We Are Daughters In Love: Unbound by Dystopic Time and Untethered to the Edge of Imagination (2023)

A Black Feminist’s Film Meditation

Advised by Dr. Farah Griffin, this MA Thesis was the culmination of two years of academic inquiry into contemporary works in Black Studies and film analysis. In Griffin's words: "Hers is a careful, detailed, theoretically informed and historically grounded reading of the episode that provides Ross ample opportunity to explore her own critical interventions and critical vocabulary. Within these pages, she is both critical thinker and creative writer, blurring the artificial boundary between these two subject positions, bringing her holistic self to bear upon her viewing and analysis: screenwriter, fiction writer, academic critic, daughter, Black Feminist, she who yearns for a better and more racially just future."

This project was the recipient of the African American and African Diaspora Studies Department's Zora Neale Hurston Thesis Prize.