Departmental Honors Theses
Parent: Department of English
eScholarship stats: History by Item for March through June, 2026
| Item | Title | Total requests | 2026-06 | 2026-05 | 2026-04 | 2026-03 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9zk9d7sj | The Human Mecha: Titan, Technology, and Self in <em>Attack on Titan</em> | 1,605 | 275 | 263 | 538 | 529 |
| 17k1c130 | Mythic Pizza: Semiotic and Archetypal Significance in the Conspiracy Narrative Known as 'Pizzagate' | 1,276 | 495 | 208 | 226 | 347 |
| 6f5989r0 | Sadomasochism in <em>Jane Eyre</em>: A Psychological Exchange of Power | 821 | 148 | 188 | 202 | 283 |
| 886009wz | “I’ve Never Heard Silence Quite this Loud”: The Complexity of Taylor Swift’s Neutral Star Text | 808 | 191 | 150 | 193 | 274 |
| 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> | 770 | 269 | 165 | 165 | 171 |
| 03p5w4hw | (Re)Creation | 756 | 144 | 154 | 208 | 250 |
| 6v64v08r | Utopia by a Thousand Cuts: Melodrama and the Queer Art of Self-Harm in Hanya Yanagihara’s <em>A Little Life</em> | 681 | 150 | 157 | 173 | 201 |
| 46h0x4kp | Preliminary Materials for a Theory of <em>Gossip Girl</em> | 668 | 156 | 202 | 143 | 167 |
| 1q6992g4 | Fascination: Sixteen | 666 | 33 | 182 | 309 | 142 |
| 4rt3t02n | Doomed Voyage: America's Evolving Relationship with <em>Moby-Dick</em> | 657 | 184 | 194 | 135 | 144 |
| 9hq000bg | Female Power and the Supernatural in Early Gothic Literature | 657 | 111 | 119 | 222 | 205 |
| 4hq0x82s | Liberate the Asian American Writer: Embracing the Flaws of Amy Tan's <em>The Joy Luck Club</em> | 619 | 137 | 195 | 133 | 154 |
| 3x15p833 | Queer Desire as Restoration: The Rejection of Phallic Exchange in Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market” | 588 | 98 | 125 | 174 | 191 |
| 9pb2g06w | Blood as Reference to Fear in <em>Dracula</em> | 587 | 95 | 125 | 185 | 182 |
| 3gg0t2nw | Simulation at Work: An Analysis of Job Simulator Video Games | 566 | 280 | 156 | 130 | |
| 7mh827nr | “Between Gloom and Laughter”: Female Longing, Unhappiness, and Structures of Absence in the Works of Virginia Woolf | 539 | 138 | 140 | 116 | 145 |
| 27d9x6f9 | Historical Retrospection and Ambivalence in <em>A Tale of Two Cities</em> | 514 | 109 | 132 | 145 | 128 |
| 6pf491k3 | Milton and Empire: Satanic and Edenic Colonization in Paradise Lost | 497 | 81 | 156 | 119 | 141 |
| 3pc8c0vq | Poor Connections | 490 | 146 | 48 | 101 | 195 |
| 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 | 488 | 83 | 100 | 129 | 176 |
| 2fs65978 | “The Lines of Influence”: The Occult Recontextualization of Nicholas Hawksmoor’s Churches in <em>From Hell</em> and <em>Lud Heat</em> | 485 | 101 | 151 | 100 | 133 |
| 3xk9877j | Danielle | 472 | 87 | 107 | 140 | 138 |
| 420996rx | Nob Hill | 452 | 106 | 137 | 115 | 94 |
| 505039k3 | The Gospel of John McDaniel | 443 | 65 | 83 | 155 | 140 |
| 2039n7z1 | Golden Slumbers | 432 | 62 | 121 | 120 | 129 |
| 2s6478nm | Intertextuality within Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Structures and Stabilizes Language Countering Male Romantic-Era Writers’ Subjectification of the World | 429 | 63 | 91 | 125 | 150 |
| 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> | 420 | 72 | 112 | 106 | 130 |
| 25s0d4pm | The Conqueror Dominated, the Conquered Seduced: Postcolonial Love in Three Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez | 413 | 94 | 112 | 99 | 108 |
| 8f64108s | Histories of Dust and Bone: Mythologizing the Chinese American Past in Contemporary Western Fictions | 388 | 83 | 82 | 105 | 118 |
| 2r80j01g | Opening the Doors of Perception in <em>Paradise Lost</em>: Seeing and Hearing as Imperfectly Gendered, or as Tools for Divine Revelation | 379 | 84 | 96 | 112 | 87 |
| 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> | 338 | 30 | 81 | 114 | 113 |
| 8cm8n8b2 | Identity, Assimilation, and Representations of American Judaism in Philip Roth's American Trilogy | 337 | 48 | 70 | 104 | 115 |
| 9kv2n20f | The Norman Trinity: A Study on the Development of the Norman Bates Character from Psycho | 332 | 116 | 117 | 99 | |
| 9qx5t9t2 | Gayme On! A Queer Game Thesis | 330 | 60 | 74 | 124 | 72 |
| 575215c0 | CRUEL AND CASUAL PUNISHMENT: THE SITUATIONSHIP IN <em>NORMAL PEOPLE</em> BY SALLY ROONEY | 324 | 138 | 186 | ||
| 05r7t4bj | Unsettling Mixed Identities in Viet Thanh Nguyen's <em>The Sympathizer</em> | 304 | 91 | 90 | 56 | 67 |
| 10s1v91k | A Social Disruption: The Decentering of the Individual in Contemporary Dystopian Fiction and its Challenges to Humanism, Posthumanism, and Neoliberal Individualism | 298 | 56 | 88 | 80 | 74 |
| 10s5h8z0 | After October | 295 | 88 | 97 | 110 | |
| 568012r9 | The <em>Bildungsroman</em> Transformed Magic, Memories, and the Unpredictable Movements of Growth in Young Adult Speculative Fiction | 295 | 59 | 64 | 92 | 80 |
| 85d2d0cb | Molly Bloom: A Study of Love | 290 | 55 | 85 | 60 | 90 |
| 5p74r2r2 | Sky (Hyper-Chlorinated) | 286 | 47 | 89 | 86 | 64 |
| 94v4n7h6 | Troubles in Vienna | 281 | 44 | 97 | 68 | 72 |
| 7148g3qq | Screen Memory | 280 | 103 | 84 | 93 | |
| 0qb528ms | "The Man in Blood": Grotesque and Classical Masculinity in Shakespeare's <em>Coriolanus</em> | 279 | 51 | 65 | 93 | 70 |
| 7bs0q7ft | A Space for those Memories: The Cultural Memoirs of Eavan Boland and Doireann Ní Ghríofa | 278 | 64 | 79 | 65 | 70 |
| 16z013ts | Neurodivergent Diagnoses Explained in Abstract Metaphors in Lauren Slater’s <em>Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir</em> | 276 | 37 | 68 | 89 | 82 |
| 73k3h935 | "Before the Natural World Started Dying": Latent Conservatism, Nostalgia, and Dread in the Millennial Novel | 276 | 57 | 62 | 72 | 85 |
| 6565977z | Troublesome Minorities: Questioning Assimilation in <em>The Reluctant Fundamentalist</em> and <em>Home Fire</em> | 272 | 34 | 55 | 80 | 103 |
| 0rq5q0sd | Sontag and Disability Studies: Chronic Illness, Impairment Effect, and Biomedical Metaphor | 271 | 37 | 86 | 71 | 77 |
| 2h41j9kn | I am but Mad North-North-West: The Influence of Erasmus’ Moriae Encomium Upon Reason, Madness, and Mondarchy in Shakespeare’s Hamlet | 271 | 38 | 58 | 70 | 105 |
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