You should choose a few topics from this list, since your first choice may be taken. Class signup will be on January 25, 2002, but you may e-mail me (campbedm@gmail.com) or use the signup form (http://www.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/repsignup.html) to choose a topic ahead of that date. 

The report that you'll prepare for this class will be a short (5-7 minute) presentation, a 5-6 page paper, or a web page on one of the topics listed below. Possibilities for this report include any one of the following:

• Additional information about the social, intellectual, artistic, scientific, philosophical, or historical contexts for the works and authors assigned in class.
• Interpretations of works or aspects of a work not read in class.
• Introductions to authors not specifically covered in the course.
• Discussion of one or more critical works relating to the era, such as David Reynolds' Beneath the American Renaissance or Edwin Cady's The Light of Common Day.
• Background about the social and intellectual connections among certain groups of authors.

More than one person can sign up for each topic as long as one is doing an oral report and the others are doing papers or web pages. Only five people can present an oral report during each class period, so if five other people are already doing an oral report on the day you choose, you will need to sign up for a paper or a web project.