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Re-hear-sing Performative Traditions: Engaging With Cultural Practices in College Devised Theatre, 2020
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Identifier: te_2020spring_thiel_john.pdf
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"This thesis documents the methodology, findings, and theoretical underpinnings of a qualitative research study that investigates how a small sample of Emerson College undergraduate and graduate students engaged with cultural traditions from their upbringings in the devised theatre project 'What Moves Us,' which I directed in the spring of 2020. Recognizing in devised theatre the potential for intervention in college-level theatre practices that can privilege hegemonic cultural values and...
Dates:
2020
Reach You Tonight, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_janusis_jacqueline.pdf
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"My thesis is focused on themes of grief, loneliness, and the natural world. One of my goals for these poems was to take myself out of them, and to be an observer of my surroundings. There is also an emphasis on the connection of self to nature, and how that can sometimes be neglected. Considering these themes, another intention for this project was to employ as many forms possible. I utilize fragmentation as well as more traditional forms such as the sonnet. My title provides readers with a...
Dates:
2023
Reading and Writing in People with Aphasia Who Benefit from AAC, 2023
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Identifier: cd_2023spring_anderson_olivia.pdf
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"The AAC-Aphasia Categorical Framework (AACF) describes people with aphasia based on the degree of support needed to use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) strategies (Lasker & Garrett, 2005). The AACF ranges from partner supported communicators to more independent communicator types. This study investigates reading and writing abilities in Stored Message and Generative Message communicators through standardized testing. Results reveal that Generative Message communicators...
Dates:
2023
Reading plays and discussing them : the PRBC and an audience development tactic for purposeful retention, 2018
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Identifier: te_2018spring_lindholm_aden.pdf
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"Audience development, and the field of research surrounding it, is intended to explore options and tactics on how best the theatre can expand to consumers that have historically been hard to reach. As the theatre is experiencing lower rates of attendance nationwide, this effort is especially important for the prosperity of the art form moving forward. This project researched the effectiveness of ArtsEmerson’s audience development program, the Play Reading Book Club (PRBC), an initiative put...
Dates:
2018
Realty check, 2018
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Identifier: wf_2018spring_cable_meghan.pdf
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"Realty Check focuses on a business woman's struggle to remain ethical and positive in the real estate world, as she shows her young daughter what it means to be responsible for one's own actions. While the plot narrows in on the specifics of sales goals and achieving high status in the workplace, the underlying theme is indubitably the importance of family and what it means to find your home, both in the physical sense and the emotional sense. The film situates itself into the body of work...
Dates:
2018
Red Glare, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_kilstein_bruce.pdf
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"Red Glare is set in Georgia in 1939. Three protagonists: Clementine Barnes, a Black, female physician recently graduated from medical school; Calvin Taylor, a white, baseball player who has moved from Pennsylvania for his first professional job in the minor leagues; and Jackson Bennet, a white sports reporter for the local newspaper. Due to racial discrimination, Clementine is forced to practice medicine in the back of the cafe run by her mother, who is also a traditional healer....
Dates:
2021
Red Sauce, 2023
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Identifier: sf_2023spring_giardina_lynsey.pdf
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"Red Sauce is a feature length film designed for a theatrical and film festival release that focuses on childhood trauma. Set in a shotgun house in New Orleans, Lisa comes home for Thanksgiving to find not much has changed. Except for the fact that she is ready to confront her past trauma by wrecking her present life. Over the course of a single day, we follow the Campino family as the traumas of their past are unearthed during a Sicilian Thanksgiving day feast in Red Sauce." -- Abstract
Dates:
2023
Red years, 2017
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Identifier: cw_2017spring_ritchie_robyn.pdf
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"The Red Years is the first of three parts in a full novel. It tells the story of a small Southern town in the time of a serial rapist. In the final years of their adolescence, Marco and Henrietta, prominent children of prominent town officials, find their identity shifted and shaded by the recent attacks. As they both search for the rapist—in the name of recognition, responsibility and revenge—what they find is only the vast empty space that separates who they are and who they want to be."...
Dates:
2017
Reducing Appearance Anxiety: Technological Supports on Instagram, 2024
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Identifier: md_2024spring_liu_yaqi.pdf
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"Appearance anxiety, a distress stemming from dissatisfaction with one's physical appearance, disproportionately impacts young females. This study identifies certain Instagram features that correlate with increased appearance anxiety. In response, we designed three features for Instagram: a single-click option to hide likes and followers, redesigned time reminders, and altered content recommendations. These interventions aim to reduce the factors that contribute to appearance anxiety and...
Dates:
2024
Refuge(e): Dispatches from the Pediatric Wards, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_jackson_benjamin.pdf
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"In the mid 2010s, my daughter Emma was emergently admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital for what would become a five-month stay. This thesis examines that time as a travelogue, particularly from the point of view as someone seeking refuge. It considers not only the experience of the stay but also the people, places, and power dynamics I encountered during it." -- Abstract
Dates:
2023
Refugee Heart, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019spring_ebrahim_yussra.pdf
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"This thesis is a political memoir about war, identity, and finding home. The story takes readers through the Iraq War from the eyes of an Iraqi girl living in the United States. I visit five Middle Eastern countries, the five sections of my memoir, over the course of my childhood to stay connected to my roots and my family after having lost loved ones, our homeland, and our sense of self to unimaginable violence. The narrative unfolds with our history and the political and personal...
Dates:
2019
Reimagining sexual assault prevention : an iterative process of co-design towards college student sexual expectation alignment, 2017
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Identifier: cm_2017summer_hanebutt_rachel.pdf
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"A digital facilitation tool with intentions to reimagine collegiate health relationship education as an iterative process that is co-designed with students, Confi+ utilizes anonymous polling, crowd-sourced student discussions, and low-barriers of facilitation, in order to more intimately inform a campus' prevention education. Specifically, this prototype demonstrates the utility of customized, school-specific programming that can also provide key stakeholders with measurable insights into...
Dates:
2017
Relationship perception in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder, 2018
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Identifier: cd_2018summer_sager_meredith.pdf
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"Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is characterized by impaired social communication. Features of this impairment, such as difficulties initiating peer interactions, perspective taking, and interpreting social nuance, can make it difficult for individuals with ASD to build and maintain meaningful interpersonal relationships. [This study proposes] that the foundational skill of interpreting the interpersonal relationships of others may also be impaired and contribute to this difficulty."...
Dates:
2018
Remember This, 2022
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Identifier: sw_2022spring_cochrany-zquierdo_kelly.pdf
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"REMEMBER THIS is an eight episode limited series designed for streaming platforms. It focuses on the "what ifs" of advanced Alzheimer's research. The technology is designed to not only view memories but also manipulate them. With a family drama at the heart of this Sci-Fi thriller, REMEMBER THIS explores a mother/daughter relationship that is fraught with expectations and missed opportunities. Family secrets, constructed reality, and self-identity create a narrative that evoke personal and...
Dates:
2022
Repackaging Children's Books, 2016
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Identifier: cw_2016spring_roman_gabrielle.pdf
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"The aim of this project was to repackage Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic novels: 'The Secret Garden,' 'A Little Princess,' and 'Little Lord Fauntleroy.' I updated and designed all three books as a cohesive box set and additionally planned out and developed a layout for a board book version of 'The Secret Garden.' The purpose was to study how designers make decisions to repackage classics, what choices they make while designing new formats, and what demands different formats hold. This...
Dates:
2016
Resaturation, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019spring_puels_raina.pdf
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"Resaturation explores the myriad of ways I confined and shrunk myself in various relationships throughout my life. In fourteen essays, I examine the conditioning of my self-censorship in my relationships with family, friends, roommates, lovers, and my own writing. Eventually, I'm able to understand the consequences of shrinking away parts of myself to accommodate others. Through this examination comes the freedom to celebrate and deliberate on my sexuality, queerness, polyamory, kinks,...
Dates:
2019
Reset, 2020
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Identifier: vma_2020spring_li_jiayue.pdf
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"Reset is a short narrative that depicts the relationship between a couple that has already lost their love and passion to each other. It raises the discussion of the bonded relationship in marriage." -- Abstract
Dates:
2020
Resisting and Perpetuating Dichotomies: Reflecting on a Drama-Based STEM Residency, 2024
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Identifier: te_2024spring_galloway_sofia.pdf
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"This thesis evaluates the successes and challenges associated with a drama-based arts integration residency with adolescent learners. As the world becomes more reliant on STEM literacy, research shows young people, especially girls and young people of color, feel excluded from STEM learning. This project employed drama-based pedagogies to engage young people in STEM learning. The residency was evaluated through qualitative and quantitative methods. The data revealed how students and the...
Dates:
2024
Ricochet: Into the Black, 2021
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Identifier: pf_2021summer_collins_emma.pdf
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"Captain Marcel Moffett of the deep-space freighter 'Vespera' is in trouble. A mysterious woman known only as 'Anubis' has threatened the life of his husband. To keep his family safe, Moffett must trick his mixed-species crew into flying deep into dangerous X-Space territory to salvage a derelict station full of secrets. Back on Earth, Jaeden Halifax is excited to start her life with her boyfriend and finally be free Pittsburgh's scrap yards…until a sudden betrayal sends her into a spiral...
Dates:
2021
Rituals, 2016
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Identifier: vm_2016spring_follett_gabrielle.pdf
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"Rituals is a two-channel installation utilizing direct animation on 16mm film and unsplit 8mm film projected onto a workspace covered in ink, tape, receipts, and love notes in order to explore the intricacies of the artist's romantic relationship." --Abstract.
Dates:
2016