Dissertations from 2023
“We Ain’t Playing F*Cking Nice…”: Reactionary Fandom, Playful Platforms, and the White Masculine Crusader Fan Identity, Anthony Dannar
An End, Once and for All: Mass Effect 3, Video Game Controversies, and the Fight for Player Agency, Caren Pagel
Dissertations from 2022
Alchemy of Matter: A Trans/Queer Aesthetic Politics, Daren Fowler
Bosses, Mobs, and Trash: A Transactional Approach to Videogame Narrative through Cooposition, William Kemp-Wilcox
The Radical Archive of Preservation: From Acts to Archives in Black Production Culture, shady r. radical
Mobility, Modernity, and the Middle Class: Transmediatization and Brazilian Television, Jonathan Ventura
Animators of Atlanta: Layering Authenticity in the Creative Industries, Colin S. Wheeler
Post-Millennial Queer Sensibility: Collaborative Authorship as Disidentification in Queer Intertextual Commodities, Tanya D. Zuk
Dissertations from 2021
The Paratext in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility: Examining Paratextuality in Modern Mass Media, Erik K. Clabaugh
An Ink Monster, A Goose, and an Office Worker Walk Out of the Game: Engaging the Player Aesthetic Response Through Feminist and Queer Processes, Ashley P. Jones
Universe Diving: Phenomenologically Feeling the “Universeness” of DC and Marvel Comics, Jayson W. Quearry
Dissertations from 2020
Ghosting Images: Haunted by and Haunting Filmic Images, Charles Fox
Assembling An End: The Aesthetic Categories of Finitude, Cameron Kunzelman
The Meat of the Text: Posthuman Aesthetics in Contemporary Cannibal Movies, Ece Üçoluk Krane
Dissertations from 2019
The Remaking of Asian Horror Films in Hollywood: Semiosphere, Authorship, and Photograph, Young-joon Cho
Narcisscinema: Selfie Culture and the Moving Image, Jenny Gunn
Artistic Gestures: Choreography in the Artist's Portrait Film, Kristin D. Juarez
Dynamics of a Periphery TV Industry: Birth and Evolution of Korean Reality Show Formats, Soo keung Jung
Figures of Conspiracy: Finance Capital and the Aesthetics of Speculation, John Roberts
Dissertations from 2018
Autonomous Exchanges: Human-Machine Autonomy in the Automated Media Economy, Christopher Cox
Sounding Anew: Anasonicity in Contemporary Global Cinemas, Arzu Karaduman
Ghost Hunting in the New Millennium: A Trans-Media Theory of Cycle Studies, Matthew Smith
Points of Reflection: A Case for Moral Engagement Across Video Game Time and Space, Ryan C. Thames