DEVONEY LOOSER is Regents Professor of English at Arizona State University. (Her name is pronounced DEV-oh-nee LOE-sir). She is a Guggenheim fellow and a NEH Public Scholar.
She is the author or editor of twelve books, including Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane (a USA Today Best-selling Book), Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës, 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.
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 adult sons.
She is the author or editor of twelve books, including Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane (a USA Today Best-selling Book), Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës, 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.
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 adult sons.
Speaking in the first person 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."