Jane Austen Society of North America, Southwest Region

Registration is still open for the June 1 event at the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens. Speakers: Ted Scheinman, author of Camp Austen: My Life as an Accidental Jane Austen Superfan, and his mother, noted Austen scholar Deborah Knuth Klenck,...

It looks like we will have another record-setting year at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on the USC campus. For the first day today, we had more than 1,000 visitors to the booth. Be sure to stop by tomorrow and pick up a limited-edition I'm a Jane Austen Fan...

Since 1996, the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books has become a world-renowned experience gathering writers, poets, artists, filmmakers, musicians and emerging storytellers. More than 150,000 people attend, making it the largest festival of its kind in the United...

By Karen Rueda JASNA Southwest kicked off 2019 by expanding to four meetings per year with its first-ever February meeting, on Saturday the 23rd, with 108 members and guests registering for the sold-out event at the Brand Library and Art Center in Glendale. JASNA’s...

Los Angeles Theatre Works is offering JASNA Southwest members discounted tickets for its production of E. M. Forster's A Room With a View, with performances March 1-3 at UCLA. Biting social satire and passionate romance take center stage in this new radio theatre...

Join us on Saturday, February 23, at the newly renovated Brand Library and Art Center in Glendale for "Jane Austen: Working Woman," with presenter Liz Philosophos Cooper in her first speaking engagement as JASNA's new president. Register now for our first event of...

On February 2, the JASNA San Diego region will present a half-day event in La Jolla. JASNA traveling lecturer Dr. Regulus Allen will present "From Hampshire to Hollywood: Teaching an Austen Fiction and Film Course." Collins Hemingway will also speak at the event. His...

In their talk at the December 2018 JASNA Southwest meeting, Linda Troost and Sayre Greenfield explored “The Unfilmable Austen: The Case of Northanger Abbey,” focusing on Austen’s interest in capturing modernity and cultural shifts, and the challenges this caused not...