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JANINE BARCHAS
Janine Barchas is the Louann and Larry Temple Centennial Professor of English Literature at The University of Texas at Austin. 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, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Lit Hub.

ABOUT JENNIFER M. WILKS

Jennifer M. Wilks is an associate professor of English, African and African Diaspora Studies, and comparative literature at The University of Texas at Austin, where she directs the John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies. Her cultural history of Carmen adaptations set in African diasporic contexts is under contract with Oxford University Press.

ABOUT AMY VIDOR
Amy Vidor recently completed her Engaged Scholar Initiative postdoctoral fellowship with the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Her dissertation (2019), “Testifying to Auschwitz and Algeria,” analyzed writing by Germaine Tillion, Charlotte Delbo, and Marguerite Duras about the atrocities committed during the Holocaust and Algerian War.

ABOUT CAROLINE BARTA
Caroline Barta recently completed her dissertation, “Julia’s Cookbook Readers: 1948-1963,” which discovers and celebrates the cookbook readers behind Mastering the Art of French Cooking (1961) by Julia Child, Simone Beck, and Louisette Bertholle. Her work was supported by a dissertation fellowship from the Harry Ransom Center in 2019.