PhD reading lists

The reading lists have been compiled as an aid to PhD candidates studying for their comprehensive examinations. These lists are suggestive, not definitive and students are expected to have read widely in their fields of interest and be thoroughly familiar with the major writers and works. Reading lists are also available from the Director of Graduate Studies and the Graduate Studies Advisor. All lists are in PDF format.

Literary Historical Periods

• Early Middle Ages (Old English)
• Later Middle Ages (Middle English)
• Medieval Studies Secondary Sources
• Early Renaissance
• Later Renaissance
• Restoration and Eighteenth Century
• British and Irish Romanticism
• Victorianism
• Early American
• Nineteenth Century American
• Modern British and American
• Modern Irish Literature
• Contemporary British and American

Complementary Disciplines

• American Indian and Indigenous Literature
• Chicana/o Literature
• Composition
• Criticism and Theory
• Language and Rhetoric
• Postcolonial Theory

Individualized Study Lists - available in the Graduate office, HUM 267

• African-American Writings and Other Works
• American and Mexican American Literature, 1848-1958
• American Nature Writing
• Comparative Rhetoric:
• Content-based Literature
• Contrastive Literature
• Error Corrections and Grammar
• Grammar Texts
• Pedagogical Texts
• Feminist Literature and Theory
• Genre: Non-Fiction Prose
• Genre: Professional Discourse
• Literature and the Environment
• Oral Narratives/Folklore Studies
• Southwestern Literature
• Western American Literature
• Women Writers in English

Ezra Meier
Graduate Administrative Assistant
Humanities 267
(505) 277-4437
nezra@unm.edu