Janine Barchas is the Louann and Larry Temple Centennial Professor in English Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. She is currently a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies. She has also written for the Washington Post, New York Times, and Los Angeles Review of Books. In addition to her scholarly publications, she created the digital project What Jane Saw, which reconstructs two popular, commercially successful Georgian art exhibits witnessed by Austen.
The Ransom Center is currently selling her new book in conjunction with the ‘Austen in Austin’ exhibition in the Stories-to-Tell gallery.