English @ SUNY Geneseo | Tommy Castronova | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/tjnova/activity/ Activity feed for Tommy Castronova. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 938aa59eec718ced8189f0dc59914ce2 Tommy Castronova wrote a new blog post Final Self Reflective Essay: The Power of Noticing and Self Observation in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15592/ Mon, 20 Dec 2021 18:15:45 -0500 I came into this class with a pretty clear goal in mind; I wanted to become a better listener, and continue contributing to class conversations and growth while taking up less overall space in class […]

]]> 0 846c9df7f07920ec82df272212a3645e Tommy Castronova edited the blog post "Mini" Collaboration 2: How reduction leads to internalization. in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15574/ Mon, 06 Dec 2021 21:07:29 -0500 By Tommy Castronova, Jake Clark, Sammy Comstock, Nayy Diarra, Rebecca Perry, Dineen Vogler, and Quentin Wall.

William A. Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen’s From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black A […]

]]> 0 68b7e1eb97f503c02348d8d4ad735009 Tommy Castronova edited the blog post Noticing your own flaws: Goal-Setting Essay in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15550/ Sat, 02 Oct 2021 23:42:34 -0500 The idea of noticing that runs through our course epigraph strikes me as particularly important not just in the literature we read for this course, but also in our growth as people. One goal that I came into this […]

]]> 0 a3ee8217748016d055266b594349da5f Tommy Castronova wrote a new blog post The Omnipresence of Contradiction in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15459/ Sat, 19 Dec 2020 23:32:25 -0500 I’d say that the main way that my own thinkING habits have evolved over the course of this semester is to recognize how wildly different people’s interpretations of the same events and/or texts can be. One of my […]

]]> 0 2a0be82b8b50162e0a6d99cde0b9d29c Tommy Castronova edited the blog post Goal Setting Essay: Setting the Right Habits, and Continued Learning in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15409/ Fri, 09 Oct 2020 01:36:58 -0500 “First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not….Habit is persistence in practice.”- Octavia Butler, “Furor Scribendi’. When I first read throug […]

]]> 0 39101e7090286ebb8081aef7e1a1297a Tommy Castronova wrote a new blog post Paradise and the Painful Practice of Growth. in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15217/ Mon, 11 May 2020 20:31:57 -0500 In the interest of clarity, I think it worth starting this move, and by extension this essay, by confessing that after all the work we’ve done in class this semester, and all the discussions we’ve had abo […]

]]> 0 0fff22c9e6acd7c0cc60029241cfce73 Tommy Castronova joined the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14650/ Wed, 22 Jan 2020 18:33:30 -0500 0 81496ce839bb52f20fb54a60ccfabe4a Tommy Castronova wrote a new blog post The Victorian Connection in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14231/ Tue, 26 Nov 2019 04:53:26 -0500 In thinking about this class as a whole, and what I would write for this blog post, I spent some time thinking about the name of the course, Victorian Connections, and what exactly that meant. I tried to think of […]

]]> 0 b3beb3d3aeca88cd3fbefed1ab66aafd Tommy Castronova edited the blog post Wilde and Tennyson on Sorrow in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14089/ Tue, 12 Nov 2019 04:51:19 -0500 One connection I found particularly interesting this week is between Wilde’s thoughts on sorrow and Tennyson’s thoughts on grief. Wilde’s thoughts on sorrow as “one very long moment” in which “we can only record […]

]]> 0 495e72031c6e96e7c87412d9f6265e6c Tommy Castronova wrote a new blog post The difference between Pip and Heathcliff in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14003/ Tue, 05 Nov 2019 03:53:56 -0500 I have seen many people comparing Heathcliff and Pip in their connection posts for this week, particularly their shared experience of pining over a woman who doesn’t love them back. I’d like to point out a few […]

]]> 0 d851658cc41b92817085355c92824d96 Tommy Castronova commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14000/ Tue, 05 Nov 2019 03:09:10 -0500 I find this Estella’s choice of words here quite fascinating, as she starts by asserting that her rejection of Pip is in her nature, but then begins to distance herself from this, stating that it’s in the nature […]

]]> 0 52c3027a4a92da343bfdbe1259c016f9 Tommy Castronova edited the blog post Group 5 context: On Dickens in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13916/ Tue, 29 Oct 2019 02:56:05 -0500 Much like Pip, Charles Dickens led a life that closely resembled the narrative of ‘rags to riches.’ However, unlike Pip, Dickens was raised by his two birth parents, and led a life of relative gentility. Thi […]

]]> 0 fb6cb4937229a31d180996d6b2a100e5 Tommy Castronova edited the blog post Attitudes about women and class in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13855/ Tue, 22 Oct 2019 18:14:27 -0500 One similarity I noticed when reading through Great Expectations is that the way Mrs Joe Christmas is described is very indicative of the overall attitude towards both women and the lower class in Victorian […]

]]> 0 f22fba6c7ebd989493dc2bb9d2cc1bbe Tommy Castronova edited the blog post Connexions week of 10/7 in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13690/ Tue, 08 Oct 2019 21:08:51 -0500 One connection that stood out to me when reading this weekends assigned works was the familiar application of reason and scientific process to religion, seen earlier with Carlyle and again with Huxley. The […]

]]> 0 f41dd40f96c40dde710babe39c0f48bf Tommy Castronova commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13662/ Mon, 07 Oct 2019 20:29:50 -0500 One thing I find fascinating here is how Huxley prefaces his definition and understanding of agnosticism. His statement of “speaking for myself, and without impugning on the rights of any other person to use t […]

]]> 0 6efd024aaa86f2319745e05ee5919da1 Tommy Castronova wrote a new blog post Wuthering Heights' equation of admiration and love in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13639/ Thu, 03 Oct 2019 20:59:18 -0500 One connection from the prior chapters of Wuthering heights we read preciously to the end of Wuthering Heights, which we read this week, is the consistent connection the women of the novel make between loving […]

]]> 0 016844b11c1f8fd0e44f00ad970f3d6e Tommy Castronova commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13499/ Tue, 17 Sep 2019 19:53:03 -0500 Catherine declares that she loves Edgar, but given the reason she gives as to why she loves him being “he’s more myself than I am”, as well as what we know about her situation as a whole, do you think that she […]

]]> 0 8a7db9d741157100519d9f8777c886bc Tommy Castronova edited the blog post Connexions, week of 9/16 in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13484/ Tue, 17 Sep 2019 03:06:21 -0500 One character in “Wuthering Heights” I find particularly interesting is Mrs Heathcliff, the widow. Her introduction in chapter 2 makes her out to be particularly cold and rude. But what I find fascinating about […]

]]> 0 073aa26037eafd7a16a87a1218aad9e7 Tommy Castronova edited the blog post Connections: Week of 9/9 in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13351/ Wed, 11 Sep 2019 03:57:41 -0500 As we discussed today in class, Martineau’s position on the “acquiescence” of women in Victorian society was that this acquiescence only observed because women of her time are essentially brainwashed into […]

]]> 0 dadefafac84de58563a2a95639cd2df1 Tommy Castronova commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13290/ Thu, 05 Sep 2019 19:46:43 -0500 Based on the way Carlyle speak about the poor African mother and her child, what can we as a group extrapolate about Caryle’s feelings toward Africans and Colonization as a whole?

]]> 0 a16d8202a241490c3232a00ff618150b Tommy Castronova replied to the topic Favorite work of Victorian literature in the forum Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/nineteenth-century-studies/forum/topic/favorite-work-of-victorian-literature/page/2/#post-1446 Thu, 29 Aug 2019 19:13:09 -0500 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

]]> a1d96a4ba8869a9a4e4ec1d3307aa1c3 Tommy Castronova joined the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13095/ Thu, 29 Aug 2019 19:04:56 -0500 0 55ec8978ad23aaa035f53c05686d4283 Tommy Castronova joined the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10640/ Thu, 13 Sep 2018 13:49:39 -0500 0 3f73875485cf4866edd204f61b96ef27 Tommy Castronova became a registered member https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10315/ Tue, 28 Aug 2018 18:42:45 -0500 0