Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Toward an Artifact-Forward Feminist Design History, Celeste Caldwell
Laughing in the Wrong Places: Daniel Clowes and the Danger of Nostalgia, Liam Cassidy
Welcome Home Stranger: The Evolution & Assimilation of the Queer Monster, Dee Cea
How Visual Narrative Can Elevate Immigrant Food, YITING CHAI
Ramble: To Wander & Wayfind in Image & Text, Charlotte Fleming
unruly play in picture books, Danielle Groak
Nostalgic Neighbors: Engaging the Single-Story of Wholesomeness, Jeffrey Johnson
Graveyard Shifts: Unearthing Identity Myths and the Retro Rebrand, Rebecca Puno
BOTH SIDES, Qi Qu
Seeing is Believing: Observing Trans Spirituality Through The Smith-Waite Tarot, Phoebe Santalla
Cover, Uncover: The Changing Face of Architecture on Locust Street, Cora Trout
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
The Dark House and its Inhabitants, Emily Bielski
Perils of the Heroine: The Historic Role of Woman in Comics, Britain Bray
Personal Narratives & Their Unique Personalities, Aayesha Ejaz
Shambles & Crowley: Autobiographical Fiction in Four Panels, Shumyle Haider
Prosthetic Traveling Companions, Carrie Keasler
Legends of Light: Crafting middle grade fantasy in the tradition of Catholic philosophy and medieval visual culture, Bernadette Lamb
Mothering as Feminism, Meera Patel
It's a Match: Shaadi.com, Tinder, and the Fantasy of Frictionless-ness, Purvi Rajpuria
Ambivalent Images, Beloved Objects: Building Bridges between Picture Books and the Tangible World, Danielle Ridolfi
Monster Planet Bounty Hunter, Arthur Santoro
My Kinship with the Trees, C. Daniela Shapiro
Proceed with Caution: Fashion and the Case for Media Literacy, Stephanie Silva
Carefree Black Girl: Trope or Treasure?, Erin Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
The Wizard's Alphabet Book: Illustration as Counter-Environment to the Digital World, Stephen Barany
A Perfect Escape: Fantasy, Place and Narrative in Adolescence, Cydney Cherepak
Because Potato, Candice Evers
Twisting Tales: a guide to fairytale adaptation, Tori Forster
Meet Me in the Middle Ages: Engaging with fantasy, reality, and collaborative world-building, Amanda Greene
The Precarity of Images: Sci-fi Worldbuilding and its Uses in Agitprop, Noah Jodice
Home Suite Home: An Analysis of Comfort in Americana and Motel Culture, Jodi Kolpakov
SuperFicial: An Exploration of Decoration, Fashion, Taste, Camp, and Trends, Jillian Ohl
Necessary Myths, Jessica Ramsey
Storytelling for a changing world: Comics as agitprop, Kruttika Susarla
Gumball Astronauts: Establishing a Space-Time Vocabulary for Genre Bending in Picture Stories, Henry Uhrik
Fictitious Ecology, Paulina Zuckerman
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Excorio: Cursed Films, Haunted Props, and Fictional Reality, Racheal Bruce
Bad Baby Lich Lords: Narrative & Cartooning in Card Games, Taylor Dow
Hunkidoree Resort, Stephanie Gobby
Demystifying the Penny Valley Files, Austin Ickes
Fantastical Creatures: Folklore, Fact, and Fantasy, Leah Kurth
Fine/Not Fine: A Cancer Intervention, Erin Lewis
Songs in the Gutter: Writing and Authorship in American Comics, Jonathan Marshall Smith
The Digital Grimoire, Benji Snyder
The Freakiest Dungeon in the Castle: The Interiority of Confinement, Madeline Valentine
Blessing, Liu Weike