Eternal Austen: On 250 Years of Loving Jane (virtual)

Virtual Event with Captions, Free and Open to All

Overview

Join Lifetime Learning to celebrate Jane Austen’s 250th birthday. Her literary legacy has grown into a global phenomenon, far beyond her modest publishing success during her too-short lifetime. Cristina Richieri Griffin, Assistant Professor of English, Colleges and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, will explore Austen’s life and enduring influence by tracing those who loved her then and now. What does it mean to love an author we’ve never met? Who is the Jane Austen we love and celebrate?

Speaker Biography

Cristina Richieri Griffin, Assistant Professor of English, Managing Director of Center for the Liberal Arts, College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Dr. Cristina Richieri Griffin is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Virginia, where she specializes in nineteenth-century literature, the history of the novel, gender and sexuality studies, and literature pedagogy. She is also Managing Director of UVA’s Center for the Liberal Arts, which provides professional development for K–12 teachers. Her publications have appeared in nineteenth-century scholarly journals as well as Norton anthologies and Oxford handbooks, and she also leads three public humanities initiatives: Teaching Literature for Liberty, a nationwide resource for K–12 English language arts and social studies teachers; Hoos Reading, an initiative to enable university students to read better (and empower faculty to help them do so); and Project Gothic, a digital companion to the world’s largest archive of gothic fiction, which is housed in UVA’s Special Collections.