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Daffodils in the Snow: A devised project with youth to practice and make meaning about resiliency and the role it plays in their lives, 2024
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Identifier: te_2024spring_maitland_erin.pdf
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"Theatre can be used for more than just entertainment. By providing a collaborative, supportive, and communal space for students, theatre can promote exploration of challenging topics like resiliency, mental health, or even grief. This space allows students to discover their voice, build lasting connections, and make meaning about the world around them. In order to explore this further, a devised piece was created to understand how students think and feel about resiliency and the role it...
Dates:
2024
Darcy's Hellfire, 2021
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Identifier: sf_2021spring_parker_samuel.pdf
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"Garrett Darcy faces the daunting task of succeeding his father Alastair Darcy, a pillar of the community, who has succumbed to a stroke and remains sedated in bed. Garrett's first order of business- ensure a revealing biography about Alastair written by his assistant turned writer Elsa Cummings never sees the light of day. However, this task won't be easily accomplished as Elsa's book has attracted the likes of lewd book published Bentley, Garrett's rival book publisher. As Garrett aims to...
Dates:
2021
Darkpaw - Book One, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022fall_yap_jeremy.pdf
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"Darkpaw is a planned fantasy series set in the anthropomorphic world of Vulpinia and is aimed at both adult and young adult readers. The first book herein is a coming-of-age tale that focuses on the issues of racial prejudice, privilege, and nativism. These are experienced through the eyes of Argento Roughpaw, a war orphan rescued and adopted by Lady Miria Fairmane, general of the Vulpinia Empire. Despite the racism that Argento endures because of his fur color and scent, he rises to become...
Dates:
2022
Daughter Time, 2021
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Identifier: pf_2021fall_rossero_mackenzie.pdf
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"Daughter Time is the first installment of a Young Adult fantasy series following seventeen-year-old Vanna Mite as she finds her place in the Elemental Union, a country governed by four forces: Time, Death, Fate, and Creation. Plagued by secret visions of the future and marked by a mysterious brand on her cheek, Vanna's role in this world is larger than she realizes. Though Vanna doesn't yet know it, she owes her existence to Time, and she is but one pawn in his looming war against Death....
Dates:
2021
Daughterhood, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_burke_maggie.pdf
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"This collection is an exploration of the transition from girlhood to womanhood. By following this journey of gender through a lens closely examining forces like geography, class, religion, and lineage, there is a common thread of "who" exactly helps us grow into becoming—boyfriends who love us wrong, friends who kiss us right, and, most importantly, the women from whom we came. Mom is the first person we can ever know that we spend our entire lives trying to understand. And maybe only after...
Dates:
2024
Davis House, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024fall_hay_catherine.pdf
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"Davis House is a Southern Gothic inspired novel which explores how the history of enslavement manifests in present day. Natasha and her adoptive mother Anna move to Davis House, which is Anna's ancestral home in Mississippi. Davis House is a former plantation. Natasha, still reeling from the turbulent separation of her moms, befriends the ghost of a girl named Cece. These two Black girls empower and protect each other as they discover the ugly truth about Davis House and Anna's family....
Dates:
2024
Dayiah, 2021
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Identifier: sf_2021spring_williams_amber.pdf
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"DAYIAH, 22, is a recent college graduate from Harlem, New York. She lives at home with her mother LUCILLE 'LUCY', 50s, and her father CLYDE 50s. From a young age, Dayiah has been extremely talented in painting, and as such, she's dreamed of becoming an artist. Although her father supports her, it's been a challenge convincing her mother to get behind her as one. This has a huge impact on the way Dayiah sees herself, and what she thinks she is able to accomplish. When Dayiah decides to save...
Dates:
2021
De-Vilifying the Panthers: How 2000s University Presses Challenged Dominant Historical Conceptions of the Black Panther Party, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_sharma_neil.pdf
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"Although the Black Panther Party was only active from 1966 to 1982, the organization remains a topic of public fascination. 129 books have been written about the Panthers, and this paper examines the twenty-two books published by university presses between 2000 and 2010. I attempt to determine the reasons behind this surge of Black Panther books and how university publishers influenced the Party's historical memory. The Black Panther Party left behind a multilayered social, political, and...
Dates:
2023
Dead Man's Hound, 2024
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Identifier: sf_2024spring_jones_john.pdf
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"Set in the distant future, the world has returned to the dark ages due to a cataclysmic event prior dubbed "God's Salute." Jonah, a dying mercenary, embarks on a quest with a band of other mercs led by an honorable knight, Sir Michael. Tasked by House Cyrus, an ambitious yet powerful sovereignty, the crew journeys through the forbidden zone known as the Garden to find a device called the LR Drive, an urban legend that houses secrets to return civilization back to before God's Salute. But,...
Dates:
2024
Deadweight Slump, 2022
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Identifier: cw_2022spring_fernandez_kāʻai.pdf
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"Deadweight Slump is a collection of short stories by Kā'ai Sutton Fernandez that explores the motif of isolation, specifically the ways that physical, emotional, and social isolation manifests through relationships particular to those in a guardianship. Part of the human experience is stepping up to help, assist, guide, or protect others, as well as being in need of guidance or protection. At the heart of each story in this collection is the relationship between those who need help and...
Dates:
2022
Dear Catherine, 2018
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Identifier: cw_2018spring_canner_benjamin.pdf
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"Dear Catherine is an epistolary fantasy-horror following Elizabeth Sokolov, one of the most brilliant architects and engineers in the Empire. Ostracized by her society for her abilities and her gender, she nevertheless receives an invitation from the Emperor himself to construct his dream project: a new city in his name that will represent that could make her name. But this grand project comes at a dangerous time. An infectious madness sweeps across the red plains of the nation, driving the...
Dates:
2018
Death of a Giant, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023summer_uckele_grayson.pdf
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"Death of a Giant is a novella about addiction and family dynamics. Complicated relationships are told through the unreliable lens of an anti-hero hoping to reconstruct the illusion of a perfect family. The narrator, George Dane, is the father of an addict, his daughter, Lorelei. Lorelei's second overdose opens a pandora's box of old memories for George. In his fight to ignore his own shortcomings, he runs the risk of losing everything." -- Abstract
Dates:
2023
Death Rattle, 2021
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Identifier: vma_2021spring_bilodeau_alexander.pdf
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"Death Rattle is an 18-minute dark comedy about a young woman who has to move in and take care of her dying grandpa. From poop to family politics, she finds herself submerged in the murky world of adult responsibility in this end-of-life coming-of-age story." -- Abstract
Dates:
2021
Death Stalks, 2023
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Identifier: sf_2023spring_howe_lilly.pdf
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"DEATH STALKS is a feature length film which focuses on a young farmer unraveling her intricate family history while in the midst of being haunted by a Biblical demon. Set in modern times, this modern horror film follows the farmer's investigation into the murders plaguing the town, the intense homophobia surrounding her, and her descent into madness. There are many horror films focused on supernatural beings, but few that focus on the intricacies of human relationships outside of the...
Dates:
2023
Debbie and the Brain, 2021
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Identifier: sf_2021spring_courtade_joshua.pdf
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"The Valley, 1986. Debbie, a way cool teenage brainiac, lands a rad internship with Dr. Ophelia Glutz, a robotics genius. Debbie's psyched to help her build a bodacious robot, but they need an organic brain to power the mechanical dude. Meanwhile, Debbie has eyes for hunky Chip Gordon, who's not too bright but is super sweet. A mega freaky surfing accident kills Chip, so Debbie swipes his brain and puts it in the robot dude's dome. Dr. Glutz gets super cheesed ‘cause Chip's lame brain makes...
Dates:
2021
Deliberate Leisure: Designing a Recharging Space for and by Teens at the Boston Public Library, 2022
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Identifier: md_2022summer_jones_phillip.pdf
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"Students using Teen Central at the Boston Public Library in 2021 and 2022 loved coming to hang out and play at the teens only space. What most thought was missing was a place to isolate, get away from stimulants, and reconnect with themselves. This paper explores how that understanding was built through a story based youth organizing process, and tackled by a teen codesign cohort who designed and prototyped a spatial intervention: the Recharging Space." -- Abstract
Dates:
2022
Delight and Carnage: A Clown's Exploration of Loss in Motherless Daughters, 2024
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Identifier: te_2024spring_bushell_hillary.pdf
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"Mind-Body connection has been a long-studied practice, emphasizing the need for integrating the body in exploring traumatic issues and grief. For the purpose of this project, six participants were engaged in a series of interviews and workshops designed to explore our connection to body, loss, and mom through physical theatre techniques, such as clowning and Viewpoints under the framework of applied theatre, leading to the creation of a solo clown show. These workshops aimed to understand...
Dates:
2024
Depths, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023fall_gordon_olivia.pdf
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"Depths is a science fiction story about learning to understand people different from oneself set in the middle of a war between two species battling for the right to colonize the same uninhabited planet. Its protagonist, Aven Torro, has a unique perspective into Dirt's—their enemy-turned-comrade—mind, but still struggles to overcome their assumptions and misconceptions. This conflict is further complicated by their personal desire for revenge after the death of their sister. Forced to work...
Dates:
2023
Desert sirens : women trailblazers in the American West from the frontier to today, 2017
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Identifier: cw_2017spring_kennedy_melissa.pdf
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"Rexamines the lives of ten remarkable women in the deserts of the American West. As writers, artists, explorers, and leaders, these women carved out new spaces for women everywhere. Combining biography, history, memoir, and travel writing, Desert Sirens retells the West's history through its strange, enigmatic, and iconic women who have lived by their own rules in the deserts." --Abstract.
Dates:
2017
Deterioration and Dejection: Cycles of Despair While Surviving a Cataclysmic Event, 2022
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Identifier: vm_2022spring_leonard_kyle.pdf
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"This film is a short personal essay about my struggle with facing a dual diagnosis of Treatment Resistant Depression and a relapse in addiction to opiates while living through my greatest fear: a global pandemic. My opiate addiction had receded to a point of no longer being an issue in my day to day life. However, when the deaths of several close friends of mine coincided with the start of the covid-19 pandemic, I relapsed and started using again. Through voiceover, old family footage, and...
Dates:
2022