CUNY Academic Commons | Lou Cornum | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/lindseycatherinecornum/activity/ Activity feed for Lou Cornum. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 a8c3bd254a4b6b66435d9f8ad74bede0 Lou Cornum changed their profile picture https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/657337/ Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:59:47 -0400 9de9b081bc2ae7106cd20aa763aa1c45 Lou Cornum's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/657336/ Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:58:50 -0400 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]

]]> 44c85a62cdec0ee9fa4bf1e0b8986dfd Lou Cornum joined the group English Comprehensive Exam Study Group – 2016 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/433507/ Mon, 09 May 2016 02:18:56 -0400 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]

]]> 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.”

]]> a0946448f4212f4b63ef68bcffdf8d18 Lou Catherine Cornum modified Parable of the Sower, handwritten notes by Octavia Butler in Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/431662/ Tue, 12 Apr 2016 17:32:19 -0400 d1301d08f0dec5d5ea77e0394445651b Lou Catherine Cornum uploaded Parable of the Sower, handwritten notes by Octavia Butler to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/431660/ Tue, 12 Apr 2016 17:31:51 -0400 The Huntington Library in San Marino, CA recently acquired and organized a slew of archival materials relating to Octavia Butler. Attached here are her handwritten notes on a typed sheet about her plans for Parable of the Sower, the first in a planned trilogy (the third incomplete at the time of her unexpected death) about a cult religion…[Read more]

]]> 34204676830ab179bbb28cb25b8ed53f Lou Catherine Cornum uploaded Power, Politics and Domestic Desire in Octavia Butler's Lilith's Brood- Aparajita Nanda to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/431654/ Tue, 12 Apr 2016 17:15:11 -0400 This article, published in Callaloo Journal in 2013, looks at how Octavia Butler’s epic trilogy of human-alien crossbreeding on a post-nuclear apocalypse Earth both references and revises the “discourse of postcoloniality” and specifically unsettles the domestic space as a site of (gendered) deviance. I found the article on MLA while doing…[Read more]

]]> d86333b9bc3147b9770c8a0dbb759948 Lou Catherine Cornum uploaded "From White Into Red: Captivity Narratives as Alchemies of Race and Citizenship to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/430270/ Wed, 30 Mar 2016 01:39:33 -0400 I found this article while browsing a special issue of American Quarterly from 2008 that had several essays on Indigenous feminism (downloaded from Project Muse). I recently was thinking about captivity narratives because I felt a connection between the recent release “The Witch” and captivity narratives written in America and Canada from the…[Read more]

]]> b4383f56aa66b850cffbfb210cd18eff Lou Catherine Cornum uploaded Foucalt in cowboy hat w/ students to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/430269/ Wed, 30 Mar 2016 01:02:45 -0400 This nugget does not hold any particular research value for me. I just thought it was kind of a sweet and strange snapshot of Foucault as a professor and looking goofy wearing a cowboy hat. I found it on the website (pretty much the equivalent of an academic fan site) michel-foucault.com, which has a large gallery of Foucault photos and some other…[Read more]

]]> 81be1aa7a4ea6df172d20ac711a945aa Lou Catherine Cornum uploaded Indigenizing Agamben: Rethinking Sovereignty in Light of the “Peculiar” Status of Native Peoples to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/428889/ Tue, 15 Mar 2016 02:00:15 -0400 I chose this 2009 article by Mark Rifkin for my essay because I have been interested in the utility of Agamben’s work on sovereignty for Indigenous studies and Indigenous political movements more broadly. I am appreciating Rifkin’s reading of Agamben alongside questions of the limits of the discourse of sovereignty in decolonization movements.…[Read more]

]]> 8484f7b6d328032369e0f159acc3d839 Lou Catherine Cornum uploaded Derrida and Williams chat it up post-conference (1986) to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/428426/ Wed, 09 Mar 2016 14:41:33 -0500 I’m having difficulty uploading the video file directly so here’s the link to a taped conversation between Jacques Derrida and Raymond Williams: http://keywords.pitt.edu/videos/video_10.html

I found this video while doing a bit of background research on the Start Hall essay, Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms, which engages extensively with…[Read more]

]]> 382ec79a430d55a0088bdb207bbff8c1 Lou Catherine Cornum uploaded Octavia Butler's Disabled Futures, Megan Obourne, Contemporary Literature, Volume 54, Number 1, Spring 2013 to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/427994/ Wed, 02 Mar 2016 15:49:00 -0500 I’m taking the Disability Studies in 19thc Literature course this term and have been searching for a topic for my term paper. We are permitted to write on a text from any period so I’m probably going to write on a contemporary science fiction author. I found this article on Project Muse and found it helpful for bringing in different strands of…[Read more]

]]> 507216d8183d4391b4e25419d1467ce2 Lou Catherine Cornum uploaded DuBois short speculative fiction story to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/427993/ Wed, 02 Mar 2016 15:41:47 -0500 Included here is a transcription of an unpublished short story written by WEB DuBois around 1908, as well as a brief critical introduction to the text and a photo of one of the original typed pages of the story with DuBois’s handwritten edits. It’s a strange little origin story of industrial capitalism told in a fantastical mode with allusions as…[Read more]

]]> 3cec564980b7bd109335d8460304236b Lou Catherine Cornum uploaded Separations XVII by Marilyn Hacker, published in Times Literary Supplement (1973) to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/426931/ Wed, 17 Feb 2016 05:35:55 -0500 Downloaded from the Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive accessed through Artemis Primary Sources

]]> a04d302b41d6cf1271238a53764aca7f Lou Catherine Cornum modified Present, Infintesimal, Infinite: The Political Vision and 'Femin' Poetics of Marilyn Hacker by Mary Biggs in Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/426930/ Wed, 17 Feb 2016 05:29:58 -0500 327e7a88b3dfe3b65f2e87607f3e4fff Lou Catherine Cornum uploaded _Present__infinitesimal__infin.pdf to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/426929/ Wed, 17 Feb 2016 05:25:35 -0500 d1643d674440a81b74e4ac45826de012 Lou Catherine Cornum uploaded 1984 Stars In My Pocket Like Grains Of Sand cover art to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/426395/ Wed, 10 Feb 2016 17:15:24 -0500 I found this image from a simple google search out of a curiosity about the distinctive visual culture of sci fi novels.

]]> e5fa10bbd291b6a9665c8701ab56395d Lou Catherine Cornum modified Clean: Death and Desire in Samuel R. Delany's Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand in Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/426237/ Tue, 09 Feb 2016 02:59:42 -0500 b4eb54af631a274e5f42627baaab4031 Lou Catherine Cornum uploaded Clean: Death and Desire in Samuel R. Delany's Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/426234/ Tue, 09 Feb 2016 02:37:51 -0500 I came across this essay in American literature by Robert Reid-Pharr while browsing literary criticism on Samuel R. Delany. I’ve been interested in how science fiction and specifically science fiction by Black authors such as Delany, Octavia Butler and Nalo Hopkinson explore alternative forms of relationality and post-human possibilities in future…[Read more]

]]> 28746d9425cf75d31a890484aab99538 Lou Cornum joined the group Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/425563/ Wed, 03 Feb 2016 00:16:51 -0500 48387bb8cd88d41bda3f66cb4f521282 Lou Cornum changed their profile picture https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/425562/ Wed, 03 Feb 2016 00:14:35 -0500 0e38e4c56adc12c60958723262e4568f Lou Cornum's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/425561/ Wed, 03 Feb 2016 00:13:39 -0500 532e3a537e7e24b3217a8479a2b5e6fc Lou Cornum commented on the post, A Day at the Caribbean Digital Conference, on the site The Digital Caribbean http://digitalcaribbean.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/12/08/a-day-at-the-caribbean-digital-conference/#comment-6647 Mon, 14 Dec 2015 21:58:50 -0500 Just wanted to respond briefly to you Chy and your further questions around the notion of public failure and the benefits of such failure in a digital context. This also relates to your comments on labor and […]

]]> ecc08e9942d1fa854f9830c8cb08f59a Lou Cornum commented on the post, Naniki + Murray’s Digital Environment, on the site The Digital Caribbean http://digitalcaribbean.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/11/10/naniki-murray/#comment-5972 Thu, 12 Nov 2015 03:43:00 -0500 To address your second bundles of questions, I think the insistence of internet spaces as somehow potentially egalitarian or democratic is premised on a false hope that we can separate the internet from the […]

]]> f54e7610ef060487b933882aba108a3f Lou Cornum commented on the post, Are we ready for post-post-colonialism?, on the site The Digital Caribbean http://digitalcaribbean.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/09/16/are-we-ready-for-post-post-colonialism/#comment-5958 Wed, 16 Sep 2015 15:21:44 -0400 I am also drawn to the creatively inter-disciplinary work of Benítez-Rojo and Baucom and their approaches to talking about or locating the Caribbean in a framework of Chaos, in the former’s case, and a kind of or […]

]]> d83d4b1b4cda8070ec42040af1eb6d45 Lou Cornum became a registered member https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/411355/ Sat, 05 Sep 2015 17:57:03 -0400