Colleen Sheehan -- The Education of Jane Austen's Emma

Colleen Sheehan, on “The Education of Jane Austen's Emma.“ Colleen Sheehan is Professor of Political Science at Villanova University, where she is director of the Matthew J. Ryan Project for the Study of Free Institutions. Her special field is the American Founding, and she is the author of James Madison and the Spirit of Republican Self-Government (2009), and co-editor of Friends of the Constitution; Writings of The “Other“ Federalists (2006). She graduated from Eisenhower College and holds a PhD from Claremont Graduate University. She is an avid and penetrating reader of Jane Austen's novels. Presented by The Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard on March 28, 2014.