Oral Presentation Schedule, Yeats Seminar, Fall 2008
Oral reports should take approximately 10-15 minutes, with some time afterwards for questions and discussion. Please do not allow presentations to run way over the allotted time; an over-long presentation is almost always a poorly-organized presentation. You may choose your own topic or sign up for one of those that I've listed (though you should clear your ideas for presentations with me). You should meet with me about the topic and conduct extensive research to prepare for your presentation. Topics may concern biographical, political, cultural, artistic, psychological, or philosophical questions. Please prepare a PowerPoint presentation (or audio/visual presentation in some other format) to accompany your oral report; you must email your audio-visual presentation to me as an attachment prior to class on the day of your presentation. Please inform your colleagues about the principal sources you used in preparing your presentation.
These topic ideas are meant to serve as suggestions for oral report topics. Often, good reports come out of particular students' interests as they may relate to the topic of the seminar or your plan of studies. Please feel free to suggest other interesting topics that occur to you.
When you have decided on a topic, please e-mail me and I will reserve it for you -- first come, first served.
Monday, September 15:
Yeats, Symbolism, and Decadence: Allison Rittmayer
Oscar Wilde
Yeats and the Theosophical Society
Monday, September 22:
The Abbey Theatre
Lady Gregory
Monday, September 29:
Maud Gonne
Monday, October 6:
Yeats and the Occult (with emphasis on the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn): Chris Bates
Yeats and Ezra Pound: Wendy Schibener
Yeats's Sisters, the Irish Arts & Crafts movement, and the Dun Emer and Cuala Presses
Monday, October 20:
W. B. Yeats in Bucknell Special Collections
The Hugh Lane Controversy
Georgie Yeats (Yeats's wife): Tricia Bosnic
Yeats and the Romantic Poets
Monday, October 27:
The Easter 1916 Rising and Yeats: Chuck Volkert
Yeats and Japanese Drama: Will Pickel
Monday, November 3:
Yeats and Thoor Ballylee: Jenny Dalzell
The Irish "Troubles" and Civil War: Allison Miles
Yeats and Neoplatonist Philosophy: Kyle Anthony
Monday, November 10:
A Vision: Emily Parmenter
Jack B. Yeats: Brynn Moragne
Yeats and Censorship (with a focus on "Leda and the Swan"): Maggie Martin
Monday, November 17:
Yeats, Sexuality, and Gender -- Recent Scholarship: Jessica Vooris
Monday, November 24:
Yeats and Eugenics
Yeats and Fascism: Aubrey Rowe
Monday, December 1:
Open
Monday, December 8:
Yeats's Influence: Andrew Cusick