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<p class="MsoNormal">As it happens I’m teaching online for the first time ever in my 40+ years of teaching, and this happens to be my graduate seminar, Woolf and the Victorians (not Woolf and Bloomsbury, but close). I have 15 mostly PhD students, and we meet
for two hours Thursday afternoons on Zoom with an optional mid-week office Zoom hour. I began with “On Being Ill,” and one of my students persuaded me to change the title of the course to add “A Zoom of One’s Own.” We have active discussion posts about the
readings, only the last two weeks of which are specifically Woolf’s novels, <i>Mrs. Dalloway
</i>and <i>The Years</i>. For these I’ve delved into the current work on the 1918 pandemic, especially Outka’s essays (don’t have her book). Wonderful Jane de Gay made a video lecture on Woolf and religious background which my students discussed last week (another
feature of online teaching—allowing us to collaborate and share from great distances), and I hope to do one for her in the fall. Finally, we’ll end the quarter with a Zoom panel discussion of their various projects. All of the Victorian novels we’ve read—<i>Jane
Eyre</i>, <i>David Copperfield</i>, <i>Middlemarch</i> and <i>Far From the Madding Crowd</i>—have been prefaced by Woolf’s and Leslie Stephen’s essays on these novelists so that students are reading these through a Stephen/Woolfian lens. Finally, of course,
I’ve had to adjust some of the readings, but thanks to DU’s having access to the TLS database and many others, including Hathi Trust, we’ve been able to gather many sources. I’m only sorry that Leaska’s
<i>The Pargiters </i>doesn’t seem available. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best wishes to all of you,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Eleanor<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Dr. Eleanor McNees<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces@lists.osu.edu> on behalf of "vwoolf@lists.osu.edu" <vwoolf@lists.osu.edu><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>"Detloff, Madelyn" <detlofmm@miamioh.edu><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, May 27, 2020 at 6:53 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>"kllevenback@att.net" <kllevenback@att.net><br>
<b>Cc: </b>"vwoolf@lists.osu.edu" <vwoolf@lists.osu.edu><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Vwoolf] NYTimes: The Future of College Is Online, and It’s Cheaper—and teaching Woolf?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I hope you are all safe and healthy. I will miss seeing you at the conference. As we Chicago Cubs fans are fond of saying, "Wait until next year!" :)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I teach online but usually WGS courses, so I don't have specific modules set up for Woolf. That said, I think that an online course might be a good opportunity to do some interesting work on her letters, since they present a form of communication
that presumes the need to connect across separateness. It might also be interesting to read "On Being Ill" together with a class this fall. I could imagine an assignment where students create their own updated takes on On Being Quarantined, or something similar. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Take care, all, and... I can't wait until next year! <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 6:47 PM Kllevenback via Vwoolf <<a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.osu.edu">vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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Stay safe, be well—<br>
Karen Levenback<br>
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The Future of College Is Online, and It’s Cheaper<br>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#CC0000">Madelyn Detloff</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Chair and Professor of English
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Miami University
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">356 Bachelor Hall</span><span style="color:#500050"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Oxford, OH 45056 O: 513-529-5221 | MiamiOH.edu/English</span><span style="color:#500050"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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