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Assignments

Critical Question & Theory Presentation (20%) -- You will be a required to sign up twice for an oral presentation during the semester. For your presentation, you will read the texts assigned for a particular week, summarize and articulate main points from the week's scholarly and literary texts, generate a critical question or two connecting the theory to the text, and substantively contribute to in-class and online discussion for the week.

Critical Response Papers (30%) -- You will complete a number short, critical, analytical response papers. 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. These responses are more than just summaries or personal reactions and will be graded on clarity, focus, coherence, critique, and your ability to concisely formulate arguments. You will be required to generate a response paper approximately every other week for a total of 5.

Research Proposal Memo (10%) -- As part of your Final Project research and writing process, you must generate a 1-page research proposal in business memo format. You will also arrange for a conference with me to go over your proposal. Proposals will be graded for clarity, detail, completion, and manuscript format.

Final Paper/Project (20%) -- By the end of the semester, you will complete a Final Paper/Project that integrates what you have read, explored, and written about, that draws on specific terms, concepts, or issues from our discussions, and that engages the theoretical perspectives and practices of the course. The project asks you to make connections and to create an argument across different kinds of evidence and added research. Your project can be a traditional research paper, a media production (which includes a substantive analytical component), or a hybrid of the two.
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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 a reputable bookseller; the Little Professor Book Center (65 S. Court) can order books for you given enough time. Shorter readings are available via the course Canvas. The required texts for this class are (in order of use):

Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man.
Delany, Samuel. Dhalgren.
Morrison, Toni. Beloved.
Butler, Octavia. Dawn (part of Lilith’s Brood).
Lai, Larissa. When Fox Is a Thousand .
Yamashita, Karen Tei. Tropic of Orange .
Jemisin, N.K. The Fifth Season.
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia. Mexican Gothic.
Whitehead, Joshua, Ed., Love after the End. (Optional)

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/.

Alston, Vermonja R. "Environment." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007. 104-106.

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.

Berlant, Lauren. "Citizenship." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007. 37-42.

Burgett, Bruce. "Sex." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007. 217-221.

Chang, Edmond Y. "Musings on Asianfuturism." edmondchang.com. 27 Apr. 2020. http://www.edmondchang.com/2020/04/27/musings-on-asianfuturism/.

Cherniavsky, Eva. "Body." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007. 26-29.

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.

Gruesz, Kirsten Silva. "America." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007. 16-22.

Halberstam, Judith. "Gender." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007. 116-120.

Henderson, Lisa. "Representation." Keywords for Media Studies. Eds. Laurie Ouellette and Jonathan Gray. NYU Press, 2017. 172-176.

Prashad, Vijay. "Orientalism." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007. 174-177.

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.

Tongson, Karen. "Queer." Keywords for Media Studies. Eds. Laurie Ouellette and Jonathan Gray. NYU Press, 2017. https://keywords.nyupress.org/media-studies/essay/queer/.

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.

Wu, Judy Tzu-chun. "Gender." Keywords for Asian American Studies. Eds. Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, Linda Trinh Vo, and K. Scott Wong. NYU Press, 2015. https://keywords.nyupress.org/asian-american-studies/essay/gender/


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