This collection contain theses for the Master of Fine Arts in Visual Art and the Master of Fine Arts in Illustration & Visual Culture programs in the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts. This collection contains the written theses completed by students in the MFA in Visual Art program since 2014 and MFA in Illustration & Visual Culture since 2021.
Theses/Dissertations from 2026
Between Sanctity and Surveillance, Zain Almutawa
Within Stillness, Yitian Chen
Reconciliation: An Auditory Exploration of Redemptive Suffering, Emily Eid
Alive in Translation, Shiyao Fu
Here, a while, Zachary T. Johnson
Fluid Belonging, Soft Boundary, Jingyi Liu
Temporal Ubiquity, Brittni Mosby
Panorama, Qian Shen
On Paper, Dallas Spears
Grounding in Place and Space, Levi Anthony Walker
Care as Method: Sound, Duration, Relation in Contemporary Art Practice, Violet L. White
Quiet Change, Close Attention, Tianqing Xu
If life were only as our first encounter, Yixiao Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2025
Unmeasured, detached, and isolated: The legitimation of a domesticated identity, Eva M. Agüero
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
Transmutation, Sam Berger
Places, Please!, Catie Cook
Adler, Asterios, & Maus, Crystal Ganatra
Women, Azaadi, Shadhinota, Freedom, TAHIA FARHIN HAQUE
Buffalo Bill and the Great Western Story, Sarah A. Hawkes
Imaginary Friends: Engaging the Unconscious Mind through Picture Books, Cleonique Hilsaca
Digital and Physical Spaces: All at Once, Addyson Hoey
On Drawings of Dragons, Charles Hoppe
Firing the Canon: Queer Representation in the Magical Girl Genre, Lena C. Humble