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Joselyn Almeida-Beveridge
- Fulford, Tim and Peter Kitson. Romanticism and Colonialism: Writing and Empire, 1780-1830. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
- McGann, Jerome. Social Values and Poetic Acts: the Historical Judgment of Literary Work. Cambridge, Harvard UP, 1988.
- Mellor, Anne. English Romantic Irony. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1980.
- Nemoianu, Virgil. The Taming of Romanticism. Cambridge, Harvard UP, 1984.
- Wolfson, Susan and Marshall Brown. Reading for Form. Seattle: U of Washington P, 2006.
Deborah Carlin
*Mieke Bal, Narratology
*M.M. Bakhtin, The Dialogic Imagination
*Ross Chambers, Story and Situation
*Steven Cohan & Linda M. Shires, Telling Stories
*Gerard Genette, Palimpsests
*D.A. Miller, Narrative and Its Discontents
*W.J.T. Mitchell, Ed. On Narrative
*Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan, Narrative Fiction, Contemporary Poetics
*Barbara Foley, Radical Representations: Politics and Form in U.S. Proletarian Fiction, 1929-1941
*Michael Denning, The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century
*Paula Rabinowitz, Labor and Desire: Women’s Revolutionary Fiction in Depression America
*James Axtell, After Columbus: Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America
*Lauren Berlant, The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship
*Michael E. Elliott and Claudia Stokes, Eds.American Literary Studies: A Methodological Reader
*Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness
*Eric Shocket, Vanishing Moments: Class and American Literature
*Amy Kaplan and Donald Pease, Eds. Cultures of United States Imperialism
*Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the “Racial” Self
*Richard Slotkin, Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860
*Eric Sundquist, To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature
*Cathy N. Davidson, Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America
*Gillian Brown, Domestic Individualism: Imagining Self in Nineteenth-Century America
*Judith Butler, Gender Trouble
*Roderick A. Ferguson, Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique
*Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality: An Introduction. Volume One
*Annamarie Jagose, Queer Theory: An Introduction
*Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet (esp. “Axiomatic: An Introduction”)
*Siobhan B. Somerville, Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture
*Kathryn Bond Stockton, The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century
*Nikki Sullivan, A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory
*Riki Wilchins, Queer Theory, Gender Theory: An Instant Primer
Anthologies
*Henry Abelove, Michèle Aina Barale and David M. Halperin, Eds. The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader
*Brett Beemyn and Mickey Eliason, Eds. Queer Studies: A Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Anthology
*Paul Burston and Colin Richardson, Eds. A Queer Romance: Lesbians, Gay Men and Popular Culture
*Deborah Carlin and Jennifer DiGrazia, Eds. Queer Cultures
*Corey Creekmur and Alexander Doty, Eds. Out in Culture: Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Essays on Popular Culture
*Diana Fuss, Ed. Inside/Out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories
*Larry Gross and James D. Woods, Eds. The Columbia reader on Lesbians & Gay Men in Media, Society, & Politics
*Michael Warner, Ed. Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory
Suzanne Daly
Key Texts
*Armstrong, Isobel. Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Politics, Poetics. 1993.
*Brantlinger, Patrick. Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism, 1830-1914. 1988.
*Gallagher, Catherine. The Industrial Reformation of English Fiction. 1985.
*Poovey, Mary. Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England. 1988.
*Said, Edward. Culture and Imperialism. 1993.
*Williams, Raymond. Culture and Society: 1780-1950. 1958.
Recent Texts
*Rachel Ablow, ed. The Feeling of Reading: Affective Experience and Victorian Literature.
*John E. Clark, Bugs and the Victorians
*William Cohen, Embodied: Victorian Literature and the Senses
*Seth Koven, Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London
*Julia Sun-Joo Lee, The American Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel
*Sharon Marcus, Between Women: Friendship, Desire and Marriage in Victorian England
Jane Degenhardt
- Ania Loomba, Shakespeare, Race, and Colonialism
- Margreta de Grazia, Hamlet Without Hamlet
- Julia Reinhard Lupton, Citizen Saints
- Michael O'Connell, The Idolatrous Eye
- Andrew Gurr, The Shakespearean Stage
- Phyllis Rackin, Shakespeare and Women
- James Kearney, The Incarnate Text
- Will Fisher, Materializing Gender in Early Modern English Literature and Culture
- Michael Neill, Putting History to the Question
- Stephen Orgel, Impersonations
- Heather Dubrow, The Challenges of Orpheus
- Natasha Korda, Shakespeare's Domestic Economies
- Jonathan Gil Harris and Natasha Korda, Staged Properties in Early Modern Drama
- Arthur Kinney, Shakespeare by Stages
Laura Doyle
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Signifying Monkey
- Keith Byerman, Jagged Grain
- Michael North, Dialect of Modernism
- Rachel Duplessis, Writing Beyond the Ending
- Brent Edwards, The Practice of Diaspora
- George Hutchinson, Harlem Renaissance in Black and white
- Mark Wollaeger, ed, Global Modernisms (Forthcoming, 2010 or 2011)
- Aldon Nielsen , Black Chant: languages of African-American postmodernism
- Jahan Ramazani, Transnational Poetics
- Katie Trumpener, Bardic Nationalism.
- Ian Baucom, Out of Place
- Nancy Armstrong, Desire and Domestic Fiction
- Patrick Brantlinger, Rule of Darkness
- Dorothee Metlitski, Araby in English Lit
- Priscilla Wald, Constituting Americans
- Renee Bergland, National Uncanny
- Jay Fliegelman, Declaring independence: Jefferson, natural language & the culture of performance
- —-. Prodigals and Pilgrims
- Claudia Tate, Domestic Allegories of Political Desire
- Raymond Williams
- Jacques Derrida
- Michel Foucault
- Seyla Benhabib, Situating the Self
- Edouard Glissant
- Frantz Fanon
- Edward Said
- Marx
- Hegel, Phenomenology of spirit
- Merleau-Ponty, Visible and Invisible
- Sartre
- Elizabeth Grosz, Volatile Bodies
- Judith Butler
Laura Furlan
- Alexie, Sherman. Indian Killer. New York: Atlantic Monthly, 1996.
- —. War Dances. New York: Grove, 2009.
- Erdrich, Louise. Love Medicine. New York: Harper, 1993.
- —. Tracks. New York: Harper, 1988.
- Harjo, Joy. She Had Some Horses. New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1983.
- McNickle, D’Arcy. The Surrounded. 1936. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 1994.
- Momaday, N. Scott. House Made of Dawn. New York: Harper, 1968.
- Power, Susan. The Grass Dancer. New York: Putnam’s, 1994.
- Silko, Leslie Marmon. Ceremony. New York: Penguin, 1977.
- Welch, James. Winter in the Blood. New York: Harper & Row, 1974.
- Acoose, Janice, et al. Reasoning Together: The Native Critics Collective. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 2008.
- Allen, Chadwick. Blood Narrative: Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary and Activist Texts. Durham, North Carolina: Duke UP, 2002.
- Brooks, Lisa. The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2008.
- Huhndorf, Shari. Mapping the Americas: The Transnational Politics of Contemporary Native Culture. Cornell: Cornell UP, 2009.
- Lincoln, Kenneth. Native American Renaissance. Berkeley: U of California P, 1983.
- Sarris, Greg. Keeping Slug Woman Alive: A Holistic Approach to American Indian Texts. Berkeley: U of California P, 1993.
- Vizenor, Gerald. Manifest Manners: Narratives on Postindian Survivance. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1999.
- Weaver, Jace. That the People Might Live: Native American Literatures and Native American Community. New York: Oxford UP, 1997.
- Womack, Craig S. Red on Red: Native American Literary Separatism. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1999.
- Weaver, Jace, Craig Womack, and Robert Warrior. American Indian Literary Nationalism. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 2006.
Ruth Jennison
- K. Marx: 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, The German Ideology, //The
Communist Manifesto, /Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of
Political Economy, //Capital, Vol. I
*G. Lukacs: History and Class Consciousness; Theory of the Novel
*F. Jameson: Marxism and Form, The Political Unconscious
*P. Bourdieu: Distinction
*L. Althusser: Reading Capital
*S. Zizek: Sublime Object of Ideology
*R. Williams: The Country and the City, Marxism and Literature
*T. Adorno et al: Politics and Aesthetics
*H. Lefebvre: The Production of Space
Rachel Mordecai
- Shalini Puri, Caribbean Postcolonial
- David Scott, Refashioning Futures: Criticism After Postcoloniality
- Kamau Brathwaite, Roots
- Edouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation
- Sylvia Wynter, We Must Learn to Sit Down Together and Talk About a Little Culture
- Michael Dash, The Other America: Caribbean Literature in a New World Context
Hoang Phan
*Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit, Philosophy of History
*Marx: Capital, 3 vols.; Grundrisse; Eighteenth Brumaire; German Ideology
*Georg Lukacs: History and Class Consciousness; Theory of the Novel
*Raymond Williams: Marxism and Literature; Culture and Society; Keywords
*Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Masks; Wretched of the Earth
*Fredric Jameson: The Political Unconscious; Postmodernism; or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism; Marxism and Form
*Michel Foucault: Discipline and Punish; The Archaeology of Knowledge; The Order of Things
*Louis Althusser: For Marx; Lenin and Philosophy
*Althusser and Etienne Balibar: Reading Capital
*Etienne Balibar and Immanuel Wallerstein: Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities
*Pierre Bourdieu: Language and Symbolic Power
*Edward Said: Orientalism; Culture and Imperialism
*Terry Eagleton: Ideology of the Aesthetic
*Gayatri Spivak: The Postcolonial Critic
*Jacques Derrida: Of Grammatology
Jordana Rosenberg
- Michael McKeon, Origins of the English Novel: 1600-1740
- Karl Marx, Capital, Volume I (If selections need to be made: Part One: Commodities and Money; Part Seven: The Process of Accumulation of Capital; and Part Eight: So-Called Primitive Accumulation)
- James Chandler, England in 1819
- Robin Blackburn: The Making of New World Slavery
- Paul Gilroy: The Black Atlantic
Jenny Spencer
- Philip Auslander, Liveness
- Marvin Carlson, Introduction to Performance Studies
- Elin Diamond, Unmaking Mimesis
- Shannon Jackson, Professing Performance
- Ann Pellegrini, Peformance Anxieties: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race
- Peggy Phelan, UnMarked
- Joseph Roach, Cities of the Dead: circum-Atlantic performance
Adam Zucker
- Jean Howard, The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern England (Routledge, 1993)
- Stephen Cohen, Introduction to Shakespeare and Historical Formalism (Ashgate, 2007)
- Lawrence Manley, Literature and Culture in Early Modern London (Cambridge, 1995)
- Jonas Barish, Ben Jonson and the Language of Prose Comedy (Harvard UP, 1960)
- Gail Kern Paster, The Body Embarrassed (Cornell UP, 1993)
- Martin Butler, Theatre and Crisis, 1632-1642 (Cambridge UP, 1984)
Additional Lists
- David Wallace Chaucerian Polity
- Carolyn Dinshaw Chaucer’s Sexual Poetics
- Mary Carruthers The Book of Memory
- Joan Cadden Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Ages
- Richard Firth GreenA Crisis of Truth: Literature and Law in Ricardian England
- L.O. Aranya Fradenburg Sacrifice Your Love: Psychoanalysis, Historicism, Chaucer
In addition to those listed above:
*Balutansky and Sourieau, Caribbean Creolization
*Antonio Benítez-Rojo, The Repeating Island
*Andrew Bundy (ed.), Selected Essays of Wilson Harris: The Unfinished Genesis of the Imagination
*CLR James, The Black Jacobins
*Chamoiseau, Confiant, & Bernabé, Eloge de la créolité / In Praise of Creoleness
*Curdella Forbes, From Nation to Diaspora
*Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic
*Edouard Glissant, Caribbean Discourse
*Paget Henry, Caliban's Reason: Introducing Afro-Caribbean Philosophy
*Brian Meeks and Folkes Lindahl, New Caribbean Thought: A Reader
*Silvio Torres-Saillant, An Intellectual History of the Caribbean
*Derek Walcott, What the Twilight Says: Essays
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