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Scottish chiefs : a critical edition book proposal, 2017

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Identifier: cw_2017spring_schwertner_danielle.pdf
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"This proposal for a critical edition of [Jane] Porter's last work, The Scottish Chiefs, aims to bring both the novel and Porter back to the surface of popular and academic awareness. The proposal includes a market analysis, a marking and publicity plan, and sample chapters that now include textual and contextual notes." --Abstract.

Dates: 2017
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Publishing and Writing (MA) Program / 2017 Spring

Sea of doors, 2015

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Identifier: cw_2015spring_pailthorpe_jordan.pdf
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"Sea of Doors is a collection of poems that utilizes the form of the video game by using the rules (ethics, diction, perspective) of individual game worlds as the guiding philosophy behind each poem." --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

Secrets in Blood, 2023

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Identifier: pf_2023spring_schumaker_katherine.pdf
Overview "Sabine, a medical illustrator, and her father, Docteur Claude Cloutier, an experimental and shamed surgeon in the country of Val Romais, are summoned to the Palace to treat Princess Vivienne for a mysterious illness that turns her blood against her. As Sabine and her father work in the Palace with some of the brightest medical minds on the continent, they discover that certain illnesses cannot be explained through modern medicine alone. Blood stains the halls of the royal home, and...
Dates: 2023
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 / 2023 Spring

Seedlings, 2023

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Identifier: sf_2023spring_eglitis_gerard.pdf
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"Seedlings is a feature-length children's animated film made for theatrical release. Set in the present day, Seedlings follows a young seed and her new human friend's exploration of what is on the other side of life as they know it. The film heavily focuses on the concepts of death and family, both chosen and biological. Although the feature is entertaining, Seedlings educates children and families on life cycles and reinforces the idea that change is inevitable and natural." -- Abstract

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

Self-Induced Exorcism Inside an Empty House, 2023

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Identifier: cw_2023spring_guttmann_graeme.pdf
Overview "Self-Induced Exorcism Inside an Empty House is a cerebral road trip of poems exploring what it means to leave and be left, both physically – death, the leaving of a lover — and esoterically — what happens to the body and the mind when the things that have kept us stable leave? What happens when we exorcise the things that are holding us back or holding us together? Self-Induced Exorcism explores how grief manifests — how, even before loss, the anticipation of it can shape the way we move...
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

Send a Voice, 2022

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Identifier: vm_2022fall_kopp_aaron.pdf
Overview "A young Lakota mother fights to do the best she can for her children in this poetic meditation on motherhood, trauma, and healing. Send a Voice is a lyrical documentary/fiction hybrid film about Kristina, a young Oglala Lakota mother navigating a hostile world. From the underbelly of Rapid City to the summit of Black Elk's Peak, the project explores the possibility of seeing through the material world to the spiritual. The film is a collaboration between Lakota writer and advocate, Sunny...
Dates: 2022
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Film and Media Art (MFA) Program / 2022 Fall

Serving face, 2016

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Identifier: cw_2016fall_grabeel_noah.pdf
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"Serving Face explores sexuality, gender identity, and kink culture in a variety of forms, with particular focus on gender play and queer identity...While not every story is overtly sexual in nature, they all touch on important aspects of queer or LGBT+ identity and culture. The characters vary in demographics, gender, sexuality, and race, but they are all unified in how they come to express non-normative sexuality and gender." --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 Fall

Sesame, 2022

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Identifier: pf_2022spring_stewart_lisa.pdf
Overview "The aim of this thesis was to create a work of popular fiction in the horror genre. This thesis contains a section of a novel set in the rural New York town of Red Creek. A ten-year old girl named Laura lives with her mother, who is possessed by menacing ghosts. The mother, colloquially known as Mama, threatens Laura and keeps her isolated within their house that borders a vast rail yard. Laura, desperate to escape, explores the rail yard, dreaming of finding a way out. She meets a...
Dates: 2022
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 / 2022 Spring

Seven Lives of Dinah Ash, 2019

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Identifier: cw_2019spring_kaplun_maria.pdf
Overview "This bildungsroman is about the search for and the meaning of identity, about the essence of culture, and, as any human pursuit, about love and death. Dinah Ash is a Russian Jewish ballerina, who grows up in the late Soviet Union and moves to the U.S. to escape the rising tide of antisemitism as her civilization is collapsing. Having lost her fiancé to the Afghanistan war and her grandmother to lymphoma, she is alone in a strange land, soon to discover she is losing ballet, too, to...
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

Shadows of Memory, 2021

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Identifier: pf_2021fall_johnson_emily.pdf
Overview "The story follows witty and sarcastic Zoe, a sixteen-year-old girl, as she and her fellow humans are being held hostage on the planet Sudeer by reptilian overlords called Trogs. She discovers who she is and what she is capable of while living in a harsh, oppressive atmosphere where she fights for the Trogs' amusement. Earth is just a shadow of a memory, but it is their best and only chance at living the life they always knew they could. A place where she could actually date Carter, the...
Dates: 2021
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 / 2021 Fall

Sharing Moonlight, 2023

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Identifier: pf_2023spring_sterling_katsumi.pdf
Overview "Sharing Moonlight is the first installment of a multi-POV New Adult Fantasy series about Miro, a young survivor of the kaimeira massacre ninety years ago, and the challenges he faces after he is forced to seek the truth and his lost twin in human form. When the eadile clan's disappearance sparks mass panic, Miro's choices are limited. One of them is Aiden, an eadile enforcer who helped him before. Once found, Miro learns that Aiden is embroiled in a civil war that has drawn the ire of the...
Dates: 2023
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 / 2023 Spring

Shattered Margins, 2023

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Identifier: pf_2023spring_savage_joseph.pdf
Overview "Shattered Margins is a 70,000 word science fiction medical thriller that picks up a century later where H.G. Wells's The Island of Dr. Moreau left off. Dr. Kaz Smith is an "almost" man. He's almost rich, almost happy, and, as of this morning, almost dead. After he gets home from a night shift in a small New Mexico hospital emergency department, a woman comes to his front door, imploring him to leave immediately. But she won't say why. Naturally, Kaz is reluctant to go with her, until she...
Dates: 2023
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 / 2023 Spring

Shattered Sun, 2023

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Identifier: pf_2023fall_vacanti_antonio.pdf
Overview "The nation of Anari has been entrenched in civil war for over two centuries as warring successor kingdoms vie for supremacy. Casil, born as a slave to the nobility, is bought by the enigmatic Captain Avreka of the mercenary company the Shattered Suns. the Suns become a second family to Casil. In the present, Casil now commands the Suns after the death of Avreka. He is haunted by his past and the newfound responsibility of his inheritance. The Suns have been employed by a Kingdom on the...
Dates: 2023
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 / 2023 Fall

Show Me, Don't Tell Me: A Look At Theatre Makers of Today and Tomorrow, 2022

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Identifier: te_2022spring_winton_alicia.pdf
Overview "I found my way to my thesis topic by starting with a subject that constantly occupies space in my thoughts: impact. I was born with something I call "detrimental empathy." It is a condition in which I have so much empathy for the people and things around me that it impacts my ability to interact with the world. For example, I cannot read or watch the news because if I hear or see something sad, I will cry and obsess over it for days. When I'm driving, I brake for animals in the street no...
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

Shraddha, 2018

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Identifier: vm_2018spring_padhye_jasraj.pdf
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"Shraddha is a short narrative drama that explores ideas of faith and spirituality in a land of many religions, India. The characters in the film are representational of the different perceptions people have about Hindu Saints/God-men in the country." --Abstract.

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

Shut your eyes I'm gonna dance ; My nature, 2017

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Identifier: vm_2017fall_aviral_ulya.pdf
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"A trans man facing his alter ego in a fantastical mind-room and a woman escaping war in tunnels under the ground in the Middle East, this 2-film thesis project explores identity within social justice themes. This project aims to address gender, sexuality and ethnicity issues and connect the two films with the need for freedom and peace. These films investigate in ways of telling different stories through similar image strategies and experimental narratives." --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

Signaling Earth and Other Stories of Failed Heroines, 2021

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Identifier: cw_2021spring_manley_courtney.pdf
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"Signaling Earth and Other Stories of Failed Heroines' is a literary short story collection that spans a wide range of genres from fabulist to contemporary realism. While varied in subject matter and content, the collection as a whole explores what it means for young queer women to grow up in a world inhospitable to them. The collection breaks down and explores themes of love, acceptance, and hope through the lens of race, sexuality, and gender." -- Abstract

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

Signs and Wonders, 2023

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Identifier: pf_2023summer_hieber_leah.pdf
Overview "Yaeli, a young female rabbi, accepts her first rabbinical position in Siuslaw Oregon, the site of her greatest secret regret. She fears encountering her former best friend, Molly, whom Yaeli abandoned the morning after their secret wedding. Yaeli fears that Molly might still be living in Siuslaw and that an encounter might force them to confront this painful memory. While serving as the Siuslaw rabbi, Yaeli receives a surprise visit from her estranged twin brother, Danny, who she believes...
Dates: 2023
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 / 2023 Summer

Silence, 2021

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Identifier: pf_2021summer_croasdale_caraline.pdf
Overview "Silence. is a modern fantasy with high fantasy elements. It explores the themes of growth, found family, love and how to communicate when the spoken word is insufficient. Set in 2001, Yeshaya, an alien in Area 51's custody, breaks out to exorcise the god of Death possessing her and threatening to destroy Earth. Along the way she accidentally picks up Brianna (a sixteen year old from Phoenix), and Eli Richter (the angel sent to retrieve Brianna). Together they puzzle out ingredients for a...
Dates: 2021
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 / 2021 Summer

Skating backward, 2015

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Identifier: cw_2015fall_turner_andrea.pdf
Overview "From 'daddy's girl' to 'daddy issues' the journey to forgiveness and understanding is the road less traveled by, but the road the author takes nonetheless. It's messy and complicated, she comes to find, just the way she likes it. Sometimes that which we fear the most is what sets us free. Abused and broken, she looks in all the wrong places to make herself whole again. When she finds the answer, that had been there all along, she must find a way to forgive and accept in order to move on."...
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 Fall

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