Shaun Duke
Shaun Duke is an aspiring writer, a reviewer, and an academic. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Digital Rhetoric and Writing at Bemidji State University. He received his PhD in English from the University of Florida and studies science fiction, postcolonialism, digital fan cultures, and digital rhetoric.
All Posts
Adventures in Teaching: The Dystopia Lit. Syllabus Reading List
Reading Time
My “The Dystopian Tradition and American Anxiety” syllabus is finalized and submitted to the English department for approval. Good news, no? In the meantime, I’d like to share the reading list for this course, just so everyone can see what I’ve assigned for these poor little undergrads to read. There are still a few gaps, which I will mention at the end. If you have any suggestions for historically relevant essays and the like to fill those gaps, please let me know in the comments.
Here it is:
Novels
The Gold Coast by Kim Stanley Robinson
Make Room, Make Room! by Harry Harrison
The Iron Heel by Jack London
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
The Female Man by Joanna Russ
Short Stories
“The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula K. Le Guin
“The Machine Stops” by E. M. Forster
“The Calorie Man” by Paolo Bacigalupi
“Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut (with a screening of 2081)
“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson
“Bloodchild” by Octavia Butler
“I have No Mouth and I Must Scream” by Harlan Ellison
“The Funeral” by Kate Wilhelm
“A Sojourn in the City of Amalgamation” by Oliver Bolokitten (excerpts)
Historical Documents
“Evidence against the views of the abolitionists: consisting of physical and moral proofs of the natural inferiority of the Negroes” by Richard H. Colfax (1833)
“Overpopulation Threatens World” by Ralph Segman
“Overpopulation Called Deadlier Killer Than A-Bomb” by Unknown
“Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear” by Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele
President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Farewell Address
“Interview w/ Noam Chomsky” conducted by David Barsamian (excerpts)
“Profits of War: The Fruits of the Permanent Military-Industrial Complex” by William Hartung
Critical Readings
“Theses on Dystopia 2001” by Darko Suvin
“Introduction: Dystopia and Histories” by Raffaella Baccolini and Tom Moylan
“New Maps of Hell” by Tom Moylan (excerpts)
“The Dystopian Turn” by Tom Moylan (excerpts)
The Gaps
Historical readings I need:
Share this:
Like this:
Related
Shaun Duke
Follow Me
Newsletter
Support Me
Recent Posts
Book Review: Start Finishing by Charlie Gilkey (2022)
Sometime near the end of the Spring semester, I decided it was time to take another crack and reorganizing my life. I’ve gone through years of on again / off again burnout, some of it my own fault (I’m disorganized and try to do too much) and some of it a consequence of things about which I have no control (my former university essentially bankrupted itself, forcing me to find a new job in my field, and I’ve since moved twice — the short version). All that burnout and overfilled plate-ism has made it harder to keep up with grading and find the energy to complete tasks on time. So it seemed only logical to use my university library privileges to borrow a variety of recommend productivity and project management books to see what advice, systems, etc. are out there.
Share this:
Like this:
A Reading List of Dystopian Fiction and Relevant Texts (Apropos of Nothing in Particular)
Why would someone make a list of important and interesting works of dystopian fiction? Or a suggested reading list of works that are relevant to those dystopian works? There is absolutely no reason other than raw interest. There’s nothing going on to compel this. There is nothing in particular one making such a list would hope you’d learn. The lists below are not an exhaustive list. There are bound to be texts I have forgotten or texts you think folks should read that are not listed. Feel free to make your own list and tell me about it OR leave a comment. I’ll add things I’ve missed! Anywhoodles. Here goes:
Share this:
Like this:
Duke’s Best EDM Tracks of 2024
And so it came to pass that I finished up my annual Best of EDM [Insert Year Here] lists. I used to do these on Spotify before switching to Tidal, and I continued doing them on Tidal because I listen to an absurd amount of EDM and like keeping track of the tunes I love the most. Below, you will find a Tidal playlist that should be public. You can listen to the first 50 tracks right here, but the full playlist is available on Tidal proper (which has a free version just like Spotify does). For whatever reason, the embedded playlist breaks the page, and so I’ve opted to link to it here and at the bottom of this post. Embeds are weird. Or you can pull songs into your preferred listening app. It’s up to you. Some caveats before we begin:
Share this:
Like this:
Categories