The New Yorker
English 624: Graduate Seminar
 Virginia Commonwealth University
Professor Bryant Mangum

Talk Presentations
 
 

The Role of the Whites, E.B. and Catherine White:  Lee Spratley (10 February)
The Algonquin Round Table:  Chrissie Griffith (22 February)
 James Thurber:  Biography, Personality (with some discussion of his New Yorker drawings): Kathy Gabriel (8 February)
New Yorker Covers:  Joey Kingsley (31 March)
The New Yorker and the City (Talk of the Town):  Angelica Bega-Hart (15 February)
The Profile Section:  Thara Harris (14 April)
The Harold Ross Era:  Elizabeth Downing Johnson (1 March)
“Famous” Contributors During the Ross Years:  Courtney Sviatko (3 March)
The William Shawn Era:  Lauren Miner (22 March)
The Tina Brown Era:  Dale Smith (29 March)
A Perspective on New Yorker Humor:  John Paul Carlton (10 March)
New Yorker  Cartoons:   Joyce Lillemon Boschert (7 April)
Social/Political Outlook of The New Yorker:  Ryan Cales (8 March)
The Fiction Issue:  Tom Batten (29 March)
Evolution of New Yorker Poetry:  Katelyn Kiley (5 April)
The New Yorker and “Non-American Authors”:   Angela Apte (19 April)
The New Yorker’s Handling of Manuscripts:  Adriane Hanson (12 April)