Books for the Classroom

Title: The Collected Poems of John Ciardi
Adopted at: Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Course: Hum 1103 – Introduction to the Humanities
Course Description: An interdisciplinary, multi-perspective assessment of cultural, political, philosophical, and aesthetic factors critical to the formulation of values and the historical development of the individual and of society. Examines human creativity broadly, including music, painting, literature, theater, architecture, sculpture, and modern innovations such as photography and film.
Professor: Marc DiPaolo
Term: Spring 2024

Title: American Atrocity
Adopted at: Colorado State University
Course: HIST 512 – Reading Seminar: U.S. Since 1877
Course Description: Readings on United States history since 1877.
Professor: Jessica Jackson
Term: Spring 2024

Title: Life in the Leatherwoods
Adopted at: Oklahoma Baptist University
Course: HIST 3023 – History of American Families and Children
Course Description: This course examines the history of American family life between the 1600s and 2001. It asks questions such as: “What were marriage practices in colonial New England?”; “What was motherhood and childhood like during the Civil War?”; “How has marriage advice literature changed in American history?”; “How did slavery shape family life in the Antebellum South?”; “What was the process of death and dying like in the Roaring Twenties?”; and “What was dating (or courtship) like during World War II?” To answer these and other questions, the course offers a social history of how family life has changed since the colonial period, particularly the practices of courtship, love, marriage, motherhood and fatherhood, childhood, adolescence, recreation, and death and dying. It uses a combination of lectures, discussions, music, films, pictures, quizzes, exams, and projects to investigate these themes. This course is designed principally for non-history majors.
Professor: Daniel Spillman
Term: Fall 2023

Title: A Spectacular Leap
Adopted at: University of Florida
Course: IDS2935 – Special Topics: Why Sports Matter
Course Description: This course examines the long history of professional sports and how athletes maintain the status quo or challenge systemic inequalities.
Professor: David Canton
Term: Fall 2023

Title: White Man’s Heaven

Adopted at: Missouri State University
Course: HST 720 American History Readings Seminar, Ozarks History
Course Description: Readings in chosen periods and topics in American History for the graduate student.
Professor: Brooks Blevins
Term: Fall 2023

Title: Hipbillies

Course: HST 375 The Ozarks in American History
Adopted at: Missouri State University
Course Description: The Ozarks as an historic American region. Historical geography of the Ozarks. The Old Ozarks Frontier; the Modern Ozarks; the Cosmopolitan Ozarks; the New Ozarks Frontier. Relation of the Ozarks to major themes in U.S. History.
Professor: Brooks Blevins
Term: Fall 2023

Title: Inclined to Speak

Adopted at: Missouri State University
Course: ENG 354 Ethnic American Literature
Course Description: Study of representative literary works by African American, Hispanic American, Native American, or other minority authors
Professor: Matthew S. Calihman
Term: Fall 2023 

Title: The Literature of the Ozarks

Adopted at: University of Central Arkansas
Course: ENGL 1373 FYS: Humanities: the Art of Healing: Literature and
Health Sciences
Course Description: The FYS in Humanities provides a small-classroom environment for students designed to promote community, develop skills necessary for success, and reinforce the importance of written and oral communication.
Professor: Carl Olds
Term: Fall 2023

Title: High, Wide, and Frightened

Adopted at: University of Missouri
Course: HIST 2240 Flight in America: From the Wright Brothers to the Space Age
Course Description: This course focuses on the history of flying in the U.S. from its beginnings to the Apollo moon missions. In a little over a century, aviation and space flight have transformed our world in deep and enduring ways. We will focus on key innovations and the people behind them. This is an exciting story, full of fascinating men and women.
Professor: John Wigger
Term: Fall 2023​

Title: Latin@s’ Presence in the Food Industry

Adopted at: California State University Los Angeles
Course: LAS 5900 Interdisciplinary Seminar: Latin American Studies
Course Description: Interdisciplinary investigation and discussion of selected Latin American topics
Professor: Enrique Ochoa
Term: Spring 2023

Title: The Un-Natural State

Adopted at: University of Central Arkansas
Course: HIST 4307 Queer History of the United States
Course Description: By “queering” US History, from late pre-contact to the present, the course presents American History from a different perspective that asks how queer folks contributed to the development of the US and American identities and how hegemonic American culture was influenced by queer folks that were simultaneously marginalized by that culture. We will examine how individual, collective, and national identities form and the roles that space and place play in the formation of queer identities in the US over time. Lecture, discussion, presentation, document analysis, writing.
Professor: Hillary Anderson
Term: Spring 2023

Title: The Un-Natural State

Adopted at: University of Arkansas
Course: GNST 3103 The Queer US South
Course Description: Presents queer perspectives on the U.S. South. Focuses on autobiographical, historical, and critical-qualitative analyses that attest to the innovative or inventive ways LGBTQ+ communities have survived and thrived in southern areas often deemed antithetical to a liberatory gender/sexual political agenda.
Professor: Arley Ward
Term: Spring 2023

Title: Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps

Adopted at: University of Arkansas
Course: HIST 3243 and AAST 3243 African American History Since 1877
Course Description: The course will study the major social, political, and economical issues relating to the African American experience beginning with the late post-Reconstruction period and will include all of the major personalities and influences in the Civil Rights Movement, from 1877 to the present.
Professor: Ryan Smith
Term: Spring 2023

Title: All Earthly Bodies

Adopted at: University of Virginia
Course: ENCW 2300 Poetry Writing
Course Description: An introduction to the craft of writing poetry, with relevant readings in the genre.
Professor: Makshya Tolbert
Term: Spring 2023

Title: The Long Shadow of Little Rock

Adopted at: Kalamazoo College
Course: AMST 111 History of the U.S. II
Course Description: This class provides a broad survey of American history since the Civil War. We will cover a variety of issues in this period, ranging from national and international politics to class, race, and gender relations, from economic and demographic developments to social and cultural changes.
Professor: James Lewis
Term: Winter 2022

Title: Teeth Never Sleep

Adopted at: University of Illinois Springfield
Course: ENG 371 Creative Writing Poetry
Course Description: Builds upon the literary techniques and methods of analysis introduced in ENG 272, while providing a more comprehensive grounding on contemporary poetry. Round table workshops emphasize a critical, constructive treatment of student works-in-progress.
Professor: Sara Lupita Olivares
Term: Spring 2023

Title: A Theory of Birds

Adopted at: University of Miami
Course: MLL 322 Topics in Comparative Cultural Studies
Course Description: Interdisciplinary analysis of the political dynamics of contemporary culture and its historical foundations with a focus on ideology, social class, nationality, ethnicity, sexuality and/or gender.
Professor: Suja Sawafta
Term: Fall 2022

Adopted at: University of Miami
Course: MLL 370 Studies in Literature, Culture, and Science
An analysis, in a comparative or historical perspective, of the literary works that expose the deep interaction and mutual influence between literary or visual cultures and the sciences. Topics might include: Leonardo’s genius; technology at the turn of the 20th-century; 20th-century wars, the science behind them and their representations; Vesalius’s anatomical work and the philosophy and representation of the body in 16th-century Europe.
Professor: Suja Sawafta
Term: Fall 2022​

Title: Dongola

Adopted at: George Mason University
Course: ARAB 470 Black and Minority Voices in Arabic Literature
Course Description: Addresses core topics in the study of the Arab world through the lens of literature, language and aesthetics. Topics may include the Nahdha or ‘Renaissance’ period of the late nineteenth century, Black and minority cultural productions, diaspora studies, post-colonialism or literary movements of the twentieth and twenty-first century.
Professor: Naglaa F. Mahmoud Hussein
Term: Fall 2022

Adopted at: George Mason University
Course: ARAB 325 Major Arab Writers / Stories
Course Description: Studies works of major Arab writers or collections such as The Arabian Nights.
Professor: Naglaa F. Mahmoud Hussein
Term: Fall 2022

Adopted at: Bard College
Course:Lit 2060 The Arabic Novel
Course Description: In the late nineteenth century, Arabic’s long legacy of poetry and literary prose, not to mention popular storytelling, encountered the novel form. This course will survey a history of modern Arabic literature through the shifting reception and role of prose narrative, from the hopeful early years of the Arab Nahdah (the 19th to 20th century Arab renaissance), through to the 1960s and the crisis of committed literature, to the rants and romances of the contemporary literary scene; authors include Muhammad al-Muwaylihi, Taha Husayn, Mohammed Choukri, Naguib Mahfouz, Ghassan Kanafani, Ibrahim al-Koni, Tayeb Salih, Hanan al-Shaykh, Rajaa Alsanea, and Ahmed Alaidy.
Professor: Elizabeth Holt
Term: Fall 2022

Title: A Rich and Tantalizing Brew
Adopted at: Siena College
Course: HIST 103 The West and the World 1500-1900
Course Description: This course provides a broad historical study of the main trends and events in global history from 1500 to 1900. It examines how patterns of interaction in the past have contributed to shaping historical change. Students will learn to understand and appreciate the important role of cross-cultural communication between the civilizations of “the West” and the rest of the World. They will examine the human condition over time, both the role of the powerful and the powerless. This course also introduces students to the discipline and methodologies of history. Students will engage with enduring questions of human concern, demonstrate competence in historical literacy, and practice intercultural knowledge and respect.
Professor: Karen Sonnelitter
Term: Fall 2022

Title: Mexican-Origin Foods, Foodways, and Social Movements
Adopted at: Swarthmore College
Course: ENVS 049 Indigenous Food Sovereignty
Course Description: Indigenous lands and foodways are intrinsic to community health and wellbeing, cultural identity, and cultural continuity. This course will explore multiple dimensions of Indigenous food sovereignty that include: Indigenous rights, land rights, impacts of colonization, access to traditional food sources, local economy, interconnected relationships, and traditional land practices and food systems based on cultural ways of knowing. Case studies in a local and global context will be used to examine various topics and how distinct Indigenous communities are framing and practicing food sovereignty. The course will use a framework of decoloniality and cultural and ecological sustainability centering Indigenous voice.
Professor: Adrienne Benally
Term: Fall 2022 ​

Title: A Rich and Tantalizing Brew
Adopted at: University of North Texas
Course: HIST 4249 Food, Sex, and Drugs in Middle Eastern History
Course Description: Explores how the commodities of food, sex, and drugs have influenced Middle Eastern History since the 7th century. Focuses on changing attitudes and trends in food, sex, and drugs through time and the complex contributions of these concepts/things/ideas in shaping the region in various historical eras.
Professor: Nancy Stockdale
Term: Fall 2022

Title: Lofty Dogmas
Adopted at: Murray State University
Course: ENG 380 – Introduction to Poetry and Poetics
Course Description: An introductory course in poetry and poetics designed for junior and senior literature and creative writing majors
Professor: Ann Neelon
Term: Spring 2022

Title: Out of the Shadows
Adopted at: University of Texas at Austin
Course: Race and Sport in African American Life
Course Description: Race and sport in African American life provides a historical and analytical understanding of the issues involving race, racism, race relations in American sport. African Americans in particular have had a unique relationship with sport within the interscholastic, intercollegiate, amateur and professional levels in the struggle to be recognized as valuable members of the sporting arena. This course provides an overview of the sporting events, icons, and time periods that have been shaped by America’s continued struggle to improve race relations. This semester’s course will also have a focus on athlete activism in the sporting world.
Professor: Darren Kelly
Term: Spring 2022 

Title: Art for a New Understanding
Adopted at: University of Regina
Course: INAH 204 Indian Art and the 20th Century
Course Description: The course will examine twentieth-century Indian art. Politics, revolution, education, and economic issues of Canada, USA, and Mexico will be considered as affecting stylistic developments.
Professor: Audrey Dreaver
Term: Spring 2022

Title: A Theory of Birds
Adopted at: University of Virginia
Course: ENGL 8596 Form and Theory of Poetry – Embodied Ecologies: Ecofeminist Poetry and Poetics
Course Description: “How can we listen across species,” asks Alexis Pauline Gumbs in Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, “across extinction, across harm?” And how can the practice of poetry extend the senses, aid us in listening and speaking to, touching, and moving in ethical relation to the imperiled more-than-human world? In books like Wendy Burk’s Tree Talks, Bhanu Kapil’s Humanimal, and Zaina Alsous’ A Theory of Birds, poets intend themselves toward vegetal, mammalian, and avian lives in order to examine not only what is knowable of other species, but also to investigate the effects and affects of western culture’s conflation of women and animals. Much contemporary ecofeminist poetry focuses not just on ethical relation to the more-than-human world, but also to registering the impacts of settler colonialism, enslavement, war, and imperialism on the intrinsic interconnectedness between species, ecosystems, humans, and human systems. This interdisciplinary course will introduce us to ten contemporary ecofeminist poets as well as to the ecocritical discourses that inform the work they’re doing. We’ll explore their poetry and relevant ecocritical thought through five topoi – Black Anthropocenes, Listening, Indigenous Tongues, Touching, and Humanimals. Trees, birds, wolves, and insects will accompany us through the semester as we too attempt to listen across species, “to see what happens,” writes Gumbs, when we “rethink and re-feel” our own “relations, possibilities, and practices” in conversation with more-than-human beings. Assignments will range from the creative to the critical, with an emphasis on process-led research. Poets, artists, and scholars of all disciplines welcome.
Professor: Brian Teare
Term: Spring 2022

Title: Arkansas: A Narrative History
Adopted at: University of Arkansas
Course: HIST 3383 Arkansas and the Southwest
Course Description: Political, economic, social, and cultural development of Arkansas from the coming of the Indian to the 20th century, with special emphasis on Arkansas as a national and regional component. 
Professor: Michael Pierce
Term: Spring 2022

Title: Arkansas Travelers
Adopted at: University of Arkansas
Course: HIST 3383 Arkansas and the Southwest
Course Description: Political, economic, social, and cultural development of Arkansas from the coming of the Indian to the 20th century, with special emphasis on Arkansas as a national and regional component.
Professor: Edward Andrus
Term: Spring 2022

Title: A Spectacular Leap
Adopted at: University of Virginia
Course: WGS 3240 Gender, Race and Sport: A History of African American Sportswomen
Course Description: Explore the intersection of gender and race in sport, specifically examining the African-American female experience in sport. This course will ask students to consider whether sport was (and continues to be) the great equalizer for both African-American sportsmen and sportswomen, and to evaluate their portrayals (or lack thereof) in both the white and Black media.
Professor: Bonnie Hagerman
Term: Spring 2022

Title: Chop Suey and Sushi from Sea to Shining Sea
Adopted at: University of California Berkeley
Course: ANTHRO 160AC Forms of Folklore
Course Description: A world-wide survey of the major and minor forms of folklore with special emphasis on proverbs, riddles, superstitions, games, songs, and narratives.
Professor: Laurie Wilkie
Term: Spring 2022

Title: Our Earliest Tattoos
Adopted at: Bates College
Course: ENG 292 Poetry Writing
Course Description: A course for students who wish to have practice and guidance in the writing of poetry.
Professor: Myronn Hardy
Term: Winter 2022

Title: Up Against the Wall
Adopted at: Minnesota State University, Mankato
Course: HIST 581 Civil Rights in the Twentieth Century
Course Description: Students will study the African American freedom movement and other civil rights campaigns to understand the basis of both oppression and civil rights in the U.S. and will apply this historical context to contemporary civil rights struggles. Graduate students will also synthesize the academic literature and make use of this history in a professional context.
Professor: Angela Jill Cooley
Term: Spring 2022

Title: Rivals
Adopted at: University of Rochester
Course: WRTG 105-27 Sports as Politics
Course description: Students will explore the questions of how politicization has changed what it means to be a sports fan, why political questions are debated through sports, and whether or not sports are inherently political as they develop other lines of inquiry about the growing politicization of American sports. 
Professor: Justin Grossman
Term: Fall 2021

Title: Eternal Sentences
Adopted at: Kenyon College
Course: ENGL 201 Introduction to Poetry Writing
Course Description: Study of a variety of types of poetry. Regular writing exercises will encourage students to widen their scope and develop their craft. The course will emphasize discovering the “true” subject of each poem, acquiring the skills needed to render that subject, understanding the relationship between form and content, and, finally, interrogating the role and function of poetry in a culture. In addition to weekly reading and writing assignments, students will submit a process-based portfolio demonstrating an understanding of the revision process and a final chapbook of eight to 12 pages of poetry.
Professor: Andy Grace
Term: Fall 2021

Title: Arkansas: A Concise History
Adopted at: National Park College
Course: HIST 1143 Arkansas History
Course Description: Designed to acquaint the student with the economic, social and political evolutions of Arkansas from the Spanish and French explorations to the present. “Local color” interrelated to these socio-economic studies will be an integral part of the course: folklore, native art and music, and traditions that have remained a unique part of Arkansas heritage.
Professor: Thomas Copeland
Term: Spring 2021

Title: Mexican-Origin Foods, Foodways, and Social Movements
Adopted at: University of California Davis
Course: CHI 042 –Food Justice: Chicana/o & Indigenous Communities
Course Description: Issues surrounding food justice in Chicana/o and Indigenous Communities. Emphasis on discourses and practices of growing a food justice movement centered on the ecological care of the earth and decolonized environmental methodologies.
Professor: Susy Zepeda
Term: Spring 2021

Title: A Muslim Primer
Adopted at: McDaniel College
Course: IDS 2215 The Arab World
Course Description: This course will offer an introduction to and an overview of the history, culture, politics and current events of the Arab world in the Middle East and Africa. The students will also be introduced to the Arab-American community and its contribution to culture and politics in the United States. One integral part of the class is a daily discussion of current events in the Arab World, US policy toward the Middle East, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the U.S. war on terrorism.
Professor: Mo Esa
Term: Spring 2021

Title: Inclined to Speak
Adopted at: Bates College
Course: AM / EN 281 Arab American Poetry
Course Description: This course offers students an introduction to Arab American poetry from the early works of Khalil Gibran to the present. The course develops an appreciation of Arab American poetic forms, craft, voice, and vision within a transnational and diasporic framework. Surveying the poems and critical work of an expansive array of poets such as Lauren Camp, Hayan Charara, Suheir Hammad, Marwa Helal, Mohja Kahf, Philip Metres, Naomi Shihab Nye, Deema Shehabi, students examine the complex, personal, communal, national, cultural, historical, political, and religious realities that manifest themselves at home and elsewhere in the Arab American literary imagination.
Professor: Therí Pickens
Term: Spring 2021

Title: Moving Boarders
Adopted at: Colorado State University
Course: SPMT 536 Sport and Communities
Course Description: Examines sport as a social institution that enables social interaction, and reflects, reinforces, and creates societal norms.
Professor: Ajhanai Newton
Term: Spring 2021

Title: A Spectacular Leap
Adopted at: Southern Methodist University
Course: HIST 3310 Problems in American History: The Black Athlete
Course Description: Explores historical issues or trends in U.S. history using a case study or comparative format.
Professor: Kenneth Hamilton
Term: Spring 2021

Title: A Spectacular Leap
Adopted at: University of Alabama Birmingham
Course: AAS 220 History of Sport: The African American Experience
Course Description: This course provides a socio-cultural and historical overview of the African American athletes that contributed to sports as we know them today. Focus will begin on the historical figures that helped shape sports culture and will continue into discussions about the role African Americans play in collegiate and professionals sports today.
Professor: Addine Clemom
Term: Spring 2021

Title: Arkansas: A Narrative History
Adopted at: University of Arkansas at Rich Mountain
Course: HIS-233 Arkansas History
Course Description: This course offers a study of the political, social, and economic development of Arkansas from the era of exploration and early statehood to the present. Major themes include the Civil War and Reconstruction, segregation and disenfranchisement, progressivism, and civil rights.
Professor: Kyle Carpenter
Term: Spring 2021

Title: Out of the Shadows
Adopted at: University of Texas
Course: KIN 352K Race and Sport in African American Life
Course Description: Race and sport in African American life provides a historical and analytical understanding of the issues involving race, racism, race relations in American sport. African Americans in particular have had a unique relationship with sport within the interscholastic, intercollegiate, amateur and professional levels in the struggle to be recognized as valuable members of the sporting arena. This course provides an overview of the sporting events, icons, and time periods that have been shaped by America’s continued struggle to improve race relations and the African American experience.
Professor: Darren Kelly
Term: Spring 2021

Title: A Spectacular Leap
Adopted at: University of Kentucky
Course: HIS 360 AAS 360 Race / Sports in America
Course Description: Examines the history of race and sport in America.
Professor: Derrick White
Term: Spring 2021

Title: Paraíso
Adopted at: University of Rochester
Course: ENGL 376-1 Seminar in Writing Poetry
Course Description: Poems, as William Carlos Williams once said, are machines made out of words, and in this advanced poetry workshop we will work on making the most gorgeous, gripping, and efficient machines possible. To that end, we will read both one another’s poems and poems by established authors, in either case paying attention to the ways in which the authors harness aspects of their medium, the English language: syntax, diction, rhythm.
Professor: Jennifer Grotz
Term: Spring 2021

Title: Rooted Resistance
Adopted at: Eastern Oregon University
Course: WR 393 Rhetoric of Public Culture
Course Description: Introduction to contemporary rhetorical theories and methods and their applications to public texts and persuasion in everyday life.
Professor: Cori Brewster
Term: Spring 2021

Title: Meanings of Maple
Adopted at: Binghamton University
Course: ENVI 382 Sweet Harvests: Bees and Maples
Course Description: Beekeeping and maple syrup production are two forms of specialized agricultural production that are growing in popularity across the U.S., and particularly in the Northeast. Building upon primary research conducted in the state of Maine, this course will explore these two practices across the Northeast, with particular focus in New York State. We will take an interdisciplinary approach, studying the history of production, the biological and ecological components, the embedded social and cultural meanings, and specifically climate change’s impacts on the present and future for beekeeping and maple syrup production. Course will include guest lectures and field trips.
Professor: Sara Hendrickson Velardi
Term: Spring 2021

Title: To The Bramble and the Briar
Adopted at: Indiana University East
Course: ENG-L 384 Studies in American Culture
Course Description: Study of a coherent period of American culture (such as the Revolution, the Progressive Era, the Great Depression), with attention to the relations between literature, the other arts, and the intellectual milieu.
Professor: Brian Brodeur
Term: Spring 2021

Title: Arkansas: A Concise History
Adopted at: Harding University
Course: HIST 3021 and HIST 5021 Arkansas History
Course Description: A survey of the history of Arkansas from the era of European exploration to the present. Required of all teachers certifying in the social sciences.
Professor: Jared Dockery
Term: Spring 2021

Title: Arkansas: A Narrative History
Adopted at: Black River Technical College
Course: HIST -2083 Arkansas History
Course Description: The unique geography of Arkansas, the position of the state in the South, its relationship to the conflict over slavery and the role of the state in the Civil War, Reconstruction, the dawning of the Twentieth Century, World War I and II, the battle for Civil Rights, the impact of Korea and Vietnam, and the changing role of Arkansas in modern times are all addressed in this course.
Professor: Dianna Fraley
Term: Spring 2021

Title: A Theory of Birds
Adopted at: Brown University
Course: LITR 0110B Poetry I.
Course Description: A workshop for students who have little or no previous experience in writing poetry.
Professor: Erica Ammann
Term: Spring 2021

Title: Moving Boarders
Adopted at: Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania
Course: SPRT 601 Sport in American Culture
Course Description: Examines the sociocultural environment in which sport exists, including detailed evaluation of the impact of such issues as gender, race, media, social stratification, ethnicity, mass media and commercialization, politics, and leadership from historical and contemporary sociocultural perspectives. Focuses on American cultural ideologies throughout history and their interplay with both amateur and professional sport.
Professor: Dain TePoel
Term: Spring 2021

Title: White Man’s Heaven
Adopted at: Missouri State University
Course: HIST 375 The Ozarks in American History
Course Description: The Ozarks as an historic American region. Historical geography of the Ozarks. The Old Ozarks Frontier; the Modern Ozarks; the Cosmopolitan Ozarks; the New Ozarks Frontier. Relation of the Ozarks to major themes in U.S. History.
Professor: Brooks Blevins
Term: Fall 2020

Title: Reveille
Adopted at: Johns Hopkins University
Course: AS.220.201 The Craft of Poetry: Narrative
Course Description: Workshop exploring the many ways that a poet can organize narrative information when telling a story, investigating a philosophical idea, or even just describing a scene. Students write every week. Discussions of a variety of classical and contemporary poems, paying close attention to how each poem shapes and challenges readers’ expectations.
Professor: James Arthur
Term: Spring 2020

Title: Dinarzad’s Children
Adopted at: University of Minnesota
Course: ENGL 1401W Introduction to World Literatures in English
Course Description: Writing-intensive course introducing texts from geographical locations such as Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean with the aim of examining the impact that colonialism has had on previously colonized nations, as well as the world as a whole. Through close readings of these texts, examines questions related to concepts such as ‘third world,’ nationalism, difference, representation, and displacement.
Professor: Nabil Matar
Term: Spring 2020

Title: Dinarzad’s Children
Adopted at: Youngstown State University
Course: ENGL 2618 American Literature and Diversity
Course Description: Writers and works in relation to the diversity of American culture, politics, lifestyles, and social movements.
Professor: Jackie Mercer
Term: Spring 2020

Title: Teeth Never Sleep
Adopted at: Fullerton College
Course: ENGL 204 Introduction to Poetry
Course Description: This course covers the reading and study of poems from ancient to modern times in English and in translation. The focus of the course is on the analysis of poetic techniques and the interpretation of universal themes.
Professor: Cynthia Guardado
Term: Spring 2020

Title: When the Wolf Came
Adopted at: University of Maine
Course: HTY 464 America at the Crossroads: the Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction, 1840-1877
Course Description: This course examines how the United States, which was less than a century old, lost half of its territory to politics and a different way of life. Students will explore the intersections of national events, specifically the intensified sectional conflict, with the significance of these turbulent decades among specific groups of people, including African-Americans (both slave and free), Native peoples, women, and recent immigrants.
Professor: Micah Pawling
Term: Spring 2020

Title: When the Wolf Cme
Adopted at: University of Iowa
Course: The Civil War Era and the Remaking of America: A Multicultural Approach
Course Description: Using primary sources and the latest in cutting-edge historical scholarship, explores the fascinating and often rarely examined diverse cast of characters that were part of the transformation of America during the Civil War Era.
Professor: Dwain Coleman
Term: Spring 2020

Title: Teeth Never Sleep
Adopted at: University of California Riverside
Course: CRWT 046B Craft of Writing Survey in Contemporary Poetry
Course Description: A survey of selected works of contemporary poetry and related texts, with emphasis on the craft of poetry and how craft contributes to meaning.
Professor: Sara Borjas
Term: Spring 2019 and Spring 2020

Title: Rivals
Adopted at: Northern Kentucky University
Course: SPB 200 Rivalry and Rituals: International Sport
Course Description: ‘Rivalry and Rituals’ uses the socially prominent context of international sports to examine cultural development, influence and conflict within and across persons and geographic boundaries.
Professor: Joe Cobbs
Term: Fall 2019

Title: Separate Games
Adopted at: Colorado State University
Course: ETST 277 Racial Representations of Black Athletes
Course Description: Racial representations in the U.S. of Black/African American athletes at the intersections of sport and the sociocultural spaces of society—both historically and in contemporary contexts. Explore how racial representations have been shaped by forces of political significance, social and cultural movements, people, images, and ideologies.
Professor: Albert Bimper Jr.
Term: Fall 2019

Title: Sin
Adopted at: Brown University
Course: RELS 0575 On Human Longing: Persian and Urdu Poetry
Course Description: The poet Rumi begins his Masnavi by describing the reed flute’s sound as its longing for the reed bed from which it was cut. Unappeasable desire, which consumes one’s self and must be expressed endlessly, permeates Persian and Urdu poetry. The object of longing is equally (and simultaneously) God and the human being, creating a poetic dialect replete with metaphysics as well as sensual experience. We will work with translations of poetry produced in various periods in Iran and Central and South Asia to discuss love, desire, beauty, faith, and betrayal.
Professor: Shahzad Bashir
Term: Spring 2019

Title: Our Earliest Tattoos
Adopted at: Notre Dame University
Course: ENGL 20002 Introduction to Poetry Writing
Course Description: This course invites you to build on the basics, develop your technical abilities, and broaden your approaches to the form, genres, media, language, and performance of contemporary poetry. Students should expect to read and view works from a variety of periods and cultures and will generate their own poems in response to course readings and prompts as well as their own impromptu in-class writing. Students will also sharpen their critical vocabulary as they analyze assigned readings, critique peer work, and receive critiques of their poems from both peers and instructor.
Professor: Joyelle McSweeney
Term: Spring 2019

Title: Our Earliest Tattoos
Adopted at: Notre Dame University
Course: ENGL 30851 Poetry Writing
Course Description: This is a course for students who are ready to immerse themselves in the strange contagious waters of poetry. We’ll read across regions, languages, communities, and time periods to connect to poetry’s aesthetic, formal, and political urgencies and possibilities, and we’ll write an array of poems of our own. Expect to write individual lyrics as well as prose poems, letters, verse plays, sound poems, collages, remixes, performance pieces, and verse plays, and to poke around in the traditional and digital media by which poems have been shared. Expect to write in- and out-of- class poems, work collaboratively on group projects and translations, present, perform, participate, and offer kind and supportive feedback on peer work., and propose and execute a final project of your own devising.
Professor: Joyelle McSweeney
Term: Spring 2019

Title: Oxford American Book of Great Music Writing
Adopted at: University of South Carolina Lancaster
Course: ENGL 102 Rhetoric and Composition
Course Description: Instruction and intensive practice in researching, analyzing, and composing written arguments about academic and public issues.
Professor: Stephen Criswell
Term: Spring 2019

Title: Jim Crow America
Adopted at: University of Arkansas
Course: HIST / AAST 3243 African American History Since 1877
Course Description: Will study the major social, political, and economical issues relating to the African American experience beginning with the late post-Reconstruction period and will include all of the major personalities and influences in the Civil Rights Movement, from 1877 to the present.
Professor: Michael Powers
Term: Spring 2019

Title: Dinarzad’s Children
Adopted at: Temple University
Course: ENG 2000 Special Topics: Arab America Literature
Course Description: Explores a carefully defined theme, topic, or type of literature or writing.
Professor: Rimun Murad
Term: Spring 2019

Title: Inclined to Speak
Adopted at: Brown University
Course: LITR 1231C Experimental Poets of Color
Course Description: In this course we’ll read and critically engage with contemporary experimental poets of color writing in English in the US and Canada. Exploring the intersection of poetics, aesthetics, critical race (and mixed race) theory, and social justice activism in the arts, we will question the modernist and post-modernist assumptions that experimentation and innovation are exclusively the domain of whiteness. We will explore how racism, colonialism, and other contemporary systems of oppression condition responses to poets of color, and consider how poets of color respond to and engage with these systems both overtly and through their aesthetic experimentation.
Professor: Erica Mena-Landry
Term: Spring 2019

Title: Ya Te Veo
Adopted at: Roanoke College
Course: CRWR 316 Advanced Creative Writing – Poetry
Course Description: Development of writing skills in poetry, building upon introductory creative writing courses.
Professor: Melanie Almeder
Term: Spring 2019

Title: Mexican-Origin Food, Foodways, and Social Movements
Adopted at: California State University Los Angeles
Course: CLS 4180 – Public Health Issues In Latina/O Communities
Course Description: Assesses issues confronting Latinas/os including health disparities, access to quality health care, preventive health care, gender, community clinics, and the future of health care for Latino communities.

Professor: Lani Cupchoy

Term: Fall 2018

Title: American Appetites
Adopted at: University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Course: AMST 276 Cooking up a Storm
Course Description: This course will take students on a journey through some of the key moments in “American” food studies and its beginnings across a range of disciplinary homes: the study of nutrition and food security; the study of food systems and the vocabularies that subtend them.
Professor: Elizabeth Engelhardt
Term: Fall 2018

Title: Chord Box
Adopted at: Oberlin College
Course: CRWR 201 Poetry and Prose Workshop
Course Description: A gateway course for the creative writing major. In this workshop course we will focus on student writing and we will be studying a number of authors, including Oberlin alumni Elizabeth Rogers, Lauren Clark and Adam Gianelli, who will be visiting campus later in the spring.
Professor: Kazim Ali
Term: Fall 2018

Title: Protection Spell
Adopted at: Central Washington University
Course: English 365-001, Poetry Writing
Course Description: A workshop that introduces the varieties of forms, styles, voices, and strategies for writing poetry. Emphasizes reading professional models and the development and application of criteria for evaluating and revising poems.
Professor: Maya Zeller
Term: Fall 2018

Title: Reveille
Adopted at: State University of New York, Fredonia
Course: ENGL 460, Advanced Poetry Writing
Course Description: Intensive critical discussion of student work. Readings in contemporary poetry.
Professor: Sarah Green
Term: Spring 2018

Title: Long Shadow of Little Rock
Adopted at: University of Washington
Course: HSTAA 345A, US Political And Economic History, 1920 – Present
Course Description: Explores key moments and people in the history of the United States from the end of World War I to the present.
Professor: Margaret O’Mara
Term: Spring 2018

Title: Arkansas: A Narrative History
Adopted at: University of Arkansas Fort Smith
Course: HIST 4153
Course Description: Physiographic and demographic patterns; exploration, settlement, and political, social, and economic evolution of Arkansas from the Spanish and French excursions to the present. Also, a study of contemporary policies and government in Arkansas.
Professor: Billy Higgins
Term: Spring 2018

Title: Sin
Adopted at: Brown University
Course: MES 0825, From Blind Owls to Mute Dreams: An Introduction to Modern Persian Literature in English translation
Course Description: A survey of the modern Persian literature of Iran for students who have little to no background in the topic. Starting in the early twentieth century and continuing until the present day, we will examine the major themes and aesthetic techniques of some of the most important writers who have shaped modern Persian literature throughout the twentieth century, paying significant attention to the sociopolitical context and formal characteristics of texts.
Professor: Amir Moosavi
Term: Spring 2018

Title: A Spectacular Leap
Adopted at: Lyndon State College
Course: HIS 3155, Sports in American History
Course Description: Analyzes the evolution of American society from the 1830s to the present through the lens of organized professional and amateur athletics. Probes what sports has to teach us about the process of American history in such areas of life as gender, race, ethnicity, local cultures and mass culture, economics, politics, religion, and regional/national identity. Both the experiences of participation and spectatorship will be addressed.
Professor: Paul Searls
Term: Spring 2018

Title: Devouring Cultures
Adopted at: Truman State University
Course: JINS 329, Language and Meaning
Course Description: An interdisciplinary approach to studying language as a medium of communication. It includes both a survey of various theories of meaning and a study of symbol systems in the creation, maintenance, and change of a culture or social group.
Professor: James Cianciola
Term: Spring 2017

Title: Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop
Adopted at: University of West Georgia
Course: HIST 4477, The New South
Course Description: A study of the American South since 1865, including the interaction of economic, political, social, and cultural factors, especially in the context of struggles in rural and urban communities and in the textile industry.
Professor: Julia Brock
Term: Spring 2017

Title: Up Against the Wall
Adopted at: Minnesota State University, Mankato
Course: HIST 481W, U.S. Civl Rights in the Twentieth Century
Course Description: Examines the Civil Rights Movement, broadly defined, from 1945 to the present, focusing on the period from 1945 to 1970. Explores the way in which African Americans and their white supporters mobilized for equality in the face of massive white resistance and seeming federal indifference.
Professor: Angela Jill Cooley
Term: Spring 2017

Title: The Long Shadow of Little Rock
Adopted at: University of Georgia
Course: HIST 4120, The Civil Rights Movement
Course Description: Examines the strategies and philosophies of various organizations in the Civil Rights movement and studies the contributions made by key personalities such as Jo Ann Gibson Robinson, Rosa Parks, Daisy Bates, Ella Baker, Septima Clark and Fannie Lou Hamer.
Professor: Chana Kai Lee
Term: Spring 2017

Title: A Spectacular Leap
Adopted at: University of Kentucky
Course: History 360 / African American Studies 360, Race and Sports
Course Description: Examines the history of race and sport in America
Professor: Gerald Smith
Term: Spring 2017

Title: A Spectacular Leap
Adopted at: University of Pennsylvania
Course: History 231, Race & Ethnicity in Sport
Course Description: Through readings, videos, and discussion, considers the social, cultural, and political relevance of black participation in sport and its larger connection to the evolution of race relations in America.
Professor: Neil Lanctot
Term: Fall 2016

Title: American Appetites
Adopted at: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Course: AMST 375, Special Topics in American History
Course Description: Examines the history and meaning of food in American culture and explores the ways in which food shapes national, regional, and personal identity.
Professor: Marcie Cohen Ferris
Term: Spring 2016

Title: American Appetites
Adopted at: Washington University, St. Louis
Course: L98-359, American Culture Studies, Eating History: Cultural Creolization and Clash of Tradition in the American East
Course Description: Students will learn to apply methodologies in a multidisciplinary manner across many different types of cultural evidence, and engage with a rigorous reading list drawing upon disparate disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and hard sciences.
Professor: Sarah Spivey
Term: Spring 2016

Title: American Appetites
Adopted at: San Francisco State University
Course: HIST 642, Historical Perspectives on Culture, Identity and Food History
Course Description: Critically examines the historic role of food and drink –its production, preparation, processing, and politics — in American history and culture from the colonial period to the most recent past.
Professor: Dawn Bohulano Mabalan
Term: Spring 2016

Title: The Long Shadow of Little Rock
Adopted at: University of Central Arkansas
Course: HIST 3310, Social Science Concepts in Arkansas History
Course Description: This course introduces students to concepts of social science in relationship to selected content of Arkansas History.
Professor: Dr. Story Matkin-Rawn
Term: Spring 2016

Title: Things You Need to Hear
Adopted at: University of Central Arkansas
Course: HIST 4355/5355, The Role of Arkansas in the Nation
Course Description: Students examine United States history as reflected in the history of Arkansas. Emphasis on the ways Arkansas reflects or departs from national trends.
Professor: Dr. Story Matkin-Rawn
Term: Spring 2016

Title: Life in the Leatherwoods
Adopted at: Arkansas Tech University
Course: ANTH 2103, Ozark-Ouachita Studies
Course Description: This course provides students with the knowledge and skills to understand changing human-environment relationships in the mountain south and to apply these understandings to the assessment of, and potential solutions to, contemporary environmental issues in the area.
Professor: Joshua Lockyer
Term: Fall 2015

Title: Jim Crow America
Adopted at: Southeast Missouri State University
Course: UI 508, African Americans during the Era of Segregation
Course Description: A study of African Americans from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement
Professor: Steven Hoffman
Term: Fall 2015

Title: A Spectacular Leap
Adopted at: Purdue University
Course: IDIS 371F, The Black Athlete
Course Description: Focuses on specific topics of the personal experiences of blacks, in Africa and the diaspora, including black identity, black culture, and the relationships between blacks and society.
Professor: Andrew McGregor
Term: Fall 2015

Title: Beyond C. L. R. James
Adopted at: Hamilton College
Course: Africana Studies 215, Global Race and Sport
Course Description: Examines race and diversity issues in the world of sports from the early 20th century to the present.
Professor: Nigel Westmaas
Term: Fall 2015

Title: Arkansas: A Narrative History
Adopted at: Arkansas Tech University
Course: HIST 2153, Introduction to Arkansas History
Course Description: An introductory course on the history of Arkansas. Lectures, discussions, and applied activities will be central to this professional education requirement for Early Childhood and Middle Level Education majors.
Professor: John Rowley
Term: Fall 2015

Title: Arkansas: A Narrative History
Adopted at: Arkansas Tech University
Course: HIST 4153, History of Arkansas
Course Description: A study of the history of Arkansas from prehistoric times to the present, noting political, social, economic, and cultural trends.
Professor: Brenda Murray
Term: Fall 2015

Title: Arkansas: A Narrative History
Adopted at: University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Course: HIST 4355, Arkansas History / Government
Course Description: Focuses on selected topics central to Arkansas history, covering its political, social, cultural, geographic, and economic development from settlement to present.
Professor: Simon Hosken
Term: Summer 2015

Title: Race and Ethnicity in Arkansas
Adopted at: University of Arkansas
Course: HIST 3383, Arkansas and the Southwest
Course Description: Political, economic, social, and cultural development of Arkansas from the coming of the Indian to the 20th century, with special emphasis on Arkansas as a national and regional component.
Professor: Rebecca Howard
Term: Summer 2015

Title: American Appetites
Adopted at: University of Florida
Course: AMH 3931, Special Topics in American History
Course Description: Selected, variable topics in the history and culture of America.
Professor: Nick Foreman
Term: Spring 2015

Title: Inclined to Speak
Adopted at: Pittsburg State University
Course: ENGL 566, American Theme: Asian American Literature
Course Description: A study of a theme or idea in two or more genres in American literature.
Professor: Sandra Cox
Term: Spring 2015

Title: Unlocking V.O. Key Jr.
Adopted at: University of Alabama
Course: PSC 316, Southern Politics
Course Description: Examination of the party system of the Southern states in terms of its origin, nature, distribution of power, and impact on national politics.
Professor: Steven A. Borrelli
Term: Spring 2015

Title: Live Nude Girl
Adopted at: Indiana University, South Bend
Course: ENGL W-311, Writing Creative Nonfiction
Course Description: Workshop in such modes as personal essay, autobiography, or documentary. Course focuses on understanding and practicing the rhetorical and stylistic choices available to writers of creative nonfiction: options for structure, pacing, language, style, tone, detail, description, authorial presence and voice, etc.
Professor: Kelcey Parker
Term: Spring 2015

Title: Out of the Shadows
Adopted at: University of Washington
Course: AES 335, Sports and Social Change in the Twentieth Century
Course Description: Development of sport in the United States and its importance for U.S. culture and society. Covers increased centrality of athletic competition as part of the new leisure time in the late nineteenth century, revival of the Olympic movement, racial segregation/integration, today’s American notions of celebrity and social style.
Professor: Terry A. Scott
Term: Spring 2015

Title: The Light the Dead See
Adopted at: University of Southern California
Course: ARLT 100, Misfits and Mysteries: The Grotesque in Recent American Literature
Course Description: Critical analysis of significant works of literature, philosophy, visual arts, music and/or film; intensive reading and writing to develop knowledge of analytical techniques in the humanities.
Professor: Anna Journey
Term: Spring 2015

Title: The Rise to Respectability
Adopted at: Tougaloo College
Course: HIS 225, The Civil Rights Movement
Course Description: This course will examine the origins, philosophies, tactics, events, personalities, and consequences of the southern civil Rights Movement. This course will begin with the struggles of black veterans to register to vote after WWII and will conclude with the Meredith March Against Fear in 1966.
Professor: Michael Williams
Term: Spring 2015

Title: A Sunday in God-Years
Adopted at: George Mason University
Course: ENGH 608, Research and Poetry
Course Description: Various sections offer work in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, each focusing in different ways on the practices and the craft development of writers. Numerous writing assignments mixed with reading followed by careful analytical and craft discussions
Professor: Susan Tichey
Term: Fall 2014

Title: The Long Shadow of Little Rock
Adopted at: Macalester College
Course: AMST 110, Introduction to African American Studies
Course Description: This class will explore what it has meant to be African-American in the United States, and how this identity shaped Black community, thought, and life.
Professor: Duchess Harris
Term: Fall 2014

Title: Arkansas Travelers
Adopted at: University of Arkansas
Course: HIST 3383 Arkansas and the Southwest
Course Description: Political, economic, social, and cultural development of Arkansas from the coming of the Indian to the 20th century, with special emphasis on Arkansas as a national and regional component.
Professor: Edward Andrus
Term: Spring 2022

Title: A Spectacular Leap
Adopted at: University of Virginia
Course: WGS 3240 Gender, Race and Sport: A History of African American Sportswomen
Course Description: Explore the intersection of gender and race in sport, specifically examining the African-American female experience in sport. This course will ask students to consider whether sport was (and continues to be) the great equalizer for both African-American sportsmen and sportswomen, and to evaluate their portrayals (or lack thereof) in both the white and Black media.
Professor: Bonnie Hagerman
Term: Spring 2022

Title: Chop Suey and Sushi from Sea to Shining Sea
Adopted at: University of California Berkeley
Course: ANTHRO 160AC Forms of Folklore
Course Description: A world-wide survey of the major and minor forms of folklore with special emphasis on proverbs, riddles, superstitions, games, songs, and narratives.
Professor: Laurie Wilkie
Term: Spring 2022

Title: Our Earliest Tattoos
Adopted at: Bates College
Course: ENG 292 Poetry Writing
Course Description: A course for students who wish to have practice and guidance in the writing of poetry.
Professor: Myronn Hardy
Term: Winter 2022

Title: Up Against the Wall
Adopted at: Minnesota State University, Mankato
Course: HIST 581 Civil Rights in the Twentieth Century
Course Description: Students will study the African American freedom movement and other civil rights campaigns to understand the basis of both oppression and civil rights in the U.S. and will apply this historical context to contemporary civil rights struggles. Graduate students will also synthesize the academic literature and make use of this history in a professional context.
Professor: Angela Jill Cooley
Term: Spring 2022

Title: Rivals
Adopted at: University of Rochester
Course: WRTG 105-27 Sports as Politics
Course description: Students will explore the questions of how politicization has changed what it means to be a sports fan, why political questions are debated through sports, and whether or not sports are inherently political as they develop other lines of inquiry about the growing politicization of American sports. 
Professor: Justin Grossman
Term: Fall 2021

Title: Eternal Sentences
Adopted at: Kenyon College
Course: ENGL 201 Introduction to Poetry Writing
Course Description: Study of a variety of types of poetry. Regular writing exercises will encourage students to widen their scope and develop their craft. The course will emphasize discovering the “true” subject of each poem, acquiring the skills needed to render that subject, understanding the relationship between form and content, and, finally, interrogating the role and function of poetry in a culture. In addition to weekly reading and writing assignments, students will submit a process-based portfolio demonstrating an understanding of the revision process and a final chapbook of eight to 12 pages of poetry.
Professor: Andy Grace
Term: Fall 2021

Title: Arkansas: A Concise History
Adopted at: National Park College
Course: HIST 1143 Arkansas History
Course Description: Designed to acquaint the student with the economic, social and political evolutions of Arkansas from the Spanish and French explorations to the present. “Local color” interrelated to these socio-economic studies will be an integral part of the course: folklore, native art and music, and traditions that have remained a unique part of Arkansas heritage.
Professor: Thomas Copeland
Term: Spring 2021

Title: Mexican-Origin Foods, Foodways, and Social Movements
Adopted at: University of California Davis
Course: CHI 042 –Food Justice: Chicana/o & Indigenous Communities
Course Description: Issues surrounding food justice in Chicana/o and Indigenous Communities. Emphasis on discourses and practices of growing a food justice movement centered on the ecological care of the earth and decolonized environmental methodologies.
Professor: Susy Zepeda
Term: Spring 2021

Title: A Muslim Primer
Adopted at: McDaniel College
Course: IDS 2215 The Arab World
Course Description: This course will offer an introduction to and an overview of the history, culture, politics and current events of the Arab world in the Middle East and Africa. The students will also be introduced to the Arab-American community and its contribution to culture and politics in the United States. One integral part of the class is a daily discussion of current events in the Arab World, US policy toward the Middle East, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the U.S. war on terrorism.
Professor: Mo Esa
Term: Spring 2021

Title: Inclined to Speak
Adopted at: Bates College
Course: AM / EN 281 Arab American Poetry
Course Description: This course offers students an introduction to Arab American poetry from the early works of Khalil Gibran to the present. The course develops an appreciation of Arab American poetic forms, craft, voice, and vision within a transnational and diasporic framework. Surveying the poems and critical work of an expansive array of poets such as Lauren Camp, Hayan Charara, Suheir Hammad, Marwa Helal, Mohja Kahf, Philip Metres, Naomi Shihab Nye, Deema Shehabi, students examine the complex, personal, communal, national, cultural, historical, political, and religious realities that manifest themselves at home and elsewhere in the Arab American literary imagination.
Professor: Therí Pickens
Term: Spring 2021

Title: Moving Boarders
Adopted at: Colorado State University
Course: SPMT 536 Sport and Communities
Course Description: Examines sport as a social institution that enables social interaction, and reflects, reinforces, and creates societal norms.
Professor: Ajhanai Newton
Term: Spring 2021

Title: A Spectacular Leap
Adopted at: Southern Methodist University
Course: HIST 3310 Problems in American History: The Black Athlete
Course Description: Explores historical issues or trends in U.S. history using a case study or comparative format.
Professor: Kenneth Hamilton
Term: Spring 2021

Title: A Spectacular Leap
Adopted at: University of Alabama Birmingham
Course: AAS 220 History of Sport: The African American Experience
Course Description: This course provides a socio-cultural and historical overview of the African American athletes that contributed to sports as we know them today. Focus will begin on the historical figures that helped shape sports culture and will continue into discussions about the role African Americans play in collegiate and professionals sports today.
Professor: Addine Clemom
Term: Spring 2021

Title: Arkansas: A Narrative History
Adopted at: University of Arkansas at Rich Mountain
Course: HIS-233 Arkansas History
Course Description: This course offers a study of the political, social, and economic development of Arkansas from the era of exploration and early statehood to the present. Major themes include the Civil War and Reconstruction, segregation and disenfranchisement, progressivism, and civil rights.
Professor: Kyle Carpenter
Term: Spring 2021

Title: Out of the Shadows
Adopted at: University of Texas
Course: KIN 352K Race and Sport in African American Life
Course Description: Race and sport in African American life provides a historical and analytical understanding of the issues involving race, racism, race relations in American sport. African Americans in particular have had a unique relationship with sport within the interscholastic, intercollegiate, amateur and professional levels in the struggle to be recognized as valuable members of the sporting arena. This course provides an overview of the sporting events, icons, and time periods that have been shaped by America’s continued struggle to improve race relations and the African American experience.
Professor: Darren Kelly
Term: Spring 2021

Title: A Spectacular Leap
Adopted at: University of Kentucky
Course: HIS 360 AAS 360 Race / Sports in America
Course Description: Examines the history of race and sport in America.
Professor: Derrick White
Term: Spring 2021

Title: Paraíso
Adopted at: University of Rochester
Course: ENGL 376-1 Seminar in Writing Poetry
Course Description: Poems, as William Carlos Williams once said, are machines made out of words, and in this advanced poetry workshop we will work on making the most gorgeous, gripping, and efficient machines possible. To that end, we will read both one another’s poems and poems by established authors, in either case paying attention to the ways in which the authors harness aspects of their medium, the English language: syntax, diction, rhythm.
Professor: Jennifer Grotz
Term: Spring 2021

Title: Rooted Resistance
Adopted at: Eastern Oregon University
Course: WR 393 Rhetoric of Public Culture
Course Description: Introduction to contemporary rhetorical theories and methods and their applications to public texts and persuasion in everyday life.
Professor: Cori Brewster
Term: Spring 2021

Title: Meanings of Maple
Adopted at: Binghamton University
Course: ENVI 382 Sweet Harvests: Bees and Maples
Course Description: Beekeeping and maple syrup production are two forms of specialized agricultural production that are growing in popularity across the U.S., and particularly in the Northeast. Building upon primary research conducted in the state of Maine, this course will explore these two practices across the Northeast, with particular focus in New York State. We will take an interdisciplinary approach, studying the history of production, the biological and ecological components, the embedded social and cultural meanings, and specifically climate change’s impacts on the present and future for beekeeping and maple syrup production. Course will include guest lectures and field trips.
Professor: Sara Hendrickson Velardi
Term: Spring 2021

Title: To The Bramble and the Briar
Adopted at: Indiana University East
Course: ENG-L 384 Studies in American Culture
Course Description: Study of a coherent period of American culture (such as the Revolution, the Progressive Era, the Great Depression), with attention to the relations between literature, the other arts, and the intellectual milieu.
Professor: Brian Brodeur
Term: Spring 2021

Title: Arkansas: A Concise History
Adopted at: Harding University
Course: HIST 3021 and HIST 5021 Arkansas History
Course Description: A survey of the history of Arkansas from the era of European exploration to the present. Required of all teachers certifying in the social sciences.
Professor: Jared Dockery
Term: Spring 2021

Title: Arkansas: A Narrative History
Adopted at: Black River Technical College
Course: HIST -2083 Arkansas History
Course Description: The unique geography of Arkansas, the position of the state in the South, its relationship to the conflict over slavery and the role of the state in the Civil War, Reconstruction, the dawning of the Twentieth Century, World War I and II, the battle for Civil Rights, the impact of Korea and Vietnam, and the changing role of Arkansas in modern times are all addressed in this course.
Professor: Dianna Fraley
Term: Spring 2021

Title: A Theory of Birds
Adopted at: Brown University
Course: LITR 0110B Poetry I.
Course Description: A workshop for students who have little or no previous experience in writing poetry.
Professor: Erica Ammann
Term: Spring 2021

Title: Moving Boarders
Adopted at: Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania
Course: SPRT 601 Sport in American Culture
Course Description: Examines the sociocultural environment in which sport exists, including detailed evaluation of the impact of such issues as gender, race, media, social stratification, ethnicity, mass media and commercialization, politics, and leadership from historical and contemporary sociocultural perspectives. Focuses on American cultural ideologies throughout history and their interplay with both amateur and professional sport.
Professor: Dain TePoel
Term: Spring 2021

Title: White Man’s Heaven
Adopted at: Missouri State University
Course: HIST 375 The Ozarks in American History
Course Description: The Ozarks as an historic American region. Historical geography of the Ozarks. The Old Ozarks Frontier; the Modern Ozarks; the Cosmopolitan Ozarks; the New Ozarks Frontier. Relation of the Ozarks to major themes in U.S. History.
Professor: Brooks Blevins
Term: Fall 2020

Title: Reveille
Adopted at: Johns Hopkins University
Course: AS.220.201 The Craft of Poetry: Narrative
Course Description: Workshop exploring the many ways that a poet can organize narrative information when telling a story, investigating a philosophical idea, or even just describing a scene. Students write every week. Discussions of a variety of classical and contemporary poems, paying close attention to how each poem shapes and challenges readers’ expectations.
Professor: James Arthur
Term: Spring 2020

Title: Dinarzad’s Children
Adopted at: University of Minnesota
Course: ENGL 1401W Introduction to World Literatures in English
Course Description: Writing-intensive course introducing texts from geographical locations such as Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean with the aim of examining the impact that colonialism has had on previously colonized nations, as well as the world as a whole. Through close readings of these texts, examines questions related to concepts such as ‘third world,’ nationalism, difference, representation, and displacement.
Professor: Nabil Matar
Term: Spring 2020

Title: Dinarzad’s Children
Adopted at: Youngstown State University
Course: ENGL 2618 American Literature and Diversity
Course Description: Writers and works in relation to the diversity of American culture, politics, lifestyles, and social movements.
Professor: Jackie Mercer
Term: Spring 2020

Title: Teeth Never Sleep
Adopted at: Fullerton College
Course: ENGL 204 Introduction to Poetry
Course Description: This course covers the reading and study of poems from ancient to modern times in English and in translation. The focus of the course is on the analysis of poetic techniques and the interpretation of universal themes.
Professor: Cynthia Guardado
Term: Spring 2020

Title: When the Wolf Came
Adopted at: University of Maine
Course: HTY 464 America at the Crossroads: the Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction, 1840-1877
Course Description: This course examines how the United States, which was less than a century old, lost half of its territory to politics and a different way of life. Students will explore the intersections of national events, specifically the intensified sectional conflict, with the significance of these turbulent decades among specific groups of people, including African-Americans (both slave and free), Native peoples, women, and recent immigrants.
Professor: Micah Pawling
Term: Spring 2020

Title: When the Wolf Cme
Adopted at: University of Iowa
Course: The Civil War Era and the Remaking of America: A Multicultural Approach
Course Description: Using primary sources and the latest in cutting-edge historical scholarship, explores the fascinating and often rarely examined diverse cast of characters that were part of the transformation of America during the Civil War Era.
Professor: Dwain Coleman
Term: Spring 2020

Title: Teeth Never Sleep
Adopted at: University of California Riverside
Course: CRWT 046B Craft of Writing Survey in Contemporary Poetry
Course Description: A survey of selected works of contemporary poetry and related texts, with emphasis on the craft of poetry and how craft contributes to meaning.
Professor: Sara Borjas
Term: Spring 2019 and Spring 2020

Title: Rivals
Adopted at: Northern Kentucky University
Course: SPB 200 Rivalry and Rituals: International Sport
Course Description: ‘Rivalry and Rituals’ uses the socially prominent context of international sports to examine cultural development, influence and conflict within and across persons and geographic boundaries.
Professor: Joe Cobbs
Term: Fall 2019

Title: Separate Games
Adopted at: Colorado State University
Course: ETST 277 Racial Representations of Black Athletes
Course Description: Racial representations in the U.S. of Black/African American athletes at the intersections of sport and the sociocultural spaces of society—both historically and in contemporary contexts. Explore how racial representations have been shaped by forces of political significance, social and cultural movements, people, images, and ideologies.
Professor: Albert Bimper Jr.
Term: Fall 2019

Title: Sin
Adopted at: Brown University
Course: RELS 0575 On Human Longing: Persian and Urdu Poetry
Course Description: The poet Rumi begins his Masnavi by describing the reed flute’s sound as its longing for the reed bed from which it was cut. Unappeasable desire, which consumes one’s self and must be expressed endlessly, permeates Persian and Urdu poetry. The object of longing is equally (and simultaneously) God and the human being, creating a poetic dialect replete with metaphysics as well as sensual experience. We will work with translations of poetry produced in various periods in Iran and Central and South Asia to discuss love, desire, beauty, faith, and betrayal.
Professor: Shahzad Bashir
Term: Spring 2019

Title: Our Earliest Tattoos
Adopted at: Notre Dame University
Course: ENGL 20002 Introduction to Poetry Writing
Course Description: This course invites you to build on the basics, develop your technical abilities, and broaden your approaches to the form, genres, media, language, and performance of contemporary poetry. Students should expect to read and view works from a variety of periods and cultures and will generate their own poems in response to course readings and prompts as well as their own impromptu in-class writing. Students will also sharpen their critical vocabulary as they analyze assigned readings, critique peer work, and receive critiques of their poems from both peers and instructor.
Professor: Joyelle McSweeney
Term: Spring 2019

Title: Our Earliest Tattoos
Adopted at: Notre Dame University
Course: ENGL 30851 Poetry Writing
Course Description: This is a course for students who are ready to immerse themselves in the strange contagious waters of poetry. We’ll read across regions, languages, communities, and time periods to connect to poetry’s aesthetic, formal, and political urgencies and possibilities, and we’ll write an array of poems of our own. Expect to write individual lyrics as well as prose poems, letters, verse plays, sound poems, collages, remixes, performance pieces, and verse plays, and to poke around in the traditional and digital media by which poems have been shared. Expect to write in- and out-of- class poems, work collaboratively on group projects and translations, present, perform, participate, and offer kind and supportive feedback on peer work., and propose and execute a final project of your own devising.
Professor: Joyelle McSweeney
Term: Spring 2019

Title: Oxford American Book of Great Music Writing
Adopted at: University of South Carolina Lancaster
Course: ENGL 102 Rhetoric and Composition
Course Description: Instruction and intensive practice in researching, analyzing, and composing written arguments about academic and public issues.
Professor: Stephen Criswell
Term: Spring 2019

Title: Jim Crow America
Adopted at: University of Arkansas
Course: HIST / AAST 3243 African American History Since 1877
Course Description: Will study the major social, political, and economical issues relating to the African American experience beginning with the late post-Reconstruction period and will include all of the major personalities and influences in the Civil Rights Movement, from 1877 to the present.
Professor: Michael Powers
Term: Spring 2019

Title: Dinarzad’s Children
Adopted at: Temple University
Course: ENG 2000 Special Topics: Arab America Literature
Course Description: Explores a carefully defined theme, topic, or type of literature or writing.
Professor: Rimun Murad
Term: Spring 2019

Title: Inclined to Speak
Adopted at: Brown University
Course: LITR 1231C Experimental Poets of Color
Course Description: In this course we’ll read and critically engage with contemporary experimental poets of color writing in English in the US and Canada. Exploring the intersection of poetics, aesthetics, critical race (and mixed race) theory, and social justice activism in the arts, we will question the modernist and post-modernist assumptions that experimentation and innovation are exclusively the domain of whiteness. We will explore how racism, colonialism, and other contemporary systems of oppression condition responses to poets of color, and consider how poets of color respond to and engage with these systems both overtly and through their aesthetic experimentation.
Professor: Erica Mena-Landry
Term: Spring 2019

Title: Ya Te Veo
Adopted at: Roanoke College
Course: CRWR 316 Advanced Creative Writing – Poetry
Course Description: Development of writing skills in poetry, building upon introductory creative writing courses.
Professor: Melanie Almeder
Term: Spring 2019

Title: Mexican-Origin Food, Foodways, and Social Movements
Adopted at: California State University Los Angeles
Course: CLS 4180 – Public Health Issues In Latina/O Communities
Course Description: Assesses issues confronting Latinas/os including health disparities, access to quality health care, preventive health care, gender, community clinics, and the future of health care for Latino communities.

Professor: Lani Cupchoy

Term: Fall 2018

Title: American Appetites
Adopted at: University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Course: AMST 276 Cooking up a Storm
Course Description: This course will take students on a journey through some of the key moments in “American” food studies and its beginnings across a range of disciplinary homes: the study of nutrition and food security; the study of food systems and the vocabularies that subtend them.
Professor: Elizabeth Engelhardt
Term: Fall 2018

Title: Chord Box
Adopted at: Oberlin College
Course: CRWR 201 Poetry and Prose Workshop
Course Description: A gateway course for the creative writing major. In this workshop course we will focus on student writing and we will be studying a number of authors, including Oberlin alumni Elizabeth Rogers, Lauren Clark and Adam Gianelli, who will be visiting campus later in the spring.
Professor: Kazim Ali
Term: Fall 2018

Title: Protection Spell
Adopted at: Central Washington University
Course: English 365-001, Poetry Writing
Course Description: A workshop that introduces the varieties of forms, styles, voices, and strategies for writing poetry. Emphasizes reading professional models and the development and application of criteria for evaluating and revising poems.
Professor: Maya Zeller
Term: Fall 2018

Title: Reveille
Adopted at: State University of New York, Fredonia
Course: ENGL 460, Advanced Poetry Writing
Course Description: Intensive critical discussion of student work. Readings in contemporary poetry.
Professor: Sarah Green
Term: Spring 2018

Title: Long Shadow of Little Rock
Adopted at: University of Washington
Course: HSTAA 345A, US Political And Economic History, 1920 – Present
Course Description: Explores key moments and people in the history of the United States from the end of World War I to the present.
Professor: Margaret O’Mara
Term: Spring 2018

Title: Arkansas: A Narrative History
Adopted at: University of Arkansas Fort Smith
Course: HIST 4153
Course Description: Physiographic and demographic patterns; exploration, settlement, and political, social, and economic evolution of Arkansas from the Spanish and French excursions to the present. Also, a study of contemporary policies and government in Arkansas.
Professor: Billy Higgins
Term: Spring 2018

Title: Sin
Adopted at: Brown University
Course: MES 0825, From Blind Owls to Mute Dreams: An Introduction to Modern Persian Literature in English translation
Course Description: A survey of the modern Persian literature of Iran for students who have little to no background in the topic. Starting in the early twentieth century and continuing until the present day, we will examine the major themes and aesthetic techniques of some of the most important writers who have shaped modern Persian literature throughout the twentieth century, paying significant attention to the sociopolitical context and formal characteristics of texts.
Professor: Amir Moosavi
Term: Spring 2018

Title: A Spectacular Leap
Adopted at: Lyndon State College
Course: HIS 3155, Sports in American History
Course Description: Analyzes the evolution of American society from the 1830s to the present through the lens of organized professional and amateur athletics. Probes what sports has to teach us about the process of American history in such areas of life as gender, race, ethnicity, local cultures and mass culture, economics, politics, religion, and regional/national identity. Both the experiences of participation and spectatorship will be addressed.
Professor: Paul Searls
Term: Spring 2018

Title: Devouring Cultures
Adopted at: Truman State University
Course: JINS 329, Language and Meaning
Course Description: An interdisciplinary approach to studying language as a medium of communication. It includes both a survey of various theories of meaning and a study of symbol systems in the creation, maintenance, and change of a culture or social group.
Professor: James Cianciola
Term: Spring 2017

Title: Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop
Adopted at: University of West Georgia
Course: HIST 4477, The New South
Course Description: A study of the American South since 1865, including the interaction of economic, political, social, and cultural factors, especially in the context of struggles in rural and urban communities and in the textile industry.
Professor: Julia Brock
Term: Spring 2017

Title: Up Against the Wall
Adopted at: Minnesota State University, Mankato
Course: HIST 481W, U.S. Civl Rights in the Twentieth Century
Course Description: Examines the Civil Rights Movement, broadly defined, from 1945 to the present, focusing on the period from 1945 to 1970. Explores the way in which African Americans and their white supporters mobilized for equality in the face of massive white resistance and seeming federal indifference.
Professor: Angela Jill Cooley
Term: Spring 2017

Title: The Long Shadow of Little Rock
Adopted at: University of Georgia
Course: HIST 4120, The Civil Rights Movement
Course Description: Examines the strategies and philosophies of various organizations in the Civil Rights movement and studies the contributions made by key personalities such as Jo Ann Gibson Robinson, Rosa Parks, Daisy Bates, Ella Baker, Septima Clark and Fannie Lou Hamer.
Professor: Chana Kai Lee
Term: Spring 2017

Title: A Spectacular Leap
Adopted at: University of Kentucky
Course: History 360 / African American Studies 360, Race and Sports
Course Description: Examines the history of race and sport in America
Professor: Gerald Smith
Term: Spring 2017

Title: A Spectacular Leap
Adopted at: University of Pennsylvania
Course: History 231, Race & Ethnicity in Sport
Course Description: Through readings, videos, and discussion, considers the social, cultural, and political relevance of black participation in sport and its larger connection to the evolution of race relations in America.
Professor: Neil Lanctot
Term: Fall 2016

Title: American Appetites
Adopted at: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Course: AMST 375, Special Topics in American History
Course Description: Examines the history and meaning of food in American culture and explores the ways in which food shapes national, regional, and personal identity.
Professor: Marcie Cohen Ferris
Term: Spring 2016

Title: American Appetites
Adopted at: Washington University, St. Louis
Course: L98-359, American Culture Studies, Eating History: Cultural Creolization and Clash of Tradition in the American East
Course Description: Students will learn to apply methodologies in a multidisciplinary manner across many different types of cultural evidence, and engage with a rigorous reading list drawing upon disparate disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and hard sciences.
Professor: Sarah Spivey
Term: Spring 2016

Title: American Appetites
Adopted at: San Francisco State University
Course: HIST 642, Historical Perspectives on Culture, Identity and Food History
Course Description: Critically examines the historic role of food and drink –its production, preparation, processing, and politics — in American history and culture from the colonial period to the most recent past.
Professor: Dawn Bohulano Mabalan
Term: Spring 2016

Title: The Long Shadow of Little Rock
Adopted at: University of Central Arkansas
Course: HIST 3310, Social Science Concepts in Arkansas History
Course Description: This course introduces students to concepts of social science in relationship to selected content of Arkansas History.
Professor: Dr. Story Matkin-Rawn
Term: Spring 2016

Title: Things You Need to Hear
Adopted at: University of Central Arkansas
Course: HIST 4355/5355, The Role of Arkansas in the Nation
Course Description: Students examine United States history as reflected in the history of Arkansas. Emphasis on the ways Arkansas reflects or departs from national trends.
Professor: Dr. Story Matkin-Rawn
Term: Spring 2016

Title: Life in the Leatherwoods
Adopted at: Arkansas Tech University
Course: ANTH 2103, Ozark-Ouachita Studies
Course Description: This course provides students with the knowledge and skills to understand changing human-environment relationships in the mountain south and to apply these understandings to the assessment of, and potential solutions to, contemporary environmental issues in the area.
Professor: Joshua Lockyer
Term: Fall 2015

Title: Jim Crow America
Adopted at: Southeast Missouri State University
Course: UI 508, African Americans during the Era of Segregation
Course Description: A study of African Americans from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement
Professor: Steven Hoffman
Term: Fall 2015

Title: A Spectacular Leap
Adopted at: Purdue University
Course: IDIS 371F, The Black Athlete
Course Description: Focuses on specific topics of the personal experiences of blacks, in Africa and the diaspora, including black identity, black culture, and the relationships between blacks and society.
Professor: Andrew McGregor
Term: Fall 2015

Title: Beyond C. L. R. James
Adopted at: Hamilton College
Course: Africana Studies 215, Global Race and Sport
Course Description: Examines race and diversity issues in the world of sports from the early 20th century to the present.
Professor: Nigel Westmaas
Term: Fall 2015

Title: Arkansas: A Narrative History
Adopted at: Arkansas Tech University
Course: HIST 2153, Introduction to Arkansas History
Course Description: An introductory course on the history of Arkansas. Lectures, discussions, and applied activities will be central to this professional education requirement for Early Childhood and Middle Level Education majors.
Professor: John Rowley
Term: Fall 2015

Title: Arkansas: A Narrative History
Adopted at: Arkansas Tech University
Course: HIST 4153, History of Arkansas
Course Description: A study of the history of Arkansas from prehistoric times to the present, noting political, social, economic, and cultural trends.
Professor: Brenda Murray
Term: Fall 2015

Title: Arkansas: A Narrative History
Adopted at: University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Course: HIST 4355, Arkansas History / Government
Course Description: Focuses on selected topics central to Arkansas history, covering its political, social, cultural, geographic, and economic development from settlement to present.
Professor: Simon Hosken
Term: Summer 2015

Title: Race and Ethnicity in Arkansas
Adopted at: University of Arkansas
Course: HIST 3383, Arkansas and the Southwest
Course Description: Political, economic, social, and cultural development of Arkansas from the coming of the Indian to the 20th century, with special emphasis on Arkansas as a national and regional component.
Professor: Rebecca Howard
Term: Summer 2015

Title: American Appetites
Adopted at: University of Florida
Course: AMH 3931, Special Topics in American History
Course Description: Selected, variable topics in the history and culture of America.
Professor: Nick Foreman
Term: Spring 2015

Title: Inclined to Speak
Adopted at: Pittsburg State University
Course: ENGL 566, American Theme: Asian American Literature
Course Description: A study of a theme or idea in two or more genres in American literature.
Professor: Sandra Cox
Term: Spring 2015

Title: Unlocking V.O. Key Jr.
Adopted at: University of Alabama
Course: PSC 316, Southern Politics
Course Description: Examination of the party system of the Southern states in terms of its origin, nature, distribution of power, and impact on national politics.
Professor: Steven A. Borrelli
Term: Spring 2015

Title: Live Nude Girl
Adopted at: Indiana University, South Bend
Course: ENGL W-311, Writing Creative Nonfiction
Course Description: Workshop in such modes as personal essay, autobiography, or documentary. Course focuses on understanding and practicing the rhetorical and stylistic choices available to writers of creative nonfiction: options for structure, pacing, language, style, tone, detail, description, authorial presence and voice, etc.
Professor: Kelcey Parker
Term: Spring 2015

Title: Out of the Shadows
Adopted at: University of Washington
Course: AES 335, Sports and Social Change in the Twentieth Century
Course Description: Development of sport in the United States and its importance for U.S. culture and society. Covers increased centrality of athletic competition as part of the new leisure time in the late nineteenth century, revival of the Olympic movement, racial segregation/integration, today’s American notions of celebrity and social style.
Professor: Terry A. Scott
Term: Spring 2015

Title: The Light the Dead See
Adopted at: University of Southern California
Course: ARLT 100, Misfits and Mysteries: The Grotesque in Recent American Literature
Course Description: Critical analysis of significant works of literature, philosophy, visual arts, music and/or film; intensive reading and writing to develop knowledge of analytical techniques in the humanities.
Professor: Anna Journey
Term: Spring 2015

Title: The Rise to Respectability
Adopted at: Tougaloo College
Course: HIS 225, The Civil Rights Movement
Course Description: This course will examine the origins, philosophies, tactics, events, personalities, and consequences of the southern civil Rights Movement. This course will begin with the struggles of black veterans to register to vote after WWII and will conclude with the Meredith March Against Fear in 1966.
Professor: Michael Williams
Term: Spring 2015

Title: A Sunday in God-Years
Adopted at: George Mason University
Course: ENGH 608, Research and Poetry
Course Description: Various sections offer work in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, each focusing in different ways on the practices and the craft development of writers. Numerous writing assignments mixed with reading followed by careful analytical and craft discussions
Professor: Susan Tichey
Term: Fall 2014

Title: The Long Shadow of Little Rock
Adopted at: Macalester College
Course: AMST 110, Introduction to African American Studies
Course Description: This class will explore what it has meant to be African-American in the United States, and how this identity shaped Black community, thought, and life.
Professor: Duchess Harris
Term: Fall 2014