Theses/Dissertations from 2025
Lines of Thought: The Cartoon as a Phenomenological Object and a Philosophical Tool, Thomas Attwood
Froggy People: Anthropomorphism and Slice-of-Life in Autobiographical Comics, Maddie Baker
Adler, Asterios, & Maus, Crystal Ganatra
Buffalo Bill and the Great Western Story, Sarah A. Hawkes
Imaginary Friends: Engaging the Unconscious Mind through Picture Books, Cleonique Hilsaca
On Drawings of Dragons, Charles Hoppe
Firing the Canon: Queer Representation in the Magical Girl Genre, Lena C. Humble
The Dragon's Eye: A Quest for Tabletop Role-Playing's Visual Culture, Benjamin Kent
Illustrated Nonfiction in the Screen Age, Katie Klaras
The Liminal Space of Dreams: Narration of Dreams in Graphic novel and Comics, MUYANG LI
America is Banking on You! Selling American Ideology During World War II, David W. Maupin
The Kinship of Creatives, Saba Saif Ur Rehman
Comics as Confrontation : A Case for Breaking Silence around Sexual Abuse in Comics, Manimanjari Sengupta
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