Misty Krueger

On November 18, 2022, I gave a talk at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Southern Maine in Portland. Thanks to John Muthyala and Donna Anderson for the invite. No, I wasn’t there to talk about Jane Austen and monsters. Well, of course I found a way to talk about Austen, but […]

This semester marks the 20-year anniversary of my first semester of teaching a class by myself. Before that I was a teaching assistant (from undergrad to grad school). So, as I type this post on Labor Day, I will share with you some thoughts on my academic labor. Just kidding. I’m going to talk about […]

Usually I watch an episode twice before blogging. I didn’t want to watch the season finale again, so I waited almost a week before watching it again. So that I could cool down. In this blog post I will make a list of things I loved and hated about episode 6. Loved: Captain Fraser. I […]

Kisses! So many kisses! Let’s start with Georgiana and Charles Lockhart’s. I love that Georgiana let her hair down–physically and metaphorically. She wanted Lockhart to paint her how she wishes to be seen, and she clearly wishes for him and everyone to see her unconfined. With her hair down, she can be seen with “the […]

Everyone loves a good phallic showdown, right? Men who hate each other and will show their competitive nature with a pointy object is right up Sanditon‘s alley, eh? It’s fun to watch men show off their skills at a garden party, huh? 🙂 What about giving a woman a chance to make her mark? That’s […]

Things really take off in this episode. Get it? Take off! (I know, I’m awful!) We’ve got a hot air balloon ride that is almost a disaster. There was supposed to be an elephant, but when that attraction fell through we ended up with a military hot air balloon ride. Um, what? I haven’t found […]

When Bridgerton season 1 aired, I blogged. When Bridgerton season 2 aired, I was traveling to a conference, attending a conference, traveling home, and then getting caught up on work (I mean, I have a job, y’all). I watched the entire season while doing this and could not muster up the time or energy to […]

For those of you who can’t make it to my talks or just want to review the slides: Jane Austen and Her Contemporaries, Ten Years Later: A Reflection and a Workshop on an NEH Seminar (Doctor Is In Workshop) I, March 31, 11:30 a.m. Overview of the seminar and my outcomes. I’m also sharing a link to […]

I watched episodes 1 and 2 back-to-back, so I almost revealed some details from the second episode in my post on the first one. Oops! Did you miss my first post? Check it out here. Also, there will always be spoilers in my posts, so if you haven’t watched episode 2 yet, don’t read this […]

It’s been a couple of years since Masterpiece’s Sanditon first aired on PBS, and a couple of years since I blogged about it episode by episode. I’m excited to be blogging again about this Jane Austen adaptation. So, let’s get two things out of the way. 1) There are going to be SPOILERS in these […]