Departmental Honors Theses
Parent: Department of English
eScholarship stats: Breakdown by Item for January through April, 2025
| Item | Title | Total requests | Download | View-only | %Dnld |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9zk9d7sj | The Human Mecha: Titan, Technology, and Self in <em>Attack on Titan</em> | 780 | 446 | 334 | 57.2% |
| 886009wz | “I’ve Never Heard Silence Quite this Loud”: The Complexity of Taylor Swift’s Neutral Star Text | 596 | 183 | 413 | 30.7% |
| 46h0x4kp | Preliminary Materials for a Theory of <em>Gossip Girl</em> | 345 | 230 | 115 | 66.7% |
| 9pb2g06w | Blood as Reference to Fear in <em>Dracula</em> | 345 | 225 | 120 | 65.2% |
| 6v64v08r | Utopia by a Thousand Cuts: Melodrama and the Queer Art of Self-Harm in Hanya Yanagihara’s <em>A Little Life</em> | 291 | 39 | 252 | 13.4% |
| 6f5989r0 | Sadomasochism in <em>Jane Eyre</em>: A Psychological Exchange of Power | 270 | 91 | 179 | 33.7% |
| 9hq000bg | Female Power and the Supernatural in Early Gothic Literature | 255 | 57 | 198 | 22.4% |
| 2fs65978 | “The Lines of Influence”: The Occult Recontextualization of Nicholas Hawksmoor’s Churches in <em>From Hell</em> and <em>Lud Heat</em> | 235 | 27 | 208 | 11.5% |
| 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> | 234 | 23 | 211 | 9.8% |
| 2s6478nm | Intertextuality within Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Structures and Stabilizes Language Countering Male Romantic-Era Writers’ Subjectification of the World | 229 | 18 | 211 | 7.9% |
| 27d9x6f9 | Historical Retrospection and Ambivalence in <em>A Tale of Two Cities</em> | 219 | 126 | 93 | 57.5% |
| 3x15p833 | Queer Desire as Restoration: The Rejection of Phallic Exchange in Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market” | 214 | 51 | 163 | 23.8% |
| 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> | 197 | 48 | 149 | 24.4% |
| 6pf491k3 | Milton and Empire: Satanic and Edenic Colonization in Paradise Lost | 193 | 53 | 140 | 27.5% |
| 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 | 182 | 18 | 164 | 9.9% |
| 17k1c130 | Mythic Pizza: Semiotic and Archetypal Significance in the Conspiracy Narrative Known as 'Pizzagate' | 169 | 24 | 145 | 14.2% |
| 4rt3t02n | Doomed Voyage: America's Evolving Relationship with <em>Moby-Dick</em> | 168 | 16 | 152 | 9.5% |
| 7mh827nr | “Between Gloom and Laughter”: Female Longing, Unhappiness, and Structures of Absence in the Works of Virginia Woolf | 162 | 54 | 108 | 33.3% |
| 10s1v91k | A Social Disruption: The Decentering of the Individual in Contemporary Dystopian Fiction and its Challenges to Humanism, Posthumanism, and Neoliberal Individualism | 134 | 51 | 83 | 38.1% |
| 0qb528ms | "The Man in Blood": Grotesque and Classical Masculinity in Shakespeare's <em>Coriolanus</em> | 128 | 17 | 111 | 13.3% |
| 25s0d4pm | The Conqueror Dominated, the Conquered Seduced: Postcolonial Love in Three Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez | 124 | 16 | 108 | 12.9% |
| 73k3h935 | "Before the Natural World Started Dying": Latent Conservatism, Nostalgia, and Dread in the Millennial Novel | 123 | 11 | 112 | 8.9% |
| 568012r9 | The <em>Bildungsroman</em> Transformed Magic, Memories, and the Unpredictable Movements of Growth in Young Adult Speculative Fiction | 121 | 26 | 95 | 21.5% |
| 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> | 118 | 41 | 77 | 34.7% |
| 3xk9877j | Danielle | 97 | 39 | 58 | 40.2% |
| 3fv717g9 | Summer’s Dawn | 94 | 9 | 85 | 9.6% |
| 16z013ts | Neurodivergent Diagnoses Explained in Abstract Metaphors in Lauren Slater’s <em>Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir</em> | 93 | 28 | 65 | 30.1% |
| 0rq5q0sd | Sontag and Disability Studies: Chronic Illness, Impairment Effect, and Biomedical Metaphor | 92 | 36 | 56 | 39.1% |
| 7bs0q7ft | A Space for those Memories: The Cultural Memoirs of Eavan Boland and Doireann Ní Ghríofa | 90 | 18 | 72 | 20.0% |
| 4hq0x82s | Liberate the Asian American Writer: Embracing the Flaws of Amy Tan's <em>The Joy Luck Club</em> | 87 | 29 | 58 | 33.3% |
| 03p5w4hw | (Re)Creation | 85 | 14 | 71 | 16.5% |
| 6565977z | Troublesome Minorities: Questioning Assimilation in <em>The Reluctant Fundamentalist</em> and <em>Home Fire</em> | 79 | 26 | 53 | 32.9% |
| 4mx6210b | Have You Eaten Yet? Stories | 78 | 16 | 62 | 20.5% |
| 9wb8r379 | Mother, May I Please Have Some More: Melancholy, Maternity, and the State | 76 | 7 | 69 | 9.2% |
| 420996rx | Nob Hill | 75 | 12 | 63 | 16.0% |
| 8f64108s | Histories of Dust and Bone: Mythologizing the Chinese American Past in Contemporary Western Fictions | 75 | 16 | 59 | 21.3% |
| 7n01v6zc | Posthuman Time Beings | 74 | 10 | 64 | 13.5% |
| 3mn0t65q | Evergreen | 73 | 6 | 67 | 8.2% |
| 43w9q2p3 | Lividity in Pink | 65 | 0 | 65 | 0.0% |
| 00x7q12v | All Rivers Run East to the Sea | 61 | 22 | 39 | 36.1% |
| 5sz6r4nr | Disabling Charlotte Smith: A Marxist, Crip Theory Analysis of Class, Gender, Labor, and Disability in Romantic Poetry | 61 | 15 | 46 | 24.6% |
| 1q6992g4 | Fascination: Sixteen | 60 | 11 | 49 | 18.3% |
| 6hn9v8w5 | Upward Bound: Collected Stories | 59 | 4 | 55 | 6.8% |
| 0xf8k86t | Deep Surfaces: The Production of Culture and the Culture of Production in Twentieth Century Hollywood | 58 | 8 | 50 | 13.8% |
| 1p54q9df | Songs of Enlightenment: In Collaboration with Light | 58 | 6 | 52 | 10.3% |
| 2r80j01g | Opening the Doors of Perception in <em>Paradise Lost</em>: Seeing and Hearing as Imperfectly Gendered, or as Tools for Divine Revelation | 57 | 10 | 47 | 17.5% |
| 3z96k02w | Emotional Objectification: Implications of the Consumer Object in Romantic Poetry | 54 | 10 | 44 | 18.5% |
| 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> | 52 | 8 | 44 | 15.4% |
| 0v90v299 | Experimenting on Oriental Women: Tracing Oriental Women's Representations in Western Discussion of Bodily Autonomy and Desire in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries | 50 | 13 | 37 | 26.0% |
| 9qx5t9t2 | Gayme On! A Queer Game Thesis | 50 | 11 | 39 | 22.0% |
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