{"id":209654,"date":"2025-12-15T09:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T14:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/?p=209654"},"modified":"2025-12-16T09:31:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T14:31:55","slug":"patricia-matthews-featured-in-britannica-and-smithsonian-for-jane-austen-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/2025\/12\/15\/patricia-matthews-featured-in-britannica-and-smithsonian-for-jane-austen-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Patricia Matthew Featured in Britannica and Smithsonian for Jane Austen Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/profilepages\/view_profile.php?username=matthewp\">Patricia Matthew<\/a>, associate professor in the English Department, is a specialist in nineteenth-century British literature and culture, particularly the works of Jane Austen. Her expertise has been recognized beyond the university, and she was recently featured in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/video\/why-do-we-still-read-jane-austen\/-352334\"><em data-start=\"338\" data-end=\"366\">Encyclopaedia Britannica\u2019s<\/em> video<\/a> celebrating Austen\u2019s birthday. Matthew was also included in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history\/jane-austens-pride-and-prejudice-was-initially-rejected-by-a-publisher-it-later-became-one-of-the-worlds-most-beloved-novels-180987807\/\"><em data-start=\"421\" data-end=\"443\">Smithsonian Magazine<\/em> story on <em data-start=\"453\" data-end=\"474\">Pride and Prejudice<\/em><\/a>. Her work highlights Austen\u2019s enduring relevance and the continued cultural significance of classic literature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patricia Matthew, associate professor in the English Department, is a specialist in nineteenth-century British literature and culture, particularly the works of Jane Austen. Her expertise has been recognized beyond the university, and she was recently featured in Encyclopaedia Britannica\u2019s video celebrating Austen\u2019s birthday. Matthew was also included in a Smithsonian Magazine story on Pride and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":209655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-57_english-department","category-faculty-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209654"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209660,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209654\/revisions\/209660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}