English @ SUNY Geneseo | John Panus | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/johnpanus/activity/ Activity feed for John Panus. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 4f7f8ef62004a41d7a963736999b241b John Panus wrote a new blog post Looking Back and Moving Forward in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8362/ Thu, 11 May 2017 17:38:43 -0500 For the purposes of this post, I split my writing into three sections:  Paternal Power, Jaws, and Ghosts.  These sections function largely as organizing principles, and are by no means the exclusive focus, or o […]

]]> 0 554379e8e98f8ea6fd6f637e3caa0719 John Panus wrote a new blog post Project Reflection in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8299/ Sun, 30 Apr 2017 00:35:50 -0500 As I’m working, or more accurately–struggling–through my essay, I want to take a moment to reflect on my project. I’m having particularly hard time writing this essay, and I’m not entirely sure why that is. I’ve […]

]]> 0 1e565d90804c95dd918a74e42a919089 John Panus edited the blog post An intro of sorts in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8116/ Fri, 24 Mar 2017 13:40:15 -0500 *A brief note:  my intention is to have two main sections to my essay–what I have posted here is the introduction to the first section.  In my final draft, something will definitely come before the summary paragraph (which currently is the first paragraph) but I thought that would be much easier to write once I have everything worked out.  I’m pl…[Read more]

]]> 0 5f0f8f4f3e5e7ad4b65f03fa0e885916 John Panus edited the blog post Biopolitics and Neoliberalism: Research Semester Bibliography in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7710/ Tue, 17 Jan 2017 12:27:42 -0500 Here’s the bibliography for my research this semester; I read every text on this list, but not every text I read made it onto this list.  These are the sources that I think will either find their way into my essay next semester, or alternatively, influenced my thinking enough to include them, even if I don’t think they’ll make it into the essay…[Read more]

]]> 0 473fd695d95907b4d010c59f4b9d18c8 John Panus edited the blog post Abstract/Prospectus with a little writing in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7712/ Sun, 15 Jan 2017 16:59:54 -0500 This project takes as its launching point several claims about power and contemporary subjectivity:  first, that the legitimization of authority and power now takes place through biopolitics, a form of power “in which the vital aspects of human life are intervened upon for the purpose of rationalizing regimes of authority over knowledge, the ge…[Read more]

]]> 0 5366dd64c8715bdb90198512b16d9970 John Panus wrote a new blog post (Re)mobilizing Death: Ghosts, Zombies, and Memory as Biopolitcal Dispositive in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7480/ Wed, 26 Oct 2016 19:33:50 -0500 After a helpful discussion with Dr. McCoy regarding my last post—specifically my comment about Tupac in The Devil in Silver—in which Dr. McCoy suggested that I consider similar strange intertextualities as “gh […]

]]> 0 a35718a2ba128722f55f00ae63e89ab3 John Panus wrote a new blog post Preliminary thoughts on “The Devil in Silver” in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7442/ Wed, 19 Oct 2016 04:28:16 -0500 If this post has a thesis, it’s this:  I have thoughts about Victor LaValle’s novel, “The Devil in Silver.”  There isn’t much sophistication yet.   I’m 170 pages into the novel (412 pages total), so a lot of my […]

]]> 0 97e4c5a42234505d421669bb2c7726f0 John Panus wrote a new blog post Sense and Sexuality: Foucault, Wojnarowicz, and Biopower. in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7349/ Fri, 30 Sep 2016 03:26:31 -0500 I’m taking this blog in a bit of a different direction; rather than the explorations of novels I said would come next, I’m using this post to share part of my current annotated bibliography.  My reasoning for doin […]

]]> 0 f0f96afd6fdd07d314a64cc98e9e08a2 John Panus edited the blog post Biopolitics and the Neoliberal Subject: an introduction in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7233/ Mon, 19 Sep 2016 21:57:09 -0500 Hello all,

This is my first blog post for my English senior honors thesis: Biopolitics and the Neoliberal Subject. For my project, I explore illness narratives and the construction of the ill-body in contemporary African-American literature, and the critical conversations surrounding these narratives. More specifically, my thesis seeks to…[Read more]

]]> 0 1341566b9cab456660810865014b6586 John Panus joined the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6955/ Fri, 02 Sep 2016 16:58:16 -0500 0 4e2c00d86eb6b0ddcfd49a02256b8f9a John Panus joined the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6954/ Fri, 02 Sep 2016 16:52:26 -0500 0 a6193bf7ab516839cf2a8731685a5314 John Panus wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=687 Tue, 12 May 2015 02:59:56 -0500 I remember Beth telling us that when she started teaching the Parables in her INTD, most students didn’t find the novels that realistic.  But only six years later, her students generally agreed that the Parables […]

]]> 48091e4dd863cba08a7dd2912f515a71 John Panus wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=643 Sat, 02 May 2015 06:38:39 -0500 I signed up to receive daily emails from the LA Times while I was doing research for my blog post on the California water crisis, and about a week ago I received an email regarding migration from Africa to Italy.  […]

]]> ce6bd833e6272e20d7d6a9ba8f88e2d9 John Panus wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=554 Sat, 18 Apr 2015 23:46:26 -0500 While reading some posts from the beginning of the semester I found Hannah’s post, “Issues of Consent and Pedophilia in Fledgling.” I think Hannah’s post is important to revisit at this time, partly because we […]

]]> e740229cbb0af26a52ee69231ccbde25 John Panus wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=526 Sat, 11 Apr 2015 02:33:18 -0500 A few of our classmates have blogged about their narrative expectations and/or disappointment with the prospect of Doro’s return, or lack thereof.  John’s post “Doro Aint Dead“, and Andre’s post, “Victories in the […]

]]> 222cdbe78d93fa6623f6dead8a51ee80 John Panus wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=440 Sat, 28 Mar 2015 17:01:27 -0500 A few weeks ago, Kayla voiced her concern about sustainability in Clay’s Ark. She was concerned there would not be enough food on earth when appetites became insatiable as a result of the disease. At first I […]

]]> 5a3a6131af1ebf223328151004707317 John Panus wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=372 Wed, 11 Mar 2015 04:03:21 -0500 While reading Pramod Nayar’s essay, “A New Biological Citizenship: Posthumanism in Octavia Butler’s Fledgling,” I discovered that although Nayar succeeds in his argument—that Shori has biological citizenship as […]

]]> c218cbb21782e04f2f27b5c4b9b00c08 John Panus wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=363 Sun, 08 Mar 2015 01:46:55 -0500  

Kayla Marsh’s blog post “Trauma and Formation of the Self,” hones in on an incredibly important aspect of Butler’s work—the impact of experience on one’s self-perception. As Kayla puts it, “the mind protects […]

]]> 21a208fb79c559c705b1a004a1f61689 John Panus wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=315 Thu, 26 Feb 2015 02:43:28 -0500 In my blog post last week I wrote that although Octavia Butler didn’t specifically write about education, her commentary on innocence in Wild Seed is important because of the way perceived innocence manifests in […]

]]> f0d2e293a93efcc171d4cb274f934aad John Panus wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=254 Thu, 19 Feb 2015 03:15:20 -0500 After reading Sikivu Hutchinson’s post, “Policing Our Girls, Taming ‘Topsy,’” on “The Feminist Wire,” I took a few moments to look through the various hyperlinks in the text. One hyperlink eventually lead me to a […]

]]> e650b27caa94d8ef4cf4e605114b390b John Panus wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=195 Fri, 13 Feb 2015 06:59:28 -0500 Nikita’s previous post on naming draws attention to an important point in our study of Butler’s work: naming and categorizing objects, people, art forms, etc. and how nomenclature inherently changes the way […]

]]> 5efbe80507e3440d4195cb3ba3fddff4 John Panus wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=82 Fri, 30 Jan 2015 04:49:53 -0500 In class last Friday, Dr. McCoy warned us to watch for “traps” in Octavia Butler’s work – traps that will provoke us to think or say something that we may not actually mean or believe –that will cause us as […]

]]> 4581794dded45d7ee41313bbcd763771 John Panus joined the group Speculative Fiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/3960/ Fri, 23 Jan 2015 02:31:41 -0500 0 ff4cf3472875ee1cb008ae8d57102884 John Panus commented on the post, Clothing as Distinctions of Social Class: Victorian Secrets, on the site Nineteenth-Century Studies http://c19.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/11/12/clothing-as-distinctions-of-social-class-victorian-secrets/#comment-1329 Thu, 13 Nov 2014 23:18:34 -0500 On Pip’s second venture into Satis house, he listens to a conversation between Sarah Pocket and the other “toadies and humbugs” that hope to increase their property by (unsuccessfully) appealing to Miss Havisham. […]

]]> 7cbea2271ce092acab16b07e2fea2fb5 John Panus commented on the post, Malthusian Malpractice of the Socioeconomic Status of Poor People, on the site Nineteenth-Century Studies http://c19.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/09/29/malthusian-malpractice-of-the-socioeconomic-status-of-poor-people/#comment-549 Mon, 06 Oct 2014 00:23:07 -0500 Group 6

The narrator of A Christmas Carol makes his beliefs about Christmas very clear through his narration of Mr. Fezziwig’s Ball. Towards the end of the cheerful party the narrator claims there were […]

]]> 7a7085e1121dea3673244c2b607da256 John Panus commented on the post, Social class and the impact of the poor law, on the site Nineteenth-Century Studies http://c19.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/09/05/social-class-and-the-impact-of-the-poor-law/#comment-47 Sun, 07 Sep 2014 23:09:20 -0500 Group 6

Group 1 is undoubtedly correct that Dickens appeals to the upper class by his sympathetic characterization of the magistrate, however, by saying what he wants to say about the new poor law, Dickens does […]

]]> 1455085a3ece59b0e9f278d150567db0 John Panus replied to the topic Why Dickens? in the forum Nineteenth-Century Studies http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/nineteenth-century-studies/forum/topic/why-dickens/#post-460 Mon, 25 Aug 2014 02:02:45 -0500 When I was in 10th grade my English teacher assigned A Tale of Two Cities to my class.  I read the first 30 pages and decided that since the rest of the class was only reading the spark notes, I could do the same.  The next year I had a much more challenging English teacher who assigned Great Expectations, but this time I read the book from cov…[Read more]

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