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Erin Herbst wrote a new blog post Cycling Backwards and Moving Forwards with The Tempest in the group American Studies: 8 years, 4 months ago

In a class and a semester that has been full of reflection, I thought it would be fitting to note that I first read The Tempest in my first literature class here at Geneseo, ENGL 203: Reading Transnationally with […]
Erin Herbst wrote a new blog post How To Teach Colson Whitehead in College Classrooms in the group American Studies: 8 years, 4 months ago

This semester, I’ve read novels by Colson Whitehead in two of my classes. The experiences were different since in this class I read the novel as a student, becoming aware of plot twists at the same time as e […]
Erin Herbst wrote a new blog post Water, Water Everywhere in the group American Studies: 8 years, 4 months ago

I’ve always heard my grandpa say “Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink,” and I really couldn’t tell you why he says it. The actual line comes from an 1798 text, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. I can s […]
Erin Herbst edited the blog post The Strengths of Abolitionist Rhetoric in 2018 in the group American Studies: 8 years, 5 months ago

I was particularly interested in the Prison Abolitionist Movement mentioned in Mariame Kaba’s essay “Free Us All” that we read for Friday’s class. I was familiar with the concept of prison reform and even the arguments in decreasing the numbers of prisons across the country, but I had never heard of prison abolitionism. It piqued my interes…[Read more]
Erin Herbst edited the blog post More on Hurricanes and Names in the group American Studies: 8 years, 5 months ago

I’ll be the first to admit that I stopped posting on the blog the last few weeks because I got stuck. Stuck in my own busy semester, stuck in the unexpected emotions that surfaced in me while watching Levees, and stuck in the shock of realizing that I hadn’t noticed some of these important things before. But after class today, and being able to…[Read more]
Erin Herbst edited the blog post Stumbling across relevant poetry in the group American Studies: 8 years, 6 months ago

I found this poem in a chapbook entitled Counting Descent by Clint Smith, who is one of my favorite poets/writers/people to follow on Twitter. I was reading when I came across this poem and naturally thought this could serve as a good blog post, especially since we’re going to be looking at Blood Dazzler in class soon and we looked at poems in…[Read more]
Erin Herbst edited the blog post Some Sunday thoughts on effigies and bodies in the group American Studies: 8 years, 6 months ago

After completing my first blog post with relative ease, I found myself slipping into a state of acute stress regarding my impending second post. I, much like Jenna explains in this post, was worried that whatever I had to say wasn’t going to be significant enough, or worth a reader’s time. The content in this class seems TOO significant for me to…[Read more]
Erin Herbst edited the blog post What Gets Churned Up? in the group American Studies: 8 years, 7 months ago

Since I’m familiar with the blog assignment, because I’ve taken a few classes with Beth before, I thought maybe I’d start off the conversation specifically related to ENGL 432. I know we haven’t delved too far into the course readings, but I thought that I could provide some useful thoughts on some of the introductory discussions we’ve had and a…[Read more]
Erin Herbst wrote a new blog post Some synthesized thoughts on Jazz/Purgatorio part 1 in the group American Studies: 8 years, 8 months ago

While I think there is a benefit to examining specific similarities between Morrison’s Jazz and Dante’s Purgatorio, I also believe that, in order to make more progress on this project, it is important to also see […]
Erin Herbst wrote a new blog post Recurrence of “Vesper” in the group American Studies: 8 years, 10 months ago

In my rereading of Jazz, I was intrigued on page 30 when Morrison begins a paragraph with, “They met in Vesper County, Virginia, under a walnut tree.” I knew that Vespers was a type of prayer, and so immediately […]

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