Thesis Title: Traditional Typography in the Service of Modern Typology: Textual Materialism and the Modernist Print Innovations of the Kelmscott and Hogarth Presses
What Now: Analyst at The Type Founders
I came to Hist & Lit drawn to the ways books, ideas...
Thesis Title: "It Was the Wild Wild West Out There": Queer Utopia and The Frontier at Frameline Film Festival in San Francisco, 1977-1996
What Now: Sound Mixer / Sound Designer - Co-owner, Wild Shape Sound
In addition to my written thesis, I created a 20...
Thesis Title: “Make America Fit Again”: SUPERMAN #170 and the Rise of Youth Fitness Culture in Cold War America, 1953-1964
What Now: VP of Development, Tricky Knot
In so many ways, I owe the Hist & Lit department for helping me realize the vast...
Thesis Title: "please / no american mierdas:" Shattering Silences, Salvadoran (In)visibilities, and Imagined Nation in Javier Zamora's Unaccompanied
What Now: MFA candidate in Fiction at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and General Education Literature...
Thesis Title: Shifting Visions: The Generic and Gender Legacy of the Female Outlaw in Ridley Scott's Thelma & Louise
What Now: Creative Executive, Orion Pictures
What Next: Hopefully bringing stories of brave women and marginalized voices to more screens...
Thesis Title: Lifting up the Lower East Side: Uptown Jewish Women, "Ghetto Girls," and the Effort to Redeem Jewish Female Delinquency in New York, 1900-1924
What Now: Producer of Poetry in America, Co-Founder of Verse Video Education
What Next: Producing...
Thesis Title: The Ghostly Grotesque: The Revolutionary Satire and Intersectionality of H.T. Tsiang’s The Hanging on Union Square
What Now: Comedian & Writer for Late Night with Seth Meyers
What Next: Would love to get a dog someday
I loved concentrating in...
Thesis Title: “My Wealth in Ivy Island”: The Use of Fantasy and Fable in the Works of P.T. Barnum
What Now: Screenwriter
What Next: Further literary and historical pursuits
During my thesis research, I learned that Harvard University holds, deep within its...
Thesis Title: "Martinka's on Saturday Night": The Society of American Magicians and the Professionalization of Magic
What Now: Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of Sycamore Studios
When I started at Harvard, I knew I wanted to work in film eventually...
Thesis Title: “Books Like these are Burned!’: The 1933 Nazi Book Burnings in American Historical Memory
What Now: Editor, Simon & Schuster
I started my History & Literature thesis with several questions—about the 1933 Nazi book burnings and the 1943...