English @ SUNY Geneseo | Rosa Mesbahi | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/rosamesbahi/activity/ Activity feed for Rosa Mesbahi. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 6f1e1d0a4ed0b8e54c5b0e488b0f21e3 Rosa Mesbahi edited the blog post A Semester in Review: Exploring the Many Sides of Bias in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12837/ Tue, 14 May 2019 14:00:33 -0500 surely i am able to write poems
celebrating grass and how the blue
in the sky can flow green or red
and the waters lean against the
chesapeake shore like a familiar
poems about nature and landscape
surely  […]

]]> 0 4c63107c68321cc78380767fc46a4d3c Rosa Mesbahi edited the blog post Sex Work is not a Crutch: How Big Machine Falls Short in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12712/ Sat, 27 Apr 2019 18:58:56 -0500 The first time I thought about writing this blog post was after the reading of “The Resistance: An Adele Henry Adventure.”  I held myself back though, because I knew that my immediate response would likely be too […]

]]> 0 7c0597bc801d5d024bc34bf4da42d7eb Rosa Mesbahi edited the blog post Commodity Fetishism in Big Machine in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12647/ Wed, 24 Apr 2019 21:18:42 -0500 A recurring motif in Victor Lavalle’s Big Machine is immense amount of detail and narrative space given to clothing and particularly the clothing of the scholars as it is described by Ricky Rice, the narrator.   […]

]]> 0 881b165cb46f2e05fe316da9dcc49dfe Rosa Mesbahi edited the blog post Saartjie Baartman: The Story of the Many Sides of Autonomy in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12520/ Thu, 11 Apr 2019 23:27:33 -0500 (Trigger Warning: this blog post contains discussions of racialized sexual violence against black women.)

A figure who has come up A LOT in my scholarship this semester is Saartjie Baartman.  Baartman, or the […]

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]]> 0 7ec6afd34b9293c724a43dc7c25d492a Rosa Mesbahi edited the blog post Sustainability: The Problems that Arise when We Neglect to Notice Invisible Labor in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12491/ Sun, 07 Apr 2019 02:58:47 -0500 Group Members: Rosa Mesbahi, Jenna Doolan, Elana Evenden, Sarah Holsberg,   Mikhayla Graham, Emily Pomainville, Cameron Rustay

MOVE ONE. We’d like to start with a simple definition of sustainability sy […]

]]> 0 e03d2f7013f999e578090cdba7fdb01a Rosa Mesbahi edited the blog post W.B. Yeats and Carl Phillips in Conversation in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12464/ Sun, 31 Mar 2019 20:20:56 -0500 I was thumbing through Angles of Ascent over the weekend and noticed a single dogeared page.  Page 379, I had annotated a poem by Carl Phillips “Leda, After the Swan.”  In the small group discussion a few weeks […]

]]> 0 8f2609987414ee0d77bd8390af787946 Rosa Mesbahi edited the blog post How D'Aguiar Breathes Life into His Protagonists in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12462/ Sat, 30 Mar 2019 21:42:41 -0500 When I went to the D’Aguiar reading, I wasn’t sure what to expect.  At previous poetry readings I’ve been the audience to mainly women, who were mainly white, who were reading poems about love and heartb […]

]]> 0 1996e29fc0d91c3b452b9e3efe533f3d Rosa Mesbahi edited the blog post bell hooks in Conversation with Thomas Jefferson in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12418/ Thu, 14 Mar 2019 03:25:25 -0500 In the spirit of recursion, I’d like to go back to a text we covered in class on February 11th, “Notes on the State of Virginia.”  When we encountered this text, it was in reference to fugitive slave narrat […]

]]> 0 99f456323363062aa26dd65c8fdc921b Rosa Mesbahi edited the blog post The Omnipresence of the "Unasked Question" in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12354/ Thu, 28 Feb 2019 01:31:14 -0500 “In Louis Althusser’s notion of interpellation, it is the police who initiate the call or address by which a subject becomes socially constituted.  There is a policeman, the one not only who represents the law […]

]]> 0 6644e7ba22e7356f2c2d3080e67e0c19 Rosa Mesbahi wrote a new blog post Resonance and Recursion in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12224/ Sat, 09 Feb 2019 23:57:15 -0500 We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.– Toni Morrison, 1993 Nobel Lecture (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

I read this epigraph […]

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