Course Materials
- Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. 1969.
- Aronofsky, Darren. Requiem for a Dream. Film. 2000.
- Burgess, Anthony. A Clockwork Orange. 1963.
- Chopra, Joyce. Smooth Talk. 1985.
- Cook, Fielder. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Film. 1979.
- Demme, Jonathan. Beloved. Film. 1998.
- Ellis, Bret Easton. American Psycho. 1991.
- Ferber, Abby L., Kimberly Holcomb and Tre Wentling. Sex, Gender, and Sexuality: The New Basics. 2016.
- Gaitskill, Mary. “Secretary.” Bad Behavior: Stories 2009.
- Gilbert, Sandra M. and Susan Gubar. Feminist Literary Theory and Criticism: A Norton Reader. 2007.
- Harron, Mary. American Psycho. Film. 2000.
- Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God. 1937.
- Kubrick, Stanley. A Clockwork Orange. Film. 1972.
- Lyne, Adrian. Lolita. Film. 2013.
- Martin, Darnell. Their Eyes Were Watching God. 2005.
- Morrison. Toni. Beloved. 1987.
- Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita. Novel. Vintage, 1989.
- Oates, Joyce Carol. “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” 1978.
- Paglia, Camille. Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism. 2017.
- Potter, Sally. Orlando. Film. 1992.
- Selby, Hubert Jr. Requiem for a Dream. Novel. 1978.
- Shainberg, Steven. “Secretary.” Film. 2000.
- Williams, Diane. Some Sexual Success Stories: Plus Other Stories in Which God Might Choose to Appear. 1992.
- Woolf, Virginia. Orlando. 1928.
SUGGESTED MATERIALS
- Burroway, Janet, Elizabeth Stuckey-French and Ned Stuckey-French. Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft.
- Derrida, Jacques. “Cogito et Histoire de la Folie.” 1963.
- Harmon, William. A Handbook to Literature. 2011.
- Kandel, Eric. The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present. 2012.
- National Institute of Mental Health. Cognitive Neuropsychology Section, Laboratory of Brain and Cognition.
- O’Conner, Patricia T. Woe is I: The Grammarphobe’s Guide to Better English in Plain English.
- Puchner, Martin et al. The Norton Anthology of World Literature.
- Rosen, Gideon and Alex Byrne. The Norton Introduction to Philosophy.
- Shawl, Nisi and Cynthia Ward. Writing the Other.
- Stevenson, Angus and Christine A. Lindberg. New Oxford American Dictionary.
- Strunk, William. The Elements of Style.
- Truss, Lynne. Eats Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation.
Contributing Faculty
Rae Bryant is the author of the short story collection, The Indefinite State of Imaginary Morals. Her fiction, prose-poetry and essays have appeared in print and online at The Paris Review, The Missouri Review, Diagram, StoryQuarterly, McSweeney’s, New World Writing, Gargoyle Magazine, and Redivider, among other publications and have been nominated for the Pen/Hemingway, Pen Emerging Writers, &NOW Award and Pushcart Prize. She has won awards in fiction from Whidbey Writers and The Johns Hopkins University. She earned a Masters in Writing from Hopkins where she continues to teach creative writing and is editor in chief of The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review. She has also taught in the International Writing Program at The University of Iowa. She is represented by Jennifer Carlson of Dunow, Carlson and Lerner.
One on One Creative Writing Workshop
If you would like to share your narrative, post it to the discussion board below and share it with your course peers. If you end up expanding this narrative into a fuller work and would like written, individualized feedback on it, we invite you to join us for a One on One Creative Writing Workshop.