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John Blair - Texas State University

Reading List:

Walt Whitman: Songs of Myself

Emily Dickinson: “I Taste a Liquor”, “Wild Nights--Wild Nights”, “There’s a certain Slant of Light”, “Because I could not stop”, “This is my letter”, “I heard a Fly buzz”, “Much Madness”, “My Life had stood”

Robert Frost: “Birches” & “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening”

Wallace Stevens: “The Emperor of Ice Cream” & “Sunday Morning”

T S Eliot: “The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock” & The Waste Land

William Carlos Williams: “The Red Wheelbarrow” & “This is Just to Say”

e.e. cummings: “The Cambridge Ladies” & “anyone lived in a pretty how town”

Langston Hughes: “Harlem” & “Theme for English B”

Robert Lowell: “Skunk Hour”

Sylvia Plath: “Daddy”

Yusef Komunyakaa: “Facing It”

Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire

Amiri Baraka: Dutchman

Faulkner: “A Rose for Emily”

Ellison: “Battle Royal”

Hemingway: “Big Two Hearted River”

Steinbeck: “Chrystanthemums”

Alice Walker: “Everyday Use”

Tim O’Brien: The Things They Carried

Don Delillo: “Videotape”

Sherman Alexie: “What You Pawn I Will Redeem”

John Gardner: Grendel

James Reeves - Texas State University

Course theme: Reading the world: Beyond Oroonoko and Orientalism

Reading list: 

Anonymous Author: The Woman of Colour

Shusaku Endo: Silence

Alain Mabanckou: Black Moses

Jean Rhys: Voyage in the Dark

Elif Shafak: 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World

Amanda Mixon - Texas State University

Reading list:

Mario Bellatín: Beauty Salon

Sara Farizan: If You Could Be Mine

Jackie Kay: Trumpet

Qiu Miaojin: Notes of a Crocodile

Luis Negrón: Mundo Cruel

Chinelo Okparanta: Under the Udala Trees

R Raj Rao: The Boyfriend

Susan Morrison - Texas State University

Reading list:

Margaret Atwood: The Penelopiad

Susan Signe Morrison: Grendel’s Mother: The Saga of the Wyrd-Wife

Sarah Roche-Mahdi: Silence: A Thirteenth-Century French Romance

Nella Larsen: Passing

Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea

John Biguenet: Silence

William Shakespeare: Titus Andronicus

Ancillary materials:

The Piano (1993 film)

The Shape of Water (2017 film)

Ovid: “Arachne Into a Spider”

Gower: “Philomena” (from Confessio Amantis)

Chaucer: “The Legend of Good Women VII. Philomena” & “The Clerk’s Prologue, Tale, and Envoy”

Alicia Ostriker: “The Thieves of Language: Women Poets and Revisionist Myth Making”

Elissa Marder: “Disarticulated Voices: Feminism and Philomena”

Christine Carpenter: Rule for Anchoresses

Jennifer Reilly Bluma: “Weaving Ropes with the Desert Fathers: (Re)Inventing Rehetorical Strategy as Silence and Listening”

Charlotte Perkin Gilman: “The Yellow Wallpaper”

Hoffmann: The Sandman

The Writings of Teresa de Cartagena

Sara A Ramírez - Texas State University

Reading list:

Gloria Anzaldúa: Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

Ariana Brown: “Curanderismo”, “Supremacy”, & “Volver, Volver” (poetry posted on YouTube by Button Poetry)

Marcelo Hernandez Castillo: Children of the Land

Chicano! History of the Mexican-American Civil Rights Movement (1996 film)

Sandra Cisneros: “Never Mary A Mexican”

Rios de la Luz: Itza

Audre Lorde: “The Uses of the Erotic”

Cherrie Moraga: “A Long Line of Vendidas”

ire’ne lara silva: “of the green grasses”

No Más Bebés (2015 film)

Jaime Armin Mejía - Texas State University

Goal: gain a wider understanding of how Chicanxs choose to protray the circumstances of their lives in literary works and how they have done so by using literary/rhetorical devices

Reading list:

Tomás Rivera: ...y no lo se tragó la tierra

Rolando Hinojosa: Dear Rafe/Mi querido Rafa

María Helena Viramontes: Their Dogs Came With Them

Sandra Cisneros: Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories

John Rechy: The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gómez

Dagoberto Gilb: Woodcuts of Women

Benjamin Alire Sáenz: Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club

Kirstin Valdez Quade: Night at the Fiestas

Samuel Saldívar III - Texas State University

Reading list:

Manuel Luis Martinez: Drift

Inverna Lockpez: Cuba My Revolution

Luis Alberto Urrea: Into the Beautiful North

Leticia Hernandéz-Linarez: Mucha Muchacha/Too Much Girl

Frederick Luis Aldama: Long Stories Cut Short: Tales from the Borderlands

Ancillary materials:

J Gonzalez: “Conquistadors and Victims: The Image of America Forms (1500-1800)”

Maria Elena Martinez: “The Language, Genealogy, and Classification of Race in Colonial Mexico”

J Valadez: “Zorro Unmasked”

Acuña: “Legacy of Hate: The Conquest of Mexico’s Northwest”

J Gonzalez: “The Spanish Borderlands and the Making of an Empire”

Aldama: “A User’s Guide to Postcolonial and Borderland Fiction”

Gloria Anzaldúa: “How to Tame a Wold Tongue/Mestiza Consciousness”

Lourdes Torres: “In the Contact Zone: Code-Switching Strategies by Latino/a Writers”

Rodolfo Corky Gonzalez: “Yo Soy Joaquin/I Am Joaquin”

Sara A Ramírez - Texas State University

Goal: focus on Chicanx narratives of historical and generational trauma

Reading list:

Gloria Anzaldúa: Borderlands/La Frontera: La New Mestiza

Rios de la Luz: The Pulse Between Dimensions and the Desert

Virginia Grise: blu

Erika L Sánchez: I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

ire’ne lara silva: Flesh to Bone

Ancillary materials:

Moraga: “A Long Line of Vendidas”

Cisneros: “Woman Hollering Creek”

Bruising for Besos (2016 film)

Viramontes: “Cariboo Café”

Travis Lau - University of Texas at Austin

Goal: consider shared medical and literary rhetorics and networks to trace how these domains interacted with one another in Victorian culture. 

Reading list:

Wilkie Collins: Poor Miss Finch

Harriet Martineau: Life in the Sick Room

Robert Louis Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Bram Stoker: Dracula

Ancillary materials:

Siebers: Disability Theory

Wells: “The Country of the Blind”

Esmail & Keep: “Victorian Disability”

Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol

Shapiro: “Tiny Tims, Super Crips, and the End of Pity”

Young: “I’m Not Your Inspiration”

Garland-Thompson: “Disability, Identity, and Representation: An Introduction”

Mitchel & Snyder: “Narrative Prosthesis and the Materiality of Metaphor”

Bailin: The Sickroom in Victorian Fiction

Frawley: Invalidism and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Ablow: “Harriet Martineau and the Impersonality of Pain”

Daudet: In the Land of Pain

Scarry: The Body in Pain

Craik: “The Little Prince and his Travelling Cloak”

Davis: “Disability, Normality, and Power”

Craton: “Physical Difference in the Nineteenth Century”

Durbahc: Spectacle of Deformity

Browning: Freaks

Garland-Thompson: “The Cultural Work of American Freak Shows, 1835-1940″

St. Pierre: “The Construction of the Disabled Speaker: Locating Stuttering in Disability Studies”

Tupper: “The Stammerer’s Complaint”

Dickens: “Doctor Marigold”

Lane: “Construction of Deafness”

Beuler: “The Lisping Lover”

Shakespeare: “The Social Model of Disability”

Flint: “Disability and difference”

Holmes: “My Old Delightful Sensation: Wilkie Collins and the Disabling of Melodrama”

Choi: At Risk: Statistical Participation and the Victorian City”

Ewald: “Two Infinities of Risk”

Mayhew: London Labour and the London Poor

Poovey: “Anatomical Realism and Social Investigation in Early Nineteenth-Century Manchester”

Gilbert: Mapping the Victorian Social Body, Cholera and Nation, & The Citizen’s Body

Dickens: “The Black Veil”

Lawrence: Medicine in the Making of Modern Britain, 1700-1920

Reid: Robert Louis Stevenson, Science, and the Fin-de-Siècle

Nordau: Degeration

Lombroso: Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso

Maudsley: Body and Mind

Burdett: “Post Darwin: Social Darwinism, Degeneration, Eugenics”

Stiles: “Robert Louis Stevenson’s Jekyll and Hyde and the Double Brain”

Comitini: “The Strange Case of Addiction in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde”

Ibsen: Ghosts

Sontag: Illness as Metaphor

Brandt: No Magic Bullet

Kennedy: “Victorian Medicine and the Novel”

Law: “Ever-Widening Circulations: Dracula and the Fear of Management”

Durbach: “Vampires, Vivisectors, and the Victorian Body”

Wald: “The Healthy Carrier: ‘Typhoid Mary’ and Social Being”

Scandura: “Deadly Professions: Dracula, Undertakers, and the Embalmed Corpse”

Willis: “The Invisible Giant, Dracula, and Disease”

McCrea: “Heterosexual Horror: Dracula, The Closet, and the Marriage-Plot”

Vrettos: “Physical Immunity and Racial Destiny: Stoker and Haggard”

Otis: Membranes: Metaphors of Invasion in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Science, and Politics

Cardon-Coyne: Reconstructing the Body

Virginia Woolf: On Being Ill

J Loehlin - University of Texas at Austin

Goal: examine what makes Shakespeare’s plays so productive and influential, and some of the ways subsequent writers and artists have engaged with that influence.

Reading list:

Bevington (ed.): The Necessary Shakespeare

Aimé Cesaire: A Tempest

Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Ian McEwan: Nutshell

Margaret Atwood: Hag-Seed

Jane Smiley: A Thousand Acres

Cecily Parks - Texas State University

Reading list:

Ann Fisher-Wirth & Laura-Gray Street (eds.): The Ecopoetry Anthology

Joy Harjo: Secrets from the Center of the World

Rose McLarney: Forage

Harryette Mullen: Urban Tumbleweed: Notes from a Tanka Diary

Tommy Pico: Nature Poem

Brian Teare: Doomstead Days

Tung-Hui Hu: On the Kepel Fruit

Recommended reading:

Joshua Corey & G C Waldrep (eds.): The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral

Camille T Dungy: Black Nature: Four centuries of African American Nature Poetry

Barry Lopez (ed.): Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape

Ancillary materials:

Louise Glück: “Daisies”

Forrest Gander: “What is Eco-Poetry”

Robert Macfarlane: “The word-hoard”

Lisa Robertson: “How Pastoral: A Manifesto”

Jonathan Skinner: “Editor’s Statement” (from ecopoetics Winter 2001)

James Reeves - Texas State University

Course theme: satire’s golden age

Reading list:

Aphra Behn: Oroonoko, and Other Writings

Sarah Fielding: The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last

Laurence Sterne: A Sentimental Journey and Other Writings

Jonathan Swift: The Essential Writings of Jonathan Swift

Ancillary materials:

Anne Finch: “Adam Pos’d”

John Wilmot: “The Imperfect Enjoyment” & “A Satyr Against Reason and Mankind”

Susanna Centlivre: The Busy Body

Eliza Haywood: Fantomina

Alexander Pope: “The Rape of the Lock”, “Epistle to Arbuthnot”, & “To a Lady”

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: “Verses Address’d to the Imitator of Horace” & “The Reasons that Induced Dr S. to Write a Poem Call’d the Lady’s Dressing Room”

Henry Fielding: Shamela

Mary Jones: “An Epistle to Lady Bowyer”, “Of Desire”, & “After the Small Pox”

Mary Leapor: “Dorinda at Her Glass”

Samuel Johnson: “London” & “The Vanity of Human Wishes”

James Reeves - Texas State University

Course theme: The global Eighteenth Century

Reading list:

Anonymous: The Woman of Colour: A Tale

Vincent Carretta (ed.): Unchained Voices

William Earle: Obi; or, The History of Three-Fingered Jack

Eliza Haywood: The Adventured of Eovaai

Laurence Sterne: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy

Ancillary materials:

William Cowper: “The Castaway”

Samuel Johnson: Rasselas

Phillis Wheatley: An Elegiac Poem, “To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty”, “On Being Brought from Africa to America”, “A Hymn to the Morning”, “A Hymn to the Evening”, “On Imagination”, “To the Earl of Dartmouth”, “To a Young African Painter”, “To His Excellency General Washington”

James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw: A Narrative of the Life

Ignatius Sancho: Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho

Olaudah Equiano: The Interesting Narrative

Frances Sheridan: The History of Nourjahad

Simon Lee - Texas State University

Course theme: Nostalgia and Memory

Reading list:

Pat Barker: Union Street

Julian Barnes: The Sense of an Ending

Kazuo Ishiguro: The Remains of the Day

John Osborne: Look Back in Anger

Samuel Selvon: The Lonely Londoners

Ali Smith: Autumn

Evelyn Waugh: Brideshead Revisited

Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse

Ancillary materials:

Proust: “The Madeleine”

Eliot: “The Waste Land”

Davis: “The Nostalgic Experience”

Chase/Shaw: “Dimensions of Nostalgia”

Turner: “A Note on Nostalgia”

Boym: “Taboo-Reflective-Restorative”

Tannock: “Nostalgia Critique”

Lowenthal: “Nostalgia Tells It Like it Wasn’t”

Howard: “Nostalgia”

Davis: “Nostalgia and identity”

Davis: “Nostalgia and Society”

Su: “Remains of the British Estate Novel”

Davis: “Nostalgia and Art”

James Reeves - Texas State University

Course theme: What makes novels novel?

Reading list:

Jane Austen: Persuasion

Daniel DeFoe: Robinson Crusoe

Henry Fielding: Joseph Andrews

Elizabeth Gaskell: Cranford

Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go

James Reeves - Texas State University

Course theme: Terrifying tales and novelistic fiction

Reading list:

Horace Walpole: The Castle of Otranto

William Beckford: Vathek

Mary Shelley: Frankenstein

Robert Louis Stevenson: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Angela Carter: The Magic Toyshop

C J Tucker: The Chalk Man