Áine Madden is the senior programme and communications manager at the Digital Repository of Ireland. She holds a PhD and an MPhil in Popular Literature from Trinity College Dublin.

Analyses the process through which a textual world can develop a virtual life

Combines the fields of Austen reception and adaptation, fan studies, and studies of virtual reality

Takes a literary approach to fanfiction

Chapter 1 'She stimulates us to supply what is not there': Expanding Austen's world through fanfiction.- Chapter 2 'Light and bright and sparkling' - Pride and Prejudice and fairy tales.- Chapter 3 'You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you' - Darcymania takes over.- Chapter 4 'An arrival in Austenland': The virtual world of Pride and Prejudice.- Chapter 5 'Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?' - Zombies and vampires invade Pride and Prejudice.- Chapter 6 'How differently did everything now appear' - The Lizzie Bennet Diaries and transmedia storytelling.- Chapter 7 'There's no one to touch Jane when you're in a tight place': Pride and Prejudice and the pandemic.