CUNY Academic Commons | brian mcdonald | Group Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/brianmcdonald/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which brian mcdonald is a member. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 26a00883f175e863336fc3ee3c3bfacf Anna Zeemont uploaded "Nobody Mean More To Me Than You" by June Jordan to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 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 Anna Zeemont uploaded Lemonade Syllabus to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 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]

]]> 7fb0d22a9d334dbb96d96ab4531489e7 Lou Catherine Cornum uploaded David Meltzer's Orf to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/433714/ Wed, 11 May 2016 14:44:24 -0400 I heard about this book reading an interview with Samuel Delany about literary pornography or pornographic literature, which he himself is a writer of. He mentions a time in the late 60’s when a publisher Essex House reached out to poets and literary fiction writers for erotic works with the only requirement being that the works focused on sex in…[Read more]

]]> d557c302fda4bf6fbfebca81aa5d9f9d Lou Catherine Cornum uploaded Rob Nixon- Intro to Slow Violence to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/433711/ Wed, 11 May 2016 14:26:27 -0400 I’ve attached the introductory chapter to Rob Nixon’s book Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor, which I read a couple years back and wanted to return to in context of works I’ve read since then. I’m particularly drawn to Nixon’s re-formulation of Mary Louise-Pratt’s concept of “planetary consciousness” which she describes in terms…[Read more]

]]> 5692bc8e6c477778c8654ddd43d277ab Kristi Fleetwood modified The Souls of Black Folk in Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/433682/ Tue, 10 May 2016 21:31:40 -0400 713b4bb6be3cde0b0317dacc3e838316 Kristi Fleetwood uploaded The Body Unbound to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/433681/ Tue, 10 May 2016 21:31:04 -0400 The article discusses the implications of body image when the superhero begins as a disempowered hero and gains superpowers over time.

]]> f3a0d3ef97b6b1a1a0a0e52cce78f959 Kristi Fleetwood uploaded The Souls of Black Folk to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/433677/ Tue, 10 May 2016 21:13:23 -0400 This excerpt from DuBois’s work discusses the idea of “double consciousness” that all African Americans possess. By being oppressed, they’re able to see the roles of the oppressed as well as the oppressors.

]]> 2506f0fe94d679a073e98b5bbfaccb7d David S. Reynolds modified CV1 in Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/433309/ Thu, 05 May 2016 12:42:33 -0400 a861c8996a6aa19b0eb3fa381cd8c317 David S. Reynolds uploaded CV3 to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/433307/ Thu, 05 May 2016 12:35:36 -0400 third example

]]> f8e8dbe8abd6764e8d862be6ffd628d4 Shoumik Bhattacharya uploaded Impossible Desires to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/433255/ Wed, 04 May 2016 17:51:08 -0400 Queer reading of Bollywood.

]]> 54a204fd073d83c960f440a038c7c5f3 Shoumik Bhattacharya uploaded Manto: Letter to Uncle Sam to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/433254/ Wed, 04 May 2016 17:47:47 -0400 Indian short story writer.

]]> 6271e75bc4d9de38d5e9e0d848766253 Luke Church uploaded Sun Ra Lecture to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/433247/ Wed, 04 May 2016 15:52:30 -0400 http://www.openculture.com/2014/07/full-lecture-and-reading-list-from-sun-ras-1971-uc-berkeley-course.html

This link leads to an article that includes a UC Berkeley lecture that Sun Ra did for an American Studies course. The link also includes a reading list that Sun Ra put together. I couldn’t upload the link as a file, so instead I found a…[Read more]

]]> 796c8572dbe955938ac8cb59b88e228d Luke Church uploaded Racialized Toxins and Sovereign Fantasies by Mel Y. Chen to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/433246/ Wed, 04 May 2016 15:42:45 -0400 In this article Mel Y. Chen focuses on “the extended meanings of toxicity” as they pertain to race by focusing on a case of lead panic in toys. I found this via Project Muse

]]> e98aa40bb4b8917a3cc1eea9de6598fb Marguerite Daisy Atterbury uploaded Letter to El Casino Ballroom by Leslie Marmon Silko to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/433195/ Tue, 03 May 2016 19:57:21 -0400 This is the first page of a letter from the Leslie Marmon Silko archive at the Beinecke (I’ll upload the second page following this post) by Silko to a Tuscon venue protesting the security checks she’s been subjected to in her regular attendance. Silko calls out what she calls the “death squad impersonators” who searched her, and asks whether…[Read more]

]]> 2371839572c0b6780c86aacb35d54ea8 David S. Reynolds uploaded Reynolds short bio to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/433183/ Tue, 03 May 2016 18:34:04 -0400 Sometimes you’ll be asked to send a short professional bio. Here is mine, as an example.

]]> 9492e698083456dbdd26694ce7470883 David S. Reynolds uploaded My c.v. to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/433180/ Tue, 03 May 2016 18:27:48 -0400 Haven’t quite updated it, but it’s more or less right.

]]> b40fe1cc65d3406d42343d2503163691 David S. Reynolds uploaded CV3 to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/433178/ Tue, 03 May 2016 18:26:19 -0400 Third example.

]]> ddf05fa245d77130b18e786e4ef0edf6 David S. Reynolds uploaded CV2 to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/433177/ Tue, 03 May 2016 18:25:44 -0400 Second example.

]]> 7a323024a5e25076271d12a8c5e8c9a8 David S. Reynolds uploaded CV1 to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/433176/ Tue, 03 May 2016 18:25:00 -0400 For our last class (May 11), I want each of you to write your current c.v. and upload it to the C.V.s folder. I’m uploading some sample c.v.s of ex-students of mine as examples you can follow.

]]> d658afa9c8b6c61869cfab2df8caee86 Felix Bernstein uploaded The Egyptian origin of monotheism and the murder of Moses-Richard Bernstein to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/433160/ Tue, 03 May 2016 17:42:15 -0400 the first chapter of Bernstein’s book Freud and the Legacy of Moses (Cambridge University Press), which is helping to introduce me to Freud’s last published work, highly controversial at the time, that he nonetheless brought into publishing (including a Hebrew translation) at a time where the Jews were in a turbulent and precarious position. The…[Read more]

]]> c9a2ea6afafd15d7ac4531f2029012c9 Felix Bernstein uploaded Cecil Taylor hand written music scores to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/433157/ Tue, 03 May 2016 17:39:05 -0400 This is from the Whitney show which just closed of Cecil Taylor’s work. I saw him perform there last week, which was amazing. But was also amazed by the exhibition in the back, which had his original notations and poems, which are uniquely drawn and written, sometimes following musical notation (and poetry lineation) conventions but more often not.

]]> adc300b85e5e436b4154068cbc1d5aed Lou Catherine Cornum uploaded Samuel Delany letter to publisher about Dhalgren to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/433133/ Tue, 03 May 2016 14:32:55 -0400 As I’ve probably mentioned, I’m currently writing a paper on Samuel Delany’s Dhalgren and am reaching that obsession phase with the book. So I had high levels of excitement over this letter from Samuel Delany to magazine publisher Kirpatrick Sale who had previously written Delany to express his (and Thomas Pynchon’s!) excitement over Delany’s…[Read more]

]]> d3fd70f0ef5b795a4665d82879d934e7 Allison Douglass uploaded Genet BBC Interview to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/433107/ Tue, 03 May 2016 03:14:18 -0400 This is a fun little interview where Genet gets really cranky with his interviewers and accuses them of acting as “interrogators,” and keeps directly asking the film crew why they put up with standing there, listening to all the stupid things he has to say. Why don’t they resist the unpardonably static setup of the filmmaking process? http://bbc.in/ZliWbD

]]> 053c23ba9f8930d4f6ec423e01c6cd6e Allison Douglass uploaded Jonathan Kemp, "Erotic Indifference to Time" to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/433102/ Tue, 03 May 2016 02:20:11 -0400 Today for no particular reason I kept thinking about a book I loved in college, Jean Genet’s Our Lady of the Flowers, and so I wanted to use the posting this week to search around and find what kinds of work have been done with it of late. I landed on this piece by Jonathan Kemp, which looks at the book as a representation of a particular way of…[Read more]

]]> ebe271e5daed40ffccf6c08794b36502 Kristi Fleetwood uploaded The Android's Dungeon: Comic-Bookstores, Cultural Spaces, and the Social Practices of Audiences to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/432641/ Sun, 24 Apr 2016 20:31:54 -0400 After trying (and failing) to find materials on the demographics of comic book fans, I stumbled across multiple articles that referenced this article a staple in understanding the way the comic book industry functions in relation to comic book stores and fans. I found the article through World Cat, but our library does not subscribe to the…[Read more]

]]> 75ebb5f318428d8551d64783585e0f1a Kristi Fleetwood uploaded Diagrams of story plots from various authors to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/432640/ Sun, 24 Apr 2016 20:26:27 -0400 I’ve been working on some non-academic writing, and I looked up JK Rowling’s chapter diagram out of curiosity and in hopes of inspiration. Through a google search, I stumbled across this DailyMail link that has various images of author plot diagrams.…[Read more]

]]> c8e85b901441cfa3281e30de92775cdd David S. Reynolds uploaded Ramsay, "Humane Computation" to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/432464/ Wed, 20 Apr 2016 20:20:16 -0400 2a7ca778cbb7081d7de8b0a48abc60f0 David S. Reynolds uploaded Posner, "What's Next" to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/432463/ Wed, 20 Apr 2016 20:19:10 -0400 9ecfe4a596413f5c830e2d84f034f634 David S. Reynolds uploaded McGrail, "The Whole Game" to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/432462/ Wed, 20 Apr 2016 20:18:09 -0400 9485d6b71a51f96bf195767a6eb7f960 David S. Reynolds uploaded Binder, "Alien Reading" to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/432461/ Wed, 20 Apr 2016 20:15:58 -0400 53a2ac29749d42a2e83601568f020004 David S. Reynolds uploaded Gallon, "Making a Case for Black DH" to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/432460/ Wed, 20 Apr 2016 20:15:13 -0400 d08ce3fbd90a0aaf40f8b0fa5257b3dd David S. Reynolds uploaded Binder, "Alien Reading" to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/432459/ Wed, 20 Apr 2016 20:14:14 -0400 019b65f1fe76163d12b9263af77603f1 Sarah Schwartz uploaded Moreton-Robinson to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/432401/ Wed, 20 Apr 2016 14:32:49 -0400 A great excerpt from a longer work by preeminent indigenous scholar, Aileen Moreton-Robinson. While some of the material may seem to echo ideas in post-colonial and American studies, she was one of the first people to theorize the position of indigenous Australians. In this piece she articulates the way in which the academy continues to position…[Read more]

]]> ee66fb54d2a0fd95aae57b8a7dbf89ad Sarah Schwartz uploaded Shaw - Redfern to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/432400/ Wed, 20 Apr 2016 14:29:24 -0400 This article operates more as a personal essay documenting the process of gentrification in a traditionally indigenous neighborhood in Sydney’s Inner West. While Shaw aims to sympathetic and ethnographically self-aware, she falls into the unavoidable trap of reproducing certain oppositions and hierarchies perpetuated by racist traditional…[Read more]

]]> 48cb4336d6c00a77ed001b8502882f26 Sarah Schwartz uploaded Interview with Herve Guibert to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/432398/ Wed, 20 Apr 2016 14:22:51 -0400

The link above connects you to a television interview from 16 March 1990 in which French photographer Herve Guibert discusses his book on the last days of Michel Foucault. In the interview, he defends the book, which was criticized for exposing Foucault’s private life and essentially outing him, as…[Read more]

]]> 1edcdef50ad45416891f98cca7c98daa Sarah Schwartz uploaded Podcast/Recording of Panel on Disidentification and Glenn Ligon to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/432397/ Wed, 20 Apr 2016 14:14:26 -0400 http://www.themodern.org/podcast/A%20Panel%20Discussion,%20%22Disidentification%3A%20Race,%20Sexuality,%20and%20Contemporary%20Art%22

The file attached is a scan of one of Ligon’s paintings. The link above directs you to a recording of a panel from 2012 at The Modern in Fort Worth, Texas. the panel asked panelists to discuss or link Ligon’s…[Read more]

]]> 80477834935d2c8356bda3ad4f480e52 Kristi Fleetwood uploaded Women in Comic Books to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/432375/ Wed, 20 Apr 2016 03:50:47 -0400 I found this article using Google Scholar, and the author is arguing for librarians to not just market the comic books for boys, even though men are the largest reading groups.

]]> 9cdb72b5f38144af6d2dd4c094184333 Kristi Fleetwood uploaded Junot Diaz Discusses Oscar Wao on NPR to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/432374/ Wed, 20 Apr 2016 03:47:20 -0400 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90111248

This is a NPR interview with Junot Diaz in 2008 after he won the Pulitzer Prize for The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao. In this, he talks about the book and the prize.

]]> cef9d3e691ecd0273e624c0b14df83ac Luke Church uploaded John Keene in Conversation with Tân Khánh Cao to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/432371/ Wed, 20 Apr 2016 02:07:34 -0400 https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/poetrycenter/bundles/227911

This is a link to a conversation in which John Keene discusses his collection of short stories and novellas entitled “Counternarratives.” I’ve been infatuated with Keene’s book recently and it has been inspiring a lot of the thinking I’ve been doing academically. Keene and Cao touch…[Read more]

]]> 170a60564b943d14b47c5a204eefa704 Luke Church uploaded Weheliye - Engendering Phonographies: Sonic Technologies of Blackness to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/432368/ Wed, 20 Apr 2016 01:47:08 -0400 Weheliye uses this short article as an opportunity to to respond to certain engagements with his work and to reflect on the connections between his work in “Phonographies” and his latest book “Habeus Viscus.”

]]> 23a820ab6ea82e42d98f764d31ce798b Lou Catherine Cornum uploaded Rites of Reversal: Double Consciousness in Delany's Dhalgren (1984) to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/432367/ Wed, 20 Apr 2016 00:47:40 -0400 Published in a special science fiction issue of Black American Literature Forum, this article tries to consider what role Black racial identity plays in Samuel Delany’s novel Dhalgren. The author Mary Kay Bray uses DuBoisian double consciousness to understand the proliferation of ironies and ambivalences in the novel and argues that overall Delany…[Read more]

]]> 4862effdb26ef221571017d5452424b8 Lou Catherine Cornum uploaded The Middle Five novel cover (1900) to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/432366/ Wed, 20 Apr 2016 00:42:50 -0400 From the digital collections of the Newberry Library: “Francis La Flesche, a writer of mixed Omaha Indian and French ancestry, describes his experiences in a Presbyterian mission school on the Omaha reservation in his memoir, The Middle Five.”

]]> 0487832651d0d3c3687bbff4544f8761 Allison Douglass modified Charles Busch Archives in Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/432138/ Mon, 18 Apr 2016 16:06:24 -0400 a3a18b6e9950c2b55e714bffa79b06c2 Allison Douglass modified Slapstick and Comic Performance, Peacock in Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/432137/ Mon, 18 Apr 2016 16:03:48 -0400 4df70c305e711d7536f5b33f279a890c Allison Douglass modified Charles Busch Archives in Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/432136/ Mon, 18 Apr 2016 16:02:06 -0400 e5e0dc76bfbe05797585f256b16b1ef3 Allison Douglass uploaded Slapstick and Comic Performance, Peacock to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/432135/ Mon, 18 Apr 2016 16:01:49 -0400 I found this text when I was working on some Commedia research for my clowns class with McCoy. This book by Louise Peacock examines at length the nature and effects of slapstick violence as a comedic device, citing commedia as the first fully-realized location of slapstick, and examining its practice from the Renaissance through the present.…[Read more]

]]> 8d96d0cd02b78718165f12ca42cb6d3b Allison Douglass uploaded Charles Busch Archives to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/432132/ Mon, 18 Apr 2016 15:57:29 -0400 Since we had such a great trip to the archives this week, I thought I’d pass along an NYPL archive that Jason Baumann suggested to me. Attached is the file list for the Charles Busch papers in their collection. If you aren’t familiar with Busch, he’s a New York playwright and drag artist who has, in my opinion, done some of the most interesting…[Read more]

]]> 5176ee54acb19c2b34012e7409033a85 Sarah Schwartz uploaded Latour and Literary Studies - Felski to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/431776/ Wed, 13 Apr 2016 17:07:58 -0400 In this article, Rita Felski picks up where she left off in “Suspicious Minds.” Instead of continuing with characterizing and problematizing critique, Felski transfers Latour’s actor-network theory to literary studies. In this way, she offers a figuration of interpretation as a coproduction between equals (text and critic) based on attachment…[Read more]

]]> 372391e8bc250d077f477665e9a73727 Sarah Schwartz uploaded Why Has Critique Run Out of Steam? to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/431775/ Wed, 13 Apr 2016 17:05:36 -0400 One of the early criticisms of critique, this article started the shift to the post-critical. In it, Latour argues that a particular kind of critical spirit has led intellectuals down the wrong path. An insidious need to negate has led to a state in which matters of concern are no longer accessible or appealing–only matters of fact which can be…[Read more]

]]> d55fc5a66455d5dba218b3d32a7afe61 brian mcdonald uploaded Shelley after Atheism to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/431705/ Wed, 13 Apr 2016 01:20:10 -0400 This essay by Colin Jager engages Percy Shelley’s avowed atheism, the historical context for his ‘unbelief,’ and its manifestations in his poetry. I found the article on JSTOR while doing research for a professor. While it’s outside of my area of interest, I found it interesting for its readings of Shelley’s poetry qua atheistic poetry and for its…[Read more]

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