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Comprehensive List of What Hopkins Academics
Will Be Reading this Summer

By Dale Keiger


Our story featured only the highlights of the reading lists we raided; below, find a comprehensive listing of what Hopkins academics will be mulling over this summer:

Roger Brunyate, chairman of Peabody opera department
- Tolstoy: Anna Karenina
- Seamus Heaney (trans.): Beowulf
- Patrick O'Brien: the Aubrey/Maturin novels

Paula Burger, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs & International Programs
- Jung Chang: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
- Frances Mayes: Under the Tuscan Sun
- Karen Armstrong: A History of God
- Doris Kearns Goodwin: No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt -- The Home Front in World War II

Carol Burke, associate professor, the Writing Seminars
- Susan Faludi: Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Male
- Sherrie Inness: Tough Girls: Women Warriors and Wonder Women in Popular Culture
- Shay Youngblood: Black Girl in Paris
- Victor Pelevin: The Blue Lantern
- Marguerite Duras: The War
- Mary Gordon: Seeing Through Places
- Paul West: OK: The Corral, the Earps, and Doc Holliday
- Oliver Sacks: Migraine

Ilene Busch-Vishniac, dean, school of engineering
- Terry Pratchett: the "Disc World" novels
- Anything recent by Tony Hillerman, Ruth Rendell, Patricia Moyes, Linda Barnes, and Laura Lippman
- New work by Barbara Kingsolver or Alice Walker
- Essays by John McPhee, Primo Levi, and Henry Petrosky

Sara Castro-Klaren, professor of romance languages
- Jorge Luis Borges: Selected Non-fictions
- The Bible: "Song of Songs"
- Julio Cortazar: Hopscotch

Andrew Cherlin, professor of sociology
- Rick Bragg: All Over But the Shoutin'
- Joseph Heller: Catch-22
- Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Thomas Harris: Hannibal

Charles Doran, SAIS professor of international relations
- John Rawls, The Law of Peoples: With "The Idea of Public Reason Revisited"
- Charles Darwin: The Autobiography of Charles Darwin
- Robert Frost: collected poems

P. M. Forni, professor of romance languages
- Robert Wright: The Moral Animal
- Eric Foner: The Story of American Freedom
- Arthur Lovejoy, George Boas: Primitivism and Related Ideas in Antiquity
- Katharine Whittemore et al [eds.]: The Sixties
- Ippolito Nievo: The Castle of Fratta
- Joe McGinniss: The Miracle of Castel di Sangro

Louis Galambos, professor of history
- Robert Caro: The Path to Power
- Various "dreary academic texts"
- Perhaps some William Faulkner

Neil Hertz, director of the Humanities Center
- C. M. Doughty: Travels in Arabia Deserta
- Thorstein Veblen: The Theory of the Leisure Class

Martha Hill, professor, School of Nursing
- Elizabeth M. Norman: We Band of Angels: Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese
- Pat Barker: Another World
- Allison Weir: The Life of Elizabeth I
- Mary Ellen Haywood, Charles Belfoure: The Baltimore Row House

Julian Krolik, professor of physics and astronomy
- Taylor Branch: Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-1965
- Sherwin Nuland: How We Die

Sharon M. K. Kugler, chaplain
- Dava Sobel: Galileo's Daughter
- Alice McDermott: At Weddings and Wakes
- Laurent A. Parks Daloz et al: Common Fire: Leading Lives of Commitment in a Complex World

Jean McGarry, chairman of the Writing Seminars
- Proust: In Search of Lost Time

Edward Miller, CEO, Johns Hopkins Medicine
- Leon Uris: A God in Ruins
- Sebastian Junger: A Perfect Storm
- F. A. Worsley, Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure

Stephen Nichols, chairman of romance languages
- Seamus Heaney (trans.): Beowulf
- Proust: Within a Budding Grove
- Wallace Stegner: Angle of Repose

Matthew Roller, assistant professor of classics
- Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa: The Leopard
- Anthony Grafton: The Footnote: A Curious History
- Markus Sehlmeyer: Honorific Statues of the Republican Period
- Valerius Maximus: Memorable Doings and Sayings

Glenn Schwartz, assistant professor of Near Eastern studies
- Thackeray
- Japanese novels, including some by Haruki Murakami
- Ruth Benedict: The Chrysanthemum and the Sword

Robert Sirota, director, Peabody Institute
- Walter Benjamin: The Arcades Project
- College Music Society: Reflections on American Music: The Twentieth Century and the New Millennium
- Robert Stone: Damascus Gate
- John Baggley: Doors of Perception: Icons and Their Religious Significance

Solomon Snyder, director, JHMI department of neuroscience
- Maynard Solomon: Mozart: A Life
- Daniel Boorstin: The Creators

Alfred Sommer, dean, school of public health
- Homer: The Odyssey [Fagles translation]
- Clayton Christensen: The Innovator's Dilemma
- Richard Russo: Straight Man

Walter Stephens, professor of romance languages
- Stendhal: The Charterhouse of Parma
- Patrick O'Brien: the Aubrey/Maturin novels
- Torquato Tasso (late Renaissance Italian poet): collected works
- Jorge Luis Borges: newly issues translations of his fiction, essays, and poetry

Sasha Torres, professor English
- Kristal Brent Zook: Color by Fox: The Fox Network and the Revolution in Black Television
- Rafael Alvarez: Orlo and Leini
- Marie Brenner: Great Dames: What I Learned From Older Women
- Cheryl Mendelson: Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House

Ron Walters, professor of history
- Dashiell Hammet
- Raymond Chandler
- James Joyce: Dubliners, Ulysses

Daniel Weiss, chairman of history of art
- F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
- William G. Bowen, Derek Bok, Glenn C. Loury: The Shape of the River: Long Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions
- H. W. Brands: T.R.: The Last Romantic [biography of Theodore Roosevelt]

Geoffrey Wright, director, Peabody Computer Music
- Richard Adams: Watership Down
- John Barth: Giles Goat-Boy and The Floating Opera
- Richard Charles Boulanger: The Csound Book: Perspectives in Software Synthesis, Sound Design, Signal Processing, and Programming
- Carlos Chavez: Toward a New Music: Music and Electricity
- Mihaly Csikszentmihaly: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
- Eric F. Douglas: Straight Talk: Turning Communication Upside Down for Strategic Results at Work
- David Epstein: Beyond Orpheus: Studies in Musical Structure
- James R. Evans, Andrew Abarbanel: Introduction to Quantitative EEG and Neurofeedback
- Masanobu Fukuoka: The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming
- R. J. Heifetz: On the Wires of Our Nerves: The Art of
Electroacoustic Music

- P. Hyun: Koreana
- Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy: Hi-tech Shiva and Other Apocryphal Stories: An Academic Allegory
- Jonathan D. Kramer: The Time of Music: New Meanings, New
Temporalities, New Listening Strategies

- Ernst Krenek: Exploring Music: Essays by Ernst Krenek
- Ray Kurzweil: The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
- H.-G. Lee: Korean Music and Instruments
- D. S. Pottruck, Terry Pearce, Lew Platt: Clicks & Mortar
- John Rahn: Perspectives on Musical Aesthetics
- Howard Rheingold: Higher Creativity: Liberating the Unconscious for Breakthrough Insights
- Jeremy Rifkin: The Age of Access: The New Culture of Hypercapitalism, Where All of Life is a Paid-For Experience
- Kim Ronyoung: Clay Walls
- R. Murray Schaefer: The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World
- Bryan Simms: Composers on Modern Musical Culture: An Anthology of Readings on Twentieth-Century Music
- David Toop: Ocean of Sound -- Aether Talk, Ambient Sound, and Imaginary Worlds
- Karl H. Worner: Stockhausen: Life and Work


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