Janine Barchas
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Associate Professor
Ph.D., 1995, University of Chicago
Interests
Eighteenth-century literature and culture; the British novel; book history; textual studies; Jane Austen; early fiction by women.Biography
Janine Barchas (Stanford B.A. and Chicago Ph.D.) joined the University of Texas at Austin in 2002, after teaching at the University of Auckland for five years. She is currently back in New Zealand, teaching at the Univ of Auckland for a semester on a six-month academic exchange.
Barchas’ first book, Graphic Design, Print Culture, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel (Cambridge UP, 2003), won the SHARP book prize for best work in the field of book history. In addition to several editing projects, Barchas has published articles on writers from “the long eighteenth century” in journals such as ELH, Review of English Studies, Eighteenth-Century Life, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Nineteenth-Century Literature, and Persuasions. Her most recent book, Matters of Fact in Jane Austen: History, Location, and Celebrity will be published by Johns Hopkins University Press in August 2012. Ongoing projects include a website entitled “What Jane Saw” that reconstructs a museum visit attended by the Austens in 1813 as well as an investigation into the marketing of Jane Austen through book cover art from 1833 to the present.
