Our NEH-funded digital humanities project, Jane Austen's Desk, now has music too! Travel back to March, 1813 and enter Austen's world via our site. If you hover over the pianoforte in the right side of the room, you will be able to enter a space to learn about five representative pieces of music from Jane Austen's life. We will be adding more music regularly. Thanks to our collaboration with the talented Laura Klein, users can learn about genres of music, composers, and conne

A digital humanities grant from NEH will support UNC scholars' creation of an immersive web environment designed to bring Jane Austen's writing room — and her world — to life. Read about this project

Interactive virtual gallery of student essay on feasting and culture. Includes 40 student authors, several galleries, and a new annotated filmography of food films: www.virtualfeast.net Published Spring 2015; Revised Spring 2017 and Spring 2018 with students of GLBL 492H.

Sarah Schafer Walton and I had fun presenting Jane Austen's Desk at the "Innovation Room" of the Modern Language Association's annual meeting. Remember, if you too want to try it out, go to beta.janeaustensdesk.org! Let us know what you think...

The Jane Austen's Desk team had a great time unveiling our NEH-funded project, "Jane Austen's Desk" to hundreds of Janeites in Celeveland...

Thanks to the many lovely book clubs who have chosen to use my book for discussion. I especially enjoyed my online visit to the Jane...

I'm delighted to announce that we have received a $20,000 grant (their largest grant) from North Carolina Humanities for an exciting Jane...

Three Flowers of Trade: A Cultural Brew of Camellia, Poppy and the Common Garden Rose A virtual gallery of images from the Ackland Art...

Gallery: https://www.virtualfeast.net/exhibit-wine-transgression-excess Cultures far and wide have discovered the practicalities and...

Executive Summary We are pleased to report on the successful completion and wide attendance of a series of campus-wide events entitled...

Word into Art was an exhibit of calligraphy especially created for the Aesthetics of Nirvana series. The exhibit included work by...