TUESDAY, JANUARY 16
Introduction

THURSDAY, JANUARY 18
[Blog post due]

TUESDAY, JANUARY 23
Music: Louis Armstrong

THURSDAY, JANUARY 25
[Blog post due]
Unfathomable City, pp. 1-31: Introduction, “A City in Time,” “Ebb & Flow,” “People Who”
Music: Professor Longhair

TUESDAY, JANUARY 30
Unfathomable City, pp. 98-106: “Repercussions”

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1
[Blog post due]
Kate Chopin, The Awakening

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6
Kate Chopin, The Awakening

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8
Unfathomable City, pp. 107-120: “Thirty-Nine Sundays” and “Bass Lines”
Deborah Luster: One Big Self
Deborah Luster: Tooth For An Eye

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13
[Blog post due]
Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15
Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20
Music: Big Freedia & Bounce
Unfathomable City, pp. 121-126: “Where Dey At”

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22
Unfathomable City: pp. 55-66: “Of Levees and Prisons” and “Civil Rights and Lemon Ice”

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27
[Blog post due]
Trethewey, Bellocq’s Ophelia

THURSDAY, MARCH 1
Trethewey, Bellocq’s Ophelia

TUESDAY, MARCH 6 SPRING BREAK

THURSDAY, MARCH 8 SPRING BREAK

TUESDAY, MARCH 13
[Blog post due]
Percy, The Moviegoer

THURSDAY, MARCH 15
Percy, The Moviegoer

TUESDAY, MARCH 20
Percy, The Moviegoer

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21
Writers Series: Jennifer Ackerman
7:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Cochran Library Reahard Learning Gallery

THURSDAY, MARCH 22
VA FESTIVAL OF THE BOOK
Panel: New Orleans: Unflinching Fiction
Panelists: John Gregory Brown, Nathaniel Rich, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Central JMRL Library
201 E Market Street, Charlottesville, VA 22902

TUESDAY, MARCH 27
 Lee, When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

THURSDAY, MARCH 29
Lee, When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

TUESDAY, APRIL 3
David Simon, Tremé

THURSDAY, APRIL 5
David Simon, Tremé

TUESDAY, APRIL 10
Additional Text presentations
Ingrid, Jordan, Kayleigh, Gwendolyn

THURSDAY, APRIL 12
Additional Text presentations
Olivia, Faith, Annelise, Sarah

TUESDAY, APRIL 17
Unfathomable City: pp. 80-85: “Hot & Steamy: Selling Seafood, Selling Sex”
Music:

THURSDAY, APRIL 19
Poetry: Brenda Marie Osbey
Poetry: Remembering Katrina

TUESDAY, APRIL 24
Final project presentations
Faith, Olivia

THURSDAY, APRIL 26
Final project presentations
Jordan, Ingrid, Annelise

TUESDAY, MAY 1
Final project presentations
Kayleigh, Gwendolyn, Sarah