Sophomore level  
Classical Mythology
GSS 212 (fa26)		 • The Greek Tragedies: 17 Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, & Euripides
• Ovid’s Metamorphoses: A New Translation by C. Luke Soucy
• Anthology of Classical Myth: Primary Sources in Translation by Trzaskoma et al.
• The Odyssey of Homer by Richmond Lattimore
• The Poems of Hesiod by R.M. Frazer
• Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers
• Apollodorus’ Library & Hyginus’ Fabulae: Two Handbooks of Greek Mythology by Smith & Trzaskoma
• Apollonius of Rhodes: Jason and the Golden Fleece by Richard Hunter
The Modern Black Freedom Movement: From Civil Rights to Black Power
GSS 269 (fa26)		 • The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom & the Forgotten History of Civil Rights by William P. Jones
• Want to Start a Revolution?: Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle by Gore et. al
• Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights & Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt by Hasan Kwame Jeffries
Queer Becomings
GSS 279 (fa26)		 • The Struggle to Be Gay—in Mexico, for Example by Roger N. Lancaster
• Gay Fathers, Their Children & the Making of Kinship by Aaron Goodfellow
• Butch Queens Up in Pumps: Gender, Performance & Ballroom Culture in Detroit by Marlon M. Bailey
The Makeover
GSS 292 (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
GSS 294 (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
Gender, Sexuality & Migration
GSS 297		 • Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery by Siddharth Kara
• Intimate Migrations: Gender, Family & Illegality among Transnational Mexicans by Deborah A. Boehm
• High-Tech Housewives: Indian IT Workers, Gendered Labor & Transmigration by Amy Bhatt
• The Trafficker Next Door: How Household Employers Exploit Domestic Workers by Rhacel Salazar Parreñas
• The Qualities of a Citizen: Women, Immigration & Citizenship, 1870-1965 by Martha Gardner