Theses and Dissertations from UMD

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New submissions to the thesis/dissertation collections are added automatically as they are received from the Graduate School. Currently, the Graduate School deposits all theses and dissertations from a given semester after the official graduation date. This means that there may be up to a 4 month delay in the appearance of a give thesis/dissertation in DRUM

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    Mirror Made of Quartz
    (2024) Drummond, Kassiah Ania; Bertram, Lillian-Yvonne; Weiner, Joshua; English Language and Literature; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
    "Mirror Made of Quartz" is a poetic exploration about community divided into four sections that reclaim the displaced emotion of rage with empathy. In the first section "Naming a Better Word for Love", the collection bargains the complexities of expressing love amidst trust and compromise. The next section "(Womb)an", explores how the gift of a name to a daughter, echoes the title of motherhood itself as both are becoming their new roles for the first time. The womb carries legacy, tradition, and trauma. The third section "I Think About Being Black a Lot", dedicates itself to exploring the aspects of the color as an identity, by delving into various culturally impactful folklores, redemption for the unsolved history, and new perspectives to the misunderstood. Finally, the title section, "Mirror Made of Quartz," serves as a supportive reflection of myself by commentating on my name, body, and the person I hope to become with tangible optimism.
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    Investigating Limerence: Predictors of Limerence, Measure Validation, and Goal Progress
    (2017) Wolf, Noah R.; Lemay, Edward P.; Psychology; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
    Limerence is a love experience that involves an obsessive desire for romantic reciprocation from a specific other (the limerent object; LO), which manifests itself as intrusive cognitive preoccupation, emotional dependency, and apprehension. This investigation assessed the construct validity and reliability of a new measure of limerence and examined if various personality characteristics and goal pursuit decisions/outcomes were associated with limerence. College students completed 2 online questionnaires 1 month apart assessing limerence, various love states, personality characteristics, and goal pursuit. Findings suggest the new limerence measure is valid and reliable. Low self-esteem, attachment anxiety, low self-concept clarity, need to belong, validation-seeking goal orientation, social phobia, social interaction anxiety, and mind-wandering were found to be associated with limerence. The association between low self-esteem and limerence was found to be mediated mostly through social phobia and validation-seeking goal orientation. Goal importance and resources allocation mediated associations between limerence and goal progress.
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    White Moths
    (2016) Kerr, Kelsey Ann; Arnold, Elizabeth; Creative Writing; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
    This collection navigates the process of grief after the speaker’s loss of both parents. The speaker struggles to connect with both the dead and the living through her physical intimacy and relationship with a troubled lover. These poems explore and exhume the speaker’s buried memories, moving from moments of wry humor to meaningful and sometimes painful discovery. Ultimately, these poems attempt to reach beyond the self, to transform loss and loneliness from a human condition into a musical tool of art for human connection.