https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/azeemont/activity/ Activity feed for Anna Zeemont. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 47f0d4699b9fb337b99fa5382497c43b https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/664468/ Tue, 14 Apr 2020 15:06:01 -0400 26fd806255ccee55344fc9ff025d6771 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/664467/ Tue, 14 Apr 2020 15:05:27 -0400 4b42f1a0dac9f24581a704eb0d5fbbb0 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/519646/ Fri, 14 Sep 2018 20:26:21 -0400 8459db7aa05c8010b35524ef5ef74272 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/496516/ Sat, 17 Mar 2018 21:14:58 -0400 c46344de81071bbc8683193e0d7e7d44 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/472984/ Fri, 29 Sep 2017 22:48:52 -0400 53b59eedd0f0aa0f636a53df0a56efaa https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/434043/ Mon, 16 May 2016 19:33:15 -0400 26a00883f175e863336fc3ee3c3bfacf https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/433782/ Wed, 11 May 2016 19:18:44 -0400 This is an article from College English about how the poet-essayist-activist-teacher June Jordan navigated standardized vs. subjugated language practices in her CUNY class. It’s a super powerful essay and shows, among other things, how one’s personal experiences and positionally can be inseparable from one’s academic perspective. This essay was…[Read more]

]]> 95839607782f05116e78561a48dd7aec https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/433781/ Wed, 11 May 2016 19:14:13 -0400 This is a list of readings and other sources that are related to or alluded to in Beyonce’s visual album “Lemonade.” The file attached is just the first page, but you can view the whole thing here: https://diasporahypertext.com/2016/05/07/download-the-lemonadesyllabus-compiled-by-candice-benbow/
I think this could be a great resource for…[Read more]

]]> f6e97a94b65f9f7e35320a1abcbe90f4 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/431170/ Wed, 06 Apr 2016 18:52:01 -0400 e541de7a1764cead024da2400497a922 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/431169/ Wed, 06 Apr 2016 18:50:12 -0400 This is the Author’s Note and Introduction from journalist and trans activist Janet Mock’s 2014 memoir Redefining Realness. Closeted for much of her young adult life, Mock describes the motivation behind and difficulty of sharing her personal history as a trans woman of color. Mock mentions a Marie Claire that, she felt, misrepresented her life…[Read more]

]]> dc5a13bbd44a980a74d49ae66c0538d7 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/431166/ Wed, 06 Apr 2016 18:26:21 -0400 cffad7f95f251294366f78bddb33c4c5 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/431165/ Wed, 06 Apr 2016 18:26:12 -0400 This short article is about how “natural selection” was actually one of a number of metaphors Darwin tried out to encapsulate his theories of evolution. It is by Kensy Cooperrider, a cognitive scientist specializing in metaphor at U Chicago. I like this article’s interdisciplinary approach. I found it through Rhetsy, which is a weekly email…[Read more]

]]> 56576674696247060297a2de703f7ef1 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/430384/ Wed, 30 Mar 2016 18:03:30 -0400 I encountered this recent interview between these two fiction writers in a recent podcast produced by the New Yorker magazine. Saunders is one of my favorite contemporary writers and in this interview, Safran Foer and Saunders discuss their writing process, the role of “goodness” and ethics in their work and other things. Here is a link to the…[Read more]

]]> 920e0917c8db83ab0390dc6235c6bbd0 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/430382/ Wed, 30 Mar 2016 17:58:29 -0400 This is the introduction from Lisa Maruca’s 2007 work, which traces some crucial changes in modern Europe in how people engage with texts. I first encountered this chapter as in college student in a class on 18th Century literature. I forgot who wrote it and wanted to use a concept from it for a paper this semester, so I emailed my old professor…[Read more]

]]> c5108020e9f32ddd5e06806cf0b81cc4 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/429594/ Tue, 22 Mar 2016 20:57:03 -0400 This 2015 New Yorker story describes the rise of mass-market-paperback book publishing. It also has some interesting images of classic books, such as the Great Gatsby, that were republished with pulpy covers to try to appeal to different readers. The author of the piece is Louis Menad, a literature professor at Harvard and cultural critic. I found…[Read more]

]]> 92356ef2fc38a9d5b740a62c497decda https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/429593/ Tue, 22 Mar 2016 20:31:22 -0400 This article was published by the journal Pedagogy in 2012. In it, Laura Aull analyzes two commonly taught American literature anthologies, the Heath and the Norton. She reveals how anthologies perpetuate notions of which texts are canonical or exemplify “American” “literature,” particularly through their introductory, prefatory or framing…[Read more]

]]> 74e0b351f917f24c4c963680bb19ca46 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/428455/ Wed, 09 Mar 2016 19:10:27 -0500 This is an article I love by bell hooks, where she discusses her positionality as a woman of color in the academy. One of my favorite things about this essay is the way its style mimics the content; hooks subtly uses a mix of more academic and non-academic language.

]]> 37011bec26527c64be008cf9a6476e0e https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/428453/ Wed, 09 Mar 2016 19:02:53 -0500 This is a picture of railroads between New York and San Francisco, soon after the construction of the transcontinental railroad. It shows several destinations across the country in between as well. The web page says it may actually be a board game! A better-quality image can be found at this link:…[Read more]

]]> 78eaf2d62a0c8495fc3a5851ad109f69 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/428021/ Wed, 02 Mar 2016 23:36:43 -0500 09696eef25dbfaa2170962bf91332f9a https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/428004/ Wed, 02 Mar 2016 16:44:01 -0500 These are four of the paintings Barthes discusses in his essay on the Renaissance artist Arcimboldo. These paintings were made in the mid-late 1500s as part of Arcimboldo’s Four Season series of allegorical portraits. They were painted separately but I found it easier to upload an image with all four right next to each other. The one on the upper…[Read more]

]]> fb8fccaaad2366b3b0a15710eb4cb81f https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/427996/ Wed, 02 Mar 2016 16:33:27 -0500 This essay is from Roland Barthes’ book The Responsibility of Forms: Critical Essays on Music, Art, and Representation; which came out in the early ’80s. It discusses the Renaissance painter Arcimboldo who was famous for his allegorical portraits, which used everyday items like food to create composite images of faces. Barthes describes the…[Read more]

]]> 0d0eaf2985f215d3236275c7c4124c58 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/427560/ Wed, 24 Feb 2016 17:16:53 -0500 This article was one of the most personally inspiring, generative ones I’ve encountered at CUNY so far. In it, Eldred and Mortensen, scholars coming out of rhetoric and composition, use literacy theory to analyze Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion. More specifically, they argue that Pygmalion enacts and deconstructs versions of “literacy.” In doing so, they…[Read more]

]]> 91f00726681bdcf3a2bb95c9f50b7954 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/427000/ Wed, 17 Feb 2016 22:14:25 -0500 54cb5b074447a35abdcf2728b6163edd https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/426953/ Wed, 17 Feb 2016 16:50:07 -0500 800f3ac02b745373cf9647439cd61d58 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/426952/ Wed, 17 Feb 2016 16:49:52 -0500 Crisis at CUNY was a circulated text published by radical CUNY faculty in 1974. It discusses the problems facing the CUNY system after open admissions, which mostly resulted from budget cuts. It then details the relationship between higher education and capitalism, and proposes solutions to some of CUNY’s issues. I found this on the CUNY Digital…[Read more]

]]> 80fb56a976b89ed97c143f77feb3bf7a https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/426951/ Wed, 17 Feb 2016 16:21:41 -0500 This article describes the educational and writing practice called “translingualism” in comp/rhet, in which student writers are encouraged to use all of their languages, dialects, or discourses at their disposal, including their native language. While Trimbur notes that translingualism is a newer, fashionable term in the comp/rhet world,…[Read more]

]]> 9379170325ab0203414be579db5acda8 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/426393/ Wed, 10 Feb 2016 16:35:52 -0500 998f7c40c27993f8a57327b354b552c6 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/426392/ Wed, 10 Feb 2016 16:31:41 -0500 After reading Graff’s book, I was curious about its reception – particularly in the field of composition and rhetoric – and I get the sense that while the book’s methods have been influential in the field, comp/rhet scholars have been frustrated with how Graff frames the teaching of writing. I’ve posted one such critique here, in which Friend…[Read more]

]]> 6383cfb078517ff5226f0bd3e6477070 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/426391/ Wed, 10 Feb 2016 16:23:50 -0500 While researching the reception of Professing Literature, I came across this interview with Gerald Graff and the GC’s own Ira Shor, in which they discuss writing pedagogy and the university more generally. As the article and the interviewees themselves note, Shor is often seen as more radical than Graff, who critiques Shor’s ideas about liberatory…[Read more]

]]> 7e1e102f9ed16d382e282f414f085401 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/423740/ Fri, 08 Jan 2016 14:38:15 -0500 b9f7abd03eeb3b45197ec91f4cac9f8c https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/422640/ Thu, 10 Dec 2015 19:25:12 -0500 72a8df189c9e616ea2d003d87d290f66 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/422637/ Thu, 10 Dec 2015 19:22:48 -0500 82981eb030f92783a67b538e729a2ae2 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/422635/ Thu, 10 Dec 2015 19:18:17 -0500 da1a087e17c501332952f11f3bb11d02 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/422634/ Thu, 10 Dec 2015 19:15:37 -0500 a60d772833ed3f334f228454c02ae9de https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/419925/ Tue, 10 Nov 2015 02:45:45 -0500 a03f4ebf009c5fca9204562f987e2f22 http://childlittheory.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=259 Mon, 09 Nov 2015 19:50:31 -0500 Reading Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature, I couldn’t help but draw on my own experience as an avid adolescent reader during the time period Day focuses on. I read many of the b […]

]]> f98627bda99fe2d9206ff6e42fc50e8b http://childlittheory.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=243 Mon, 02 Nov 2015 16:53:18 -0500 Overall, I got a ton out of reading Learning from the Left! I was especially inspired by Mickenberg’s methodological approach, particularly in contrast with some of the other scholarship we’ve read. For one thi […]

]]> bf8db100e180b83dbabec4dc642e445a http://childlittheory.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=217 Mon, 26 Oct 2015 16:07:30 -0400 I’d never heard of childhood emancipatory studies before reading this article and I’m still not totally sure I understand what it is—I found this to be one of the least accessible pieces we’ve read this semeste […]

]]> 7803fc1334e0727e3a39ae3b9630ab38 http://childlittheory.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=78 Sun, 20 Sep 2015 19:56:00 -0400 As someone deeply invested in exploring genre and its limits, I was excited to read Westman’s article. From what I could gather, her main argument is that as children’s literature scholars, we need to consider how […]

]]> 00745c85af8c3777a2f7160e3d1f6803 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/412975/ Wed, 16 Sep 2015 04:26:31 -0400 2eea0659750efdcc274019d40e98ecef https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/412186/ Thu, 10 Sep 2015 14:47:36 -0400 2e74d5eeff3d3d6727855a054aab4ccc https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/412015/ Wed, 09 Sep 2015 14:57:48 -0400 15f25cae962d29043161525cb649ed6c https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/412006/ Wed, 09 Sep 2015 14:41:49 -0400