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I'm Devoney Looser, Foundation Professor of English at Arizona State University. I also go by Stone Cold Jane Austen, especially on roller skates. 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 in fall 2021.
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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, now in paperback with a new afterword and reader's guide (2019).
My recent essays have appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The TLS, Salon, the Chronicle of Higher Education, 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 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 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 want to check it out.