The following (by no means all-inclusive list) have in someway profoundly transformed my thinking and/or have had a big influence on the scholar I am today. A few are ones that I especially enjoy and appreciate.
Books:
- Emma
- Brave New World
- A Room of One’s Own
- Coming of Age in Mississippi
- Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
- There is a River: The Black Freedom Struggle in America
Thinkers:
- Carl Sagan
- Virginia Woolf
- Susan Sontag
- Sigmund Freud
- Michel Foucault
- Michael Wesch
- bell hooks
- Ferdinand de Saussure
Articles:
- “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”
- “American Anthropological Association: Statement on ‘Race’”
- “Behind, Beneath, Above, and Beyond: The Historical Unconscious”
- “Beyond Compare: Comparative Method after the Transnational Turn”
- “Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is”
- “Race is a Relationship, and Not a Thing”
Films:
- Mildred Pierce
- Germany, Pale Mother
- The World According to Garp
- Orlando
- The Hours
- Antonia’s Line
Painters:
- Michelangelo
- Artemisia Gentileschi
- René Magritte
- Picasso
Classical Music:
- The Marriage of Figaro
- Clair de Lune
- Handel’s Messiah
- Strauss: Four Last Songs
- Für Elise
Composers:
- Bach
- Britten
- Bogdan Ota
- Jean Sibelius
Singers:
- Amanda Marshall (“Shades of Gray,” “Everybody’s Got a Story,” “Last Exit to Eden,” and many, many others)
- Linkin Park (“What I’ve Done” in particular)
Dr. Andrew Joseph Pegoda 