English @ SUNY Geneseo | Paul Schacht | Friends Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/profschacht/activity/friends/ Activity feed for Paul Schacht's friends. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 6b885eaef755da4489054e8ffb5ac6e9 Beth McCoy edited the blog post Sower What About L.A. Podcast? in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15252/ Fri, 15 May 2020 15:12:30 -0500 In Spring 2020, I taught “Expulsion and the Housing Crisis,” a SUNY Geneseo literature course contemplating narratives flowing into and out of the 2008 global financial crisis.

Students read William Sha […]

]]> 0 fea58e910cafc13eeb187b4afa8a82e7 Beth McCoy joined the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12241/ Sun, 10 Feb 2019 18:14:45 -0500 0 f771d696a10a7e93e13a804db2f0c562 Beth McCoy joined the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12240/ Sun, 10 Feb 2019 17:51:29 -0500 0 fc4c8b7b2d113d8550ae49acd3b3c53c Joe Cope wrote a new blog post Links to Previous INTD 245 Research Projects in the group Irish Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11031/ Mon, 12 Nov 2018 14:39:53 -0500 Links to Previous Research Projects

]]> 0 c037ba8f55a3d0009088f536d824e9d2 Joe Cope posted a new page, on the site Irish Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11030/ Mon, 12 Nov 2018 14:38:55 -0500 Women and the 1916 Rising

Ireland and the First World War

The 1916 Rising in America

Comparing Commemorations: The American Civil War and the Easter Rising

Hamilton and Cathleen ni Houlihan? Dramatic […]

]]> 0 bee4692a63beaddb0572aeaa4b9aadaa Beth McCoy commented on the post, A Blog Interlude, on the site (Im)Possibilities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11023/ Sun, 11 Nov 2018 14:58:33 -0500 The asterisked line made me weep with laughter. Thank you…

]]> 0 4e4ed28a6e853ccb00f3f10657fb1b50 Beth McCoy wrote a new blog post Your Favorite Rocks! in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10312/ Tue, 28 Aug 2018 16:27:51 -0500 Here are the results of yesterday’s exercise responding to what turned out to be the very complex question “What’s your favorite rock?”

]]> 0 225a253b1640be973e6ffb1ee46d91d7 Nolan Parker edited the blog post Posthumanism, Transhumanism and Butler's Humanism in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9342/ Fri, 19 Jan 2018 12:43:56 -0500 Here above is a helpful short post which defines the two fields of thought: Posthumanism and Transhumanism.

Posthumanism is a term I have been using a lot in casual conversation. Now that I’ve looked it up to flesh out this blog post, I’m finding my definition was awfully limited. Apparently there’s up to seven definitions of the term (acco…[Read more]

]]> 0 5b1120446e579975bc054f1ed7e53158 Nolan Parker edited the blog post David Huggins is the most relaxed alien abductee you've ever seen in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9343/ Fri, 19 Jan 2018 12:43:11 -0500 David Huggins is a painter from Hoboken, NJ, whose work is primarily dedicated to illustrating his lifelong experiences as an alien abductee. The experiences he describes and paints are not unlike the established alien script that’s been propagated throughout America for over half a century. The way I see it, that’s just as much a reason to b…[Read more]

]]> 0 2a44ffe4c9c2e8dfb5111db8d2b3e6dd Nolan Parker edited the blog post The Amish and Community (an earlier post revised) in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9344/ Fri, 19 Jan 2018 12:42:34 -0500 I don’t know how I feel about the Amish. I don’t know if it’s fair to bring someone into that lifestyle without their consent. This might sound like a familiar dilemma to my classmates.

First, allow me to clarify that when I say “that lifestyle,” I do not  wish to insinuate I have anything close to first hand experience the way an actual Ami…[Read more]

]]> 0 0d72800b8453de6ec61f02bbca7fd81f Nolan Parker edited the blog post Cooperatives and Butler's Communities pt. 1 (revised) in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9345/ Fri, 19 Jan 2018 12:41:34 -0500 The Rochdale principles are a set of guidelines on how to operate a cooperative. They date back to 1844 when they were first drafted and enacted by the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers in Rochdale, England. They are as follows:

Voluntary and open membership

Anti-discrimination

Motivations and rewards

Democratic member…[Read more]

]]> 0 af225bd56d4f825e550b8dacce2cecf0 Nolan Parker edited the blog post Cooperatives and Butler's Communities pt. 2 in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9346/ Fri, 19 Jan 2018 12:40:42 -0500 Remember those Rochdale Principles I wrote about in that earlier post? Here they are again:

Voluntary and open membership

Anti-discrimination

Motivations and rewards

Democratic member control

Member economic participation

Autonomy and independence

Education, training and information

Cooperation among cooperatives

Concern…[Read more]

]]> 0 ee86771c881f4b3f284716359b47642e nopark wrote a new blog post Cooperatives and Butler's Communities (part 1) in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9335/ Sun, 17 Dec 2017 02:52:18 -0500 The Rochdale principles are a set of guidelines on how to operate a cooperative. They date back to 1844 when they were first drafted and enacted by the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers in Rochdale, England. […]

]]> 0 08d32e96be7940ba6edc0d2be2be57ae Beth McCoy edited the blog post A Brief Guide to the Many Traps of Octavia Butler's Fiction in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9319/ Wed, 13 Dec 2017 21:29:27 -0500 The students of ENGL 431/Octavia Butler and Social Ties have requested that I post their collaborative statement that they conceptualized and crafted independently of the instructor. Click here for a version wi […]

]]> 0 9592c35f10e854e0618986a844d113ba Nolan Parker's profile was updated https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9164/ Tue, 05 Dec 2017 20:46:02 -0500 0 a69b7299569ca080fbaa05e046c108d2 Nolan Harrison Parker wrote a new blog post The Amish and Community in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9035/ Tue, 14 Nov 2017 21:37:31 -0500 I think I’m talking about the Amish. Something about how I don’t know how I feel about them. I don’t know if it’s fair to bring someone into that lifestyle without their consent. This might sound like a familia […]

]]> 0 7e68d213d9c9236c6544dcd1b247b823 Nolan Parker joined the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8986/ Wed, 08 Nov 2017 19:43:12 -0500 0 9b02c9c3cff438c9aaaf94ddcee7d69c Beth McCoy edited the blog post Toni Morrison's Jazz and Dante Alighieri's Purgatorio: Out in the Open in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8620/ Fri, 22 Sep 2017 21:46:24 -0500 As Erin Herbst‘s and Brianne Briggmann‘s posts indicate, we along with Ron Herzman are taking the first steps towards a collaborative essay exploring how Toni Morrison’s Jazz recapitulates and revises Dante Alighieri’s Purgatorio.

The project is an offshoot of Fall 2016’s Toni Morrison’s Trilogy course where the class concentrated on the r…[Read more]

]]> 0 860c4384a68e1d8d8d0b19e041cd40d9 Nolan Parker changed their profile picture https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8617/ Fri, 15 Sep 2017 03:23:47 -0500 0 d60c55a20ab533806c147adcd042c648 Beth McCoy edited the blog post What harm can innovations like AirBnB do? in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8296/ Sat, 29 Apr 2017 01:26:26 -0500 I’m Facebook friends with a nun who serves in New Orleans, and it just so happens that today she posted regarding this awareness-and-action campaign about how what AirBnb whole-house rentals can do to neighborhoods, especially historically black neighborhoods targeted for gentrification in Katrina’s wake.

As it’s JazzFest time, many folks s…[Read more]

]]> 0 45e8622cab443536631898d70a72513d Beth McCoy wrote a new blog post Space to live and credit score in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8297/ Sat, 29 Apr 2017 01:24:34 -0500 At the request of an anonymous community member, I share this important post.
A heads up to all of you: Beth wasn’t kidding when she said that landlords check your credit score. A friend of mine was looking for r […]

]]> 0 2e22b171a6d73f90ee3bad830ac9ea03 Rob Doggett wrote a new blog post Ireland 2017 Summer Program Handbook in the group Irish Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8271/ Fri, 21 Apr 2017 19:32:09 -0500 0 82b20c6107bd14e63395374c2186b2cf Beth McCoy wrote a new blog post Here comes the Atlantic (again) in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8246/ Tue, 18 Apr 2017 16:21:40 -0500 Subtitled “Along parts of the East Coast, the entire system of insuring coastal property is beginning to break down,” this new New York Times article examines how rising sea levels are creating another kind of […]

]]> 0 2bdb6395019753533cbf770a7219f41a Rob Doggett commented on the post, “Frederick Douglass…”, on the site Irish Studies http://irishstudies.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/12/01/frederick-douglass/#comment-35132 Sun, 16 Apr 2017 02:15:22 -0500 Thanks for the comment, Deb Anderson. You’re right. I’m sure it was a typo, and I’ve made the change.

]]> 74b92dc25a9dbacdadafab8dddf1394f Beth McCoy edited the blog post Two paths to dehumanizing human beings in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8211/ Wed, 12 Apr 2017 11:18:37 -0500 I was just reading this interview with Matthew Desmond, whose book Evicted just won a Pulitzer. I haven’t read the book yet and am hoping it’s not in the tradition of Alice Goffman’s On the Run.

But given Dominion‘s deep and complicated human characters, this line really jumped out at me:

“There are two ways to dehumanize: the first is to s…[Read more]

]]> 0 d3f84b7c1335e096cd99f87da8239979 Beth McCoy wrote a new blog post Sometimes when I can't find something, something equally useful pops to the surface in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8199/ Mon, 10 Apr 2017 19:37:01 -0500 I was trying to find  Mother Jones article from about 10 years ago because it made a claim that when a house (or apartment, or any dwelling) approaches about 2800 square feet (I think), it becomes impossible to […]

]]> 0 b35cc0f451ef828977cbf40ee82a8cfc Beth McCoy edited the blog post "Anabaptist Content" in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8168/ Mon, 03 Apr 2017 14:05:28 -0500 Amid a welcome uptick in posts (all quite thoughtful!), I thought you’d be interested in “White supremacy and class privilege in Detroit,” an essay from The Mennonite, an online publication that in offering “Anabaptist content” invites connections with both Flournoy’s The Turner House and Morrison’s A Mercy.

From the beginning of the es…[Read more]

]]> 0 0de44eedf2daf85fb509f6161211dacb Beth McCoy edited the blog post "Metaphor is Hard Science" by Valerie Prince in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8125/ Fri, 24 Mar 2017 20:02:48 -0500 As we are listening to the This American Life episode “Toxie” during class, and as I’ve asked you to attend to all the literary concepts roiling and churning through the episode, I invite you to read Dr. Valerie Prince’s brief but important essay “Metaphor is Hard Science.”

A key passage:

Rather than standing around with its lip…

[Read more]

]]> 0 1b4e67029738abd5ac98311ff43a8104 Beth McCoy edited the blog post Emotions, Growth, and Writing? in the group Critical Writers https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8124/ Fri, 24 Mar 2017 18:21:54 -0500 I remembered our “Bloodchild”-spawned conversation about inoculating ourselves in the face of fear, worry, and anxiety when I came across this Scientific American article titled “Negative Emotions are Key to Well-Being.”

Eudaemonic approaches, on the other hand, emphasize a sense of meaning, personal growth and understanding of the self—goals th…

[Read more]

]]> 0 477f56c26ecb34d6f332542016f65f0c Beth McCoy edited the blog post Descartes/Student Code of Conduct Brainstorming in the group Critical Writers https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7956/ Wed, 15 Feb 2017 19:54:35 -0500 A record of our brainstorming from Wednesday, 2/15.

Image 3

]]> 0 99b0d68ba5796404951e7c9d1bb02dba Beth McCoy edited the blog post Session Proposal: "Real life" across the curriculum in the group Metagogy https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7913/ Thu, 09 Feb 2017 14:49:35 -0500 (Beth McCoy, Distinguished Teaching Professor of English) While meeting last semester with faculty, students expressed that they wanted instructors throughout all the disciplines to make room in their courses for conversation about “real-life” issues, especially those related to justice and power.
Given training, course content demands, and jus…[Read more]

]]> 0 133b92a06995685b1bf6124840e9348c Beth McCoy edited the blog post ICYMI in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7849/ Thu, 02 Feb 2017 18:04:19 -0500 0 c014fd9bb9de78df3453426da9d5c490 Beth McCoy wrote a new blog post An invitation to cross-check in the group Critical Writers https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7827/ Mon, 30 Jan 2017 14:46:18 -0500 Normally, as recommended by the how-to-blog-here post, I’d embed links in my own text.

But I’m doing something different here because I want to draw attention to what this link itself says the article is going […]

]]> 0 cbf09e7dff4f383d13cdc5c9f5d980de Beth McCoy wrote a new blog post Monday's Archive (but don't overlook Brianne's post below) in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7786/ Tue, 24 Jan 2017 14:48:09 -0500 Posted after the jump in all its low-tech, messy glory is the archive from yesterday’s discussion identifying possible themes with which the art this semester might grapple. Don’t let this archive obscure Br […]

]]> 0 d1590a5e4fe1a93036123fcbe11b9e35 Beth McCoy wrote a new blog post Welcome, and how to blog here! in the group Critical Writers https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7736/ Mon, 16 Jan 2017 15:07:16 -0500 (The following language is adapted from Professor Schacht’s original “How to Blog Here” post): A post can be a few words plus a link or embedded video, or it can be a couple of paragraphs. It should be of inter […]

]]> 0 363728021af1c16d35f5f625169c4ce2 Beth McCoy joined the group Critical Writers https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7725/ Wed, 11 Jan 2017 13:29:33 -0500 0 f4a1983ba6f82774212c2e0431a2b472 Joey edited the blog post Film review of "On the Waterfront" in the group Film Talk https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/737/ Tue, 10 Jan 2017 20:04:45 -0500 Elia Kazan’s 1954 award winning film On the Waterfront, tells a story of Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) a man who puts his life on the line to stand against the corruption created by the union leader John Friendly. The film emphasizes the moral (and physical) battles that Terry must fight to bring about the destruction of the dangerous union k…[Read more]

]]> 0 cc52136239ffed849535dbffb8504709 Beth McCoy wrote a new blog post More both/and in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7602/ Thu, 10 Nov 2016 15:01:15 -0500 In Paradise, Morrison returns us as readers to tracking and tracing. “Ruby” begins a cascade that attends to the violence of those concepts, but I urge you at the same time also to be alert to how the novel in […]

]]> 0 213586937df64b25b044010cb303be78 Beth McCoy wrote a new blog post Claudia Rankine: "‘I don’t know. I don’t know.’" in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7446/ Thu, 20 Oct 2016 13:43:34 -0500 Lots of you have probably heard of/read Claudia Rankine’s Citizen. Recently, Rankine earned a MacArthur genius grant. Here, Steven W. Thrasher interviews the artist about her plans and about the need to study wh […]

]]> 0 cb33ffc2e58153243041469146e024b7 Jason Guisao wrote a new blog post A Conversation Between James Baldwin and Audre Lorde in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7441/ Tue, 18 Oct 2016 20:46:26 -0500 As an African American male raised in Harlem, the bustling, culturally diverse environment that Morrison has painted in Jazz is easy for me to visualize despite the large gap in time. A troubling truth that […]

]]> 0 299e77148d65e5d3b970d16dd91e81dc Beth McCoy edited the blog post Looking forward/Looping back in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7422/ Sun, 16 Oct 2016 18:08:08 -0500 Dr. Michael Oberg, Geneseo’s SUNY Distinguished Professor of History, now has a website up in support the forthcoming second edition of his textbook Native America: A History. The site is an amazing resource, and I encourage you to bookmark it and get familiar with it as part of your dedication to lifelong learning.

As I poked around on the s…[Read more]

]]> 0 70b4929d50d52aca48c138e2cd31a961 Beth McCoy edited the blog post Will Try Again in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7371/ Thu, 06 Oct 2016 18:03:12 -0500 On Wednesday, I failed to be clear as I struggled to weave together what I wanted us to think about and through “The Thunder, Perfect Mind” as a way into Morrison’s Jazz.

I was trying really hard for reasons I’ll explain when we meet again after break, but the fact is that I failed. Trying again may only lead to my failing (better? worse?),…[Read more]

]]> 0 4e8a73ec54aabb72d44a7d3efbf728e2 Jason Guisao wrote a new blog post Beginning of Semester Reflection and Hopes in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7046/ Tue, 06 Sep 2016 17:16:09 -0500 Hey, all. I just wanted to share this short reflective essay that I wrote to Beth a few days ago, detailing some thoughts on my self-identity in relation to Toni Morrison’s works and the upcoming semester:

Toni […]

]]> 0 b5ae6bb0cf404fae1bcc2766464389ef Jason Guisao joined the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6938/ Wed, 31 Aug 2016 18:59:29 -0500 0 a16aecb124d6d203b6526804406a0cfc Beth McCoy wrote a new blog post Photo record of Day 1 questions in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6793/ Mon, 29 Aug 2016 20:36:54 -0500 Here’re  photos of some of the first-day questions generated after hearing the first chapter of A Mercy. As I mentioned in class, I think the Morrison/Davis NYPL interview will provide some material for some a […]

]]> 0 cca239a8d99d79ba88fe30f946ce3e50 Beth McCoy joined the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6774/ Wed, 17 Aug 2016 13:11:30 -0500 0 aeb22159dd88b414233ca1afb85eaa41 robph wrote a new blog post Film Poetry: Deforming the Surface pt.3 in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6417/ Wed, 04 May 2016 20:26:03 -0500 Following is the third and final installment of my essay on film poetry.

Read the first part here: http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/04/05/film-poetry-deforming-the-surface/

And the second part […]

]]> 0 223e052849c26a0c6093870579db9eb6 robph edited the blog post Film Poetry: Deforming the Surface pt. 2 in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6298/ Sun, 17 Apr 2016 15:26:06 -0500 Following is the second installment of my essay on film poetry. Read the first part here: http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/04/05/film-poetry-deforming-the-surface/

Even poetry that doesn’t heavily focus on the visual has to acknowledge the presence or absence of white space on the page. To be more specific poems have to deal with the di…[Read more]

]]> 0 cf3c2395502998d994f7f33067f86672 robph wrote a new blog post Film Poetry: Deforming the Surface in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6272/ Tue, 05 Apr 2016 22:15:02 -0500 In honor of National Poetry Month I am serializing the essay I wrote during my directed study on poetry and the visual with Dr. Lytton Smith. The videos I made for the other half of the project with Dr. Melanie […]

]]> 0 18b9f0e86840f898f07e677b5f7db03d Meghan Barrett commented on the post, A Scientific Writing Prompt, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/11/23/a-scientific-writing-prompt/#comment-6902 Tue, 08 Dec 2015 01:48:25 -0500 Hi Carolina! I’m so glad you read the post!!!

]]>