Departmental Honors Theses

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Item	Title	Total requests	2025-05	2025-04	2025-03	2025-02
9zk9d7sj	The Human Mecha: Titan, Technology, and Self in <em>Attack on Titan</em>	845	244	225	212	164
886009wz	“I’ve Never Heard Silence Quite this Loud”: The Complexity of Taylor Swift’s Neutral Star Text	571	112	168	147	144
9pb2g06w	Blood as Reference to Fear in <em>Dracula</em>	359	108	84	88	79
46h0x4kp	Preliminary Materials for a Theory of <em>Gossip Girl</em>	358	111	83	102	62
9hq000bg	Female Power and the Supernatural in Early Gothic Literature	330	126	84	70	50
6v64v08r	Utopia by a Thousand Cuts: Melodrama and the Queer Art of Self-Harm in Hanya Yanagihara’s <em>A Little Life</em>	306	90	85	67	64
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>	267	94	54	71	48
7mh827nr	“Between Gloom and Laughter”: Female Longing, Unhappiness, and Structures of Absence in the Works of Virginia Woolf	265	133	62	40	30
6f5989r0	Sadomasochism in <em>Jane Eyre</em>: A Psychological Exchange of Power	259	76	76	61	46
2s6478nm	Intertextuality within Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Structures and Stabilizes Language Countering Male Romantic-Era Writers’ Subjectification of the World	254	64	51	74	65
3x15p833	Queer Desire as Restoration: The Rejection of Phallic Exchange in Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market”	242	76	74	59	33
2fs65978	“The Lines of Influence”: The Occult Recontextualization of Nicholas Hawksmoor’s Churches in <em>From Hell</em> and <em>Lud Heat</em>	236	49	78	86	23
6pf491k3	Milton and Empire: Satanic and Edenic Colonization in Paradise Lost	226	65	47	54	60
17k1c130	Mythic Pizza: Semiotic and Archetypal Significance in the Conspiracy Narrative Known as 'Pizzagate'	224	87	46	44	47
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>	216	58	61	49	48
27d9x6f9	Historical Retrospection and Ambivalence in <em>A Tale of Two Cities</em>	216	51	51	63	51
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	201	69	40	37	55
4rt3t02n	Doomed Voyage: America's Evolving Relationship with <em>Moby-Dick</em>	181	47	61	40	33
10s1v91k	A Social Disruption: The Decentering of the Individual in Contemporary Dystopian Fiction and its Challenges to Humanism, Posthumanism, and Neoliberal Individualism	157	43	36	38	40
25s0d4pm	The Conqueror Dominated, the Conquered Seduced: Postcolonial Love in Three Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez	150	47	54	27	22
0qb528ms	"The Man in Blood": Grotesque and Classical Masculinity in Shakespeare's <em>Coriolanus</em>	146	38	42	42	24
73k3h935	"Before the Natural World Started Dying": Latent Conservatism, Nostalgia, and Dread in the Millennial Novel	145	40	42	43	20
4hq0x82s	Liberate the Asian American Writer: Embracing the Flaws of Amy Tan's <em>The Joy Luck Club</em>	134	69	20	22	23
0rq5q0sd	Sontag and Disability Studies: Chronic Illness, Impairment Effect, and Biomedical Metaphor	115	48	21	25	21
3fv717g9	Summer’s Dawn	115	49	13	35	18
7bs0q7ft	A Space for those Memories: The Cultural Memoirs of Eavan Boland and Doireann Ní Ghríofa	112	36	37	19	20
568012r9	The <em>Bildungsroman</em> Transformed Magic, Memories, and the Unpredictable Movements of Growth in Young Adult Speculative Fiction	111	25	42	21	23
6565977z	Troublesome Minorities: Questioning Assimilation in <em>The Reluctant Fundamentalist</em> and <em>Home Fire</em>	109	51	21	21	16
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>	107	28	22	36	21
16z013ts	Neurodivergent Diagnoses Explained in Abstract Metaphors in Lauren Slater’s <em>Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir</em>	100	21	26	27	26
03p5w4hw	(Re)Creation	97	38	17	23	19
9wb8r379	Mother, May I Please Have Some More: Melancholy, Maternity, and the State	86	25	25	10	26
7n01v6zc	Posthuman Time Beings	83	31	15	16	21
9qx5t9t2	Gayme On! A Queer Game Thesis	78	38	23	5	12
1q6992g4	Fascination: Sixteen	76	23	15	27	11
3mn0t65q	Evergreen	76	24	20	22	10
420996rx	Nob Hill	76	23	12	25	16
2r80j01g	Opening the Doors of Perception in <em>Paradise Lost</em>: Seeing and Hearing as Imperfectly Gendered, or as Tools for Divine Revelation	75	28	12	7	28
4mx6210b	Have You Eaten Yet?  Stories	75	23	16	24	12
6hn9v8w5	Upward Bound: Collected Stories	75	24	23	13	15
00x7q12v	All Rivers Run East to the Sea	74	19	18	21	16
3xk9877j	Danielle	74	16	12	33	13
8f64108s	Histories of Dust and Bone: Mythologizing the Chinese American Past in Contemporary Western Fictions	74	21	18	13	22
1p54q9df	Songs of Enlightenment: In Collaboration with Light	72	25	18	17	12
5sz6r4nr	Disabling Charlotte Smith: A Marxist, Crip Theory Analysis of Class, Gender, Labor, and Disability in Romantic Poetry	67	25	18	17	7
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>	65	20	29	9	7
0xf8k86t	Deep Surfaces: The Production of Culture and the Culture of Production in Twentieth Century Hollywood	65	14	17	26	8
43w9q2p3	Lividity in Pink	65	27	13	16	9
3z96k02w	Emotional Objectification: Implications of the Consumer Object in Romantic Poetry	64	21	21	10	12
9tj754k3	Sins of the Father: Race and Genealogy in the Medieval Imagination	57	21	20	10	6

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