Departmental Honors Theses
Parent: Department of English
eScholarship stats: History by Item for October, 2024 through January, 2025
| Item | Title | Total requests | 2025-01 | 2024-12 | 2024-11 | 2024-10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9zk9d7sj | The Human Mecha: Titan, Technology, and Self in <em>Attack on Titan</em> | 742 | 179 | 204 | 204 | 155 |
| 886009wz | “I’ve Never Heard Silence Quite this Loud”: The Complexity of Taylor Swift’s Neutral Star Text | 620 | 135 | 152 | 193 | 140 |
| 46h0x4kp | Preliminary Materials for a Theory of <em>Gossip Girl</em> | 407 | 98 | 122 | 108 | 79 |
| 9pb2g06w | Blood as Reference to Fear in <em>Dracula</em> | 350 | 94 | 101 | 80 | 75 |
| 9qx5t9t2 | Gayme On! A Queer Game Thesis | 318 | 10 | 14 | 20 | 274 |
| 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> | 314 | 61 | 82 | 93 | 78 |
| 6v64v08r | Utopia by a Thousand Cuts: Melodrama and the Queer Art of Self-Harm in Hanya Yanagihara’s <em>A Little Life</em> | 253 | 74 | 68 | 68 | 43 |
| 2s6478nm | Intertextuality within Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Structures and Stabilizes Language Countering Male Romantic-Era Writers’ Subjectification of the World | 236 | 39 | 69 | 80 | 48 |
| 6f5989r0 | Sadomasochism in <em>Jane Eyre</em>: A Psychological Exchange of Power | 236 | 87 | 59 | 45 | 45 |
| 27d9x6f9 | Historical Retrospection and Ambivalence in <em>A Tale of Two Cities</em> | 213 | 54 | 47 | 60 | 52 |
| 3x15p833 | Queer Desire as Restoration: The Rejection of Phallic Exchange in Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market” | 205 | 48 | 41 | 68 | 48 |
| 6pf491k3 | Milton and Empire: Satanic and Edenic Colonization in Paradise Lost | 195 | 30 | 58 | 51 | 56 |
| 9hq000bg | Female Power and the Supernatural in Early Gothic Literature | 186 | 51 | 44 | 37 | 54 |
| 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> | 178 | 39 | 36 | 57 | 46 |
| 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> | 160 | 39 | 44 | 40 | 37 |
| 2fs65978 | “The Lines of Influence”: The Occult Recontextualization of Nicholas Hawksmoor’s Churches in <em>From Hell</em> and <em>Lud Heat</em> | 148 | 48 | 25 | 35 | 40 |
| 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 | 132 | 50 | 32 | 22 | 28 |
| 25s0d4pm | The Conqueror Dominated, the Conquered Seduced: Postcolonial Love in Three Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez | 130 | 21 | 39 | 32 | 38 |
| 4rt3t02n | Doomed Voyage: America's Evolving Relationship with <em>Moby-Dick</em> | 124 | 34 | 33 | 25 | 32 |
| 10s1v91k | A Social Disruption: The Decentering of the Individual in Contemporary Dystopian Fiction and its Challenges to Humanism, Posthumanism, and Neoliberal Individualism | 112 | 20 | 32 | 34 | 26 |
| 7mh827nr | “Between Gloom and Laughter”: Female Longing, Unhappiness, and Structures of Absence in the Works of Virginia Woolf | 107 | 30 | 27 | 26 | 24 |
| 568012r9 | The <em>Bildungsroman</em> Transformed Magic, Memories, and the Unpredictable Movements of Growth in Young Adult Speculative Fiction | 104 | 35 | 18 | 22 | 29 |
| 0qb528ms | "The Man in Blood": Grotesque and Classical Masculinity in Shakespeare's <em>Coriolanus</em> | 102 | 19 | 35 | 25 | 23 |
| 17k1c130 | Mythic Pizza: Semiotic and Archetypal Significance in the Conspiracy Narrative Known as 'Pizzagate' | 100 | 32 | 20 | 31 | 17 |
| 6565977z | Troublesome Minorities: Questioning Assimilation in <em>The Reluctant Fundamentalist</em> and <em>Home Fire</em> | 96 | 21 | 25 | 29 | 21 |
| 4mx6210b | Have You Eaten Yet? Stories | 94 | 25 | 16 | 15 | 38 |
| 73k3h935 | "Before the Natural World Started Dying": Latent Conservatism, Nostalgia, and Dread in the Millennial Novel | 93 | 18 | 40 | 15 | 20 |
| 0rq5q0sd | Sontag and Disability Studies: Chronic Illness, Impairment Effect, and Biomedical Metaphor | 90 | 25 | 18 | 16 | 31 |
| 3xk9877j | Danielle | 87 | 39 | 29 | 8 | 11 |
| 4hq0x82s | Liberate the Asian American Writer: Embracing the Flaws of Amy Tan's <em>The Joy Luck Club</em> | 84 | 22 | 21 | 26 | 15 |
| 7bs0q7ft | A Space for those Memories: The Cultural Memoirs of Eavan Boland and Doireann Ní Ghríofa | 84 | 14 | 28 | 16 | 26 |
| 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> | 71 | 8 | 23 | 14 | 26 |
| 7n01v6zc | Posthuman Time Beings | 66 | 22 | 17 | 10 | 17 |
| 420996rx | Nob Hill | 64 | 22 | 12 | 13 | 17 |
| 8f64108s | Histories of Dust and Bone: Mythologizing the Chinese American Past in Contemporary Western Fictions | 64 | 22 | 23 | 9 | 10 |
| 9wb8r379 | Mother, May I Please Have Some More: Melancholy, Maternity, and the State | 61 | 13 | 21 | 10 | 17 |
| 2r80j01g | Opening the Doors of Perception in <em>Paradise Lost</em>: Seeing and Hearing as Imperfectly Gendered, or as Tools for Divine Revelation | 55 | 10 | 17 | 11 | 17 |
| 3fv717g9 | Summer’s Dawn | 55 | 28 | 12 | 8 | 7 |
| 5sz6r4nr | Disabling Charlotte Smith: A Marxist, Crip Theory Analysis of Class, Gender, Labor, and Disability in Romantic Poetry | 55 | 18 | 7 | 17 | 13 |
| 1p54q9df | Songs of Enlightenment: In Collaboration with Light | 50 | 11 | 17 | 7 | 15 |
| 8cm8n8b2 | Identity, Assimilation, and Representations of American Judaism in Philip Roth's American Trilogy | 50 | 9 | 16 | 7 | 18 |
| 43w9q2p3 | Lividity in Pink | 48 | 27 | 4 | 4 | 13 |
| 03p5w4hw | (Re)Creation | 46 | 26 | 8 | 6 | 6 |
| 2h41j9kn | I am but Mad North-North-West: The Influence of Erasmus’ Moriae Encomium Upon Reason, Madness, and Mondarchy in Shakespeare’s Hamlet | 45 | 10 | 15 | 14 | 6 |
| 0v90v299 | Experimenting on Oriental Women: Tracing Oriental Women's Representations in Western Discussion of Bodily Autonomy and Desire in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries | 44 | 13 | 7 | 12 | 12 |
| 3mn0t65q | Evergreen | 44 | 21 | 5 | 7 | 11 |
| 6hn9v8w5 | Upward Bound: Collected Stories | 38 | 8 | 13 | 11 | 6 |
| 1q6992g4 | Fascination: Sixteen | 36 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 13 |
| 3rk2t7xr | Baddies & Bodies: Remembering and Dismembering IMVU | 35 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 12 |
| 4gz2s53g | Performing Asian American for the End of the World: Reimagining the Inscrutable as Resistance in Asian/American Theatre | 35 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 16 |
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