2025 HAD Student Symposium can be reviewed here.
You can view Undergraduate Senior Seminar Presentations and Graduate Thesis Presentations. Just click on the poster to play the video.
Congratulations to all graduating students!
Undergraduate Students
Logan Davis
Dancing with the Grotesque: The Aesthetic and Psychological Dimensions of the Dancing Plague
Senior Seminar, Advisor: Marsha Morton
Annabel Paradise
Freak Shows and the Exploitation of Abnormalities
Senior Seminar, Advisor: Marsha Morton
Ava Szymanski
The Female Grotesque in Feminist Performance Art, 1960-1975
Senior Seminar, Advisor: Marsha Morton
Maritess Cobane
Piss Perspectives: Political, Profane, and Performative
Senior Seminar, Advisor: Marsha Morton
Zihan Cui
The Grotesque Art and Visual Culture of Shan Hai Jing Imagery
Senior Seminar, Advisor: Marsha Morton
Dayne Traynor
The Grotesque in Roman Iconography: Interpreting the Sicilian Trinacria
Senior Seminar, Advisor: Marsha Morton
Dayne Traynor
Material and Meaning in the Wall Paintings of Ostia Antica
Senior Seminar, Advisor: Diana Gisolfi
Graduate Students
Sarah Bannan
Nancy Baker Cahill: Imagining Virtually Greener Realities
MA Thesis, Advisor: Anca Lasc
Malika Dèsirè
Between Liberty and Empire: The Art of Conflicting Ideals
MA Thesis, Advisor: Anca Lasc
Maia S. Hirschler
Making Sea Water Clear: Working Through Traumatic Memory in Lynda Barry’s Memoirs
MA Thesis, Advisor: Erica Morawski
Emily R. Kokotajlo
Animation at the Intersection of Authorship and Labor: Critically Analyzing the Careers of Lotte Reiniger and Katrin Rothe
MA Thesis, Advisor: Corinna Kirsch
Hannah Rothfield
Reel Relics: The Afterlife of Cinematic Props in Museums, Private Collections, and Public Spaces
MA Thesis, Advisor: Lisa Banner