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ENGL 667

Studies in Post-Colonial Literature

3 credits · Graduate

Fall 2026 · Plant Humanities and Postcolonial Studies

Topics

  • Critical plant studies
  • Postcolonial literature
  • Plantation histories
  • Economic botany
  • Plants in poetry and narrative

Readings

  • Jeffrey Nealon, Plant Theory: Biopower and Vegetal Life (2017).
    Listed reading
  • Banu Subramaniam, Botany and Empire: Plant Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism (2024).
    Listed reading
  • Malcom Ferdinand, Decolonial Ecology: Thinking from the Caribbean World (2022).
    Listed reading
  • Amitav Ghosh, River of Smoke (2011) and The Nutmeg’s Curse (2021).
    Listed reading
  • Jamaica Kincaid, My Garden: Book (1999) and An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children (2024).
    Listed reading
  • Madhur Anand, A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes (2015).
    Listed reading
  • Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass (2015) and The Serviceberry (2024).
    Listed reading
  • Sumana Roy, How I Became a Tree (2022) and Plant Thinkers of Twentieth-Century Bengal (2024).
    Listed reading
  • Daniel Coleman, Yardwork: A Biography of an Urban Place (2017).
    Listed reading
  • Robert McFarlene [as printed], Landmarks (2015) and The Lost Words: A Spell Book (2017).
    Listed reading
  • Maura Flannery, “How to Read an Herbarium Specimen,” Plant Humanities Lab.
    Listed reading
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