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- Ellen Moody holds a Ph.D in British Literature and taught in American senior colleges for more than 40 years. Since 2013 she has been teaching older retired people at two Oscher Institutes of Lifelong Learning, one attached to American University (Washington, DC) and other to George Mason University (in Fairfax, Va). She is also a literary scholar with specialties in 18th century literature, translation, early modern and women's studies, film, nineteenth and 20th century literature and of course Trollope. For Trollope she wrote a book on her experiences of reading Trollope on the Internet with others, some more academic style essays, two on film adaptations, the most recent on Trollope's depiction of settler colonialism: "On Inventing a New Country." Here is her website: http://www.jimandellen.org/ellen/ No part of this blog may be reproduced without express permission from the author/blog owner. Linking, on the other hand, is highly encouraged!
Posts by Ellen Moody:
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May 29, 2023 Summer syllabus, OLLI at AU: The Heroine’s Journey
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May 16, 2023 Guiseppe di Lampedusa’s Il Gattopardo (The Leopard): a gem of a historical novel & film
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April 26, 2023 Carlo Levi’s Christ Stopped at Eboli — a poetic and political masterpiece
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April 18, 2023 Trollope’s The Warden at the Trollope London Society’s Online Group reads
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April 9, 2023 DC Spring theater: an uneven King Lear; a downright dismaying Anne Karenina
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March 12, 2023 All Creatures Great and Small: Season 3: new levels of grief and comfort and muted gaiety
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March 4, 2023 Alarms Bells Ringing: the disappearance of the college English major as individuals and as a discipline
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February 17, 2023 OLLI at AU: 20th century Italian Memoir and Novels, spring 2023 syllabus, online class
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January 17, 2023 A tangent I can’t resist: Women Detective Stories
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January 1, 2023 More on winter’s tales for when the year ends: the ghost stories of M. R. James
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Recent Posts
- Summer syllabus, OLLI at AU: The Heroine’s Journey
- Guiseppe di Lampedusa’s Il Gattopardo (The Leopard): a gem of a historical novel & film
- Carlo Levi’s Christ Stopped at Eboli — a poetic and political masterpiece
- Trollope’s The Warden at the Trollope London Society’s Online Group reads
- DC Spring theater: an uneven King Lear; a downright dismaying Anne Karenina
- All Creatures Great and Small: Season 3: new levels of grief and comfort and muted gaiety
- Alarms Bells Ringing: the disappearance of the college English major as individuals and as a discipline
- OLLI at AU: 20th century Italian Memoir and Novels, spring 2023 syllabus, online class
- A tangent I can’t resist: Women Detective Stories
- More on winter’s tales for when the year ends: the ghost stories of M. R. James
- Anthony Trollope’s Two American Civil War Christmas stories: The Widow’s Mite & The Two Generals
- Into the Woods at the Signature Theater, Arlington: very well done, very touching
- Much Ado About Nothing set inside a TV news-as-entertainment program — Shakespeare Theater Company at the Harmon Theater (DC)
- “The irony of A Christmas Carol reboots in the age of billionaires”
- George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda: an immense continually thinking & feeling book
- Outlander 6: Episodes 5-8: Trauma, Transgression and Betrayal; Crisis and Separation
- Outlander, Season 6, Episodes 1-4: A Season of Processing Grief; from A Breath of Snow and Ashes
- Dominic Edwardes interviewed @katehowereads
- Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin: a black slave narrative become a white middle class woman’s novel
- Indian Summers, Season 2, Episodes 6-10: Alas, la commedia e finita
- Indian Summers, Season 2, Episodes 1-5: Three years later
- OLLI at AU: Two Trollopes: Anthony’s Last Chronicle of Barset, Joanna’s sequels: Fall 2022 syllabus, online
- Anthony Trollope’s Eustace Diamonds and Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone
- Indian Summers: A Tragic & Ironic Denouement (Season 2, Episodes 6-10)
- Indian Summers: one of the finest Anglo-Indian TV series ever made (Season 1, Episodes 1-5)
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