Departmental Honors Theses
Parent: Department of English
eScholarship stats: Breakdown by Item for May through August, 2026
| Item | Title | Total requests | Download | View-only | %Dnld |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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> | 1,649 | 993 | 656 | 60.2% |
| 9zk9d7sj | The Human Mecha: Titan, Technology, and Self in <em>Attack on Titan</em> | 1,646 | 547 | 1,099 | 33.2% |
| 3gg0t2nw | Simulation at Work: An Analysis of Job Simulator Video Games | 945 | 516 | 429 | 54.6% |
| 17k1c130 | Mythic Pizza: Semiotic and Archetypal Significance in the Conspiracy Narrative Known as 'Pizzagate' | 920 | 171 | 749 | 18.6% |
| 886009wz | “I’ve Never Heard Silence Quite this Loud”: The Complexity of Taylor Swift’s Neutral Star Text | 819 | 115 | 704 | 14.0% |
| 95q5833c | Walking Fish, Crying Rocks, Singing Crows: Racialization and Anthropomorphism in Contemporary Children's Animation | 729 | 579 | 150 | 79.4% |
| 4rt3t02n | Doomed Voyage: America's Evolving Relationship with <em>Moby-Dick</em> | 719 | 49 | 670 | 6.8% |
| 575215c0 | CRUEL AND CASUAL PUNISHMENT: THE SITUATIONSHIP IN <em>NORMAL PEOPLE</em> BY SALLY ROONEY | 648 | 226 | 422 | 34.9% |
| 6v64v08r | Utopia by a Thousand Cuts: Melodrama and the Queer Art of Self-Harm in Hanya Yanagihara’s <em>A Little Life</em> | 597 | 146 | 451 | 24.5% |
| 03p5w4hw | (Re)Creation | 587 | 45 | 542 | 7.7% |
| 6f5989r0 | Sadomasochism in <em>Jane Eyre</em>: A Psychological Exchange of Power | 577 | 148 | 429 | 25.6% |
| 46h0x4kp | Preliminary Materials for a Theory of <em>Gossip Girl</em> | 545 | 181 | 364 | 33.2% |
| 4hq0x82s | Liberate the Asian American Writer: Embracing the Flaws of Amy Tan's <em>The Joy Luck Club</em> | 532 | 66 | 466 | 12.4% |
| 7mh827nr | “Between Gloom and Laughter”: Female Longing, Unhappiness, and Structures of Absence in the Works of Virginia Woolf | 528 | 141 | 387 | 26.7% |
| 9kv2n20f | The Norman Trinity: A Study on the Development of the Norman Bates Character from Psycho | 522 | 124 | 398 | 23.8% |
| 1325j8hn | "We are not Who We Were:" Navigating Queer Time and Grieving Shifting Narratives in <em>Destiny 2</em> | 476 | 425 | 51 | 89.3% |
| 9qx5t9t2 | Gayme On! A Queer Game Thesis | 474 | 89 | 385 | 18.8% |
| 2fs65978 | “The Lines of Influence”: The Occult Recontextualization of Nicholas Hawksmoor’s Churches in <em>From Hell</em> and <em>Lud Heat</em> | 463 | 77 | 386 | 16.6% |
| 9pb2g06w | Blood as Reference to Fear in <em>Dracula</em> | 452 | 126 | 326 | 27.9% |
| 9hq000bg | Female Power and the Supernatural in Early Gothic Literature | 450 | 76 | 374 | 16.9% |
| 420996rx | Nob Hill | 448 | 36 | 412 | 8.0% |
| 25s0d4pm | The Conqueror Dominated, the Conquered Seduced: Postcolonial Love in Three Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez | 421 | 98 | 323 | 23.3% |
| 2s6478nm | Intertextuality within Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Structures and Stabilizes Language Countering Male Romantic-Era Writers’ Subjectification of the World | 421 | 47 | 374 | 11.2% |
| 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 | 418 | 87 | 331 | 20.8% |
| 6pf491k3 | Milton and Empire: Satanic and Edenic Colonization in Paradise Lost | 412 | 75 | 337 | 18.2% |
| 8f64108s | Histories of Dust and Bone: Mythologizing the Chinese American Past in Contemporary Western Fictions | 395 | 29 | 366 | 7.3% |
| 27d9x6f9 | Historical Retrospection and Ambivalence in <em>A Tale of Two Cities</em> | 381 | 123 | 258 | 32.3% |
| 3pc8c0vq | Poor Connections | 375 | 75 | 300 | 20.0% |
| 3x15p833 | Queer Desire as Restoration: The Rejection of Phallic Exchange in Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market” | 374 | 93 | 281 | 24.9% |
| 94v4n7h6 | Troubles in Vienna | 374 | 299 | 75 | 79.9% |
| 8dp5q5z1 | Dog Rose | 338 | 307 | 31 | 90.8% |
| 3xk9877j | Danielle | 332 | 50 | 282 | 15.1% |
| 7148g3qq | Screen Memory | 324 | 288 | 36 | 88.9% |
| 1q6992g4 | Fascination: Sixteen | 321 | 107 | 214 | 33.3% |
| 8105c2ch | The Fact of Fiction: Imagining Interiority in Petrarch, Chaucer, and Sidney | 317 | 136 | 181 | 42.9% |
| 05r7t4bj | Unsettling Mixed Identities in Viet Thanh Nguyen's <em>The Sympathizer</em> | 306 | 97 | 209 | 31.7% |
| 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> | 303 | 55 | 248 | 18.2% |
| 9hn334v5 | I Miss You Mother: The Korean Diasporic Experience and Colonial Silencing in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's <em>Dictee</em> | 298 | 73 | 225 | 24.5% |
| 2r80j01g | Opening the Doors of Perception in <em>Paradise Lost</em>: Seeing and Hearing as Imperfectly Gendered, or as Tools for Divine Revelation | 289 | 71 | 218 | 24.6% |
| 2039n7z1 | Golden Slumbers | 284 | 125 | 159 | 44.0% |
| 568012r9 | The <em>Bildungsroman</em> Transformed Magic, Memories, and the Unpredictable Movements of Growth in Young Adult Speculative Fiction | 271 | 133 | 138 | 49.1% |
| 7gp024n4 | CONDITIONED PERCEPTION: LANGUAGE, ENVIRONMENT, AND MORAL AGENCY IN ANTHONY BURGESS AND J. G. BALLARD | 271 | 117 | 154 | 43.2% |
| 1wt7b6j4 | Revisiting the Twenties: Anachronism in American Fiction Narrative Structures | 269 | 111 | 158 | 41.3% |
| 2j35c9pv | Wanton and Wicked: Tracing the Eastern Femme Fatales of Oscar Wilde's Orientalist Narratives | 269 | 75 | 194 | 27.9% |
| 8qh2j5g1 | London is the Place for Me: On Cultural Hybridity in Sam Selvon's <em>The Lonely Londoners</em> | 266 | 209 | 57 | 78.6% |
| 0vm040m9 | THE ‘GODE’ OF ROBIN HOOD: PERFORMED COURTESY, YEOMANRY, SOCIAL BANDITRY, AND DISNEY’S CULTURAL TRANSMISSION | 264 | 98 | 166 | 37.1% |
| 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> | 254 | 50 | 204 | 19.7% |
| 1w50f9pp | <em>Grotesque</em>: A Gender and Psychoanalytical Analysis | 247 | 178 | 69 | 72.1% |
| 505039k3 | The Gospel of John McDaniel | 246 | 102 | 144 | 41.5% |
| 10s1v91k | A Social Disruption: The Decentering of the Individual in Contemporary Dystopian Fiction and its Challenges to Humanism, Posthumanism, and Neoliberal Individualism | 241 | 53 | 188 | 22.0% |
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