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Film and Media Studies
In its Film and Media Studies, formerly known as Literary and Cultural Studies, awards one leve of Honors to successful student research projects (effective May 2009). The projects listed below have been defended successfully, and a copy of the thesis deposited in Swem Library.
Key:
- Student, "Thesis" (Honors level)
Committee Chair + Other Committee Members
2024-2025
- Sean Dawson Burdett, (Honors)
Keith Johnson + Derek Vouri-Richard, Daniel Johnson
- Abigail Hannah Johnson, (Honors)
Timothy Barnard + Deborah Morse, Rich Lowry
- Hannah Isabella Montalvo, " (Honors)
Tanya Stadelmann + Keith Johnson, Stephen Sheehi
- Clara Faye Whitney, (Honors)
Brian Castleberry + Jon Pineda, Kevin Smith, Alicia Andrzejewski
- Yiyi Zheng, (Honors)
Daniel Johnson + Keith Johnson, Arthur Knight, Emily Wilcox
2023-2024
- No Honors students this year
2022-2023
- Nicholas Michael Hall, "" (Honors)
Jennifer Taylor + Keith Johnson, Sergio Ferrarese
2021-2022
- Madison Carel, "" (Honors)
Jennifer Taylor + Brian Castleberry, Andrew Blossom
2020-2021
- Alexis Mays, "" (Honors)
Brian Castleberry + Arthur Knight, Jon Pineda - Mary McCants, "" (Honors)
Keith Johnson + Richard Lowry, Erin Minear - Eva-Mariam Ssekibenga, "" (Honors)
Jon Pineda + Arthur Knight, Timothy Barnard - Jiarui Sun, "" (Honors)
Richard Lowry + Arthur Knight, Robin Ellis - Mia Wilson, "" (Honors)
Jon Pineda + Brian Castleberry, Kevin Michael Smith
2019-2020
- Brooke Rees, "" (Honors)
Tim Barnard + Richard Lowry, Jay Watkins
2018-19
- Alicia Devereaux, ""
Richard Lowry + Arthur Knight
2017-18
- No Honors students this year
2016-17
- No Honors students this year
2015-16
- Michael Burrows, "" (Highest Honors)
Jennifer Taylor + Alexander Prokhorov, Monica Seger, Frederick Corney - Anne Curran, "" (High Honors)
Simon Joyce + Christy Burns, Ann Marie Stock
2014-15
- Carlton Fleenor, (Honors)
Arthur Knight + Keith Leslie Johnson, Brad Weiss
2013-14
- No Honors students this year
2012-13
- Shannon Crawford, "" (Honors)
Gary Eckles + Sharon Zuber, Troy Davis - Elizabeth Tompkins, "" (Honors)
Bruce Campbell + Varun Begley, John Froitzheim
2011-12
- Catherine Barth, "" (Honors)
Charles Palermo + Catherine Levesque, Christopher MacGowan, Ann Marie Stock - Tyler Williamson, "The Ascendancy of Cinematic Imitation Narrative" (Honors)
Varun Begley, Colleen Kennedy, Ann Marie Stock
2010-11
- Caitlin Clements, (Honors)
Sharon Zuber + Tim Barnard, Lena Prokhorova - Alexandra Volpert, (Honors)
Thomas Linneman + Colleen Kennedy, Ed Pease
2009-10
- No Honors students this year.
2008-09
- Salar Mohandesi, "" (Honors)
Simon Joyce + Varun Begley, Ruch Lowry, Bill Fisher
2007-08
- Kristin Boos, "The Mega-, Melo-, and Meta-Drama in Adaptations of The Phantom of the Opera" (High Honors)
Colleen Kennedy + Simon Joyce, Katherine Preston - Adam Miller, "A Million Little Pieces, Incorporated: How Oprah Winfrey Maintained Her (Non)Capitalist Media Empire" (High Honors)
Suzanne Raitt + Arthur Knight, Wendy Korwin, Varun Begley - Timothy Robinson, "Cultural Value in Historical Pastiche: Reclaiming the Past as Modern 'Parody' and Postmodern 'Pastiche' in The Hours and Marie Antoinette" (Highest Honors)
Colleen Kennedy + Christy Burns, Michael Leruth
2006-07
- Frederica Fredericks, "25-Cent Lemonade" (Honors)
Sharon Zuber + Troy Davis, FrancisTanglo -Aguas - Alejandro Salinas, "Teens, Titans, and Terror: Adaptation in the Postmodern" (Honors)
Colleen Kennedy + Arthur Knight, Silvia Tandeciarz
2005-06
- Kyle Meikle, "Franchising Fight Club: Redefining the Postmodern as
Prodict " (Highest Honors)
Colleen Kennedy + Simon Joyce, Maximilian de Gaynesford