LITR 5439 Literary & Historical Utopias

Model Assignments

Research Posts 2011

assignment

Instructor's selections

Sarah Coronado
1st posting
: From Corporations to Utopia: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Successful Leadership
2nd posting
: A Look at the Members: Collective and/or Individual Identities

Chrissie Johnston
1st posting:
The Appeal of Dystopian Literature to Young Adult Readers
2nd posting
: Teaching Utopias

Patrick Locke
1st posting:
Setting up a Framework for Emulation: Utopian Aspects of “Back to Africa  Pre-American Civil War
2nd posting
: Shifting Utopian Values on the Kibbutz

Katie Raney
1st posting:
Education in Dystopias: A Look at Repression in Nazi Germany
2nd posting
: Literacy as a Communal Experience and a Way to Cope in the Dystopian Antebellum South

James Seth
1st posting:
Secret Gestures, Hidden Agendas: The Objectivist Movement and Allegations of Cultism
2nd posting
: The Grass is Always Greener: Fourierism and Socialist Utopias in Texas

Amy Shanks
1st posting:
The Wizard of Oz as a Utopian Tale
2nd posting
: A Dystopian Study

Haylie Unger
1st posting:
Desire: the Drive and the Destruction of Utopias
2nd posting
: The Utopian Missing Link?

Jenna Zucha
1st posting:
Young adult literature's shift in popularity from fantasy to dystopia or speculative literature: Deserving of literary merit or just another "teenage wasteland?"
2nd posting
: The Garden of Utopia

Meryl Bazaman
1st posting
: Germania’s Volkshalle: How Utopian Motives Support Dystopian Realities
2nd posting
:
Living La Reunion–Prosperous Utopian Conventions 

Alicia Costello
1st posting:
Guilds: The Intentional Utopian Communities of Azeroth
2nd posting
: Marriage, Sex, and “Special Relationships” in the Oneida Community

Katie Parnian
1st posting:
Living Backward and Looking Forward: A Glance at the First Feminist Utopia
2nd posting
: Sexual Ecology in Ecotopia

Omar Syed
1st posting:
T
he Republic and The Giver
2nd posting
: Ever felt like you just don't belong? We can help: The Borg Collective

Dru Watkins
1st posting:
F
eminist Utopias
2nd posting
: The Bioethics of Ecotopia

Nicole Wheatley
1st posting:
Social media web-based Utopiasdo they exist?
2nd posting
: Would Techno-Utopia be Heaven or Hell?