Hello, yes, here I am, I'm here. Mostly.

[radiantfracture]

The long short term is over -- my seven-week lit course has run it. This was the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them theme. Thank you again for all of your ideas and suggestions. highlyeccentric, the Gawain Texts were a huge hit. The class thanks you.

I think on the whole it went rather well, though of course I have some changes to make. I hope I'll get to run it again.

One thing that worked beautifully was adding the thread of Indigenous stories. I was worried that they would feel like an afterthought, but they enriched the material enormously. I would be more surefooted with them next time.

In the fantasized future version of the course, I think I'd like to have three strands of literary/fantastic traditions. This is tricky as I don't know a third well enough to teach it at the moment -- something for a long-term research project.

I had not a drop of energy beyond work for anything else, even the beautiful dialogue here at Dreamwidth, which I have missed. I'd like to do a week-by-week breakdown of the course and how it went, here -- for my own interest, at least. I may even manage it -- I've only two courses for the rest of the summer.

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Comments

[wendelah1]

It sounds like wonderful course.