In the spring 2025 semester I asked my Honors class at the University of Maine at Farmington to scour the internet for queer Austen adaptations. In my course “queer” is used broadly to mean non-normative and specifically in combination with identity categories, such as sexuality, gender, embodiment, etc. This concept of queerness focuses on the active rejection of norms that aim to enforce homogeneity and stigmatize people who do not fit within prescriptive frameworks, such as the idea that all Austen characters are cis-gender, heterosexual, white, Christian figures.
Go to this website to see the work-in-progress archive.
Thanks to the following University of Maine at Farmington students for conducting the research and creating spreadsheets to record their findings: Adrienne Foss, Anabelle Taff, Dante Capone, Ella Grant, Emily Veith, Eva Tebbutt, Jacie Strander, Katie Gasper, Kiara Warren, Lina Martinez Nocito, Madelynn Hopper, Marissa Mclaughlin, Milo Melchert, Musette White, Soren Hatfield, and Zoe Lawler.
Thanks to Upward Bound student Asher Marks for creating the site and adding many of the students’ findings to the archive.
More entries will be added as I work with a student assistant to continue the project.
Misty Krueger 