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Hi! I'm Devoney Looser, Regents Professor of English at Arizona State University. I also go by Stone Cold Jane Austen, especially on roller skates. Thanks for visiting here.
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Feb. 2020 ASU Faculty Research
Award Video (4 min.) |
The Making of Jane Austen Book Trailer (3 min.)
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Looser Guggenheim / Sister Novelists Video (2 min.)
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The Making of Jane Austen
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The Daily Jane Austen
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Edition of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility
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Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in the Romantic Period
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Edition of Jane West's A Gossip's Story
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Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850
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British Women Writers and the Writing of History, 1670-1820
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Generations: Academic Feminists in Dialogue
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Jane Austen and Discourses of Feminism
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I still can't quite believe it, but I get to call myself a Guggenheim Fellow and a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar, in support of the biography I'm writing, Sister Novelists: Jane and Anna Maria Porter, to be published by Bloomsbury
I'm the author or editor of nine books on literature by women, including The Daily Jane Austen: A Year of Quotes (2019) and The Making of Jane Austen (2017), a Publishers Weekly Best Summer Book (Nonfiction), republished in paperback, with a new afterword and reader's guide (2019). I've also done a series of lectures (on DVD, streaming and Audible) on The Life and Works of Jane Austen, available from The Great Courses. My recent essays have appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The TLS, Salon, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Washington Post, and Entertainment Weekly. I also have the great good fortune to have a badass roller derby alter ego, Stone Cold Jane Austen. I firmly believe Jane Austen would be okay with that, as I suspect she, like her strong, athletic heroine Elizabeth Bennet, delighted in anything ridiculous. |
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I grew up in Minnesota, where postage-stamped sized backyards turned into winter ice rinks using garden hoses, and cold weather brought opportunities to snuggle up and read. Now I live in the desert, near a fantastic roller rink, and I have the privilege of teaching women's writings and the history of the novel to college students. I met my husband (also an English professor and Austen scholar) over an argument about Mansfield Park. Together we're raising teen sons who find Austen tolerable but un-tempting.
If you'd like to get in touch, head to the Contact page. I'd love to hear from you. Enter your email address above to subscribe to my occasional newsletter, for the latest on Austen, women writers, and pop culture, with a little roller derby to keep up to speed. Past issues are archived here, if you want to check it out.
If you'd like to get in touch, head to the Contact page. I'd love to hear from you. Enter your email address above to subscribe to my occasional newsletter, for the latest on Austen, women writers, and pop culture, with a little roller derby to keep up to speed. Past issues are archived here, if you want to check it out.