Defense Date
2026
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts
Department
English
First Advisor
Kathy Graber
Second Advisor
David Wojahn
Third Advisor
Rebecca Gibson
Fourth Advisor
Indira Sultanić
Abstract
Hard Magic interrogates how individual and communal suffering are transformed through acts of radical imagination. Folk songs, spells, and a mischievous djinn weave together echoes of the Bosnian civil war, the death of a father, and two lovers separated by the American immigration system. If memory is all we have to hold on to as history takes its own tail in its mouth, we are left with no choice but to create new paths in order to reclaim a future that has been stolen from us.
Rights
© Matthew Schroeder
Is Part Of
VCU University Archives
Is Part Of
VCU Theses and Dissertations
Date of Submission
4-30-2026
Comments
No part of this thesis may be used or reproduced in any manner for the purposes of training artificial intelligence technologies or systems.