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.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2025

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Unmeasured, detached, and isolated: The legitimation of a domesticated identity, Eva M. Agüero

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Lines of Thought: The Cartoon as a Phenomenological Object and a Philosophical Tool, Thomas Attwood

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Froggy People: Anthropomorphism and Slice-of-Life in Autobiographical Comics, Maddie Baker

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Transmutation, Sam Berger

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Places, Please!, Catie Cook

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Adler, Asterios, & Maus, Crystal Ganatra

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Women, Azaadi, Shadhinota, Freedom, TAHIA FARHIN HAQUE

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Buffalo Bill and the Great Western Story, Sarah A. Hawkes

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Imaginary Friends: Engaging the Unconscious Mind through Picture Books, Cleonique Hilsaca

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Digital and Physical Spaces: All at Once, Addyson Hoey

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On Drawings of Dragons, Charles Hoppe

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Firing the Canon: Queer Representation in the Magical Girl Genre, Lena C. Humble

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The Dragon's Eye: A Quest for Tabletop Role-Playing's Visual Culture, Benjamin Kent

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Deep Abyss: Repository of Echoes, Jungsoo Kim

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Illustrated Nonfiction in the Screen Age, Katie Klaras

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The Liminal Space of Dreams: Narration of Dreams in Graphic novel and Comics, MUYANG LI

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America is Banking on You! Selling American Ideology During World War II, David W. Maupin

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Undefinitive, Lan Mu

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What is Lost When Time is Saved: Drawing in Collaboration with the Urban Periphery, Carmen Ribaudo

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Go Cry About It!, Grace C. Ryder

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The Kinship of Creatives, Saba Saif Ur Rehman

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Comics as Confrontation : A Case for Breaking Silence around Sexual Abuse in Comics, Manimanjari Sengupta

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Hauntological Warfare: Explorations in Propaganda, Influence Campaigns, and Online Affect, Roy Uptain

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Hot Girls Don't Worry About Copyright: Trans/Formative Works and the Femmage Lifestyle, Czeslawa Wojtkowski

Theses/Dissertations from 2024

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Toward an Artifact-Forward Feminist Design History, Celeste Caldwell