About Janine Barchas

Janine Barchas is the Louann and Larry Temple Centennial Professor of English Literature at The University of Texas. She is the author of The Lost Books of Jane Austen, which led to an exhibition entitled “Austen in Austin” at the Ransom Center in the fall of 2019. She has also contributed to the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, Chronicle of Higher Education, and Lit Hub.

About Janine Barchas

September 26, 2019 - Janine Barchas

Why are some books collected and others merely read?

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events Tagged With: Books, exhibition, literature

During the latter half of the nineteenth century, cheap and shoddy reprints of Jane Austen’s novels brought her work to the general public.

May 1, 2015 - Janine Barchas

Muddy bootprints on Himmler’s copy of Hitler’s Mein Kampf

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching Tagged With: Heinrich Himmler, Hitler, Penguin Books, Undergraduate

This week marks the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. I grew up in Holland where the fifth of May is celebrated as “Bevrijdingsdag,” named for the liberation from German occupation that my father, who was 14 years old in 1945 when he stood by the side… read more

February 5, 2013 - Janine Barchas

Researching Austen in Austin: Archival research reveals connections between Jane Austen’s characters and real-life celebrities and politicians

Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching Tagged With: Evelyn Waugh, Jane Austen, Janine Barchas, letters, literature, maps, Matters of Fact in Jane Austen: History Location and Celebrity

Janine Barchas is an associate professor of English at The University of Texas at Austin. Barchas used the Ransom Center’s collections as she conducted research for her book Matters of Fact in Jane Austen: History, Location, and Celebrity, published this past fall by John Hopkins University Press. She writes about… read more