Theses/Dissertations from 2025
Adler, Asterios, & Maus, Crystal Ganatra
America is Banking on You! Selling American Ideology During World War II, David W. Maupin
Buffalo Bill and the Great Western Story, Sarah A. Hawkes
Comics as Confrontation : A Case for Breaking Silence around Sexual Abuse in Comics, Manimanjari Sengupta
Deep Abyss: Repository of Echoes, Jungsoo Kim
Digital and Physical Spaces: All at Once, Addyson Hoey
Firing the Canon: Queer Representation in the Magical Girl Genre, Lena C. Humble
Froggy People: Anthropomorphism and Slice-of-Life in Autobiographical Comics, Maddie Baker
Go Cry About It!, Grace C. Ryder
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
Illustrated Nonfiction in the Screen Age, Katie Klaras
Imaginary Friends: Engaging the Unconscious Mind through Picture Books, Cleonique Hilsaca
Lines of Thought: The Cartoon as a Phenomenological Object and a Philosophical Tool, Thomas Attwood
On Drawings of Dragons, Charles Hoppe
Places, Please!, Catie Cook
The Dragon's Eye: A Quest for Tabletop Role-Playing's Visual Culture, Benjamin Kent
The Kinship of Creatives, Saba Saif Ur Rehman
The Liminal Space of Dreams: Narration of Dreams in Graphic novel and Comics, MUYANG LI
Transmutation, Sam Berger
Undefinitive, Lan Mu
Unmeasured, detached, and isolated: The legitimation of a domesticated identity, Eva M. Agüero
What is Lost When Time is Saved: Drawing in Collaboration with the Urban Periphery, Carmen Ribaudo
Women, Azaadi, Shadhinota, Freedom, TAHIA FARHIN HAQUE
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
BOTH SIDES, Qi Qu
Cliffhanger, Micah Mickles
Cover, Uncover: The Changing Face of Architecture on Locust Street, Cora Trout
Goin' Down Swinging: Queer Fury, Mad Green
Graveyard Shifts: Unearthing Identity Myths and the Retro Rebrand, Rebecca Puno
How Visual Narrative Can Elevate Immigrant Food, YITING CHAI
Humanizing Affordable Housing: A Public Health Centered Approach to Affordable Housing, Eiman Mohamed
Laughing in the Wrong Places: Daniel Clowes and the Danger of Nostalgia, Liam Cassidy
Materials are my Conduits, Lynne Smith
Nostalgic Neighbors: Engaging the Single-Story of Wholesomeness, Jeffrey Johnson
Raisin Fingers, Sophia Hatzikos
Ramble: To Wander & Wayfind in Image & Text, Charlotte Fleming
Seeing is Believing: Observing Trans Spirituality Through The Smith-Waite Tarot, Phoebe Santalla
Spirit, Art, and Care, Jordan Geiger
The Land of Reverie, Sarah Moon
Toward an Artifact-Forward Feminist Design History, Celeste Caldwell
Uncanny Bodies, Samantha Neu
unruly play in picture books, Danielle Groak
Virtual Bodies: Probing Fake Flesh, Emily Elhoffer
Welcome Home Stranger: The Evolution & Assimilation of the Queer Monster, Dee Cea
[W]hole: Journey to Fullness, Joni P. Gordon
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Ambivalent Images, Beloved Objects: Building Bridges between Picture Books and the Tangible World, Danielle Ridolfi
Azul, Amarillo, Rojo, Jorge Rios Morales
Carefree Black Girl: Trope or Treasure?, Erin Williams
Dear Sycamore, Anna Schenker
Designing Social Connection: Older adults and the Infrastructure of Social Encounters, Bomin Kim
Elsewhere: In Defense of Daydreaming, Alex Braden
Every Rock Has a Soul, Karen Yung
Extracted Entities and Their Images as Spectres, Seulki Seo
Forget Us Not, Jamie Harris
It's a Match: Shaadi.com, Tinder, and the Fantasy of Frictionless-ness, Purvi Rajpuria
Land | Lineage, Allena Marie Brazier
Legends of Light: Crafting middle grade fantasy in the tradition of Catholic philosophy and medieval visual culture, Bernadette Lamb
Monster Planet Bounty Hunter, Arthur Santoro
Mothering as Feminism, Meera Patel
My Kinship with the Trees, C. Daniela Shapiro
other oceans, other skies, Sharlene Lee
Perils of the Heroine: The Historic Role of Woman in Comics, Britain Bray
Personal Narratives & Their Unique Personalities, Aayesha Ejaz
Proceed with Caution: Fashion and the Case for Media Literacy, Stephanie Silva
Prosthetic Traveling Companions, Carrie Keasler
Queering Up for Battle, Alex Davis
Shambles & Crowley: Autobiographical Fiction in Four Panels, Shumyle Haider
The Dark House and its Inhabitants, Emily Bielski
The Multifunctionality of Sponge City Parks: Integrated Stormwater Management and Park Services in Shanghai, Peihao Tong
THE VOICE OF ONE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS, Megan Kenyon
This is a Present from a Small, Distant World, Samantha Slone
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
A Perfect Escape: Fantasy, Place and Narrative in Adolescence, Cydney Cherepak
Because Potato, Candice Evers
Constants, Martin Lammert
Disorientations, Noah Greene-Lowe
Echoed Sites and the Unknowable Object, Joseph Canizales
Fictitious Ecology, Paulina Zuckerman
Gumball Astronauts: Establishing a Space-Time Vocabulary for Genre Bending in Picture Stories, Henry Uhrik
Home Suite Home: An Analysis of Comfort in Americana and Motel Culture, Jodi Kolpakov
La Cultura Que No Cambia, Karina Arreola-Gutierrez
Meet Me in the Middle Ages: Engaging with fantasy, reality, and collaborative world-building, Amanda Greene
Necessary Myths, Jessica Ramsey
Sanctuary: The-Construction of Communion, Carlos Salazar-Lermont
Source of All Hair, Wearer of All Socks, Samantha Modder
St Louis Modern Residences as Cultural Sites, 1938–1951, Mariana Melin-Corcoran
Storytelling for a changing world: Comics as agitprop, Kruttika Susarla
SuperFicial: An Exploration of Decoration, Fashion, Taste, Camp, and Trends, Jillian Ohl
The Ephemerality of the Living and the Persistence of the Inanimate, Erin Johnston
The Hidden Power of Images: An Allegory of Chaos and Performance in the Digital Age, Livia Xandersmith
The Precarity of Images: Sci-fi Worldbuilding and its Uses in Agitprop, Noah Jodice
The Wizard's Alphabet Book: Illustration as Counter-Environment to the Digital World, Stephen Barany
Twisting Tales: a guide to fairytale adaptation, Tori Forster
Un Guisado: Allí, Allá and the Space In Between, Quinn A. Briceño
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Art and Empathy: Self Discovery in a Dark Forest, Younser Lee
Bad Baby Lich Lords: Narrative & Cartooning in Card Games, Taylor Dow
Blessing, Liu Weike
But They Are Not Real, Takura Suzuki
Demystifying the Penny Valley Files, Austin Ickes
Examining the Impact of In-situ Infrastructural Upgrading on Sustainability in Informal Settlements: The Case of Accra, Ghana, Hsi-Chuan Wang
Excorio: Cursed Films, Haunted Props, and Fictional Reality, Racheal Bruce