Jane Austen and the Global Need of the Humanities addresses how the stories and ideas of Austen can help us to explore and address the importance of the humanities around the world.

Lecturer: Michael Kramp (Lehigh University) Michael Kramp is Professor of English at Lehigh University. He is a scholar of nineteenth-century British Literature, Critical Theory, and Masculinity Studies. He is currently engaged in a multiyear project, Jane Austen and the Future of the Humanities, designed to leverage Austen’s work to showcase the importance of the humanities to diverse public audiences; this project involves a podcast, a documentary film, and a public-facing monograph. He is the author of Patriarchy’s Creative Resilience (Routledge, 2024) and Disciplining Love: Austen and the Modern Man (The Ohio State University Press, 2007) and editor of Jane Austen and Masculinity (Bucknell University Press, 2017) and Jane Austen and Critical Theory (Routledge, 2021).