Departmental Honors Theses

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Item	Title	Total requests	2026-08	2026-07	2026-06	2026-05
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	540	675	269	165
9zk9d7sj	The Human Mecha: Titan, Technology, and Self in <em>Attack on Titan</em>	1,646	797	311	275	263
3gg0t2nw	Simulation at Work: An Analysis of Job Simulator Video Games	945	258	251	280	156
17k1c130	Mythic Pizza: Semiotic and Archetypal Significance in the Conspiracy Narrative Known as 'Pizzagate'	920	91	126	495	208
886009wz	“I’ve Never Heard Silence Quite this Loud”: The Complexity of Taylor Swift’s Neutral Star Text	819	356	122	191	150
95q5833c	Walking Fish, Crying Rocks, Singing Crows: Racialization and Anthropomorphism in Contemporary Children's Animation	729	331	259	62	77
4rt3t02n	Doomed Voyage: America's Evolving Relationship with <em>Moby-Dick</em>	719	250	91	184	194
575215c0	CRUEL AND CASUAL PUNISHMENT: THE SITUATIONSHIP IN <em>NORMAL PEOPLE</em> BY SALLY ROONEY	648	215	109	138	186
6v64v08r	Utopia by a Thousand Cuts: Melodrama and the Queer Art of Self-Harm in Hanya Yanagihara’s <em>A Little Life</em>	597	180	110	150	157
03p5w4hw	(Re)Creation	587	134	155	144	154
6f5989r0	Sadomasochism in <em>Jane Eyre</em>: A Psychological Exchange of Power	577	129	112	148	188
46h0x4kp	Preliminary Materials for a Theory of <em>Gossip Girl</em>	545	127	60	156	202
4hq0x82s	Liberate the Asian American Writer: Embracing the Flaws of Amy Tan's <em>The Joy Luck Club</em>	532	118	82	137	195
7mh827nr	“Between Gloom and Laughter”: Female Longing, Unhappiness, and Structures of Absence in the Works of Virginia Woolf	528	162	88	138	140
9kv2n20f	The Norman Trinity: A Study on the Development of the Norman Bates Character from Psycho	522	180	109	116	117
1325j8hn	"We are not Who We Were:" Navigating Queer Time and Grieving Shifting Narratives in <em>Destiny 2</em>	476	158	180	63	75
9qx5t9t2	Gayme On! A Queer Game Thesis	474	262	78	60	74
2fs65978	“The Lines of Influence”: The Occult Recontextualization of Nicholas Hawksmoor’s Churches in <em>From Hell</em> and <em>Lud Heat</em>	463	151	60	101	151
9pb2g06w	Blood as Reference to Fear in <em>Dracula</em>	452	121	111	95	125
9hq000bg	Female Power and the Supernatural in Early Gothic Literature	450	158	62	111	119
420996rx	Nob Hill	448	100	105	106	137
25s0d4pm	The Conqueror Dominated, the Conquered Seduced: Postcolonial Love in Three Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez	421	140	75	94	112
2s6478nm	Intertextuality within Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Structures and Stabilizes Language Countering Male Romantic-Era Writers’ Subjectification of the World	421	170	97	63	91
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	155	80	83	100
6pf491k3	Milton and Empire: Satanic and Edenic Colonization in Paradise Lost	412	112	63	81	156
8f64108s	Histories of Dust and Bone: Mythologizing the Chinese American Past in Contemporary Western Fictions	395	153	77	83	82
27d9x6f9	Historical Retrospection and Ambivalence in <em>A Tale of Two Cities</em>	381	85	55	109	132
3pc8c0vq	Poor Connections	375	127	54	146	48
3x15p833	Queer Desire as Restoration: The Rejection of Phallic Exchange in Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market”	374	83	68	98	125
94v4n7h6	Troubles in Vienna	374	90	143	44	97
8dp5q5z1	Dog Rose	338	79	110	89	60
3xk9877j	Danielle	332	92	46	87	107
7148g3qq	Screen Memory	324	78	59	103	84
1q6992g4	Fascination: Sixteen	321	68	38	33	182
8105c2ch	The Fact of Fiction: Imagining Interiority in Petrarch, Chaucer, and Sidney	317	149	81	87
05r7t4bj	Unsettling Mixed Identities in Viet Thanh Nguyen's <em>The Sympathizer</em>	306	37	88	91	90
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	82	37	72	112
9hn334v5	I Miss You Mother: The Korean Diasporic Experience and Colonial Silencing in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's <em>Dictee</em>	298	58	50	102	88
2r80j01g	Opening the Doors of Perception in <em>Paradise Lost</em>: Seeing and Hearing as Imperfectly Gendered, or as Tools for Divine Revelation	289	69	40	84	96
2039n7z1	Golden Slumbers	284	52	49	62	121
568012r9	The <em>Bildungsroman</em> Transformed Magic, Memories, and the Unpredictable Movements of Growth in Young Adult Speculative Fiction	271	92	56	59	64
7gp024n4	CONDITIONED PERCEPTION: LANGUAGE, ENVIRONMENT, AND MORAL AGENCY IN ANTHONY BURGESS AND J. G. BALLARD	271	83	52	136
1wt7b6j4	Revisiting the Twenties: Anachronism in American Fiction Narrative Structures	269	83	32	50	104
2j35c9pv	Wanton and Wicked: Tracing the Eastern Femme Fatales of Oscar Wilde's Orientalist Narratives	269	73	41	86	69
8qh2j5g1	London is the Place for Me: On Cultural Hybridity in Sam Selvon's <em>The Lonely Londoners</em>	266	65	70	57	74
0vm040m9	THE ‘GODE’ OF ROBIN HOOD: PERFORMED COURTESY, YEOMANRY, SOCIAL BANDITRY, AND DISNEY’S CULTURAL TRANSMISSION	264	58	79	125	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>	254	102	41	30	81
1w50f9pp	<em>Grotesque</em>: A Gender and Psychoanalytical Analysis	247	109	35	49	54
505039k3	The Gospel of John McDaniel	246	74	24	65	83
10s1v91k	A Social Disruption: The Decentering of the Individual in Contemporary Dystopian Fiction and its Challenges to Humanism, Posthumanism, and Neoliberal Individualism	241	55	42	56	88

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