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After the Aurora, 2024

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Identifier: pf_2024fall_langell_amanda.pdf
Overview "After the Aurora is a YA romance that follows five-star LSU commit Dylan Bennet-Cruz after his mysterious ATV accident. Left with nerve damage in his pitching arm and a secret that could ruin his already fragile future, Dylan must survive a summer of rehab, gossip, and Harper Britton, Connecticut's millionaire heiress. When Dylan's unearthed past clashes with a decade-old Britton scandal, the two teens must decide what means more—their futures, their families, or their hearts. The...
Dates: 2024
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Popular Fiction Writing and Publishing (MFA) Program / 2024 Fall

Afterimages, 2023

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Identifier: cw_2023spring_shoults_joyce.pdf
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"Afterimages is a science ficition [sic] psychological mystery that splits its setting between a small island in the British Isles and a world called the "Simulation." The narrative follows the character of Dahlia, an amnesiac woman trying to solve the mystery of who she was and what happened to her. This is a story about love, death, cults, and robots." -- Abstract

Dates: 2023
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2023 Spring

Afterworld, 2024

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Identifier: pf_2024fall_feingold_alexander.pdf
Overview "This is a novel about escapism, in conversation with other fantasy fiction and mythology. While exploring the ways in which imagination and fantasy can be valuable, the story also hints at darker and more dangerous detachments from reality. As this work is inspired by works such as The Chronicles of Narnia, The Little Prince and His Dark Materials I intended this story to be approachable to younger readers. At the same time this work will also be exploring some heavier topics and drawing...
Dates: 2024
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Popular Fiction Writing and Publishing (MFA) Program / 2024 Fall

Against Type: Fatphobia, Bias, and Typecasting in Educational Theatre, 2022

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Identifier: te_2022spring_kania_lucy.pdf
Overview "This thesis combines research and narrative fiction to investigate bias in educational theatre, as it pertains to the typecasting and exclusion of marginalized students. It presents indepth, original research on fatphobia in educational theatre and its impact on larger-bodied adolescent girls. This is followed by sample materials for an original Young Adult novel, Typecast, which tells the story of a fat teenage girl who teams up with other marginalized students to put on a production where...
Dates: 2022
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Theatre Education and Applied Theatre (MA/MFA) Program / 2022 Spring

AH-MEH-RI-CAH: A Collection of Essays, 2019

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Identifier: cw_2019spring_uong_an.pdf
Overview "AH-MEH-RI-CAH is a collection of essays existing at the intersection of Vietnamese American identity, food politics, and pop culture. It explores themes of belonging, displacement, family, intergenerational trauma, and growing up as a 1.5 generation Vietnamese woman in America. With a focus on the mother-daughter relationship, AH-MEH-RI-CAH introduces an experience distanced from the Vietnam War yet connected to it nontheless through a family finding its place in Los Angeles, with each...
Dates: 2019
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2019 Spring

A Lander-Based Action Role Playing Game and Real Time Strategy Game, in the Low-Poly Flat-Shaded Style, with Rogue like and Tower Defense Elements, 2016

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Identifier: vm_2016fall_kulakovich_bret.pdf
Overview "Melinki Lander Arena is a science fiction video game in the low poly flat-shaded style, with role playing and real-time strategy components. This game is played on maps that are actual 3D objects, which is a new approach in mobile device gaming, and unique to this application. This project combines multiple elements from different gaming mechanisms to synthesize a whole. While thematically similar to individual science fiction space games that preceeded it, the principal challenges of this...
Dates: 2016
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Film and Media Art (MFA) Program / 2016 Fall

Alexander at the end of the world, 2017

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Identifier: vm_2017fall_ozdemir_tanju.pdf
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"Alexander at the End of the World is about Husrev, a Turkish photographer in Boston who suddenly loses his wife and feels doubly alienated afterwards, since the current political volatility prevents him from returning to Turkey. Husrev falls into an artistic crisis, which leads him to re-establish through miniature art his severed connections with the place of his origin and identity." --Abstract.

Dates: 2017
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Film and Media Art (MFA) Program / 2017 Fall

Alien: Desolation, 2022

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Identifier: pb_2022fall_krebs_jonathan.pdf
Overview "ALIEN: DESOLATION is a transmedia exercise exploring the potential for tabletop role-playing games to craft unique, open-ended stories where the events within depend on coordination between player and "Game Master." The project takes two forms: a written and laid out set of three "adventures," and an audio drama in five parts. The events of four of the episodes of the audio drama are either recordings of "actual play" of the related adventure, or a scripted re-envsioning of the events of...
Dates: 2022
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Publishing and Writing (MA) Program / 2022 Fall

Alien experience, 2016

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Identifier: cw_2016spring_shoen_kayleigh.pdf
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"This collection of stories, ranging in length from 100 words to 29 pages, represents my experiments in the short story form over the last three years. The settings of the stories are diverse, but each addresses an aspect of the alien experience of life with other people."--Abstract.

Dates: 2016
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2016 Spring

All in a Dave's work, 2018

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Identifier: cw_2018spring_babendir_bradley.pdf
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"This novel follows David Feinbuam, a doctor focusing on male fertility, as he seeks to save his failing business. Despite the protests of his two employees--both women--he gets involved with Mens' Rights Activists to boost the visibility of his clinic. After this fails spectacularly, he'll be left to pick up the pieces of his personal and professional life." --Abstract.

Dates: 2018
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2018 Spring

All That Passes, 2021

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Identifier: cw_2021spring_johnson_spencer.pdf
Overview "All That Passes is a collection of seven stories linked by the theme of death. More precisely, the stories explore the experiences and narratives that surround death, based on the understanding that the event of passing is one that everybody encounters at least once in their life. The genres vary from literary realism to speculative and weird fiction. All That Passes is an ongoing project with the purpose of drawing death as close as one can manage in life. The collection includes stories...
Dates: 2021
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2021 Spring

All the Choices You Could Make, 2024

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Identifier: cw_2024spring_chang_joseph.pdf
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"My thesis project is the opening 103 pages of my novel entitled "All the Choices You Could Make." This thesis project consists of a prologue and twelve chapters, representing roughly one-third of a work-in-progress novel manuscript." -- Abstract

Dates: 2024
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2024 Spring

All the Time in the World, 2020

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Identifier: cw_2020spring_burch_ciera.pdf
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"After moving to her mother's hometown to help care for her estranged grandmother, Jericka Walker is struck by secrets about her mother's own abandonment and must learn to reconcile her memories of her mom and their relationship with revelations about her family's past, all while coming to terms with own sexuality and a new, burgeoning crush." -- Abstract

Dates: 2020
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2020 Spring

"All Things Pretty and Wild", 2021

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Identifier: cw_2021spring_zicari_clare.pdf
Overview "This project seeks to explore the multivalent nature of experience and memory, following a young woman (Elizabeth) home after the death of her strange and distant friend (Ursa). Through a tangled web of lived and learned experience, flash-backs, dreamscapes, and mis- remembrances, Elizabeth must seek out the gods responsible for the gradual disintegration of her family and friendships, and reassign order to the place and meaning of her childhood––trying not to lose who she believes herself...
Dates: 2021
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2021 Spring

All we are, 2015

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Identifier: cw_2015spring_masters_laura.pdf
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"All We Are is a collection of short stories that explores the emotional response of individuals to their own trials." --Abstract.

Dates: 2015
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2015 Spring

Alone at the Top of the World, 2019

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Identifier: cw_2019spring_king_matt.pdf
Overview "This collection comprises ten nonfiction pieces—lyric and personal essays, reported dispatches and cultural commentary—that were produced during my creative writing career at Emerson. These works explore themes of progress and ambition, the interplay between occupation and identity, and the alienating effects of global capitalism. Skyscrapers are a main subject of several essays, and a recurring motif throughout the collection. Key settings include the suburbs and plains of the American...
Dates: 2019
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2019 Spring

Along the Asymptote, 2020

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Identifier: cw_2020spring_govender_cindy.pdf
Overview "This non-fiction collection is about people who live along the asymptote—ordinary or obscured people and their experiences, challenges and triumphs in the periphery; people, places and things we don't always see, hear or remember. Each of their stories reveals the vitality of the human spirit. In the ordinary, there is extraordinary. The poems and essays traverse time and continents. Across generations and geographies, the sound of living in the shadows is the same; the sound of separation,...
Dates: 2020
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2020 Spring

Alpas and Academy of Arcana, 2023

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Identifier: sf_2023spring_logsdon_kelsey.pdf
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"ALPAS: A hot-headed but determined sixteen-year-old is searching for an escape after being forcibly sent away to a wilderness rehabilitation retreat– but she quickly realizes that there is no escaping who you truly are. ACADEMY OF ARCANA: The golden daughter of the most powerful witch coven in all the realms is beginning her higher education at the most underfunded institution for magic while trying to not let anyone know that she is actually powerless." -- Logline

Dates: 2023
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Writing for Film and Television (MFA) Program / 2023 Spring

Alvy2, 2020

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Identifier: vma_2020spring_alvy_philip_daniel.pdf
Overview "ALVY2 is an online multimedia experience that explores a collection of creations that preserve a past generation. The various pieces dive into the relationship he had with his grandmother, who was a painter, photographer, chef, E.R. nurse, author, and dreamer. The installation reimagines the original artwork she had created in her lifetime and molds them into a new collaboration. Various materials are called upon, blending traditional art with new media to create an immersive experience....
Dates: 2020
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Film and Media Art (MFA) Program / 2020 Spring

Amanirenas, 2019

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Identifier: pf_2019fall_christopher_nicole.pdf
Overview "From 40 B.C. to 10 B.C. Amanirenas ruled the vast, rich kingdom of Kush. During her thirty-year reign, Amanirenas became identified as the warrior queen, known across the lands for her might and skill on the battlefield. With great strength, precision, and grace, she led Kushite armies to numerous victories against the notorious Roman army. For all her power and skill in war, little is known about Amanirenas the woman. She is a queen without a history—only faint whisper serving as her...
Dates: 2019
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Popular Fiction Writing and Publishing (MFA) Program / 2019 Fall

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