Week One  **Reading schedule is subject to change.

• Paula Gunn Allen poem, "Dear World"
• James Pennebaker, "Telling Stories: The Health Benefits of Narrative"
• Rita Charon, "Narrative & Medicine"
• Rita Charon online reading "Narrative Medicine" (click on title or go to url: <http://litsite.alaska.edu/uaa/healing/medicine.html>

• Lecture excerpts from Anne Hunsaker Hawkins, Reconstructing Illness

OPTIONAL READING:
 Scientific American: When Medicine Meets Literature
Writing and humanities studies produce better physicians, Rita Charon argues, because doctors learn to coax hidden information from patients' complaints

• Finish discussion from week one
• Stanford, Introduction & Coda
• Susan Sontag, AIDS and its Metaphors

• Schneider & DeHaven, "Revisiting the Navajo Way"
• Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge

Mandala of Health

"You have to bring the spirit back to medicine. Return the hope that we are connected to something outside of ourselves."

         --Anonymous

Week Four (2/8)

• Stanford, Chapter 7
• Stone, "The Myth of Bodily Perfection"
• Sheila Ortiz Taylor, Coachella

Week Five (2/15)

• Waldram, "The Efficacy of Traditional Medicine"
• Linda Hogan, Woman Who Watches Over the World

Week Six (2/22)

• Garland-Thomson "Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory"
• Stanford, Chapter 6
• Ana Castillo, So Far From God

Week Seven (3/1)

• Siebers, "Disability in Theory"
• Stanford, Chapter 4
• Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

Week Eight (3/8)

• Stanford, Chapter 5
• Joy Harjo poems, "I Give You Back" and "Woman Who Hangs"
• Linda Hogan poems, "Tear" and "Sickness"
• Lucille Clifton poems, "Scar" and "Amazons"
• Sucheng Chang essay, "You're Short Besides!"
• Form and discuss conference panels

• Gay Wilentz, Healing Narratives
• Work on abstracts and panel proposals

• Begay & Maryboy, "The Whole Universe is My Cathedral"
• Lori Arviso Alvord, The Scalpel and the Silver Bear
• Finalize panels

• No class
• Abstracts and panel proposals due Sunday
• Kelley, "Damballah is the First Law of Thermodynamics" (to help your reading of Silko and Bambara)

• Swentzell, "Healing Spaces in a Tewa Pueblo World"
• Stanford, Chapter 2
• Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony
• Workshop conference papers (final hour)--bring 5 questions for your readers (i.e., concerns you have about your paper)

• Stanford, Chapter 1
• Toni Cade Bambara, The Salt Eaters
• Conference papers due

OPTIONAL READING:
Cultural Reproduction Through Literature as Activism

• Mini-Conference presentations
• Workshop final papers--bring questions or concerns you have about your final paper

• Finish mini-Conference presentations
• Final paper due; no late papers accepted