American Literature: Romanticism Model Assignments research assignment options Student Research Submissions 2015 (alphabetical order)

Research Essays

Gregory Buchanan, Limited Free Will in Nathaniel Hawthorne and Stephen Crane

Melissa Hodgkins, Poe’s Visions of Womanhood in “Ligeia” and “Usher”: Femme-Fatales, Sirens, and Vampires

Hanna Mak, The European Role in the Romantic Definition of America

Heather Minette Schutmaat, An Exploration of the Sublime

Marichia Wyatt-Jones, Dreaming, Hallucinating, or the Devil Himself: How Do We Teach the Ambiguous “Young Goodman Brown?”

Jonathon Anderson, The Public Poe: Wit, Satire, and Social Commentary in the Work of Edgar Allan Poe

Roslynn Kelley, The Reconciliation of Magua

Niki Bippen
1st post: H.P. Lovecraft: Living in Edgar Allan Poe’s Shadow
2nd post: Edgar Allan Poe: Learning and Borrowing From the Best

Carol Fountain
1st post: The Plight of the Cherokee on the Trail of Tears
2nd post: Let’s Have Mo’ of Poe

Marissa Holland
1st post: The American and French Love/Hate Relationship: A Study of Poe and Baudelaire
2nd post: Walt Whitman and American Bohemia

Lori Wheeler
1st post: Romantic Reading Ladder: Batman to Irving
2nd post: America and Its Romantic Ideal of the Native