![]() ![]() She happens to know the screenwriter personally, but did not know the other writers, Soniah Kamal and Olivia Waite. It certainly was possible before the coronavirus pandemic to do that, but Griffin said she had not thought to include virtual guests in her course design. ![]() She also invited guest speakers virtually to the Zoom classes – two authors of recent adaptations and a television screenwriter. With the diversity of academic backgrounds among students (as opposed to an upper-level course specifically for English majors), Griffin designed a variety of assignments, from literary analysis to script-writing to product marketing. ![]() She leads the course online in real time as they explore “what it means to grapple with this text in 2020, a world that looks much different than Austen’s Regency England.” Griffin is teaching a course, “Austen and Adaptation: Pride and Prejudice and Then Some,” to a mix of 60 undergraduates – literature-loving English majors, number-crunching policy analysts and science-driven engineering students. ![]()
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