Barchas, Janine
Associate Professor

Education: Ph.D. U. of Chicago 1995
Office Location: CAL 209
Office Hours: On Leave
Phone: (512) 471-8379
barchas@mail.utexas.edu

Janine Barchas is an Associate Professor who joined UT in 2002, after teaching in New Zealand for 5 years.

Research Interests: Her research interests include eighteenth-century literature and culture, the British novel, book history, textual studies, Jane Austen, and early fiction by women.

Recent Publications: Books:
Graphic Design, Print Culture, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel (Cambridge University Press, 2003).

The Annotations in Lady Bradshaigh's Copy of Clarissa, with the editorial collaboration of Gordon Fulton, ELS Monograph Series, No. 76 (Victoria, 1998).

Volume 1 (1700-1735) of Eighteenth-Century British Erotica Set II, 5 vols., gen. eds. Alexander Pettit and Patrick Spedding (Pickering and Chatto, 2004).

Selected Articles and Chapters:

''Very Austen: Accounting for the Language of Emma,'' Nineteenth-Century Literature 62.3 (Dec 2007): 303-338.

''Apollo, Sappho, and … a Grasshopper?! A Note on the Frontispieces to The Female Spectator,'' in Fair Philosopher: Eliza Haywood and The Female Spectator, eds. Don J. Newman and Lynn Marie Wright (Bucknell University Press, 2006), 60-71.

''The Antipodean Pleasures of Teaching Clarissa in 'Real Time,''' in Approaches to Teaching Samuel Richardson, part of MLA Approaches to Teaching Series, eds. Lisa Zunshine and Jocelyn Harris (MLA, 2006), 120-27.

''Grandison's Grandeur As Printed Book: A Look at the Eighteenth-Century Novel's Quest for Status,'' Eighteenth-Century Fiction 14.3-4 (April-July 2002), 667-708.

''Prefiguring Genre: Frontispiece Portraits from Gulliver's Travels to Millenium Hall,'' Studies in the Novel 30.2 (1998): 260-286. Reprinted as ''The Paratext of The Travels: Gulliver's Many Faces'' in the Norton Critical Edition of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, ed. Albert J. Rivero (Norton, 2002), 467-480.

''Sarah Fielding's Dashing Style and Eighteenth-Century Print Culture,'' ELH 63 (Fall, 1996): 633-656.

''The Engraved Score in Clarissa: An Intersection of Music, Narrative, and Graphic Design,'' Eighteenth-Century Life 20.2 (May, 1996): 1-20.

Awards and Honors: American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship (2007-08)

Alpha of Texas Award for Distinction in Teaching, awarded by the Phi Beta Kappa Society (April 2005)

Book History Prize for Best Book of 2003, awarded by the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP)

Katherine Pantzer Fellowship in the British Book Trades, awarded by the Bibliographical Society of America (March 2005)