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European Cultural Studies

Landmarks of European Identity ECS 302

  • ✔️ 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

  • Friday & Robinson: Life on Speranza Island by Michel Tournier

The Modern Period ECS 319

  • ✔️ 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

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

East European Literature ECS 354

  • 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

  • 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 European Art: Painting & Literature in 19th C. France and England ECS 450

  • 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

  • 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

Humanistic Studies

The Byzantine Empire HUM 204

  • ✔️ Byzantium: A Very Short Intro. by Peter Sarris
  • The Social History of Byzantium by John Haldon
  • A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities: Strange Tales & Surprising Facts from History’s Most Orthodox Empire by Anthony Kaldellis
  • Secret History by Procopius
  • Alexiad by Anna Komnene
  • Three Byzantine Military Treatises by George T. Dennis
  • Accounts of Medieval Constantinople: The Patria by Albrecht Berger
  • Digenis Akritis: The Grottaferrata and Escorial Versions by Elizabeth Jeffreys

Classical Mythology HUM 212

  • Persians by Aeschylus
  • Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus
  • Agamemnon by Aeschylus
  • The Libation Bearers by Aeschylus
  • The Eumenides by Aeschylus
  • Antigone by Sophocles
  • Oedipus the King by Sophocles
  • Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles
  • Electra by Sophocles
  • Alcestis by Euripides
  • Medea by Euripides
  • Hippolytus by Euripides
  • Hecuba by Euripides
  • Electra by Euripides
  • The Trojan Women by Euripides
  • Iphigenia among the Taurians by Euripides
  • The Bacchae by Euripides
  • Metamorphoses by Ovid
  • Anthology of Classical Myth: Primary Sources in Translation by Trzaskoma et al.
  • The Odyssey by Homer
  • Theogony by Hesiod
  • Work & Days by Hesiod
  • Ajax by Sophocles
  • The Women of Trachis by Sophocles
  • Philoctetes by Sophocles
  • The Trackers by Sophocles
  • Library by Apollodorus
  • Fabulae by Hyginus
  • ✔️ Jason & the Golden Fleece by Apollonius of Rhodes

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western Culture I: Literature & the Arts HUM 216

  • The Satyricon by Petronius
  • A Presocratics Reader: Selected Fragments and Testimonia by Curd & McKirahan
  • The Oresteia by Aeschylus
  • Questions on Love and Charity: Summa Theologiae, Secunda Secundae, Questions 23–46 (Rethinking the Western Tradition) by Thomas Aquinas
  • Aristophanes: Frogs and Other Plays by Stephen Halliwel
  • The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
  • Poetics by Aristotle
  • Confessions by Saint Augustine
  • The New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version
  • The Five Books of Moses by Robert Alter
  • ✔️ The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius
  • Selected Political Speeches by Cicero
  • The Divine Comedy by Dante
  • Cyclops by Euripides
  • The Histories by Herodotus
  • The Iliad & The Odyssey by Homer
  • The Epistles of Horace
  • Hannibal’s War by Livy
  • The Nature of Things by Lucretius
  • Poetry by Marie de France
  • Metamorphoses by Ovid
  • Republic by Plato
  • Symposium by Plato
  • Plato: The Last Days of Socrates
    • Euthyphro
    • ✔️ Apology
    • Crito
    • Phaedo
  • Four Comedies: The Braggart Soldier; The Brothers Menaechmus; The Haunted House; The Pot of Gold by Plautus
  • If Not, Winter: Fragments by Sappho
  • The Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles
  • The Aeneid by Virgil
  • History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
  • The Annals by Tacitus

Great Books in Buddhism HUM 229

  • The Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha
  • Scripture of the Lotus Blossom of the Fine Dharma
  • Two Buddhas Seated Side by Side: A Guide to the Lotus Sūtra by Lopez & Stone
  • The Life of Milarepa by Tsangnyön Heruka
  • The Words of My Perfect Teacher by Patrul Rinpoche

East Asian Humanities I: The Classical Foundations HUM 233

  • ✔️ Analects by Confucius (my highlights)
  • Zen Sourcebook: Traditional Documents from China, Korea & Japan by Addiss et al.
  • The Complete Writings by Zhuāngzï
  • The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
  • A History of East Asia: From the Origins of Civilization to the 21st Century by Charles Holcombe

Identity in the Spanish-Speaking World HUM 251

  • I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala by Rigoberta Menchú
  • Love After Death by Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Pompeii HUM 253

  • The Complete Pompeii by Joanne Berry
  • The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost & Found by Mary Beard
  • The World of Pompeii by Dobbins & Foss
  • Pompeii & Herculaneum: A Sourcebook by Cooley & Cooley

Violence HUM 264

  • Righteous Dopefiend by Bourgois & Schonberg
  • After the Last Sky: Palestinian Lives by Edward W. Said
  • Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation by Eyal Weizman
  • Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability & Political Violence in Turkey by Salih Can Aciksoz
  • Police, Provocation, Politics: Counterinsurgency in Istanbul by Deniz Yonucu
  • Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War & the Roots of Terror by Mahmood Mamdani
  • The Counterrevolution: How Our Government Went to War Against Its Own Citizens by Bernard E. Harcourt
  • Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor by Rob Nixon
  • States of Terror: Begoña Aretxaga’s Essays
  • Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America by Hansen et al.
  • The Land of Open Graves: Living & Dying on the Migrant Trail by Jason De León
  • Violence in War & Peace by Scheper-Hughes & Bourgois
  • The Notion of Family by LaToya Ruby Frazier
  • Ongoing Return: Mapping Memory & Storytelling in Palestine by Rana Barakat
  • Leave If You Can: Migration & Violence in Bordered Worlds by Amelia Frank-Vitale
  • Do Muslim Women Need Saving? by Lila Abu-Lughod
  • ✔️ The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
  • Illuminations: Essays & Reflections by Walter Benjamin

The Anthropology of Lying & Deception HUM 294

  • How to Do Things with Words by J.L. Austin
  • The Modernity Bluff: Crime, Consumption & Citizenship in Côte d’Ivoire by Sasha Newell
  • Given Time: I. Counterfeit Money by Jacques Derrida
  • Passing: Two Publics in a Mexican Border City by Rihan Yeh
  • Mistrust: An Ethnographic Theory by Matthew Carey
  • Mules & Men by Zora Neale Hurston
  • Defacement: Public Secrecy & the Labor of the Negative by Michael Taussig

Musical Theatre & Fan Cultures HUM 340

  • Fandom in Musical Theatre by Jessica Hillman-McCord
  • John Proctor is the Villain by Kimberly Belflower

The Bible as Literature HUM 390

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

Translation, Migration, Culture HUM 400

  • Migrant Brothers: A Poet’s Declaration of Human Dignity by Patrick Chamoiseau
  • Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions by Valeria Luiselli
  • In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Translations by Brian Friel

Between Selves: Living Letters from Antiquity to the Present HUM 416

  • 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

19th-Century European Art: Painting & Literature in 19th C. France and England HUM 451

  • 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

20th-Century French Narrative Prose: Reading Proust HUM 524

  • In Search of Lost Time: Swann’s Way, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, The Prisoner & Finding Time Again by Marcel Proust

Modern Art: Science & Its Fictions in the Long 19th Century HUM 577

Journalism

Writing about Science JRN 349

  • The Perpetual Now: A Story of Amnesia, Memory & Love by Michael D. Lemonick
  • Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach

International News: Migration Reporting JRN 449

  • The New Censorship: How the War on the Media is Taking Us Down by Ayala Panievsky

Medieval Studies

The Byzantine Empire MED 205

  • ✔️ Byzantium: A Very Short Intro. by Peter Sarris
  • The Social History of Byzantium by John Haldon
  • A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities: Strange Tales & Surprising Facts from History’s Most Orthodox Empire by Anthony Kaldellis
  • Secret History by Procopius
  • Alexiad by Anna Komnene
  • Three Byzantine Military Treatises by George T. Dennis
  • Accounts of Medieval Constantinople: The Patria by Albrecht Berger
  • Digenis Akritis: The Grottaferrata and Escorial Versions by Elizabeth Jeffreys

Europe from Antiquity to 1700 MED 211

  • The West: A New History by Grafton & Bell
  • Confessions by Augustine
  • On the Freedom of a Christian by Martin Luther
  • ✔️ The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli (my highlights)
  • Letters of Abelard and Heloise
  • The Crusades Through Arab Eyes by Amin Maalouf

Judaism, Christianity & Islam: Their Emergence in Antiquity MED 246

  • The New Oxford Annotated Bible: New Revised Standard Version with the Apocrypha
  • The Qur’an

The New Testament & Christian Origins MED 251

  • The Jewish Annotated New Testament by Levine & Brettler
  • Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers by Louth & Staniforth
  • The New Testament: A Historical Intro. to the Early Christian Writings by Ehrman & Méndez

The Nature of Old English: Select Old English Literature MED 315

  • 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

Middle High German Literature: An Intro. MED 508

  • Erec by Hartmann Von Aue
  • Nibelungenlied
  • Middle High German Verbs by Scott Shay
  • An Introduction to Middle High German by Jones & Jones

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