ENG 460 - Feminist Literary Theories

Department: English

Description: Advanced overview of interdisciplinary feminist paradigms, emphasizing English Studies and literature, theory, and social discourse.

Credit Hours: 3

Graduate Level Course: This course is approved for graduate credit

Current Offerings

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Spring 2025

001 - Lecture (Hybrid): Multiple Meetings, Derek Sparby - 3.00 hour(s)

Meeting Times:

01/13/2025 - 05/03/2025 : TBD TBD - Hybrid Class (HYBRID )
01/13/2025 - 05/03/2025 : M 5:30 PM - 8:20 PM - Adlai E. Stevenson Hall 410 (STV 410)

Instructor: Derek Sparby

Textbook Special Instructions: The class will focus on crip and trans studies.

Book Title

ISBN

Author

Edition

Publisher

MSRP

Notes

Golem Girl (Required)

ISBN9781984820327

AuthorRiva Lehrer

Edition2021

PublisherOne World

MSRP N/A

NotesTextbook/Material Note: Effort will be made to provide electronic copy; The class will focus on crip and trans studies

Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure (Required)

ISBN9780822362876

AuthorEli clare

Edition2017

PublisherDuke

MSRP N/A

NotesTextbook/Material Note: Effort will be made to provide electronic copy; The class will focus on crip and trans studies

Beasts of Burden Animal and Disability Liberation (Required)

ISBN9781620971284

AuthorSunaura Taylor

Edition

PublisherThe New Press

MSRP N/A

NotesTextbook/Material Note: Effort will be made to provide electronic copy; The class will focus on crip and trans studies

a body more tolerable (Required)

ISBN9781551529677

Authorjaye simpson

Edition2025 (releases April 15 2025)

PublisherArsenal pulp press

MSRP N/A

NotesTextbook/Material Note: Effort will be made to provide electronic copy; The class will focus on crip and trans studies

Mad Scholars Reclaiming and Reimagining the Neurod (Required)

ISBN9780815657149

AuthorMelanie Jones, Shayda Kafai

Edition2024

PublisherSyracuse University Press

MSRP N/A

NotesTextbook/Material Note: Effort will be made to provide electronic copy; The class will focus on crip and trans studies

How We Make Each Other Trans Life at the Edge of t (Required)

ISBN9781478031307

AuthorPerry Zurn

Edition2025

PublisherDuke

MSRP N/A

NotesTextbook/Material Note: Effort will be made to provide electronic copy; The class will focus on crip and trans studies

The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (Required)

ISBN9780822372530

AuthorJasbir K. Puar

Edition2017

PublisherDuke

MSRP N/A

NotesTextbook/Material Note: Effort will be made to provide electronic copy; The class will focus on crip and trans studies

dear elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss (Required)

ISBN9781478025672

AuthorKhúc, Mimi

Edition2024

PublisherDuke

MSRP N/A

NotesTextbook/Material Note: Effort will be made to provide electronic copy; The class will focus on crip and trans studies

School A Novel (Required)

ISBN9781573662024

AuthorRay Levy

Edition2023

PublisherUniversity of Alabama Press

MSRP N/A

NotesTextbook/Material Note: Effort will be made to provide electronic copy; The class will focus on crip and trans studies

The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment (Required)

ISBN9781478023302

AuthorCameron Awkward-Rich

Edition2022

PublisherDuke

MSRP N/A

NotesTextbook/Material Note: Effort will be made to provide electronic copy; The class will focus on crip and trans studies

Mutual Aid (Required)

ISBN9781839762123

AuthorDean Spade

Edition2020

Publisherverso

MSRP N/A

NotesTextbook/Material Note: Effort will be made to provide electronic copy; The class will focus on crip and trans studies