LITR 4328 American Renaissance
 Model Assignments
Index to Model Student Research Projects 2015
(alphabetical order)

 Essays (assignment)

Alex Cordero, The Sublime in Poe’s Works:
Its Uses, Alterations, and Importance

Taylor Fraze, Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Development of Characters
and Symbolism in The Scarlet Letter

Rosie Galvan, Themes of Slavery, Religion and the Re-birth of a nation:
What defines the American Renaissance?

Ana Harms, The American Renaissance and Poetry

Marion Johnson, The Relevance of the Life
and Works of Washington Irving

Michael McDonald, Cowboys and Indians

Tanner McLean, Poe as the Perpetual American Byronic Hero

Benjamin Scott, Transcendentalism in Literature
from the American Renaissance

Zach Thomas, Slave Narratives: The New Voices

  Journals (assignment)

Hilda Cruz, Domestic Debate Journal

Dawn Iven, Children’s Literature
in the American Renaissance

Fariha Khalil, Islamic Influences on thoughts
and ideas of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Katelyn Valis, Poe, Master of the Gothic

Tamara Valencia, The Psychology of the Doppelganger
 in Romantic Literature

Joshua Van Horn, The Evolution of Transcendentalism

Research Posts (assignment)

Tanah Broussard
1st post: Where & Why the Gothic
2nd post: The Changes Between Now And Then

Karin Cooper
1st post: What happened to the Rest of the Mohicans?
2nd post: Who Did Native American's Marry?

Mariah Glidden
1st post: The Byronic Hero
2nd post: The Byronic Heroine

Sarah Hurt
1st post: In what ways did the Shaker’s represent American Renaissance ideas?
2nd post: Women Shakers, Reality vs. Fiction

Heidi Kreeger
1st post: Speaking Honestly of Abe
2nd post: Colonization is the Answer?

Nathan Mesloh
1st post: What Caused the Darkness to Spread?
2nd post: Transformation of Gothic Literature

Rachel Morris
1st post: Charles Brockden Brown: Father of the American Gothic
2nd post: The Contemporary American Gothic and Women Writers: Adapting the Genre

Elizabeth Myers
1st post: The Start of the Noble Savage and Ignoble Savage Stereotypes 
2nd post: Why were the Native Americans Classified as Noble or Ignoble Savages?

Cynthia Perkins
1st post: Harriet Jacobs: Slavery as Romance?
2nd post: The Power of the Slave Narrative

Kerri Phillip
1st post: The Who and What of Spiritualism
2nd post: Spiritualism in a Modern World

Jennifer Robles
1st post: Parallelity between Art and Literature in Romanticism
2nd post: Emerson, Transcendentalism and the Hudson River School

Sarah Robin Roelse
1st post: Why the Gothic? Why Poe?
2nd post: Conflicting Personalities:  A Research on the Doppelganger and Twinning


"Great Star" flag of pre-Civil War USA