English @ SUNY Geneseo | Spencer Iovoli | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/sdiovoli/activity/ Activity feed for Spencer Iovoli. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 19a4fba75528d0014db74fa2f381d8a3 Spencer Iovoli wrote a new blog post The Ramblings of an Elephant Critic in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13531/ Sat, 21 Sep 2019 05:01:35 -0500 There was an experiment done in which art critics were tested in deducing whether a series of abstract paintings were made by experienced artists or by elephants with paint brushes. They were able to correctly […]

]]> 0 82fba59e790a5906dda1684dc0fc2f6f Spencer Iovoli joined the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13287/ Fri, 06 Sep 2019 03:21:28 -0500 0 9c92684786e5665bd0965e4502392c67 Spencer Iovoli edited the blog post The Continued Conversation on Caliban and The Tempest in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10223/ Thu, 03 May 2018 03:57:43 -0500 Noah had a very quick, and admittedly legitimate, criticism to my previous post regarding some of my interpretations of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest. There are some claims that I won’t be able to defend, suc […]

]]> 0 767b39243286f6f9471571a610d74643 Spencer Iovoli edited the blog post Unpacking Caliban in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10194/ Wed, 02 May 2018 19:06:35 -0500 William Shakespeare did not write his characters as inherently “good” or “evil.” Rather, they would come in various shades of gray. Shakespeare understood the human condition, that every person has flaws and […]

]]> 0 bfb9e6a87916c6ea8105523833933930 Spencer Iovoli edited the blog post An Overdue Clarification in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10073/ Thu, 26 Apr 2018 04:37:28 -0500 I don’t mean to tread on old ground, but my performance as a blogger demands that I resurface certain memories: In my “violence is the performance of waste” essay, I had carefully attempted to deconstruct Roach’s interpretations of each of the key words in the phrase. He had defined waste as “unproductive expenditure” (40), and claimed that…[Read more]

]]> 0 bb39ec617156e0d58537e6090f1cbab7 Spencer Iovoli wrote a new blog post Remembering the (Un)Dead in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10057/ Wed, 25 Apr 2018 00:01:20 -0500 The classical depiction of the “living dead” in old stories was fairly literal: The long-deceased, through necromancy, witchcraft, or some other form of magic, would rise once more to roam the earth in a […]

]]> 0 3b42dc26688723ca04311dd6ed92ca02 Spencer Iovoli edited the blog post The "Before's" and "After's" in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10029/ Tue, 24 Apr 2018 23:07:34 -0500 A major theme in Colson Whitehead’s novel Zone One, along with just about every other piece of literature or cinema in a post-apocalyptic setting (zombies or otherwise) is the evaluation of how much the world can change with a single event. In Zone One, the survivors labelled the first day of the zombie outbreak as the “Last Night,” stating that “…[Read more]

]]> 0 ce37011238a355538a921dc7398a09bc Spencer Iovoli wrote a new blog post The Conundrum of Color-Blindness in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9886/ Thu, 29 Mar 2018 02:21:31 -0500 When Kathryn Miles wrote about the tragedy of the Moore family in her book Superstorm, she provided several details for the context of their story: Damien and Glenda Moore and their two sons were beloved in their […]

]]> 0 aca8f75c92e24de355f43d91d06b2aaa Spencer Iovoli wrote a new blog post Secondhand Memories, Framed and Forgotten in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9809/ Mon, 19 Mar 2018 18:41:14 -0500 They say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
There are several portraits in my home of my great-grandparents and […]

]]> 0 5a9387cc42199863f5da124f35b5591a Spencer Iovoli wrote a new blog post The Paradox of Disaster Movies in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9656/ Mon, 12 Feb 2018 22:39:17 -0500 I’ve seen The Day After Tomorrow more times than I’d like to admit. At least four separate occasions, possibly five. After the third viewing, it sort of blends together into blurry mess, and my impressions of the […]

]]> 0 969f72be4be59c47e4a02065e4a2a157 Spencer Iovoli joined the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9655/ Mon, 12 Feb 2018 18:14:41 -0500 0 85eda9a261e5a475699b03ea3587955c Spencer Iovoli became a registered member https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9653/ Mon, 12 Feb 2018 18:11:38 -0500 0