Undergraduate Research | Fall 2024 – Spring 2025

Fall 2024 Research Symposium Presenter: Mar Smith Mentor: Kim Hackford-Peer Presentation: Forging Representation in the Wake of Censorship: A “Trans” Analysis of Spider-Man’s Canon Summary: The argument that Spider-Man’s story can be read as a transgender narrative is built on a strong foundation of allegory, body horror, comic history, and censorship. In a time where […]

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Putting Drag to Werk

When Colin Baker (they/them) started at Utah Valley University as a musical theater student in 2020, they had their sights set on stage productions and Broadway shows, unaware of the glitzy and glamorous drag scene. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic-induced lockdowns the following summer, they fell down a veritable rabbit hole of drag. “Drag was always […]

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