For several years students in Dr. Kyle Dickson’s Eighteenth-Century British Literature have produced research projects as a way to share key texts from the Enlightenment with a broader audience. It’s easy to complete academic research for an audience of one–the professor–so this assignment has attempted to ask students to communicate research from an upper-level course to general audience.

 

Jonathan Swift and Ireland – Victoria Stowe

 

Coffeehouse Chatter – Chander Gum & Lauren Shrader

 

The Collier Controversy – Ashley De Pree

 

Satire: From Swift to Colbert – Julia Curtis