Past exams

Here you can find reading lists for the past five years, along with a sample exam from a previous year.

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Reading List

These are the readings for the current exam. Remember that you MUST purchase the precise edition given here. These are the only books you will be allowed to bring with you on the day of the exam.

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Graduate School Forms

Forms for international students, certification, registration and requests for travel and other activities.

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Independent study

The link here will open a pdf form to apply for a Graduate/Independent Study opportunity.

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Graduation Information for graduate students

Find out details of applying to graduate, along with a checklist and dates and deadlines.

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Travel

The following are the two forms graduate students should look over if they are looking to be reimbursed for travel.

• Funding Graduate Travel
• Interactive/Printable Travel Form

Deadlines
Travel	TBA
Graduation	TBA

Reading List: 2006-07

 

Literary Theory

Eakin, Paul. How our Lives Become Stories. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1999. 0-8014-8598-3

Rorty, Richard. Achieving Our Country. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1998. 0-674-00312-8

Literacy Theory

Jarratt, Susan C. Rereading the Sophists. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1991.0-8093-2224-2

Street, Brian. Social Literacies. London: Longman, 1995. 0-582-102219

Primary Texts

Dillard, Annie. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. McGraw Hill, 2000. 0-07-243417-1

Morrison, Toni. Beloved. Knopf, 2004. 1-4000-3341-1

Austen, Jane. Emma. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005. 1-41650028-5

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter. New York: Penguin, 2005. 1-59609-175-4

Shakespeare, William. Macbeth. New York: Oxford UP, 2005. 0-19-832146-5

Carver, Raymond. Where I’m Calling From. Knopf, 1989. 0-679-72231-9

Levertov, Denise. Selected Poems. New Directions, 2003. 0-8112-1554-7

Miller, Arthur. The Crucible and Death of a Salesman. The Portable Arthur Miller. New York: Penguin, 2003. 0-14-243755-7