English @ SUNY Geneseo | Marissa Bellusci | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/marissabellusci/activity/ Activity feed for Marissa Bellusci. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 1ad0930c1e4736d2cf20650391a40263 Marissa Bellusci edited the blog post Morrison's Paradise: Online, and Beyond in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7698/ Mon, 12 Dec 2016 02:27:55 -0500 One of the first things that struck me about Morrison’s Paradise when I first held it in my hands was the sticker on the front referencing Oprah’s book club. While we have had incredible discussions on Paradise this semester, it led me to wonder how the book was received by non-academic readers–people reading Morrison’s work for fun, outside of…[Read more]

]]> 0 64328c9d90074309210890dbc37794b3 Marissa Bellusci edited the blog post Relationship Violence in a Culture Obsessed with Property in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7467/ Tue, 25 Oct 2016 17:29:28 -0500 This weekend, Geneseo’s Student Athlete Advisory Committee–of which I am a member–received training on relationship violence prevention through the One Love Foundation. That this seminar took place the very weekend following our completion of Jazz was purely coincidental–but my recent analysis of Violet and Joe’s possessive dynamic added gr…[Read more]

]]> 0 e445dc53e2ff93067030599e9ee6e89f Marissa Bellusci wrote a new blog post The Single Story of the "Flawless" Feminist Icon in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7383/ Sun, 09 Oct 2016 00:48:40 -0500 I must say that this timing is rather uncanny, given our class’s recent discussion of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “The Danger of a Single Story,” but just yesterday, Dutch paper De Volkskrant published an i […]

]]> 0 1c8e8a77e6101e8d0b0f4b9aadde836c Marissa Bellusci edited the blog post Virginia's Verger: Sexual Politics of Race in the New World in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7143/ Mon, 12 Sep 2016 18:18:49 -0500 After Dr. McCoy’s brief mention of “Virginia’s Verger” in class last week, I decided to search a little for the original document–Purchas his Pilgrimes–which, written by Samuel Purchas, a settler in the New World, turned to out be brimming with intertwined racism and sexism. Can you guess how shocked I am (hint: not at all)? 

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]]> 0 440cd75f5f0ee28324b2c0112c8d6299 Marissa Bellusci edited the blog post A Response to "How to Read Texts Not Written For You?" in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7064/ Mon, 12 Sep 2016 00:59:47 -0500 I’ve never publicly blogged before. Growing up as a rather shy person–in both my personal life and my writing–the idea of other people reading my work was enough to reduce me to a puddle. But as I’ve begun to find my voice as a writer in college, I’ve grown more comfortable with the idea of sharing my ideas on a public forum–and when I found…[Read more]

]]> 0 85dc43d9854b6c5eeaddc196cf846122 Marissa Bellusci joined the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6846/ Tue, 30 Aug 2016 17:07:05 -0500 0 93fe90177135cfb4743f3f5fd289a960 Marissa Bellusci became a registered member https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6843/ Tue, 30 Aug 2016 17:05:24 -0500 0