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AcademicsDegree ProgramsMFA in Film & Television StudiesMeet the Students

Film & TV Studies MFA Students

Class of 2019 Thesis Titles

  • Chris Wei, “Now is the Envy of All of the Dead: An Introduction to Don Hertzfeldt, The Animator”
  • Richanjali Lal, “Everyday Life, Everyday Songs: A Re-Valuation of Song Sequences in Popular Hindi Films of the 1950s”
  • Laura Brown, “Strings Attached: Orchestrating the Role of Music in Early Television”
  • Cayce Campbell, “Constructing Liberal Fantasy Presidents on Television: How Battlestar Galactica and The West Wing Responded to the Bush Era”
  • Cecilia Pardo, “The Impact of a Political Transition on Canal Encuentro’s Public Mission: Social Equality, Diversity, and Representing the Nation”


    • Class of 2018 Thesis Titles

  • Ricky Ashkanugraha: Light at the End of the Tunnel: The Representation of War in Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s Vietnam War
  • Lena Barkin: Jamie is My Darlin’: Masculinity and Sexuality in Outlander and Doctor Who
  • Ben Dulavitch: The Films of Maren Ade
  • Megan Hermida Lu: Hollywood’s Orientals: Asian American Representation in Early U.S. Cinema
  • Dennis Major: Creating Interested Publics: The Style of National News on Network and Public Television
  • Reut Odinak: ‘Nolite Te Bastardes Carborundorum’: Motherhood In The Handmaid’s Tale And Orphan Black
  • Tara Zdancewicz: Over Her Hill: Charged Humor and Representations of Older Women on Broadcast, Cable and Streaming


    • Class of 2017 Thesis Titles

  • Eric Forthun: The Stand-up Sitcom: How the Independent Stand-up Comic Translates Comedy to Television
  • Jason Henson: The Long War, In Theaters Now: A Genre Study of the War on Terror in American Film
  • I-Lin Liu: Robert Kramer’s Early Films, 1965-1975
  • Brett Wright: Obscurities of Order: Reimagining Mumblecore through the Films of Frank Ross

    • Ricky Aksharanugraha

      Film & Television Studies MFA’18

    • Dana Alston

      Film & Television Studies MFA’21

    • Laura Brown

      Film & Television Studies MFA’19

    • Cayce Campbell

      Film & Television Studies MFA’19

    • Ben Dulavitch

      Film & Television Studies MFA’18

    • Julia Henken

      Film & Television Studies MFA’21

    • Pete Johnson

      Film & Television Studies MFA’21

    • Richanjali Lal

      Film & Television Studies MFA’19

    • Tom Laverriere

      Film & Television Studies MFA’23

    • Dennis Major

      Film & Television Studies MFA’18

    • Reut Odinak

      Film & Television Studies MFA’18

    • Cecilia Pardo

      Film & Television Studies MFA’19

    • Chris Wei

      Film & Television Studies MFA’19

    • Tara Zdancewicz

      Film & Television Studies MFA’18

    • Juliette Fahey

      Film & Television Studies MFA’20

    • Ruth Johnson

      Film & Television Studies MFA’20

    • Shannon Sweeney

      Film & Television Studies MFA’20

    • Betsy Walters

      Film & Television Studies MFA’20

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