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Anthropology

Culture, Society & Power: Person, Time & Conduct ANTHR 1101-101

  • Stories as Equipment for Living: Last Talks and Tales of Barbara Myerhoff

Architecture

Building to Extract: Architecture & Natural Resources ARCH 1901

  • Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country by Traci Brynne Voyles
  • Architecture & the Face of Coal: Mining & Modern Britain by Gary A. Boyd
  • Oil Revolution: Anticolonial Elites, Sovereign Rights & the Economic Culture of Decolonization by Christopher R. W. Dietrich
  • Company Towns in the Americas: Landscape, Power & Working-Class Communities by Dinius & Vergara
  • The Company Town: Architecture & Society in the Early Industrial Age by John Garner
  • The Company Town by Hardy Green
  • Classes of Labour: Work & Life in a Central Indian Steel Town by Jonathan Parry
  • El Dorado In West Africa: The Gold Mining Frontier, African Labor & Colonial Capitalism by Raymond E. Dumett
  • Company Towns of the Pacific Northwest by Linda Carlson
  • The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand & How It Transformed Civilization by Vince Beiser
  • City of Black Gold: Oil, Ethnicity & the Making of Modern Kirkuk by Arbella Bet-Shlimon
  • Brazil’s Steel City: Developmentalism, Strategic Power & Industrial Relations in Volta Redonda, 1941-1964 by Oliver Dinius
  • Extraction Ecologies & the Literature of the Long Exhaustion by Elizabeth Carolyn Miller

Asian Studies

Songs of Love & War: South Asian Lyrics ASIAN 1104

  • They Say / I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing by Graff & Birkenstein
  • Poems of Love & War: From the Eight Anthologies & the Ten Long Poems of Classical Tamil by A. K. Ramanujan

The Great Epic of India ASIAN 1106

  • The Bhagavadgita in the Mahabharata
  • The Mahabharata, v.1: The Book of the Beginning
  • The Mahabharata, v.2: The Book of Assembly & the Book of the Forest
  • The Mahabharata, v.3: The Book of the Virata & the Book of the Effort

Comparative Literature

Robots COML 1106-103

  • Severance by Ling Ma
  • The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu
  • Exhalation by Ted Chiang

English

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

Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies

Black Feminist Speculation & Futuring FGSS 1100-101

  • Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience & Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life by Ruha Benjamin
  • Bloodchild & Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler
  • Dear Science & Other Stories by Katherine McKittrick
  • Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
  • Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
  • Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
  • Black Utopias: Speculative Life & the Music of Other Worlds by Jayna Brown
  • The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches & Meditations by Toni Morrison
  • How We Write Now: Living with Black Feminist Theory by Jennifer C. Nash

German Studies

From Fairy Tales to the Uncanny: Exploring the Romantic Consciousness GERST 1109

  • Goethe, Tieck, Foque & Brentano: Romantic Fairy Tales
  • The Marquise of O & Other Stories by Heinrich Von Kleist

Love & Death in Vienna GERST 1122

  • The Book of Franza & Requiem for Fanny Goldmann by Ingeborg Bachmann
  • Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann

Human Ecology

Health Equity: The Body Speaks: Narratives of Female Pain HE 1150

  • The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness & Ethics by Arthur W. Frank
  • Giving Up the Ghost by Hilary Mantel
  • The Camera My Mother Gave Me by Susanna Kaysen
  • Matrescence: On Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood by Lucy Jones

Italian

Writing Italy, Writing the Self: Jewish-Italian Lit and the Long 20th Century ITAL 1113

  • Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi
  • Memoirs of a Fortunate Jew: An Italian Story by Dan Vittorio Segre
  • Who Loves You Like This by Edith Bruck
  • Americordo: The Italian Jewish Exiles In America by Gianna Pontecorboli
  • Nonna Carla by Alain Elkann
  • Anita by Alain Elkann
  • A Single Day by Alain Elkann
  • The Novel of Ferrara by Giorgio Bassani
  • Mitzvah Girls: Bringing Up the Next Generation of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn by Ayala Fader
  • ✔️ Just a Girl: A True Story of World War II by Lia Levi (my highlights)
  • The Golden Age of Italian Jews: 1848-1938 by Gino Segrè
  • The Most Tenacious of Minorities: The Jews of Italy by Sara Reguer

Jewish Studies

Jews on Film: Visible & Invisible JWST 1987

  • Hollywood & Hitler, 1933-1939 by Thomas Doherty

Linguistics

Language, Thought & Reality: Words & Pictures LING 1100-001

  • ✔️ Maus: A Survivor’s Tale by Art Spiegelman
  • What Great Paintings Say: Masterpieces in Detail by Hagen & Hagen
  • Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Medieval Studies

Aspects of Medieval Culture: Medieval Images: Art, Experience & Debate MEDVL 1101-104

  • How to Read Medieval Art by Wendy A. Stein
  • They Say / I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing by Graff & Birkenstein

Natural Resources

Writing Place & the Environment NTRES 1200-101

  • A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold

Philosophy

Philosophy in Practice: The Stoic Life PHIL 1110-001

  • The Stoic Life: Emotions, Duties & Fate by Tad Brennan
  • Letters on Ethics: To Lucilius by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Philosophical Conversations: Virtue Ethics: East & West PHIL 1112-001

  • The Republic by Plato
  • Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
  • Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy by Norden & Ivanhoe

Philosophical Conversations: Plato’s Phaedrus PHIL 1112-005

  • Phaedrus by Plato

Romance Studies

The Craft of Storytelling: The Decameron ROMS 1102-001

  • The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

Thinking & Thought: Dante’s Examined Life ROMS 1113-001/002

  • The Divine Comedy, v.1: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Spanish

Narrating the Spanish Civil War SPAN 1305

  • Requiem for a Spanish Peasant by Ramón J. Sender
  • The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction by Helen Graham

Writing Program

Elements of Academic Writing: Food for Thought WRIT 1370

  • The Transition to College Writing by Keith Hjortshoj
  • They Say / I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing by Graff & Birkenstein

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