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Using Big Data To Facilitate A Lyrical Analysis Of Poetry And Rap, Remington Yve Giller

English Undergraduate Distinction Projects

Poetry and rap are dissected using text mining techniques in order to determine overall trends in the words used by both. With this data, the way in which ideas and concepts are expressed can be compared and contrasted as a way of showing the legitimacy of rap as a form of literary expression. Other topics within the paper are: a background of the history of rap and the digital humanities, and an example of a close reading featuring a medieval poem and a rap by Eminem. This demonstrates how even in a traditional way of handling texts, both poetry and …

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

Graduate School of Art Theses

Overview of thesis project Bad Baby Lich Lords and its historical place in card gaming.

Songs In The Gutter: Writing And Authorship In American Comics, Jonathan Marshall Smith

Graduate School of Art Theses

An exploration of authorship and writing for comics understood through the divergent history and conventions of mainstream and alternative American comics paralleling the writing and development of a graphic novel.

Hunkidoree Resort, Stephanie Gobby

Graduate School of Art Theses

Hunkidoree Resort opened in the summer of 1960 as a middle-class leisure resort for an often-marginalized community: monsters. Monsters including the likes of vampires, lagoon creatures, mummies and other figures appearing in Cold War era films, which served as personifications of American anxiety over nuclear annihilation, this project seeks to reimagine mid-century illustrated posters with unexpected monstrous figures in leisure settings.

Demystifying The Penny Valley Files, Austin Ickes

Graduate School of Art Theses

This article focuses on the historical antecendents and development processes of the independent comic, The Penny Valley Files.

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

Graduate School of Art Theses

Notes on the Existence of Illusive Critters is a collection of creatures that blend into contemporary urban life, framed as a set of notes produced by a young woman seeking acceptance into the local naturalist society. This project is comprised of notes and drawings from a nature journal presenting these fantasy creatures as real, and is rooted in bestiaries, folklore, creature design, and the concept of secondary worlds. Fantasy is at the core of this project, wrapped inside mock naturalism.

The Digital Grimoire, Benji Snyder

Graduate School of Art Theses

Adigital website that houses written narratives & visual works. Its contents cover Occult topics and narratives in a diaristic fashion and visual storytelling. The website acts as a Digital Grimoire of the creator Benji Snyder.

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

Graduate School of Art Theses

The project Excorio is a series of visuals which act as a container for a fictional horror film from 1979, also titled Excorio. Films are often adorned with a curse in conjunction with tragedy, making its surplus value fetishistic in nature. When subject matter is supernatural, as it often is with horror, it is simple to explain the gruesome actions of people, on and off set, as ghostly intervention. This phenomenon is explored through films such as Polanski’s 1968 film Rosemary’s Baby and Friedkin’s 1973 film The Exorcist. A film’s props and supplemental materials can act as a catalyst for …

Blessing, Liu Weike

Graduate School of Art Theses

Blessing is a black-and-white graphic novel which explores fate and bravery through a love story. The story is divided into five chapters, beginning with a bank robbery and ending with an escape facing failure. After a note from the artist, the "post-credits scene” shows another ending.

The Freakiest Dungeon In The Castle: The Interiority Of Confinement, Madeline Valentine

Graduate School of Art Theses

Series explores toxic fertility and the interiority of psychic trauma.

Childhood Ableism: Too Young To Be Disabled?, Charles Claudino

Writing Waves

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The Adobe Frontier, Christopher J. Gauthier

Theses and Dissertations

The Adobe Frontier is a documentary film about Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello—together known as “Studio Rael San Fratello” —and their work connecting contemporary technology with the legacy of pottery making and adobe architecture in the Southwest United States.

Signal To Noise: Harmonic Temperaments And Patterns Of Interference, Dylan A. Marcheschi

Theses and Dissertations

An audio/visual exploration of historical tuning systems. Most contemporary Western audiences will seldom if ever encounter harmony outside of post-Renaissance tuning conventions. This presentation highlights some of those pre-orthodox harmonic relationships which existed throughout most of history. The corresponding paper documents correlates in recent advances of acoustic ecology.

Fine/Not Fine: A Cancer Intervention, Erin Lewis

Graduate School of Art Theses

Fine/Not Fine: A Cancer Intervention offers a new way to think about and interact with cancer patients. The projectconsists of an illustrated memoir, poster, birthday cards and a zine, offering an autobiographical perspective of a cancer survivor. Fine/Not Fine helps cancer patients by educating the people in their lives. Readers learn about healthy interactions with cancer patients. They are discouraged from using toxic language,and from citing conspiracy theories and alleged magical cures not rooted in science when interacting with cancer patients.

Void, Beth Berg

COD Library Student Research and Award Symposium

Void is a proposed exhibition that collects modern and contemporary artworks that surround the idea of being nothing and something at the same time. It is full of pieces of art that are paradoxes, unorthodox in their creation or being, who at first glance may look like they have nothing to say, but at the same time, are saying everything. They are filled to the brim with unknowns, dark corners, empty spaces; places where you, as the viewer, are allowed and encouraged to step in, to fill in that silence, and occupy that space yourself.

Faculty Sponsor: David Ouellette

Everyday Trauma: Narrativizing The Self In Chris Ware’S Graphic Novels, Jacob Bibeault

Honors Program Theses and Projects

The term “graphic novel”—that is, a book-length narrative that employs the comics medium to tell its story—has entered into the vocabulary of comics enthusiasts and readers alike. But, despite the popularity of contemporary graphic novels, many graphic novelists began their careers writing underground comics that garnered little mainstream attention.

Picnic Day, Caroline Bass

The Echo

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Furman Bell Tower, Nathan Norfleet

The Echo

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The Overlapping Years, Lara Rudman

The Echo

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The Guest Room, Jordan Stevens

The Echo

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Frozen In Time, Elizabeth Mangone

The Echo

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Final Destination, Anna Bowman

The Echo

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Ars Poetica: For When The Smoke Clears, Amanda Cordle

The Echo

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Handle, Jordan Winiski

The Echo

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Unpublishable, Carly Marlys

The Echo

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Home From The House Of Death: A Poem Found In Homer's Odyssey, Elizabeth Mangone

The Echo

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Run, Ariel Crank

The Echo

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Pondberry, Jordan Winiski

The Echo

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Etruscan I, Jordan Winiski

The Echo

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Laundry Room, Mary Shelley Reid

The Echo

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