2022-2023 Meetings
These meetings were held between the fall of 2022 and the spring of 2023.
Sunday, September 11, 2022, 2pm
Event Venue: Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation
Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina
Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina
Bridgerton, Sanditon and David Copperfield: Modernizing the Representation of Black People in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century England
Gretchen Gerzina is a Professor of English and the Paul Murray Kendall Chair in Biography at the
University of Massachusetts in Amherst. In 2017 she was elected to the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences and in 2019 to the American Antiquarian Society.
Among her many published books are Britain's Black Past, Mr. and Mrs. Prince, and Frances Hodgson Burnett. She has appeared extensively on both British and American radio and is currently working on a book about early black women who married British men. She enjoys a broad popularity as a speaker, especially with JASNA regions.
Sunday, November 6, 2022
2 pm, Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation
Annette LeClair
Talking of Jane Austen: On the Front with Readers During World War II and Now
In honor of Veterans' Day: This illustrated presentation takes a close look at a best-selling
but often-overlooked work on Austen, published in 1943, which was also distributed to troops
in the field, and which models the shared pleasures of reading and discussing Austen in any age.
Annette LeClair is a Librarian Emerita at Union College in Schenectady, NY, where she served as Director of Collection and Technical Services.
She has master's degrees in English from the University of Virginia and in librarianship from the University of North Carolina.
Before joining the faculty at Union College, she held positions at Dickinson College and the University of North Carolina, and
she taught a number of graduate courses as an adjunct instructor at the University of Albany.
LeClair has published, served as a consultant, developed exhibits, and presented papers
on a wide range of professional and literary topics. She has delivered programs on Jane Austen
at a variety of JASNA AGMs and regional meetings, and her work on Austen's legacy, readership,
and cultural milieu has been published in Persuasions, Persuasions On-Line, and MLA's Approaches to Teaching Austen's Emma.
Sunday, December 4, 2022
Jane Austen's Birthday Celebration!
2pm, on Zoom
Francine Mathews (Stephanie Barron)
Taking the waters with Jane
Stephanie Barron's latest Jane Austen mystery, JANE AND THE YEAR WITHOUT A SUMMER, finds the beloved author in May, 1816. Jane's
health has been indifferent throughout the winter, and she and sister Cassandra quit Chawton Cottage for a fortnight of taking
the waters at Cheltenham Spa. But the persistent rain and cold of this unusual year are nothing to the dampening effect of a
murder under the sisters' very noses. Stephanie will discuss the impact of 1816--which has gone down in history as one of violent
climactic disaster--on the lives of the Austen family and England in general. She will also place this particular installment
in her long running series in the context of the previous thirteen novels, which follow Austen's life from 1802 until the
fifteenth and final book, forthcoming in 2023.
Barron is a plenary speaker at the 2023 AGM in Denver, CO.
Francine Mathews was born in Binghamton, NY, the last of six girls. She attended Princeton and Stanford Universities, where she studied history, before going on to work as an intelligence analyst at the CIA. She wrote her first book in 1992 and left the Agency a year later. Since then, she has written twenty-nine books, including the critically-acclaimed Merry Folger (a police officer on Nantucket) series. As you might expect, with her background, the Jane Austen novels are meticulously researched and historically accurate.
Sunday, March 12, 2023
2 pm, Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation
Tara K. Menon
Tara K. Menon is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Harvard University and a Junior Fellow at the Harvard
Society of Fellows. She holds a BA in English from Columbia University and a MA, MPhil, and PhD in English from New York
University. She was born in New Delhi and raised in Singapore.
She is currently writing a book called Spoken Words: Direct Speech in Nineteenth-Century British Novels, which is under contract with Princeton University Press.
Her writing has appeared in publications including The New York Times Book Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books,
The Sewanee Review, Bookforum, The Paris Review, and Public Books, where she co-edits the Literary Fiction section.
She is also working on her first novel.
Sunday, May 7, 2023
Margaret Case
2 pm, Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation
Margaret (Meg) Case is Chair of English Literature at Roger Williams University in Bristol,
Rhode Island, where she teaches general education, literary theory, and British literature.
Her recent scholarship focuses on Jane Austen. She has presented at the Jane Austen Society
of North America and at the Sanditon conference at Trinity College, Cambridge, UK (2017).
Her essay in MLA Approaches to Teaching Austen's Persuasion was published in 2021.
Meg Case is the Harriet Avery Fund speaker for the 2022-2023 season.
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