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The List: DEI Reads

Professional Development

  • Baker, Meg-John and Julia Scheele | Queer: A Graphic History
  • Bongiovanni, Archie and Tristan Jimerson | A Quick and Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns
  • Brown, Jennifer | How to Be an Inclusive Leader: Your Role in Creating Cultures of Belonging Where Everyone Can Thrive
  • Erickson, Jennifer | Race-ing Fargo: Refugees, Citizenship, and the Transformation of Small Cities
  • Hartmann, Bradley | Good to Excellent: How Excellent Companies Embrace Hispanic Cultural Differences to Improve Productivity, Safety, Retention, and Sales
  • Johnson, Joshua Moon and Gabriel Javier | Queer People of Color in Higher Education
  • Kaba, Mariame | We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
  • Kendi, Ibram X. | How to Be an Antiracist | Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
  • Oluo, Ijeoma | So You Want to Talk about Race
  • Rankine, Claudia | Citizen: An American Lyric​
  • Rothstein, Richard | The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
  • Watson, Lemuel W. and Joshua Moon Johnson | ​Authentic Leadership: An Engaged Discussion of LGBTQ Work as Culturally Relevant

Teaching: Global Environmental Literatures + Movements

  • Esteva, Gustavo | "Development"
  • Graff, Gerald and Cathy Birkenstein | They Say/I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing
  • Guha, Ramachandra | Environmentalism: A Global History 
  • Maathai, Wangari | Unbowed
  • Mda, Zakes | Heart of Redness
  • Nixon, Rob | Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
  • Saro-Wiwa, Ken | A Month and a Day and Letters
  • Sinha, Indra | Animal's People
  • Thoreau, Henry David | "Walking"

Teaching: Travel Writing + Postcolonial Theory

  • Adams, Mark | ​Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time
  • Bingham, Hiram | ​Lost City of the Incas
  • Blackwell, Andrew | Visit Sunny Chernobyl and Other Adventures in the World's Most Polluted Places
  • ​Kincaid, Jamaica | A Small Place
  • Vowell, Sarah | Unfamiliar Fishes

Teaching: Advanced Theory + Criticism

  • ​Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi | The Thing Around Your Neck
  • ​Kincaid, Jamaica | A Small Place
  • Klages, Mary | Literary Theory: The Complete Guide​
  • Williams, Jeffrey, et al. | The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism 

Teaching: Business + Technical Writing

  • Floyd, Kory and Peter Cardon | Business and Professional Communication​​
  • Gladwell, Malcolm | ​Talking to Strangers ​
  • Graff, Gerald and Cathy Birkenstein | They Say/I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing

Teaching: Research + Writing

  • Austin, Michael | Reading the World: Ideas that Matter
  • Batholomae, David and Anthony Petrosky | Ways of Reading: An Anthology for Writers
  • Coates, Ta-Nehisi | ​Between the World and Me
  • Graff, Gerald and Cathy Birkenstein | They Say/I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing
  • Rankine, Claudia | Citizen: An American Lyric

Comprehensive Exam: Life Writing

  • Danticat, Edwidge | Brother, I'm Dying
  • Guevara, Ernesto "Che" | Diarios de motocicleta: notas de un viaje por América Latina​
  • Kincaid, Jamaica | A Small Place
  • Lorde, Audre | Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
  • Maathai, Wangari | Unbowed
  • Menchú, Rigoberta | I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala
  • Roy, Arundhati | Walking with the Comrades
  • Saro-Wiwa, Ken | A Month and a Day and Letters
  • Satrapi, Marjane | The Complete Persepolis 
  • Speigelman, Art | Maus: A Survivors Tale Vols. 1 and 2​
  • Wiesel, Eli | Night​

Comprehensive Exam: Postcolonial Theory

  • Achebe, Chinua | "The African Writer and the English Language"  
  • Agamben, Giorgio | Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life
  • Althusser, Louis | Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses
  • Anzaldúa, Gloria | Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
  • Benítez-Rojo, Antonio | The Repeating Island: The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective
  • Bhabha, Homi K. | The Location of Culture 
  • Buck-Morss, Susan | Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History​
  • Byrd, Jodi | The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism 
  • Escobar, Arturo | "Place, Economy, and Culture in a Post-Development Era"
  • Fanon, Franz | The Wretched of the Earth | Black Skin, White Masks 
  • ​Foucault, Michel | Discipline and Punish
  • Henderson, Mae Gwendolyn | "Speaking in Tongues: Dialogics, Dialectics, and Black Women Writers' Literary Tradition"
  • Loomba, Ania | Colonialism/Postcolonialism​
  • Lyons, Scott Richard | X-Marks: Native Signatures of Assent
  • Manuel, George | ​The Fourth World: An Indian Reality​
  • Massey, Doreen | "A Global Sense of Place"
  • Mohanty, Chandra Talpade | "Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses"
  • Ngūgī wa Thiong'o | "On the Abolition of the English Department" | "The Language of African Literature"
  • Nixon, Rob | Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
  • Said, Edward | Culture and Imperialism
  • Spivak, Gayatri | "Can the Subaltern Speak?"
  • Vizenor, Gerald | Manifest Manners: Postindian Warriors of Survivance 
  • Young, Robert | ​Postcolonialism: A Very Short History 

Comprehensive Exam: Contemporary Literature of the Global South

  • Adichie, Chimamanda Negozi | ​The Thing Around Your Neck
  • Coetzee, J.M. | Life and Times of Michael K
  • Duff, Alan | ​Once Were Warriors
  • Erdrich, Louise | The Roundhouse | Shadow Tag
  • Grace, Patricia | Potiki
  • Habila, Helin | Oil on Water
  • Ihimaera, Witi | The Whale Rider
  • Rushdie, Salman | The Satanic Verses
  • Salih, Tayeb | Season of Migration to the North
  • Sinha, Indra | Aminal's People
  • Wagamese, Richard | Indian Horse
  • Walcott, Derek | Omeros
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