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 2024
Toward an Artifact-Forward Feminist Design History, Celeste Caldwell
Laughing in the Wrong Places: Daniel Clowes and the Danger of Nostalgia, Liam Cassidy
Nostalgic Neighbors: Engaging the Single-Story of Wholesomeness, Jeffrey Johnson
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
The Dark House and its Inhabitants, Emily Bielski
Elsewhere: In Defense of Daydreaming, Alex Braden
Perils of the Heroine: The Historic Role of Woman in Comics, Britain Bray
Land | Lineage, Allena Marie Brazier
Queering Up for Battle, Alex Davis
Personal Narratives & Their Unique Personalities, Aayesha Ejaz
Shambles & Crowley: Autobiographical Fiction in Four Panels, Shumyle Haider
Forget Us Not, Jamie Harris
Prosthetic Traveling Companions, Carrie Keasler
THE VOICE OF ONE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS, Megan Kenyon
Legends of Light: Crafting middle grade fantasy in the tradition of Catholic philosophy and medieval visual culture, Bernadette Lamb
other oceans, other skies, Sharlene Lee
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
Azul, Amarillo, Rojo, Jorge Rios Morales
Monster Planet Bounty Hunter, Arthur Santoro
Dear Sycamore, Anna Schenker
Extracted Entities and Their Images as Spectres, Seulki Seo
My Kinship with the Trees, C. Daniela Shapiro
Proceed with Caution: Fashion and the Case for Media Literacy, Stephanie Silva
This is a Present from a Small, Distant World, Samantha Slone