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ASU Faculty Friday Profile

It is a great privilege to work for Arizona State University and to teach its amazing students. Not only that--the PR people in ASU CLAS and ASU English have a great sense of humor, too! Its fun to  be this week's "Faculty Friday" profile. 

Austenprose Interview with Director Whit Stillman

Upon my word! I'm excited to share my interview with Love & Friendship director and novelist Whit Stillman on all things Janeite and 18th century for Austenprose - A Jane Austen Blog. (I love his getting snarky with me in that Lolita answer!)

Zebulon Pearce Teaching Award

Zebulon “Zeb” Pearce (Photo: Barbara Sullivan) It’s an honor to learn that I've been awarded this year’s Zebulon Pearce Teaching Award in the Humanities at Arizona State University. And it’s a thrill any year to learn that your university has a teaching award honoring the man who brought beer to Mesa, AZ! Seriously, I’m very grateful to those who nominated me and who took time to write in support. Working with students who have such talent, energy, and hope, and trying to help them find ways to hone, channel, and express them, is an amazing gift. It's a privilege to work in higher education and for ASU.

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CSU Northridge Student Conference Keynote

I'm so grateful to have had an energizing, inspiring Saturday at CSU-Northridge English, at its well-organized and vibrant student conference.
Bonus: Making new friends over dive-bar beer and flaming cheese.
http://www.csun.edu/humanities/english/events/csun-english-department-annual-spring-conference

TLS Review on Emma and History of the Novel

http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/a... I'm excited to share my just-published piece on Emma and the history of the novel in this week's TLS!

Cambridge UP Author Hub Interview on YouTube

It was great to take a few minutes at MLA in Austin, TX to record a three-minute interview for Cambridge University Press's Author Hub series. I'm grateful to CUP for giving me a chance to chat about and reflect on the history of women's writings and the book I edited for them, The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in the Romantic Period. Just after I recorded this interview I learned that the book received a Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award! It's an award that recognizes all of the amazing contributors whose essays are included in the volume, as well as my marvelous editor at CUP, Linda Bree. Devoney Looser on The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in the Romantic Period.

Johnny Depp, please come back to ASU and guest lecture on Rochester!

It was a thrill to talk to Johnny Depp and Lawrence Krauss and to hear their vibrant conversation on creativity and madness as part of the ASU Origins Project. Now we just need to convince Depp to come to ASU English to guest lecture on Rochester. Name your day, Johnny! [image error]

More Janes in Jane Austen Regency World Magazine

It's always a treat to contribute a piece to Jane Austen's Regency World Magazine. This one is on Jane West's A Gossip's Story (1796), a novel that probably inspired Sense & Sensibility. Want to decide for yourself? Our edition is just out from Valancourt Books. This one is old school and print only: “Inspiring Sense & Sensibility,” Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine 80 (March/Apr 2016): 47-50. Print

Jane Austen's Snarky Feminist Juvenilia in Lit Hub

Want to start your day with some Jane Austen snark? I just published a piece over on Lit Hub. It also mentions feral cat fiction and Go the F*** to Sleep, so it's not just for my fellow diehard Janeite friends. (Christine Alexander has edited a great new edition of Austen's youthful writings, out from Penguin.)

The Atlantic: Ang Lee's Sense & Sensibility and its Men

I'm excited to share this piece I published in The Atlantic, reflecting on the 20th anniversary of Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility (1995/6) and Emma Thompson's Oscar-winning screenplay. Hugh Grant's Edward Ferrars and Alan Rickman's Colonel Brandon changed Austen adaptation history. (Step aside for a moment, Colin Firth.)