Hanrahan
ENGL 312
Spring 2013
ENGL 312-02
Discussion Leadership
Subject to revision
W 1/16: Emerson, “Self-Reliance”
Kathleen Bechtold
W 1/23: Walden, 71-172
Chelsea Demello
F 1/25: Walden, 172-end, and selections from supplemental materials (TBA)
Sam Woullard
M 2/4: Melville, “Bartleby, the Scrivener”
Lauren Coffey
W 2/6: Melville, “Benito Cereno”
Seth Ward
F 2/8: Poe, “The Philosophy of Composition,” “Hop Frog”
Anthony Leonard
M 2/11: Poe, “The Black Cat,” “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”
Chris Bradford
F 3/1: Fern, “Hints to Young Wives,” “Mrs. Adolphus Smith Sporting the ‘Blue Stocking,’” “Thanksgiving
Story,” “Critics,” “Independence”
Kyla Niedermaier-Betts
M 3/4: Dickinson, Letters to and from T.W. Higginson, “I’m Nobody! Who are you?,” “Much Madness is
divinest Sense,” “Success is counted sweetest,” “The Soul selects her own Society,” “I dwell in
Possibility,” “Publication – is the Auction,” “Tell all the truth but tell it slant,” “This was a Poet”
Alethea Snurr
W 3/6: Dickinson, “‘Faith’ is a fine invention,” “A Bird, came down the Walk,” “A narrow Fellow in the
Grass,” “He fumbles at your Soul,” “Some keep the Sabbath going to Church,” “The Bible is an
antique Volume”
Colleen Callahan
F 3/8: Dickinson, Letters to Susan Gilbert Dickinson, “After great pain, a formal feeling comes,” “Empty my
Heart, of Thee,” “I cannot live with you,” “I heard a Fly buzz – when I died,” “She rose to His
Requirement – dropt,” “Title divine, is mine,” “Wild nights – Wild nights!”
Caleb Karriker
M 3/25: Whitman, “The Wound-Dresser,” “Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night,” “When Lilacs Last in
the Dooryard Bloom’d”
Rachel Witter
W 3/27: Rebecca Harding Davis, “Life in the Iron Mills”
Jonathan Barr
Hanrahan
ENGL 312
Spring 2013
F 3/29: Gilman, “The Yellow Wall-paper,” “Why I Wrote ‘The Yellow Wall-paper”
Kristen Dick
W 4/3: Chopin, “The Storm,” “Desiree’s Baby”
Betsy Kozak
M 4/15: Pudd’head Wilson, 60-end
Henry Rogers