Day | Date | Module | Presenters | Presentation topic |
R | 1/14/16 | 1: Introdution, aftermath of Civil War | Sign up for presentations | |
T | 1/19/16 | 2: Realism | A Call for a National Literature | |
R | 1/21/16 | 2: Realism | Ashley Reynolds and Seger Sipe | Regionalism and "A White Heron," Sarah Orne Jewett |
T | 1/26/16 | 2: Realism | ||
R | 1/28/16 | 3: Realism | Race and "The Goophered Grapevine," Charles Chesnutt | |
T | 2/2/16 | 3: Realism | Rachel Andrews and Marie Umholtz | The Women's Rights Movement |
R | 2/4/16 | 3: Realism | Cheryl Nance and Alexis Lebkey | "The Yellow Wallpaper," Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
T | 2/9/16 | 3: Realism | Test 1 | |
R | 2/11/16 | 4: Realism and Naturalism | Andrew Specht and Nicole Worhacz | Naturalism in literature |
T | 2/16/16 | 4: Realism and Naturalism | Daniella Zacarias and Hannah McCafferty | The Signifying Monkey and the "establishment" of African-American literature |
R | 2/18/16 | 5: The Great War and Rise of Modernism |
Quiz. Natalie McCormick and Cedric Blatch |
The Harlem Renaissance |
T | 2/23/16 | 5: The Great War and Rise of Modernism | Craig Graves and Jorden Cardenas | The Lost Generation and Americans in Paris (A Moveable Feast) |
R | 2/25/16 | 5: The Great War and Rise of Modernism | Test 2 | |
T | 3/1/16 | 6: Modernism: Poetry | Victoria Peacock and Crystal Bryant | Modernism in Art |
R | 3/3/16 | 6: Modernism: Poetry | ||
T | 3/8/16 | 6: Modernism: Poetry | The Wasteland | |
R | 3/10/16 | 7: Modernism: Prose | Hannah McCafferty | Southern Literary Renaissance |
T | 3/15/16 | No class | Spring break | |
R | 3/17/16 | No class | Spring break | |
T | 3/22/16 | 7: Modernism: Prose | Ethan Lichtenberg and Ashley Sosa | Yoknapatawpha County |
R | 3/24/16 | 7: Modernism: Prose | Erin and Nicole A. | Eudora Welty, photographer |
T | 3/29/16 | 7: Modernism: Prose | ||
R | 3/31/16 | No Class | Test 3 online | |
T | 4/5/16 | 8: From Modernism to Postmodernism | JOEs begin! | |
R | 4/7/16 | 8: From Modernism to Postmodernism | Quiz. | |
T | 4/12/16 | 8: From Modernism to Postmodernism | Jonah Robertson and Stephen Skipper | The Beat Generation |
R | 4/14/16 | 8: From Modernism to Postmodernism (AED; class from 10:40-11:10) | ||
T | 4/19/16 | 8: From Modernism to Postmodernism | ||
T | 4/21/16 | 1:10-3:10. Research paper due (hard copy and turnitin.com) | Test 4 |