english phd reading list

Graduate Reading List

Graduate – current – reading lists.

19th-Century American Literature

19th-Century American Literature – Hueth (Fall 2021)
Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature, 1848-1914 – Driben (Fall 2021)
Long 19 th Century in American Literature – Herrera (Fall 2021)
American Literature 1820 – 1920 – Swanson (Spring 2021)
19th-Century American Literature, 1825-1900 – Lee (Spring 2019)
19th-Century American Literature, 1848-1914 – Valenzuela (Fall 2018)
U.S. Literature 1820-1880 – Delchamps (Fall 2017)
19th-Century American Literature – Fosbury (Fall 2016)
19th-Century American Literature – Lopez (Fall 2016)
19th-Century American Literature – Febo (Spring 2016)
19th-Century American Literature – Lew (Winter 2016)
American Literature 1780-1880 – Messner (Spring 2015)
19th-Century American Literature – Smith, R. (Fall 2014)
American Literature, 1780-1890 – Beck (Fall 2014)
American Literature, 1782-1896 – Rosson (Fall 2014)
19th-Century American Literature – Sommers (Fall 2014)
19th-Century American Literature – Wingate (Fall 2014)
19th-Century American – Chon (Spring 2014)
19th-Century American – Horvath (Winter 2014)
19th-Century American – Clark (Spring 2013)
19th-Century American – Gallagher (Spring 2013)
19th-Century American – Lang (Spring 2013)
19th-Century American – Charles (Fall 2012)
19th-Century American – Couch (Fall 2012)
American Literature 1800-1890 – Reed (2010)
19th-Century American – Henton (Fall 2009)
19th-Century American – JohnsonA (Spring 2009)
19th-Century American – Moore (Spring 2009)
19th-Century American – Nahm (Spring 2009)
19th-Century American – Escobar (Winter 2009)
19th-Century American – Webster (Winter 2009)
19th-Century American – Gardner (Fall 2008)
19th-Century American – Department

20th Century British & Irish Literature

Anglophone Modernism – Meagher (Spring 2023)
Modernism – Webster (Spring 2022)
20th Century British and Anglophone – Wang (Spring 2021)
20th Century British and Irish Fiction – Ridder (Spring 2021)
20th/21st British and Irish Literature – Tanaka (Spring 2020)
20th/21st British and Irish Literature – Kern (Fall 2017)
British Literature, 1899-Present – Cardon (Fall 2017)
20th-Century British Literature – Benson (Summer 2017)
Post-1945 Anglophone Literature – Lee, J. (Fall 2015)
Early 20th-Century British Literature – Rainwater (Spring 2015)
20th-Century British and Anglophone Literature – Shin (Winter 2015)
20th-Century British / Postcolonial – Zhang (Fall 2014)
20th-Century British and Anglophone Literature – Calder (Summer 2014)
20th-Century British and Anglophone Literature – Jin (Fall 2013)
20th-Century British Literature – Kim (Fall 2013)
20th-Century British and Anglophone Literature – Nance (Fall 2013)
20th-Century British and Anglophone Literature – Miller (Spring 2013)
20th-Century British and Anglophone Literature – Walle (Fall 2012)
20th-Century British and Irish Postcolonial – Mack (Fall 2011)
20th-Century British and Anglophone Literature – Wong (Spring 2011)
20th-Century British – Ardam (Fall 2010)
U.K. 1900-2009 – Schmidt ( Fall 2010)
20th-Century British & Postcolonial – Fickle (Summer 2010)
20th-Century British & Irish – Williford (Summer 2010)
20th-Century British & Anglophone – Chatterjee (Spring 2010)
(Early) 20th-Century British & Irish – Caughey (Spring 2010)
20th-Century British & Irish – Camara (Fall 2009)
20th-Century British, Irish & Anglophone – O’Kelly (Fall 2009)
20th-Century British – Pulizzi (Summer 2009)
20th-Century British & Anglophone – Pizzo (Spring 2009)
20th-Century British & Anglophone – Department

African American Literature

20th Century African American Literature – Prucha (Winter 2022)
Black Womanist Literature – Elliott-Newton (Spring 2022)
20th Century African American Literature – Prucha (Winter 2022)
20th C. Black Literature (1899-1990s) – Pittman (Winter 2021)
African American – Mendoza (Winter 2019)
African American – Sommers (Fall 2014)
African American – Warren (Spring 2012)
African American – Underwood (Winter 2012)
African American – Mack (Fall 2011)
African American – HarrisD (Spring 2009)
African American – Department

American Women’s Literature

American Women – Henton (Fall 2009)
American Women – Department

Asian American Literatre

Asian Diaspora Literature – Cai (Fall 2015)
Asian-American Literature – Toy (Spring 2015)
Asian-American Literature – Tran (Spring 2013)
Asian American Alternative Genres – Fickle (Summer 2010)
Asian American Literature – Department

British Women’s Literature

*Required Critical Text

Robyn Warhol, ed. Feminisms (rev. ed.)

*Kempe, Margery (c. 1373-c. 1438). The Book of Margery Kempe. Ed. S. B. Meech and H. E. Allen. Early English Text Society (autobiography)

*Norwich, Julian of. Revelations of Divine Love

Renaissance and Restoration

*Behn, Aphra. Oroonoko: or, The Royal Slave; The Rover (drama)

*Cary, Elizabeth. The Tragedie of Mariam, Faire Queene of Jewry

*Finch, Anne, Countess of Winchilsea. Poems in Rogers anthology

*Lanyer, Aemelia. Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum

*Wroth, Lady Mary. The Countess of Montgomerie’s Urania and sonnets

Eighteenth-Century Women Writers

*Burney, Frances. Evelina or The Wanderer

*Lennox, Charlotte. The Female Quixote

*Manley, Delarivier. The New Atalantis

*Radcliffe, Ann. The Italian

*Scott, Sarah. Millenium Hall or Sir George Ellison

*Wheatley, Phillis. Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773)

*Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria and selections from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Nineteenth-Century

*Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice or Emma or Mansfield Park

*Baillie, Joanna. Count Basil or De Montfort

*Barrett Browning, Elizabeth. Aurora Leigh and “The Cry of the Children,” “To George Sand: A Desire,” “To George Sand: A Recognition,” “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point,” “Sonnets from the Portuguese,” “Mother and Poet”

*Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre or Villette

*Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights

*Edgeworth, Maria. Belinda or The Absentee

*Eliot, George. Middlemarch

*Gaskell, Elizabeth. North and South

*Hemans, Felicia. Siege of Valencia and “Properzia Rossi”; “Casabianca,” “The Homes of England,” “Graves of a Household,” “Evening Prayer, at a Girls’ School,” “Woman and Fame”

*Prince, Mary. The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave

*Rosetti, Christina. “Goblin Market,” “The Prince’s Progress,” “Song [When I am dead, my dearest],” “In an Artist’s Studio,” “Up-Hill,” “The Convent Threshold,” “Remember,” “Winter Rain,” “My Dream,” “Winter: My Secret,” “A Better Resurrection,” “The Lowest Room,” “A Birthday”

*Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein (1818 edition)

Twentieth-Century

*Brittain, Vera. Testament of Youth

*Carter, Angela. Nights at the Circus and “The Bloody Chamber”

*Emecheta, Buchi. Second Class Citizen

*Hall, Radclyffe. Well of Loneliness

*Lessing, Doris. The Golden Notebook

*Rhys, Jean. Wide Sargasso Sea

*Winterson, Jeanette. Passion

*Woolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway or To the Lighthouse; A Room of One’s Own

Recommended Theory and CriticismAbraham, Julie. “History as Explanation: Writing About Lesbian Writing, or ‘Are Girls Necessary?’” in Left Politics and the Literary Profession . Eds. Lennard J. Davis and M. Bella Mirabella (New York: Columbia UP, 1990): 254-83.

Barrett, Michele. Women’s Oppression Today , Ch. 1

Ballaster, Ros. Seductive Fictions: Women’s Amatory Fiction 1684-1740

Barratt, Alexandra. “Introduction,” Women’s Writing in Middle English

de Beauvoir, Simone. The Second Sex (selections)

Bennett, Paula. “Critical Clitoridectomy,” Signs (1992)

Butler, Judith. “Subversive Bodily Acts” in Gender Trouble ; “Contingent Foundations: Feminism and the Question of ‘Postmodernism’” in Feminists Theorize the Political , ed. Judith Butler and Joan W. Scott

Castle, Terry. The Apparitional Lesbian

Chodorow, Nancy. The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender , Ch. 5

Christian, Barbara. “The Race for Theory”

Ebert, Teresa. Ludic Feminism and After , Chs. 1 and 2

Felski, Rita. Beyond Feminist Aesthetics (selections)

Ferguson, Margaret, ed. Rewriting the Renaissance: The Discourses of Sexual Difference in Early Modern Europe (with Maureen Quillian and Nancy Vickers, eds.)

Fraser, Nancy. “What’s Critical about Critical Theory? The Case of Habermas and Gender” in Unruly Practices: Power, Discourse, and Gender in Contemporary Social Theory

Gallagher, Catherine. Nobody’s Story: The Vanishing Acts of Women Writers in the Marketplace 1670-1820

Gilbert, Sandra, ed. The Madwoman in the Attic (with Susan Gubar, ed.)

Gilligan, Carol. “In a Different Voice: Women’s Conceptions of Self and Morality,” in The Future of Difference Eisenstein and Jardine, eds.

Hall, Catherine, ed. Family Fortunes (with Leonore Davidoff, ed.)

Haraway, Donna. “A Manifesto for Cyborgs”

Hobby, Elaine. Virtue of Necessity: English Women’s Writing 1649-88

Irigaray, Luce. The Sex Which Is Not One

Julia Kristeva. Desire in Language , ch. 5 [the concept of the semiotic]

de Lauretis, Lauretis, ed. Technologies of Gender, Ch. 1

Lewalksi, Barbara Kiefer. Writing Women in Jacobean England

Minh-ha, Trinh. Woman, Native, Other: Writing, Postcoloniality, and Feminism

Mirza, Heidi Safia, ed. Black British Feminism , Introduction

Mellor, Anne, ed. Romanticism and Gender

Mohanty, Chandra. “Under Western Eyes”

Moi, Toril. Sexual/Textual Politics

Spivak, Gayatri. “Three Women’s Texts”; “Can the Subaltern Speak” in Wedge 7 (1985)

Weedon, Chris. Feminism and Postructuralist Theory

Wittig, Monique. “One Is Not Born a Woman,” “The Straight Mind”

April, 1998

Celtic Literature

Myles Dillon, ed. Serglige Con Culainn (Dublin, 1953)

———-, ed. Stories from the Acallam (Dublin 1970)

Elizabeth Gray, ed. and trans. Cath Maige Tuired (Naas, 1983)

Kenneth Jackson, ed. and trans. Aislinge Meic Conglinne (Dublin 1990)

Gerard Murphy, ed. and trans. Early Irish Lyrics (Oxford 1956)

Nessa Ní Shéaghdha, ed. and trans. Tóraigheacht Dhiarmada agus Ghráinne (Dublin, 1967)

Cecile O’Rahilly, ed. and trans. Táin Bó Cúalnge from the Book of Leinster (Dublin, 1967)

———-, ed. and trans. Táin Bó Cúailnge: Recension I (Dublin, 1976)

Rudolf Thurneysen, ed. and trans. Scéla Muicce Meic Dathó (Dublin, 1935)

Rachel Bromwich, ed. and trans . Dafydd ap Gwilym: A Selection of Poems (Llandysul, 1982)

———-, ed. and trans. Trioedd Ynys Prydain (Cardiff, 1961)

A. O. H. Jarman, ed. The Gododdin (Llandysul, 1988)

Thomas Parry, ed. Oxford Book of Welsh Verse (Oxford, 1962)

Derick Thomson, ed. Branwen uerch Lyr (Dublin, 1961)

R. L. Thomson, ed. Owein (Dublin, 1968)

———-, ed. Pwyll Pendeuic Dyfet (Dublin, 1957)

Ifor Williams and J. E. C. Williams, eds. Poems of Taliesin (Dublin, 1968)

Secondary Texts

James Carney. Studies in Irish Literature and History (Dublin, 1955)

Robin Flower. The Irish Tradition (Oxford, 1947)

Kathleen Hughes. Early Christian Ireland (Cornell, 1972)

J. F. Kenney. The Sources for the Early History of Ireland I: Ecclesiastical (New York, 1927)

Kim McCone. Pagan Past and Christian Present (Maynooth, 1990)

Rachel Bromwich. Aspects of the Poetry of Dafydd ap Gwilym (Cardiff, 1986)

A. O. H. Jarman and others, A Guide to Welsh Literature, I (Swansea, 1976)

Brynley Roberts, ed. Early Welsh Poetry: Studies in the Book of Aneirin (Aberystwyth, 1988)

Ifor Williams. The Beginnings of Welsh Poetry (Cardiff, 1972)

J. E. C. Williams. The Poets of the Welsh Princes (Cardiff, 1978)

January, 1992

Chicana/o Literature

20th Century Chicanx/Latinx Literature – Olivares (Spring 2022)
20 th -Century Latinx Literature – Herrera (Fall 2021)
Chicano/a Literature 1940-2019 – Garcia (Spring 2020)
Chicanx/Latinx Literature – Lopez (Fall 2016)
Chicana/o – Escobar (Winter 09)
Chicana/o – Department

Comparative Ethnic American Literature

Contemporary Multiethnic Literature – Prucha (Winter 2022)
Comp. Ethnic American – Smith, R. (Fall 2014)
Comp. Ethnic American – Nahm (Spring 2009)
Comp. Ethnic American – Department
Drama – M. Smith (Fall 2012)

Early 17th-Century British Literature

17th-C.: Queer Undercurrents, Classical Receptions – Forest (Spring 2023)
17th-Century British Literature – Wu (Spring 2021)
17th-Century Literature – Bonnici (Spring 2017)
17th-Century Literature – Del Balzo (Spring 2015)
Early 17th-Century – Hedlin (Fall 2014)
17th-Century – M. Smith (Fall 2012)
Earlier 17th-Century British Literature – Tung (Winter 2012)
Earlier 17th-Century British Literature – O’Sullivan (Fall 2011)
Earlier 17th-Century British Literature – Gottlieb (Fall 2010)
17th-Century British Literature – Hernandez (Summer 2010)
Early 17th-Century British Literature – Department

Early American Literature

Early U.S. Literature, 1770-1865 – Driben (Fall 2021)
Early American Literature, 1770-1865 – Valenzuela (Fall 2018)
Early American – Fosbury (Fall 2016)
Early American – Sommers (Fall 2014)
Early American – Wingate (Fall 2014)
Early American – Gallagher (Spring 2013)
Early American – Couch (Fall 2012)
Early American – Reed (Fall 2010)
Early American – Henton (Fall 2009)
Early American – JohnsonA (Spring 2009)
Early American – Webster (Winter 2009)
Early American – Gardner (Fall 2008)
Early American – Department

Early 20th-Century American Literature

American Literature 1900-45 – Martinez (Winter 2022)
American Literature 1880 to 1945 / Narratology – Ridder (Spring 2021)
American Literature 1885 to 1945 – Solis (Fall 2020)
American Literature 1900 to 1945 – Meng (Spring 2020)
American Literature 1906 to 1969 – Garcia (Spring 2020)
American Literature 1880 to 1945 – Robins (Winter 2020)
Early 20th-Century U.S. Literature – Mendoza (Winter 2019)
U.S. Literature 1880-1945 – Delchamps (Fall 2017)
20th-Century American Literature 1900-1945 – Lopez (Fall 2016)
Early 20th-Century American Literature – Lew (Winter 2016)
American Literature 1880-1945 – Kincade (Fall 2015)
Early 20th-Century American Literature – Toy (Spring 2015)
American Literature 1880-1945 – Messner (Spring 2015)
American Literature 1850-1945 – Zirulnik (Spring 2015)
American Literature 1850-1945 – Youn (Winter 2015)
American Literature, 1890-1945 – Beck (Fall 2014)
Early 20th-Century American Literature – Horvath (Winter 2014)
American Literature, 1865-1945 – Mehlman (Fall 2013)
Early 20th-Century American (and Whitman and Dickinson) – Nance (Fall 2013)
Early 20th-Century American: 1890-1945 – Newman (Fall 2013)
American Literature, 1865-1945 – Ocher (Fall 2013)
Early 20th-Century American Literature – Gallagher (Spring 2013)
Early 20th-Century American Literature – Miller (Spring 2013)
American Literature, 1865-1945 – Clark (Spring 2013)
American Literature, 1865-1945 – Tran (Spring 2013)
American Literature, 1890-1945 – Lang (Winter 2013)
Early 20th-Century American – Medrano (Fall 2012)
American Literature 1895-1945 – Ravid (Spring 2012)
Early20th-Century American – Underwood (Winter 2012)
American Literature (1st Half of 20th-Century) – Mack (Fall 2011)
American Literature 1865-1945 – Hudson (Winter 2011)
Early 20th-Century American Literature – Mendelman (Winter 2011)
American Literature 1890-1930 – Reed (Fall 2010)
American Literature 1900-1945 – Ardam (Fall 2010)
American Literature 1900-1945 – Schmidt (Fall 2010)
American 1890-1945 – Cassarino (Summer 2010)
Early 20th-Century American – Waldo (Spring 2010)
Early 20th-Century American – Caughey (Spring 2010)
American Literature 1890-1945 – Emery (Winter 2010)
Early 20th-Century American – HarrisD (Spring 2009)
Early 20th-Century American – JohnsonA (Spring 2009)
Early 20th-Century American – Moore (Spring 2009)
Early 20th-Century American – Nahm (Spring 2009)
Early 20th-Century American – Escobar (Winter 2009)
Early 20th-Century American – Department

Electronic Literature

New Media, Aesthetic Theory, and Internet Practice – Acosta (Spring 2020)
New Media – Hudson (Winter 2011)
Electronic Literature – Department

Folklore & Mythology

Folklore and Mythology – Bonnici (Spring 2017)
Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy – Voronca (Spring 2015)
Classical Mythology – Burdorff (Summer 2011)
Folklore and Mythology – Departmet

History of the English Language

History of English Language – Bellairs (Fall 2019)
History of English Language – ER (Fall 2008)
History of English Language – Department

Jewish American Literature

Jewish American Literature – Department

Later 20th/21st Century American Literature

American Literature 1945-post – Martinez (Winter 2022)
20th/21st Century American Literature – Kim (Spring 2022)
American Fiction 1920 – present – Swanson (Spring 2021)
Post 1945 American Literature – Solis (Fall 2020)
Post 1945 American Literature – Whittell (Spring 2020)
Post 1945 American – Meng (Spring 2020)
20/21 American – Tanaka (Spring 2020)
American Fiction 1950 to present – Robins (Winter 2020)
20/21st Century U.S. Literature – Lee (Spring 2019)
Later 20th-Century U.S. Literature – Mendoza (Winter 2019)
North American 20th/21st Century – Kern (Fall 2017)
20th-C. North American: Form, Space & Place, Travel – Macgregor (Spring 2016)
20th-Century American Literatures of Technology – Hegel (Winter 2016)
Post-1945 Anglophone Speculative Fiction (Winter 2016)
American Literature, Post-1945 – Kincade (Fall 2015)
Later 20th Century American Literature – Shin (Winter 2015)
American Literature 1945-Present – Youn (Winter 2015)
Later 20th-Century American Literature – Zhang (Fall 2014)
Post-1945 American Literature – Calder (Summer 2014)
20th-Century American Literature – Chon (Spring 2014)
20th-Century American Fiction – Conley (Fall 2013)
20th-Century American Literature – Donig (Fall 2013)
20th-Century American Literature – Jin (Fall 2013)
American Literature Post-1945 – Mehlman (Fall 2013)
Post-1945 American Literature – Nance (Fall 2013)
Post-1945 American Literature – Newman (Fall 2013)
American Literature 1945-Present – Ocher (Fall 2013)
Post-1945 American Literature – Miller (Spring 2013)
Later 20th-Century American – Tran (Spring 2013)
American 1945-Present – Lang (Winter 2013)
Later 20th-Century American – Medrano (Fall 2012)
American Literature 1945-Present – Ravid (Spring 2012)
Later 20th-Century American – Warren (Spring 2012)
Later 20th-Century American – Underwood (Winter 2012)
American 1945-Present – Hudson (Winter 2011)
Later 20th-Century American – Mendelman (Winter 2011)
American 1945-Present – Ardam (Fall 2010)
American 1946-2009 – Schmidt (Fall 2010)
Post-War American – Fickle (Summer 2010)
American 1945-Present – Cassarino (Summer 2010)
Later 20th-Century American – Waldo (Spring 2010)
American Literary Narrative Since 1945 – Emery (Winter 2010)
Post-1940 American – O’Kelly (Fall 2009)
Post-1940 American – Pulizzi (Summer 2009)
Later 20th-Century American – HarrisD (Spring 2009)
Later 20th-Century American – Department

Lesbian, Bisexual & Gay Literature

20th-C. Anglophone & Queer Lit. – Landau (Spring 2008)
Lesbian, Bisexual & Gay Literature – Department

Literary Theory

Philosophy and Theory – Forest (Spring 2023)
Race, Performance, and (Queer) Feeling – Prucha (Winter 2022)
Radical Speculative Aesthetics: Race, Queerness, and Performance – Martinez (Winter 2022)
Critique and the Project of Reason after Kant – Webster (Spring 2022)
New Media Theory – Olivares (Spring 2022)
Theory: Emobdiment, Affect, Ecology – Kim (Spring 2022)
Interpretation and Embodiment – Bischoff (Spring 2022)
Affect Theory – Hueth (Fall 2021)
Aesthetic Theory – Wang (Spring 2021)
Critical Texts – Happe (Winter 2020).
Theory of History – Jaime (Fall 2019)
Theory: Affect and Embodiment Ishikawa – (Summer 2019)
Transatlantic Realisms” 1880-Present Stanford (Fall 2018)
Disability Studies – Delchamps (Fall 2017)
Queer Theory and Literature, 1913-Present – Cardon (Fall 2017)
Visual Culture and Critical Theory – Lew (Winter 2016)
Theories of Narrative and Media – Kincade (Fall 2015)
Transhistorical Feminist Theories of Embodiment – Cai (Fall 2015)
Queer Theory, Marlowe to Wilde (1590-1890) – Del Balzo (Spring 2015)
Philosophy and Science of Linguistic Style – Messner (Spring 2015)
Queer Theory – Shin (Winter 2015)
Theory: Narrative Realism – Youn (Winter 2015)
Theory: The Idea of Natural History – Calder (Summer 2014)
Theory: Form – Chon (Spring 2014)
Narrative Theory – Horvath (Winter 2014)
Theories of History and Memory – Adler (Fall 2013)
Theories of Representation – Donig (Fall 2013)
Literary Theory – Ravid (Spring 2012)
Embodiment Critical Theory – Mendelman (Winter 2011)
Literary Theory – Gender & Sexuality – Gottlieb (Fall 2010)
Captivity Narratives – Moyer (Fall 2010)
Enlightenment Theory – Hernandez (Summer 2010)
Literary Theory & Aesthetics – Williford (Summer 2010)
The Subject/Subjectivity – Chatterjee (Spring 2010)
Literary Theory – Camara (Fall 2009)
Critical Theory & Visual Culture – O’Kelly (Fall 2009)
Materialist Thought & Literature 1620-1895 – Wang (Spring 2009)
Literary Theory – Department

Literature & Science

Philosophy of Science / Literary History of Consciousness – Cook (Summer 2018)
Ideas of the Natural – Francis (Fall 2017)
Transatlantic Literature and Bioscience – Cai (Fall 2015)
Literature, Science and Technology – Toy (Spring 2015)
Technology and Literature, 1818-Present – Conley (Fall 2013)
Science and Literature – Jin (Fall 2013)
19th-Century Science and Literature – Wilhelm (Spring 2013)
Literature & Technology – Emery (Winter 2010)
Literature & Science – Pulizzi (Summer 2009)
Literature & Science – Department

Middle English Literature

Medieval Literature – Birke (Fall 2023)
Medieval – Moscati (Spring 2023)
Medieval Literature – Torres (Spring 2022)
Medieval Literature – Elliott-Newton (Spring 2022)
Medieval Literature – Bischoff (Spring 2022)
Medieval Literature – Sharrah (Winter 2020)
Travel and Cultural Contact in the Middle Ages – Kello (Fall 2019)
History and Time in the Later Middle Ages – Jaime (Fall 2019)
England and the Late Middle Ages – Bellairs (Fall 2019)
Comparative Medieval Literatures: Geopolitics and the Mongol Empire – Ishikawa (Summer 2019)
Medieval Literature c400-1500: Multilingual, Multicultural England (Ishikawa Summer 2019)
Medieval Literature – King (Winter 2018)
Medieval Literature – Francis (Fall 2017)
Medieval Literature – Wagner (Spring 2016)
Medieval Literature – Shaub (Spring 2015)
Origins of and Influence on English Romance – Hill (Fall 2014)
Medieval Literature – Verini (Spring 2014)
Devotion in Post-Conquest Medieval England – Verini (Spring 2014)
Medieval Literature – Adler (Fall 2013)
Women, Death and the Body in the Middle Ages – Burdorff (Summer 2011)
Middle English – ER (Fall 2008)
Middle English – Torres (Spring 2008)
Middle English – Department

Native American Literature

Native American Literature – Department
Contemporary Autotheory/Autofiction – Forest (Spring 2023)
18th Century British Literature and History of the Novel – Hoegberg (Spring 2021)
The Novel – Stanford (Fall 2018)
The Novel – Benson (Summer 2017)
The British Novel (1678-1925) – Truxaw (Spring 2016)
The English and Anglophone Novel – Macgregor (Spring 2016)
The Novel – Zirulnik (Spring 2015)
The Novel – Mehlman (Fall 2013)
Evolution of the Novel Form – Ocher (Fall 2013)
British Novel: 1688-1903 – Couch (Fall 2012)
The Model Novel (1731-1922) – Caughey (Spring 2010)
The Novel – Moore (Spring 2009)
The Novel – Webster (Winter 2009)
The Novel (Long 18th- & 19th-C.) – Richstad (Spring 2008)
The Novel- Department

Old English Literature

Old English Literature – King (Winter 2018)
Canonical and Emerging Canons of Medieval, Anglo-Saxon & Middle English Literature – Hill (Fall 2014)
Anglo-Saxon Literature – Adler (Fall 2013)
Medieval – Moyer (Fall 2010)
Medieval – ER (Fall 2008)
Old English Literature- Department

Other Genres and Categories

Transatlantic Whiteness – Early Modern to c19 – Birke (Fall 2023)
Late Antique & Classical – Moscati (Spring 2023)
Contemporary Multiethnic Literature – Prucha (Winter 2022)
Race, Performance, and (Queer) Feeling – Prucha (Winter 2022)
20th-Century Speculative Fiction – Hueth (Fall 2021)
SciFi and the Fantastic – Driben (Fall 2021)
Race and Performance Studies – Herrera (Fall 2021)
Architecture, Urbanism, and Narrative – Hoegberg (Spring 2021)
American Environmental Literature – Swanson (Spring 2021)
Film Theory and History – Ridder (Spring 2021)
Literature of Anglophone Christianity – Wu (Spring 2021)
Science Fiction – Pittman (Winter 2021)
Race & Embodiment – Solis (Fall 2020)
Urban Humanities – Whittell (Spring 2020)
Race & Aesthetics – Meng (Spring 2020)
Mobility Literature – Garcia (Spring 2020)
Environmental Narratives – Tanaka (Spring 2020)
Transnational Literature – Sharrah (Winter 2020)
American Environmental Literature – Robins (Winter 2020)
Gender, Sensibility, and Satire in the 18th Century – Lu (Spring 2019)
Urban Humanities – Spies (Spring 2019)
The Romance Tradition in Literature – King (Winter 2018)
History of Reading and Reading Communities – Kern (Fall 2017)
Global Narratives of the Environment – Azubuko-Udah (Fall 2017)
Transportation and Literature – Fosbury (Fall 2016)
Modernism (Translantic, circa 1900-1956) – Vignola (Spring 2016)
Poetry of the Long Nineteenth-Century (Transatlantic Poetry) – Febo (Spring 2016)
Data, Visualization, Algorithms, Non-Linear Narrative – Hegel (Winter 2016)
Transatlantic Modernist Literature and Urban Experience – Lee, J. (Fall 2015)
Race in America to 1900 – Wingate (Fall 2014)
Children’s Literature – Shih (Winter 2014)
Monstrosity – Zhang (Fall 2014)
Poetry: Ecocriticism and Environmentalism – Lee (Spring 2019)
Poetry & Poetics of Desire 1500-Present – Hedlin (Fall 2014)
Poetry – Hedlin (Fall 2014)
Historical Poetics (18th & 19th C. Transatlantic) – Rosson (Fall 2014)
Poetry and Poetics – Harkness (Spring 2013)
Prospective American Poetry since 1912 – O’Sullivan (Fall 2011)
Poetry exclusive of Earlier 17th-c and 20th-c American – O’Sullivan (Fall 2011)
Poetry – Morphew (Summer 2010)
Poetry – Cassarino (Summer 2010)
British Poetry, Stuart through Victorian – Torres (Spring 2008)
Poetry – Department

Postcolonial Studies

The Postcolonial Novel – Meagher (Spring 2023)
20th Century Caribbean/ British Literature – Olivares (Spring 2022)
20th/21st Century Postcolonial Literature – Kim (Spring 2022)
20th-21st C. Postcolonial Literature (1950-present) – Pittman (Winter 2021)
Postcolonial Literature, 1935-Present – Cardon (Fall 2017)
Anglophone African Literature 20th and 21st C – Azubuko-Udah (Fall 2017)
Postcolonial Literatures – Azubuko-Udah (Fall 2017)
Contemporary Postcolonial Studies – Macgregor (Spring 2016)
Contemporary Postcolonial – Dembowitz (Fall 2015)
Postcolonial Studies – Smith, R. (Fall 2014)
Postcolonial Literature, 1950-Present – Conley (Fall 2013)
Post 1945 Anglophone Literature – Donig (Fall 2013)
Pre-Post-Colonial 20th Century – Clark (Spring 2013)
Postcolonial – Medrano (Fall 2012)
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(grouped by century, in alphabetical order of author's last name)

* indicates that selections of the work should be chosen in consultation with committee

Sixth Century List

Gildas, On the Ruin of Britain (Latin, 540s)

Eighth Century List

"Caedmon's Hymn" (Old English, circa mid-7th century) and Books 1, 2, and 4 of Bede's Ecclesiastical History (Latin, 731)

Ninth Century List

Asser's Life of King Alfred (Latin, 893) and Alfred's Preface to Gregory the Great's Pastoral Care (Old English, 890s)

Tenth Century List

Battle poetry: The Battle of Brunanburh (Old English, 937) and The Battle of Maldon (Old English, 991)
Beowulf (Old English, MS c. 1000)
Biblical and Visionary: The Dream of the Rood (Old English, MS 950-1000 ), Genesis A (Old English, MS 960-1000 ), Judith (Old English, MS 950-1050 )
Hagiography: Cynewulf’s Elene (Old English, MS 950-1000 ), Aelfric’s Life of Edmund and Life of Eugenia (Old English, c. 990-1002)
The Exeter Book miscellany (Old English, MS 940): selected riddles (Williamson ed. nos. 7, 8, 14, 15, 25, 26, 29, 32, 44, 47, 60) and elegies ( Deor , The Seafarer , The Wanderer , and The Wife's Lament ).

Eleventh Century List

The Tain-Bo-Cuailgne (Irish, MS 1000s, use Kinsella translation).
Wulfstan's Sermon to the English (Old English, 1010-1016, in Treharne, ed. Old and Middle English: An Anthology )
Song of Roland (Old French, circa 1125, use translated Penguin Classics edition)

Twelfth Century List

Geoffrey of Monmouth, History of the Kings of Britain (Latin, 1136).
Gerald of Wales, The Journey through Wales and The Description of Wales (Latin, 1190s). OR Topography of Ireland (Latin, 1188) and Conquest of Ireland (Latin, 1189)
Layamon, The Brut (Middle English, 1150-1200, use Mason ed. of Arthurian Chronicles ) *
Marie de France, Lais (Anglo-Norman, circa 1155-1170, use Shoaf Translation)
The Life of Christina of Markyate (Latin, circa mid- to late-twelfth century, use Penguin Translation)

Thirteenth Century List

Ancrene Wisse (Middle English, circa 1230).
Geoffrey of Vinsauf, Poetria Nova (Latin, circa 1210, in Murphy, ed., Three Medieval Rhetorical Arts )
Egils saga Skallagrímssonar (Old Norse, circa 1240)
Havelok the Dane (Middle English, 1290s), King Horn (Middle English, c. 1225), and Sir Orfeo (Middle English, early 1300s).
Middle English debate poems: The Owl and the Nightingale (c. 1200-1215) and Winner and Waster (circa 1350).

Fourteenth Century List

Geoffrey Chaucer's dream visions: The Book of the Duchess , The Parliament of Fowls , and The House of Fame (Middle English, 1370s-1380s).
Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde (Middle English, 1380s).
Geoffrey Chaucer, selections from Canterbury Tales (Middle English, 1387-1400): either Fragments 1-4 (General Prologue, Knight, Miller, Reeve, Cook, Man of Law, Wife of Bath, Friar, Summoner, Clerk, Merchant) or Fragments 5-9 (Squire, Franklin, Physician, Pardoner, Shipman, Prioress, Sir Thopas, Melibee, Monk, Nun's Priest, Second Nun, Canon's Yeoman, Manciple, Parson's Prologue, and Chaucer's Retraction) (Middle English, 1390s). Make sure to read all relevant head- and endlinks. Alternatively, read the tales conveniently available in the edition of Kolve and Olson (Norton)--9 of the best-known tales.
"Cleanness and Patience" (Middle English, late-fourteenth century, use The Complete Works of the Pearl Poet , ed Andrew, Waldron, Peterson; trans. Finch)
Richard Rolle, Meditations on the Passion (Middle English, circa 1300-49).
John Gower, selections from the Confessio Amantis : Prologue, Books 1, 2, 7, 8, and the Epilogue (Middle English, 1390s).
Julian of Norwich, the Short Text of Sixteen Revelations of Divine Love (Middle English, circa 1393, use Penguin Translation).
William Langland, selections from Piers Plowman (Middle English, circa late-fourtheenth century): either the Visio (Prologue-Passus 7) or the Vita (Passus 8-21) of the B-Text. Students may substitute the Visio (Prologue-Passus 9) or the Vita (Passus 10-22) of the C-Text instead (1370s). You may use the Pearsall anthology published by Blackwells.
Lollard writings: "Twelve Conclusions of the Lollards," "Confession of Hawisia Moone," "Prologue to the Wycliffite Bible, Chapter Fifteen," "Epistola Santhanae ad Cleros," "A Tretis on Miraclis Pleying," and "Church and State" (various dates, use the Hudson edition).
Selected Middle English lyrics: Luria and Hoffman ed. nos. 6 ("Foweles in the frith"), 77 ("I have a gentil cok"), 80 ("Hogyn cam to bowers dore"), 81 ("We ben chapmen light of fote"), 82 ("In al this warld nis a merier life"), 90 ("May no man slepe in youre halle"), 138 ("Maiden in the mor lay"), 178 (Geoffrey Chaucer, "Lak of Stedfastnesse"), 181 ("I sing of a maiden"), 182 ("Salve Regina"), 190 ("Now goth sonne under wod"), 197 ("A God and yet a man?"), and 198 ("As I lay upon a night") (various dates).
The Mabinogion (Welsh, MS 1375-1425).
The Alliterative Morte Arthure (Middle English, circa 1400). You may use the Pearsall anthology published by Blackwells.
Pearl (Middle English, circa 1385).
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (Middle English, circa 1375).
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Middle English, circa 1385).

Fifteenth Century List

The Castle of Perseverance (Middle English, Middle English, circa 1405-25).
Corpus Christi plays: York Creation and Fall of Lucifer , Chester Noah's Flood , Brome Abraham and Isaac , Wakefield Second Shepherd's Play , Wakefield Herod the Great , N-Town Woman Taken in Adultery , York Crucifixion , and Wakefield Last Judgment (Middle English, circa 1375-1570s).
Robert Henryson, The Testament of Cresseid and "The Taill of the Wolf and the Wedder" (Middle Scots, before 1505).
Thomas Hoccleve, "La Male Regle de T. Hoccleue" (Middle English, 1406) and Series : "Complaint" and "Dialog" (Middle English, 1421-1422). You may use the Pearsall anthology published by Blackwells. *
Margery Kempe, The Book of Margery Kempe (Middle English, circa 1436). You may read this text in the Penguin translation.
John Lydgate, The Complaynt of a Lovers Lyfe and The Temple of Glas (c. 1400-10). You may use the Pearsall anthology published by Blackwells.
Thomas Malory, selections from Le Morte d'Arthur : Books 1-4, 18-19, and 20-21 of the Caxton edition (1485). Students may substitue Books 1, 7, and 8 of the Winchester MS instead (Middle English, circa 1470).
Morality plays: Everyman (Middle English, circa 1510-25), Mankind (Middle English, 1465-70), and Wisdom (Middle English, 1460-65).
Saints' plays: The Digby Mary Magdalene and the Croxton Play of the Sacrament (Middle English, 1475-1500).
William Thorpe, Testimony (Middle English, 1407, selections found in Hudson, ed. Selections from English Wycliffite Writings )
The Paston Letters (Middle English, 1422-1509, use Norman Davis, Ed : Oxford World Classics)
Christine de Pisan, The Book of the City of Ladies (French, 1405), (in Selected Writings , ed. Blumenfeld-Kosinski and Brownlee)
Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster (1570)
Francis Bacon, Essays (1625)
Aphra Behn, selected poetry (1684): “The Golden Age”; “On a Juniper Tree”; “The Disappointment”; “To Fair Clorinda, Who Made Love to Me, Imagined More than Woman; “The Willing Mistress”; “A Letter to the Brother of the Pen in Tribulation”; “The Dream”; "Song (On Her Loving Two Equally”; “The Counsel”
Aphra Behn, Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave (1688)
Thomas Browne, Religio Medici (1643)
Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658)
Thomas Carew, poetry: "The Spring"; “A Rapture”; “Mediocrity in Love Rejected”; “To A.L. Persuasions to Love" (various dates)
Elizabeth Cary, Tragedie of Mariam (1613)
Baldassare Castiglione, The Courtier , in translation by Thomas Hoby (1561)
Margaret Cavendish, The Blazing World (1666)
Margaret Cavendish, The Convent of Pleasure (1668)
Richard Crashaw, selected poetry: “The Flaming Heart”; “A Hymn Saint Teresa”; “The Tear”; “Christ Crucified”; “The Weeper” (various dates)
Thomas Dekker, The Shoemaker's Holiday (1599)
Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton, The Roaring Girl (1611)
John Donne, Holy Sonnets (circa 1615-1631)
John Donne, Songs and Sonnets (circa 1595-1631)
John Donne, Satires and Elegies (circa 1595-1631)
Elizabeth I, Poems and Speeches to Parliament *
John Ford, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (1633)
John Foxe, Acts and Monuments (1563) *
Philip Gosson, The School of Abuse (1579) or Philip Stubbes, The Anatomy of Abuses (1579)
George Herbert, The Temple (1633)
Robert Herrick, Hesperides (1648)
Thomas Heywood, The Fair Maid of the West 1 and 2 (1631)
Thomas Heywood, Apology for Actors (1612)
Thomas Heywood, Four Prentices of London (1594)
Ben Jonson, Masque of Blackness (1605), Masque of Beauty (1608), Gypsies Metamorphosed (1621)
Ben Jonson, Volpone (1606)
Ben Jonson, Alchemist (1612)
Ben Jonson, Epicoene (1616)
Ben Jonson, selected poetry: “Inviting a Friend to Supper”; “To Penshurst”; “An Ode to Himself”; “On My First Son”; “On My First Daughter”; “To the Immortal Memory and Friendship of that Pair, Sir Lucius Carey and Sir Henry Morrison”; “To the Reader”; “To Lucy, Countess of Bedford, with John Donne's Satires”; “To Sir Robert Wroth” (c. 1598-1637)
Amelia Lanyer, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum and “To Cooke-ham” (1611)
Ann Lok, “A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner” (1560)
John Lyly, Gallathea (1592)
Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine (1587-8)
Christopher Marlowe, Jew of Malta (1589)
Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus (1592)
Christopher Marlowe, Edward II (1594)
Andrew Marvell, selected poetry: “The Garden”; “The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn”; “Upon Appleton House”; “To His Coy Mistress”; “Bermudas”; “The Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers”; “The Mower Against the Gardens”; “Damon the Mower”; “The Mower’s Song”; “The Mower against the Glo-worms”; “The Last Instructions to a Painter” (c. 1650-1667)
Philip Massinger, The Renegado (1624)
Thomas Middleton, Women Beware Women (1657)
Thomas Middleton, Revenger’s Tragedy (1607)
Thomas Middleton, The Changeling (1622)
John Milton, Areopagitica (1644)
John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667)
John Milton, Sonnets (c. 1630-1667)
Michel de Montaigne, selections from Essais (1595), in Florio translation: "The Apology of Raymond Sebond," "Of Experience," "Of Cannibals" (1603)
Thomas More, Utopia (1516)
Thomas Nash, "Unfortunate Traveller, or The Life of Jack Wilton" (1594)
Katherine Phillips, selected poetry: “Friendship’s Mystery”; “In Defense of Declared Friendship”; “Friendship”; “A Friend”; “A Dialogue of Friendship Multiplied”; “Rosania”; “To Mrs Mary Aubrey”; “Rosania’s Marriage”; “Philoclea’s Parting”; “To My Excellent Lucasia”; “On Rosania’s Apostacy, and Lucasia’s Friendship”; “To the Exellent Anne Owen”; “To the Lady E. Boyle”; “To Celimena”; “Lucasia, Rosania, and Orinda parting at a Fountain”; “Orinda to Lucasia”; “Rosania to Lucasia”; “To Antenor at Parting” (c. 1650-1664)
Hester Pulter, selected poetry: “Upon the Death of my Dear and Lovely Daughter, Jane Pulter”; “Tell Me No More”; “Why Must I Thus Forever Be Confined”; “The Garden, Or the Contention of Flowers”; “Aurora” [1 and 2]; “Universal Dissolution”; “To Astraea”; “Pardon Me, My Dearest Love”; “Of a Young Lady at Oxford”; “A Dialogue between Two Sisters” (c. 1640-1660)
Hester Pulter, The Unfortunate Florinda (circa 1655-1662)
Querelle des femmes texts: Hic Mulier/Haec Vir tracts (1620); Jane Anger, "Her protection for women" (1589); Joseph Swetnam, “The arraignement of lewde, idle, froward and unconstant women" (1615); Rachel Speght, A Mouzell for Melastomus (1617); Swetnam the Woman-Hater Arraigned by Women (1620)
William Shakespeare, Richard II (1595)
William Shakespeare, Midsummer Night’s Dream (1595
William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice (1598)
William Shakespeare , Twelfth Night (1601)
William Shakespeare, Othello (1604)
William Shakespeare , King Lear (1605)
William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (1608)
William Shakespeare, Sonnets (1609)
Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella (1591)
Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia (1593)
Philip Sidney, The Defence of Poesy (1595)
John Skelton, selected poetry: "Manerly Margery Mylk and Ale," "Phyllyp Sparowe" (c.1505-07), "To mystress Margaret Hussey" (from The Garland of Laurel, 1523), and "The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng" (c. 1517)
John Skelton, Song and Sonnets ("Tottell's Miscellany") (1557)
Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , at least 3 books (1590)
Edmund Spenser, Amoretti and Epithalamium (1595)
Edmund Spenser, A View of the Present State of Ireland (1596)
Henry Vaughan, selected poetry from Silex Scintillans I (1650) and Silex Scintillans II (1685): "Regeneration"; "The Search"; "Vanity of Spirit"; "The Retreate"; "Silence and stealth of dayes"; "The Tempest"; "The World"; "I walked the other daye"; "They are all gone into the world of light"
John Webster, The White Devil (1612)
John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi (1623)
Isabella Whitney, Will and Testament (1573)
Mary Wroth, Pamphilia to Amphilantus (1621)
Mary Wroth, Urania, Book One (1621)
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, selected poetry: “The Imperfect Enjoyment”; “The Disabled Debauche”; “A Satire Against Reason and Mankind”; “Artemeza in the Town to Chloe in the Country”; “Fair Chloris in a Pigsty Lay”; “Against Constancy”; “Love and Life”; “A Ramble in Saint James’ Park”; “A Satire on King Charles II” (c. 1665-1678)
Early modern race readings: Race in Early Modern England : A Documentary Companion , ed. Ania Loomba and Jonathan Burton *
Travel narrative selections: Bartolome de las Casas The Spanish Colony (London, William Brome,1583); Walter Raleigh, "Discovery of Guiana" (1596); Thomas Harriot, "Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia"; John Smith, "True Relation of Such Occurrences of Note..."; Nicolas de Nicolay (1517-1583), The Navigations...made into Turkey (London: Thomas Dawson, 1585); Leo Africanus, History of Africa , trans. Pory (1600)
Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, selections from The Spectator (nb: these are VERY short essays): 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 26, 34, 50, 57, 66, 69, 81, 88, 106, 108, 109, 112, 113, 117, 119, 122, 130, 132, 137, 174, 189, 251, 261, 182, 203, 266, 276, 324, 335, 454, 517, 519
Mary Astell, Reflections Upon Marriage (1700) and 1706 “Preface”
Anna Barbauld, Poems (1773)
Jane Barker, The Galesia Trilogy, Part 1 (i.e., “Love Intrigues”; 1719), and “Selected Manuscript Poems." Use Carol Shiner Wilson edition (Oxford).
William Beckford, Vathek (1782-French, 1786-English)
Aphra Behn, Oroonoko (1688)
Aphra Behn, The Rover (1677-81)
Aphra Behn, Love Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister (1684-87)
James Boswell, Life of Johnson ( abridged) (1791)
John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress, Part I (1678)
Edmund Burke , A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1756)
Fanny Burney, Evelina (1778)
Mary, Lady Chudleigh, “The Ladies Defence” (1700), “To the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty” (the poem, not the dedication), “On the Death of his Highness the Duke of Glocester”, “To the Ladies”, “The Inquiry”, “On the Death of My Honoured Mother”, Essays in Prose and Verse: “Of Knowledge, To the Ladies”, “Of Friendship”, “Of Solitude”
John Cleland, Fanny Hill (1748)
George Coleman, the Younger, Inkle and Yarico (1787)
William Congreve, The Way of the World (1700)
William Cowper , “ The Task”, “Expostulation,” “Conversation”, “Retirement”, and “The Castaway” (1785)
Ottabah Cugoano, Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery (1757)
Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders (1722)
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719)
John Dryden, All For Love (1678)
John Dryden, “Absalom and Achitophel” (1681) “Mac Flecknoe” (1684); “To the Pious Memory of ... Mrs. Anne Killigrew” (1685); “To The Duchess of Ormode,” “Astraea Redux” (1660) “An Essay of Dramatic Poesy”(1688), “A “Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of Satire” (1693); “Preface” to The Fables (1699)
Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African (1789)
Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews (1742) and Tom Jones (1749)
Sarah Fielding, David Simple (1744)
Anne Finch, selections from Miscellany Poems (1713): “Introduction,” “The Apology,” “On Myself,” “The Bird and the Arras,” “The Spleen,” “To the Nightingale,” ”A Nocturnal Reverie,” and “A Supplication for the Joys of Heaven,” “Adam Pos’d”
John Gay, The Beggar’s Opera (1728)
Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield (1766)
Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer (1773)
Thomas Gray, “The Bard”, “The Progress of Poesy”. : Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College”,”Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat”, “Elegy Written in a County Church Yard,” “Sonnet on the Death of Richard West”
William Collins, “Ode to Fear”, “Ode on the Poetical Character”, “Ode to Evening”, “An Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland”
Eliza Haywood, Love in Excess (1719) and Fantomina (1725)
Samuel Johnson, Rasselas (1759), “Preface” to Shakespeare (1765); “Preface to The Dictionary (1755); selections from the Rambler (1750-52) including 2, 3, 4, 14, 18, 21, 23, 37, 47, 58, 60, 63, 77, 134, 144, 154, 155, 160, 185, 196, 208; Lives of the Most Eminent Poets, Milton, Gray (1779-81)
Charlotte Lennox, The Female Quixote (1752)
George Lillo, The London Merchant (1731)
Edward Long, The History of Jamaica (1774)
Henry Mackenzie, The Man of Feeling (1771)
Dean Mahomet , The Travels of Dean Mahomet: An Eighteenth Century Journey Through India (1793)
Delarivier Manley, The New Atalantis (1709) and The Power of Love (1720)
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Turkish Embassy Letters (1716-18), “Court poems by a Lady of Quality” (1716), “Eclogues”(1747)
Thomas Otway, Venice Preserved (1682)
Thomas Paine , The Rights of Man (1791) alongside Edmund Burke, Reflection on the Revolution in France (1790)
Alexander Pope (I), “An Essay on Criticism” (1711); “Rape of the Lock”(1714); “Windsor Forest” (1713); “An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot” (1735); “Moral Essays” (1731-35)
Samuel Richardson, Pamela (1740-41)
Samuel Richardson, Clarissa (1747-48) (abridged edition acceptable)
John Wilmot Rochester, selected poems: “The Imperfect Enjoyment,” “Of Nothing,” “A Satire Against Reason and Mankind” (1675), “Signior Dildo” alongside Aphra Behn, “Love Armed,” “The Disapointment,” “On Desire,” “On Her Loving Two Equally,” and “to the Fair Clarinda.”
Elizabeth Singer Rowe, Friendship in Death (1728)
Christopher Smart, Jubilate Agno (1739) and Song to David (1763)
Thomas Sheridan, The School for Scandal ( 1777)
Sir Hans Sloane , Natural history of Jamaica (1707, 1725)
Tobias Smollett, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)
Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy (1760-67)
Laurence Sterne, Sentimental Journey (1768)
Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub (1704), Drapier’s Letters (1721), Gulliver’s Travels (1726), “A Modest Proposal” (1729); “An Argument Against the Abolishing of Christianity”, and Selected Poems
James Thomson, The Seasons (1726)
John Vanbrugh, “The Provok’d Wife” (1697)
Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto (1764) and The Mysterious Mother (1768)
William Wycherley, The Country Wife ( 1671)

Colonial to Eighteenth Century American

The Antinomian Controversy, 1636-1638: A Documentary History , ed. David Hall, second edition, 1990
William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation (c. 1630-50; 1856)
Anne Bradstreet, Several Poems (1678)
The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico , ed. Miguel Leon-Portillo, expanded and updated edition, 1992 (c. 16th century)
Charles Brockden Brown, Wieland ; or The Transformation. An American Tale (1798)
Christopher Columbus, The Four Voyages, ed. J.M. Cohen, 1969 ( c. late 15th and early 16th century)
Constitution of the United States (1787)
J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer (1782)
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca (1542)
Bernal Diaz del Castillo, True History of the Conquest of New Spain (c.1568-85; 1632)
John Danforth, "A Brief Recognition of New Englands Errand into the Wilderness" (1670)
Declaration of Independence (1776)
Jonathan Edwards, selected writings: "The Spider Letter" (1723); "Personal Narrative" (c. 1739); "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" (1741), "Freedom of the Will" (1754)
Hannah Foster, The Coquette ; or The History of Eliza Wharton; A Novel; Founded on Fact (1797)
Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography (c. 1771-1790; 1868)
Briton Hammon, A Narrative of the Uncomon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, A Negro Man (1760)
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (1787)
John Marrant, A Narrative of the Lord's Wonderful Dealings with John Marrant, a Black (1785)
Cotton Mather, intro. to Magnalia Christi Americana (1702)
Tom Paine, Common Sense (1776)
Mary Rowlandson, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God (1682)
Susana Rowson, Charlotte Temple: A Tale of Truth (1791)
Susana Rowson, Slaves in Algiers, or A Struggle for Freedom (1794)
Phillis Wheatley, Poems on Various Subjects and Religious and Moral (1773)
Roger Williams, A Key into the Language of America (1643)
John Winthrop, "A Modell of Christian Charity" (1630)

19th-Century American

Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women (1868-69)
William Apess, "The Experiences of Five Christian Indians; or An Indian's Looking-Glass for the White Man" (1833); and "Eulogy on King Philip" (1836)
Black Hawk, Life of Black Hawk (1833)
William Wells Brown, Clotel , or The President's Daughter (1853)
Abraham Cahan, Yekl , A Tale of the New York Ghetto (1896)
Charles Chesnutt, The Marrow of Tradition (1901)
Charles Chesnutt, Conjure Woman (1899)
Kate Chopin, The Awakening (1899)
James Fenimore Cooper, Pioneers (1823)
Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage (1895)
Martin Delany, Blake , or The Huts of America (1859-62)
Emily Dickinson, selected poetry: "Papa above!" (61); "One dignity delays for all" (98); "Faith is a fine invention" (185); "I taste a liquor never brewed" (214); "Safe in their Alabaster Chambers" (216); "Wild Nights--Wild Nights!" (249); "`Hope' is a thing with feathers--" (254); "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain" (280); "The Soul selects her own Society--" (303); "There came a Day at Summer's full" (322); "A Bird came down the Walk--" (328); "After great pain, a formal feeling comes--" (341); "Much Madness is divinest sense--" (435); "This is my letter to the World" (441); "This was a Poet--it is That" (448); "I died for Beauty--but was scarce" (449); "It was not Death, for I stood up" (510); "I started Early--Took my Dog--" (520); "Mine--by the Right of White Election" (528); "Publication--is the Auction" (709); "Because I could not stop for Death" (712); "My Life had stood--a Loaded Gun" (754); "It is an honorable Thought" (946); "The Bible is an antique Volume--" (1545); "Apparently with no surprise" (1624)
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845)
Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie (1900; the text derived from the first edition, NOT the so-called "restored" Pennsylvania Edition)
Paul Laurence Dunbar, Lyrics of a Lowly Life (1896)
Black Elk, Black Elk Speaks (1932)
Ralph Waldo Emerson, selected writings: "Nature" (1836), "The American Scholar" (1837), "The Divinity School Address" (1838), "Experience" (1844), "The Poet" (1844)
Fanny Fern, Ruth Hall and Other Writings, ed. Joyce W. Warren (Rutgers UP)
Mary Wilkins Freeman, A New England Nun and Other Stories (1891)
Margaret Fuller, Woman in the 19th Century (1845)
Frances Harper, Iola Leroy , or Shadows Uplifted (1892)
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (1850)
William Dean Howells, A Hazard of New Fortunes (1890)
Washington Irving, The Sketch Book (1820)
Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)
Henry James, The Ambassadors (1903)
Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady (1881)
Sarah Orne Jewett, Country of the Pointed Firs (1896)
Emma Lazarus, selected poetry: “In the Jewish Synagogue at Newport”, “The New Colossus”, “1492”, “The Crowing of the Red Cock”, “In Exile”, “The New Year”, “Venus of the Louvre” (1867-1876)
Abraham Lincoln, selected speeches: "House Divided" (1858), "Address at Cooper Institute" (1860), "First Inaugural Address" (1861), "Emancipation Proclamation" (1863), "Gettysburg Address" (1863), "Second Inaugural Address" (1865)
George Lippard, The Quaker City , or the Monks of Monk Hall (1843-44)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha (1855)
Herman Melville, Moby Dick (1851)
Herman Melville, selected writings: “The Encantadas”, “Shiloh”, “The Swamp Angel”, “The Martyr”, and “The House-Top.”
Frank Norris, McTeague (1899)
Edgar Allan Poe, selections from Fall of the House of Usher and Other Works: “The Raven”, “Ulalume”, “Annabel Lee”, “The Philosophy of Composition”, “The Imp of the Perverse”, “The Man of the Crowd”, “The Purloined Letter”, “The Gold-Bug”, “The Tell-Tale Heart”, “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1831-1849)
Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, The Squatter and the Don (1885)
Jane Johnstone Schoolcraft, Poems (Robert Dale Parker, ed. The sound the stars make rushing through the sky: The writings of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft ) (circa 1840)
Catherine Maria Sedgwick, Hope Leslie (1827)
E. D. E. N. Southworth, The Hidden Hand (1859)
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) and "Resistance to Civil Government [Civil Disobedience]" (1849)
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)
David Walker, David Walker's Appeal, In Four Articles, Together With a Preamble, To The Coloured Citizens Of The World, But in Particular, And Very Expressly, To Those of The United States of America (1829)
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass , selected poems (1891 edition): "Song of Myself," "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking," "When I Heard at the Close of the Day," "A March in the Ranks Hard Prest," and "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd."
Harriet Wilson, Our Nig (1856)
Anon., The Woman of Colour (1808)
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park (1814)
Jane Austen, Emma (1816)
Jane Austen, Persuasion (1818)
Robert Bage, Hermsprong; or, Man as He Is Not (1796)
Joanna Baillie, A series of Plays...on the Passions (1798-1812)
John Bell, ed . The British Album (1790)
Anna Barbauld, Epistle to William Wilberforce (1793)
Anna Barbauld, An Address to the Opposers of the Repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts (1792), Sins of the Fathers, Sins of the Nation (1795), and Eighteen Hundred and Eleven (1812)
William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1789; 1794), Book of Thel (1789), Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793)
William Blake, Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790), America (1793), Europe (1794), Book of Urizen (1794)
William Blake, Milton (1804)
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
Edmund Burke, "Speech on Mr. Fox's East India Bill," and "Thoughts and Details on Scarcity" (1800)
Robert Burns, selected poetry: “To a Mouse”, “To a Louse”, “The Holy Fair”, “To a Mountain-Daisy”, ”John Barleycorn, A Ballad”, “Epistle to J.L***k, an Old Scottish Bard”, “Epistle to Davie, a Brother Poet”, “Holy Willie’s Prayer”, “Address to the Unco Guid”, “Address to the Deil”, “Songs: ‘It was upon a Lammas night’, “Green Grow the Rushes”, “John Anderson, My Jo,” “Ae Fond Kiss”, “A Red, Red Rose”, “Afton Water”, “Ye Banks and Braes”, “Open the Door To Me, Oh” (1785)
Hannah Cowley, The Runaway (1776), The Belle's Stratagem (1781), A Bold Stroke for a Husband (1783), and A Day in Turkey (1791)
George Gordon Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812-1818)
George Gordon Byron , The Giaour (1813) and The Corsair (1814)
George Gordon Byron, Don Juan (1819-1824)
George Gordon Byron, Manfred (1817), Cain (1821), and Sardanapalus (1821)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Fears in Solitude, with France , an Ode and Frost at Midnight (1798), Remorse (1813), Christabel , Kubla Khan , and the Pains of Sleep (1816)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sybilline Leaves (1817)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria (1817)
Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants (1789)
Thomas DeQuincey, Confessions of an English Opium Eater (1822 or 1856)
Maria Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent (1800) and Ennui (1809)
Maria Edgeworth, Belinda (1801)
Olaudah Equiano, Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or, Gustavaus Vassa, the African (1789)
Susan Ferrier, Marriage (1818)
William Godwin, Political Justice (1793)
William Godwin, Caleb Williams (1794)
William Hazlitt, The Spirit of the Age (1825)
Felicia Hemans, Records of Women (1828)
Elizabeth Inchbald, A Mogul Tale (1784), Such Things Are (1788 ), Everyone Has His Fault (1793), and Lovers' Vows (1798)
Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story (1791)
Francis Jeffrey, Edinburgh Review , Volume 1 (1802) and William Gifford, Quarterly Review, Volume 1 (1809)
John Keats , Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and other Poems (1820)
Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia (1821)
Matthew Lewis, The Monk (1796) and The Castle Spectre (1797)
John Malthus, An Essay on Population (1798)
Hannah More , Strictures on Female Education (1798)
Amelia Opie, Adeline Mowbray: The Mother and Daughter (1804)
Sydney Owenson, The Wild Irish Girl (1806)
Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man (1792)
Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)
Ann Radcliffe, The Italian (1797)
Mary Robinson, Poems (1791) and Memoirs (1801)
Mary Robinson, Walsingham (1798)
Mary Robinson, Lyrical Tales (1800)
Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805) and Marmion (1808)
Walter Scott, Waverley (1814)
Walter Scott, A Tale of Old Mortality (1816)
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein ( 1818)
Mary Shelley, Valperga (1823)
Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Cenci (1819) alongside Charles Robert Maturin, Bertram (1816)
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound and other Poems (1820)
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Adonais (1821), "The Triumph of Life" (1824) and "A Defence of Poetry" (1821)
Charlotte Smith, Elegiac Sonnets (1784)
Charlotte Smith, Desmond (1792)
Charlotte Smith, The Emigrants (1793), Beachy Head and other Poems (1807)
Robert Southey, Poems (1799)
Robert Southey, Thalabathe Destroyer (1801)
The Anti-Jacobin, or, Weekly Examiner (1797-8)
Helen Maria Williams, Poems (1786) and Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary: A Fiction (1787) and Maria; Or the Wrongs of Woman (1798)
William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads (1798 and 1800)
William Wordsworth, The Prelude ( 1799-1805; pub. 1850)

(in alphabetical order according to author's last name)

Matthew Arnold, selected essays and poems: “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time” "Memorial Verses" (1850), "To Marguerite -- Continued" (1852); "The Buried Life" (1852); "Empedocles on Etna" (1852); "The Scholar-Gypsy" (1853); Preface to Poems (1853); "Stanzas from the Grand Chartreuse" (1855); "Dover Beach" (1867); "On the Study of Poetry" (1880)
Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret (1862)
Charlotte Bronte, Villette (1853)
Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights (1847)
Elizabeth Barrrett Browning, Aurora Leigh (1857)
Robert Browning, selected poems: "Porphyria's Lover" (1842), "My Last Duchess" (1842). "The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church" (1845), "Love Among the Ruins" (1855), "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" (1855), "Fra Lippo Lippi" (1855), "The Last Ride Together" (1855), "Andrea del Sarto" (1855), "Two in the Campagna" (1855). "A Grammarian's Funeral" (1855), "Cleon" (1855), "Caliban Upon Setebos" (1864)
Thomas Carlyle, "On History" (1830) and On Heroes and Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History (1841)
Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass (1872)
Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White (1859-1860)
Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone (1868)
Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species (1859)
Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son (1848)
Charles Dickens, Bleak House (1852)
George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss (1860)
George Eliot, Middlemarch (1871-72)
Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx, T he German Ideology: Preface and Part One (1845-6)
Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx, Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848)
Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton (1848)
Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (1854–55)
W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, Patience , or Bunthorne's Bride (1881)
W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, Ruddigore, or the Witch's Curse (1887)
George Gissing, New Grub Street (1891)
Sarah Grand, The Heavenly Twins (1893) and "The New Aspect of the Woman Question" (1894)
H. Rider Haggard, She (1885)
H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon’s Mines (1886)
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891)
Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure (1895)
Gerard Manly Hopkins, "The Wreck of the Deutschland", "God's Grandeur", "The Windhover", "Pied Beauty", "Spring and Fall", "[Carrion Comfort]". "I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day" (all pub. posth. 1918)
Mary Kingsley, Travels in West Africa (1897)
Rudyard Kipling, Kim (1901)
Karl Marx, from Capital Volume I (1867, English edition 1887): Chapter One: “The Commodity,” Chapter Six: “The Sale and Purchase of Labour Power,” Chapter Ten: “The Working Day,” and Chapter Twenty-Six: “The Secret of Primitive Accumulation”
Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor (1861-62; use Penguin ed.) *
J. S. Mill, "What is Poetry?" (1833); On Liberty (1859); The Subjection of Women (1869)
William Morris, News from Nowhere (1890)
Walter Pater, Studies in the History of The Renaissance (1873)
Arthur Wing Pinero, The Second Mrs. Tanqueray (1894)
Arthur Wing Pinero, Trelawny of the "Wells" (1899)
Mary Prince, The History of Mary Prince (1831)
Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market" (1862); "Song ('When I am Dead, My Dearest')" (1862), "Up-Hill" (1862), "Winter: My Secret" (1862), "Sleeping at Last" (1896), Speaking Likeness (1874)
John Ruskin, from Modern Painters II (1846): "The Imaginative Faculty" from The Stones of Venice II (1853): "The Nature of Gothic"; from Modern Painters III (1856): "Of the Pathetic Fallacy"; “The Work of Iron” (1858) and “The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century” (1884)
Mary Seacole, Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (1857)
Olive Schreiner, The Story of an African Farm (1883)
George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession (1898); selections from dramatic criticism
Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)
Bram Stoker, Dracula (1897)
Algernon Charles Swinburne, selected poems: "Faustine" (1862); Choruses from Atalanta in Calydon (1865): "When the hounds of spring" and "Before the beginning of years"; "Laus Veneris" (1866); "The Triumph of Time" (1866); "Itylus" (1866); "Hymn to Proserpine" (1866); "Ave atque Vale" (1868); "Hertha" (1871); "To Walt Whitman in America" (1871)
Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam (1850), Idylls of the King (1859-74)
William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair (1847-48)
Anthony Trollope, Can You Forgive Her? (1864-5)
Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now (1874-75)
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan (1892)
Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance (1893)
Oscar Wilde, Salome (1893)
Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband (1895)
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Ellen Wood, East Lynne (1860-1)

20th- & 21st- Century American

ASAM indicates that the work is part of the Asian American literary tradition

AFAM indicates that the work is part of the African American literary tradition

LATX indicates that the work is part of the Latinx literary tradition

INDG indicates that the work is part of the indigenous American literary tradition

Kathy Acker, Blood and Guts in High School (1984)
Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio (1919)
Isaac Asimov, Foundation (1951)
Gloria Anzaldua, Borderlands (1987), LATX
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale (1985)
James Baldwin, Go Tell it on the Mountain (1953), AFAM
Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), The Dutchman (1964), AFAM
Paul Beatty, The Sellout (2015), AFAM
Carlos Bulosan, America is in the Heart (1946), ASAM
William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch (1959)
Octavia Butler, Kindred (1979), AFAM
Willa Cather, My Antonia (1918)
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Dictee (1982), ASAM
Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000)
Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street , LATX
Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers (1966)
Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren (1975)
Don De Lillo, White Noise (1985)
Don De Lillo, Underworld (1997)
Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007), LATX
John Dos Passos, The Big Money (1936)
W. E. B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903), AFAM
Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010)
Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho (1991)
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1952), AFAM
Louise Erdrich, Tracks (1988), INDG
William Faulkner, Go Down, Moses (1942)
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925)
Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections (2001)
Jonathan Franzen, Freedom (2010)
William Gibson, Neuromancer (1984)
William Gibson, Pattern Recognition (2003)
Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (1924)
Frank Herbert, Dune (1965)
Sheila Heti, How Should a Person Be? (2010)
Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt (1952)
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), AFAM
William James, selected lectures and essays: “The Stream of Thought”, “Association”, “The Perception of Time” (all 1890) “A World of Pure Experience” (1904), and “What Pragmatism Means” (1907).
James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912), AFAM
Jack Kerouac, On the Road (1957)
Jack Kerouac, Visions of Cody (1959; 1972)
Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962)
Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior (1976), ASAM
Tony Kushner, Angels in America (1992)
Nella Larsen, Passing (1929), AFAM
Nella Larsen, Quicksand (1928), AFAM
Chang-Rae Lee, Native Speaker (1995), ASAM
Ben Lerner, 10:04 (2014)
Patricia Lockwood, No One is Talking About This (2021)
Audre Lorde, Zami (1982), AFAM
Emily St-John Mandel, Station Eleven (2014)
Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian (1985)
Claude McKay, Home to Harlem (1928); Banjo (1929), AFAM
Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman (1949)
Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer (1934; 1961 in US)
Henry Miller, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare (1945)
N. Scott Momaday, House Made of Dawn (1968), INDG
Cherrie Moraga, Loving in the War Years: lo que nunca paso por sus labios (1983; 2000), LATX
Toni Morrison, Beloved (1987), AFAM
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (1955)
Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts (2015)
Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried (1990)
Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find (1955)
John Okada, No-No Boy (1979), ASAM
Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey Into Night (1956)
Ann Petry, The Street (1946), AFAM
Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2 (1995)
Richard Powers, The Overstory (2019)
Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)
Ishmael Reed, Mumbo Jumbo (1972), AFAM
Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (2005)
Phillip Roth, The Human Stain (1995)
George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo (2017)
Leslie Marmom Silko, Ceremony (1977), INDG
Sui Sin Far (Edith Maude Eaton), Mrs. Spring Fragrance (1912), ASAM
Art Spiegelman, Maus and Maus II (1986-91)
Gertrude Stein, Three Lives (1909)
John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971)
John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces (1980)
Jean Toomer, Cane (1923), AFAM
Helena Maria Viramontes, The Moths and Other Stories (1995), LATX
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest (1996)
James Welch, Fools Crow (1986), INDG
Nathanael West, The Day of the Locust (1939)
Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth (1905)
Colson Whitehead, The Intuitionist (1999)
Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad (2016)
Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)
August Wilson, Piano Lesson (1990), AFAM
Richard Wright, Native Son (1940), AFAM
Tomás Rivera, And the Earth Did Not Devour Him / …y no se le tragó la tierra (1971), LATX
Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel (2011), ASAM

* indicates that a different work by the same author may be substituted

Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim (1954)
Monica Ali, Brick Lane (2003) *
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale (1986)
Pat Barkeer, The Silence of the Girls (2018) *
Samuel Beckett, Molloy (1951)
Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (1952)
Anna Burns, Milkman (2018)
Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (1979)
Caryl Churchill, Top Girls (1984)
Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim (1900)
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1902)
Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier (1915)
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India (1924)
Radcliffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness (1928)
Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty (2004) *
Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (2005)
Kazuo Ishiguro, Remains of the Day (1989)
James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1915)
James Joyce, Ulysses (1922)
Hari Kunzru, Gods Without Men (2011) *
D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love (1918)
John Le Carré, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974)
Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook (1966)
Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall (2009)
Ian McEwan, On Chesil Beach (2007) *
George Orwell, 1984 (1949)
Caryl Phillips, Crossing the River (1993) *
Harold Pinter, The Birthday Party (1957)
Zia Hyder Rahman, In the Light of What We Know (2014) *
Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
Sally Rooney, Normal People
Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses (1989)
Samuel Selvon, The Lonely Londoners (1956)
Kamila Shamsie, Home Fire (2017)
George Bernard Shaw, Man & Superman (1903)
Ali Smith, How to be Both (2014)
Zadie Smith, White Teeth (2000)
John Synge, Playboy of the Western World (1907)
Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall (1929)
Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1989)
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own (1929)
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (1922)

Contemporary Poetry & Poetics

(in chronological order of original publication date)

W. B. Yeats, Selected Poems (2015, originally published 1889 - 1939)
T.S. Eliot, Collected Poems 1909-1962 (1965) *
Ezra Pound, Personae (1909)
Amy Lowell, Selected Poems, American Poets Project (2004, originally written 1910-1925)
Claude McKay, Selected Poems of Claude McKay (1953, written 1912-1948)
Robert Frost, North of Boston (1914)
Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons (1914)
Ezra Pound, Pisan Cantos (1915-1962)
Mina Loy, Songs to Johannes (1917), see https://writing.upenn.edu/epc/authors/loy/poem_loy_Songs_to_Joannes.html#loy_joannes_notes_intro )
Lola Ridge, "The Ghetto" in The Ghetto and Other Poems (1918)
Charles Reznikoff, The Complete Poems of Charles Reznikoff (1918-1975) (2015)*
Louis Zukofsky, Selected Poems, American Poets Project (2006, originally published 1922-1978)
Jean Toomer, Cane (1923)
William Carlos Williams, Spring and All (1923)
Langston Hughes, Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (1994, originally published 1926-1964)
Laura Riding, The Laura (Riding) Jackson Reader (2005, originally written 1926-1976) *
James Weldon Johnson, God's Trombones (1927)
Kenneth Fearing, Selected Poems, American Poets Project (2004, originally published 1928-1943)
Lorine Niedecker, Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works (2002, originally published 1928-1952) *
Hart Crane, The Bridge (1930)
Charles Reznikoff, Testimony (1934)
Muriel Rukeyser, Theory of Flight (1935)
Muriel Rukeyser, Selected Poems, American Poets Project (2004, originally published 1935-1976)
Jackson Mac Low, Representative Works, 1938-1955 (1986) *
Muriel Rukeyser, U.S. 1 (1938)
Frank O'Hara, Collected Poems of Frank O’Hara (1995, poems originally published in 1940s) *
Wallace Stevens, “Ideas of Order at Key West” (1936), "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven” (1950), and "The Noble Rider and the Sounds of Words" (1942)
H.D., Trilogy (1944-1946)
Charles Olson, Collected Poems of Charles Olson (1987, originally published 1949-1969)*
Langston Hughes, Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
Jackson Mac Low, Doings: assorted performance pieces 1955/2002 (2005)
Allen Ginsberg, Howl and other Poems (1956)
William Carlos Williams, The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams (1939-1962) (1986) *
William Carlos Williams, Paterson (1946-1948)
Hugh MacDiarmid, Selected Poems of Hugh MacDiarmid (1954)
Hugh MacDiarmid, Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle (1956)
Frank O'Hara, "Personism: A Manifesto" in The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara (1959)
Gwendolyn Brooks, The Bean Eaters (1960)
Bob Kaufman, "Jail Poems" in Beatitude Anthology (1960)
Robert Creeley, For Love (1962)
Frank O'Hara, Lunch Poems (1964)
Lucille Clifton, The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton (1965-2010) (2015)*
Jack Spicer, Language in My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer (2008, originally published 1965)
Melvin Tolson, Harlem Gallery (1965)
John Ashbery, Rivers and Mountains (1966)
Basil Bunting, Briggflatts (1966)
Adrienne Rich, On Lies in On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978 (1979)
Adrienne Rich, Secrets and Silence in On Lies, Secrets, and Silence : Selected Prose, 1966-1978 (1979)
Robert Creeley, Words (1967)
George Oppen, Of Being Numerous (1968)
Gwendolyn Brooks, Riot (1969)
Robert Creeley, Pieces (1969)
Robert Hayden, Words in the Mourning Time (1970)
Jackson Mac Low, Stanzas for Iris Lezak (1971)
John Ashbery, Three Poems ( 1972)
Adrienne Rich, Diving into the Wreck (1973)
John Ashbery, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975)
Robert Hayden, Angle of Ascent (1975)
John Ashbery, Double Dream of Spring (1976)
Lyn Hejinian, My Life (1980)
James Schuyler, The Morning of the Poem (1980)
Carolyn Forché, The Country Between Us (1981)
Sterling Brown, The Collected Poems of Sterling Brown (1983) *
Elizabeth Alexander, The Venus Hottentot (1825) (1990)
John Ashbery, Flow Chart (1991)
Susan Howe, My Emily Dickinson (1985)
Barbara Guest, Defensive Rapture (1993)
Yusef Komunyakaa, Neon Vernacular (1993)
Eavan Boland, In a Time of Violence (1995)
Barbara Guest, Fair Realism (1995)
Lynda Hull, The Only World (1995)
Sascha Feinstein, Misterioso (2000)
Harryette Mullen, Sleeping with the Dictionary (2002)
Tyehimba Jess, Leadbelly (2004)
Terrance Hayes, Wind in a Box (2006)
M. NourbeSe Philip, Zong! (2008)
Julie Carr, 100 Notes on Violence (2010)
Nikki Finney, Head Off & Split: Poems (2011)
Tim Seibles, Fast Animal (2012)
Evie Shockley, The New Black (2012)
Tracy K. Smith, Life on Mars (2012)
Jordan Abel, The Place of Scraps (2013)
Caroline Bergvall, Drift (2014)
Alexis Pauline Gumbs, M Archive: After the End of the World (2018)
Divya Victor, Curb (2021)
Ezra Pound, “A Retrospect” in Literary Essays of Ezra Pound (1918)
Gertrude Stein, "Composition as Explanation" (1926)
Louis Zukofsky, "An Objective" in Prepositions+: The Collected Critical Essays (2000, originally published in 1931)
Charles Olson, "Projective Verse" in The Collected Poems of Charles Olson (1987, originally published in 1950)
Robert Creeley, "Was that a Real Poem or Did You Just Make It Up?" in Collected Essays , A Quick Graph (1974)

Literary Works (in chronological order of publication date, with region noted)

Rudyard Kipling, Kim (1901), India
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1902), Africa
Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World (1916), South Asia
E M Forster, A Passage to India (1924), South Asia
Patricia Galvão, Industrial Park (1933), Latin America
Raja Rao, Kanthapura (1938), South Asia
José María Arguedas, Yawar Fiesta (1941), Latin America
Alejo Carpentier, The Kingdom of This World (1949), Latin America
George Lamming, In the Castle of My Skin (1950), Caribbean
Samuel Selvon, The Lonely Londoners (1956), Caribbean
Rosario Castellanos, The Nine Guardians: A Novel (1957), Latin America
Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (1959), Africa
Ousmane Sembène, God’s Bits of Wood (1962), Africa
Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), Caribbean
V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr. Biswas (1967), South Asia / Caribbean
Ayi Kwei Armah, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968), Africa
Aimé Césaire, A Tempest (1969), Caribbean
Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North (1969), Africa
Bessie Head, A Question of Power (1974), Africa
Wole Soyinka , Death and the King's Horseman (1975), Africa
Raj Anand, Coolie (1976), India
Athol Fugard, John Kani, and Winston Ntshona, The Island (1976), Africa
Ama Ata Aidoo, Our Sister Killjoy (1977), Africa
Ngūgī wa Thiong’o, Petals of Blood (1977), Africa
Domitila Barrios de Chúngara with Moema Viezzer, Let Me Speak! Testimony of Domitila, a Woman of the Bolivian Mines (1978), Latin America
Buchi Emecheta, The Joys of Motherhood (1979), Africa
J. M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians (1980), Africa
Mariama Bâ, So Long a Letter (1981), Africa
Brian Friel, Translations (1981), Ireland
Nadine Gordimer , July's People (1981), Africa
Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children (1981), South Asia
Keri Hulme, The Bone People (1983), New Zealand
Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero (1983), North Africa
Ken Saro Wiwa, Sozaboy: A Novel in Rotten English (1985), Africa
Michelle Cliff, No Telephone to Heaven (1987), Caribbean
Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions (1988), Africa
Amitav Ghosh, Shadow Lines (1988), South Asia
Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place (1988), Caribbean
Bapsi Sidhwa, Cracking India (1988), South Asia
Mario Vargas Llosa, The Storyteller (1989), Latin America
Claribel Alegría and Darwin Flakoll, The Death of Somoza (1990), Latin America
Derek Walcott, Omeros (1990), Caribbean
Ben Okri, The Famished Road (1991), Africa
Hanif Kureishi, My Son the Fanatic (1994), South Asia
Shyam Selvadurai, Funny Boy (1994), South Asia
Mahasweta Devi, Imaginary Maps: Three Stories (1995), South Asia
Zakes Mda, Ways of Dying (1995), Africa
Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (1998), South Asia
J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace (1999) [Africa]
Edwidge Danticat, The Farming of Bones (1999), Caribbean
Arundhati Roy, The Algebra of Infinite Justice (2001), South Asia
Teju Cole, Every Day Is for the Thief (2007), Africa
Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger: A Novel (2008), South Asia
Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies (2008), South Asia
Urmila Pawar, The Weave of my Life: A Dalit Woman’s Memoirs (2009), South Asia
Yashpal, This is Not that Dawn (2010), South Asia
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah (2014), Africa
NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names (2014), Africa
Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing (2016), Africa
Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King (2019), Africa

Readings/Theory (grouped by region, in chronological order according to original publication date)

South Asia / Middle East

M. K. Gandhi, Hind Swaraj (1909)
B. R. Ambedkar, The Annihilation of Caste (1936)
Jawaharlal Nehru, The Discovery of India (1946)
Edward Said, Orientalism (1979)
Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands (2002)
Ranajit Guha, “On Some Aspects of the Historiography of Colonial India” in Subaltern Studies I: Writings on South Asian History and Society (1982)
Partha Chatterjee, Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World (1986)
Binyavanga Wainaina, “How to Write about Africa” in How to Write about Africa (2022, originally published in 2005)
Sharmila Rege, Writing Caste, Writing Gender (2006)

Latin America

José Carlos Mariátegui , Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality (1928)
Che Guevara, Socialism and Man in Cuba (1965)
Roberto Schwarz, Misplaced Ideas: Essays on Brazilian Culture (1992)
Latin American Subaltern Studies Group, "Founding Statement" in Boundary2 20.3 (Autumn 1993)
Neil Larsen, Reading North by South (1995)
C. L. R. James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (1938)
Aimé Césaire, A Discourse on Colonialism (1950)
Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks (1952)
Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism (1959)
Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961)
Édouard Glissant, Caribbean Discourse (1981)
Léopold Sédar Senghor, "Negritude: A Humanism of the Twentieth Century" in Colonial Discourse and Post-colonial Theory: A Reader (1994, originally published in French in 1966)
Ngūgī wa Thiong’o, Decolonizing the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (1986)
Roberto Fernández Retamar, Caliban and Other Essays (1989)

Multi-Regional

Amilcar Cabral, The Weapon of Theory (1966)
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (1983)
Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literature (1992)
Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism (1993)
Urvashi Butalia, The Other Side of Silence (1998)
E. San Juan Jr., Beyond Postcolonial Theory (1998)
Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (2011)
Mary Louise Pratt, Planetary Longings (2022)

(in chronological order of publication date)

Rodolphe Töpffer, The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck ( 1837)
Rudolph Dirks, The Katzenjammer Kids (1897-1913)
Winsor McCay, Little Nemo in Slumberland (1905-1914)
George Herriman, Krazy Kat (1914-1944) *
Early superhero comics (Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman) (1938-1945) *
Charles M. Schulz, Peanuts strip (1950-2000) *
R. Crumb, Collected Works (1967- ) *
Mad Magazine (Al Feldstein, ed., 1952-1985) *
Keiji Nakazawa, Barefoot Gen series (1973-1987)
Osamu Tezuka, Black Jack series (1973-1983)
Harvey Pekar, American Splendor (1976-2008)
Will Eisner, A Contract with God (1978)
Art Spiegelman, MAUS , Vols I and II (1980-1992)
Frank Miller, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (1986)
Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons, Watchmen (1986-1987)
Lynda Barry, The Good Times are Killing Me (1988)
Lynda Barry, One Hundred Demons (2002)
Neil Gaiman, The Sandman (1989-1996)
Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (1993)
Daniel Clowes, Ghost World (1995)
Marjane Satrapi, The Complete Persepolis (2000)
Chris Ware, Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (2000)
Joe Sacco, Palestine (2001)
Joe Sacco, Footnotes in Gaza (2009)
Phoebe Gloeckner, The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures (2002)
Craig Thompson, Blankets: An Illustrated Novel (2003)
Charles Burns, Black Hole (2005)
Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (2006)
Shaun Tan, The Arrival (2006)
David B., Epileptic (2006)
Gene Luen Yang, American Born Chinese (2006)
Ulli Lust, Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life (2008)
Gabrielle Bell, The Voyeurs (2012)
John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell, March Vols I, II, and III (2013-2017)
Adrian Tomine, Killing and Dying (2015)
Ben Passmore, Your Black Friend and Other Strangers (2016)
Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing is Monsters (2017)
John Jennings & Stacey Robinson, Tony Medina, I am Alfonso Jones (2017)
Victoria Lomasko, Other Russias (2017)
Thi Bui, The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir (2017)
John Jennings & Damian Duffy, Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation (2018)
Nick Drnaso, Sabrina (2018)

Cinema and Media Studies

Films (in chronological order of release date)

Auguste Lumière and Louis Lumière, Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory (1895) and Arrival of a Train at a Station (1895)
George Méliès, A Trip to the Moon (1902)
Edwin S. Porter, The Great Train Robbery (1903)
D. W. Griffith, The Birth of a Nation (1915)
Oscar Micheaux, Within Our Gates (1920)
Robert J. Flaherty, Nanook of the North (1922)
Sergei Eisenstein, The Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Buster Keaton, The General (1926)
F. W. Murnau, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
Dziga Vertov, Man with the Movie Camera (1929)
Fritz Lang, M (1931)
Frank Capra, It Happened One Night (1934)
Charlie Chaplin, Modern Times (1936)
Jean Renoir, The Grand Illusion (1937)
Orson Welles, Citizen Kane (1941)
Maya Deren and Alexandr Hackenschmied, Meshes of the Afternoo n (1943)
Laurence Olivier, Henry V (1944)
Roberto Rossellini, Rome, Open City (1945)
Howard Hawks, The Big Sleep (1946)
Akira Kurosawa, Rashomon (1950)
Stanley Donen, Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
Satyajit Ray, Pather Panchali (1955)
John Ford, The Searchers (1956)
Alain Resnais, Hiroshima mon Amour (1959)
Alfred Hitchcock, Vertigo (1958)
Ritwick Ghatak, Meghe Dakha Tara (1960)
Jean-Luc Godard, Contempt (1963)
Federico Fellini, 8 1/2 (1963)
Albert Maysles and David Maysles, Gimme Shelter (1970)
Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather (1972)
Djibril Diop Mambéty, Touki Bouki (1973)
M. S. Sathyu, Garm Hava (1973)
Shyam Benegal, Ankur (1974)
Ousmane Sembène, Xala (1975)
Martin Scorsese, Taxi Driver (1976)
R. W. Fassbinder, The Marriage of Maria Braun (1978)
Aparna Sen, 36 Chowringhee Lane (1981)
María Luisa Bemberg, Camila (1984)
Agnès Varda, Vagabond (1985)
Stephen Frears, My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
David Lynch, Blue Velvet (1986)
John Woo, A Better Tomorrow (1986)
John Lasseter, Luxo Jr. (1986)
Claire Denis, Chocolat (1988)
Mira Nair, Salaam Bombay! (1988)
Spike Lee, Do the Right Thing (1989)
Julie Dash, Daughters of the Dust (1991)
Zhang Yimou, Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Nargess (1992)
Djibril Diop Mambéty, Hyènes (1992)
Jane Campion, The Piano (1993)
Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction (1994)
Deepa Mehta, Elements trilogy (1996-2005)
Abbas Kiarostami, Taste of Cherry (1997)
Hayao Miyazaki, Princess Mononoke (1997)
Lucrecia Martel, The Swamp (2001)
Abderrahmane Sissako, Bamako (2006)
Jia Zhangke, Platform (2000)
Jia Zhangke, Still Life (2006)
Florian Thalhofer, Planet Galata: A Bridge in Istanbul (2010)
Hito Steyerl, In Free Fall (2010)
Harun Farocki, Parallel I-IV (2012-14)
Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave (2013)
Kelly Reichardt, Certain Women (2016)
Nonny de la Peña, Out of Exile: Daniel’s Story (2017)

Readings/Theory (in chronological order of original publication date)

Hugo Münsterberg, "Why We Go to the Movies" in Cosmopolitan 60.1 (Dec 1915)
Béla Balázs, "The Close-Up" in Béla Balázs: Early Film Theory: Visible Man and the Spirit of Film (2010, originally published in French in 1924)
Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" in Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (1968, originally published in German in 1935)
Sergei Eisenstein, "Dickens, Griffith, and Film Today" in Film Form: Essays in Film Theory (1949, originally published in Russian in 1944)
Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno, "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception" in Dialect of the Enlightenment (1989, originally published in German in 1944)
Alexandre Astruc, "The Birth of a New Avant-Garde: La Camera-Stylo" in Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures: A Critical Anthology (2014, originally published in French in 1948)
André Bazin, "The Evolution of the Language of Cinema" in What is Cinema ? Essays Selected and Translated by Hugh Gray (2004, originally published in French in early 1950s)
Siegfried Kracauer, "The Establishment of Physical Existence" in Theory of Film: The Redemption of Physical Reality (1965, originally published in German in 1960)
Maya Deren, "Cinematography: The Creative Use of Reality" in Daedalus 89.1 (Winter 1960)
Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (1964) *
Jean-Louis Baudry, "Ideological Effects of the Basic Cinematographic Apparatus" in Film Quarterly 28.2 (Winter 1974-1975, originally published in French in 1970)
Laura Mulvey, " Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema " in Screen 16.3 (Autumn 1975)
Richard Dyer, "Entertainment and Utopia" in Only Entertainment (1977)
Richard Dyer, "Stars as Types" and "Stars as Images" in Stars (1979)
Giles Deleuze, Cinema 1: The Movement Image (1986, originally published in French in 1983) *
Rick Altman, "A Semantic/Syntactic Approach to Film Genre" in Cinema Journal 23.2 (Spring 1984)
David Bordwell, "Art-Cinema Narration" in Narration in the Fiction Film (1985)
Tom Gunning, "The Cinema of Attraction: Early Film, Its Spectator and the Avant-Garde" in Wide Angle 8.3-4 (1986)
Bill Nichols, "Documentary Modes of Representation" in Representing Reality (1991)
Lynn Spigel, Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America (1992) *
Robert Stam and Ella Shohat, Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media (1994) *
Manthia Diawara, "Black American Cinema: the New Realism" in Cinemas of the Black Diaspora: Diversity, Dependence, and Oppositionality (1995)
Henry Jenkins, "From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Further Reflections" in New Media: Theories of Practices of Digitexuality (2003)
Peter Wollen, "The Auteur Theory: Michael Curtiz, and Casablanca" in Authorship and Film (2003)
Mary Ann Doane, "Information, Crisis, and Catastrophe" in New Media, Old Media: A History and Theory Reader (2005)
Linda Hutcheon, Theory of Adaptation (2006) *
John Thornton Caldwell, Production Culture: Industrial Reflexivity and Critical Practice in Film and Television (2008) *
John Durham Peters, The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media (2015) *
Patricia White, Women's Cinema, World Cinema: Projecting Contemporary Feminisms (2015) *
Lev Manovich, "What is Digital Cinema?" in Post-Cimena: Theorizing 21st-Century Film (2016)
Karl Schoonover and Rosalind Galt, Queer Cinema in the World (2016) *

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Best Practices Exams & Reading Lists

This guide was prepared by GEA Representatives Rachel Gevlin and Chris Huebner in collaboration with fellow graduate students with the intention of demystifying the process of assembling a committee and preparing for exams.

Initial Questions to Ask Advisor and Committee Members

What do you believe the reading year is for? Am I reading to gain comprehension of the field, to prepare for writing my first chapter, or to “explore” areas?
How often should we meet? How often should I meet with other committee members? When do I need to start thinking concretely about a dissertation topic?
What method/theory do you admire? What writers /critics do you like as a model? (This is a question that you could ask your advisor as well as a general question to consider yourself)

Constructing Lists

How should I build my lists? Should I start big and cut? Should I start small and add?
Is each list the domain of one advisor? Should my committee members collaborate to construct lists?
What should the balance of prose/poetry/visual media be (for applicable projects)?
How general/canonical should my lists be? How specific should they be to my own interests or to the specific “niche” of my project?
How closely should my minor lists relate to each other? How closely should my minor lists relate to my major list?
Should secondary texts be on primary lists (and vice versa)? If so, what should the ratio be?
Should minor lists have sections?
Do you have general formatting preferences for my lists? (Citations, numbering, ordering chronologically/alphabetically, etc.)

How to Handle Reading

How should I prioritize which texts to start reading? What are the 20 most important?
How closely should I be reading each text?
How should I read? For argument? For factual or historical background?
As I read through my lists, should I produce any writing?

Preparing for Exams

What is the procedure for oral exams? What should I prepare? Who starts? Will there be times when I will be asked to leave the room? Is it acceptable to take notes or record audio during the exam?
Who will draft the questions, and will I have any input in what they are?
How much ‘quizzing’ on small details (dates, character names, etc.) from the texts will there be? Am I likely to be asked questions about texts that aren’t on my lists?
What types of questions should I expect? i.e. Will I be asked to give a survey of a period? Will each question entail making an argument? Will I be expected to respond to specific critics?
How many questions will there be? Different advisors have different expectations, but the general outline (from the handbook) is the following: “The major exam is typically scheduled first. The format is usually to answer 2 or 3 questions from a choice of between 4 to 6 questions. For the minor exam, the format is usually to answer 1 or 2 on each minor field (2-4 in total) from between 4 and 6 questions.”
In my oral exam, should I have an answer prepared for every question that was asked on the written exams, or only for those that I answered in writing?
What kind of feedback can I expect after my exams are completed?
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Graduate Reading List and Headnotes

Reading lists.

19C & 20C Industrial and Environmental Fiction
OREILLY_Reading List C 20th ce Anglo-Amer Drama
Science Fiction
New Media Studies
Rhetorical Ecologies
Affect Theory and Embodiment
Global Capitalist Development list
OREILLY Reading List B Narrative Theory Mod
Phenomenology

Time Period

19&20C American Fiction list
20th 21st C American Novel
American Fiction 1865-1995
OREILLY_Reading LIST A Anglo-Amer Mod Novel
Post-1945 American Literature
OREILLY List C Head Notes_20th ce Anglo-Amer Drama
Rhetorical Ecology
Global Capitalist Development Headnote & List
OREILLY _ List B Head Notes Theory Narrative Mod Novel
OREILLY - List A Head Notes_Modernist Novel Narrative Theory
19&20C American Fiction
20th 21st C American Novels
OREILLY - List A Head Notes_Anglo-Amer Modernist Novel

1. Can I send this out to anyone?

Yes, This is supposed to be a resource for any PhD Student to use, and so long as they do not destroy or delete any of the materials that have been freely shared by the generosity of other graduate students, they are welcome to this resource

2. Can I add my material to this drive?

YES PLEASE. This is intended to be a living document that can be passed down to our colleagues and future incoming PhD students who need some examples of how different people have organized their lists and what material they are looking at.

Drive Link - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1xjlTV1yEJf6SWpQ7Q2OxR1ai8gj-M0td?usp=sharing

3. Is this an official department list?

No. This is a grad student led list that is available for graduate students. The majority of the lists were created by individual graduate students and shared by them. How they have constructed each list was up to the graduate students themselves and are here to serve as an example. It is by no means an official How To list.

HOW TO USE

Reading list .

Please clearly title your file and anonymize your file name into your list title. If there are already pre-existing lists with the same name, please add a number at the end. Ex: for me it was 20th 21st C American Lit, Science Fiction, and Affect Theory. Please identify where each of your ABC list belongs and place them in each corresponding folder of Time Period, Genre, Theory, or Misc Ex: mine (seen above) went into Time Period, Genre, and Theory respectively.

Please title your headnotes files the same name you have titled your Reading List file so it will correlate easily. Please identify where each of your headnotes went in the Reading List folder and place them accordingly.

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The graduate program in English is a five-year program (with multiple opportunities for funding in year six) leading to the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.). Students may not enroll for a Master of Arts degree. During the first two years, students prepare for the General Examination through work in seminars, and directed or independent reading. The third, fourth, and fifth years are devoted the writing of a dissertation, and to teaching in undergraduate courses. Through numerous funding opportunities, we are able to offer sixth-year students generous research support.

Although programs are flexible, during the first two years graduate students normally take an average of three courses per semester, to complete the required 12 courses by the end of the second year. The comprehensive General Examination is then taken at the beginning of the third year of study.

Students must also demonstrate a reading knowledge of two foreign languages before the completion of the General Examination.

Course Requirements

Graduate students are required to take a minimum of twelve courses over their first two years in the program, usually enrolling in three courses per semester.

Our distribution requirements are designed to acquaint each student with a diverse range of historical periods and thematic and methodological concerns. The Department values both historical expertise and theoretical inquiry, and assumes that our discipline includes the study of film, visual culture, and media studies.

Graduate Students in English must take courses in each of the following six areas:

Medieval and Renaissance
18th Century and 19th Century
Modern and Contemporary
Race, Ethnicity, and Postcoloniality
Gender and Sexuality

All distribution requirements must be taken for a letter grade. The six-course distribution requirement comprises 50% of the courses required for the degree, leaving sufficient room for intensive coursework in areas of specialization.

While some graduate seminars may cover more than one field, students may not use one course to fulfill two or more distribution requirements at the same time. For example, a medieval course with a substantial commitment to theory may fulfill either the medieval and Renaissance or the theory requirements.

Each entering student is assigned a faculty advisor who works with the Director of Graduate Studies (DGS) in planning course selection in the first and second years. After successfully submitting and presenting the dissertation proposal during the spring of the third year, students choose three faculty members to serve as their dissertation advisers.

Graduate Action Committee (GAC)

The Graduate Action Committee (GAC) is a representative group of graduate students in the Department that advocates for graduate student with faculty and administration. Among its primary goals are representing the concerns of the entire graduate student body, promoting intellectual and social interaction between faculty and graduate students, organizing an annual speaker series of distinguished academics, and improving the quality of graduate student life at Princeton. Every graduate student in the Department is welcome and encouraged to participate in GAC.

Working Group on Graduate Issues (WGGI)

The Working Group on Graduate Issues (WGGI) is a four- or five-person elected group of students who meet at several points during the academic year with the chair, director of graduate studies, and one additional faculty member to represent graduate student concerns.

In addition to participating in a variety of seminars and colloquia organized by the Department and other units at the University, graduate students are welcome to organize colloquia of their own. These may involve the discussion of an article or problem, the presentation of a paper, or a forum for debate.

Graduate students who have passed the General Examination are required to teach in undergraduate courses. While the minimum Department requirement is four hours, most students teach more than this. Students may conduct sections of large lecture courses, or direct precepts in upper-division courses. This teaching is supervised by experienced members of the faculty. The Department and University also offer, on an annual basis, a teacher training seminar and workshop. Advanced graduate students may co-design and co-teach courses with faculty through the Collaborative Teaching Initiative .

Library Collections

In addition to the general collections of Princeton’s libraries, Firestone Library has a number of special collections that are particularly rich in materials for study: one of the most important collections of medieval and renaissance manuscripts in the United States; works of the Restoration Period, with emphasis on drama; the theater collection, which contains materials for the study of theatrical history; extensive collections concerning the history and literature of the middle Atlantic and southern states; little poetry magazines; concrete and visual poetry; the Sinclair Hamilton Collection of American Illustrated books, 1670–1870; the Morris L. Parrish Collection of Victorian Novelists; the J. Harlin O’Connell Collection of the 1890's and the Gallatin Collection of Aubrey Beardsley; and the archives of major American publishing houses. The extensive Miriam Y. Holden Collection of Books on the History of Women is located adjacent to the Department’s literature collection in the Scribner Room.

Job Placement

We offer strong support and deep resources for students pursuing careers inside and outside academia. Our Job Placement and Career Resources page provides details, as well as information and statistics about recent academic appointments.

Admission and Financial Aid

Competition for admission to the program is keen. About ten new students from a wide range of backgrounds are enrolled each year. The Department looks for candidates of outstanding ability and intellectual promise who have the potential to be lively, effective, and sympathetic scholars and teachers. Its judgments are based on letters of recommendation, transcripts, a personal statement, and a sample of the candidate’s academic writing. GRE scores are not required. Facility in foreign languages is also taken into account. To access the online application, please visit the Graduate Admission Office .

All admitted students are fully funded. Fellowships are awarded by the Graduate School on the Department’s recommendation. Students are also eligible to apply for competitive external and internal fellowships, such as those offered by the Graduate School, the Center for Human Values, and the Center for the Study of Religion.

English Department

The Department offices, lecture halls, and seminar rooms are located in McCosh Hall. There are two libraries in McCosh Hall: the Thorp Library, home to the Bain-Swiggett Library of Contemporary Poetry, and the Hinds Library, the Department’s reading room and lounge. There is also a separate English Graduate Reading Room in Firestone Library, where reserve books for graduate seminars are kept on the shelves. It is adjacent to the Scribner Room, the Department's large non-circulating collection of books and journals.

The Graduate School provides University housing for about 65 percent of the graduate student body. New students have first priority. Although housing in the Princeton area is expensive, many graduate students find convenient and attractive private housing, sharing accommodations or investigating neighboring towns. There are also opportunities for graduate students to apply for resident positions in the undergraduate colleges.

Visiting Princeton

Applicants for admission are welcome to visit the campus at any time, and tours of the campus are available. Once the formal admissions period is over by the end of February, admitted students will be invited to campus and will have the opportunity to visit seminars, and meet with faculty and current graduate students.

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PhD students sit the following examinations as part of the candidacy process: a General Comprehensive examination, a written Field of Study Examination and an oral Field of Study examination. Field of Study examinations are based on one of the approved Field Reading Lists. For further details about examination processes, please refer to the candidacy requirements.

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You may change up to 20% of texts in the specific reading list you choose, unless otherwise specified. Changes must be clearly indicated. The Supervisory Committee must approve all amendments, using the Approval of Field of Study Reading List, regardless of whether you have made any changes. The list must follow recommended MLA Handbook formatting. Final reading lists must have representation across nations, genres, and periods.

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After completing their coursework, students enter a period of directed reading, at the end of which they take their PhD General Examinations. The PhD exams consist of written and oral components, to be completed within a four-week period. This page includes information about:

Purpose of the Exams

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The qualifying exam has two, closely inter-related aims:

To demonstrate broad reading in a field or interlocking fields of study, and an understanding of defining issues and debates within that (those) field(s); and
To explore and develop a research focus, situate its core question(s), and articulate its stakes, which will carry through to prospectus and the dissertation.

A “field” in this context means a recognized area of expertise. A ready measure of existing and emerging fields can be found in academic job postings (the Modern Language Association job list, in particular), and (to a secondary degree) in the categories that organize academic publishing, or forums/divisions in national professional associations (e.g. MLA, ASA, CCCC, RSA, TESOL or AAAL). Thus a field is not simply a topic; it pertains to recognized areas of study within professional academic contexts.

Some examples: African American and African Diasporic literature, Environmental Humanities, New Media Studies, Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, Premodern English Studies, Victorian Studies, Queer Studies, Literacy Studies, Rhetoric and Composition Studies, Technical and Professional Communication are all fields. If you read through the MLA job list, you will find actual positions advertised for specialists in these (and many other) areas.

It’s important to note that while every student must identify at least one field, most students will seek to demonstrate broad knowledge in two (or possibly even three) interrelated fields. For example, Medieval Studies and Gender Studies; Contemporary U.S. literature, Science Fiction Studies, and Queer Studies; Early Modern Literature and Textual Studies; Literacy Studies and Composition Studies; Second Language Writing and Genre Studies; Second Language Acquisition and World Englishes.

The PhD Examination Committee consists of at least four members: a chair, two regular members, and a Graduate School Representative (GSR). The committee advises students on remaining coursework, supervises and approves the PhD exam reading lists, directs and mentors students on reading for PhD exams, evaluates the written exams, and administers the oral exam.

The chair and at least one of the regular members of the PhD exam committee must be from the Department of English. The student should consult with their committee before adding a faculty member from outside the Department of English as a co-chair or regular member.

Note that students must secure the agreement of faculty, including the GSR, to serve on their PhD exam committee. Faculty reserve the right not to serve on a PhD exam committee.

After securing the agreement of all committee members, students present the names of committee members to the English Graduate Advising Office so that the committee may be officially constituted in MyGrad Program.

For details regarding the UW Graduate School’s policies on doctoral supervisory committees, including the role of the GSR, see the UW Graduate School website: UW Graduate School Policy 4.2: Supervisory Committee for Graduate Students .

Upon completion of coursework, students enter a period of directed reading. During this period, students enroll in up to 10 credits per quarter of English 597 in order to maintain full-time enrollment. All students enrolled in English 597 should connect regularly with their chair (at a minimum, twice a quarter) to vet ideas, discuss concerns, and report on progress. At least one of these quarterly check-ins should take the form of an in-person meeting (or video conference). In general, the advisor should be apprised of the student’s progress and the student should feel able to connect with their adviser as questions and challenges regarding exam preparation arise. The rights and obligations of students and mentors are outlined in The Graduate Student/Faculty Rights and Responsibilities document . Students should review the document with their Chair and committee members and discuss mutual expectations for their working relationship during the first quarter of enrollment in 597.

Reading Lists

Under the guidance of their chair, and with the support of the other regular committee members, students construct three reading lists for their general exams. Because different lists will compile materials of vastly differing length and density, it can be challenging to norm the size of the lists. In general, each list should include somewhere between 40 and 50 items.

Each list shall be accompanied by a brief (250 word) description. A list is always only a sampling of work in the field, and so the description should answer the following questions: What were some of the central considerations that guided the selection of materials? What is this list meant to represent?

Sample reading lists are available from the English Graduate Advising Office .

A. Reading Lists for Language and Rhetoric Students

Field List I: The first list should constitute a primary field, such as Composition Studies, Applied Linguistics, History of English, Rhetorical Studies, or Literacy Studies. This area should be recognized by relevant professional organizations such as CCCC, RSA, TESOL and AAAL.
Field List II: The second list is flexible and might include the following possibilities: a second field constituting a distinct specialization from the primary field; a sub-area within or adjacent to the primary field of specialization; or an approach, theory, or method.
The Research Topic list: The function of this list is to assemble a set of materials that correspond to the student’s provisional (anticipated) dissertation focus.

NB: Simply put, the function of the research topic list is to position the student so that, at the point of completion of the exams, they will be well positioned to undertake a dissertation on that topic: they will be immersed in the topic, in command of relevant contexts, and able to pinpoint further avenues of reading/research needed to support the dissertation. The research list is not the same thing as the dissertation bibliography (though there will typically be more or less substantial overlap); however, after reading and engaging the research list, the student should have the resources and preparation to construct a dissertation topic and to develop the dissertation bibliography for the prospectus and beyond.

B. Reading Lists for Literature and Culture Students

The first two lists are defined as “field” lists. While no list can be (nor should it even aspire to be) comprehensive, these lists enable breadth and depth of reading in defined areas. Having read and engaged these lists, students should feel grounded in their primary fields. Ideally, students should be able to include materials already encountered through coursework; at the same time, the function of this list is to expand their scope of knowledge and to “backfill” gaps.

The Primary Cultural Field(s) list: This list identifies the student’s primary literary or cultural focus. The focus might be singular (e.g., 18 th C British literature, Asian American and Asian Transpacific literature) or the list might bring together a smaller range of work from two allied fields (e.g. Contemporary U.S. and Latinx literature; British and American Modernism). The Literature/Cultural Field list should be predominantly composed of primary sources, supplemented as needed by secondary sources that represent defining scholarly approaches to the field.
The Primary Critical Field(s) list: This list might focus on a primary critical approach (e.g., Queer Studies, Environmental Humanities, or Critical Race Studies) or it might bring together a smaller range of work from two or three allied fields (e.g., Feminism and New Media Studies; Critical Race and Postcolonial Studies).
The Research Topic list: The function of this list is to assemble a set of materials that correspond to the student’s provisional (anticipated) dissertation focus. While the relation of this list to the primary field lists should be apparent, this list need not be conceived as (merely) a subset of the primary fields that represents one’s particular area of concentration (e.g., the fields are Victorian literature and Gender studies, and the research focus is the sensation novel). In one sense, to be sure, this list will be more narrowly focused than the primary field list (as it hones in on a specific research topic), but in another sense, it might also be broader: for example, if the research focus is on a particular genre or topos, the research list might be organized genealogically and thus involve materials outside the purview of the primary fields (e.g., the sensation novel list might include precursors and successors to the genre, such as 18 th C Gothic and 20 th C Horror, as well as readings in genre theory).

Reading List Approval Meeting

The lists (with short descriptions) should be assembled and finalized by the time the student has completed 10 credit hours of English 597 . With the chair and regular committee members’ consent, the student schedules an in-person meeting to discuss the lists, the format of the written and oral exams, and a tentative schedule for the exams. At this meeting, the committee formally approves the reading lists by signing the Reading List Approval Form , which the student submits to the English Graduate Advising Office along with a copy of the approved lists.

Components of the Written Exam

The written exam consists of two components: (1) syllabi and rationales, and (2) the research statement.

1. Syllabi and Rationales

This portion of the written exam is meant to demonstrate the student’s broad command of and qualifications to teach in their areas of expertise.

The student will design two syllabi: one for a general course in a primary field (an introduction or overview); the other for a topics course. The precise way in which the syllabi will reflect the student’s fields is flexible: Students might choose to design an introductory syllabus related to one field and a topics course related to another field – or they might develop syllabi which cut across two fields. The two syllabi should, however, be distinct in their focus and the materials on which they draw. Each syllabus should include a course description, and a complete list of materials, organized into a schedule of reading. Each syllabus should also make clear the level at which the course would be offered (lower division/general education; upper division/course in the major; graduate course) and (particularly if it is a course designed for an institution unlike UW) the kind of institution at which it might be offered (e.g, liberal arts college; community college; an institution outside the U.S.). In addition, each syllabus should be accompanied by a brief (3-5 page) rationale, which explains the design choices: What does the class foreground and why? What is the principle of selection of the materials? (This might entail an explanation, not only of what the designer sought to include, but what they opted to exclude. ) How does the framing and selection of materials reflect (or develop or interrogate) established or emerging issues and debates in the field? Students might also signal which one or two threads from their teaching philosophy inform the course design (e.g., commitments to antiracist and equity-oriented praxes, accessible and inclusive learning environments, community-engaged approaches, digital humanities, etc.). Finally, if they wish, students may incorporate other elements of a conventional syllabus (e.g., writing assignments), but this is not a requirement for the exam syllabus and should only be included if it elucidates course aims and pedagogy.

In place of one or both syllabi, students may substitute equivalent ways of representing a field to audiences and publics beyond the classroom context (e.g., a website or exhibit).

2. The Research Statement (20-30 pages, double-spaced)

The aim of the research statement is threefold:

What questions does the student aim to explore?
What are the stakes (historically, methodologically and/or critically) in this line of research?
How does it relate to relevant research directions and debates in the student’s field(s)?
How does it intervene in those debates and what might it contribute?
On what theories and (or) methods will it draw and why? What are their affordances and limitations?
What materials (genres, media, archives, data, etc) will the research engage? For students on the literature and culture track, the research statement should offer a demonstration of this engagement, via a close-reading of one or two touchstone texts.

Students may choose to adopt the structure of presentation implied by these questions (that is, to respond to the questions in the order given), or they may follow an outline of their own devising. In any case, however, all research statements should provide answers to the questions posed above.

Timeline and Submission

Although a student may work on the written exam over an extended period of time, the final draft of the syllabi and research statement should be submitted to the Graduate Advising Office by the end of Week 5 in the quarter that the exam is due. At the same time, the student must provide the names of their committee members and their general availability for the oral exam to the English Graduate Advising staff.

While students are encouraged to seek their Chair’s feedback on draft components of the written exam, they may share no more than two drafts of the syllabi and research statement prior to formal submission of the written exam.

Upon receiving the final draft of the syllabi and research statement, the English Graduate Advising staff forwards the documents to the student’s committee members for their official review and comment. At the same time, the English Graduate Advising staff will contact the committee to schedule a date and time for the oral exam about four weeks later.

Committee members have two weeks to read the written exam and provide comments to the committee chair and Graduate Advising Office. The exam will be assessed in relation to the criteria for syllabi and research statements outlined above, using the department's written exam rubric . [NB: If a committee member does not respond within 15 days of receiving the written exam, then their vote is null.] After receiving every committee member’s comments, the chair then shares these comments with the student. In the event of disagreement among the readers, the chair must call a meeting of the full committee to discuss the strengths and limitations of the written exam. If at the conclusion of the meeting, the majority of the committee members vote to fail the exam, it will be recorded as a failing exam.

A student may retake a failed written examination only once, and may not proceed to oral general examination until a failed written examination has been retaken and passed. The student will have at least one week to review the comments and prepare for the oral exam.

After passing the written exam, a student must pass an oral exam. The oral exam will be assessed using the department's oral exam rubric . A passing result on the written exam indicates that the student has demonstrated their preparation to teach and conduct dissertation research in their fields. The oral exam further measures a student’s ability to respond cogently and knowledgeably to questions about the written exam and the contents of the reading lists. Thus questions on the oral exam will engage the contents of the written exam (the syllabi, rationales, and research statement), but may also touch more broadly on materials, approaches, or debates represented on the student’s lists. In general, the discussion of the research statement in the oral will develop into a discussion of next steps: what has the student learned through writing the research statement and how has it honed their thinking on the focus and the framing of the dissertation?

Because the oral exam asks students to think on their feet and to present themselves as a qualified scholar and a teacher, most students will experience it as a high-stress situation. Before the oral exam, students should have the opportunity to discuss with their chairs what to expect in the oral, as well as basic strategies for navigating the oral exam format. Committees should bear in mind that students may experience nervousness and anxiety, and should make every effort to conduct the exam in a generous and humane fashion. Students should be aware that the Graduate School Representative (GSR) is there precisely to represent their interests and make sure that the exam has been conducted fairly.

The oral exam is scheduled for a two-hour block and it is conducted by the doctoral supervisory committee. The chair, at least two regular members, and the GSR must attend the exam.

The oral exam satisfies the Graduate School's requirement for a General Examination, at which point the student attains candidate status. A passing result on the oral exam signals the committee’s confidence that the student is prepared to teach in their exam fields, and to proceed to dissertation research. The Graduate School's policies regarding the General Examination and admission to candidacy for the doctoral degree are detailed in UW Graduate School Policy 1.1.4 .

How It Is Conducted

The English Graduate Advising Office provides the warrant.
The committee chair officiates
The student should bring a copy of their written exam to the oral; they should also bring pen and paper, for the purposes of note-taking. They may, if they wish, bring a few written notes to facilitate their opening comments (see below). However, at no point in the exam should the student read from a prepared text.
At the beginning of the examination, the student is asked to step out of the room while the committee discusses logistics, how to conduct the exam and their approach to questioning. When the student is re-admitted to the room, they are generally given the opening 5-10 minutes of the exam to briefly address some of the committee’s responses to the written portions.
Students may be asked for clarification or amplification of issues raised in the written exams, questions about other works on the reading lists, or questions about dissertation and further research plans.
At the conclusion of the exam, the student is asked to step out of the room while the committee discusses the student’s performance. Upon arrival at a decision, the committee chair invites the student back into the room to inform the student of the committee’s decision.
The committee chair marks the decision and secures signatures from all committee members on the general examination warrant.
The signed warrant must be returned immediately to the English Graduate Advising Office for conveyance of the examination results to the UW Graduate School through MyGrad Program.

Accommodations

Students with a documented disability that may bear on their preparation for the written exam or their performance on the oral exam are encouraged to reach out to the Director of Graduate Studies and to their committee chair early in the process (ideally, by the time of the Reading List meeting), to discuss how their DRS accommodations might fit with this exam format.

The student is recommended for continuance in the PhD program, and encouraged to proceed with the doctoral dissertation.
Re-examine after a further period of study. The oral general examination may be retaken once. A second failure results in termination from the program.
Fail . The candidate is not recommended for further work towards the doctoral degree. The effect of this recommendation is termination of the student’s enrollment in the doctoral program at the conclusion of the current quarter.
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English Ph.D.

The Ph.D. program in English at the University of Texas at Austin is one of the largest and best doctoral programs of its kind. Ranked in the top 20 English Graduate Programs by U.S. News & World Report , our program offers students intensive research mentoring and pedagogical training in the vibrant setting that is Austin, Texas. In addition, all admitted English PhD students receive six years of full funding .

Drawing on the resources of two units, the Department of English and the Department of Rhetoric and Writing, our program has at its center a dynamic and dedicated faculty of over 60 .

While the Ph.D. program is housed in and administered by the Department of English , the Department of Rhetoric and Writing is a crucial partner in helping to educate our shared students. The make-up of each cohort of students mirrors our unusual interdepartmental collaboration: each year we accept 10-12 students in literature and 4 in rhetoric and digital literacies.

One of the distinguishing features of our program is its collegiality and sense of shared purpose. Students and faculty work collaboratively on a number of departmental and university-wide committees, participate actively in reading and writing groups, and treat one another with respect.

Our program is engaged not only in meeting the challenges of a complex, rapidly changing academic discipline but also in helping to shape it. Our graduate courses examine relationships between writing and other cultural practices and explore the social, historical, rhetorical, and technological processes by which literature and other discourses are constituted. While we take seriously our responsibility to help train the next generation of the professoriate—that is, to cultivate scholarship, effective teaching, and collegiality—we also encourage our students to think of their training and their futures in the broadest terms possible.

Requirements

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All students, regardless of whether they enter with a BA or MA, are required to complete 39 hours of formal graduate coursework taken for a grade before the end of their third year. These 39 hours must include:

E384K Disciplinary Inquiries, which is taken in the first semester. It may not include other courses under the E384 course number.
At least one 3-hour seminar on pre-1800 material
At least one 3-hour seminar on post-1800 material
At least 3 hours, but no more than 9 hours, taken out of department. Out-of-department courses include: undergraduate English courses taken for graduate credit, creative writing workshops or Literature for Writers courses with the New Writers Project, and supervised study conference courses arranged with individual faculty members.

These curricular requirements ensure that students encounter a wide range of courses, faculty, and texts during their time at UT, extending well beyond their specialized area of interest. Students choose coursework in consultation with the Associate Graduate Advisor, who may allow substitutions for English courses in cases where alternate coursework is needed to supplement departmental offerings. This alternate coursework could take the form of the out-of-department courses listed above. Such substitutions may be warranted in cases where a student is pursuing a portfolio in an interdisciplinary unit such as CWGS, MALS, or AADS; where the English department offers few courses in the student’s area of interest; or where the student needs to pursue a foreign language for research purposes. We encourage students to investigate portfolio options early in their career so they can integrate those courses as soon as possible. Some portfolios require 12 hours of coursework; in those cases, the Associate Graduate Advisor will grant an exception to the 9-hour limit on out-of-department courses.

Students who hold the position of AI are also required to take RHE398T, which is usually taken during the fall semester of their third year, or when a graduate student teaches RHE306 for the first time. RHE398T does not count toward the required 39 hours of formal graduate coursework.

Beginning in their third year of the program, students have the option of enrolling in additional seminars inside or outside the department, choosing whether to take these courses for a grade or for Credit/No Credit. They can also enroll in E384L Scholarly Publication (usually taken in or after the third year) and E384M Professional Outcomes (usually taken in or after the fourth year). Students take these two courses for Credit/No Credit. The graduate program encourages students to continue enrolling in optional courses throughout their years as a PhD student, while they are reading for exams and planning and writing a dissertation.

In the spring of year three, students must pass the Third-Year Examination , which tests their knowledge of and engagement with chosen fields of specialization. Students will be examined on either a fixed reading list or a reading list developed by three faculty members in collaboration with the student. The list will contain 60-80 primary and/or secondary texts. The Third-Year Examination consists of a written and an oral component. The written component consists of: 1) a 1000- to 2000-word intellectual rationale for the list; 2) an annotated version of the list (at least 1/3 of the texts with an annotation of 100 words or more each); and 3) two syllabi based on the list—the first for a survey course, the second for an upper-division seminar. Students will then sit for a two-hour oral examination during which the committee will ask questions about both the written materials and the students’ comprehension of the reading list.

The Prospectus Examination grants students an opportunity to receive formal feedback from three faculty members on their proposed dissertation project. Students work closely with faculty to write and revise a 15- to 20-page prospectus. Once the faculty members are ready to sign off on the document, an oral Prospectus Examination is scheduled. Students are encouraged to pass the Prospectus Examination by the end of the fall semester of their fourth year in the program.

Doctoral Candidacy is achieved when students have successfully completed the Third-Year and Prospectus Examinations; fulfilled the foreign language requirement (see below); and identified a dissertation committee of at least four faculty members, one of whom needs to be from another graduate program or institution. All students must spend at least two long semesters, or one long semester and one summer, in candidacy before earning their degree.

The last milestone for the Ph.D. is the Final Oral Defense , otherwise known as the dissertation defense. In general, faculty will not schedule a defense until the dissertation is completed and ready for critical engagement.

Students working toward a Ph.D. in English at UT Austin are expected to pursue courses of language study relevant to their individual professional trajectories, as determined in consultation between students themselves; their faculty mentors; and graduate program advisor(s).

Student progress toward appropriate levels of competence will be assessed by means of a four-part Foreign Language Audit according to the following schedule:

Fall semester of the first year: Foreign Language Interview with the associate graduate advisor to review prior training, assess current levels of expertise, and, if necessary, begin developing an appropriate language study agenda.

Spring semester of the second year: as part of the Second-Year Reflection, students complete a first Language Study Check-in with the graduate advisor(s) and their faculty sponsor, to ensure that appropriate progress has been made toward execution of the agenda with alteration or addition in light of subfield expectations and project directions.

Spring semester of the third year (in most cases): as part of the Third-Year Exam, students will complete a second Language Study Check-in, this time with their exam committee, to determine whether satisfactory progress has been achieved on their language study agenda, again with alteration or addition in light of subfield expectations and project directions.

Fourth year (in most cases): as part of the Prospectus Exam, students will finalize their Foreign Language Audit. This will involve discussion with the exam committee, along with presentation of all necessary evidence to demonstrate that the language study agenda has been fulfilled. If, in the judgment of the committee, requisite levels of language competence have not been achieved, student and committee will agree upon a binding plan for fulfillment, during which period the student shall remain on probationary status with regard to the Foreign Language Requirement. Successful fulfillment of the Foreign Language Audit must be achieved before the student advances to Ph.D. candidacy.

Notes: Some students will enter the program with sufficient foreign language skills for their course of study (e.g. either compelling evidence of literate knowledge of a language other than English, such as a high school degree from a school in a non-English speaking country, or four or more semesters at the college level of a language other than English with a grade of B or better in the last semester, or its equivalent). These students will not need to complete the final three steps of the FLA.

Program Administration

Associate Chair & Graduate Adviser: Gretchen Murphy

Associate Graduate Adviser (Literature): Julie Minich

Associate Graduate Adviser (Rhetoric): Scott Graham

Graduate Studies Chair: Tanya Clement

Graduate Program Administrator: Patricia Schaub

The Yale English Department offers a broad-ranging program of graduate education, with courses that engage all periods of British literature, American literature since its inception, and many of the contemporary interdisciplines (feminism, media studies, post-colonialism, Black studies, LGBTQIA+ studies, and the environmental humanities).

The Department aims to train future scholars, writers, and teachers of many kinds: our primary focus is on the development of college and university professors, but our alumni also go on to careers as curators, librarians, secondary school teachers, university administrators, journalists, editors, and professional writers. Our faculty believe in the values of pluralism (in what is studied and how it is studied), and they are committed to preparing students to succeed in competitive and demanding professions. To that end, we make the teaching of undergraduates an important part of graduate training, as well as offering a wide array of professional development opportunities at The Yale Review , university libraries and museums, the Digital Humanities Lab, and elsewhere on campus.

Pluralism within the Department is enhanced by relations with other graduate programs. The English Department offers combined PhD programs with African-American Studies, Film and Media Studies, History of Art, Early Modern Studies, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and has strong affiliations with graduate programs in American Studies, Comparative Literature, Medieval Studies, Religious Studies, and other humanistic disciplines. Faculty members are often joint appointees in English and another of these programs, and many courses are cross-listed. The Department encourages its students to design programs of study that combine specialization with wise generalization.

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Cambridge is an outstanding place to work on Anglophone literature. Students and scholars benefit from world-class libraries, and from each other. The PhD cohort is diverse and large in number. No particular area or approach is preferred. Faculty members who act as supervisors and advisors for doctoral theses work on a great variety of topics and in varied ways. Proposals of all kinds are therefore welcome: from little-known as well as canonical authors, innovative and interdisciplinary perspectives, and more traditional thematic, theoretical, cultural, and literary-historical perspectives. Regular postgraduate training sessions offer guidance at every stage of the process - from first-year assessment to learning to teach to applying for jobs. In addition to the formal training, there are excellent opportunities for the sorts of enriching conversations and collaborations that emerge informally, between fellow PhDs, MPhils, and Faculty members. Some of these take place under the auspices of the student-run Graduate Research Forum. Regular Research Seminars focus on particular periods and fields (for instance, Medieval, Nineteenth Century, Postcolonial and Related Literatures); these combine internal and invited speakers, and encourage discussions and relationships between the entire research community. The Faculty also puts on occasional conferences on all manner of topics; like the research seminars, many of the most successful and exciting ones are conceived of and run by PhD students.

MPhil students in English Studies who wish to continue to the PhD must apply for admission through the University's admission processes, taking funding and application deadlines into consideration. Readmission is not automatic and each application is considered on its own merits. The expected standard for continuation is an overall mark of at least 70 in the MPhil course, including at least 70 for the dissertation. Other conditions may be imposed.

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The English Department will begin reviewing completed MA applications on January 1, 2024 and will continue to accept them until the March 15, 2024 deadline

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Requirements for the PhD

In the PhD Program, students move toward specialization in a particular area of study. The requirements include:

Sixteen graduate-level courses, including a required eight courses taken in the first year.
A successful review by the Graduate Committee upon completion of the first year.
Demonstration of a reading knowledge of one foreign language at an advanced level or two foreign languages at an intermediate level – including one language completed as part of the first year.
Completion of a Qualifying Oral Examination
Submission and approval of a Dissertation Prospectus
Completion and defense of a Ph.D. dissertation

Please note that successful completion of requirements in the first year earns each Ph.D. student an M.A. degree as a matter of course.

Satisfactory Academic Progress for PhD Students

The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Department of English guarantee five full years (12 months each) of financial support for PhD students who maintain Satisfactory Academic Progress . This support will be in the form of Teaching Fellowships or Graduate Fellowships. All requirements for the doctorate, including dissertation, must be completed within seven years (exceptions require a petition to GRS). A leave of absence of up to two semesters is permitted for appropriate cause.

Given these time constraints, students should work closely with their advisers and dissertation readers to devise an efficient schedule for meeting all benchmarks. Faculty and students share responsibility for adhering closely to this schedule.

The following achievements are required to maintain Satisfactory Academic Progress:

Students must maintain a GPA of 3.0 or higher, have no more than 2 failing grades (lower than B- or an incomplete grade older than 12 months), and pass qualifying exams and other milestones on the following recommended schedule:

Year 1: Eight graduate courses – for the M.A. degree / first foreign language requirement.

Year 2: Continue course work and study toward the completion of the language requirement.

Year 3: Complete course work and language requirements. In the fall of the third year, students take the pro-seminar (EN794 A1), in which they develop their Qualifying Oral Examination rationale and reading list, and form an oral exam committee.

Year 4: Fall: Students should take the Qualifying Exam early in the Fall semester.

Spring: Prospectus submitted and dissertation writing begins.

Years 5+ : Dissertation.

Additional departmental details regarding all stages of the degree can be found in the graduate handbook

For GRS college policies and general information please see the Graduate Bulletin

Robert Chodat, Director of Graduate Studies

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The aim of the Princeton graduate program in English is to produce well-trained and field-transforming scholars, insightful and imaginative critics, and effective and creative teachers. With two years of coursework and three years of research and teaching, all fully funded, it is possible to complete the degree in five years. We offer multiple opportunities for a fully funded sixth-year, should students need additional time for dissertation completion.

In keeping with the goals of the University at large, the Department of English seeks to cultivate and sustain a diverse, cosmopolitan, and lively intellectual community. Because this is a residential university, whose traditions emphasize teaching as well as research, the faculty is easily accessible to students and committed to their progress.

The faculty of the Department of English is notable for its world-renowned scholarly reputation, and commitment to teaching and close collaboration with colleagues and students. The faculty showcases wide-ranging interdisciplinary interests as well as a diverse range of critical approaches. In addition to offering seminars in every major historical field of concentration, from medieval to contemporary literatures, we offer training in fields such as gender and sexuality studies, psychoanalysis, Marxism, American studies, African American studies, Latinx studies, Asian American studies, postcolonial studies, environmental humanities, digital humanities, political and social theory, book history, performance studies, film and media studies, and poetry and poetics. Students may also take courses in cognate departments such as comparative literature, classics, philosophy, linguistics, history, and art history.

Additional departmental requirements

Sample of critical writing, approximately 25 pages in length, preferably in the student’s proposed field of study. This sample must be a sustained piece of writing, not the total of several smaller works, and can be an excerpt from a larger work.

Program Offerings

Program offering: ph.d., program description.

The graduate program in English is a five-year program (with multiple opportunities for funding in the sixth year) leading to the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree. Students may not enroll for a Master of Arts degree. During the first two years, students prepare for the General Examination through work in seminars, and directed or independent reading. The third, fourth, and fifth years are devoted the writing of a dissertation, and to teaching in undergraduate courses. Through numerous funding opportunities, we are able to offer sixth-year students generous research support.

During the first two years of the program, graduate students normally take an average of three courses per semester, to complete the required 12 courses by the end of the second year. Each entering student is assigned a faculty adviser who works with the director of graduate studies to help plan course selection.

Graduate Students in English must take at least one course in each of the following six areas:

1. Medieval and Renaissance

2. 18th Century and 19th Century

3. Modern and Contemporary

5. Race, Ethnicity, and Postcoloniality

6. Gender and Sexuality

Although some graduate seminars may cover more than one field, students may not use one course to fulfill two or more distribution requirements. For example, a medieval course with a substantial commitment to theory may fulfill either the medieval and Renaissance or the theory requirements.

Language(s)

Students must demonstrate a reading knowledge of two foreign languages as soon as possible after enrollment. The language requirement must be satisfied before the completion of the general examination.

General exam

The general examination, taken in October of the third year, is the main qualifying examination for the Ph.D. The purpose of this examination is to help students become strong job candidates with wide-ranging knowledge of two or more fields. The examination committee consists of three faculty members, who assist the student in preparing a reading list for the examination. Students elect to be examined either on two major fields, or one major and two minor fields. Students also decide, in consultation with their examination committee, which examination format is most appropriate for them: an eight-hour written examination, or a two- hour oral examination.

Qualifying for the M.A.

Students normally qualify for the Master of Arts (M.A.) degree on the way to the Ph.D. by completing the general examination. Students who leave the Ph.D. program for various reasons may also be awarded the M.A. by satisfactorily completing all required course work, the course distribution requirement, and the language requirement.

All graduate students who have passed the general examination are required to teach in undergraduate courses. Although the minimum Department requirement is four hours, most students teach more than this. The Department offers many opportunities for teaching experience in conjunction with its large and popular undergraduate program. Students may teach in the writing program, conduct sections of large lecture courses, or direct precepts in upper-division courses. This teaching is supervised by experienced members of the faculty. Additionally, several collaborative teaching opportunities with department faculty are available each year. The Department and University also offer, on an annual basis, teacher training seminars.

Post-Generals requirements

The third, fourth, and fifth years are devoted to teaching in undergraduate courses and to the writing of the dissertation. Through numerous funding opportunities, the Department offers sixth- year students generous support with time off from teaching to complete their dissertation. After completing the general examination, all students participate in a dissertation seminar led by a faculty member in which they draft a dissertation proposal. This dissertation proposal becomes the basis of a one-hour oral examination, after which students continue to work on the dissertation with the guidance of their faculty advisers. Upon successful submission of the dissertation proposal but no later than the beginning of the fourth year, each student chooses three Department faculty members who will serve as their dissertation advisers.

Dissertation and FPO

A final public oral examination is given after each candidate’s dissertation has been read and approved by their dissertation faculty advisers. The examination has two parts. The first consists of a twenty-minute lecture, covering the following topics: a justification of the subject treated; an account of possible methods of treating the subject and a justification of the method chosen; an account of any new contributions made; and a consideration of the possibility of future studies of the same kind, including an account of plans for future scholarship and publication. During the second part of the examination, the student answers a series of questions from advisers and other members of the audience. At the end of the FPO, faculty consult and offer feedback to the student.

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Director of Undergraduate Studies

Eduardo L. Cadava
Andrew Cole
Bradin T. Cormack
Maria A. DiBattista
Jill S. Dolan
Jeff Dolven
Diana J. Fuss
William A. Gleason
Gene Andrew Jarrett
Claudia L. Johnson
Meredith A. Martin
Lee C. Mitchell
Jeff Nunokawa
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Esther H. Schor
D. Vance Smith
Nigel Smith
Robert E. Spoo
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Zahid R. Chaudhary
Sophie G. Gee
Kinohi Nishikawa
Tamsen O. Wolff
Autumn M. Womack

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Robbie Richardson

Lecturer with Rank of Professor

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Sarah M. Anderson
Kristina Chesaniuk
Spencer A. Strub

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Gauri Viswanathan

Visiting Lecturer

Don Mee Choi

For a full list of faculty members and fellows please visit the department or program website.

Permanent Courses

Courses listed below are graduate-level courses that have been approved by the program’s faculty as well as the Curriculum Subcommittee of the Faculty Committee on the Graduate School as permanent course offerings. Permanent courses may be offered by the department or program on an ongoing basis, depending on curricular needs, scheduling requirements, and student interest. Not listed below are undergraduate courses and one-time-only graduate courses, which may be found for a specific term through the Registrar’s website. Also not listed are graduate-level independent reading and research courses, which may be approved by the Graduate School for individual students.

AAS 522 - Publishing Journal Articles in the Humanities and Social Sciences (also COM 522/ENG 504/GSS 503)

Aas 555 - toni morrison: texts and contexts (also eng 536), art 561 - painting and literature in nineteenth-century france and england (also eng 549/fre 561), com 532 - publishing articles in literature, art, and music studies journals (also art 531/eng 591/mus 533), com 535 - contemporary critical theories (also eng 538/ger 535), com 547 - the renaissance (also eng 530), com 553 - the eighteenth century in europe (also eng 546/gss 554), com 572 - introduction to critical theory (also eng 580/fre 555/ger 572), eng 511 - special studies in medieval literature, eng 514 - middle english religious literature, eng 522 - the renaissance in england, eng 523 - renaissance drama, eng 532 - early 17th century (also com 509), eng 543 - the 18th century, eng 545 - special studies in the 18th century, eng 550 - the romantic period, eng 553 - special studies in the nineteenth century, eng 555 - american literary traditions (also gss 555/las 505), eng 556 - african-american literature (also aas 556), eng 558 - american poetry, eng 559 - studies in the american novel, eng 563 - poetics, eng 565 - the victorian novel (also gss 565), eng 566 - studies in the english novel, eng 567 - special studies in modernism (also mod 569), eng 568 - criticism and theory (also ams 568/mod 568), eng 571 - literary and cultural theory (also aas 572/com 506), eng 572 - introduction to critical theory (also com 590/hum 572), eng 573 - problems in literary study (also com 596), eng 574 - literature and society, eng 581 - seminar in pedagogy, eng 582 - graduate writing seminar, env 596 - topics in environmental studies (also ams 596/eng 517/mod 596).

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