Departmental Honors Theses
Parent: Department of English
eScholarship stats: Breakdown by Item for August through November, 2024
| Item | Title | Total requests | Download | View-only | %Dnld |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9qx5t9t2 | Gayme On! A Queer Game Thesis | 698 | 655 | 43 | 93.8% |
| 9zk9d7sj | The Human Mecha: Titan, Technology, and Self in <em>Attack on Titan</em> | 642 | 336 | 306 | 52.3% |
| 886009wz | “I’ve Never Heard Silence Quite this Loud”: The Complexity of Taylor Swift’s Neutral Star Text | 575 | 192 | 383 | 33.4% |
| 46h0x4kp | Preliminary Materials for a Theory of <em>Gossip Girl</em> | 309 | 194 | 115 | 62.8% |
| 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> | 277 | 24 | 253 | 8.7% |
| 9pb2g06w | Blood as Reference to Fear in <em>Dracula</em> | 236 | 137 | 99 | 58.1% |
| 2s6478nm | Intertextuality within Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Structures and Stabilizes Language Countering Male Romantic-Era Writers’ Subjectification of the World | 228 | 13 | 215 | 5.7% |
| 6v64v08r | Utopia by a Thousand Cuts: Melodrama and the Queer Art of Self-Harm in Hanya Yanagihara’s <em>A Little Life</em> | 220 | 48 | 172 | 21.8% |
| 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> | 184 | 59 | 125 | 32.1% |
| 6pf491k3 | Milton and Empire: Satanic and Edenic Colonization in Paradise Lost | 164 | 50 | 114 | 30.5% |
| 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> | 163 | 75 | 88 | 46.0% |
| 6f5989r0 | Sadomasochism in <em>Jane Eyre</em>: A Psychological Exchange of Power | 163 | 60 | 103 | 36.8% |
| 27d9x6f9 | Historical Retrospection and Ambivalence in <em>A Tale of Two Cities</em> | 162 | 99 | 63 | 61.1% |
| 2fs65978 | “The Lines of Influence”: The Occult Recontextualization of Nicholas Hawksmoor’s Churches in <em>From Hell</em> and <em>Lud Heat</em> | 157 | 37 | 120 | 23.6% |
| 9hq000bg | Female Power and the Supernatural in Early Gothic Literature | 156 | 38 | 118 | 24.4% |
| 3x15p833 | Queer Desire as Restoration: The Rejection of Phallic Exchange in Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market” | 154 | 32 | 122 | 20.8% |
| 4rt3t02n | Doomed Voyage: America's Evolving Relationship with <em>Moby-Dick</em> | 131 | 12 | 119 | 9.2% |
| 25s0d4pm | The Conqueror Dominated, the Conquered Seduced: Postcolonial Love in Three Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez | 130 | 22 | 108 | 16.9% |
| 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 | 108 | 35 | 73 | 32.4% |
| 10s1v91k | A Social Disruption: The Decentering of the Individual in Contemporary Dystopian Fiction and its Challenges to Humanism, Posthumanism, and Neoliberal Individualism | 105 | 30 | 75 | 28.6% |
| 7mh827nr | “Between Gloom and Laughter”: Female Longing, Unhappiness, and Structures of Absence in the Works of Virginia Woolf | 100 | 37 | 63 | 37.0% |
| 568012r9 | The <em>Bildungsroman</em> Transformed Magic, Memories, and the Unpredictable Movements of Growth in Young Adult Speculative Fiction | 97 | 23 | 74 | 23.7% |
| 4mx6210b | Have You Eaten Yet? Stories | 96 | 16 | 80 | 16.7% |
| 0rq5q0sd | Sontag and Disability Studies: Chronic Illness, Impairment Effect, and Biomedical Metaphor | 88 | 39 | 49 | 44.3% |
| 17k1c130 | Mythic Pizza: Semiotic and Archetypal Significance in the Conspiracy Narrative Known as 'Pizzagate' | 84 | 26 | 58 | 31.0% |
| 6565977z | Troublesome Minorities: Questioning Assimilation in <em>The Reluctant Fundamentalist</em> and <em>Home Fire</em> | 80 | 14 | 66 | 17.5% |
| 2r80j01g | Opening the Doors of Perception in <em>Paradise Lost</em>: Seeing and Hearing as Imperfectly Gendered, or as Tools for Divine Revelation | 73 | 40 | 33 | 54.8% |
| 7n01v6zc | Posthuman Time Beings | 68 | 8 | 60 | 11.8% |
| 1q6992g4 | Fascination: Sixteen | 66 | 35 | 31 | 53.0% |
| 8rz3c36c | "The Great Soup of Being": Autotheory & Intersectionality in Cherríe Moraga's<em> Loving in the War Years</em> and Maggie Nelson's <em>The Argonauts</em> | 65 | 14 | 51 | 21.5% |
| 4hq0x82s | Liberate the Asian American Writer: Embracing the Flaws of Amy Tan's <em>The Joy Luck Club</em> | 63 | 15 | 48 | 23.8% |
| 7bs0q7ft | A Space for those Memories: The Cultural Memoirs of Eavan Boland and Doireann Ní Ghríofa | 63 | 17 | 46 | 27.0% |
| 8f64108s | Histories of Dust and Bone: Mythologizing the Chinese American Past in Contemporary Western Fictions | 60 | 31 | 29 | 51.7% |
| 3rk2t7xr | Baddies & Bodies: Remembering and Dismembering IMVU | 56 | 30 | 26 | 53.6% |
| 420996rx | Nob Hill | 55 | 11 | 44 | 20.0% |
| 5sz6r4nr | Disabling Charlotte Smith: A Marxist, Crip Theory Analysis of Class, Gender, Labor, and Disability in Romantic Poetry | 55 | 9 | 46 | 16.4% |
| 00x7q12v | All Rivers Run East to the Sea | 52 | 27 | 25 | 51.9% |
| 03p5w4hw | (Re)Creation | 52 | 15 | 37 | 28.8% |
| 3xk9877j | Danielle | 49 | 16 | 33 | 32.7% |
| 0qb528ms | "The Man in Blood": Grotesque and Classical Masculinity in Shakespeare's <em>Coriolanus</em> | 48 | 3 | 45 | 6.3% |
| 0v90v299 | Experimenting on Oriental Women: Tracing Oriental Women's Representations in Western Discussion of Bodily Autonomy and Desire in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries | 47 | 7 | 40 | 14.9% |
| 73k3h935 | "Before the Natural World Started Dying": Latent Conservatism, Nostalgia, and Dread in the Millennial Novel | 45 | 2 | 43 | 4.4% |
| 9tj754k3 | Sins of the Father: Race and Genealogy in the Medieval Imagination | 42 | 14 | 28 | 33.3% |
| 43w9q2p3 | Lividity in Pink | 41 | 0 | 41 | 0.0% |
| 9wb8r379 | Mother, May I Please Have Some More: Melancholy, Maternity, and the State | 41 | 7 | 34 | 17.1% |
| 4gz2s53g | Performing Asian American for the End of the World: Reimagining the Inscrutable as Resistance in Asian/American Theatre | 39 | 13 | 26 | 33.3% |
| 8cm8n8b2 | Identity, Assimilation, and Representations of American Judaism in Philip Roth's American Trilogy | 38 | 5 | 33 | 13.2% |
| 16z013ts | Neurodivergent Diagnoses Explained in Abstract Metaphors in Lauren Slater’s <em>Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir</em> | 37 | 6 | 31 | 16.2% |
| 6j43s7gx | The Mexican Immigrant Experience in History, Nanotexts, and Nodes | 37 | 20 | 17 | 54.1% |
| 3mn0t65q | Evergreen | 35 | 4 | 31 | 11.4% |
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