Departmental Honors Theses
Parent: Department of English
eScholarship stats: Breakdown by Item for April through July, 2026
| Item | Title | Total requests | Download | View-only | %Dnld |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9zk9d7sj | The Human Mecha: Titan, Technology, and Self in <em>Attack on Titan</em> | 1,387 | 646 | 741 | 46.6% |
| 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> | 1,274 | 787 | 487 | 61.8% |
| 17k1c130 | Mythic Pizza: Semiotic and Archetypal Significance in the Conspiracy Narrative Known as 'Pizzagate' | 1,055 | 237 | 818 | 22.5% |
| 3gg0t2nw | Simulation at Work: An Analysis of Job Simulator Video Games | 817 | 380 | 437 | 46.5% |
| 03p5w4hw | (Re)Creation | 661 | 52 | 609 | 7.9% |
| 886009wz | “I’ve Never Heard Silence Quite this Loud”: The Complexity of Taylor Swift’s Neutral Star Text | 656 | 128 | 528 | 19.5% |
| 6f5989r0 | Sadomasochism in <em>Jane Eyre</em>: A Psychological Exchange of Power | 650 | 175 | 475 | 26.9% |
| 4rt3t02n | Doomed Voyage: America's Evolving Relationship with <em>Moby-Dick</em> | 604 | 46 | 558 | 7.6% |
| 6v64v08r | Utopia by a Thousand Cuts: Melodrama and the Queer Art of Self-Harm in Hanya Yanagihara’s <em>A Little Life</em> | 590 | 162 | 428 | 27.5% |
| 1q6992g4 | Fascination: Sixteen | 562 | 77 | 485 | 13.7% |
| 46h0x4kp | Preliminary Materials for a Theory of <em>Gossip Girl</em> | 561 | 146 | 415 | 26.0% |
| 4hq0x82s | Liberate the Asian American Writer: Embracing the Flaws of Amy Tan's <em>The Joy Luck Club</em> | 547 | 73 | 474 | 13.3% |
| 9pb2g06w | Blood as Reference to Fear in <em>Dracula</em> | 516 | 120 | 396 | 23.3% |
| 9hq000bg | Female Power and the Supernatural in Early Gothic Literature | 514 | 76 | 438 | 14.8% |
| 7mh827nr | “Between Gloom and Laughter”: Female Longing, Unhappiness, and Structures of Absence in the Works of Virginia Woolf | 482 | 130 | 352 | 27.0% |
| 3x15p833 | Queer Desire as Restoration: The Rejection of Phallic Exchange in Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market” | 465 | 104 | 361 | 22.4% |
| 420996rx | Nob Hill | 463 | 79 | 384 | 17.1% |
| 95q5833c | Walking Fish, Crying Rocks, Singing Crows: Racialization and Anthropomorphism in Contemporary Children's Animation | 450 | 358 | 92 | 79.6% |
| 27d9x6f9 | Historical Retrospection and Ambivalence in <em>A Tale of Two Cities</em> | 441 | 122 | 319 | 27.7% |
| 9kv2n20f | The Norman Trinity: A Study on the Development of the Norman Bates Character from Psycho | 441 | 90 | 351 | 20.4% |
| 575215c0 | CRUEL AND CASUAL PUNISHMENT: THE SITUATIONSHIP IN <em>NORMAL PEOPLE</em> BY SALLY ROONEY | 433 | 122 | 311 | 28.2% |
| 6pf491k3 | Milton and Empire: Satanic and Edenic Colonization in Paradise Lost | 419 | 73 | 346 | 17.4% |
| 2fs65978 | “The Lines of Influence”: The Occult Recontextualization of Nicholas Hawksmoor’s Churches in <em>From Hell</em> and <em>Lud Heat</em> | 412 | 76 | 336 | 18.4% |
| 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 | 392 | 91 | 301 | 23.2% |
| 1325j8hn | "We are not Who We Were:" Navigating Queer Time and Grieving Shifting Narratives in <em>Destiny 2</em> | 387 | 326 | 61 | 84.2% |
| 25s0d4pm | The Conqueror Dominated, the Conquered Seduced: Postcolonial Love in Three Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez | 380 | 113 | 267 | 29.7% |
| 3xk9877j | Danielle | 380 | 40 | 340 | 10.5% |
| 2s6478nm | Intertextuality within Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Structures and Stabilizes Language Countering Male Romantic-Era Writers’ Subjectification of the World | 376 | 52 | 324 | 13.8% |
| 2039n7z1 | Golden Slumbers | 352 | 136 | 216 | 38.6% |
| 94v4n7h6 | Troubles in Vienna | 352 | 280 | 72 | 79.5% |
| 3pc8c0vq | Poor Connections | 349 | 68 | 281 | 19.5% |
| 8f64108s | Histories of Dust and Bone: Mythologizing the Chinese American Past in Contemporary Western Fictions | 347 | 30 | 317 | 8.6% |
| 7148g3qq | Screen Memory | 339 | 291 | 48 | 85.8% |
| 9qx5t9t2 | Gayme On! A Queer Game Thesis | 336 | 59 | 277 | 17.6% |
| 2r80j01g | Opening the Doors of Perception in <em>Paradise Lost</em>: Seeing and Hearing as Imperfectly Gendered, or as Tools for Divine Revelation | 332 | 69 | 263 | 20.8% |
| 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> | 327 | 56 | 271 | 17.1% |
| 505039k3 | The Gospel of John McDaniel | 327 | 121 | 206 | 37.0% |
| 05r7t4bj | Unsettling Mixed Identities in Viet Thanh Nguyen's <em>The Sympathizer</em> | 325 | 93 | 232 | 28.6% |
| 8qh2j5g1 | London is the Place for Me: On Cultural Hybridity in Sam Selvon's <em>The Lonely Londoners</em> | 316 | 225 | 91 | 71.2% |
| 10s5h8z0 | After October | 315 | 29 | 286 | 9.2% |
| 8dp5q5z1 | Dog Rose | 301 | 264 | 37 | 87.7% |
| 9n85g9v2 | Breaking Narrative Boundaries: Converting Imagination and Stories to Reality | 281 | 182 | 99 | 64.8% |
| 1zm34002 | Opera 2 | 273 | 194 | 79 | 71.1% |
| 568012r9 | The <em>Bildungsroman</em> Transformed Magic, Memories, and the Unpredictable Movements of Growth in Young Adult Speculative Fiction | 271 | 118 | 153 | 43.5% |
| 10s1v91k | A Social Disruption: The Decentering of the Individual in Contemporary Dystopian Fiction and its Challenges to Humanism, Posthumanism, and Neoliberal Individualism | 266 | 65 | 201 | 24.4% |
| 5p74r2r2 | Sky (Hyper-Chlorinated) | 266 | 123 | 143 | 46.2% |
| 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> | 266 | 59 | 207 | 22.2% |
| 0qb528ms | "The Man in Blood": Grotesque and Classical Masculinity in Shakespeare's <em>Coriolanus</em> | 265 | 136 | 129 | 51.3% |
| 1wt7b6j4 | Revisiting the Twenties: Anachronism in American Fiction Narrative Structures | 265 | 112 | 153 | 42.3% |
| 2j35c9pv | Wanton and Wicked: Tracing the Eastern Femme Fatales of Oscar Wilde's Orientalist Narratives | 261 | 86 | 175 | 33.0% |
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