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: 2009-10

 

Theoretical Texts

Aristotle. Poetics. Trans. S. H. Butcher. Cosimo Classics, 2008. ISBN-10: ISBN 1605203556; ISBN-13: 9781605203553

Showalter, Elaine. A Literature of Their Own. Princeton UP, 1998. ISBN-10: 0691004765; ISBN-13: 978-0691004761

Berlin, James. Rhetorics, Poetics, and Cultures. Parlor Press, 2003. ISBN-10: 0972477284; ISBN-13: 978-0972477284

Glenn, Cheryl. Unspoken: A Rhetoric of Silence. Southern Illinois UP, 2004. ISBN-10: 0809325845; ISBN-13: 978-0809325849

Primary Texts

Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, 1996. ISBN 10: 0312080824; ISBN 13: 978-0312080822

Dickinson, Emily. The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition.Ed. R.W. Franklin.Belknap Press, Harvard UP, 2005. ISBN-10: 0674018249; ISBN 13: 978-0674018242

Erdrich, Louise. Love Medicine. Harper Perennial Classics, 2005. ISBN-10: 0060786469; ISBN-13: 978-0060786465

Goldsmith, Oliver. She Stoops to Conquer. Book Jungle Standard Publications, 2007. ISBN-10: 160424155; ISBN-13: 978-1604241556

Kingston, Maxine Hong. The Woman Warrior. Vintage, 1989. ISBN-10: 0679721886; ISBN-13: 978-0679721888

Morrison, Toni. Sula. Vintage, 2004. ISBN-10: 1400033438; ISBN-13: 978-1400033430

Shakespeare. Twelfth Night. Ed. Roger Warren & Stanley Wells. Oxford UP, 2008. ISBN-10: 0199536090; ISBN-13: 978-0199536092 (Reissue Edition)

Wordsworth, William. The Prelude (Text of 1805). Ed. Stephen Gill. 2nd ed. Oxford UP, 1970. ISBN-10: 019281074X; ISBN-13: 9780192810748