English 5250

Fall 2014

Class Presentation Schedule

Guidelines for presentations are here. A * indicates that the presentation will likely come at the end of class, as context for the next week’s reading.

T SEP 9 The uprising of 1381 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maja Sadikovic

T SEP 16 The story of Theseus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sarah Chadwick

T SEP 23 Chaucer: a brief biography . . . . . . . . . Jessica Hayes

T SEP 30 *Gower: a brief biography/Confessio amantis

T OCT 7 Marriage in the Later Middle Ages . . . . . . Racheal White

T OCT 14 *Boethius’s Consolation before and after Chaucer

T OCT 21 The medieval hunt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Edwina Cooper

T OCT 28 *Arthur before Malory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kirsten Brauch

T NOV 4 *A brief history of the Holy Grail . . . . . . . Sean McGraw