Reading List

19th-Century American Literature – Hueth (Fall 2021)

Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature, 1848-1914 – Driben (Fall 2021)

Long 19th 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

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

*Required Reading

*Required Critical Text

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

Medieval

*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

19th-Century American Literature – Lew (Winter 2016)

Primary Texts

Irish

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)

Welsh

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

Irish

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)

Welsh

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

19th-Century American Literature – Lew (Winter 2016)

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

20th-21st C. American Speculative Literature – Simmons (Winter 2025)

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

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)

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

(Anti)Colonial Science Fiction and the Speculative Dimensions of Race – Yuan (Spring 2024)

Transatlantic Speculative Literature – Simmons (Winter 2025)

Hip-Hop – Williams (Spring 2024)

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)