Niamh McCrohan | English @ SUNY Geneseo

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Niamh McCrohan edited the blog post Repetition in the group American Studies: 5 years, 4 months ago

I think in this class key terms kept coming over again and again, which is why I chose repetition. Even though we constantly had different professors talking about wildly different angles and viewpoints on Mr. […]
Niamh McCrohan wrote a new blog post Reading Pictures in the group American Studies: 5 years, 4 months ago

On February 22nd Professor Cope gave a lecture about the spread of information in early modern Europe. This connected to class in many ways, one of which being that modern viewers have to learn to read the the […]
Niamh McCrohan wrote a new blog post Perspective of Nostalgia in the group American Studies: 5 years, 4 months ago

February 15th’s class with Professor Nicodemi blasted me back into ninth grade geometry class. We used algebra to calculate where one should stand when looking at a painting to get the intended view of it. I had n […]
Niamh McCrohan wrote a new blog post Urban Garden Experience in the group American Studies: 5 years, 4 months ago

The Urban Garden Experience on February 1st 2019 created powerful energy in the Kinetic Gallery, that I and many others in the room felt. Steve Prince and the jazz band and all of us gathered there together […]
Niamh McCrohan edited the blog post Dancing Queens in the group American Studies: 5 years, 4 months ago

Since being introduced to the Emmy award winning show RuPaul’s Drag Race my freshman year, I have watched it religiously every Thursday night. For those that aren’t obsessed or even familiar with the drag quee […]
Niamh McCrohan edited the blog post A Design Challenge in the group American Studies: 5 years, 4 months ago

I believe my first experience with Dan Dezarn was when he was in the role of Director of Sustainability. I was part of an environmental club interested in reducing the school’s carbon footprint. At the time I d […]
Niamh McCrohan edited the blog post Pall Bearers in the group American Studies: 5 years, 4 months ago

I don’t know how to start this blog post. I want to talk about death. Generally American American culture compartmentalizes death from life. Instead of integrating into the “circle of life”, like the New Orlea […]
Niamh McCrohan edited the blog post Art and Memes in the group American Studies: 5 years, 4 months ago

We gather around the plate of glass onto which light purple, blue, and yellow paint is dabbed, overlaid on a picture in a magazine. Garth Freeman let us loose on the paints and paper after he spoke about his […]
Niamh McCrohan edited the blog post Connections of Mourning Through Music in the group American Studies: 5 years, 4 months ago

I know jazz is conceptually crucial to this course, being the music of the New Orleans dirge, incorporating repetition, and just as a genre invented by black Americans.

I’m not musically trained, an […]
Niamh McCrohan edited the blog post Salty Yellow Broth in the group Geneseo Almanacs: 8 years, 3 months ago

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I had just come back from tramping in the woods. I came into the musty smelling, wood floor slanting kitchen where my mother awaited. I had been gone all afternoon. I was too young to do that. The Campbell’s Chicken Noodle Soup that my brother and I had begged my mom to b…[Read more]

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