Contributors' Notes
- Contributors' Notes
Louise Ansdell joined the Board of Chawton House in March 2017 and serves as chair of trustees. She grew up in Hampshire, close to Chawton, attending school in Winchester. She read classics and English at New College, Oxford, qualified as a barrister of the Inner Temple, and is a contributing editor of Butterworths Family Law encyclopedia. She also chairs Oxford High School's governing board.
Janine Barchas is the Louann and Larry Temple Centennial Professor in English Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. The creator of What Jane Saw (www.whatjanesaw.org), cocurator of the Will & Jane exhibition at the Folger Shakespeare Library in 2016, and current president of the North American Friends of Chawton House, she is also the author of two books about Austen, including most recently The Lost Books of Jane Austen (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019).
Monique Christiaan is founder and president of the Jane Austen Society of the Netherlands. As coordinator of cultural education, she works for a foundation that preserves cultural heritage in the Netherlands. As artistic leader of the Jane Austen Regency Dancers, she teaches historical dancing. She also enjoys supporting students in their work on Austen.
Sandra Clark studied education and counseling, working as a teacher until she and her husband moved to a barrier island to open a retail store. Now a busy widow with three children and three grandchildren, she still makes time amid local volunteer commitments to travel and look for those hard-to-find books.
Liz Philosophos Cooper is president of JASNA. Liz is a second-generation JASNA member who fell in love with Austen's work as a high school student. A member of JASNA since 1992, she served as vice president for regions from 2013 to 2018 and regional coordinator for Wisconsin prior to that. A popular speaker, she is a contributing writer to Jane Austen's Regency World and coedits the A Year with Jane Austen calendar.
Janine Fron is a JASNA-GCR member who is a cofounder of Ludica, a creative director of (art)n, and a visiting scholar of culture and society at University [End Page 494] of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. She is coeditor of and a contributor for New Media Futures: The Rise of Women in the Digital Arts. Her works as an independent game artist, researcher, and founder of Marigold Games can be viewed online at pret-a-voir.com.
Susannah Fullerton, OAM, FRSN, has been president of the Jane Austen Society of Australia for over twenty years. She is the author of Jane Austen and Crime, Happily Ever After: Celebrating Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, A Dance with Jane Austen, and Jane & I: A Tale of Austen Addiction. She lectures around Australia on Austen and other writers, and leads literary tours in the UK, Europe, and the United States for Australians Studying Abroad. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of NSW and was awarded an Order of Australia for her services to literature.
William Galperin is Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University and the author of several books, including The Historical Austen (U of Pennsylvania P, 2003) and, most recently, The History of Missed Opportunities: British Romanticism and the Emergence of the Everyday (Stanford UP, 2017), which features a chapter on Mansfield Park, Emma, and Austen's letters. He is currently at work on projects concerned with questions of subjectivity, individuality, phenomenology, and self-deception.
Julienne Gehrer is a food historian, journalist, and author of several books, including Dining with Jane Austen and the forthcoming edition—an annotated facsimile—of Martha Lloyd's Household Book (Bodleian Publications / Oxford UP).
Mary Guyatt is director of Jane Austen's House Museum. She has worked in UK museums for twenty years and joined Jane Austen's House Museum in 2013. Originally a curator of architecture and design, her preparation for Jane Austen came by way of biographical exhibitions and a doctoral thesis combining the evidence of material culture, personal testimony, and works of fiction in a study of children's historical geographies.
Lynda A. Hall is associate professor of English at Chapman University in Orange, California. Her research and teaching focus on Austen, the Gothic...
