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Janine Barchas joined the University of Texas at Austin in 2002 after five years of teaching at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. She has published the book "Graphic Design, Print Culture, Eighteenth-Century Novel" (Cambridge University Press, 2003), which won the SHARP book prize. Her subsequent work, "Matters of Fact in Jane Austen: History, Location, Celebrity" (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012), explores Austen's deliberate selection of historically significant names and settings in her works. In 2013, Barchas unveiled the project "What Jane Saw," a website that provides digital reconstructions of Georgian museum exhibitions relevant to Austen's life. This open-access initiative has garnered global attention and has been featured in major publications, emphasizing its role in the Digital Humanities. Barchas has contributed articles to academic journals such as ELH, Review of English Studies, and Eighteenth-Century Literature. Currently, she is co-curating an exhibition at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington entitled "Will & Jane: Shakespeare, Austen, Celebrity." Her teaching encompasses classes focused on Jane Austen's work and the history of the modern paperback book.
University of Texas at Austin • Austin, TX
Teaching and research in literature, with a focus on Jane Austen and the cultural implications of the eighteenth century.
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