April 16, 2014, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingJane Austen in Austin: A Regency display on view This year marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mansfield Park, Jane Austen’s most ambitious and controversial novel. To celebrate both the author and the cultural history behind this complex work, students in English Professor Janine Barchas’s fall 2013 graduate seminar curated two display cases relating to Austen and… read more
February 5, 2013, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingResearching Austen in Austin: Archival research reveals connections between Jane Austen’s characters and real-life celebrities and politicians 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
November 29, 2012, Filed Under: Books + ManuscriptsNotes from the Undergrad: The Penguin Illustrated Collapse Alyssa O’Connell is an English Honors junior in Professor Janine Barchas’s seminar, “The Paperback,” in which students used the Ransom Center’s collections to research the history of paperbacks.
