[ARETE] [External] Re: FW: Text Suggestions?

Sun Apr 25 16:35:25 CDT 2021

I'm linking some syllabi to this email and pasting book lists below. Happy to chat about what worked and what needed revision. Some courses taught in our core, some as upper level but available to students in and outside of the English major / minor. I included a very early syllabus and a most recent one. Tons of wins and losses over the years.

Best,
Liz

Women, Sport, and the Body in Literature
(we used some fem theory articles as well, taught as a Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies course cross-listed with English)
Sandoz, Joli, ed.  A Whole Other Ball Game
Zheutlin, Peter Around the World on Two Wheels (non-fiction – history)
Peavy, Linda and Ursula Smith Full-Court Quest: The Girls from Fort Shaw Indian School, Basketball  Champions of the World (creative non-fiction – history)
Snyder, Carrie Girl Runner (fiction – novel)
Heywood, Leslie Pretty Good for a Girl: an Athlete’s Story (non-fiction memoir)
Muhammad, Ibtihaj Proud: My Fight for an Unlikely American Dream (memoir) (didn't end up using this one)
Cox, Lynne Swimming to Antarctica

list of texts (going back to 2011)
Bennett, Michael, Things that Make White People Uncomfortable (memoir)
Diaz, Natalie Postcolonial Love Poem (some great basketball poetry)
Matejka, Adrian, The Big Smoke (poetry)
Howe, Leann, Miko Kings: an Indian Baseball Story (novel)
Percy, Benjamin. The Wilding (novel)
Sandoz, Joli (Ed). A Whole Other Ball Game (anthology selections—stories, articles, poetry)
Bascomb, Neal. The Perfect Mile (historical non-fiction)
Bissinger, H.G. Friday Night Lights (ethnographic non-fiction)
Greenberg, Richard. Take Me Out (play)
Krabbé, Tim The Rider (novella)
Savareid, Eric Canoeing with the Cree (non-fiction narrative)
Fainaru-Wada, Mark and Steve Fainaru League of Denial: The NFL, Concussions, and the Battle for Truth (investigative reporting)

Select poems from Sport Inside Out as well. Don't think this one is still available. I'm using a copy from my undergrad days at Penn State in the 1980s.

Best American Sports Writing ed. by Glen Stout and a different guest editor each year (2020 was the final year of publication)

Podcasts Burn It All Down, Tea with A and Phi, Edge of Sports, Only a Game, Two Writers Slinging Yang

Films which may include Edge of America, Not Just a Game, Games of the North, Off the Rez, Pelada, and Bicycle Dreams (of course there are a ton more out there)

"Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive."
~Barry Lopez from Crow and Weasel

Dr. Elizabeth Wilkinson
she/her/hers

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affiliated with Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies

and American Culture and Difference

JRC 358

University of St. Thomas

St. Paul, MN 55105

612-695-2240 (mobile)

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Subject: [External] Re: [ARETE] FW: Text Suggestions?

Hi all,
I just joined SLA. Pleasure to meet everyone! I’m not an academic but I write dystopian science baseball novels. Thank you for this link, Lisa.  Not everyone thinks baseball will make it into the future:)

I look forward to getting to know you all better.

All the best from Brooklyn,
Gary Morgenstein.

Sent from my iPhone

On Apr 25, 2021, at 3:28 PM, Lisa Timpf via Sport_literature_association <sport_literature_association at lists.ku.edu> wrote:

Hi all:

One issue of Eye to the Telescope, which I edited a couple of years ago, dealt with science fiction/fantasy/speculative takes on sports and games (link is below):

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If you're open to speculative short stories, "Arthur Sternbach Brings the Curveball to Mars" might be of interest. Written by Kim Stanley Robinson, it first appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction in 1999; however I ran across it in one of his Mars Trilogy collections. Here's a link to the story online:

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Best regards

Lisa Timpf

On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 12:27 PM Wedge, Philip C. via Sport_literature_association <sport_literature_association at lists.ku.edu<mailto:sport_literature_association at lists.ku.edu>> wrote:

From: Matthew Smalley <mrsmalley3 at fhsu.edu<mailto:mrsmalley3 at fhsu.edu>>
Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2021 11:06 AM
To: Sport_literature_association <sport_literature_association-bounces at lists.ku.edu<mailto:sport_literature_association-bounces at lists.ku.edu>>
Subject: Text Suggestions?

Hello, All—

I wanted to try a bit of crowdsourcing as I’m designing a new gen. ed. level class in Sport & Literature. Though I’ve been delighted to participate in a SLA conference and have subscribed to Aethlon for 4-5 years, this is my first time teaching a class devoted to our topic. I’ve been looking into past issues of Aethlon for a few extra titles (novels, short stories, or poems) worth considering. If you have experience teaching classes on Sport & Lit (or just an idea for a text or two), I’d be delighted to hear any suggestions. Any suggestions are truly welcome, and I’d be particularly interested in suggestions of texts involving women’s sports. Please respond ‘off list’ (i.e. directly to me at mrsmalley3 at fhsu.edu<mailto:mrsmalley3 at fhsu.edu>). Thanks in advance!

Onward,

MS

Matthew R. Smalley, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of English - Fort Hays State University
600 Park Street, Rarick Hall 375
Hays, KS 67601

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