#columbus is EXTREMELY karen smith

[mary-queen-of-longbeach]

Bremen, Europa, and Columbus

That’s right it’s THESE absolute heathens! I love these guys to bits (especially Bremen now that I’ve visited her wreck), but within my lore they’re far from the most savory people.

From left to right, we have:

Columbus, the ditzy, shallow, yet devastatingly loyal follower,

Bremen, the cruel, hateful ringleader who believes everyone else must be ‘put in their place,’

and Europa, Bremen’s shy, conflict-avoidant twin who secretly wishes her sister would be nicer.

[writingaboutreading]

fall 2017 reading list

a list of every damn thing I read this semester (that is, I was assigned more than this, and this is what I actually finished in the interest of not losing my mind)

NOVELS:

Paradise- Toni Morrison

NON-FICTION:

Between the World and Me- Ta-Nehisi Coates

Hunger- Roxane Gay

PLAYS:

The Wonder Show- Migue de Cervantes

Juan Latino- Diego Jiménez de Ensico

The Island Princess- John Fletcher

The Fair Maid of the West, pt. 1- Thomas Heywood

They Jew of Malta- Christopher Marlowe

The Renegado- Philip Massinger

The Merchat of Venice- William Shakespeare

Othello- William Shakespeare

The Tempest- William Shakespeare

Titus Andronicus- William Shakespeare

The Jewess of Toledo- Lope de Vega

POEMS:

To His Mistress Going to Bed- John Donne

SCHOLARLY ARTICLES:

The Theoretical Subjects of This Bridge Called My Back and Anglo-American Feminism- Norma Alarcon

Writing with Teachers: A Conversation with Peter Elbow- David Bartholomae

Sex in Public- Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner

Is the Rectum a Grave- Leo Bersani

Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens- Cathy Cohen

Rhetoric in the Modern University: The Creation of an Underclass- Robert J. Connors

The Rhetorician as an Agent of Social Change- Ellen Cushman

Being a Writer vs. Being an Academic: A Conflict in Goals- Peter Elbow

Freewriting Exercises- Peter Elbow

Rhetoric as a Course of Study- David Fleming

Turn the Beat Around: Sadomasochism, Temporality, Histoy- Elizabeth Freeman

From Ethos to Ethnos: Hispanizing “the Spaniard” in the Old World and the New- Eric Griffin

“Not the Stereotypical View of the South”: An Oral History Service-Learning Project in a Southern Women’s Literature Course- Casey Kayser

An Agenda for Theory- Catharine Mackinnon

Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses- Chandra Talpade Mohanty

Unproper Beds: Race, Adultery, and the Hideous in Othello- Michael Neill

The Political Economy of the Dead: Marx’s Vampires- Mark Neocleous

Portia’s Ring- Karen Newman

Prospero’s Wife- Stephen Orgel

Queer Times, Queer Assemblages- Jasbir Puar

The Composing Process of Unskilled College Writers- Sondra Perl

White Limed Walls: Whiteness and Gothic Extremism in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus- Francesca Royster

Queer and Now- Eve Sedgwick

Sexual Violence as a Tool of Genocide- Andrea Smith

Sex, Gender, and War in An Age of Multicultural Imperialism- Dean Spade and Craig Willse

Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book- Hortense J. Spillers

Developing Pedagogies: Learning the Teaching of English- Shari Stenberg and Amy Lee

“We’re Here, and We’re Not Going Anywhere”: Why Working-Class Rhetorical Traditions Still Matter- Nancy Welch

One is Not Born Woman- Monique Wittig

OTHER:

Chapters 1-3 of Book One of Rhetoric- Aristotle

Against Proper Objects- Judith Butler

“Anti-Semitism” Before “Semites”: The Risks and Rewards of Anachronism- Matthew Chalmers (blog)

The First Voyage- Christopher Columbus

The Fourth Voyage- Christopher Columbus

“Toward an Indigenous Jurisprudence of Rape”- Sarah Deer (chapter)

“The Trouble with Peacemaking”- Sarah Deer (chapter)

“Righting Tribal Rape Law”- Sarah Deer (chapter)

Is Paris Burning?- bell hooks

An English Lass Amid the Moors: Gender, Race, Sexuality, and National Identity in Heywood’s The Fair Maid of the West- Jean E. Howard (chapter)

The Uses of the Erotic- Audre Lorde (essay/chapter)

Feminism, Democracy, and Empire: Islam and the War on Terror- Saba Mahmood (chapter)

“The Nervous System” from Writing at the End of the World- Richard E. Miller (chapter)

What We’re Rollin Around in Bed With: Sexual Silences in Feminism- Cherrie Moraga and Amber Hollibaugh

"Race and the Middle Ages: The Case of Spain and Its Jews” from Rereading the Black Legend- David Nirenberg (chapter)

“The Learning Curve” from Me Talk Pretty One Day- David Sedaris (chapter)

Were Medieval People Racist?- Paul B. Sturtevant (blog)

“Reform: Redifining Authenticity in Shakespeare Reform Programs” from Passing Strange- Ayanna Thompson (chapter)

Rumsfeld!: Consensual BDSM and ‘Sadomasochistic’ Torture at Abu Ghraib- Margot Weiss (chapter)