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Fall 2024: (In)Equalities

You’re expected to purchase four books. PDFs are provided for other assigned texts.

Do not substitute other translations or editions. If you find a copy elsewhere, use the citation information and ISBN to ensure you’re purchasing the correct version. 

Several copies will also be available at the local Hanover bookstore Still North for purchasing. These books will also be available for physical check out at Baker-Berry Library reserves for two-hour slots.

Thanks to a donation, we have limited funds to purchase books for students with high financial need so please email Prof. Rebecca Biron if purchasing these books presents a financial hardship.

  • Rigoberta Menchú, I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatamala. Ed. Elisabeth Burgos-Debray. Trans. Ann Wright. Verso, 1984. ISBN 0860917886. Available for purchase here, here, here, or here.
  • Théodore Géricault, Raft of the Medusa
  • Françoise de Graffigny. Letters of a Peruvian Woman, translated by Jonathan Mallinson. Oxford, 2009. ISBN 0199208174. Available for purchase here or here. 
  • Bong Joon-Ho, Snowpiercers
  • Jacques Lacan, “The Mirror Stage”
  • Nella Larsen, Passing. Penguin, 2004. ISBN 9780142437278. Available for purchase here or here.
  • Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
  • Friedrich Nietzsche, “On the Noble” from Beyond Good and Evil
  • John Rawls, “Justice as Fairness” and “A Kantian Conception of Equality”
  • Sophocles, Philoctetes
  • Leo Tolstoy, Lives and Deaths: Essential Stories. Trans. Boris Dralyuk. Pushkin Collection: 2020. ISBN 9781782275411. Available for purchase here or here. 

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winter 2025: longing and belonging


The faculty for Global Humanities II is still deciding on the list of works, but their preliminary list (subject to change) includes Romeo and Juliet (both Shakespeare’s play and Gounod’s opera), Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Miguel de Cervantes’s The Stage of Wonders, Jorge Luis Bourges’s “Averroes Search,” Wanuri Kahiu’s film Rafiki, Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, and Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s film Drive My Car. Check back in late June for more updates!