Master of Arts in Visual and Critical Studies: Thesis Abstracts

2011 Thesis Abstracts

Kate Korroch
Concocting corporeality : the body in contemporary visual art by artists from South Korea

Jessica Bardsley
Nostalgic historiography : an evocation before the archive

Kelly Christian
"Rather a grave subject..." the critical role of the nineteenth century postmortem photograph

Christine Campe
Why not think about illustration : contemporary illustration from a visual studies perspective

Gabrielle Scott
The comfort of strangeness : a conversation on molecular gastronomy, taste and memory

Alana Dao
From away : viewing shades of whiteness through the lens of tourism

Annan Shehadi
Objects of Palestine : narratives of Chicago’s diaspora

2011 Thesis Abstracts

Sara Ann Clugage
All the kings horses : neuropsychology and the fractured brain

Thomas Brandon Evans
Sympathetic resonances : relationality and affect in the sonic field

R. E. H. Gordon
The observants (a sculpture and performance) & extremely precise objects of ambiguous use

Meredith Shea Kooi
The misfit mime mimes self : new metaphors for autoimmunity

Lucy Catherine Parker
Paint.exe : a history of computer paint tools

Lauren A. Ross
Ritual, repetition, transformation : performance art works and the politics of mourning

Jeremy Stephen Shedd
Images that arent ours : how representation structures identity in the digital age

Andrea Slavik
Collegiate Gothic : the specters of progress at the University of Chicago

Samantha Topol
Airplane mode on : the skymall effect

Dustin Yager
No accounting for taste : consumption, identity, and the development of lifestyle culture

2010 Thesis Abstracts

Maureen Alison Burns
The conflicting desires of mobility : metaphors of the exile, the tourist, the nomad, and other figures of travel

Alicia Chester
Beholding bodies and embodied beholders in Annette Messagers Mes vux

Joel Lansing Kuennen
I in space : contemporary subjectivity in place and time

Kristi McGuire
Revising the pharmacist and its imaginary twin : a strange cartography & an intentional agent in the process of being distinguished again

Divya Menon
Memory and history in Modern literature

Susan Nadine Morelock
The illusionist : looking at post-production photography in the twenty-first century

Zephyr Pfotenhauer
Subject to change : trickster modalities in the art of Zephyr Pfotenhauer.

Brian Wallace
The woods

2009 Thesis Abstracts

Ellen Hartwell Alderman
Phenomenal translucency in Toyo Itos T House

Michael Gibisser
Between the symptom and the synapse : the intensity of dementia

2008 Thesis Abstract

Jefferson Dakota Brown
Re-reading Emigre, 1994-2005 : design criticism and critical practice

2007 Thesis Abstracts

A. Pandjiris
Always still to come : redemption, anticipation and melancholia

Ismiaji Cahyono
Balancing the act : pursuing a socially responsible graphic design in Indonesia

Garland M. Taylor
An installation, remember your death...

Julia Marsh
Looking at Lincoln : pictures and persuasions