WGS Standing Committee Member Deidre Lynch's article, "Teaching Frankenstein at the Flying University for Ukrainian Students", has been featured in the LA Review of Books. The essay discusses her experience volunteering as a teacher for the Flying University for Ukranian Students, an organization established in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in which Ukranian students are able to enroll in online undergraduate courses. 

Lynch is the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature and the author of Janeites: Austen’s Disciples and Devotees and The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning and has taught the popular course Jane Austen's Fiction and Fans.

Please join WGS in congratulating Professor Lynch for this publication!