The following is the schedule of presentations. Note that you are not bound exclusively to the readings on the syllabus. You are also welcome to present on a related work or movement. Note also that if you are doing one of the texts on the syllabus, your presentation should occur on the same day (or thereabouts) as where your text is listed on the reading schedule.
Week Two
Monday:
Tuesday:
Wednesday:
Thursday: Alice Shapiro on Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan”; Kristine Dungo on David Hume’s “Of Miracles and the Origin of Religion”; Brittany Castillo on the Enlightenment, the arts, and the present day
Week Three
Monday: Myra Joy Veluz on chapters 1-5 of the Time Machine
Tuesday: Julia Spohn on chapters 6-12 of the Time Machine; Tricia Aoki on Rudyard Kipling, HG Wells, and The Time Machine
Wednesday: Jamie Shou on Butler’s Erewhon
Thursday
Week Four
Monday
Tuesday:
Thursday: Marty Cihigoyenetche on Marx’s Communist Manifesto; Joe Morgan on W. Benjamin’s “Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”; Nathan Hagon on the intro-record 9 of We; Naofumi Higashiyama on Adorno’s “Culture Industry”; Patrick Schaeper on Zamaytin’s We in relation to works such as 1984 and Brave New World
Week Five
Tuesday:
Patrick Schaeper on Zamaytin’s We in relation to works such as 1984 and Brave New World
Hannah Bodner on aspects of change in ee cummings’ “r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r” and Zamyatin’s We
Emily Chao on Yasutaka Tsutsui’s “Standing Woman”
Wednesday:
Natalie Banuelos on chapters 1-2 of Slaughterhouse-Five
Kelsey Pullen on Chapters 3-4 of Slaughterhouse-Five
Jonathan Chacon on Heidegger’s “The Question Concerning Technology”
Thursday:
Cristina Ybarra on Sigmund Freud’s “A Note upon the Mystic Writing Pad”
Amy Kennedy on Martin Amis’ “Denton’s Death”
Week Six
Monday: Katerina Jablonski on Thomas Lux’s “The Voice You Hear When You Read Silently”; Julie Pacek on chapters 5-6 of Slaughterhouse-Five
Tuesday: Erica Bennett on chapters 9-10 of Slaughterhouse-Five; Kiara Kinghorn on Kurt Vonnegut’s biography in relation to Slaughterhouse-Five, as well as Slaughterhouse-Five‘s relation to some of Vonnegut’s other works.
Wednesday:
Thursday: