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Spring 2021

McDevitt, Jennifer A

In recent years, young adult (YA) fiction has, like its Generation Z audience, turned to social justice issues and activism. At the same time, the discussion of social responsibility in librarianship has begun to include human rights and social justice. This thesis investigates the relationships...

Fall 2022

Sollazzo, Anna

Inherent to interdisciplinary work is the negotiation of two or more sets of—often contradictory—domain epistemologies and methodologies. In the context of the Digital Humanities, the friction between its composite domains is particularly strong with respect to data processing and display, where...

Fall 2020

Peter, Cate

In the 1930s, over 2 300 former enslaved people were interviewed, taped, and photographed as part of the American Federal Writers’ Project (FWP). No other initiative recorded to such a great extent the voices of the formerly enslaved. Although this collection has great utility for scholarly...

Spring 2019

Borynec, Anna

This research project collected a sample of nine single-authored websites of classical mythology in order to determine whether they could be conceived of as a serious leisure activity under Robert A. Stebbins' Serious Leisure Perspective. Data was manually collected from these websites using a...

Fall 2020

Zielke, Grady

The way that people play games has changed. This is especially true for both highly competitive games and online games. Expert play, a category of play undertaken by players who have a strong understanding of the game they are playing and are trying their best to excel at, is particularly...

Spring 2022

Palm, Schyler

I have been asked to describe this project in a succinct way, and to give its associated processes a name. I use the word 'associated' here after Chapman & Sawchuk's commentary on research-creation, in an attempt to refer encompassingly not only to the forms but especially to the forces that...

Fall 2024

Ghayem, Nina

This thesis investigates the use of sonification—transforming data into auditory representations—as an innovative approach to data interpretation within the Digital Humanities. As data continues to grow in complexity and volume, traditional methods of visualization are often insufficient to fully...

Spring 2019

Gerlitz, Laura M

This study sets out to examine recurring themes found on book wrappers published by Harlequin in their first seventeen years as a form of marketing strategy. Through the use of specific image and text patterns that correspond to common themes found in paperback genres, Harlequin was able to...

Spring 2021

Sapach, Sonja C.

This autoethnographic, interdisciplinary dissertation addresses the question “how have video games helped me to survive and overcome trauma – a kind of trauma that left me feeling alienated - and how might video games help others in the same way?” Written as a dialogue between various personas,...

Fall 2023

Cselinacz, Morgan

Videogames are vehicles for player embodiment, unique interactive experiences, mechanic challenges, and exploration of other worlds and lives. However, much of the mainstream videogame industry is predicated upon principles which perpetuate certain values while excluding many players from being...