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The Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA) announced the winners of its seventh annual Young Filmmakers Contest, the first amateur short film contest...

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What older novels, plays and poems by African American writers are being — or should be — rediscovered?

Devoney Looser is Regents Professor of English at Arizona State University and the author or editor of nine books on literature by women, including The Making of Jane Austen.  Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, Salon, The Washington Post, and Entertainment Weekly, and she’s had the pleasure of talking about Austen on CNN.

From the Colin Firth-starring “Pride and Prejudice” to “Clueless” to “Persuasion,” filmmakers find endless inspiration in the books of Jane Austen. CNN spoke to Austen scholars about why we love Austen adaptations, and why some can be so hard to nail down.

Jane Austen family link to abolition movement comes to light LYNN ELBER, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail This April 10, 2018 image released by Arizona State University shows ASU professor Devoney Looser at her home in Phoenix, Ariz. Looser unearthed Rev. Henry Thomas Austen’s attendance at the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention in London. Austen is the brother of “Pride and Prejudice” author Jane Austen. Looser calls him a “a next-generation Austen” publicly supporting aboliti...

Wujekjery/digitalvision vectors/getty images The storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 was a ghastly bookend to an American presidency unlike any other in this nation’s history. President Trump began his term in 2017 by promising to end “American carnage” and “make America great again.” He ended it last week by encouraging a violent coup against democracy. Those developments provide only the latest reason why academics should speak out publicly. We need to lend our voices to the wor...