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what an english major reads (and watches)...

...for a class focusing on cultural studies?

  • "From Work to Text" by Roland Barthes
  • "The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproduction" by Walter Benjamin
  • "Subversive Bodily Acts" (from Gender Trouble) by Judith Butler
  • "The Climate of History: Four Theses" by Dipesh Chakrabarty
  • "Science Studies and Literary Theory" by T. Hugh Crawford
  • "The Net and Multiple Realities" by Jodi Dean
  • "Space, Power, and Knowledge" by Michel Foucault
  • "The Crisis of 'Race' and Raciology" by Paul Gilroy
  • "Cultural Studies and Its Theoretical Legacies" by Stuart Hall
  • "Encoding, Decoding" by Stuart Hall
  • "The Cyborg Manifesto" by Donna Haraway
  • "Teaching New Worlds/New Words" (from Teaching to Transgress) by bell hooks
  • "What is Art?" by C.L.R. James
  • "Gramophone" by Friedrich Kittler
  • After Lockdown by Bruno Latour
  • The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  • "Banality in Cultural Studies" by Meaghan Morris
  • "Traveling Theory Reconsidered" by Edward Said
  • "Axiomatic" (from Epistemology of the Closet) by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
  • "The New Subaltern: A Silent Interview" by Gayarti Spivak
  • "Ideas of Nature" by Raymond Williams

...for a class focusing on literature and medicine?

  • The Seventh Seal directed by Ingmar Bergman
  • The Plague by Albert Camus
  • The Care Manifesto by the Care Collective
  • Wit by Margaret Edson
  • "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • Awakenings directed by Penny Marshall
  • Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy
  • "Seclusion" and "Rest" (from Fat and Blood) by S. Weir Mitchell
  • Bewilderment by Richard Powers
  • All My Babies: A Midwife's Own Story directed by George C. Stoney
  • The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
  • The Doctor Stories by William Carlos Williams, compiled by Robert Coles

...for a class focusing on writing studies?

...for a class focusing on African-American literature?

...for a class focusing on literary theory, criticism, and history?

...for a class focusing on feminist speculative fiction?

  • "Heart of the Matter" by Linda D. Addison
  • "Lessons and Blessings" by Linda D. Addison
  • "One Night Stand" by Linda D. Addison
  • "Precious" by Linda D. Addison
  • "Sycorax's Daughters Unveiled" by Linda D. Addison
  • "Letty" by Regina N. Bradley
  • "Carpool" by Rosel George Brown
  • "Please, Momma" by Chesya Burke
  • "The Evening and the Morning and the Night" by Octavia Butler
  • Excerpts from Woman World by Aminder Dhaliwal
  • "They Run Again" by Leah Bodine Drake
  • "The Wood-Wife" by Leah Bodine Drake
  • "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • "Forward" and "Louisiana: 1850" (from The Gilda Stories) by Jewelle Gomez
  • "Strange Fruit" by Billie Holliday*
  • "Sultana's Dream" by Rokheya Hossain
  • These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs
  • "Created He Them" by Alice Eleanor Jones
  • "Into the Gray" by Margaret Killjoy
  • "The Colors in Fairy Tales" by Katherine Languish
  • "The Gorgon" by Tanith Lee
  • "Rabbit Test" by Samantha Mills
  • "The Black God's Kiss" by C.L. Moore
  • "The Haunted Chamber" by Ann Radcliffe
  • "Emet" by Lauren Ring
  • "Goblin Market" by Christina Rosetti
  • "When It Changed" by Joanna Russ
  • "Friend Island" by Francis Stevens
  • "The Conquest of Gola" by Leslie F. Stone
  • "Affinity" by Tigrina
  • "Defiance" by Tigrina
  • "Windrose in Scarlet" by Isabel Yap
  • "Fracture" by Mercedes M. Yardley

...for a class focusing on cultural studies of biomedicine?