Jane Austen and the Future of the Humanities
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<p>How might the stories and ideas of Jane Austen inform the current condition and future possibilities of the humanities? Michael Kramp, a faculty member at Lehigh University who has published numerous books on Jane Austen, addresses the critical state of the humanities and considers how Austen's stories might offer creative ways for communicating the value and efficacy of humanities experiences for various public audiences. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:dmk209@lehigh.edu">dmk209@lehigh.edu</a></p><p></p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://wordpress.lehigh.edu/dmk209/jane-austen-and-the-future-of-the-humanities/">https://wordpress.lehigh.edu/dmk209/jane-austen-and-the-future-of-the-humanities/</a></p><p></p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/@JaneAustenandtheFutureofth-s8y">https://www.youtube.com/@JaneAustenandtheFutureofth-s8y</a></p>
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Recent Episodes
May 2, 2026
Emma and the Challenges of Living in Community
<p>Of all Austen’s writings, Emma is the most concerned with the practice and difficulties of living in community. The novel is set in Highbury, “the large and populous village, almost amounting to a town,” and the heroine, whose perspective we follow throughout the narrative, lives both a privileged life and a rather static life. The community of Highbury can appear small, contained, and content, but it’s also a community marked by challenges, changes, and even a few disruptions. In this episode, we consider a vital humanities experience that Austen's Emma helps us to appreciate: the challenges of living in community.</p><p>Episode 7 features parts of my interviews with various writers, scholars, and artists, including (in order of appearance):</p><p></p><ul><li>Dr. John Mullan, University College, London</li><li>Dr. Janet Todd, Newnham and Lucy Canvedish Colleges, Cambridge</li><li> Mahesh Rao, award-winning author of Polite Society</li><li>Dr. Claudia L. Johnson, Princeton University</li><li>Sam Brooks, Journalist and Playwright, Auckland, NZ</li><li>Dr. Jennie Batchelor, University of York</li><li>Dr. Julia Romeu, Brazilian scholar and translator of Emma</li><li>Laura Rocklyn, historical interpreter, playwright, actor, and scholar</li><li>Dr. Devoney Looser, Arizona State University</li><li>Dr. Patricia A. Matthew, The Race and Regency Lab, Montclair State University</li><li>Vanessa Kelly, best-selling author of The Emma Knightley Mysteries</li><li>Dr. Vivek Sachdeva, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University</li></ul><p></p><p> </p><p> </p>
April 12, 2026
Jane Austen, Community, and Sisterhood: Three Generations of the Moore Family
<p>In this special episode of Jane Austen and the Future of the Humanities, Samantha Holland speaks about the Moore family, an Australia family with a longstanding affinity for Jane Austen. Frances, Natalie, Hannah, and Teresa are four women across three generations, who share a special relationship with Austen, her works, and her legacy. Through their conversations about characters like Mrs. Bennet and Charlotte Lucas, the Moore women share how their perspectives on Austen’s novels have evolved through re-readings and meaningful family discussions. They discuss how they built a supportive and loving community with and through their engagement with Austen, including sewing dresses for the Jane Austen Society of Australia conference. Their experiences reveal how Austen brings women together across generations and serves as a resource for female relationships and sisterhood.</p>
December 30, 2025
Mansfield Park and Resilience
<p>Resiliency has become one of the most popular concepts within academic circles over the past decade or so. Scholars from various disciplines, including Engineering, Health, Politics, Religion, Biology, and Education have adopted the ideas of resilience and resiliency to explain the ways in which institutions, technologies, communities, and individuals might rebound from hardship, recover from stress or overuse, and regain an original shape and condition. In our diverse conversations about resilience, we almost always assume that resilience is positive--i.e. that we should feel good or emboldened about the very experiences or processes of resiliency. But some of the most resilient systems, structures, and institutions in our world have been massively disturbing, including patriarchy, militaristic violence, religious fanaticism, and white male supremacy. Jane Austen's Mansfield Park helps us observe a fundamental humanities experience: resilience can be disturbing. In this episode, I reflect on how Austen's Mansfield Park demonstrates the disturbing resilience of the Bertram family. I specifically explore how the Bertram family employs specific strategies that have proven successful for ensuring the resilience of patriarchy. Resiliency can sometimes be disturbing, and Austen invites us to observe this vital humanities experience. </p>
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<p>How might the stories and ideas of Jane Austen inform the current condition and future possibilities of the humanities? Michael Kramp, a faculty member at Lehigh University who has published numerous books on Jane Austen, addresses the critical state of the humanities and considers how Austen's stories might offer creative ways for communicating the value and efficacy of humanities experiences for various public audiences. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:dmk209@lehigh.edu">dmk209@lehigh.edu</a></p><p></p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://wordpress.lehigh.edu/dmk209/jane-austen-and-the-future-of-the-humanities/">https://wordpress.lehigh.edu/dmk209/jane-austen-and-the-future-of-the-humanities/</a></p><p></p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/@JaneAustenandtheFutureofth-s8y">https://www.youtube.com/@JaneAustenandtheFutureofth-s8y</a></p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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