Social Justice resources:
- The Southern Poverty Law Center
- Tennessee Students and Educators for Social Justice: https://tnsocialjustice.wordpress.com/
- Freedom Education Project Puget Sound: http://fepps.org/
- Inside-Out Center: http://www.insideoutcenter.org/
- Alabama Justice Project: http://alabamajusticeproject.com/
- Mississippi Center for Justice: http://www.mscenterforjustice.org/
Job-market help and advice:
- The latest job-market report from the MLA: 2014-2015 MLA Job Market Report
- Sharon Marcus, "Scenes from the Life of a Graduate Advisor" (Sept. 11, 2015): https://chroniclevitae.com/news/1120-scenes-from-the-life-of-a-graduate-adviser
- Karen Kelsky, "The Professor Is In: To Think, You First Must Eat" (August 11, 2015): https://chroniclevitae.com/news/1093-the-professor-is-in-to-think-you-first-must-eat
- Kelsky's website: http://theprofessorisin.com/
Resources for Teaching Literature and Pedagogy:
- The Science Behind Stereotypes
- Gerald Graff, Beyond the Culture Wars (1992)
- Gerald Graff, Professing Literature: An Institutional History (1987)
- Elaine Showalter, Teaching Literature (2002)
- Sheridan Blau, Literature Workshop: Teaching Texts and Their Readers (2003)
- Cristina Bruns, Why Literature? (2011)
- Kathleen Blake Yancey, Teaching Literature as Reflective Practice (2004)
- Toby Fulwiler and Art Young, eds. When Writing Teachers Teach Literature: Bringing Writing to Reading (1995)
- Rita Felski, Uses of Literature (2008)
- Rita Felski, Literature after Feminism (2003)
- Lisa Zunshine, “Why Fiction Does It Best” (2012)
- Lisa Zunshine, Introduction to Cognitive Cultural Studies (2010)
- Mark Bracher, Literature and Social Justice (2013)
- March Bracher, “Teaching for Social Justice: Re-educating the Emotions through Literary Study” (2006)
- David Miall, Literary Reading: Empirical and Theoretical Studies (2006)
- Sara Ahmed, The Cultural Politics of Emotion (2004)
- Counternarratives: Cultural studies and Critical Pedagogies in Postmodern Spaces (1996), eds. Henry Giroux, Colin Lankshear, Peter McLaren, and Michael Peters
- Laura Wilder, Rhetorical Strategies and Genre Conventions in Literary Studies: Teaching and Writing in the Disciplines (2012)
- Robert Scholes, Textual Power (1985)
- Michael Apple, Teachers and Texts (1987
- David Barton and Mary Hamilton, Situated Literacies- Reading and Writing in Context (1998)
- Joshua Landy, How to Do Things with Fictions (2012)
- Amy Devitt, “Integrating Rhetorical and Literary Theories of Genre” (2000)
- Amy Devitt, “Teaching Critical Genre Awareness” (2009)
- Anis Bawarshi, “The Genre Function” (2000)
- Wai-chi Dimock, “Introduction- Genres as Fields of Knowledge” (2007)
- John Frow, Genre (2006)
- Lisa Maria Hogeland, Feminism and Its Fictions (1998)
- Deanne Bogdan, Re-Educating the Imagination: Toward a Poetics, Politics, and Pedagogy of Literary Engagement (1992)
- Criticalreading.com