English @ SUNY Geneseo | Helen Warfle | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/hmw8/activity/ Activity feed for Helen Warfle. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 55cf41cb8c55c8801699926cd3bf9c15 Helen Warfle edited the blog post Contrapasso and Divine Justice as Found in Toni Morrison's Beloved in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15011/ Wed, 26 Feb 2020 05:48:28 -0500 By Rachel Balfoort, Sydney Cannioto, Jenna Doolan, Thomas Gillingham, Cal Hoag, Dong Won Oh, and Helen Warfle

The Eighth Circle of Hell, as described in Dante’s Inferno, is distinct due to its geographical s […]

]]> 0 0c00bef3c2d68f6741293df59b9c8804 Helen Warfle wrote a new blog post More on Worldbuilding in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14983/ Thu, 20 Feb 2020 22:35:51 -0500 Worldbuilding is a craft that not everyone
can pull off because it requires simulating the complexities of our own world while
not bogging down a story with detail. These worlds can be built from […]

]]> 0 b13ad45ec8a603d4a4ce8e3c97fa3fcb Helen Warfle wrote a new blog post Reflection on my project thus far in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13895/ Mon, 28 Oct 2019 04:36:05 -0500 When I started this project, I genuinely had no idea what to expect, having never read the Xenogenesis trilogy before. In fact, the only works by Butler I had read were Fledgling, Wild Seed, and the short […]

]]> 0 cd0f605a8f9e38f11361bf28a676493f Helen Warfle wrote a new blog post Some preliminary thoughts on the Xenogenesis trilogy in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13793/ Fri, 18 Oct 2019 20:37:17 -0500 This post is more of an orientation for myself than anything else, so please forgive me if it seems:

RudimentaryConfusingWrong

The first part, or at least a crucial part, of building a world is quite […]

]]> 0 5ab58ff20b5bc0c34eb32f9f10114418 Helen Warfle joined the group Unplugged https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13784/ Thu, 17 Oct 2019 15:01:51 -0500 0 edaa9699265419d06e8d1bd6c8619bd7 Helen Warfle wrote a new blog post Why should we care about worldbuilding? in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13586/ Fri, 27 Sep 2019 20:15:01 -0500 Worldbuilding is not something we usually have to think too hard about, mostly because it’s something we’re not intended to think about. A well-built fictional world is meant to be seamlessly immersive, or els […]

]]> 0 19efef01bc0196fc93dd8ec8f3773d6a Helen Warfle wrote a new blog post The Vocabulary of Learning in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12878/ Thu, 16 May 2019 19:07:08 -0500 I’ve always been fascinated by language, perhaps in part due to my own difficulty with the spoken aspect of it. I like to write but I hate to talk. I am a fast talker, a remnant of a childhood speech impediment, a […]

]]> 0 4af3f59ecc8624359c6fed83bca35b25 Helen Warfle wrote a new blog post Won't You Be My Neighbor? : Representation of People of Color In Media in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12733/ Sat, 27 Apr 2019 23:58:01 -0500 By Lindsey Kriaris, Abby Ritz, and Helen Warfle

Many of us grew up watching Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood, which is commonly referred to as one of the most wholesome shows to ever exist. And it certainly is, but i […]

]]> 0 4541d2f2da28783445a544437a5ac2ce Helen Warfle edited the blog post Love In Response to Hate in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12636/ Wed, 24 Apr 2019 03:00:53 -0500 I don’t have very many memories of my great-grandmother. She passed away when I was five and all I have are very vague memories of visiting her when she was in hospice with my dad, wandering through the t […]

]]> 0 a9007b349510bc1beaeadd0cdaac99a1 Helen Warfle edited the blog post A Look Into Sustainability In Art in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12577/ Wed, 17 Apr 2019 00:12:41 -0500 By Amina Diakite, Niamh McCrohan, Abby Ritz, Corinne Scanlon, Abbie Sorrell, Brian Vargas, Brooke Ward, and Helen Warfle

Sustainability is the balance of three systems: the economy, society, and the […]

]]> 0 f17d0782f19fe890c6a304cd7dd92fb3 Helen Warfle wrote a new blog post On Dance in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12539/ Mon, 15 Apr 2019 02:56:56 -0500 Dear past me,

The way I imagine you right now, it’s your sophomore or junior year of high school. You’re probably at musical rehearsal doing homework or trying to catch up on sleep between scenes, dreading h […]

]]> 0 b82129ef9d44c02efc871e9cb2edba38 Helen Warfle edited the blog post DuBois and Sociology in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12467/ Mon, 01 Apr 2019 04:50:48 -0500 I don’t like to admit when I’m struggling, but I have to say, I have been having a difficult time with The Souls of Black Folk recently. I didn’t realize that I was until we read “Of the Passing of the First B […]

]]> 0 4b0736697bcb1e7e471e77302d0a1639 Helen Warfle edited the blog post Triple-Consciousness and Moi, Tituba Sorcière in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12436/ Sat, 23 Mar 2019 23:41:48 -0500 During class last Friday, my group (Amina, Joohee, Sarah-Anne, Sarah, and Amina’s sister), as well as TA Sabrina, had a great discussion about modern feminism and the struggles it has with intersectionality. The g […]

]]> 0 b60a25fcf08e07f7fc79faa747030444 Helen Warfle edited the blog post The One Where I Talk Too Much About Maps in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12399/ Mon, 11 Mar 2019 05:22:43 -0500 The fact that the discipline of geography is classified solely as a science is one that I find to be problematic. The interactions I have had with modern geography tend more towards the hard science end of things, […]

]]> 0 a5bf2c94689a00b201d262e4f21690d1 Helen Warfle edited the blog post "As Now Printed" in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12335/ Mon, 25 Feb 2019 06:11:55 -0500 I find myself to be continually intrigued by the phrase “as now printed,” found in “The Forethought” chapter of Souls of Black Folk (6). The edition we have says that this note was written at the same time as the […]

]]> 0 783f1618dd86d179d2278fc8518fd748 Helen Warfle edited the blog post Who Owns Art? in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12244/ Mon, 11 Feb 2019 19:28:32 -0500 On the first day of class, Dr. McCoy asked us to think of questions to ask Professor Prince after looking at some of his block prints. One that my group came up with was “How does the ability to mass-reproduce a […]

]]> 0 9e436c301788eaadbcb4520e1208829e Helen Warfle edited the blog post Cycling Back to New Beginnings in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12222/ Sat, 09 Feb 2019 23:42:53 -0500 The first time I came across the work of Steve Prince was completely by accident. At the time, I was writing for the Lamron and I was assigned to cover the final event of the community art project he did for […]

]]> 0 013549b0daebd46ab5f87cdc697cc0fc Helen Warfle edited the blog post Positive (?) Obsession* in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11575/ Wed, 12 Dec 2018 16:47:29 -0500 I have an obsessive personality.  My dad attributes it to the ADHD that runs in our family; I am not sure if I believe him (though our work patterns are similar), but when focused, I can work at 110%, ignoring my […]

]]> 0 38df52f8adfc239156989a61560e5121 Helen Warfle edited the blog post This Volcano Erupted in 1991: You Won't Believe What Happened Next! in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11164/ Fri, 16 Nov 2018 20:52:04 -0500 By: Kristopher Bangsil, Xavier Bodensieck, Sabrina Chan, Andrew Cook, Abigail Ritz, and Helen Warfle

The story of the Mt. Pinatubo eruption began several months before the actual explosion. On April 2, 1991, a […]

]]> 0 fb6c93679240f2198f198ced55e18547 Helen Warfle wrote a new blog post The Craziness of Jemisin's World in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11025/ Sun, 11 Nov 2018 20:06:24 -0500 I love etymology, so I couldn’t resist Professor McCoy’s suggestion that we look up the etymology of crazy. As always, I was surprised how much of a connection I found to The Broken Earth Trilogy. 

  Sourc […]

]]> 0 51017d730ddf9c8f6cf344c09e4dff55 Helen Warfle edited the blog post The Fall in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10998/ Mon, 05 Nov 2018 01:04:35 -0500 This post was directly inspired by and partially a response to Abby’s wonderful post. In this post, she makes a connection between commentary by Toni Morrison on how “slavery broke the world” and the way Jemis […]

]]> 0 b4a4624d662d27c0f964117486010da0 Helen Warfle wrote a new blog post On Democracy in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10968/ Tue, 30 Oct 2018 19:26:24 -0500 Warning: this post talks about current politics.

Professor McCoy said something in class on Friday that I can’t seem to shake: “A vote can do a violence, as much as it can be curative.” Recent events (too […]

]]> 0 1b41b2fadd8c4d031717f6d8ebd2c9c3 Helen Warfle edited the blog post Back to Profanity in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10934/ Tue, 23 Oct 2018 00:37:07 -0500 In one of my previous posts, I discussed the profanity found in The Fifth Season and The Obelisk Gate. In that post, I didn’t talk about “rogga” or “still” as slurs, mostly because the real world parallel […]

]]> 0 0587a04c56eff93e05a78a69a6b8cf0c Helen Warfle edited the blog post The Uncanny Valley (no geological pun intended) in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10903/ Wed, 17 Oct 2018 00:03:17 -0500 I first learned about the concept of the Uncanny Valley in a class I took with Professor Kirsh (psychology) called Parenting in the Zombie Apocalypse. One of the very first things we covered was why zombies, and […]

]]> 0 7d6e92f4321e4dc4694fd4b03e3e0f6f Helen Warfle wrote a new blog post Profanity and World Building in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10802/ Sun, 30 Sep 2018 21:52:34 -0500 One of my favorite things about The Fifth Season is the incredible amount of detail N.K.Jemisin puts into her worldbuilding. Even the profanity the characters use is appropriate to the world they come from (thank […]

]]> 0 f07ff97c60c220f17954159e3f6ae6c2 Helen Warfle edited the blog post On Geophagia in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10740/ Fri, 21 Sep 2018 03:36:55 -0500 In Dr. Farthing’s lab on Monday, one of the things that stood out to me was the discussion of Hoa and the consumption of geological materials. Professor McCoy’s mention of kaolinite led to me researching its pot […]

]]> 0 f86ca2699ea19b7bfb22ef90ae52c229 Helen Warfle edited the blog post Velikovsky and Ancient Civilizations: What Can We Really Know? in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10590/ Mon, 10 Sep 2018 02:15:04 -0500 When reading the introduction to Apocalypse by Amos Nur, I came across the term “Veliskovskyian” for the first time. The quote in whole reads “Rose [an archaeologist] demanded that, before one can hypothesize tha […]

]]> 0 a5db3024301b79f7cbbd1b9ba0182470 Helen Warfle wrote a new blog post On Boats and Containment in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10041/ Mon, 23 Apr 2018 01:35:51 -0500 I have been trying to write this post for a while now, but only recently did Professor McCoy provide me with the lens to critically think about what I am attempting to discuss in this post- containment.

I grew […]

]]> 0 0427bc23a4e62fc71eefa68fa568aed4 Helen Warfle edited the blog post Monty Python and the Black Plague as a Model for the Zombie Apocalypse in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10009/ Tue, 17 Apr 2018 19:16:10 -0500 When reading Zone One, the phrase “Bring out your dead.” really stuck out to me for some reason that at first I couldn’t place. Then, it hit me: it reminded me of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I have embedded the clip above, but essentially, the person collecting the bodies of those who died from the Black Death calls “bring out your de…[Read more]

]]> 0 8621cafafc607e6f79fba367dd4ae5f4 Helen Warfle edited the blog post Tarot Cards and Cycles in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9912/ Tue, 03 Apr 2018 02:50:34 -0500 In class on Monday, we viewed tarot cards made after Hurricane Maria by artist Jo Cosme. Because this class is so much about origins, I, of course, had to look up the history of tarot cards, and what I found was very different than what I thought I would find. Tarot cards are much beloved by people like one of my high school friends, who genuinely…[Read more]

]]> 0 3ca838527ca8ce7ecb6015c90a6bd6a9 Helen Warfle wrote a new blog post Whatever Happened to Ivor Van Heerden? in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9867/ Mon, 26 Mar 2018 04:03:02 -0500 When going back over When the Levees Broke for the recently due essay, I remembered a figure that Professor McCoy (quite a while ago) recommended we look further into. This figure is Ivor Van Heerden, formerly the […]

]]> 0 fc9669896bd658c9cc02de33ad52e1a0 Helen Warfle edited the blog post A Further Exploration of Names and Hurricanes in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9803/ Mon, 19 Mar 2018 14:40:22 -0500 Feminine-named hurricanes are more deadly than ones with male names. According to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, and repeated again and again by news sources looking for an easy story, this is because female names create expectations about severity levels and the need for…[Read more]

]]> 0 8a56e79309cc0b2a3e06f9d11a23fc54 Helen Warfle edited the blog post La Vie Bohème in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9722/ Wed, 28 Feb 2018 05:22:30 -0500 In class, the word bohemian was used to describe New Orleans’ red light district, the origin of the venerated Baby Dolls tradition. The word choice felt a little bit off in context of today’s meaning of bohemian, but historically, this has not been the case.

Part of my discomfort with the use of bohemian in that context comes from my exp…[Read more]

]]> 0 6b73dc57acdd7082be3688b505a3e9f6 Helen Warfle wrote a new blog post Remembrance and Forgetting: Who Benefits? in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9744/ Wed, 28 Feb 2018 05:21:37 -0500 I first came across the work of Rudyard Kipling as a child. My favorite Disney movie was (and still is) The Jungle Book. You can imagine my surprise when I first encountered Kipling’s other works in a sociology c […]

]]> 0 9f76318684c9439c1521d5f835cde272 Helen Warfle edited the blog post Art and Empowerment: The Performance of Memory Through Artistic Expression in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9575/ Mon, 05 Feb 2018 19:26:54 -0500 Last semester, I went to the event Professor McCoy and Steve Prince organized on Main Street, where students, faculty, and community members alike were invited to create woodblock prints that were then arranged around one that Prince had created. The focus of the piece was trauma and healing, inspired by the trials and tribulations of Emmeline the…[Read more]

]]> 0 c9c021c9bcdc88c3b794471f5da5350d Helen Warfle joined the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9440/ Sun, 21 Jan 2018 22:37:59 -0500 0 69af3c2e785b2dc8e56c0ff65f216fad Helen Warfle became a registered member https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9438/ Sun, 21 Jan 2018 22:35:59 -0500 0