Reading Schedule
Reading Schedule
Feb 3rd:
Introduction to the Course
Hannah Eagleson, “What I Wish I’d Known About Graduate School: Surviving the Workload:”
On Candor
Feb 10th:
Powell, Cleaving
“Too Bad, Critics, I’m Writing About My Sex Life,” Slate Magazine (December 8th, 2009): http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2009/12/08/julie_powell_on_writing_about_her_sex_life_in_cleaved.html
Claudia Mills, “Friendship, Fiction, and Memoir: Trust and Betrayal in Writing from One’s Own Life,” from The Ethics of Life Writing, Edited by Paul John Eakin. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004: 101-121.
Gregory Colón Semenza’s “Chapter 5: The Seminar Paper” in Graduate Study for the 21st Century (available as an e-book through the Mina Rees Library).
Feb. 17th:
Godwin, Memoirs
Feb 24th:
Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being
Social/ Media
March 3rd:
Andrew Moore, “Facebook and the Liberal Arts,” The Journal of General Education 61. 3 (2012): 264-276.
PostSecret: http://postsecret.com
Lauren Berlant, “Faceless Book.” berfrois [December 20th, 2014]:
Lauren Berlant with Jay Prosser, “Life Writing and Intimate Publics: A Conversation with Lauren Berlant.” Biography 34.1 (Winter 2011): 180-187.
March 10th:
Research/ methodology workshop with Alycia Sellie
Mark Gaipa, “8 Strategies for Critically Engaging Secondary Sources”
March 17th:
Viegener, 2500 Random Things About Me Too
Wayne Koestenbaum, “Memoir in the Age of Buzzfeed:”
Nancy K. Miller, “But Enough about Me, What Do You Think of My Memoir?” From But Enough About Me: Why We Read Other People’s Lives. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002: 1-26.
On Opacity and Honesty (…also money, politics, race, and sexuality…)
March 24th:
Cha, Dictee
Suzanne Smith, “Writing Seminar Papers in the Humanities:” http://www.gsas.harvard.edu/images/stories/pdfs/writing_seminar_papers_humanities.pdf
March 31st:
Dwight McBride, “It’s a White Man’s World: Race in the Gay Marketplace of Desire.” In Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch: Essays on Race and Sexuality. New York: NYU Press, 2005: 88-135.
Robert F. Reid Pharr, “Introduction” From Black Gay Man: Essays. New York: NYU Press, 2001.
April 3rd-11th: Spring Break
April 14th:
Heti, How Should a Person Be?
Chris O’Brien, “The Case for Oversharing,” San Jose Mercury News
[San Jose, CA] 23 June 2010. Business Insights: Essentials. Web. 22 November, 2014.
The Red Ink Project: https://civic.mit.edu/blog
http://www.changemakers.com/citizenmedia/entries/red-ink
April 21st:
In-class Workshop I
April 28th: In-Class Workshop II
May 5th: Anthology Day
May 12th: In-Class Workshop III
May 19th: In-Class Workshop IV
Final Paper Due: May 25th
