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 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
The Dragon's Eye: A Quest for Tabletop Role-Playing's Visual Culture, Benjamin Kent
Deep Abyss: Repository of Echoes, Jungsoo Kim
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
Undefinitive, Lan Mu
What is Lost When Time is Saved: Drawing in Collaboration with the Urban Periphery, Carmen Ribaudo
Go Cry About It!, Grace C. Ryder
The Kinship of Creatives, Saba Saif Ur Rehman
Comics as Confrontation : A Case for Breaking Silence around Sexual Abuse in Comics, Manimanjari Sengupta
Hauntological Warfare: Explorations in Propaganda, Influence Campaigns, and Online Affect, Roy Uptain
Hot Girls Don't Worry About Copyright: Trans/Formative Works and the Femmage Lifestyle, Czeslawa Wojtkowski
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Toward an Artifact-Forward Feminist Design History, Celeste Caldwell