English @ SUNY Geneseo | Susanna Dolan | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/susanna7/activity/ Activity feed for Susanna Dolan. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 4080439b9e75a8a65f06149b81839332 Susanna Dolan edited the blog post Reflections on Straddling, Good Faith Scholarship, and Scorn in connecting N.K. Jemisin’s epigraph with Percival Everett’s The Trees in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15779/ Mon, 16 May 2022 13:32:09 -0500 Oh, no. No, no, no. There’s too much to learn from examining that tension between the power and the impact of the art and realizing where that art comes from and what the impetus behind that art is. The best way […]

]]> 0 22a42a2287c08a621440908c99e14be9 Susanna Dolan wrote a new blog post How Does One Call and Respond? in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15684/ Sat, 19 Feb 2022 01:24:54 -0500 What does it mean to call and respond? I believe that answering this question will provide insight into the governing aesthetic of The Riverside Anthology of African American Literary Tradition: Call and […]

]]> 0 4cc1ed280d865db25113330e801b27cd Susanna Dolan edited the blog post Final Reflective Essay INTD 203 - Understanding Suspicious Pants in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14518/ Thu, 12 Dec 2019 18:04:03 -0500 On the first day of
classes Dr. McCoy wrote a quote on the board from Percival Everett stating,
“It’s incredible that a sentence is ever understood.” Being that it was my
first day of class I jotted down the w […]

]]> 0 842f1a851e351bfce3820fa5ce275b3e Susanna Dolan edited the blog post Structure and Understanding in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14320/ Mon, 02 Dec 2019 15:42:56 -0500 In class recently after reading Body from Percival Everett’s
re:f(gesture) Dr. McCoy provided a prompt for further discussion. This
prompt states:“Percival Everett’s “Body” intervenes in the blazon form.
Mor […]

]]> 0 41670190572a277f75fb2c8786d43063 Susanna Dolan edited the blog post Composite or Whole in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14300/ Sun, 01 Dec 2019 15:36:01 -0500 Recently, in preparation for class, I read a section of
poems from Percival Everett’s re:
f(gesture) called Logic. As
we were discussing these poems in small groups, I found myself drawn to one
particular line t […]

]]> 0 0b19159b1e0e541441ac2ff32ce200c3 Susanna Dolan edited the blog post Abecedarium and Meaning in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14172/ Wed, 20 Nov 2019 20:01:42 -0500             In preparation for class this past week I read the poem Zulus
from Percival Everett’s re:f(gesture). Dr. McCoy had previously
shared that the poem is an abecedarium, which means that it follows the […]

]]> 0 0e4141459301838abd61e7a9027de757 Susanna Dolan edited the blog post Privilege and Not Sidney Poitier in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14102/ Wed, 13 Nov 2019 20:27:38 -0500 Recently for my Sociology
100 class I read an excerpt from an article titled “White
Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Peggy McIntosh. This
article includes a list of advantages that McIntosh fou […]

]]> 0 19982aaab106f003ee2c5dd291703971 Susanna Dolan edited the blog post Nunsense: The Irony of Naming in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13949/ Fri, 01 Nov 2019 19:37:25 -0500 By: Hannah Smith, Joe Sharak, Mia Sidoti, Liz Roos, & Susanna Dolan

When reading Percival Everett’s novel I Am Not Sidney Poitier, our group observed the multitude of intertextual references to Sidney P […]

]]> 0 bfff634cdf97f93bd80c1414016b0210 Susanna Dolan wrote a new blog post Plagiarism with Purpose in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13876/ Fri, 25 Oct 2019 17:29:55 -0500 Recently in class, Professor McCoy had us take Milne Library’s Plagiarism Tutorial. This course served to teach us about the different types, and extent of plagiarism. It also provided us a better understanding o […]

]]> 0 8dd7891da5226ec7e387a5511ce73a33 Susanna Dolan wrote a new blog post What does it mean to be a sheep? in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13709/ Wed, 16 Oct 2019 19:04:38 -0500 While
reading Percival Everett’s I am Not Sidney Poitier for class on Friday I
was struck by something that the character of Percival Everett says to Not
Sidney. Not Sidney goes to Everett’s office to get his per […]

]]> 0 41942ec72bb4767501bcd976d8cbc7ab Susanna Dolan wrote a new blog post Conventions v. Creativity in Genre in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13634/ Thu, 03 Oct 2019 00:36:36 -0500 Recently,
in my English 203 class, Dr. McCoy showed us four videos by Demi Adejuyigbe. On
September 21st, 2016 he posted a video of himself dancing to Earth, Wind,
& Fire’s song “September”. Adejuyigbe has poste […]

]]> 0 44e805aab3c68d153c3423928d15ea39 Susanna Dolan edited the blog post Knowledge vs. Love in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13576/ Wed, 25 Sep 2019 21:34:37 -0500 Recently in my English 203 class Dr. McCoy asked us to work in a small group to discuss what Percival Everett is doing for, to, and with Euripides play The Bacchae in his novel Frenzy.  Immediately our […]

]]> 0 4d96c8be88b66e164589348ae53d00df Susanna Dolan edited the blog post The problem with knowing everything. in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13490/ Tue, 17 Sep 2019 11:33:37 -0500 “The
interesting thing about irony for me is that real irony is far more sincere
than earnestness. To accept the absurdity of a situation is to accept the
humanness of it. Utter sincerity suggests a kind of be […]

]]> 0 3fb9502b3f6d2f0a754c47bbdf3cffe6 Susanna Dolan joined the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13462/ Mon, 16 Sep 2019 19:37:56 -0500 0 cf133bc4ab5a55dfa2708b44b1764461 Susanna Dolan joined the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13168/ Fri, 30 Aug 2019 18:43:28 -0500 0 10f1719c8029e675ba6cb127bf5b5db5 Susanna Dolan became a registered member https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12942/ Fri, 23 Aug 2019 04:25:46 -0500 0