The T&T dissertation is an original contribution to scholarship on technology and culture, and its form follows the project. Many students write a traditional research dissertation; others pair written chapters with a game, a digital archive, or another born-digital work that is itself part of the argument.
T&T students have written dissertations on topics as varied as embroidery as an archival-activist technology, Digital Humanities in community college libraries, and the use of Instagram in first-year composition. They also use a wide variety of methods, from critical code studies to digital archives to augmented reality language learning games.
Over the course of the project, you’ll define the questions that anchor your research, work through the relevant literature and theory, choose and apply appropriate methods, and learn to communicate complex ideas clearly, refining the core skills of scholarly work for whatever comes next for you academically or professionally.
To see the range of projects our students have completed, browse the Texts and Technology STARS archive.