Hey, there, Jane Austen, you clever, well-informed person whom I imagine had a great deal of conversation! You're the focus of two weeks worth of New Commons Project programming at my university, UMF. Specifically, your novel, Persuasion, has been chosen as the subject of our examination. UMF faculty, staff, and students + the Farmington community…Read more Austen, Persuasion, and UMF’s New Commons Project

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 Austen Social Media

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 Revising an Austen Paper

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 Two Days of Writing

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 Summer Research: Sociability

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 JASNA-Maine Meeting: May 12, 2018

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 Straight Outta Pemberley