Course texts (and recommended editions):
- Mark Doty, Dog Years (Harper Perennial, 2008)
- William Faulkner, “The Bear” in Go Down, Moses (Vintage, 1990)
- Linda Hogan, People of the Whale (Norton, 2008)
- Henry James, “The Beast in the Jungle” in Tales of Henry James (Norton Critical, 2nd ed., 2003)
- Jack London, The Call of the Wild and White Fang (Bantam, 2003)
- Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place (Vintage, 1992)
- Karen Tei Yamashita, Through the Arc of the Rainforest (Coffee House, 1990)
- Michael Apted, dir., Gorillas in the Mist: The Adventure of Dian Fossey (Universal Studios, 1998)
- Peter Jackson, dir., King Kong (Universal Pictures, 2005)
- Marianne DeKoven and Michael Lundblad, eds., Species Matters: Humane Advocacy and Cultural Theory (Columbia UP, 2012)
- Michael Lundblad, The Birth of a Jungle: Animality in Progressive-Era U.S. Literature and Culture (Oxford UP, 2013)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, “Mazes” (to be distributed in class)