Assignments

Critical Question & Theory Presentation (20%) -- You will be a required to sign up twice for an oral presentation during the semester. For your presentation, you will read the texts assigned for a particular week, summarize and articulate main points from the week's scholarly and literary texts, generate a critical question or two connecting the theory to the text, and substantively contribute to in-class and online discussion for the week.

Critical Response Papers (20%) -- You will complete a number short, critical, analytical response papers. These single-spaced, one-page writings serve as close readings of, analyses of, and articulations of the texts and connections you see, read, and talk about in the tutorial. These responses are more than just summaries or personal reactions and will be graded on clarity, focus, coherence, critique, and your ability to concisely formulate arguments. You will be required to generate a response paper approximately every other week for a total of 7.

Annotated Bibliography (10%) -- You will develop and maintain an annotated bibliography of all of the main literary, scholarly, and secondary sources and texts read for the class. These sources will tie directly into the preparation for and development of your Final Project but will also be good practice for PhD comprehensive exams, MA and dissertation projects, and future research and publications.

Research Proposal Memo (10%) -- As part of your Final Project research and writing process, you must generate a 1-page research proposal in business memo format. You will also arrange for a conference with me to go over your proposal. Proposals will be graded for clarity, detail, completion, and manuscript format.

Final Paper/Project (20%) -- By the end of the semester, you will complete a Final Paper/Project that integrates what you have read, explored, and written about, that draws on specific terms, concepts, or issues from our discussions, and that engages the theoretical perspectives and practices of the course. The project asks you to make connections and to create an argument across different kinds of evidence and added research. Your project can be a traditional research paper, a media production (which includes a substantive analytical component), or a hybrid of the two.

Information Sheets

The following are handouts, informational sheets, and readings that will be assigned or used over the course of the quarter. Each student will recieve a copy of each as a handout in class during the appropriate week. If you miss a sheet, feel free to print out a new copy.

Readings

The course texts are available via the Little Professor Book Center (65 S. Court) or a reputable bookseller. Shorter readings are available via the course Blackboard. The required texts for this class are (in order of use):

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Larsen, Nella. Quicksand, Passing, and The Stories. Williams, Tennessee. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Baldwin, James. Another Country. Cha, Theresa Hak Kyung. Dictee. DeLillo, Don. White Nose. Morrison, Toni. Beloved. Alexie, Sherman. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. Whitehead, Joshua. Jonny Appleseed. Butler, Octavia. Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation. Harris, Jeremy O. Slave Play. Machado, Carmen. In the Dream House: A Memoir.

Consult the course syllabus for the week's required reading. The following is a full bibliographical list of the class readings:

Adams, Rachel, Benjamin Reiss, and David Serlin. "Disability." Keywords for Disability Studies. NYU Press. 29 May 2018. https://keywords.nyupress.org/disability-studies/essay/disability/. Alexie, Sherman. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. Grove Press, 2013. Baldwin, James. Another Country. Vintage, 1992. Burgett, Bruce. "Sex." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007. 217-221. Butler, Octavia. Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation. Abrams ComicArts, 2018. Cha, Theresa Hak Kyung. Dictee. University of California Press, 2022. Chang, Edmond Y. "Musings on Asianfuturism." edmondchang.com. 27 Apr. 2020. http://www.edmondchang.com/2020/04/27/musings-on-asianfuturism/ Cherniavsky, Eva. "Body." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007. 26-29. DeLillo, Don. White Nose. Penguin Classics, 2016. Dillon, Grace. "Imagining Indigenous Futurisms." Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction. Ed. Grace Dillon. University of Arizona Press, 2012. 1-12. Ferguson, Robert A. "Race." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007. 191-196. Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Scribner, 2004. Georgiou, Myria. "Identity." Keywords for Media Studies. Eds. Laurie Ouellette and Jonathan Gray. NYU Press, 2017. 94-98. Gray, Herman. "Race." Keywords for Media Studies. Eds. Laurie Ouellette and Jonathan Gray. NYU Press, 2017. 61-164. Halberstam, Judith. "Gender." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007. 116-120. Harris, Jeremy O. Slave Play. Theatre Communications Group, 2020. Larsen, Nella. Quicksand, Passing, and The Stories. Anchor, 2001. Machado, Carmen. In the Dream House: A Memoir. Graywolf Press, 2020. Merla-Watson, Cathryn Josefina. "The Altermundos of Latin@futurism." Alluvium. 15 Mar. 2017. https://www.alluvium-journal.org/2017/03/15/the-altermundos-of-latinfuturism/ Morrison, Toni. Beloved. Vintage, 2004. Prashad, Vijay. "Orientalism." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007. 174-177. Rodriguez, Juana Maria. "Latino/a/x." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2020. 154-157. Somerville, Siobhan B. "Queer." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007. 187-191. Tchen, John Kuo Wei. "Asian." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2014. 18-21. Warrior, Robert. "Indian." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. NYU Press, 2020. https://keywords.nyupress.org/american-cultural-studies/essay/indian/. Whitehead, Joshua. Jonny Appleseed. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2018. Williams, Tennessee. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. New Directions, 2004.

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