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Freshman level

Writing Across Cultures: Modern Fantasy Media ENGL 1111-104

  • ✔️ The Hobbit, or There & Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien (my highlights)
  • ✔️ Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley

Writing the Environment: Enchanting Nature ENGL 1130-101

  • ✔️ A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

Writing the Environment: Climates of Resistance ENGL 1130-102

  • Gardens in the Dunes by Leslie Marmon Silko

True Stories ENGL 1134

  • Assata by Assata Shakur
  • Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa
  • ✔️ They Called Us Enemy by George Takei

American Voices: Lost in the City: The Great Migration & Imagining the Urban Space through Black Art ENGL 1158-102

  • Selected Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks
  • ✔️ The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin (my highlights)
  • Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones
  • The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

Intersections: Race, Writing & Power ENGL 1160

  • Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black by bell hooks
  • Thinking Through Writing by Susan R. Horton

Cultural Studies: Black Politics & Writing Towards Liberation ENGL 1168-101

  • Just Above My Head by James Baldwin
  • Assata by Assata Shakur
  • A Short Walk by Alice Childress

Short Stories ENGL 1170-105

  • Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner
  • ✔️ The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin (my highlights)
  • Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
  • The Feminist Utopia Project: 57 Visions of a Wildly Better Future by Brodsky & Nalebuff
  • Collected Stories of Carson McCullers
  • Eudora Welty : Stories, Essays & Memoir

Word & Image ENGL 1183-107

  • Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
  • American Journal: 50 Poems for Our Time by Tracy K. Smith

British Literature: Oscar Wilde ENGL 1191-102

  • The Portable Oscar Wilde
  • A Pocket Style Manual with Exercises by Hacker & Sommers

Sophomore level

Shakespeare ENGL 2270

  • The Norton Shakespeare

The Novels of Toni Morrison ENGL 2603

  • Paradise by Toni Morrison

Watching Literature and Reading Film ENGL 2765

  • Crush by Richard Siken

Creative Writing ENGL 2800

  • Write Moves: A Creative Writing Guide & Anthology by Nancy Pagh

Junior level

American Theatre Stage & Screen I ENGL 3360

  • The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
  • Waiting for Lefty & Other Plays by Clifford Odets
  • Machinal by Sophie Treadwell
  • The American Dream, The Sandbox, The Death of Bessie Smith, FAM and YAM by Edward Albee
  • The Crucible by Arthur Miller
  • A Raisin in the Sun & The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window by Lorraine Hansberry
  • At Home at the Zoo by Edward Albee

Zora Neale Hurston & Langston Hughes ENGL 3505

  • Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
  • Tar Baby by Toni Morrison
  • Mules & Men by Zora Neale Hurston
  • The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
  • Mule Bone by Hurston & Hughes
  • Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Zora Neale Hurston
  • Recyclopedia by Harryette Mullen

Diasporas, Disasters & Dissent: Re-Thinking Puerto Rican Studies in the 20th & 21st Centuries ENGL 3678

  • Bodega Dreams by Ernesto Quiñonez
  • The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer

Advanced Writing: Audiences, Genres, Media ENGL 3801

  • Several Short Sentences About Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg

The Personal Voice: Nonfiction Writing ENGL 3890

  • The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present by Phillip Lopate
  • The Situation & the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative by Vivian Gornick
  • The Best American Essays 2025 by Jia Tolentino
  • The Next American Essay by John D’Agata

Remembering Socialism: Literature & Film After the End of History ENGL 3903

  • Free: A Child & a Country at the End of History by Lea Ypi
  • Omon Ra by Victor Pelevin
  • The Girl from the Metropol Hotel: Growing Up in Communist Russia by Ludmilla Petrushevskay
  • Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
  • The Ministry of Pain by Dubravka Ugresic

Senior level

The Harlem Renaissance, 1919-1937 ENGL 4505/6515

  • Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
  • Passing by Nella Larsen
  • The New Negro: Voices of the Harlem Renaissance by Alain Locke
  • The Ways of White Folks by Langston Hughes
  • Cane by Jean Toomer
  • Romance in Marseille by Claude McKay
  • Plum Bun: A Novel without a Moral by Jessi Redmon Fauset
  • Black No More by George S. Schuyler
  • Infants of the Spring by Wallace Thurman

Reading Joyce’s Ulysses ENGL 4700/6700

  • James Joyce by Richard Ellmann
  • Ulysses by James Joyce
  • The New Bloomsday Book: A Guide Through Ulysses by Harry Blamires
  • Ulysses Annotated: Notes for James Joyce’s Ulysses by Gifford & Seidman

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