Departmental Honors Theses

eScholarship stats: History by Item for July through October, 2026

Item	Title	Total requests	2026-10	2026-09	2026-08	2026-07
9zk9d7sj	The Human Mecha: Titan, Technology, and Self in <em>Attack on Titan</em>	2,475	715	652	797	311
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>	1,854	271	368	540	675
95q5833c	Walking Fish, Crying Rocks, Singing Crows: Racialization and Anthropomorphism in Contemporary Children's Animation	1,025	226	209	331	259
0wg349gb	THE BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS OF MY YOUTH: BTS’S 2016 <em>WINGS</em> AS A RETELLING OF HERMANN HESSE’S 1919 <em>DEMIAN</em>	872	725	104	43
886009wz	“I’ve Never Heard Silence Quite this Loud”: The Complexity of Taylor Swift’s Neutral Star Text	865	179	208	356	122
3gg0t2nw	Simulation at Work: An Analysis of Job Simulator Video Games	836	145	182	258	251
575215c0	CRUEL AND CASUAL PUNISHMENT: THE SITUATIONSHIP IN <em>NORMAL PEOPLE</em> BY SALLY ROONEY	675	182	169	215	109
9qx5t9t2	Gayme On! A Queer Game Thesis	622	113	169	262	78
6v64v08r	Utopia by a Thousand Cuts: Melodrama and the Queer Art of Self-Harm in Hanya Yanagihara’s <em>A Little Life</em>	596	162	144	180	110
9kv2n20f	The Norman Trinity: A Study on the Development of the Norman Bates Character from Psycho	579	153	137	180	109
4rt3t02n	Doomed Voyage: America's Evolving Relationship with <em>Moby-Dick</em>	562	118	103	250	91
17k1c130	Mythic Pizza: Semiotic and Archetypal Significance in the Conspiracy Narrative Known as 'Pizzagate'	503	199	87	91	126
4hq0x82s	Liberate the Asian American Writer: Embracing the Flaws of Amy Tan's <em>The Joy Luck Club</em>	499	162	137	118	82
1325j8hn	"We are not Who We Were:" Navigating Queer Time and Grieving Shifting Narratives in <em>Destiny 2</em>	496	43	115	158	180
03p5w4hw	(Re)Creation	487	102	96	134	155
9hq000bg	Female Power and the Supernatural in Early Gothic Literature	472	122	130	158	62
2s6478nm	Intertextuality within Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Structures and Stabilizes Language Countering Male Romantic-Era Writers’ Subjectification of the World	471	105	99	170	97
8105c2ch	The Fact of Fiction: Imagining Interiority in Petrarch, Chaucer, and Sidney	470	107	133	149	81
46h0x4kp	Preliminary Materials for a Theory of <em>Gossip Girl</em>	469	171	111	127	60
6f5989r0	Sadomasochism in <em>Jane Eyre</em>: A Psychological Exchange of Power	462	115	106	129	112
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	434	117	82	155	80
7mh827nr	“Between Gloom and Laughter”: Female Longing, Unhappiness, and Structures of Absence in the Works of Virginia Woolf	422	119	53	162	88
9pb2g06w	Blood as Reference to Fear in <em>Dracula</em>	416	121	63	121	111
25s0d4pm	The Conqueror Dominated, the Conquered Seduced: Postcolonial Love in Three Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez	406	109	82	140	75
2fs65978	“The Lines of Influence”: The Occult Recontextualization of Nicholas Hawksmoor’s Churches in <em>From Hell</em> and <em>Lud Heat</em>	393	102	80	151	60
1w50f9pp	<em>Grotesque</em>: A Gender and Psychoanalytical Analysis	340	89	107	109	35
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>	340	90	131	82	37
05r7t4bj	Unsettling Mixed Identities in Viet Thanh Nguyen's <em>The Sympathizer</em>	339	122	92	37	88
6pf491k3	Milton and Empire: Satanic and Edenic Colonization in Paradise Lost	339	81	83	112	63
3pc8c0vq	Poor Connections	331	97	53	127	54
568012r9	The <em>Bildungsroman</em> Transformed Magic, Memories, and the Unpredictable Movements of Growth in Young Adult Speculative Fiction	326	100	78	92	56
94v4n7h6	Troubles in Vienna	324	53	38	90	143
3xk9877j	Danielle	313	92	83	92	46
420996rx	Nob Hill	313	57	51	100	105
3x15p833	Queer Desire as Restoration: The Rejection of Phallic Exchange in Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market”	306	93	62	83	68
8f64108s	Histories of Dust and Bone: Mythologizing the Chinese American Past in Contemporary Western Fictions	303	57	16	153	77
0vm040m9	THE ‘GODE’ OF ROBIN HOOD: PERFORMED COURTESY, YEOMANRY, SOCIAL BANDITRY, AND DISNEY’S CULTURAL TRANSMISSION	295	81	77	58	79
27d9x6f9	Historical Retrospection and Ambivalence in <em>A Tale of Two Cities</em>	274	67	67	85	55
8dp5q5z1	Dog Rose	272	27	56	79	110
7gp024n4	CONDITIONED PERCEPTION: LANGUAGE, ENVIRONMENT, AND MORAL AGENCY IN ANTHONY BURGESS AND J. G. BALLARD	269	51	83	83	52
35j4s1g9	<em>The Bell Jar</em> and <em>Whiplash</em> as Fugue States: Tortured Artists' Pain and the Language of Their Stories	268	62	79	74	53
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>	268	71	54	102	41
9v99706j	"The Wonder of the Visible": Fantasy, Reality, and the Prism of Story in the Work of Patricia A. McKillip	268	69	60	74	65
2j35c9pv	Wanton and Wicked: Tracing the Eastern Femme Fatales of Oscar Wilde's Orientalist Narratives	266	74	78	73	41
5z60r8pm	A Voyage Through Queer Oceania: Reclaiming Queer Indigeneity in Sāmoa and Hawai'i	266	56	93	78	39
10s1v91k	A Social Disruption: The Decentering of the Individual in Contemporary Dystopian Fiction and its Challenges to Humanism, Posthumanism, and Neoliberal Individualism	263	108	58	55	42
1wt7b6j4	Revisiting the Twenties: Anachronism in American Fiction Narrative Structures	257	59	83	83	32
8qh2j5g1	London is the Place for Me: On Cultural Hybridity in Sam Selvon's <em>The Lonely Londoners</em>	249	61	53	65	70
0rq5q0sd	Sontag and Disability Studies: Chronic Illness, Impairment Effect, and Biomedical Metaphor	238	63	66	72	37
7h98z45d	John Ruskin's <em>Fors Clavigera</em>: The Hero as Educator	235	41	52	90	52

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