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Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in the Romantic Period: Choice Outstanding Academic Title

1/11/2016

 
 I'm so pleased to share the good news: a collection of essays I edited,The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in the Romantic Period (2015) has been named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title. I'm incredibly grateful to editor Linda Bree (pictured below, left), Cambridge University Press, and the fantastic contributors who made the volume an award-winning one. Those contributors are Stephen Behrendt, Anthony Mandal, Catherine Burroughs, Anne Mellor, Angela Wright, Elizabeth A. Fay, Crystal Lake, Catherine Ingrassia, Caroline Franklin, Deidre Coleman, Julie A. Carlson, Jacqueline M. Labbe, Devoney Looser, Fiona Price, and Jillian Heydt-Stevenson. You can check out the table of contents, preface, and an excerpt from the book on the CUP website. We hope you'll consider adding the book to your library's, or your personal, book collection.
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The Allrounder: Questions for the Panel

1/5/2016

 
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Year-End Sports Roundup!  I'm pleased once again to have been invited to contribute to The Allrounder’s Questions for the Panel on Sports Story of the Year and Sports Figure of the Year. If you aren't already reading the site and following @theallrounderco, this is a great time to start. 

Keeping Jane Austen Weird at MLA in Austin, TX

1/5/2016

 
Join us for session #548. at the Modern Language Association Convention in Austin, TX this week, for "The Public Jane Austen in Austin; or, How to Keep Austen Weird." The session will be held on Saturday, 9 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m. in room 8C of the Austin Convention Center.
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Janine Barchas promises to be wearing this t-shirt! 

Presiding: Devoney Looser, Arizona State Univ., Tempe
1. "Jane Austen and the 'After 9/11' Question," Mary Ann O'Farrell, Texas A&M Univ., College Station
2. "Will and Jane, at Four Hundred and Two Hundred," Janine G. Barchas, Univ. of Texas, Austin; Kristina
Marie Straub, Carnegie Mellon Univ.
3. "Some Like It Hot: Love and Sex with Jane Austen," Nora Nachumi, Stern Coll. for Women
keywords: Austen, Novel, Celebrity, History, Reception

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