Departmental Honors Theses
Parent: Department of English
eScholarship stats: Breakdown by Item for June through September, 2026
| Item | Title | Total requests | Download | View-only | %Dnld |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9zk9d7sj | The Human Mecha: Titan, Technology, and Self in <em>Attack on Titan</em> | 2,035 | 657 | 1,378 | 32.3% |
| 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> | 1,852 | 1,064 | 788 | 57.5% |
| 3gg0t2nw | Simulation at Work: An Analysis of Job Simulator Video Games | 971 | 600 | 371 | 61.8% |
| 886009wz | “I’ve Never Heard Silence Quite this Loud”: The Complexity of Taylor Swift’s Neutral Star Text | 877 | 136 | 741 | 15.5% |
| 95q5833c | Walking Fish, Crying Rocks, Singing Crows: Racialization and Anthropomorphism in Contemporary Children's Animation | 861 | 683 | 178 | 79.3% |
| 17k1c130 | Mythic Pizza: Semiotic and Archetypal Significance in the Conspiracy Narrative Known as 'Pizzagate' | 799 | 115 | 684 | 14.4% |
| 575215c0 | CRUEL AND CASUAL PUNISHMENT: THE SITUATIONSHIP IN <em>NORMAL PEOPLE</em> BY SALLY ROONEY | 631 | 240 | 391 | 38.0% |
| 4rt3t02n | Doomed Voyage: America's Evolving Relationship with <em>Moby-Dick</em> | 628 | 39 | 589 | 6.2% |
| 6v64v08r | Utopia by a Thousand Cuts: Melodrama and the Queer Art of Self-Harm in Hanya Yanagihara’s <em>A Little Life</em> | 584 | 135 | 449 | 23.1% |
| 9qx5t9t2 | Gayme On! A Queer Game Thesis | 569 | 108 | 461 | 19.0% |
| 9kv2n20f | The Norman Trinity: A Study on the Development of the Norman Bates Character from Psycho | 542 | 127 | 415 | 23.4% |
| 03p5w4hw | (Re)Creation | 529 | 65 | 464 | 12.3% |
| 1325j8hn | "We are not Who We Were:" Navigating Queer Time and Grieving Shifting Narratives in <em>Destiny 2</em> | 516 | 471 | 45 | 91.3% |
| 6f5989r0 | Sadomasochism in <em>Jane Eyre</em>: A Psychological Exchange of Power | 495 | 113 | 382 | 22.8% |
| 4hq0x82s | Liberate the Asian American Writer: Embracing the Flaws of Amy Tan's <em>The Joy Luck Club</em> | 474 | 60 | 414 | 12.7% |
| 9hq000bg | Female Power and the Supernatural in Early Gothic Literature | 461 | 74 | 387 | 16.1% |
| 46h0x4kp | Preliminary Materials for a Theory of <em>Gossip Girl</em> | 454 | 181 | 273 | 39.9% |
| 8105c2ch | The Fact of Fiction: Imagining Interiority in Petrarch, Chaucer, and Sidney | 450 | 226 | 224 | 50.2% |
| 7mh827nr | “Between Gloom and Laughter”: Female Longing, Unhappiness, and Structures of Absence in the Works of Virginia Woolf | 441 | 134 | 307 | 30.4% |
| 2s6478nm | Intertextuality within Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Structures and Stabilizes Language Countering Male Romantic-Era Writers’ Subjectification of the World | 429 | 35 | 394 | 8.2% |
| 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 | 400 | 87 | 313 | 21.8% |
| 2fs65978 | “The Lines of Influence”: The Occult Recontextualization of Nicholas Hawksmoor’s Churches in <em>From Hell</em> and <em>Lud Heat</em> | 392 | 63 | 329 | 16.1% |
| 25s0d4pm | The Conqueror Dominated, the Conquered Seduced: Postcolonial Love in Three Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez | 391 | 73 | 318 | 18.7% |
| 9pb2g06w | Blood as Reference to Fear in <em>Dracula</em> | 390 | 133 | 257 | 34.1% |
| 3pc8c0vq | Poor Connections | 380 | 51 | 329 | 13.4% |
| 420996rx | Nob Hill | 362 | 34 | 328 | 9.4% |
| 7gp024n4 | CONDITIONED PERCEPTION: LANGUAGE, ENVIRONMENT, AND MORAL AGENCY IN ANTHONY BURGESS AND J. G. BALLARD | 354 | 140 | 214 | 39.5% |
| 0vm040m9 | THE ‘GODE’ OF ROBIN HOOD: PERFORMED COURTESY, YEOMANRY, SOCIAL BANDITRY, AND DISNEY’S CULTURAL TRANSMISSION | 339 | 110 | 229 | 32.4% |
| 6pf491k3 | Milton and Empire: Satanic and Edenic Colonization in Paradise Lost | 339 | 59 | 280 | 17.4% |
| 8dp5q5z1 | Dog Rose | 334 | 302 | 32 | 90.4% |
| 8f64108s | Histories of Dust and Bone: Mythologizing the Chinese American Past in Contemporary Western Fictions | 329 | 24 | 305 | 7.3% |
| 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> | 322 | 41 | 281 | 12.7% |
| 27d9x6f9 | Historical Retrospection and Ambivalence in <em>A Tale of Two Cities</em> | 316 | 82 | 234 | 25.9% |
| 94v4n7h6 | Troubles in Vienna | 315 | 233 | 82 | 74.0% |
| 3x15p833 | Queer Desire as Restoration: The Rejection of Phallic Exchange in Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market” | 311 | 79 | 232 | 25.4% |
| 05r7t4bj | Unsettling Mixed Identities in Viet Thanh Nguyen's <em>The Sympathizer</em> | 308 | 117 | 191 | 38.0% |
| 3xk9877j | Danielle | 308 | 79 | 229 | 25.6% |
| 1w50f9pp | <em>Grotesque</em>: A Gender and Psychoanalytical Analysis | 300 | 228 | 72 | 76.0% |
| 568012r9 | The <em>Bildungsroman</em> Transformed Magic, Memories, and the Unpredictable Movements of Growth in Young Adult Speculative Fiction | 285 | 145 | 140 | 50.9% |
| 2j35c9pv | Wanton and Wicked: Tracing the Eastern Femme Fatales of Oscar Wilde's Orientalist Narratives | 278 | 85 | 193 | 30.6% |
| 35j4s1g9 | <em>The Bell Jar</em> and <em>Whiplash</em> as Fugue States: Tortured Artists' Pain and the Language of Their Stories | 266 | 130 | 136 | 48.9% |
| 7148g3qq | Screen Memory | 263 | 229 | 34 | 87.1% |
| 9hn334v5 | I Miss You Mother: The Korean Diasporic Experience and Colonial Silencing in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's <em>Dictee</em> | 252 | 69 | 183 | 27.4% |
| 1wt7b6j4 | Revisiting the Twenties: Anachronism in American Fiction Narrative Structures | 248 | 130 | 118 | 52.4% |
| 8qh2j5g1 | London is the Place for Me: On Cultural Hybridity in Sam Selvon's <em>The Lonely Londoners</em> | 245 | 189 | 56 | 77.1% |
| 2r80j01g | Opening the Doors of Perception in <em>Paradise Lost</em>: Seeing and Hearing as Imperfectly Gendered, or as Tools for Divine Revelation | 239 | 61 | 178 | 25.5% |
| 5z60r8pm | A Voyage Through Queer Oceania: Reclaiming Queer Indigeneity in Sāmoa and Hawai'i | 232 | 146 | 86 | 62.9% |
| 9v99706j | "The Wonder of the Visible": Fantasy, Reality, and the Prism of Story in the Work of Patricia A. McKillip | 231 | 22 | 209 | 9.5% |
| 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> | 227 | 38 | 189 | 16.7% |
| 6sq2k1qw | Let the Monsters Speak: Disability, Trauma, and the Genre of Fear | 223 | 125 | 98 | 56.1% |
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