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Veronica Taglia commented on the post, Mapping the Legacy of Cornelia Adair, on the site Digital Humanities at Geneseo 6 years, 1 month ago
Hello! Thanks for your kind message, Raymond. As part of my project, I traveled to Donegal last summer and met with archivists from the Donegal County Council in Lifford, who were extremely forthcoming in helping […]
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Veronica Taglia edited the blog post Visual Schemas and Parable of the Sower in the group American Studies: 6 years, 3 months ago
Earlier this evening, I was browsing The Rumpus and found a comic book review by Kevin Thomas of Butler’s Parable of the Sower:
Most of the class hasn’t read Parable of the Sower (and it’s not on the syllabus) but Thomas’ illustrations strikes me as a powerful reminder of a book I found deeply moving. I’m interested in the way he co…[Read more]
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Veronica Taglia edited the blog post Rethinking Canonicity in my English Degree (again) in the group American Studies: 6 years, 3 months ago
This semester, I took two literature classes: English 451 and a survey course on British literature pre-1700. Because I had to (belatedly) complete my English Major Self-Reflective Advisement Paper, I spent some time thinkING about the value both classes contributed to my degree.
I’ve never seen much merit in weighing courses up against…[Read more]
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Veronica Taglia edited the blog post Mapping the Legacy of Cornelia Adair in the group Digital Humanities: 6 years, 3 months ago
My project aims to create a digital biography/storymap of Cornelia Wadsworth Ritchie Adair (1837-1921), a pioneer originally from Geneseo, New York who played a substantial role in land development in Donegal, Ireland, and Southwest Texas. After her marriage to notorious Irish landowner John George Adair, Cornelia managed their estate at Glenveagh…[Read more]
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Veronica Taglia edited the blog post Yeats’s World and Biographical Storymaps in the group Digital Humanities: 6 years, 3 months ago
The storymap “Yeats, His World” from the National Library of Ireland is a prime example of how interactive mapping can imbue our understanding of an author’s connection to place. The map, which is part of a larger digital (and physical) exhibition on Yeats, organizes photos and biographical information on Yeats by country (and then, region) so…[Read more]
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Veronica Taglia edited the blog post Reexamining Sexual Hierarchies in the group American Studies: 6 years, 4 months ago
In my Inspire paper, I wrote about how Xenogenesis demands that its readers re-evaluate their preconceived frameworks of hegemony in imagining and enacting social change. More specifically, though, I’d like to revisit this subject in the context of sexual power dynamics prevalent throughout the trilogy.
The hybridized, inter-species r…[Read more]
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Veronica Taglia wrote a new blog post Progress Report: Cornelia Adair and Digital Storymaps in the group Digital Humanities: 6 years, 4 months ago
Initially, I was hesitant to use Omeka, because I felt out of my element in navigating the program and struggled to do basic tasks (e.g., creating a simple wepbage and putting it on my home site). But after […]
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Veronica Taglia wrote a new blog post sandbox map in the group Digital Humanities: 6 years, 4 months ago
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Veronica Taglia edited the blog post Contract and Octavia Butler in the group American Studies: 6 years, 4 months ago
We’re a little late, but this dialogue was originally inspired by the Pateman and Mills reading. We both thought the format was interesting and decided to see if we couldn’t have an interesting conversation of our own on Butler’s work. Enjoy! -Veronica and Brendan
Friday the 13th, 01:12 PM, In Class
Brendan Mahoney: OK so what are we tal…[Read more]
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Veronica Taglia edited the blog post “Bloodchild” and the Monstrous Feminine in the group American Studies: 6 years, 4 months ago
As we continue our readings and discussions for the semester, I find myself routinely circling back to “Bloodchild” as I attempt to better understand the way Butler’s fiction underscores questions of gendered hierarchies. Although I’ve enjoyed all of the theory we’ve read in class so far, I especially liked reading up on Julia Kristeva’s concept…[Read more]
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Veronica Taglia replied to the topic Vannevar Bush's Memex in the forum Digital Humanities 6 years, 6 months ago
- Bush’s “memex” imagines a system for collecting and organizing data as volumes of data become too massive/varied for humans to sustain engagement with them. His insights are set against the backdrop of WWII and the influx of changing technology in warfare. Bush notes that the problem of collecting and storing data does only apply to scientists,…
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Veronica Taglia edited the blog post Generational Memory and Property (a story about my grandmother) in the group American Studies: 6 years, 6 months ago
I’m never sure how appropriate it is to share personal stories in English classes, but over Easter weekend, something happened that I felt related too deeply to our class not to document in a blog post.
Important context to the story: my grandmother is an 88-year old widow with 8 children and 20 grandchildren (a true generational matriarch).…[Read more]
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Veronica Taglia replied to the topic Gleick on Words in the forum Digital Humanities 6 years, 6 months ago
- Like Jack, I also didn’t realize the OED listed every possible acceptable spelling of a word (I’ve been looking into a lot of discipilnary differences between higher ed in England vs the US lately, so automatically this makes me think about the Americanization of spelling words (e.g., “colour” to “color”).
2.By reading Metadata before the G…[Read more]
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Veronica Taglia joined the group Digital Humanities 6 years, 6 months ago
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Veronica Taglia edited the blog post Bank of America v. The City of Miami in the group American Studies: 6 years, 10 months ago
I realize that classes are already over, but very quickly I want to share a piece of news I came across that relates rather deeply to the course. Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the City of Miami’s lawsuit against Wells Fargo and Bank of America. The suit alleges that the banks’ predatory lending practices violated the Fair…[Read more]
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Veronica Taglia wrote a new blog post What’s In a Dystopia in the group American Studies: 6 years, 10 months ago
Recently, my mother (who is what people sometimes gently refer to as a “Facebook aunt”) shared a video of a speech by Yeonmi Park, a defector of North Korea, which I will post below:
After watching this […]
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Veronica Taglia edited the blog post Gluttony and The Terror of the Great Outdoors in Lelah’s Eviction in the group American Studies: 7 years ago
As I traced Lelah’s story of eviction and homelessness throughout the five weeks of Spring 2008 in The Turner House, my mind kept returning to an excerpt we read in the beginning of class from Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye. In it, Morrison attests that:
“Outdoors, we knew, was the real terror of life. The threat of being outsiders surface fre…[Read more]
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Veronica Taglia edited the blog post Recontextualizing Water And Cyclical Rebirth in T.S. Eliot’s “The Wasteland” in the group American Studies: 7 years ago
In class last Friday, we ended our discussion on the language of water metaphors in finance by looking at common symbolic associations of water in literature, including the use of water to evoke symbolism of purity, vitality and renewal. We then touched on texts that aim to recontextualize the symbolic association connecting “water” to “purity,”…[Read more]
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Veronica Taglia joined the group American Studies 7 years, 1 month ago
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Veronica Taglia became a registered member 7 years, 4 months ago