Wednesday, May 26, 2004

Comprehensive PhD Exam: English Studies

Tomorrow from 11am to 3pm I will be taking my 2nd PhD exam. This one is my statement about my disciplinary focus/understanding of English Studies. Below is my reading list for the exam:

Works Cited:

Antonio, Robert J. Marx and Modernity: Key Readings and Commentary. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2003.

Ardener, Shirley. “Ground Rules and Social Maps for Women: An Introduction.” Women and Space: Ground Rules and Social Maps. ed. S. Ardener. Providence, RI: Berg, 1993: 1-30.

Aronowitz, Stanley. How Class Works: Power and Social Movement. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003.

Auge, Marc. Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity. NY: Verso, 1995.

Bakhtin, Mikhail M. Problems of Dostoyesky’s Poetics. ed. and trans. Caryl Emerson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota P, 1984.

---. Speech Genres and Other Late Essays. Trans. V.W. McGee. Austin: U of Texas P, 1986.

Barton, David, and Mary Hamilton. “Literacy Practices.” Situated Literacies. Ed. David Barton, et al. NY: Routledge, 2000: 7-15.

Beasley-Murray, Jon. “Value and Capital in Bourdieu and Marx.” Pierre Bourdieu: Fieldwork in Culture. Eds. Nicholas Brown and Imre Szeman. NY: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000: 100-119.

Bennett, Michael. “Manufacturing the Ghetto: Anti-Urbanism and the Spatialization of Race.” The Nature of Cities: Ecocriticism and Urban Environments. eds. M. Bennett & D.W. Teague. AZ: U of Arizona P, 1999: 169-88.

Berger, John. Ways of Seeing. NY: Viking P, 1973.

Berry, Ellen E. and Mikhail N. Epstein. Transcultural Experiments: Russian and American Models of Creative Communication. NY: St. Martin’s P, 1999.

Berube, Michael. “Discipline and Theory.” Public Access: Literary Theory and American Politics. NY: Verso, 1994: 43-58.

Blanchot, Maurice. The Infinite Conversation. Trans. S. Hanson. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1993.

Boje, David M. “Stories of the Storytelling Organization: A Postmodern Analysis of Disney as ‘Tamara-Land’.” Academy of Management Journal 38.4 (1995): 997-1035.

Boje, David M. and Robert F. Dennehy. Managing in the Postmodern World: America’s Revolution Against Exploitation. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt, 1993.

Bourdieu, Pierre. “The Forms of Capital.” Handbook of Theory and Research For the Sociology of Education. ed. John Richardson. NY: Greenwood Press, 1986: 241-258.

Bowker, Geoffrey C. and Susan Leigh Star. Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences. Cambridge, MA: The MIT P, 1999.

Castells, Manuel. The Power of Identity. Blackwell, 1997.

Chouliaraki, Lilie and Norman Fairclough. Discourses in Late Modernity. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999.

Cushman, Ellen. “The Rhetorician as an Agent of Social Change.” College Composition and Communication 47.1 (1996): 7-27.

Dennis, Dion. “Priming the Pump of War: Toward a Post-Ethnic, Post-Racial Fascism.” C-Theory Event Scenes #115 (Nov. 6, 2002): online at http://www.ctheory.net/text_file.asp?pick=353

Derrida, Jacques. Of Grammatology. Trans. G.C. Spivak. Baltimore: John Hopkin’s UP, 1998.

Ehrenfeld, David. “Pseudocommunities.” Rooted in the Land: Essays on Community and Place. ed. William Vitek & Wes Jackson. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996: 20-24.

Ferguson, Robert. Representing Race: Ideology, Identity and the Media. NY: Arnold, 1998.

Foucault, Michel. The Archaeology of Knowledge. London: Tavistock, 1972.

---. The Order of Things. NY: Vintage, 1994.

Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. NY: Penguin, 1972.

Gee, James Paul. “Forward: A Discourse Approach to Language and Literacy.” Changing Literacies. Colin Lankshear. Philadelphia, PA: Open U, 1997: xiii-xix.

---. Social Linguistics and Literacies: Ideology in Discourses. 2nd ed. NY: Falmer P, 1996.

---. The Social Mind. NY: Bergin & Garvey, 1990.

Gee, James Paul, Glynda Hull, and Colin Lankshear. The New Work Order: Behind the Language of the New Capitalism. Boulder, CO: Westview P, 1996.

Geertz, Clifford. The Interpretation of Cultures. NY: Basic Books, 1973.

Gilmore, James H. and B. Joseph Pine II. The Experience Economy: Work is Theatre & Every Business a Stage. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1999.

Gottdiener, Mark. The Theming of America: Dreams, Visions, and Commercial Spaces. Boulder, CO: Westview P, 1997.

Hennessey, Rosemary. Materialist Feminism and the Politics of Discourse. NY: Routledge, 1993.

Hobsbawm, Eric and Terence Ranger, eds. The Invention of Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.

Horkheimer, Max and Theodor W. Adorno. Dialectic of Enlightenment. trans. Edmund Jephcott. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002.

Jameson, Fredric. Postmodernism, Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1991.

Keller, Evelyn Fox. “The Finishing Touch.” The Practice of Cultural Analysis. Eds. M. Bal and B. Gonzales. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 1999:

Kramer, Erik Mark. “The Spiders of Truth.” Postmodernism and Race. Ed. M.E. Kramer. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997: 1-15.

Lakoff, George. Moral Politics. 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.

Lankshear, Colin and Michael Knobel. New Literacies. Philadelphia, PA: Open University Press, 2002.

Lefebvre, Henri. Everyday Life in the Modern World. trans. Sacha Rabinovitch. NY: Harper Torchbooks, 1971.

Lemke, Jay L. Textual Politics: Discourse and Social Dynamics. NY: Taylor & Francis, 1995.

Leopold, Aldo. “The Community Concept.” A Sand County Almanac. NY: Oxford University Press, 1989: 203-207.

Lodge, David. Consciousness and the Novel. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002.

Marvin, Carolyn and David W. Ingle. Blood Sacrifice and the Nation. NY: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Modern Meat. Directed Doug Hamilton. PBS/Frontline, 2002. Associated site online at: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/meat/

New London Group. “A Pedagogy of Multiliteracies: Designing Social Futures.” Multiliteracies: Literacy Learning and the Design of Social Futures. NY: Routledge, 2000: 9-38.

Notes From Nowhere, ed. We Are Everywhere. NY: Verso, 2003.

Novotny, Patrick. Where We Live, Work and Play. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000.

Owens, Derek. Composition and Sustainability: Teaching For a Threatened Generation. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 2001.

Perez-Torres, Rafael. Movements in Chicano Poetry: Against Myths, Against Margins. NY: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Plotkin, Henry. The Imagined World Made Real: Towards a Natural Science of Culture. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutger’s University Press, 2003.

Polkinghorne, Donald E. Narrative Knowing and the Human Sciences. Albany: SUNY, 1988.

Porter, James E. “Intertextuality and the Discourse Community.” Rhetoric Review 5.1 (Fall 1986): 34-47.

Posner, Michael. “Image World.” Queen’s Quarterly 110.2 (Summer 2003): 228-241.

Rich, Adrienne. “As If Your Life Depended On It.” What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics. NY: W.W. Norton, 1993: 32-33.

Rigney, Daniel. The Metaphorical Society. NY: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.

Rubenstein, Richard L. The Cunning of History: The Holocaust and the American Future. NY: Harper Colophon, 1978.

Rushkoff, Douglas. Coercion: Why We Listen To What “They” Say? NY: Riverhead Books, 1999.

Said, Edward. “Opponents, Audiences, Constituencies, and Community.” Reflections on Exile and Other Essays. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001.

Sandoval, Chela. Methodology of the Oppressed. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2000.

San Juan, E. Jr. Racism and Cultural Studies: Critiques of Multiculturalist Ideology and the Politics of Difference. Durham, MC: Duke University Press, 2002.

Schraube, Ernst. “Reflecting On Who We Are in a Technological World.” Critical Psychology. Ed. Tod Sloan. NY: St. Martin’s P, 2000: 46-54.

Searle, John R. The Construction of Social Reality. NY: The Free Press, 1995.

Sennett, Richard. The Fall of Public Man. NY: Vintage, 1974.

Shor, Ira. Critical Teaching and Everyday Life. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Siegel, Daniel J. The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are. NY: The Guilford Press, 1999.

Shotter, John and Kenneth J. Gergen, eds. Texts of Identity. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1989.

Situationist International Anthology. ed. and trans. K. Knabb. Berkeley, CA: Bureau of Public Secrets, 1981.

Slattery, Patrick. Curriculum Development in the Postmodern World. NY: Garland, 1995.

Slavin, Jame F. and Art F. Young, eds. Critical Theory and the Teaching of Literature. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1996.

Subtext of a Yale Education. Directed Laura Dunn. Citizen Films, 1999.

Trifonas, Peter Pericles, ed. Revolutionary Pedagogies. NY: Routledge, 2000.

Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History. Boston: Beacon P, 1995.

Trueba, Enrique T. Latinos Unidos: From Cultural Diversity to the Politics of Solidarity. NY: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999.

Turner, Mark. Reading Minds: The Study of English in the Age of Cognitive Science. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1991.

Wilson, Timothy D. Strangers to Ourselves. NY: Belknap, 2002.

Zagzebski, Linda. “What is Knowledge?” The Blackwell Guide to Epistemology. eds. John Greco and Ernest Soja. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999: 92-116.

Zerubavel, Eviatar. The Fine Line: Making Distinctions in Everyday Life. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.

---. Social Mindscapes: An Invitation to Cognitive Sociology. Harvard University Press, 1999.

---. Time Maps: Collective Memory and the Social Shape of the Past. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.

Zizek, Slavoj. “The Spectre of Ideology.” The Zizek Reader. ed. Elizabeth Wright and Edmund Wright. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1999: 53-86.

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