Hanrahan
ENGL 312
Spring 2013
Discussion Leadership: Available Dates
Subject to revision
F 1/11: Bradstreet, “Before the Birth of One of Her Children,” “The Author to Her Book,” “Upon the Burning of
our House”
Kate Myles
W 1/16: Emerson, “Self-Reliance”
Joe Offutt
F 1/25: Walden, 172-end, and selections from supplemental materials (TBA)
Brandon Nicholas
W 1/30: The Scarlet Letter, 61-143
John Haslach
F 2/1: The Scarlet Letter, 144-166, and selections from supplemental materials (TBA)
Dana Bateman
M 2/4: Melville, “Bartleby, the Scrivener”
Nathaniel Warburton
W 2/6: Melville, “Benito Cereno”
Shelby Taylor
F 2/8: Poe, “The Philosophy of Composition,” “Hop Frog”
Stephen McKenzie (“Philosophy”); Roy Gaufo (“Hop Frog”)
M 2/11: Poe, “The Black Cat,” “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”
Bennett LaRue (“The Black Cat”); Kevin FitzGerald (“Murders”)
M 2/18: Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 71-230
Kate Stritch
F 3/1: Fern, “Hints to Young Wives,” “Mrs. Adolphus Smith Sporting the ‘Blue Stocking,’” “Thanksgiving
Story,” “Critics,” “Independence”
Melanie Snyder
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”
Katie Butler
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”
Tai Sommers
M 3/25: M 3/25: Whitman, “The Wound-Dresser,” “Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night,” “When Lilacs
Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”
Aaron Brammeier
Hanrahan
ENGL 312
Spring 2013
F 3/29: Gilman, “The Yellow Wall-paper,” “Why I Wrote ‘The Yellow Wall-paper”
Diana Everhart
M 4/1: Freeman, “Old Woman Magoun”
Rebecca Hambright
W 4/3: Chopin, “The Storm,” “Desiree’s Baby”
Amelia Carte (“The Storm”); Brittany Anderson (“Desiree’s Baby”)