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Spring 2020
This study explores the connections between the writer’s workshop approach and high school students’ perceptions of their own resilience. The research includes multiple-case studies of student participants being taught in a high school writer’s workshop, as well as one teacher participant. The...
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The Infinite and the Intimate: Exploring AI Narratives and the Centrality of the Couple-Form
DownloadSpring 2021
This thesis explores how the couple form is represented in four filmic objects: Her (2013), Bladerunner 2049 (2017), Ex Machina (2015), and “Be Right Back,” an episode of the TV series Black Mirror. I will argue that each of these films demonstrate that the couple fixates on the discreteness...
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Spring 2024
Death is an ungraspable phenomenon that will grasp us all, and while humans may go to great lengths to avoid confrontations with death, it inevitably seethes its way into the psyche. The mortal condition of humanity warrants thoughtful and careful consideration, including the ways in which it is...