My Life as an Accidental Jane Austen Superfan. The son of a devoted Jane Austen scholar, Ted Scheinman spent his childhood summers eating Yorkshire pudding, singing in an Anglican choir, and watching Laurence Olivier as Mr. Darcy. Determined to leave his mothers world behind, he nonetheless found himself in grad school organising the first ever UNC-Chapel Hill Jane Austen Summer Camp, a weekend-long event that sits somewhere between an academic conference and super fan extravaganza. While the long tradition of Austen devotees includes the likes of Henry James and E. M. Forster, it is at the...