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Sophomore level

Lyric Language & Form I: Renaissance to Romantic ENG 241 (fa26)

  • The Complete Poetry by George Herbert
  • The Major Works: Including Songs & Sonnets & Sermons by John Donne
  • Poetry Handbook: A Dictionary of Terms by Babette Deutsch
  • The Major Works: including The Prelude by William Wordsworth
  • Keats’s Poetry and Prose
  • The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
  • Renaissance and Baroque Poetry of Spain: With English Prose Translations by Elias L. Rivers
  • Shakespeare’s Sonnets by Stephen Booth
  • Hymns and Fragments by Friedrich Hölderlin

The Souls of Black Folk - Reading W.E.B. Du Bois ENG 245 (fa26)

  • The Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois
  • Writings: The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade / The Souls of Black Folk / Dusk of Dawn / Essays & Articles by W.E.B. Du Bois
  • ✔️ Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W.E.B. Du Bois (my highlights)
  • Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880 by W.E.B. Du Bois
  • The World & Africa by W.E.B. Du Bois

The Makeover ENG 296 (fa26)

  • A Gesture Life by Chang-rae Lee
  • Ornamentalism by Anne Anlin Cheng
  • Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority by Anne Anlin Cheng

Girls & Dolls ENG 297 (fa26)

  • The Lonely Doll by Dare Wright
  • What Maisie Knew by Henry James
  • The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
  • The Membranes by Chi Ta-wei
  • The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
  • Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
  • Ornamentalism by Anne Anlin Cheng
  • Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority by Anne Anlin Cheng

Junior level

The Nature of Old English: Select Old English Literature ENG 315 (fa26)

  • A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse by Richard Hamer
  • The Unstill Ones by Miller Oberman
  • The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English by Hana Videen
  • Intro. to Old English by Peter S. Baker

Shakespeare: Toward Hamlet ENG 318 (fa26)

  • The Complete Pelican Shakespeare by Orgel & Braunmuller

Milton ENG 325 (fa26)

  • To Reign in Hell by Steven Brust
  • The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton by Kerrigan et al.

Romanticism & the Age of Revolutions ENG 330 (fa26) / The Romantic Period: Cultural & Literary Revolutions ENG 550 (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.

19th-Century Fiction ENG 345 (fa26)

  • Emma by Jane Austen
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
  • Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot

American Literature: 1930-Present ENG 368 (fa26)

  • ✔️ The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  • American Pastoral by Philip Roth
  • ✔️ Maus: A Survivor’s Tale by Art Spiegelman
  • ✔️ Beloved by Toni Morrison (my highlights)
  • Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
  • The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
  • Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  • As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
  • The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

Irish Literature: James Joyce ENG 385 (fa26)

  • Dubliners by James Joyce
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
  • Ulysses by James Joyce

The Bible as Literature ENG 390 (fa26)

  • The Literary Guide to the Bible by Alter & Kermode
  • The New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version

Senior level

Forms of Literature: American Short Stories ENG 401 (fa26)

  • Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

Forms of Literature: Postcolonialism ENG 402 (fa26)

  • Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
  • A Passage to India by E.M. Foster
  • A Tempest by Aime Cesaire
  • Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
  • Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee
  • No Telephone to Heaven by Michelle Cliff

Between Selves: Living Letters from Antiquity to the Present ENG 410 (fa26)

  • Letter to the Father by Franz Kafka
  • The Letters of Abelard and Heloise
  • ✔️ The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin (my highlights)
  • Heroides by Ovid
  • The Ides of March by Thornton Wilder
  • The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
  • Selected Letters by Seneca

Troubadours & Sonneteers ENG 470 (fa26)

  • Taylor’s Version: The Poetic & Musical Genius of Taylor Swift by Stephanie Burt
  • Bob Dylan’s Poetics: How the Songs Work by Timothy Hampton
  • The Cambridge Companion to the Singer-Songwriter by Williams & Williams
  • Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
  • Troubadour Poems from the South of France by Paden & Paden
  • The Major Works: Including Songs & Sonnets & Sermons by John Donne

Graduate level

The Renaissance in England: Milton ENG 522 (fa26)

  • The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton
  • Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
  • The Oxford English Literary History: Vol. V: 1645-1714: The Later 17th Century by Margaret J. M. Ezell

Contemporary Critical Theories: Marx’s Capital ENG 528 (fa26)Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, v.1 by Karl Marx

Modernism: Surprised by Passion ENG 567 (fa26)

  • Death in Venice and Other Stories by Thomas Mann
  • A Lost Lady by Willa Cather
  • The Ambassadors by Henry James
  • The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
  • Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
  • The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
  • Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
  • Swann’s Way: In Search of Lost Time, v.1 by Marcel Proust
  • Cheri & The Last of Cheri by Colette
  • The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Problems in Literary Study: Chronopolitics: Medieval & African ENG 573 (fa26)

  • My Life in the Bush of Ghosts by Amos Tutuola
  • Things They Lost by Okwiri Oduor
  • Song of Lawino & Song of Ocol by Okot p’Bitek
  • The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell
  • The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
  • The Middle English Breton Lays by Laskaya & Salisbury
  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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