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4.03.2025

Judith Butler, "What is Gender"

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Spring 2025 Syllabi

301/306 Lit Theory
252 Literary Studies

THINGS ALL STUDENTS SHOULD KNOW ABOUT

Financial distress? There'$ help available!
How banks are preying on students! Be smart! Beware!
If you are considering graduate school: CUNY PIPELINE
Matthew Crawford: "DIstraction is a kind of obesity of the mind"
The importance of silence for concentration.

Christianity taught us to see the Eye of the Lord looking down upon us. Such forms of knowledge project an image of reality, at the expense of reality itself. They talk figures and icons and signs, but fail to perceive forces and flows. They blind us to other realities, and especially the reality of power as it subjugates us. Their function is to tame, and the result is the fabrication of docile and obedient subjects. ~Deleuze and Guattari

Education is not about acquiring knowledge for the sake of knowing, but an active project of becoming human, a process that drives development and makes it possible. Learning...as the pathway to creating one's identity by finding, through knowledge of cultural-historical practices and their history, a way to contribute to changing these practices. ~Stetsenko

So far from being merely a critical ‘method’, let alone a purely negative mode of destruction, deconstruction is a calling, a vocation, which undertakes an intense investigation of texts, structures and institutions in order to enable them to respond to the call of the other. Deconstruction is a way of making room for the other, and so fundamentally a kind of hospitality and welcome. ~James K. A. Smith

MISC LINKS & DOCUMENTS

Hu, "Eve Sedgwick After Death"
The Enlightenment's 'Race' Problem and Ours
How to Write a Good Thesis Statement
How to Write a Good Title
To Really Learn, Quit Studying and Take a Test

220/252 LINKS & DOCUMENTS

"Dionysius and Ampelos"
"Hedwig and the Angry Inch"
"Land of Cokaygne"
"Lars and the Real Girl"
Acheson, Writing Essays About Literature
Adler, "Veronica Franco's Petrarchan Terze Rime: Subverting the Master's Plan"
Albury, "Reading Porn Reparatively"
Apuleius, "The Baker's Wife"
Baudrillard, "Procession of Simulacra"
BBC Radio Great Lives: Sappho
Benjamin, Jessica "Master and Slave: The Fantasy of Erotic Domination"
Bennett, "The Pea that Duty Locks"
Benson, Larry D., "Courtly Love and Chivalry in the Later Middle Ages"
Berlant, Introduction to "Intimacy"
Bertolini, "The Erotics of Sentimental Bachelorhood"
Blackmur, R.P. "Emily Dickinson: Notes on Prejudice and Fact"
Blake, "Fettered for Life" 1
Blake, "Fettered for Life" 2
Blake, "Fettered for Life" 3
Blake, "Fettered for Life" 4
Broder, "Camping It Up in Ancient Rome: A Queer Take on Catullus 16"
Carson, "Eros the Bittersweet"
Carter, "Company of Wolves"
Catullus 16 & 99
Chopin, "At the 'Cadian Ball"
Chopin, "Lilacs"
Chopin, "The Storm"
Condon, "Kinsey"
Condon, "Kinsey"
Coontz, "World Historical Transformation of Marriage"
Cott, "Passionlessness: An Interpretation"
Craig, "'The Thing You Are!': The Woman Rebel in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland"
Cutter, "Losing the Battle but Winning the War"
Delbanco, "Melville: His World and Work"
Dinesen/Blixen, "Babette's Feast"
Duberman, "Writhing Bedfellows"
Echo and Narcissus
Emerson, "The Poet"
Esposito, "Introduction"
Faderman, "Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love between Women"
Faulkner, "A Rose for Emily"
Fee, "Who Put the 'Hetero' in Sexuality"
Fetterley, "An American Dream"
Foucault, "Friendship as a Way of Life"
Franco, Letter 22
Franklin, "Arriving at Moral Perfection"
Freeburg, "Walt Whitman, James Weldon Johnson, and the Violent Paradox of US Progress"
Gilbert & Gubar Mad Woman (whole book)
Graham, Sylvester, lectures self-restraint, 1839
Halperin, "Is There a History of Sexuality?"
Harte, "Tennessee's Partner"
Hawthorne, "The Maypole of Merry Mount"
Haynes, "Carol"
Heath, "From Merry Old England to New England"
Herdt, "Semen Depletion—Setting"
Herni-Ford and Tyler, "Young and Evil"
Herodas, Mimes 2 & 6
hooks, belle "Eating the Other"
James, CLR, Mariners, Renegades, & Castaways
Jewett, "Martha's Lady"
Johnson-Bogart, "Utopian Imagination of Charlotte Perkins Gilman"
Jordan, "For the Sake of People's Poetry"
Juvenal 9
Keil, "'Young Goodman Brown': Early Nineteenth-Century and Puritan Constructions of Gender"
Klein, "War on Pornography"
Knapp, "The Bachelors & Other Tales"
Laist, "Chopin's 'The Storm': A Plot-Based Analysis"
Lorde, "Uses of the Erotic"
MacPhail Scott, "Lyric Nationalism: Whitman, American Studies, and the New Criticism"
Maffesoli chapters 1-3
Maffesoli chapters 4-6
Mamet, "Boston Marriage"
Marsh, "Was Walt Whitman Gay?"
Martin, "'These Walls of Flesh': The Problem of the Body in the Romantic Friendship/Lesbian Debate"
Melville, "John Marr"
Melville, "Paradise of Bachelors and Tartarus of Maids"
Melville, excerpts from "White-Jacket" and "Moby-Dick"
Moon, "Disseminating Whitman"
Morrison, "Sula"
Movie, "Much Ado About Nothing"
Nadkarni, "Perfecting Feminism: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Eugenic Utopias"
Neary, "Shadows and Illuminations: Spiritual Journeys to the Dark Side"
Nissen, "Manly Love" parts 1 and 2
Padgug, "Sexual Matters"
PBS American Experience Video: Walt Whitman
Phelps, "At Bay"
Plato, "Symposium"
Powell, "Myths of Fertility: Dionysus"
Powell, "The Cultural Context of Classical Myth"
Preston, "Mr. Benson"
Rosenthal, "Veronica Franco...Venetian Courtesan's Defense"
Rubin, Gayle "The Leather Menace"
Rubin,Gayle "Thinking Sex"
Sappho, Fragments
Sedgwick, "English Readers of Whitman"
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky "Axiomatic"
Sedwick, "Between Men" Intro
Seidman, "The Power and the Danger of Pleasure"
Stevens, "Family, Gender, and Sexuality in Bret Harte's Western Fiction"
Sypniewski, "The Pursuit of Eros in Plato's Symposium and Hedwig and the Angry Inch"
Troyes, Chrétien de, "Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart"
Twain, How Nancy Jackson Married Kate Wilson
Vance, "Pleasure and Danger"
Weigman, "Melville's Geography of Gender"
Weismantel, "Towards a Transgender Archaeology"
Werther, "Autobiography of an Androgyne"
Werther, "Autobiography of an Androgyne"
West, "Three Plays"
Weston, from "Lesbian/Gay Studies in the House of Anthropology"
White, "New Trends in Dickinson Criticism"
White, Fred. "Feminist Revolution in Dickinson Studies"
Whitman, "Calamus"
Whitman, 1855 "Leaves of Grass"
Wilkins, "Two Friends"

306 LINKS & DOCUMENTS

"Life and Debt"
"Reading Marx's Capital with David Harvey"
Ahmed, "The Cultural Politics of Emotion"
Althusser, "Ideology and Ideological Apparatuses"
Anderson, "Imagined Communities"
Anzaldúa, “La Conciencia de la Mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness”
Axelman and Eilersten, "Israelism"
Barthes, "Mythologies"
Bazelon, Emily "The Road to 1948"
BBC, "Nietzsche—Human, All Too Human"
Bennett & Royle, "Laughter," "Desire," and "Pleasure"
Bressler, "Defining Criticism, Theory, and Literature"
Butler, from "Gender Trouble"
Butler, Video on Gender and Performativity
Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness
Chopin, "The Storm"
Cixous, "The Laugh of the Medusa"
Colebrook, "Key terms"
Combahee River Collective Statement
Conaboy, "Maternal Instinct Is a Myth"
D'Emilio and Freedman, "Within the Family" from "Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America"
Davis, "Introduction: Normality, Power, and Culture"
Deleuze & Guattari, "Introduction: Rhizome"
Deloria, "Invention of Thanksgiving"
Eagleton, "Why Marx Was Right"
Fanon, "Fact of Blackness"
FILM Subtitles: "For a Lost Soldier"
FILM: "Buck"
FILM: "Crip Camp"
FILM: "For a Lost Soldier"
Flatley, "Glossary: Affect, Emotion, Mood, Structure of Feeling"
Foucault "Lectures on Truth, Discourse, and the Self"
Foucault, "History of Sexuality, Vol. One"
Freud, from "Interpretation of Dreams"
Gramsci, "The Formation of the Intellectuals"
Gross, "Half the World Has a Clitoris"
Halberstam, "Queer Temporalities and Postmodern Geographies"
Haraway, "Canine Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness"
Haraway, "Cyborg Manifesto"
Heike, "The Myths that Made America Great"
Hinman, "Nietzsche's Philosophy of Play"
Holland, "Desire"
How to Use Your White Privilege for Good
Irigaray, "One Doesn't Stir without the Other"
Jacques Lacan in One Minute
Kafer, "Feminist, Queer, Crip"
Kincaid, "A Small Place"
King, "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
Klein, "Love, Guilt, and Reparation"
Knip, "Unpacking Sedgwick"
Koedt, "Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm"
Lacan, "The Mirror Stage"
Malcolm X, "The Ballot or the Bullet"
Marx, "Selections from Economic and Philosophic Manuscrptis"
McIntosh "White Privilege"
Menand, "Why Freud Survives"
Mitchell and Black, "The British Object Relations School"
Mock, "I Told My Boyfriend I Was Born a Boy"
Morrison, "Recitatif"
Norton Anthology of Critical Theory
Nussbaum, "Moral Status of Animals"
Poovey, "Feminism and Deconstruction"
Rancière, "The Politics of Aesthetics"
Riley, "Sorry to Bother You"
Ripping the Pages from "Dead Poets' Society"
Rubin, "Thinking Sex"
Schuessler, "What Is Settler Colonialism?"
Sedgwick, "Christmas Effects"
Sedgwick, "Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading"
Slut Shaming and Why it's Wrong
The Age of Obama as a Racial Nightmare
The Invention of the Heterosexual
Tyson, Critical Theory Today
Warner, "Queer and Then"
Winnicott, "The Location of Cultural Experience"
Wittig, "One is Not Born a Woman"

307 LINKS & DOCUMENTS

Anonymous, "The Trappan'd Maiden" (song)
Bradford, "Of Plimoth Plantation"
Champlain, from "Voyages"
Columbus, 1st letter
Cortez, "Second Letter to the Spanish Crown"
Crevecoeur, "Letters from an American Farmer"
de Vaca, "The Narrative"
Douglas, "Narrative of the Life"
Emerson, "Self-Reliance"
Emerson, "The American Scholar"
Equiano, "The Interesting Narrative"
FILM: "For a Lost Soldier" SUBTITLES
Frethorne, letter to his parents
Handsome Lake, "How America Was Discovered"
Hawthorne, "Young Goodman Brown"
Iroquois Confederacy, "Origin of Folk Stories"
Irving, "Rip Van Winkle"
Jefferson, "Draft of the Declaration of Independence"
Juet, "The Third Voyage of Master Henry Hudson"
Las Casas, "A Brief Account"
Melville, "Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids"
National Geographic "Jamestown"
Paine, from "Common Sense"
PBS "Slave Songbook"
Poe, "The Purloined Letter"
Pontiac, Occom, Logan, Red Jacket, and Tecumseh
Pope, "Essay on Man"
Revel, "The Poor Unhappy Transported Felon's Account"
Rowlandson, "The Narrative..."
Smith, "General History," "Description of New England," "New England's Trials"
Warner, "What's Colonial about Colonial America?"
Whitehead, "The Bow and the Burden Strap"
Wingfield, "A Discourse of Virginia"
Winthrop, "A Modell of Christian Charity"

396 LINKS & DOCUMENTS

Chopin, "Desiree's Baby"
Chopin, "The Storm"
Chopin, "The Story of an Hour"
Du Bois, "The Souls of Black Folk"
Dunbar, Paul Laurence
Dunn, "The Politics of Empathy"
Halpern & Weinstein, "Empathy and Reconciliation"
Hansen, "The Fable of the Allegory: The Wizard of Oz in Economics"
Harte, "Miggles"
Harte, "Tennessee's Partner"
Harte, "The Luck of Roaring Camp"
Henry, O. "The Gift of the Magi"
Howard, "What is Sentimentality?"
Irwin, McGrimmon, & Simpson, "Sympathy and Social Order"
Johnson, "Autobiography" Chapter 10
Johnson, "Lift Every Voice and Sing"
Johnson, "Narratives of Identity"
Kirmayer, "Empathy and Alterity"
Kleist, "Huck Finn the Inverse Akratic"
Koss, "On the Limits of Empathy"
Lazarus, "1492"
Leonard, "Empathy and Anger in the American West"
Littlefield, "The Wizard of Oz: Parable on Populism"
Lopez, "The Social Construction of Race"
Miller, The Money-Empathy Gap
Murphy, "Matriarchal Utopias"
Prchal, "Reimagining the Melting Pot"
Ritter, "Silver Slippers and a Golden Cap: L. Frank Baum's 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' and Historical Memory in American Politics"
Rockoff, "'The Wizard of Oz' as Monetary Allegory"
Scialabba, "Plutocratic Vistas"
Silverman, "Sympathy and its Vicissitudes"
Strauss,"Is Empathy Gendered?"
Washington, "Up from Slavery" Chapter XIV
Whitman, "Calamus"
Whitman, "Democratic Vistas"
Whitman, "Enfans d'Adam"

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