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Cara L. Lewis

@carallewis.bsky.social

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Associate Professor of English & WGS, IU NW / Author of Dynamic Form: How Intermediality Made Modernism (Cornell UP, 2020) / Opinions my own (she/her)

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Cara L. Lewis @carallewis.bsky.social · Nov 10

For the newbies, I post about c20-21 lit, esp as it intersects with the visual arts. Also: the novel, women’s & gender studies, working at a regional public university in the US, swimming, baking, Chicago, and a toddler.

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Cara L. Lewis @carallewis.bsky.social · 15h

going to try to summon the enthusiasm my 2yo shows for finding the moon every night and pointing out the orange cars on our street every morning

Cara L. Lewis @carallewis.bsky.social · 1d

This is a really hard question! Depends a lot on the grounds of the fandom. Faulkner? Willa Cather? HJ? Wharton?

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Cara L. Lewis @carallewis.bsky.social · 1d

British loosely, British Empire fair game

Cara L. Lewis @carallewis.bsky.social · 1d

I know! It was a really good syllabus! But I’ve got to cut at least one and probably two!!

Cara L. Lewis @carallewis.bsky.social · 1d

Likely to swap Exit West for an Ali Smith: either Autumn or Gliff

Cara L. Lewis @carallewis.bsky.social · 1d

It was about Britain & the world (loosely colonial & poco). There was also short fiction (Adichie, Graham Greene, Orwell, plus some other stuff). Last taught pre-covid, & the old reading load doesn't make sense any more.

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Cara L. Lewis @carallewis.bsky.social · 1d

What do I cut from my c20-21 British fiction class?

Conrad, HofD
Joyce, Portrait
Forster, Passage to India
Woolf, Dalloway
Achebe, Things Fall Apart
Fleming, Dr. No
Rhys, Wide Sarg Sea
Roy, God of Small Things
Z Smith, White Teeth
Hamid, Exit West

Bk orders for spring somehow due in a week—ack!

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Cara L. Lewis @carallewis.bsky.social · 1d

thank you—especially for the warning!

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Cara L. Lewis @carallewis.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for replying! Via campus copy shop or some other infrastructure? And I love that idea for exams.

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Cara L. Lewis @carallewis.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder that, too. I know folks here do, but for courses than lean on one or two textbooks.

Cara L. Lewis @carallewis.bsky.social · 1d

Noted on both fronts—thank you!

Cara L. Lewis @carallewis.bsky.social · 2d

But thank you so much for saying so! I like knowing others are keeping the format alive

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Cara L. Lewis @carallewis.bsky.social · 2d

Totally agree on it being worth it! Trying to figure out how to do it without the infrastructure of the campus print shop (either we print it ourselves or send it to FedEx or I go through the bookstore, I think)

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Cara L. Lewis @carallewis.bsky.social · 2d

Bummer—but thanks for replying anyway!

Cara L. Lewis @carallewis.bsky.social · 2d

will keep in mind, although it def won't work for this course (an interdisciplinary WGS intro)

Cara L. Lewis @carallewis.bsky.social · 2d

yeah—I wouldn't ask them to print any more, either

Cara L. Lewis @carallewis.bsky.social · 2d

Got it, and thank you. I'd be ok with handouts at those percentages, but contemplating it for a class that's basically the reverse proportion (and not lit—it's a WGS intro)

Cara L. Lewis @carallewis.bsky.social · 2d

I do too, squirreled away in my office file cabinets

Cara L. Lewis @carallewis.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks for this! What percentage of the readings are handout vs book? I'm contemplating coursepack/handout for a class that's 75ish% PDF

Cara L. Lewis @carallewis.bsky.social · 2d

me too! except getting poked by the binding

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Cara L. Lewis @carallewis.bsky.social · 2d

got it—thanks again!

Cara L. Lewis @carallewis.bsky.social · 2d

❤️ ; Or, the New Luddites

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Cara L. Lewis @carallewis.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks for sharing!

Cara L. Lewis @carallewis.bsky.social · 2d

honestly it's been elating: would happily read or participate!

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Cara L. Lewis @carallewis.bsky.social · 2d

Great! Did you run into any permissions issues?