MA Class August Readings
Memo to the MA Class
From: Evan Cornog, Director of the MA Program
Dear M.A. Class of 2009:
As director of the M.A. program, I look forward to welcoming you here on August28th, and on working with you in the coming academic year.
If you have questions about what’s ahead, please go first to the school Website, in particular:
If you have questions not answered there, please be in touch with me.
We promised you a short list of readings you might want to take on before coming here. They are:
For the Evidence and Inference course, W. G. Sebald, “Air War and Literature”in On the Natural History of Destruction (Modern Library)
For the history course, Prof. Michael Schudson’s Discovering the News (BasicBooks) and Walter Lippmann’s Liberty and the News, in a new edition from Princeton University Press (you need only read the Lippmann, not the foreword or lengthy afterword).
I hope the rest of the summer goes well for you, and I look forward to seeing you in late August.
Best,
Evan
