Recommended Reading List
| Instructor | Recommendation |
|---|---|
| Agile, Katie | Auerbach, Nina. Woman and the Demon: The Life of a Victorian Myth. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: Harvard University Press, 1982. Dijkstra, Bram. Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-De-Siecle Culture. Oxford University Press, 1986. Weltman, Sharon. Ruskin's Mythic Queen. Ohio University Press, 1998. |
| Bashaw, Trevor | Lapvona |
| Clover, Joshua | Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California, Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party, Joshua Bloom & Waldo Martin Revolutionary Letters, Diane DiPrima Capital, vols. 1-3, Karl Marx |
| Corin, Lucy | |
| Dobbins, Gregory | Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine
George William Russell (A.E.), The Candle of Vision Mairtin O Cadhain, Cre na Cille ('Graveyard Clay') Steve Ignorant, The Rest is Propaganda Derek Raymond, The Factory Series David Peace, Red or Dead Eimear McBride, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing Jonathan Wilson, Inverting the Pyramid Mark Fisher, K-Punk: Collected and Unpublished Writings Nick Cave, The Red Hand Files (blog), https://www.theredhandfiles.com/ |
| Dolan, Frances | John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi (c. 1612-13)
Joan Aiken, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (1962) |
| Dumont, Leslie | Cameron, Kenneth Walter, G. Oegger, Emanuel Swedenborg, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Young Emerson's Transcendental Vision; an Exposition of His World View with an Analysis of the Structure, Backgrounds, and Meaning of Nature (1836). Hartford, Transcendental Books, 1971. Print.
Fischer, Michael. "Literature and Empathy." Philosophy and Literature 41, no. 2 (2017): 431-464. doi:10.1353/phl.2017.0050. Malachuk, Daniel S. "Daniel S. Malachuk." In Two Cities: The Political Thought of American Transcendentalism, I-Vi. University Press of Kansas, 2016. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1g69zt1.1. Reynolds, David S. John Brown, Abolitionist: the Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights. New York: Vintage Books, 2006. |
| Ferguson, Margaret | Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend (first in her series about growing up poor in Naples in the 1950s; the other three books are also wonderful, if bleak). Fred Khumalo, Bitches Brew (a powerful novel about life and jazz by one of South Africa's most interesting novelists). David Malouf, Remembering Babylon. Most recently, I read and warmly recommend Richard Powers' astonishing eco-novel Overstory. I love all three volumes of Deb Harkness' fabulous All Souls Trilogy! And I highly recommend Isabella Hammad's Enter Ghost, about a theatrical production of Hamlet in the West Bank. |
| Flores, Cathryn | Lockdown Shakespeare: New Evolutions in Performance and Adaptation
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/lockdown-shakespeare-9781350247826/ |
| Freeman, Elizabeth | William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!
Djuna Barnes, Nightwood Irini Spanidou, God's Snake Herman Melville, Moby Dick Richard Wright, Native Son Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance |
| Hachimi, Yasmine | |
| Houston, Pam | The Birdcatcher, by Gail Jones
What You Have Heard Is True, by Carolyn Forché How High We Go In The Dark, by Sequoia Nagamatsu The Haunting of Hajji Hotak, by Jamil Jan Kochai Nobody Gets Out Alive, by Leigh Newman The Rabbit Hutch, by Tess Gunty There, There, by Tommy Orange Riding Westward, by Carl Phillips A Manual For Cleaning Women, by Lucia Berlin Citizen, by Claudia Rankine Going To Meet The Man, by James Baldwin Music for Wartime, by Rebecca Makkai Paradise, by Toni Morrison Bright Dead Things, by Ada Limón Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, by Ross Gay Jazz, by Toni Morrison Martyr, by Kaveh Akbar The Word For World is Forest, by Ursula K. Leguin The Removed, by Brandon Hobson Gods of Jade and Shadow, by Sylvia Morena-Garcia Ceremony, by Leslie Marion Silko |
| Martín, Desirée | Gloria Anzaldua, "Borderlands/La Frontera"
William Faulkner, "Absalom, Absalom!" Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "One Hundred Years of Solitude" Myriam Gurba, "Mean" Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, "The Undocumented Americans" |
| Marx, John | My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Severance by Ling Ma The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue Washington Black by Esi Edugyan The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell |
| Ramirez, Marilyn | Collections
Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories by Mariana Enriquez Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia The Dewbreaker by Edwidge Danticat Fiona and Jane by Jean Chen Ho Stories "Axolotl" by Julio Cortazar "Mothers, Lock Up Your Daughters Because They Are Terrifying" by Alice Sola Kim "Milk Blood Heat" by Dantiel Moniz Craft Craft in the Real World by Matthew Salesses A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver |
| Shershow, Scott | H. P. Lovecraft, Tales, Library of America, ed. Peter Straub. |
| Wenderoth, Joe | Gerald Murnane's story: Land Deal (it's in his book Stream System)
Jared Diamond's essay: A New Scientific Synthesis Of Human History Walt Whitman's 1855 edition of Leaves Of Grass The Poetics by Aristotle The Dream Songs by John Berryman James Baldwin's book (2 essays): The Fire Next Time Kafka's stories, especially: The Burrow, Investigations Of A Dog, The Hunger Artist Toni Morrison's novels, especially: Jazz (masterpiece), and Tar Baby (an underappreciated book, I think) William Carlos Williams' book: Spring And All GG Marquez's story: Nabo: The Black Man Who Made The Angels Wait GG Marquez's story: The Handsomest Drowned Man In The World This Is Not A Pipe by Michel Foucault The Theater And Its Double by Lil' Anton Artaud everything and anything written by Paul Celan poems by Emily Dickinson poems by Lucille Clifton, Mary Ruefle, Antonio Porchia, Tomasz Salamun, Vasko Popa, CA Conrad, Adrian C. Louis, Anne Carson, Bei Dao, Yu XiuHua, Zbigniew Herbert, Nicanor Parra, Ingeborg Bachmann Pastoralia and Lincoln In The Bardo by George Saunders |
| Xenoresteia , Laurel-Rose | The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa (you'll need no other) |
| Ziser, Michael | Ted Hughes, Crow: from the Life and Songs of Crow (London: Faber & Faber, 1970)
George Herbert, The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (Cambridge: Printed by Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel, 1633) W. G. Sebald, The Emigrants, trans. Michael Hulse (1992; New York: New Directions, 1996) |