English @ SUNY Geneseo | Beth McCoy | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/bmccoy/activity/ Activity feed for Beth McCoy. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 6b885eaef755da4489054e8ffb5ac6e9 Beth McCoy edited the blog post Sower What About L.A. Podcast? in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15252/ Fri, 15 May 2020 15:12:30 -0500 In Spring 2020, I taught “Expulsion and the Housing Crisis,” a SUNY Geneseo literature course contemplating narratives flowing into and out of the 2008 global financial crisis.

Students read William Sha […]

]]> 0 fea58e910cafc13eeb187b4afa8a82e7 Beth McCoy joined the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12241/ Sun, 10 Feb 2019 18:14:45 -0500 0 f771d696a10a7e93e13a804db2f0c562 Beth McCoy joined the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12240/ Sun, 10 Feb 2019 17:51:29 -0500 0 bee4692a63beaddb0572aeaa4b9aadaa Beth McCoy commented on the post, A Blog Interlude, on the site (Im)Possibilities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11023/ Sun, 11 Nov 2018 14:58:33 -0500 The asterisked line made me weep with laughter. Thank you…

]]> 0 4e4ed28a6e853ccb00f3f10657fb1b50 Beth McCoy wrote a new blog post Your Favorite Rocks! in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10312/ Tue, 28 Aug 2018 16:27:51 -0500 Here are the results of yesterday’s exercise responding to what turned out to be the very complex question “What’s your favorite rock?”

]]> 0 08d32e96be7940ba6edc0d2be2be57ae Beth McCoy edited the blog post A Brief Guide to the Many Traps of Octavia Butler's Fiction in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9319/ Wed, 13 Dec 2017 21:29:27 -0500 The students of ENGL 431/Octavia Butler and Social Ties have requested that I post their collaborative statement that they conceptualized and crafted independently of the instructor. Click here for a version wi […]

]]> 0 9b02c9c3cff438c9aaaf94ddcee7d69c Beth McCoy edited the blog post Toni Morrison's Jazz and Dante Alighieri's Purgatorio: Out in the Open in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8620/ Fri, 22 Sep 2017 21:46:24 -0500 As Erin Herbst‘s and Brianne Briggmann‘s posts indicate, we along with Ron Herzman are taking the first steps towards a collaborative essay exploring how Toni Morrison’s Jazz recapitulates and revises Dante Alighieri’s Purgatorio.

The project is an offshoot of Fall 2016’s Toni Morrison’s Trilogy course where the class concentrated on the r…[Read more]

]]> 0 d60c55a20ab533806c147adcd042c648 Beth McCoy edited the blog post What harm can innovations like AirBnB do? in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8296/ Sat, 29 Apr 2017 01:26:26 -0500 I’m Facebook friends with a nun who serves in New Orleans, and it just so happens that today she posted regarding this awareness-and-action campaign about how what AirBnb whole-house rentals can do to neighborhoods, especially historically black neighborhoods targeted for gentrification in Katrina’s wake.

As it’s JazzFest time, many folks s…[Read more]

]]> 0 45e8622cab443536631898d70a72513d Beth McCoy wrote a new blog post Space to live and credit score in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8297/ Sat, 29 Apr 2017 01:24:34 -0500 At the request of an anonymous community member, I share this important post.
A heads up to all of you: Beth wasn’t kidding when she said that landlords check your credit score. A friend of mine was looking for r […]

]]> 0 82b20c6107bd14e63395374c2186b2cf Beth McCoy wrote a new blog post Here comes the Atlantic (again) in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8246/ Tue, 18 Apr 2017 16:21:40 -0500 Subtitled “Along parts of the East Coast, the entire system of insuring coastal property is beginning to break down,” this new New York Times article examines how rising sea levels are creating another kind of […]

]]> 0 74b92dc25a9dbacdadafab8dddf1394f Beth McCoy edited the blog post Two paths to dehumanizing human beings in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8211/ Wed, 12 Apr 2017 11:18:37 -0500 I was just reading this interview with Matthew Desmond, whose book Evicted just won a Pulitzer. I haven’t read the book yet and am hoping it’s not in the tradition of Alice Goffman’s On the Run.

But given Dominion‘s deep and complicated human characters, this line really jumped out at me:

“There are two ways to dehumanize: the first is to s…[Read more]

]]> 0 d3f84b7c1335e096cd99f87da8239979 Beth McCoy wrote a new blog post Sometimes when I can't find something, something equally useful pops to the surface in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8199/ Mon, 10 Apr 2017 19:37:01 -0500 I was trying to find  Mother Jones article from about 10 years ago because it made a claim that when a house (or apartment, or any dwelling) approaches about 2800 square feet (I think), it becomes impossible to […]

]]> 0 b35cc0f451ef828977cbf40ee82a8cfc Beth McCoy edited the blog post "Anabaptist Content" in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8168/ Mon, 03 Apr 2017 14:05:28 -0500 Amid a welcome uptick in posts (all quite thoughtful!), I thought you’d be interested in “White supremacy and class privilege in Detroit,” an essay from The Mennonite, an online publication that in offering “Anabaptist content” invites connections with both Flournoy’s The Turner House and Morrison’s A Mercy.

From the beginning of the es…[Read more]

]]> 0 0de44eedf2daf85fb509f6161211dacb Beth McCoy edited the blog post "Metaphor is Hard Science" by Valerie Prince in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8125/ Fri, 24 Mar 2017 20:02:48 -0500 As we are listening to the This American Life episode “Toxie” during class, and as I’ve asked you to attend to all the literary concepts roiling and churning through the episode, I invite you to read Dr. Valerie Prince’s brief but important essay “Metaphor is Hard Science.”

A key passage:

Rather than standing around with its lip…

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]]> 0 1b4e67029738abd5ac98311ff43a8104 Beth McCoy edited the blog post Emotions, Growth, and Writing? in the group Critical Writers https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8124/ Fri, 24 Mar 2017 18:21:54 -0500 I remembered our “Bloodchild”-spawned conversation about inoculating ourselves in the face of fear, worry, and anxiety when I came across this Scientific American article titled “Negative Emotions are Key to Well-Being.”

Eudaemonic approaches, on the other hand, emphasize a sense of meaning, personal growth and understanding of the self—goals th…

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]]> 0 477f56c26ecb34d6f332542016f65f0c Beth McCoy edited the blog post Descartes/Student Code of Conduct Brainstorming in the group Critical Writers https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7956/ Wed, 15 Feb 2017 19:54:35 -0500 A record of our brainstorming from Wednesday, 2/15.

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]]> 0 99b0d68ba5796404951e7c9d1bb02dba Beth McCoy edited the blog post Session Proposal: "Real life" across the curriculum in the group Metagogy https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7913/ Thu, 09 Feb 2017 14:49:35 -0500 (Beth McCoy, Distinguished Teaching Professor of English) While meeting last semester with faculty, students expressed that they wanted instructors throughout all the disciplines to make room in their courses for conversation about “real-life” issues, especially those related to justice and power.
Given training, course content demands, and jus…[Read more]

]]> 0 133b92a06995685b1bf6124840e9348c Beth McCoy edited the blog post ICYMI in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7849/ Thu, 02 Feb 2017 18:04:19 -0500 0 c014fd9bb9de78df3453426da9d5c490 Beth McCoy wrote a new blog post An invitation to cross-check in the group Critical Writers https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7827/ Mon, 30 Jan 2017 14:46:18 -0500 Normally, as recommended by the how-to-blog-here post, I’d embed links in my own text.

But I’m doing something different here because I want to draw attention to what this link itself says the article is going […]

]]> 0 cbf09e7dff4f383d13cdc5c9f5d980de Beth McCoy wrote a new blog post Monday's Archive (but don't overlook Brianne's post below) in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7786/ Tue, 24 Jan 2017 14:48:09 -0500 Posted after the jump in all its low-tech, messy glory is the archive from yesterday’s discussion identifying possible themes with which the art this semester might grapple. Don’t let this archive obscure Br […]

]]> 0 d1590a5e4fe1a93036123fcbe11b9e35 Beth McCoy wrote a new blog post Welcome, and how to blog here! in the group Critical Writers https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7736/ Mon, 16 Jan 2017 15:07:16 -0500 (The following language is adapted from Professor Schacht’s original “How to Blog Here” post): A post can be a few words plus a link or embedded video, or it can be a couple of paragraphs. It should be of inter […]

]]> 0 363728021af1c16d35f5f625169c4ce2 Beth McCoy joined the group Critical Writers https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7725/ Wed, 11 Jan 2017 13:29:33 -0500 0 cc52136239ffed849535dbffb8504709 Beth McCoy wrote a new blog post More both/and in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7602/ Thu, 10 Nov 2016 15:01:15 -0500 In Paradise, Morrison returns us as readers to tracking and tracing. “Ruby” begins a cascade that attends to the violence of those concepts, but I urge you at the same time also to be alert to how the novel in […]

]]> 0 213586937df64b25b044010cb303be78 Beth McCoy wrote a new blog post Claudia Rankine: "‘I don’t know. I don’t know.’" in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7446/ Thu, 20 Oct 2016 13:43:34 -0500 Lots of you have probably heard of/read Claudia Rankine’s Citizen. Recently, Rankine earned a MacArthur genius grant. Here, Steven W. Thrasher interviews the artist about her plans and about the need to study wh […]

]]> 0 299e77148d65e5d3b970d16dd91e81dc Beth McCoy edited the blog post Looking forward/Looping back in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7422/ Sun, 16 Oct 2016 18:08:08 -0500 Dr. Michael Oberg, Geneseo’s SUNY Distinguished Professor of History, now has a website up in support the forthcoming second edition of his textbook Native America: A History. The site is an amazing resource, and I encourage you to bookmark it and get familiar with it as part of your dedication to lifelong learning.

As I poked around on the s…[Read more]

]]> 0 70b4929d50d52aca48c138e2cd31a961 Beth McCoy edited the blog post Will Try Again in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7371/ Thu, 06 Oct 2016 18:03:12 -0500 On Wednesday, I failed to be clear as I struggled to weave together what I wanted us to think about and through “The Thunder, Perfect Mind” as a way into Morrison’s Jazz.

I was trying really hard for reasons I’ll explain when we meet again after break, but the fact is that I failed. Trying again may only lead to my failing (better? worse?),…[Read more]

]]> 0 a16aecb124d6d203b6526804406a0cfc Beth McCoy wrote a new blog post Photo record of Day 1 questions in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6793/ Mon, 29 Aug 2016 20:36:54 -0500 Here’re  photos of some of the first-day questions generated after hearing the first chapter of A Mercy. As I mentioned in class, I think the Morrison/Davis NYPL interview will provide some material for some a […]

]]> 0 cca239a8d99d79ba88fe30f946ce3e50 Beth McCoy joined the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6774/ Wed, 17 Aug 2016 13:11:30 -0500 0 cc37989f220fec284ff4b5a791a87c0e Beth McCoy joined the group Irish Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/3543/ Mon, 10 Nov 2014 15:36:52 -0500 0 fe76eb1a3c2d9e50c478d5319221318e Beth McCoy joined the group Drama https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/3542/ Mon, 10 Nov 2014 15:36:30 -0500 0 d259c34fbf0b9e22fb1b256264cd83d2 Beth McCoy joined the group Speculative Fiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/3297/ Mon, 20 Oct 2014 14:20:06 -0500 0 86ee3f61b56ebd593f802f301ab2350e Beth McCoy joined the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/3152/ Thu, 02 Oct 2014 12:22:28 -0500 0 f005e5433d49fc98e126668edf245b62 Beth McCoy joined the group Film Talk https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/3151/ Thu, 02 Oct 2014 12:22:26 -0500 0 b06c28425b9682de78d7c895e9080cf0 Beth McCoy joined the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/3150/ Thu, 02 Oct 2014 12:22:16 -0500 0 ab4501a798266988353ea34d3743a2eb Beth McCoy joined the group Explainers https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/3149/ Thu, 02 Oct 2014 12:22:10 -0500 0 6fef3cc4a6c7081889af49d92b8231f9 Beth McCoy joined the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/3148/ Thu, 02 Oct 2014 12:22:07 -0500 0 f28ca95d578228adc8b57845374badf8 Beth McCoy joined the group Medieval Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/3147/ Thu, 02 Oct 2014 12:22:03 -0500 0 279c458437f1859d0e3152a3af39609a Beth McCoy joined the group Help and Support https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/2646/ Wed, 02 Jul 2014 13:58:45 -0500 0 234f155bfe4bd7c4206b9c7757cdcbbe Beth McCoy joined the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/2645/ Wed, 02 Jul 2014 13:57:16 -0500 0 d012dbc5416e30e70823abe16016be9d Beth McCoy and Rob Doggett are now friends https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/62/ Mon, 26 Aug 2013 01:14:57 -0500 0 2a9000f7c3e467bbe3ae13b974e483a9 Beth McCoy and Joe Cope are now friends https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/59/ Sat, 24 Aug 2013 20:28:37 -0500 0 100732513a7ac9867fd006faf36c8848 Beth McCoy changed their profile picture https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/56/ Sat, 24 Aug 2013 17:11:21 -0500 0