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Tarren Andrews (Yale): Critical Reading Methods in Indigenous Literatures
Tarren Andrews's Yale seminar on Indigenous literatures is built around a weekly journal in which students describe where they read and analyze how that place shaped their reading. Syllabus and assignment sheet as PDFs.
Forty Years in America with Thomas Pynchon
What begins as a graduate student’s attempt to decode American English becomes a lifelong education in language, jazz, politics, and belonging. Through decades of reading Thomas Pynchon, a deeper truth emerges: the novel does not merely describe a world — it teaches us how to inhabit one.
Reading Prompts
A few prompts to help you shape your own reading experience, or your students'.