Assignments

Critical Question Presentation and Roundtable (20%) -- You will be a required to sign up in small groups for an oral presentation and roundtable during the course of the semester. For your presentation, you will read the texts assigned for a particular week, summarize and articulate two or three main points from the week’s scholarly or critical text (as assigned), generate a critical question connecting the theory to the text, and contribute to in-class and online discussion for the week.

Critical Response Papers (20%) -- Over the course of the semester, you will complete a number short, critical, analytical response papers or CRs. These single-spaced, one-page writings serve as close readings of, analyses of, and articulations of the texts and connections you see, read, and talk about in the tutorial. You will be required to generate a response paper approximately every other week for a total of 5; the CR for week 1 or 2 is required.

Creative Responses (10%) -- Over the course of the semester, you will write a short-short story or poem, create a drawing, and generate a critical review as an alternative way to explore and demonstrate the ideas and goals of the course. These creative responses will be evaluated on completion and your critical, thoughtful engagement with the prompts.

Final Papper/Project (20%) -- At the end of the semester, you will complete a Final Project that integrates what you have read, explored, and written about in your Response Papers, that draws on specific terms, concepts, or issues from the class, and that articulates the critical value of queer of color literature. The project asks you to make connections and to create an argument across different kinds of evidence and added research. Your final project can be a traditional research paper, a media production (which includes a substantive analytical component), or a hybrid of the two.

Information Sheets

The following are handouts, informational sheets, and readings that will be assigned or used over the course of the quarter. Each student will recieve a copy of each as a handout in class during the appropriate week. If you miss a sheet, feel free to print out a new copy.

Ed's Top Ten List of "Ways to Survive University"

Ed's Top Ten Rules of Writing

What is Close Reading?

How to Write a Summary

Claims, Claims, Claims

Introductions & Conclusions

Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing

MLA Citation and Bibliographic Format

Revision Check-List

Readings

The course texts are available via the Little Professor Book Center (65 S. Court) or Ohio University online bookstore (or through any reputable bookseller). Shorter readings are available via the course Blackboard. The required texts for this class are:

Larsen, Nella. Passing. Penguin Classics, 2003. Baldwin, James. Another Country. Vintage, 1992. Morrison, Toni. Sula. Vintage, 2004. Hagedorn, Jessica. Dogeaters, A Play. Theatre Communications Group, 2002. Patil, Amruta. Kari. HarperCollins, 2018. Emezi, Akwaeke. Freshwater. Grove Press, 2018. Whitehead, Joshua. Jonny Appleseed. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2018. Machado, Carmen. In the Dream House: A Memoir. Graywolf Press, 2020.

Consult the course syllabus for the week's required reading. The following is a full bibliographical list of the class readings:

Adams, Rachel, Benjamin Reiss, and David Serlin. "Disability." Keywords for Disability Studies. NYU Press. 29 May 2018. https://keywords.nyupress.org/disability-studies/essay/disability/. Aultman, B. "Cisgender." Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a 21st Century Transgender Studies. Spec. issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 1.1-2 (2014) 61-62. Baldwin, James. Another Country. Vintage, 1992. Burgett, Bruce. "Sex." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007. 217-221. Cherniavsky, Eva. "Body." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007. 26-29. Cullen, Countee. "Tableau.” Poets.org. https://poets.org/poem/tableau. Cullen, Countee. “To a Brown Boy.” Poets.org. https://poets.org/poem/brown-boy. Emezi, Akwaeke. Freshwater. Grove Press, 2018. Ferguson, Robert A. "Race." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007. 191-196. Georgiou, Myria. "Identity." Keywords for Media Studies. Eds. Laurie Ouellette and Jonathan Gray. NYU Press, 2017. 94-98. Gray, Herman. "Race." Keywords for Media Studies. Eds. Laurie Ouellette and Jonathan Gray. NYU Press, 2017. 61-164. Hagedorn, Jessica. Dogeaters, A Play. Theatre Communications Group, 2002. Halberstam, Judith. "Gender." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007. 116-120. Hughes, Langston. “I, Too.” Poets.org. https://poets.org/poem/i-too. Hughes, Langston. “Poem--To the Black Beloved.” Poets.org. https://poets.org/poem/poem-black-beloved. Larsen, Nella. Passing. Penguin Classics, 2003. Machado, Carmen. In the Dream House: A Memoir. Graywolf Press, 2020. McPherson, Tara. "Digital." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2020. https://keywords.nyupress.org/american-cultural-studies/essay/digital/. Morrison, Toni. Sula. Vintage, 2004. Patil, Amruta. Kari. HarperCollins, 2018. Prashad, Vijay. "Orientalism." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007. 174-177. Rodriguez, Juana Maria. "Latino/a/x." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2020. 154-157. Somerville, Siobhan B. "Queer." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007. 187-191. Tchen, John Kuo Wei. "Asian." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2014. 18-21. Warrior, Robert. "Indian." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. NYU Press, 2020. https://keywords.nyupress.org/american-cultural-studies/essay/indian/. Whitehead, Joshua. Jonny Appleseed. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2018. Williams, Cristan. "Transgender." Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a 21st Century Transgender Studies. Spec. issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 1.1-2 (2014) 232-234. Print.

Media

Disclosure. Directed by Sam Feder, Netflix, 2020. Paris is Burning. Directed by Jennie Livingston, Netflix, 1991. Tongues Untied. Directed by Marlon Riggs, Kanopy, 1989.

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