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Junior level

Landmarks of European Identity ECS 302 (fa26)

  • ✔️ Neuromancer by William Gibson (my highlights)
  • Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • The Master & Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Mephisto by Klaus Mann
  • Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
  • Dr. Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn As Told by a Friend by Thomas Mann

Wandering Utopias: Writing & Rewriting Reality ECS 309 (fa26)

  • Vendredi ou la vie sauvage by Michel Tournier

The Modern Period ECS 319 (fa26)

  • ✔️ A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf (my highlights)
  • The Fourth World by Diamela Eltit
  • The Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
  • The Burrow by Franz Kafka
  • Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig

Revisiting Paris ECS 327 (fa26)

  • Kiffe Kiffe demain by Faïza Guène
  • Cannibale by Didier Daeninckx
  • Dora Bruder by Patrick Modiano

East European Literature ECS 354 (fa26)

  • The Death of a Soldier Told by His Sister by Olesya Khromeychuk
  • Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future by Svetlana Alexievich
  • The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth
  • The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andric
  • Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz
  • The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz
  • Kaddish for an Unborn Child by Imre Kertész
  • The Appointment by Herta Müller
  • The Door by Magda Szabo
  • The Trial by Franz Kafka
  • Satantango by László Krasznahorkai

Romanticism & the Age of Revolutions ECS 368 (fa26)

  • Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas De Quincey
  • The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 2A: The Romantics & Their Contemporaries by David Damrosch et al.

Senior level

19th-Century European Art: Painting & Literature in 19th C. France and England ECS 450 (fa26)

  • The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  • The Masterpiece by Émile Zola
  • The Unknown Masterpiece by Honoré de Balzac
  • Like Death by Guy de Maupassant
  • Villette by Charlotte Brontë

The Age of Democratic Revolutions ECS 487 (fa26)

  • The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin by Dan Edelstein
  • ✔️ The Birth of the Republic, 1763–89 by Edmund S. Morgan (my highlights)
  • The Freedoms We Lost: Consent & Resistance in Revolutionary America by Barbara Clark Smith
  • The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood
  • The Terror of Natural Right: Republicanism, the Cult of Nature & the French Revolution by Dan Edelstein
  • When the King Took Flight by Timothy Tackett
  • A Concise History of the Haitian Revolution by Jeremy D. Popkin
  • The Age of Revolutions: And the Generations Who Made It by Nathan Perl-Rosenthal

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