This course has two threads. One, we will read works by and about “bad girls”—women who take a stand, who don’t fit in, or who simply want to be left alone--such as Shakespeare's As You Like It, Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Irish language writer Nualla Ní Dhomhnaill's poetry, Allison Bechdel’s graphic novel Fun Home, and Toni Morrison’s Sula. Two, we will annotate what we read. Annotating is a creative practice, and in a moment where artificial intelligence and algorithms dominate what we know and how we know, the need for human description and interpretation is only more urgent. Human annotations give us critically subjective, contextual, and culturally situated insights. The course prioritizes close reading and assignments will include a wide range of creative and unusual annotation practices. This course meets the introductory course requirement for Literary Studies majors and is intended for beginner Literary Studies students.