Reading

• Judith Butler, Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"
• Jacques Derrida, Limited, Inc
• Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness
• Shelley Jackson, Patchwork Girl (hypertext)
• Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
• Frank Lentricchia & Thomas McLaughlin, Critical Terms for Literary Study
• Chandra Mukerj & Michale Schudson, Rethinking Popular Culture
• John Muller & William Richardson, The Purloined Poe: Lacan, Derrida, and Psychoanalytic Reading
• Paris Is Burning (film)
• Ridley Scott, Blade Runner (film, 1982 and 1992 versions)
• Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818 text, ed. James Rieger)
• Patricia Williams, Alchemy of Race and Rights
• Slavoj Zizek, The Sublime Object of Ideology

Requirements

• Oral report
• Conference paper, presented at VMLA
• Weekly participation in the class newsgroup

Hours and Location

• Class: Monday, 12:00-2:30 - Benson 133
• Office Hours - Please call to arrange an appointment during the following times:
• Wednesday, 1:30-3:00
• Friday, 2:00-4:00