Readings:

• McAlister, Sean. “Melville’s Family or Stranger Poetics.”

Optional: Tomkins, Silvan. 1962/1995. Shame-humiliation and contempt-disgust. In Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Adam Frank. Eds. 1995. Shame and its sisters: A Silvan Tomkins reader (pp. 133–178). Durham: Duke University Press.

Chair: Michael Moon

Readings:

• Anker, Elisabeth. 2014. Orgies of Feeling: Melodrama and the Politic of Freedom. Durham: Duke University Press. Chapter 1 “The Venomous Eye: Melodrama, Media, and National Identity After 9/11” pp. 31–64.

• Massumi, Brian. 1995. The autonomy of affect. Cultural Critique, 31, 83-109.

Optional: Anker, Elisabeth. 2014. Orgies of Feeling: Melodrama and the Politic of Freedom. Durham: Duke University Press. Introduction “Melodrama and the Politics of Freedom” pp. 1–30.

Chair: Lynne Huffer

Readings:

• Mankekar, Purnima. 2015. Unsettling India: Affect, Temporality, Transnationality. Durham: Duke University Press.  Chapter 1 “Unsettlement” pp. 1–38

• Stewart, Kathleen. 2007. Ordinary Affects. Durham: Duke University Press (pp. 1-40).

Optional: Mankekar, Purnima. 2015. Unsettling India: Affect, Temporality, Transnationality.  Durham: Duke University Press. Chapter 2 “Moving Images: Reconceptualizing Indianness in Diwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge” pp. 39–70.

Chair: Carla Freeman

Readings:

• Goldsman, Aaron. “Setting the Scene: Frank O’Hara and the Theater of Occasion.”

Optional: Frank, Adam. 2015. “Loose Coordinations: Theater and Thinking in Gertrude Stein.” In A. Frank Transferential Poetics, from Poe to Warhol (pp. 96–118). New York: Fordham University Press.

Optional: Gertrude Stein. 1935/1985. “Plays.” In Lectures in America. New York: Random House.

• Weitzenkorn, Rachel. “Feeling for the Cognition of the Still-Face.”

Optional: Berlant, Lauren and Edelman, Lee. 2013. Sex, or the Unbearable. Durham: Duke University Press. Chapter 1 “Sex Without Optimism” (pp. 1–34) and “Afterwards” (pp. 129–133).

Optional: Berlant, Lauren. 2008. The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture. Durham: Duke University Press. “Introduction: Intimacy, Publicity, and Femininity” (pp. 1–31).

Chair: Elizabeth Wilson

 Readings:

• Sharpe, Cristina. 2016. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being. Durham: Duke University Press. Chapter 1 “The Wake” pp. 1–22

• Wilderson, Frank. 2010. “The Narcissistic Slave.” In Red, White & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms (pp. 74-126). Durham: Duke University Press.

Optional: Moten, Fred. 2003. “Black Mo’nin.” In David Eng and David Kazanjian. Eds. Loss: The Politics of Mourning (pp. 59-76). Berkeley: University of California Press.

Optional: Sharpe, Cristina. 2016. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being.  Durham: Duke University Press. Chapter 2 “The Ship” pp. 25–67

Chair: Taryn D. Jordan

Readings: TBA

Chair: Dilek Huseyinzadegan

Summer School

Elisabeth Anker, American Studies, George Washington University

Orgies of Feeling: Melodrama and the Politic of Freedom. Durham: Duke University Press.

Purnima Mankekar, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, UCLA

Unsettling India: Affect, Temporality, Transnationality. Durham: Duke University Press.

Christina Sharpe, English, Tufts University

In the Wake: On Blackness and Being. Durham: Duke University Press.