Juliet McMaster, JASNA’s 2010 North American Scholar, is the author of books on Austen and others, editor-illustrator of The Beautifull Cassandra, co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, and founder of the Juvenilia Press. She is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at the University of Alberta. She is the author of Jane Austen on Love and Jane Austen the Novelist as well as books on Thackeray, Trollope, and Dickens.

Victoria Kortes-Papp is a Ph.D. candidate at Quebec City’s Université Laval, and is writing her dissertation on “Madness and Illness in the Writings of Frances Burney.”  Her paper “Madness as Shelter for Feminist Ideas: Elinor’s Role in The Wanderer,” will soon appear in the journal Lumen.  Ms. Kortes-Papp was a speaker at the JASNA Super-Regional Conference in May in Jasper, Alberta.  She was also co-convenor of the 1999 JASNA AGM held in Quebec City.