I recently spent a glorious few days in Sydney, Australia, invited to speak at a weekend event arranged by the talented Susannah Fullerton and many others in the Jane Austen Society of Australia. The other speakers included Carrie Kablean, David and Lisa Campbell, Jane Caro, Steve Rohan-Jones, and Scarlett Hopper. The program was thoughtfully arranged and attracted over 200 lively attendees.

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

Click on the image to go to our Kickstarter page. Jane Austen’s Desk is a digital humanities project for the public funded (until recently) by the NEH. JAD recreates Jane Austen’s world in 1813, serving as an interactive teaching tool and scholarly resource for all readers interested in Austen’s intellectual and material world, including her vicarious travels. Please consider supporting our campaign so we can add Jane Austen’s hand-copied music to the Desk with period accurat

Anisa Khalifa, who attended part of our Jane Austen Summer Program in New Bern, NC, has just posted an episode of WUNC's The Broadside...

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.

You can learn more about the features in our new project here!

Thanks to Alexandra Mullen for a creative and thought-provoking review of my book.

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/entertainment/a63633376/jane-austen-gen-z-fans/ This lovely article by Lydia Venn talks about Austen's...