Departmental Honors Theses
Parent: Department of English
eScholarship stats: History by Item for April through July, 2024
| Item | Title | Total requests | 2024-07 | 2024-06 | 2024-05 | 2024-04 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 886009wz | “I’ve Never Heard Silence Quite this Loud”: The Complexity of Taylor Swift’s Neutral Star Text | 804 | 105 | 119 | 240 | 340 |
| 9zk9d7sj | The Human Mecha: Titan, Technology, and Self in <em>Attack on Titan</em> | 702 | 127 | 120 | 191 | 264 |
| 9pb2g06w | Blood as Reference to Fear in <em>Dracula</em> | 426 | 53 | 69 | 123 | 181 |
| 46h0x4kp | Preliminary Materials for a Theory of <em>Gossip Girl</em> | 414 | 73 | 74 | 128 | 139 |
| 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> | 382 | 74 | 88 | 96 | 124 |
| 9qx5t9t2 | Gayme On! A Queer Game Thesis | 343 | 149 | 89 | 51 | 54 |
| 27d9x6f9 | Historical Retrospection and Ambivalence in <em>A Tale of Two Cities</em> | 289 | 34 | 50 | 89 | 116 |
| 4rt3t02n | Doomed Voyage: America's Evolving Relationship with <em>Moby-Dick</em> | 288 | 69 | 52 | 83 | 84 |
| 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> | 278 | 71 | 47 | 57 | 103 |
| 6v64v08r | Utopia by a Thousand Cuts: Melodrama and the Queer Art of Self-Harm in Hanya Yanagihara’s <em>A Little Life</em> | 264 | 73 | 67 | 58 | 66 |
| 9hq000bg | Female Power and the Supernatural in Early Gothic Literature | 257 | 40 | 47 | 62 | 108 |
| 6f5989r0 | Sadomasochism in <em>Jane Eyre</em>: A Psychological Exchange of Power | 252 | 47 | 49 | 73 | 83 |
| 2s6478nm | Intertextuality within Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Structures and Stabilizes Language Countering Male Romantic-Era Writers’ Subjectification of the World | 234 | 49 | 59 | 66 | 60 |
| 6565977z | Troublesome Minorities: Questioning Assimilation in <em>The Reluctant Fundamentalist</em> and <em>Home Fire</em> | 175 | 25 | 28 | 65 | 57 |
| 2fs65978 | “The Lines of Influence”: The Occult Recontextualization of Nicholas Hawksmoor’s Churches in <em>From Hell</em> and <em>Lud Heat</em> | 173 | 39 | 30 | 46 | 58 |
| 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> | 168 | 22 | 37 | 49 | 60 |
| 4hq0x82s | Liberate the Asian American Writer: Embracing the Flaws of Amy Tan's <em>The Joy Luck Club</em> | 162 | 17 | 27 | 54 | 64 |
| 6pf491k3 | Milton and Empire: Satanic and Edenic Colonization in Paradise Lost | 160 | 30 | 20 | 50 | 60 |
| 25s0d4pm | The Conqueror Dominated, the Conquered Seduced: Postcolonial Love in Three Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez | 154 | 22 | 20 | 65 | 47 |
| 3x15p833 | Queer Desire as Restoration: The Rejection of Phallic Exchange in Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market” | 140 | 24 | 23 | 35 | 58 |
| 10s1v91k | A Social Disruption: The Decentering of the Individual in Contemporary Dystopian Fiction and its Challenges to Humanism, Posthumanism, and Neoliberal Individualism | 135 | 30 | 25 | 42 | 38 |
| 7mh827nr | “Between Gloom and Laughter”: Female Longing, Unhappiness, and Structures of Absence in the Works of Virginia Woolf | 117 | 17 | 28 | 26 | 46 |
| 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 | 115 | 40 | 20 | 28 | 27 |
| 7n01v6zc | Posthuman Time Beings | 102 | 22 | 20 | 29 | 31 |
| 0rq5q0sd | Sontag and Disability Studies: Chronic Illness, Impairment Effect, and Biomedical Metaphor | 97 | 31 | 15 | 19 | 32 |
| 17k1c130 | Mythic Pizza: Semiotic and Archetypal Significance in the Conspiracy Narrative Known as 'Pizzagate' | 97 | 16 | 18 | 26 | 37 |
| 420996rx | Nob Hill | 84 | 12 | 22 | 26 | 24 |
| 568012r9 | The <em>Bildungsroman</em> Transformed Magic, Memories, and the Unpredictable Movements of Growth in Young Adult Speculative Fiction | 83 | 11 | 13 | 35 | 24 |
| 3xk9877j | Danielle | 77 | 17 | 20 | 21 | 19 |
| 43w9q2p3 | Lividity in Pink | 77 | 14 | 24 | 25 | 14 |
| 7bs0q7ft | A Space for those Memories: The Cultural Memoirs of Eavan Boland and Doireann Ní Ghríofa | 76 | 18 | 14 | 14 | 30 |
| 8f64108s | Histories of Dust and Bone: Mythologizing the Chinese American Past in Contemporary Western Fictions | 72 | 23 | 10 | 17 | 22 |
| 8rz3c36c | "The Great Soup of Being": Autotheory & Intersectionality in Cherríe Moraga's<em> Loving in the War Years</em> and Maggie Nelson's <em>The Argonauts</em> | 72 | 18 | 12 | 15 | 27 |
| 0v90v299 | Experimenting on Oriental Women: Tracing Oriental Women's Representations in Western Discussion of Bodily Autonomy and Desire in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries | 70 | 18 | 9 | 15 | 28 |
| 9wb8r379 | Mother, May I Please Have Some More: Melancholy, Maternity, and the State | 68 | 12 | 6 | 21 | 29 |
| 2r80j01g | Opening the Doors of Perception in <em>Paradise Lost</em>: Seeing and Hearing as Imperfectly Gendered, or as Tools for Divine Revelation | 64 | 19 | 12 | 15 | 18 |
| 3mn0t65q | Evergreen | 64 | 10 | 17 | 22 | 15 |
| 03p5w4hw | (Re)Creation | 61 | 19 | 15 | 16 | 11 |
| 4mx6210b | Have You Eaten Yet? Stories | 60 | 17 | 6 | 20 | 17 |
| 3rk2t7xr | Baddies & Bodies: Remembering and Dismembering IMVU | 59 | 18 | 13 | 13 | 15 |
| 3z96k02w | Emotional Objectification: Implications of the Consumer Object in Romantic Poetry | 58 | 14 | 7 | 8 | 29 |
| 16z013ts | Neurodivergent Diagnoses Explained in Abstract Metaphors in Lauren Slater’s <em>Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir</em> | 53 | 15 | 9 | 20 | 9 |
| 9tj754k3 | Sins of the Father: Race and Genealogy in the Medieval Imagination | 53 | 16 | 7 | 17 | 13 |
| 00x7q12v | All Rivers Run East to the Sea | 52 | 16 | 13 | 8 | 15 |
| 1q6992g4 | Fascination: Sixteen | 52 | 23 | 9 | 12 | 8 |
| 3fv717g9 | Summer’s Dawn | 51 | 6 | 19 | 13 | 13 |
| 0xf8k86t | Deep Surfaces: The Production of Culture and the Culture of Production in Twentieth Century Hollywood | 49 | 14 | 8 | 13 | 14 |
| 5sz6r4nr | Disabling Charlotte Smith: A Marxist, Crip Theory Analysis of Class, Gender, Labor, and Disability in Romantic Poetry | 48 | 8 | 8 | 21 | 11 |
| 7n96r5vf | Optics in the Works of Joseph Conrad | 48 | 16 | 9 | 14 | 9 |
| 6535x10n | Invisible Labor in the Medieval World | 43 | 14 | 6 | 15 | 8 |
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