Main group 1

Primary reading

• Lerner, Ben, 10:04, Granta, 2015Compulsory*
• Shapton, Leanne, Important artifacts and personal property from the collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, including books, street fashion, and jewelry: [Saturday, 14 February 2009, New York], 1st ed., New York, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2009Compulsory*

As well, the students will be reading excerpts from primary and secondary material including:

Primary materials

Excerpts from Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Time and Place (1991)

Fragments from Todd Haynes, Safe (1995)

Short stories (online): Glaser, Rachel. "Pee on Water"; July, Miranda. "The Boy from Lam Kien"; Wolff, Tobias. "Bullet in the Brain"; Di Filippo, Paul. "Future Tense"

Vandermeer, Jeff. The Situation. (online)

Secondary reading

Reading instructions from your teacher. Several of these texts are available online or will be supplied by the teacher.

• Frank, Arthur W., The wounded storyteller: body, illness, and ethics, Second edition., Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2013Compulsory* (Excerpts)
• Alaimo, Stacy, Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self, Indiana University Press, 2010Compulsory* (Excerpts)
• Sibara, Jay; Ray, Sarah Jaquette, Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities: Toward an Eco-Crip Theory, University of Nebraska Press, 2017Compulsory* (Excerpts)
• Altschuler, Sari, The medical imagination: literature and health in the early United States, 2018Compulsory* (Utdrag)
• Hayles, N. Katherine, How we became posthuman: virtual bodies in cybernetics, literature, and informatics, Chicago, Ill., Univ. of Chicago Press, 1999Compulsory*
• Thrift, Nigel., Non-representational theory: space, politics, affect, Hoboken, Taylor & Francis, 2007Compulsory*
• Wood, Sarah, Anew Again, Part of: Creative criticism: an anthology and guide, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, c2014Compulsory*
• Bennett, Jane, Vibrant matter: a political ecology of things, Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2010Compulsory* (Excerpts)
• Cohen, Tom; Colebrook, Claire; Miller Hillis, J., Twilight of the Anthropocene Idols, Open Humanities Press, 2016Compulsory* (Pages 83–125 Library e-book)

Photocopied/online material

* Compulsory