Departmental Honors Theses
Parent: Department of English
eScholarship stats: Breakdown by Item for March through June, 2025
| Item | Title | Total requests | Download | View-only | %Dnld |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9zk9d7sj | The Human Mecha: Titan, Technology, and Self in <em>Attack on Titan</em> | 878 | 474 | 404 | 54.0% |
| 886009wz | “I’ve Never Heard Silence Quite this Loud”: The Complexity of Taylor Swift’s Neutral Star Text | 507 | 148 | 359 | 29.2% |
| 46h0x4kp | Preliminary Materials for a Theory of <em>Gossip Girl</em> | 380 | 200 | 180 | 52.6% |
| 9pb2g06w | Blood as Reference to Fear in <em>Dracula</em> | 363 | 178 | 185 | 49.0% |
| 7mh827nr | “Between Gloom and Laughter”: Female Longing, Unhappiness, and Structures of Absence in the Works of Virginia Woolf | 344 | 75 | 269 | 21.8% |
| 9hq000bg | Female Power and the Supernatural in Early Gothic Literature | 327 | 51 | 276 | 15.6% |
| 3x15p833 | Queer Desire as Restoration: The Rejection of Phallic Exchange in Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market” | 314 | 93 | 221 | 29.6% |
| 6v64v08r | Utopia by a Thousand Cuts: Melodrama and the Queer Art of Self-Harm in Hanya Yanagihara’s <em>A Little Life</em> | 311 | 52 | 259 | 16.7% |
| 6f5989r0 | Sadomasochism in <em>Jane Eyre</em>: A Psychological Exchange of Power | 308 | 69 | 239 | 22.4% |
| 20f8k5fd | Heroism, Sensibility, and Gender: Mary Wollstonecraft's Feminist Politics in<em> A Vindication of the Rights of Woman</em> and <em>Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman</em> | 298 | 24 | 274 | 8.1% |
| 2fs65978 | “The Lines of Influence”: The Occult Recontextualization of Nicholas Hawksmoor’s Churches in <em>From Hell</em> and <em>Lud Heat</em> | 270 | 24 | 246 | 8.9% |
| 8tz2h3gc | A War of Roses: An Examination of Tudor Mythography in Shakespeare’s First Tetralogy of History and George R.R. Martin’s, <em>A Song of Ice and Fire</em> Series | 254 | 34 | 220 | 13.4% |
| 2s6478nm | Intertextuality within Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Structures and Stabilizes Language Countering Male Romantic-Era Writers’ Subjectification of the World | 251 | 19 | 232 | 7.6% |
| 1h39r5ms | "Please Don't Stop Being My Mother!": Attachment Theory and Identity Formation in Kurt Vonnegut's <em>Slaughterhouse-Five</em> and Hideaki Anno's <em>Neon Genesis Evangelion</em> | 248 | 55 | 193 | 22.2% |
| 17k1c130 | Mythic Pizza: Semiotic and Archetypal Significance in the Conspiracy Narrative Known as 'Pizzagate' | 245 | 23 | 222 | 9.4% |
| 6pf491k3 | Milton and Empire: Satanic and Edenic Colonization in Paradise Lost | 238 | 31 | 207 | 13.0% |
| 25s0d4pm | The Conqueror Dominated, the Conquered Seduced: Postcolonial Love in Three Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez | 224 | 28 | 196 | 12.5% |
| 4rt3t02n | Doomed Voyage: America's Evolving Relationship with <em>Moby-Dick</em> | 223 | 23 | 200 | 10.3% |
| 0qb528ms | "The Man in Blood": Grotesque and Classical Masculinity in Shakespeare's <em>Coriolanus</em> | 215 | 76 | 139 | 35.3% |
| 4hq0x82s | Liberate the Asian American Writer: Embracing the Flaws of Amy Tan's <em>The Joy Luck Club</em> | 204 | 22 | 182 | 10.8% |
| 27d9x6f9 | Historical Retrospection and Ambivalence in <em>A Tale of Two Cities</em> | 195 | 88 | 107 | 45.1% |
| 73k3h935 | "Before the Natural World Started Dying": Latent Conservatism, Nostalgia, and Dread in the Millennial Novel | 186 | 35 | 151 | 18.8% |
| 10s1v91k | A Social Disruption: The Decentering of the Individual in Contemporary Dystopian Fiction and its Challenges to Humanism, Posthumanism, and Neoliberal Individualism | 157 | 48 | 109 | 30.6% |
| 6hn9v8w5 | Upward Bound: Collected Stories | 151 | 29 | 122 | 19.2% |
| 0rq5q0sd | Sontag and Disability Studies: Chronic Illness, Impairment Effect, and Biomedical Metaphor | 147 | 50 | 97 | 34.0% |
| 3xk9877j | Danielle | 147 | 21 | 126 | 14.3% |
| 03p5w4hw | (Re)Creation | 143 | 13 | 130 | 9.1% |
| 3fv717g9 | Summer’s Dawn | 142 | 13 | 129 | 9.2% |
| 6565977z | Troublesome Minorities: Questioning Assimilation in <em>The Reluctant Fundamentalist</em> and <em>Home Fire</em> | 141 | 40 | 101 | 28.4% |
| 7bs0q7ft | A Space for those Memories: The Cultural Memoirs of Eavan Boland and Doireann Ní Ghríofa | 132 | 25 | 107 | 18.9% |
| 60c2h8p4 | Victims, Perpetrators, and Implicated Subjects: The Effects of Trauma in Sherman Alexie's <em>Indian Killer</em> and Toni Morrison's <em>Beloved</em> | 127 | 28 | 99 | 22.0% |
| 9qx5t9t2 | Gayme On! A Queer Game Thesis | 116 | 18 | 98 | 15.5% |
| 1p54q9df | Songs of Enlightenment: In Collaboration with Light | 113 | 14 | 99 | 12.4% |
| 568012r9 | The <em>Bildungsroman</em> Transformed Magic, Memories, and the Unpredictable Movements of Growth in Young Adult Speculative Fiction | 111 | 23 | 88 | 20.7% |
| 9tj754k3 | Sins of the Father: Race and Genealogy in the Medieval Imagination | 106 | 39 | 67 | 36.8% |
| 8f64108s | Histories of Dust and Bone: Mythologizing the Chinese American Past in Contemporary Western Fictions | 105 | 15 | 90 | 14.3% |
| 1q6992g4 | Fascination: Sixteen | 104 | 23 | 81 | 22.1% |
| 4mx6210b | Have You Eaten Yet? Stories | 104 | 24 | 80 | 23.1% |
| 7n01v6zc | Posthuman Time Beings | 101 | 11 | 90 | 10.9% |
| 3mn0t65q | Evergreen | 98 | 8 | 90 | 8.2% |
| 16z013ts | Neurodivergent Diagnoses Explained in Abstract Metaphors in Lauren Slater’s <em>Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir</em> | 97 | 25 | 72 | 25.8% |
| 420996rx | Nob Hill | 97 | 14 | 83 | 14.4% |
| 9wb8r379 | Mother, May I Please Have Some More: Melancholy, Maternity, and the State | 93 | 23 | 70 | 24.7% |
| 43w9q2p3 | Lividity in Pink | 91 | 0 | 91 | 0.0% |
| 00x7q12v | All Rivers Run East to the Sea | 85 | 25 | 60 | 29.4% |
| 0mp1g7v9 | "The Spasmodic, the Obscure, the Fragmentary, the Failure": The Negative Formation of Character in <em>A Room of One's Own</em> and <em>Orlando</em> | 85 | 14 | 71 | 16.5% |
| 4jp9w7vk | "Be Not Solitary, Be Not Idle": Tobias Smollett's <em>Expedition of Humphry Clinker</em> in the Context of Early Modern Cure | 85 | 33 | 52 | 38.8% |
| 3z96k02w | Emotional Objectification: Implications of the Consumer Object in Romantic Poetry | 84 | 15 | 69 | 17.9% |
| 5sz6r4nr | Disabling Charlotte Smith: A Marxist, Crip Theory Analysis of Class, Gender, Labor, and Disability in Romantic Poetry | 81 | 18 | 63 | 22.2% |
| 0jh980tn | Arthur Symons and Decadent Lyric: Art in the Age of Urban Modernity | 77 | 41 | 36 | 53.2% |
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