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 2022

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Twisting Tales: a guide to fairytale adaptation, Tori Forster

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Meet Me in the Middle Ages: Engaging with fantasy, reality, and collaborative world-building, Amanda Greene

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Disorientations, Noah Greene-Lowe

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The Precarity of Images: Sci-fi Worldbuilding and its Uses in Agitprop, Noah Jodice

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The Ephemerality of the Living and the Persistence of the Inanimate, Erin Johnston

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Home Suite Home: An Analysis of Comfort in Americana and Motel Culture, Jodi Kolpakov

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Constants, Martin Lammert

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Source of All Hair, Wearer of All Socks, Samantha Modder

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SuperFicial: An Exploration of Decoration, Fashion, Taste, Camp, and Trends, Jillian Ohl

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Necessary Myths, Jessica Ramsey

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Sanctuary: The-Construction of Communion, Carlos Salazar-Lermont

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Storytelling for a changing world: Comics as agitprop, Kruttika Susarla

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Gumball Astronauts: Establishing a Space-Time Vocabulary for Genre Bending in Picture Stories, Henry Uhrik

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The Hidden Power of Images: An Allegory of Chaos and Performance in the Digital Age, Livia Xandersmith

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Fictitious Ecology, Paulina Zuckerman

Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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The Garden of Extraterrestrial Deee-Lites, Jessica Bremehr

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Excorio: Cursed Films, Haunted Props, and Fictional Reality, Racheal Bruce

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Suture...Harm and Remedy, Amanda Casarez

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Bad Baby Lich Lords: Narrative & Cartooning in Card Games, Taylor Dow

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The Feeling of Foam & Other Essays, Ryan Erickson

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Hunkidoree Resort, Stephanie Gobby

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Pero...Maybe, Adrian Gonzalez

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unmentionables, Madeleine F. Grotewiel

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Demystifying the Penny Valley Files, Austin Ickes

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Fantastical Creatures: Folklore, Fact, and Fantasy, Leah Kurth