Intro to Literary Theory & the History of the Profession
- Jonathan Culler, Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction
- Gregory Semenza, Graduate Study for the 21st Century: How to Build an Academic Career in the Humanities
- Rivkin and Ryan, Literary Theory: An Anthology
- Mary Klages, Literary Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed
- Gregory Castle, The Blackwell Guide to Literary Theory
- Elaine Showalter, Teaching Literature
Review essay: “Recent Criticism in Early 20th Century American Literature: Problematizing ‘Modernism,’ Expanding the Field”
American Gothic
- Lloyd-Smith, American Gothic Fiction: An Introduction
- Freud, “The Uncanny”
- Judy Budnitz, Nice Big American Baby
- Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Huntly
- Selected Stories of Edgar Allen Poe
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “The Giant Wisteria”
- Edith Wharton, Ghost Stories
- Henry James, “The Jolly Corner“
- Ira Levin, The Stepford Wives
- Pauline Hopkins, Of One Blood
- Selected Stories of H.P. Lovecraft
- Richard Matheson, I am Legend
- Anne Rice, Interview with a Vampire
- Stephen King, Misery
Seminar Paper: “‘Like some monstrous stealthy cat’: Monstrosity, Queerness, and Felinomorphism in Brown, James, and Lovecraft”
Virginia Woolf and Autobiography (TA)
- Hermione Lee, Virginia Woolf
- Woolf, The Voyage Out
- Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
- Woolf, To the Lighthouse
- Woolf, Moments of Being
- Woolf, Orlando
- Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
Seminar paper: “‘The right end of the string’: the Materiality of Production and Woolf’s Artistic Metaphors”
