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DEVONEY LOOSER is Regents Professor of English at Arizona State University. (Her name is pronounced DEV-oh-nee LOE-sir).
She is the author or editor of nine books, including The Making of Jane Austen, a Publishers Weekly Best Summer Book (Nonfiction) and The Daily Jane Austen: A Year of Quotes. Her recent essays have appeared in The Atlantic, the New York Times, Salon, The TLS, and the Washington Post, and she's had the pleasure of talking about Austen on CNN.
Looser was named a Guggenheim Fellow and an NEH Public Scholar in support of her next book, a biography of the once-celebrated, now-forgotten sister novelists, Jane and Anna Maria Porter. Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës is scheduled for publication on October 25, 2022.
Devoney, a Minnesota native, traded in her ice skates for roller skates in middle age and has played roller derby under the name Stone Cold Jane Austen. She and her husband, George Justice, Provost of the University of Tulsa, are parents to two teenage sons.
For further details, see Devoney Looser's CV.
She is the author or editor of nine books, including The Making of Jane Austen, a Publishers Weekly Best Summer Book (Nonfiction) and The Daily Jane Austen: A Year of Quotes. Her recent essays have appeared in The Atlantic, the New York Times, Salon, The TLS, and the Washington Post, and she's had the pleasure of talking about Austen on CNN.
Looser was named a Guggenheim Fellow and an NEH Public Scholar in support of her next book, a biography of the once-celebrated, now-forgotten sister novelists, Jane and Anna Maria Porter. Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës is scheduled for publication on October 25, 2022.
Devoney, a Minnesota native, traded in her ice skates for roller skates in middle age and has played roller derby under the name Stone Cold Jane Austen. She and her husband, George Justice, Provost of the University of Tulsa, are parents to two teenage sons.
For further details, see Devoney Looser's CV.
Speaking more personally now! I grew up in White Bear Lake, Minnesota, where postage-stamp-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 George Justice (also an English professor and Austen scholar) over an argument about Mansfield Park. Our "meet cute" story was featured in Deborah Yaffe's Among the Janeites: A Journey Through the World of Jane Austen Fandom (2013), where we served as two of her quirky Janeite weirdos in chapter five, "The Knowledge Business."
I met my husband George Justice (also an English professor and Austen scholar) over an argument about Mansfield Park. Our "meet cute" story was featured in Deborah Yaffe's Among the Janeites: A Journey Through the World of Jane Austen Fandom (2013), where we served as two of her quirky Janeite weirdos in chapter five, "The Knowledge Business."