- Course Introduction–War, Gender, and Domesticity in American Fiction
- Hemingway’s Life
- Brett Ashley as the New Woman
- Myth in Hemingway
- Vonnegut’s Life
- Historical Background for Mother Night
- Cat’s Cradle–Vonnegut and Religion
- Vietnam Background and Tim O’Brien
- Just Listen–O’Brien and Trauma
- In The Lake of the Woods
- Trauma Theory and Extremely Loud
- Laila Halaby Background–Muslims and Arabs in the U.S.
- The Zero–A Reading
- The Next Step
