The Department of English and World Languages is pleased to announce Mary Miller successfully defended her MA English thesis. Her creative work, titled “Audio Description and Silent Film: Using visual rhetoric and principles of disability studies to create an AD track” included creating the audio description track for a 1924 silent film, Sherlock, Jr.. The audio description work was informed by disability studies and rhetorical studies, with the thesis including extension discussion on the rhetorical choices made in creating an audio description for a film.
Her work was chaired by Dr. Emily Baldys with committee members Dr. Jill Craven and Dr. A Nicole Pfannenstiel. Her work was successfully defended June 4th, 2024.
Congratulations Mary on all you’ve accomplished in our graduate program!