Modern Critical Theory Syllabus

will be adding books + films as i get them and read them

reading list (in order): Moby Dick - Herman Melville

prof’s preferences (so u know what to expect): americanist, black poetics, w&g studies, film, HORROR, am gothic, scifi

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created by sid.guise

last updated September, 2026

12 books
The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference (Difference Incorporated)

The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference (Difference Incorporated)

Roderick A. Ferguson

The Yellow Wall-Paper

The Yellow Wall-Paper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Herland

Herland

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Awakening

The Awakening

Kate Chopin

Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory

Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory

Peter Barry

Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation

Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation

Damian Duffy

Kindred

Kindred

Octavia E. Butler

Moby-Dick or, The Whale

Moby-Dick or, The Whale

Herman Melville

Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America (Race and American Culture)

Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America (Race and American Culture)

Saidiya Hartman

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

James

James

Percival Everett

A Mercy

A Mercy

Toni Morrison

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