Jane Austen and Her Contemporaries

June 18-July 20, 2012

Welcome! I hope you will apply to join me as one of 16 seminar participants who will seek significant new insights about Jane Austen by reading her closely alongside now understudied (but once well-known) writers of her own day.

The seminar will have a dual emphasis. First, it will foster collective close reading and discussion of four Austen novels in tandem with four works of fiction by her once-celebrated contemporaries. Second, it will provide tools for pursuing the advanced study of Austen among other British women writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, using both emerging digital and traditional archival research methods.

This website contains information about the program and how to apply. (Download PDF)

The deadline for application to this program is 1 March 2012. Please don't hesitate to contact me with further questions you may have that are not answered on this site.

Professor Devoney Looser
www.devoneylooser.com/
University of Missouri
NEH Summer Seminar Director 2012

Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.