Upon a Time in China (1, 2, 3)" (2018)
Valerie Simuro, âA Womanâs Place in Jazz in the 21st Centuryâ (2018)
Morgan Wallace, "Cool Moms & Cool Media: Returning to Poltergeist through Stranger Things" (2018)
Rachel Ekblad, "The Dislocated Spectator's Relationship to Enchanted Objects in Early Film and Modernist Poetry" (2017)
Huai-Hsuan Huang, "Distinguishing Patterns of Utopia and Dystopia, East and West" (2017)
Rachel Christine Ekblad, "The Dislocated Spectator's Relationship to Enchanted Objects in Early Film and Modernist Poetry" (2017)
Jonathan Hendricks, "Playing-With the World: Toy Story's Aesthetics and Metaphysics of Play" (2017)
Christopher David Adkins, "Get Ye A Copper Kettle: Appalachia, Moonshine, and a Postcolonial World" (2017)
Lisa Morgan Thieryung, "The Palazzo Medici and its Polyvalent Message: Cosimo de Medici Navigates the Shifting Meaning of Pride" (2017)
Morgan J. Jennings, " 'There's a real hole here': Female Masochism and Spectatorship in Michael Haneke's La Pianiste" (2017)
Brett Michael Phillips, " 'You want it all to happen now!': The Jinx, The Imposter, and Re-enacting the Digital Thriller in True Crime Documentaries" (2017)
Brooks Benadum, âThe Apocalypse Narrative and the Internet: Divided Relationships in New Naturesâ (2016)
Jacob Boccio, âDigital Integrationâ (2016)
Brandy Kinkade, âA Tourist Performance: Redefining the Tourist Attractionâ (2016)
Michael McDowell, âHeavy South: Identity, Performance, and Heavy Music in the Southern Metal Sceneâ (2016)
Michael Rosen, âThe Apatow Aesthetic: Exploring New Temporalities of Human Development in 21st-Century Network Societyâ (2016)
Eric Ross, âConstructing the West: âThe Hired Handâ and âMcCabe & Mrs. Millerâ and the Challenge of Public Spaceâ (2016)
Max Siyuan, âTo Utopianize the Mundane: Sound and Image in Country Musicalsâ (2016)
Tomaro Taylor, âLongshoremenâs Negotiation of Masculinity and the Middle Class in 1950s Popular Cultureâ (2016)