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Join us for a film screening of Holly Fasching's film Fifth is First on April 23, 2026 on the Building C lawn at Mountaintop Campus! The film features a community of cyclists in Emmaus and is a great Lehigh Valley community connection for Lehigh to be a part of. Food, games, and live music by Monet, USA at 6:30 pm with the film showing at 7:30 pm!

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As we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Jane Austen, the Frank Banko Alehouse Cinema will host a Jane Austen Film Seminar with Dr. Michael Kramp, Professor of English at Lehigh University, on Saturday, September 27. This seminar will treat the history, global reach, and ongoing allure of Austen’s stories on screen. We will consider the various ways in which Austen’s novels and ideas have been adapted and deployed and explore the different impacts of her narratives around the world.

Saturday, September 27
11:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M.
Venue: Frank Banko Alehouse Cinemas

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Part of Jane Austen at 250: A Celebration on Screen

Dr. Michael Kramp is a Professor of English at Lehigh University, with appointments in Film and Documentary Studies and the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Programs. His scholarship focuses on nineteenth-century British literature and culture, masculinity studies, and critical theory, with additional work in textual editing, Anthropocene Studies, and Health Humanities. He is the author of Disciplining Love: Austen and the Modern Man and Patriarchy’s Creative Resilience: Late Victorian Speculative Fiction, and has edited or co-edited several volumes, including Jane Austen and Masculinity and Jane Austen and Critical Theory.

Dr. Kramp currently leads Jane Austen and the Future of the Humanities, a multi-year public humanities initiative that uses Austen’s enduring cultural relevance to engage broader audiences in conversations about the value of humanistic study. The project includes a podcast, documentary film, public-facing monograph, and edited volume.

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