My gratitude to Susannah Fullerton for including Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness in her top ten books of 2024. Read her list...

This grant will support our next Jane Austen Summer Program, to be held in New Bern, NC (beautifully close to the NC coast) on June...

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...

Church Times in the UK was interested in some of the arguments I make in my new book on Austen , and they asked me to write some more...

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

This course will focus on the fiction of Jane Austen and its representations in film. This author, who never travelled outside England...

This course deals with a cross-cultural comparison between two filmic and national icons: the cowboy and the samurai. We will study...

While its individual form and content may differ greatly, the feast or banquet functions as a strong symbol in most global communities. ...

This course focuses on the fiction of Jane Austen, who wrote her letters and novels in the English countryside at the turn of the...

This course will introduce students to central methods and issues in the comparative study of literature. Rather than develop any one...

This course sketches particular moments in the literary conversation (at times, parallel monologues) between literary texts whose authors...

In this course, we will focus on issues of narratorial sympathy, narrative seduction, and manipulation of the implied reader (Iser/Booth)...

This course explores ways in which narrative can express the non-verbal or non-linear, including music and silence. We will consider what...