CUNY Academic Commons | Kristi Fleetwood | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/kfleetwood/activity/ Activity feed for Kristi Fleetwood. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 bda386d6b8cfb0169174c9bf157ba69c Kristi Fleetwood wrote a new post on the site Bodies and Minds of Children's Literature https://childlitfall2017.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=195 Wed, 11 Oct 2017 22:34:41 -0400 Published in 1992, Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith’s The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales won the New York Time’s “Best Illustrated Book” award and was named a Caldecott Honor Book.   The illustrat […]

]]> 74b7beb83f6271e1ff0c0ac3932e3427 Kristi Fleetwood commented on the post, In preparation for Oct 12th...., on the site Bodies and Minds of Children's Literature https://childlitfall2017.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2017/09/20/in-preparation-for-oct-12th/#comment-33 Sun, 01 Oct 2017 22:26:33 -0400 I want to look at Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith’s The Stinky Cheese Man!

]]> 44c02082caa07bba41d69bbba3ba1016 Kristi Fleetwood wrote a new post on the site Bodies and Minds of Children's Literature https://childlitfall2017.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=79 Thu, 07 Sep 2017 15:35:21 -0400 At moments in the text, Kim (Skim) disappears into lines.  What is the significance of her disappearance in those moments?  When does shading put her firmly on the page?  How are these moments contrasted?
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]]> 34467cb4ff5e967df1b9476b6782604e Kristi Fleetwood wrote a new post on the site Bodies and Minds of Children's Literature https://childlitfall2017.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=74 Thu, 07 Sep 2017 15:03:34 -0400 For next week, I wanted to attach the following two articles.  However, I know we are asked to only attach one, so I will be mostly talking about “Affect and the Body,” but I will be pulling in references to […]

]]> b2fe9ff726988c64b05916425c1fbd3b Kristi Fleetwood wrote a new post on the site Bodies and Minds of Children's Literature https://childlitfall2017.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=68 Tue, 05 Sep 2017 17:19:21 -0400 What roles do race and class play in the socioeconomic dynamics of August’s middle school?  August is Jewish and Brazilian and  Summer is biracial.  Jack is white, but he lives on the “wrong” side of Br […]

]]> 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.

]]> 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]

]]> 47a54c35460398f4760c388a95ddfea4 Kristi Fleetwood changed their profile picture https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/432589/ Fri, 22 Apr 2016 18:42:26 -0400 d0dc6c25651b3f152a6a12867666a75c Kristi Fleetwood replied to the topic Links to Online Resources in the forum English Comprehensive Exam Study Group - 2016 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=48134 Fri, 22 Apr 2016 00:47:18 -0400 http://www.english.ucla.edu/part-i-reading-lists

This is a link to UCLA’s past reading lists. If you wanted to make your texts political in nature, they have lists of books. For example, under “Lesbian, Bisexual, & Gay Literature” there’s a link to a list for 20th C anglophone and queer lit. Oh, and there’s also theory that relates to each list…[Read more]

]]> 4ecd6995022a7bedccdf7d53ac3784ba Kristi Fleetwood joined the group English Comprehensive Exam Study Group – 2016 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/432482/ Thu, 21 Apr 2016 00:48:58 -0400 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.

]]> 8544755d316c29cd21d8f76761a76972 Kristi Fleetwood uploaded "Kiss with a Fist: The Gendered Power Struggle of the Joker and Harley Quinn"--Tosha Taylor to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/431687/ Tue, 12 Apr 2016 18:47:40 -0400 This book chapter is from The Joker: A Serious Study of The Clown Prince of Crime, edited by Robert Moses Peaslee and Robert G. Weiner. The book compiles essay written on the DC comic character, the Joker. I was interested in this article because it deals with the abusive nature of the violent relationship between the Joker and Harley Quinn.

]]> c0b8ecc7487e695fd3a95e7f203ff6c2 Kristi Fleetwood uploaded Edgar Allan Poe's Letter to Estelle Anna Robinson Lewis to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/431685/ Tue, 12 Apr 2016 18:42:16 -0400 I found this through the digital Edgar Allan Poe archives at University of Texas. This letter was written in 1849, and he references working on one of his poems “For Annie” within it.

]]> 339294a5733f7c4a12f0e0f11caa0648 Kristi Fleetwood uploaded Anne Sexton reading her poetry to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/430760/ Mon, 04 Apr 2016 02:41:58 -0400 This is a clip from the Library of Congress of X.J. Kennedy and Anne Sexton reading their poetry at Coolidge Auditorium in 1972. Sexton’s poems are amazing on their own, but it’s interesting contrasting the two poets performance style. Kennedy talks, sings some of his poems, makes comments to the audience. Sexton has a more serious tone, with…[Read more]

]]> e79e68593752d4e215c87b62be6ec722 Kristi Fleetwood uploaded Commodified Agents and Empowered Girls-Consuming and Producing Feminism to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/430737/ Sun, 03 Apr 2016 22:02:00 -0400 Ellen Riordan tackles the way women are being portrayed in 1990s popular and feminist culture. Focuses on commodification and “pro-girl rhetoric.”

]]> 4b08dce9e1c488756ecf007816f71ad0 Kristi Fleetwood uploaded It Takes a Classless, Heteronormative Utopian Village: Gilmore Girls and the Problem of Postfeminism to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/430290/ Wed, 30 Mar 2016 03:47:29 -0400 Stern is analyzing the show as perpetuating a form of “utopian postfeminism,” criticizing the show for representing straight, upper class, white women. She’s using Gilmore Girls to demonstrate how feminist scholarship needs to be criticizing popular culture through critical intersectionality. Although, I think she just works to repeatedly point…[Read more]

]]> b424aab0a5f1e19b177a1ef4d914be7a Kristi Fleetwood uploaded Rory Gilmore's Graduation Speech to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/430289/ Wed, 30 Mar 2016 03:33:09 -0400 This week I thought I’d take a break from all of my Harley Quinn uploads and upload on the other project’s I’m working on. This clip is from Gilmore Girls, and the starting point of my research. I want to look at the way maternal relationships and female role models work in Gilmore Girls. I’m not quite sure the argument yet is, but I think this…[Read more]

]]> 56da562f76fb6f82d7cbad97ed3f0ee0 Kristi Fleetwood uploaded "Sweetheart, This Ain't Gender Studies": Sexism and Superheroes to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/428856/ Mon, 14 Mar 2016 22:54:35 -0400 After finding this through Ebsco Host, I chose this article for my paper because his paper promised to look at the way gender is portrayed in superhero shows (specifically Heroes) in the post-9/11 “remasculinized atmomosphere of the Bush era” (Stabile 86). While he does analyze the gender portrayals of superheroes, I think his conclusions fall…[Read more]

]]> 9c19b72905e17b9d3451615fb6d1cf1a Kristi Fleetwood uploaded Paul Dini discusses Harley Quinn to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/428684/ Sun, 13 Mar 2016 01:51:10 -0500 In Batman Animated, Paul Dini compiles drawings, screen grabs, and notes from the Batman Animated television show. He also expands on the vision he had for each character, one of which is Harley Quinn. While the discussion of Harley is brief, he does give background on how loved she was by everyone working on the show. He also talks a bit about…[Read more]

]]> d4c85217ac57820e414636dbec88dfb6 Kristi Fleetwood uploaded Marvel Comics: The Untold Story--Sean Howe to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/428227/ Sun, 06 Mar 2016 22:11:38 -0500 This book was recommended to me by my professor in another class. He suggested I use this as an example for my research on Harley Quinn’s publication/creation history. I’ve just included the first chapter here, but it shows how the larger text is more interested in the creators and the Marvel universe over a close reading of specific characters.…[Read more]

]]> 456c5ad50bc8ab7615e2fc7ca29a70dd Kristi Fleetwood uploaded Kevin Smith's Interview with Arleen Sorkin to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/428224/ Sun, 06 Mar 2016 21:42:43 -0500 In his podcast “Fatman on Batman,” Kevin Smith interviewed Arleen Sorkin, the original voice of Harley Quinn from the Batman Animated Series. As Paul Dini was writing for the series, he watched Sorkin on a soap opera, and her character inspired the creation of Harley Quinn. If you’ve seen the tv show, you should google Arleen Sorkin soap, and…[Read more]

]]> 172c8abda6f1d99b8452bd745c58fb16 Kristi Fleetwood modified Original version of Wonder Woman, exchange between H.G. Peter and Marston in Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/427785/ Sun, 28 Feb 2016 03:04:08 -0500 f34bca23e567101f8c86749e995add27 Kristi Fleetwood uploaded Original version of Wonder Woman, exchange between H.G. Peter and Marston to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/427784/ Sun, 28 Feb 2016 03:03:39 -0500 So, this might be cheating slightly because I didn’t find this online in a public archive. It’s on the inside cover of Jill Lepore’s The Secret History of Wonder Woman. The majority of the items she had access to were in private collections, which offers a different option to the primary sources we’ve been uploading. The image was H.G. Peter’s…[Read more]

]]> 393fd538c5ef9157f8f0b504156b5d27 Kristi Fleetwood uploaded Self-Regulation in 1950s Comic Book Industry to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/427783/ Sun, 28 Feb 2016 02:39:29 -0500 I’ve been pulling a lot of articles about the business of comic books for one of my other classes, and I found this through WorldCat. This article discusses how the comic book code (regulations on what content could be published in the comic books) influenced the circulation of certain comic books. It offers a nice summary of the overall…[Read more]

]]> ca1f7e2957ad3c66023956037456170d Kristi Fleetwood uploaded Batman's Female Foes: The Gender War in Gotham--Shannon Austin to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/427254/ Sat, 20 Feb 2016 02:57:08 -0500 I’m writing about Harley Quinn in another class, so I was doing a mass gathering of articles from World Cat. Unfortunately, there is very little dedicated to her specifically. Austin spends the majority of the article talking about Harley, but she also discusses Poison Ivy and Catwoman. I was torn in uploading this article. While it is…[Read more]

]]> fbc26e934bc00866a9d5543a4c98ec64 Kristi Fleetwood uploaded David Foster Wallace's Teaching Papers to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/427253/ Sat, 20 Feb 2016 02:49:51 -0500 Class discussion keeps going back to our teaching. This will be my first year teaching in a college classroom this fall, so I’ve been looking at different syllabi to gain inspiration. I actually found this one randomly on Pinterest. It’s the syllabus for “English 102–Literary Analysis: Prose Fiction” from 1994. One thing I found interesting…[Read more]

]]> 827239f6469b3dbe9cfca84e8e09a8ca Kristi Fleetwood uploaded 1872 cover for Through the Looking Glass to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/426814/ Tue, 16 Feb 2016 03:06:10 -0500 I decided to keep with a theme of children’s literature this week, and I found myself looking at the original covers of children’s books. Now, they’re ornately decorated in an attempt to get kid’s attention, but this 1872 version of Lewis Carrol’s Through the Looking Glass doesn’t even have a name on the front. A quick google search shows that…[Read more]

]]> 9c114f7e904f9878a8693135eca8638a Kristi Fleetwood uploaded Psychoanalysis and Children's Literature: The Case for COmplementarity to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/426813/ Tue, 16 Feb 2016 02:53:44 -0500 Originally, I chose this article because I was interested in learning more about Kenneth Kidd’s views on psychoanalysis and children’s literature after reading his book, Freud in Oz. As I was reading, I realized that the article is similar, but still different, from Freud in Oz. The difference between the two begins to highlights the steps…[Read more]

]]> 5cdeee7b0af88b296848c2854d8dc2b3 Kristi Fleetwood uploaded Margaret Sanger Letter to Friend to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/426293/ Tue, 09 Feb 2016 19:27:23 -0500 I’ve been interested in Margaret Sanger since reading Jill Lepore’s book on Wonder Woman, where she discusses Sanger as an early influence on the comic.

This is a letter where she is sending someone a pamphlet on (presumably) birth control/planned parenthood. I found this through NYU’s Margaret Sanger Project archive…[Read more]

]]> a91a9be68930cd53efe3b00d30e5b5b7 Kristi Fleetwood uploaded Kyle Christensen--The Final Girl versus Wes Craven's "A Nightmare on Elm Street": Proposing a Stronger Model of Feminism in Slasher Horror Cinema to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/426292/ Tue, 09 Feb 2016 19:22:57 -0500 Brief Summary of article: Christensen discusses the Slasher film concept of the Final Girl, which is the young female character left alive at the end of movies like Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and so on. The term was originally introduced by Carol J. Clover in Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in Modern…[Read more]

]]> 97c0adca7b5b0ad08e2164b9078472fa Kristi Fleetwood wrote a new post on the site Children's & YA Literature: Theory and Method http://childlittheory.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=366 Mon, 28 Dec 2015 16:08:09 -0500 In the beginning, I struggled to find adequate material on role model studies, but I eventually was able to use a combination of girlhood studies and first-hand accounts about Wonder Woman as a role model to […]

]]> 6220607be679c578b9bfb0e7c665e56c Kristi Fleetwood joined the group Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/423439/ Mon, 28 Dec 2015 06:08:29 -0500 58386e476e21fe1ff9cda1a513a61d98 Kristi Fleetwood wrote a new post on the site Children's & YA Literature: Theory and Method http://childlittheory.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=344 Fri, 11 Dec 2015 19:31:11 -0500 Somewhere along the way, children’s literature and ya lit got misunderstood as “fluff” for children, and it’s one-dimensional and can’t represent any real social problems that young adults face. Obviously […]

]]> 5a4fc0909f86074c7c1c4b9ea092d03a Kristi Fleetwood wrote a new post on the site Children's & YA Literature: Theory and Method http://childlittheory.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=280 Fri, 20 Nov 2015 19:28:17 -0500 I really enjoyed reading Eric Tribuenlla’s “Between Boys: Edward Stevenson’s Left to Themselves (1891) and the Birth of Gay Children’s Literature.” This was my second (and much more in-depth) introduct […]

]]> f8d3112fc08b7460536939a41b77c2dd Kristi Fleetwood commented on the post, The Evolution in Gender Norms In Richard Scarry’s Classic Kids’ Book, on the site Children's & YA Literature: Theory and Method http://childlittheory.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/11/13/the-evolution-in-gender-norms-in-richard-scarrys-classic-kids-book/#comment-11 Sun, 15 Nov 2015 23:05:20 -0500 That’s pretty interesting that they changed the book in order to stay culturally relevant (and keep selling books). I wonder if this is a popular trend across children’s books from the 1950s that are still sold today.

]]> 27f7c172d10425a80f5548ee00ba9c08 Kristi Fleetwood wrote a new post on the site Children's & YA Literature: Theory and Method http://childlittheory.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=255 Sat, 07 Nov 2015 19:17:45 -0500 Trites analysis of Margaret Mahy’s The Changeover (1984), Dangerous Spaces (1991), and Katiangata Twitch (2005) focuses on the way that Mahy depicts the complex understanding of the relationship between thought a […]

]]> 7150a3ed675807c7355c7318be6a4cee Kristi Fleetwood wrote a new post on the site Children's & YA Literature: Theory and Method http://childlittheory.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=64 Fri, 18 Sep 2015 03:24:31 -0400 Categorizing children’s literature often creates rifts in the way that literature is viewed, especially within the academic community. The three articles this week all deal with a different version of c […]

]]> 0bb179174842f375afbaed46224fe7ca Kristi Fleetwood became a registered member https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/411510/ Mon, 07 Sep 2015 16:17:09 -0400