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Lytton Smith edited the blog post Dev Hynes, Negro Swan, and the collaborative Afrofuture? in the group American Studies: 8 years ago

In a recent review of Blood Orange (Dev Hynes’) Negro Swan, Judnick Maynard suggests that “His mastery and comfort extends to the way he welcomes collaborators.” Collaboration is a feature of R&B, of course, but […]
Lytton Smith wrote a new blog post Existing Reflections in the group Metagogy: 8 years, 10 months ago

Writers Statements in creative writing classes: how we fit into the tradition, the processes, key elements of the field? Who am I as a writer and where am I going? What have you learned about yourself and your […]
Lytton Smith wrote a new blog post Current Self-Advisement Prompts in the group Metagogy: 8 years, 10 months ago

1. Looking ahead (before first advisement meeting)

Before your first meeting with your adviser in English, add some thoughts in the space below about your plans and aspirations. What are you hoping to […]
Lytton Smith wrote a new blog post Bird’s-eye view of Self-Reflection from English Majors, Spring 2016 in the group Metagogy: 8 years, 10 months ago

Image One: Looking Ahead

Image Two: Checking In

Image Three: Looking Back

(For all Wordles, the terms English and Major were removed to make other words more visible.)
Lytton Smith edited the blog post Reflecting on Self-Reflection – Wed 25th Oct. in the group Metagogy: 8 years, 10 months ago

This post provides the hub for the English Department’s discussion of the Self-Reflective assignment required of all majors. In attendance are [TK].

We will
– compile in-class activities that allow students to link course work to their Wiki page
– devise questions that link advising meetings to the self-reflective advisement criteria
-…[Read more]
Lytton Smith edited the blog post Build Something Together: A Part of a Science+Humanities Curriculum in the group Metagogy: 9 years, 5 months ago

Lytton Smith, Asst. Prof. of English/Creative Writing, proposes a session aimed at creating a curricular component – be it a lesson plan, an assignment, a one-off lab – that integrates specific science and humanities methodologies and knowledge. We can both draw on existing expertise, such as the way GIS is used in English and Geology, among o…[Read more]
Lytton Smith edited the blog post Build Something Together Proposal: Breaking the Four Walls in the group Metagogy: 9 years, 5 months ago

Lytton Smith, Asst. Prof. of English/Creative Writing, proposes a session that would seek to bring together examples of practice from across Geneseo that involve not just “getting outside the classroom” but deliberately breaking the four walls, if you’ll excuse the pun, whether that involves engagement with the social lives of people, ecological e…[Read more]
Lytton Smith edited the blog post Heima in the group Sojournal: 10 years, 2 months ago

One way to situate yourself abroad is to start to live in the language of the place to which you’re headed.

Check out this great, if sporadic, blog from a group called The Department of Iceland Things, based in a harbor workspace not far from where we’re staying.

In their entry on heima, the Icelandic word for home, where they muse:…[Read more]
Lytton Smith wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 10 years, 11 months ago

Following on from our conversations about access/familiarity/language yesterday, it’s worth quoting poet and critic Joyelle McSweeney’s thoughts on Diggs’s poetry, from the Poetry Foundation […]
Lytton Smith wrote a new post on the site Metagogy 11 years, 11 months ago

I’m wondering whether the new 4-credit system might allow us to run activities that usefully cross between our different offerings, sometimes even across levels of course.

In creative writing, this might take […]

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