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January 29, 2010

Submitted by alycia on Fri, 01/29/2010 - 17:30
  • I'm starting in on the homework readings! The very first of which is "On Recovering the 'Ur' Theory of American Studies" by Leo Marx, as published in American Literary History, 2005.
  • Where is my last tax document? I would like to read it and be done filing!

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Daily Reading Log

March 9, 2010

  • Helped a bunch of Queens Public librarians read some zines
  • Got my issue of On Wisconsin in the mail, and got a little nostalgic. Interview with Lorrie Moore.
  • Still working on the Teddie Roosevelt and manliness essay for homework this week. Didn't get much reading done on the 3 hour commute to Flatbush--a bit to tired in the AM to read about imperialism and conquest.

March 8, 2010

  • Today I re-read, and then did some free writing. Kind of. I was trying to write up a homework assignment, and the writing came a bit less calculated and organized than I would have liked. I'm going to sleep on it and try again tomorrow.

March 7, 2010

  • Sometimes when it's real. slow. at. the. desk. it seems like the day didn't even happen at all. And I couldn't find where that woman's class was! Or satisfy the CPE student! Long Sunday.
  • Read some more On Writing Well, but couldn't make it through kind of watching the Oscars.
    I liked this paragraph on revising well enough a few days ago that I folded over a tiny corner on page 87:

March 6, 2010

  • I got a really looming and somewhat gluttonous stack of books checked out for me through CLICS today (really-I have over forty books now checked out, and ten more requests...)
  • The beginning of Theodore Roosevelt: Manhood, Nation and "Cilivilization," for this week's gender theme in class.

March 5, 2010

  • More biking and celebrating than reading today.

March 4, 2010

  • Re-read all the homework essays, looking for the threads of resistance that I thought united all of them, and found out I am the only one to have thought out my final paper (overachiever strikes again?).

March 3, 2010

  • On Writing Well
  • More of Counterpoise
  • Call numbers for books for MALS class; American print culture and the construction of publics...

March 2, 2010

  • Fall/Winter 2009 Counterpoise; amazing letter by Sandy, and a nice piece by Dr. John Van Hook.
  • A bit of On Writing Well by Zinsser (one thing that I found this semester is that reading about writing is invigorating for me in terms of wanting to write and be engaged with scholarly activities).

March 1, 2010

  • Constance Penley, "Brownian Motion: Women, Tactics and Technology"--highly recommended article about women and Star Trek slash fanzines
  • Robin D.G. Kelley, "'We Are Not What We Seem': The Politics and Pleasures of Community"
  • Kelley, "The Riddle of the Zoot Suit"--also really great; talks about Malcolm X's writing about his time as a zoot suiter and how his later perspectives clouded his recollection of the cultural significance of his hipsterism.

February 28, 2010

  • Teaching myself about the American Revolution and tracts. Not finding exactly what I want, and not sure if that means I have to make it...

February 27, 2010

February 26, 2010

  • Lizabeth Cohen, "Encountering Mass Culture at the Grassroots: The Experience of Chicago Workers in the 1920's"
  • George Lipsitz, "Listening to Learn and Learning to Listen: Popular Culture, Cultural Theory and American Studies"

February 25, 2010

  • Raymond Williams, Base and Superstructure in Marxist Theory
  • Zitkala-Sa, School Days of an Indian Girl
  • Finished Trachtenberg; recommended--his vision of American culture is a bit bleak, but true to life (largely powered by capitalism, for worse rather than better).

February 24, 2010

  • Trachtenberg; 4 chapters by tomorrow!
  • Grant proposal, talk proposal, paper proposal

February 23, 2010

  • More Trachtenberg, with a particularly enjoyable part about the myth of Thomas Edison as inventor and made man (as opposed to entrepreneur with an economic eye and workshop of collaborators)
  • Booking a Flight the Frugal Way
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