Sophomore level  
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
• 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  
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
Senior level  
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