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Katelyn Sullivan edited the blog post Practicing Interdisciplinary Practice: Embracing Multiplicity and the “Both/And” Through The Art of Steve Prince in the group American Studies: 7 years, 3 months ago

When one considers the meaning of interdisciplinarity as the bringing together of two or more academic disciplines into one coherent project or activity, it might seem obvious that this kind of learning and […]
Katelyn Sullivan wrote a new blog post Intradisciplinary Connections: Returning to Geneseo’s Learning Outcomes in the group American Studies: 8 years, 4 months ago

Throughout the semester, this course has demonstrated several points of focus that the English Department seems to be increasingly concerned with as of late: encouraging reflective writing, and establishing clear […]
Katelyn Sullivan edited the blog post In a Course Called “Metropolis,” I Almost Thought the Setting Didn’t Matter: Confessing, Reflecting, and Trying to “Do Better” in the group American Studies: 8 years, 4 months ago

As I was deciding on what my last few posts of the semester should focus on, I thought of the churning and cycling that we have been discussing throughout this course. In the vein of this churning, I thought it […]
Katelyn Sullivan wrote a new blog post Roots and Resurrection in Dance in the group American Studies: 8 years, 4 months ago

“We can do better… we come back together… we’re still here.”This is what the first line of my notes looks like from the day Dr. DeFrantz joined our class for a workshop on interdisciplinary dance studies, […]
Katelyn Sullivan edited the blog post The Least We Can Do: Bearing the Weight of Iniki and Others in the group American Studies: 8 years, 4 months ago

I would like to configure this post in conversation with the post written earlier this week by Jenna, Jonathan, Aidan, Madi, Clio, and Cameron. This group writes thoughtfully about Hurricane Iniki and its impact on the Hawaiian Islands; what I wish to do is expand on one of their points by drawing connections back to previously-examined course…[Read more]
Katelyn Sullivan edited the blog post Hurricane Maria: Searching for Answers, Finding More Questions in the group American Studies: 8 years, 5 months ago

*This is a collaborative blog post, created by: Sakshi Kumar, Neha Marolia, Michael Griffin, Luke Edelman, Catherine White, and Katie Sullivan Maria’s Story:The story of Hurricane Maria officially began on September 16, 2017 when it wasn’t even called Hurricane Maria yet. At 11 a.m. that morning, four days before landfall, it was called “Pot…[Read more]
Katelyn Sullivan wrote a new blog post Born and Raised: “A Life Lived in One Place” in the group American Studies: 8 years, 5 months ago

In my last post, I explored the fact that so many people at the end of When the Levees Broke chose to identify themselves through association with their home city, proudly declaring their having been “born and r […]
Katelyn Sullivan edited the blog post Conscriptive Naming and Self-Identification in the group American Studies: 8 years, 5 months ago

What’s in a name? This is a question that we have been exploring in terms of both the naming of storms and the naming of people; both Christina and Helen have written posts that explore the hurricane-naming process and its implications.

Personally, I have become increasingly interested in the question of “what’s in a name?” as it relates…[Read more]
Katelyn Sullivan edited the blog post Rich Musical Tradition Wrought from Intense Oppression in the group American Studies: 8 years, 5 months ago

Upon attending an event titled “A Collision of Worldviews: An interview with Dr. Ysaye Maria Barnwell”, which was part of this year’s commemoration for Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. here at Geneseo, my eyes were opened to a whole new way of perceiving musical traditions in terms of both their origins and their power.

Dr. Barnw…[Read more]
Katelyn Sullivan edited the blog post The Danger in Prosthetic Memory in the group American Studies: 8 years, 7 months ago

Upon reading Nyong’o’s “Black Survival in the Uchromatic Dark”, I find myself returning to a notion that was introduced to me in Dr. Cooper’s American Literature course at the start of this semester–a notion that George Mason University Professor Alison Landsberg calls “prosthetic memory”. In her book entitled Prosthetic Memory: The Transformatio…[Read more]

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