In November our speaker is Dr Kirsten Moffatt who is speaking on Jane Austen and Music.

For further reading, click on this link to access a paper Kirstine and colleagues have recently co-authored on class and Austen’s music in the journal Persuasions: https://jasna.org/publications-2/persuasions-online/volume-38-no-3/doolley-moffat-wiltshire/

Dr Kirstine Moffat is Associate Professor in the English Programme at the University of Waikato. In 2020 she was awarded a Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award. She has published widely on nineteenth-century New Zealand literature, music, and culture and is the author of Piano Forte: Stories and Soundscapes from Colonial New Zealand. She has a lifelong love of Jane Austen’s fiction and relishes any opportunity to research, teach, write about or talk about her favourite author. The link to her university profile is:

https://profiles.waikato.ac.nz/kirstine.moffat