MORE PRIDE, LESS PREJUDICE: JANE AUSTEN AT 250
Faculty of Arts and Humanities I University of Porto
Faculdade de Letras | Universidade do Porto
2-3 October 2025
John Mullan is Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London. He is the author of What Matters in Jane Austen? (2012). His other books include Anonymity. A Secret History of English Literature (2007) and The Artful Dickens (2020). He published a new edition of Austen’s Sense and Sensibility for Oxford World’s Classics in 2017 and a new World’s Classics edition of Emma in 2022. He is currently editing the Oxford Handbook of Jane Austen.
Fiona Stafford is a writer, broadcaster and literary scholar. She is Professor of English at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. She has worked on Jane Austen for many years, and is the author of Jane Austen: A Brief Life (2017). She has also edited Emma for Penguin and Pride and Prejudice for Oxford World's Classics and Emma: A Casebook of Criticism. She also works on Romantic period literature, place and nature writing, Archipelagic studies, literature and the visual arts. Other recent books include Time and Tide: The Long, Long Life of Landscape; Byron's Travels; The Brief Life of Flowers; The Long, Long Life of Trees; Reading Romantic Poetry; Local Attachments.