CUNY Academic Commons | Alexandra A. Rego | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/aarego/activity/ Activity feed for Alexandra A. Rego. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 6181f9c029a7ff08f3ddf6e570cedbc4 Alexandra A. Rego (She/Her/hers) wrote a new post on the site Children's Literature and Animal Studies: A Dialogue https://animalstudies.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=222 Wed, 13 Apr 2022 16:20:01 -0400 In part I think we can attribute (if not necessarily wave away without further examination) a lot of the leaps Melson’s argumentation seems to make to the stakes of Why the Wild Things Are – identifying […]

]]> 3a83c4f765ac8e2f59ecff9bdb5541f9 Alexandra A. Rego (She/Her/hers) wrote a new post on the site Children's Literature and Animal Studies: A Dialogue https://animalstudies.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=204 Wed, 06 Apr 2022 18:18:40 -0400 I know that Ruwanthi also asked along these same lines, but I’m really curious about the degree to which our inevitable centralization of a text, a literary object and a literary voice, challenges or troubles […]

]]> 69a0e417382e9fc69793a27e84027b23 Alexandra A. Rego (She/Her/hers) wrote a new post on the site Children's Literature and Animal Studies: A Dialogue https://animalstudies.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=189 Wed, 30 Mar 2022 19:00:37 -0400 On page 36, Derrida writes, “More precisely, of sexual differences, that is to say, what for the most part is kept under wraps in almost all of the grand philosophical-type treatises on the animality of the […]

]]> 89ee0968024beb1a62e4ba1fd2ca33e1 Alexandra A. Rego (She/Her/hers) wrote a new post on the site Children's Literature and Animal Studies: A Dialogue https://animalstudies.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=168 Wed, 23 Mar 2022 17:35:08 -0400 Firstly, wow, it was very strange to return to Charlotte’s Web…I thought I remembered enough of that book from my primary school days but there were many, many surprises.

This initial question may […]

]]> 535b8ad4880b649c91d7d189eb698d1a Alexandra A. Rego (She/Her/hers) wrote a new post on the site Children's Literature and Animal Studies: A Dialogue https://animalstudies.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=150 Wed, 16 Mar 2022 15:13:12 -0400 I’m sure we’ll give Lofting and Dolittle more criticism and consideration in class, but I think this is actually a good time to talk about authorial presence and authority in works considered ‘classics’, as is […]

]]> 84eb6678f5ed46034249383bd37d0ba4 Alexandra A. Rego (She/Her/hers) wrote a new post on the site Children's Literature and Animal Studies: A Dialogue https://animalstudies.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=135 Wed, 09 Mar 2022 02:22:51 -0500 In “Risky Business: Talking about Children in Children’s Literature Criticism”, Marah Gubar writes that “the critical story we have been telling about children’s literature rules out the possibility that youn […]

]]> b19223d2bebab3c924ebdf1f843c893e Alexandra A. Rego (She/Her/hers) wrote a new post on the site Children's Literature and Animal Studies: A Dialogue https://animalstudies.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=121 Wed, 02 Mar 2022 17:46:30 -0500 In what way is the ownership of pets (and pet-ownership as a subject-position) a privilege? In what ways is it classed? What kinds of adults are being imagined and constructed in literary narrative of pets and […]

]]> 98d396c94c2eee8f8a3b94f7aa16174f Alexandra A. Rego (She/Her/hers) wrote a new post on the site Children's Literature and Animal Studies: A Dialogue https://animalstudies.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=106 Wed, 23 Feb 2022 18:12:29 -0500 I’m interested in thinking about Black Beauty as a novel (an animal autobiography) about class and about disability. The ability to do specific kinds of work, or to look a certain way (and move, breathe, act a […]

]]> b60dc02852915e16d3e2c56b9b4b458c Alexandra A. Rego (She/Her/hers) wrote a new post on the site Children's Literature and Animal Studies: A Dialogue https://animalstudies.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=75 Tue, 15 Feb 2022 17:49:56 -0500 Keyword: Captivity

I chose to work on the keyword captivity in part because the term was immediately evocative to me; it generated vibrant, distressing images from memory, cultural objects, and imagination […]

]]> a76b1c4460cb9df9db6d5201d1a853fd Alexandra A. Rego (She/Her/hers) wrote a new post on the site Children's Literature and Animal Studies: A Dialogue https://animalstudies.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=48 Tue, 08 Feb 2022 22:09:16 -0500 Hi all, below are my discussion questions for tomorrow’s class. I am looking forward to meeting!

1. Bow’s primary sources in this article are largely picture books, intended for very young children p […]

]]> f715e8299b9e967705f03f5cbd0ce72e Alexandra A. Rego (She/Her/hers) joined the group Digital Humanities Initiative https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/775384/ Fri, 20 Aug 2021 17:28:51 -0400 d9242c498b38a8154479890954f9f8ef Alexandra A. Rego (She/Her/hers) joined the group Center for Place, Culture and Politics https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/775383/ Fri, 20 Aug 2021 17:28:49 -0400 4154544f5899954150f023bdc7199c8b Alexandra A. Rego (She/Her/hers) became a registered member https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/773414/ Wed, 21 Jul 2021 18:13:45 -0400