It has been months since I last posted on this blog, but have no fear. I am still writing about Jane Austen! My current project is an article on Austen and social media. I am looking at four platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest) and how fans, scholars, and institutions post in relation to Austen. I… Read more

One of the joys of writing is revising. It sounds weird to say it, perhaps, but my favorite part of the writing process is actually editing and revising a paper. I like to take that step back and figure out how to improve my sentence, paragraph, and section level writing. Sentence level writing might be… Read more

Hi, fellow Janeites, friends, and followers. I have two days without doctors’ appointments at my disposal, and I am filling them with writing about Austen. Hopefully, I’ll be able to get more time in this summer. I have a summer and fall of chemotherapy ahead of me. Let’s hope that I will have the energy… Read more

While my plan for the summer was to spend most of it researching and writing about Austen, probably I will not get to do as much of that as I had hoped. Don’t you hate it when “life” (in my case, my health) gets in the way of all of the fun things you want… Read more

It must have been about five years ago that I took the picture shown above. I presented a talk at JASNA-Maine in Brunswick on teaching Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park and staging Elizabeth Inchbald’s Lovers Vows. Then I published a paper on it! Today I had the pleasure of returning to JASNA-Maine as presenter. This time… Read more

Over on my other blog site, What Professors Wear, I wrote a post about a t-shirt my mother-in-law gave me. It’s an Austen shirt that plays with the 2015 Straight Outta Compton movie logo. Please check it out! I write about some overlaps between Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and N.W.A.’s album, Straight Outta Compton. Go to:… Read more

I am excited to begin work on my talk for the Maine regional chapter of JASNA. The talk takes place on May 12 at 1:30 p.m. and will feature an overview of and reflection on my time as International Visitor last summer. The image below shows the what, when, and where for this talk. I… Read more

Tonight I took a quiz I found on Facebook about building a library and “classic literary wom[e]n.” I had to answer thirty questions about my ideal library, and I would learn my fate. In my heart of hearts I already knew that I was going to be Jane Austen. I took the quiz to confirm… Read more

As a part of my duties as International Visitor (IV) last year, I agreed to write an article for JASNA News on my experience as the IV. Here’s what I wrote: I love how the newsletter layout features my experience verbally and visually. The pictures include my visits to Winchester Cathedral and Basingstoke, as well… Read more

Today is Jane Austen’s birthday! Happy birthday, Jane! To celebrate this day, I reflect on how much joy Jane Austen’s novels and life story have brought to my life and (likely) millions of other people’s. To celebrate this day, I reflect on my wonderful summer as the 2017 JASNA IVP. To celebrate this day, I… Read more